@shooga: You haven't read the new healthcare bill have you? You are no longer required to carry health insurance (well technically you are but the yearly fines is MUCH cheaper than the yearly cost to carry, something like $100/yr) and all insurance companies are required to support you on the spot at your time of…

@Jonathan Reese: You might learn a little more about the groups you discriminate against before stating your opinion:

@alienshards: Said by someone who obviously has no clue what the tea party movement is about. Key note, it wasn't started by racist religious nuts who hated Obama and want religion everywhere, it was started by people who hated Bush for everything he did when the recession started. And there is a suprising number…

You realise we "technically" still have prohibition in some locales... I.e. why some counties in Texas are still "dry counties" and alcohol is illegal... Of course the stores right over the county line make a hell of a profit from it.

@ScottRose: It is not immoral (the poster above really used the wrong phrasing), it's actually completely insensitive to the feelings of the people that their statement affects. Basically there are far better ways to open dialogue about an issue or show support/disagreement than burning a bible, or building a…

@Ian Logsdon: Where I live we can throw away pretty much anything we want. Have a sofa to get rid of drag it down to the curb and they'll haul it off, same with washers, driers, hot water heaters, etc. Now while we can't throw out things that are regulated by the EPA (such as batteries, but AC compressors are fine)…

@Ian Logsdon: Last I checked pretty much everyone PAYS to have their trash collected every day so it does not cost the city to send it to a landfill. It costs ME, now if they were to say refund a portion of the $26/ton they make off of recyclables off of my bill then I would be fine with the "request" to recycle. …