By who? Both parties are perfectly happy with the power trip.

Canada as well.

I see that claim all the time, that healthier food is more expensive, but you know, it's just not true. Healthy food is actually pretty cheap, certainly when compared to any fast food or factory packaged crap. I guess if you only eat potato chips, then maybe.

It takes time and effort to prepare and doesn't taste as good as junk food, though. And that's why people eat the crap.

Yeah right. Arrest a cop. Get shot by 40 other cops 8 seconds later. Good luck with that.

As I understand it, between 400 and 900 AD Scotland was invaded and largely conquered by invaders from Ireland. The Picts were largely annihilated or absorbed. So really the "Scots" the Romans new didn't get civilized, they got wiped out.

Even the malnourished helots would put 95% of Americans to shame. Spartan citizens themselves would be like professional athletes (albeit with much worse health care).

You're already paying for that. You don't think it really costs thousands of dollars a day to stay in a hospital, do you? Of course not. Your insurance pays that so that the hospital can afford to treat everyone without insurance who walks in the door, which they are forced to do by the government.

The GM bondholder screwover and the lack of any action on the MF Global / JP Morgan grand theft of over a billion dollars says yes. This government does not value any private property rights unless you are big campaign contributor. And then they act surprised when no one wants to invest in the US.

This could work well in conjunction with electrified rail, where most of the power comes from external facilities. Regenerative braking also helps.

Watching Honey Boo Boo.

There was no Canada, per se, at the time. You started the war. Yes the Brits burned the white house. Good times.

Doubt it. The same assholes that cause all the problems won't have any problem driving without a license.

There are a number of promising theories as to how life could have begun on earth. I'm fairly certain we will eventually discover at least one way that works to allow basic replicators, that pass information between generations in a way that allows them to evolve, to arise.

As to what created "everything". Well, that is a mystery. And one I hope we can solve, because that might give us a nice way out from entropy. But attributing it to God doesn't actually answer the question. Because God also would then need to be created somehow.

I realize arguing with you is pointless. However,

What I am saying is that there is no other "theory", in the scientific sense, that explains all of life. Evolution explains everything.

I have no trouble saying to people who don't get that that they are wrong. Entrusting one's belief system to stories created by bronze-age peasants is not a valid way to describe the world.

I can't help that people find comfort in those stories and wish to cling to their beliefs. I fully understand why they do so. Those beliefs give them comfort in the face of their mortality. It doesn't make the beliefs valid, however, without incredible evidence that simply does not exist.

Nobody blames Bush for the .com or the housing bubble

He certainly had a hand in the housing bubble. He failed to oversee the Fed. And his administration actively fought States in the courts who were trying to prevent big banks from exploiting their citizens with subprime and ALT-A mortgage offerings.