You need better historical perspective. For centuries, the middle class belly-ached that bankers would only lend to people who were already wealthy, making ownership impossible for the middle class. Bankers have no impetus to provide excessively large loans at low interest rates. Predatory lending is the system we…

It’s too bad we don’t have more income restrictions on federal subsidies. Bilking the US Treasury is a mainstay of the wealthy, especially economically secure retirees.

Clearly Israel v Palestine is not about religion, though one side often cites religious motivation. Clearly the Revolutionary War was not about taxation, though many colonists were led to believe they were the victims of onerous taxation (the founding fathers actually wanted to pack parliament or rebel regardless of…

Don’t worry. Someone will invent a time machine eventually, and we can send you back to the 1800s.

From the beginning, you’ve insisted that the South seceded and started a war to protect an institution that was already legal. The argument started as lunacy, and it is slowly moving back towards something reasonable.

On full display are the conditions that led to the Civil War. Confederate rebellion, though I don’t see much on this particular thread. Union desire to suppress a minority interst regarded as irrelevant and uncouth.

And every terrorist quotes the Qur’an as his justification for bloody fatwah. I doubt you believe they are actually doing it for religion.

We can start with the four slave states that never seceded. That’s usually simple enough. The Union still had slave states.

You post it every time because you still haven’t learned about the Civil War or human conflict in general. You don’t know basic historical facts, like NY defeated a universal black suffrage bill on the same ballot they elected Lincoln. There was no human rights movement within the voting electorate. The South thought…

Maybe because it wasn’t about slavery or human rights?

Here we go. Everyone knows Israel v Palestine is about religion. US Colonies vs Great Britain was about taxes. North vs. South was about slavery.

At times like this it’s important to remember that America is much bigger than the USA, and that the best footballer in the world is an American.

and Popp was bleeding all over the field, but they didn’t require her to be subbed or to sit out until the bleeding was stopped. If she had been subbed, you could go so far as to say that the play with Johnston would never have happened.

1st Gear: Hamp Out

We aren’t interested in making life safer or more sanitary, we are simply trying to ban all memento mori because we don’t like dealing with our own mortality. Sad because people are happiest when TT riders don’t die, which is a far cry from the fatalistic deathploitation of the gladiator arenas.

I only buy cars that go 500kph. This is already a disappointment.

Excellent work!

As far as vehicular abominations go, the XT5 is no worse than the other oddly-shaped midsize unibody luxury softroaders.

Lexus understands the true meaning of luxury—carefree car ownership without the typical teutonic shenanigans. Lexus is fast becoming the luxury vehicle of choice in my family clan. Mercedes and Lexus are tied, at the moment, but I’m leaning CT200h for my next commuter.

Victory for self-deprecating humor. Congrats, Petehammer.