But the Supreme Court and many other judges are not elected, and they also have appointments for life. Additionally, Obama cannot run for re-election. So, unfortunately, I'm at a loss as to who you think we can throw out of office.

The nearby rust belt manufacturing areas of Ohio (Cleveland) and Pennsylvania (Pittsburg) certainly suffered as a result of "free trade", just like Detroit. And also to be perfectly clear, I am against free trade. But you have to explain why Detroit has gone bankrupt whereas other cities have not collapsed. Despite how liberal some cities have become, Detroit outdid them and became full socialist, and its leaders drove the region's economy straight into the ground.

Fast food DOES have nutritional value. In fact it is usually associated with having too much nutrition, too many calories, too much fat, and too much sodium. But I think your point is that fast food lacks sufficient vitamins and minerals, which may be true for a several restaurants.

I'm reminded of that banking interest scam where transactions involving fractions of a cent, such as interest, are deliberately rounded incorrectly and the difference deposited into someone else's account (see: Office Space). It looks like the EV owner's defenders would excuse such a scam because the individual transactions are too small. The defenders need to answer some questions, such as-- "How many such transactions would be impermissible?", "If you can identify such a number, why is that number not arbitrary?", and "Would it be okay if me and a thousand commuters passing near your home per day charge our vehicles to your outlet?"

Apparently not enough to want to determine a baseline study if it might go against their political beliefs.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/24/nebraska_approves_climate_denying_study_scientists_refuse_to_conduct_it/

Just like what happened to Mugabe in Zimbabwe. While I'm not willing to predict that there won't be a takeover, I wouldn't be so quick to assume that his goose is cooked. Despots have a habit of surprising the free world with their brutality.

This program sounds like a good excuse for the UN to waste tons of money on another boondoggle slush fund. It's especially awesome for them because if noone dies they can take credit, and if everyone dies then there won't be anyone around to complain.

If lawmakers can't be trusted to competently create the laws, why do we bother to elect representatives and give them a salary? More and more I think that we should just fire the lawmakers and all their legislative assistants, and instead spend the money on a secure discussion and voting platform.

My local newspaper is doing no such thing. Instead they are most certainly in-bed with the politicians. Us taxpayers are most definitely getting screwed, which is why I dropped the local paper years ago.

There appear to be a lot of other glaring errors as well. For example, France is listed as 1170, which begs questions such as "who is the current king of France?", or "was the Declaration of the Fifth Republic of 1789 a figment of the imagination"? Also China stands out as being problematic at 2234 years old, which would seemingly ignore the governing constitutions passed since 1954 by Mao Zedong and his supporters.

FDIC took over several smaller failing banks during the crisis. The consumer accounts were simply given to another non-failing bank for servicing.

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/2008/index.html

Eventually, the consumers did go through the inconvenience of needing to change their account numbers, get new checks, and new Debit/Credit Cards, but there was a grace period. The consumers did get paid, and were still able to access their money and make purchases. I am not saying that a transition for major banks would be completely without problems, nor am I saying that transitioning for a large bank would would be as easy and fast as the weekend transitions for these smaller banks. But your argument that account holders would be completely without money for more than a few days is unfounded, and would not lead to a greater problem.

Okay, so depressed people sent emails, did internet chat, watched videos online, played games, and ran more file sharing programs. It doesn't sound like they're depressed to me; it sounds like they're just more advanced users who aren't falling in line with the corporate-approved activities and making someone money for clicking on their stupid webpage advertisements. And for that, those people are being labelled "depressed"?

So if I take a picture of the crowd at a nightclub and post it quickly, then it's okay. But if a service has a bunch of video cameras and takes a snapshot and has some software to look at it to judge how many people are there, then it's a privacy violation? I always thought the point of hanging out at bars and nightclubs was to be seen in public.

I thought one of the original promises of cable was to deliver ad-free programming. Finally, after after all these years, someone is holding them up to that.

A generation ago, a relative of mine was told that the Sciences were the way to go. Be a chemist and he'll have a high paying job for life, so that's what he chose for his career path. Decades later, realty proves it turned out to be quite a lie. As usual, the market forces work, and until STEM jobs start making significantly larger sums of money and have more job security, I can't blame this generation for ignoring the management call that we need more dummies to flood the market while they continue to receive higher pay.