We declared War on Drugs, and drugs won

Funny thing is gas is ~12-13 cents a gallon now, that is if you have pre 1965 US silver coins. The price of products has fell over time in terms of gold and silver while the price in paper dollars rises. That is how a gold standard works. The gold supply changes very slowly, so the price in terms of gold drops…

we went off the gold standard temporarily during the Civil War, when they wanted to print money to pay for the war, then went back on it after the war ended. Nixon in 1971 truly ended the gold standard.

Keynesianism has been proven to be wrong time and time again. Keynesianism continues to live because of politicians, since it gives govt a pseudo-science basis for what they wanted to do anyways - spend into oblivion.

DoJ would rather block this merger and have AT&T shareholders lose up to $7B on the deal and let that money go to the Germans, AT&T customers will still be on a crummy network, Verizon is laughing all the way home at govt blocking AT&Ts long term competitiveness.

grats govt for picking a winner in the marketplace - Verizon Wireless, under the guise of "anti trust" laws

more money wasted by our govt

Food and Death Administration

Yes it does, this whole thing was a huge victory for Verizon, not consumers

this isnt good news for customers, its good news for Verizon

they are trying to buy T mobiles established infrastructure to increase their network capacity by 30%. Its extremely expensive to get approval from local ordinances to build new towers. By far the most cost effective way to increase network capacity is to buy someone else outright.

these anti trust laws do nothing but help create monopolies. This was a huge victory for Verizon. AT&T and Tmobile cant win if they arent combined. AT&T was trying to improve its network by buying out tmobiles infrastructure which is the most cost effective way and you have clueless DoJ bureaucrats who say this is…

paintball is bad if you dont wear your damn mask like the main picture

Media is being very irresponsible by overhypeing storms. What happens when a real nasty storm comes in. People will not take it seriously the next time because they BSed everyone previously. Then a lot of people are going to needlessly get injured or killed.

25 people over 8 states isnt bad when you consider how many people have died in previous storms.

you cant model bad judgements by human beings, which is the primary cause of most accidents. The human is by far the weakest link in any design of the safety system.

this myth was busted on Mythbusters

letting a terrorist take over a plane unopposed because it isn't politically correct to have a gun on a plane isn't a good idea either. Every Israeli flight has armed personnel on board both plain clothes security officers and pilots (who are former Israeli Air Force for the most part). They dont screw around. …

racism will disappear if race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson stop reminding us about race

yup youre hit and possibly dead before you can even hear the shot.