Is anyone really surprsied by all this? They did let Jon Waters be the band director after all.

It's not so much the bureaucrats as the governer and state legislature. People have won elections by vowng to lower taxes on cars. Voters are gullible. Yes patriarchal.

The thing that really bugged me was that it was on a road that went from four lanes to eight, then inexpilcably went from 70 to 50. Traffic was so heavy that I didn't see the new sign, and I was going with the flow. I was just the unluckly schmuck that caught the heat.

No it's worse for residents. There's a "civil penalty" they tack on to reckless driving that adds about a thousand dollars to the fine simply for being from VA. They get away with by not raising taxes on owning cars...which they eventually do anyway, so this is all pointless.

Yeah that was messed up, but oddly enough though they left the civil penalty that only applies the VA residents. I got nabbed near Norfolk going 25 over and they wanted to stick the $1000 civil penalty on top of the rest of the fine. I'm a "resident" but haven't lived in VA for ten years; the only way I avoided the…

Self Defense Force...SDF.

Wow, does nayone else think this pretty much lays bare the "letter" as completely full of shit? From the "I bled there" to the "Nothing is given," it pretty much sounds like hogwash meant to suck up to the people who are going to pay for his max contract. Morgan Freeman voice is perfect for this.

An 800 is pretty much the high end for running flat out, and even that requires one to hold back a bit. The fastest anyone can run is a dead sprint, and mid distance and higher runners only do that on the last lap. You physically can't do it for more than that, especially if you've already run the better part of a…

That is the most...brilliant idea ever! It could be like a mini-cruise. Hell, they put a prision on a barge, why not?

Ah, you got me! Well played, sir. That's a fine bit of trolling. My hat's off.

I did know that, and I might say something about ends and means. Although you're totally right; who wouldn't want a Brooks Brothers tie (reasonably priced at $45) to serve as a wearable, and completely fashionable, reminder of three thousand dead people?

Because the existance of a museum gift shop in of itself isn't an exercise in crass commercialism, right?

Except when the chairman and the CEO are the same person, which happens in 60% of S&P 500 companies. Also an owner is not the same thing as a stock holder; an owner can directly collect profits, a stockholder only does so through dividend stock if they even choose that option. That doesn't foster approval/dissaproval…

So unless I define it the way you want it, I'm wrong? Does manipulation count as fraud? Because that's part of it. If you consider the CEO's own desire to inflate his salary the aggregate demand in this equation, then I see where you're coming from. However, there is something really off with this:

That's what I was alluding to with this,

The reason would be because CEO does not imply an entrepreneur who invests his or her own money or the owner of a company, but rather someone who is charge of an already established and very large company. We're not talking about the wealthy, but the extremely wealthy who have managed to accumulate more than half the…

People are not comodities; its wage control, which we already do at the lower end of the labor spectrum. A price is a value on something you buy, which can be applied to labor from a management standpoint, but no one is buying their expertise; its a reward they give themselves.

Regulating the salary of less than 1% of the workforce is not a price control. In fact, it encourages the opposite. 70% of the US economy is based on consumer spending. That means that the middle class that buys goods are the actual job creators as they both work for and subsequently spend capital. The practices that…

Because they've never done such a thing before... *cough* Gijon *cough*

I'd say look at Beto's performance, he had a couple awkward saves on weak shots. However, brilliant in this context means "shining," or "excellent" if you're speaking the King's.