I think they awarded a shitload of mod points. My comment moderation page was similar to yours today, and there was an awful lot of moderation abuse, modding a comment "troll" when the moderator disagreed.

I haven't had mod points in a while either, but it's because I post too much. That may explain your moderation deficit as well. Get a couple of +5s and you have a shipload of responses to read and perhaps respond to and before you know it you've gone from fifteen points every day to none at all.

If you can predict the future, why are you not rolling in money from winning every lottery?

Because it's not predictable. What follows I chalk up to fantastic coincidence, but I've seen many other fantastic coincidences in my life.

Back when I was still married and the kids were young teens, we were watching a movie and my youngest came down the stairs in tears, shaking. She's had a horrible dream and was sure it was real. She described a big building falling down with lots and lots of people getting crushed, burned, and falling. It took us an hour to convice her it was just a dream and go back to sleep.

The date that night was November 10, 2001. None of her other dreams have come true, though.

If I had mod points I'd mod you insightful. What you say is very true. The woman I divorced was not the woman I married.

Before Ronald Reagain slashed the Capital Gains Tax to half the income tax rate from above it. Before that, almost everyone in the stock market were long term investors.

The movie you linked on imdb is the same movie I linked at wikipedia. Surrogates, Bruce Willis. And yes, it is older than Avatar but not as well known.

If it were avatar the word and not Avatar the movie it wouldn't be capitalized and italicised.

Bullshit project? Are you trolling, on crack, or just stupid? This is the kind of research that saves soldiers' lives, plus there will certainly be non-military applications down the road.

Illinois is similar. If you own a house when you get married, you own it when you get divorced, but if you buy it after marriage it's the property of both spouses. Even your pension.

My faith teaches me to be kind and respectful to people, to be obedient to the law, to work hard and support my family, not to get into too much debt, to spend time with my wife, and in turn with my children, to be honest and have integrity, and to live a healthy lifestyle.

You're Jewish?

I think these are good things?

I do.

Harry Houdin became furious with people who claimed his feats of escape and stage magic were done with mystical powers... this fascination with the miraculous was infuriating to someone like Houdine

Who are you talking about? Robert-Houdin or Erik Weisz (AKA "Harry Houdini)? If the latter, you are incorrect. Stage magic was a hobby in my youth and I read at least half a dozen biographies of the man.

He did debunk fraudsters in the '20s, but in none of the biographies I read did anyone claim that Houdini was supernatural. Until today when I looked it up on wikipedia, and it says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle claimed he did it supernaturally, but it doesn't mention anyone else.