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Question: What happens when a car manufacturing company fails miserably (and rightfully so), is ruled "too large to fail", is purchased by governmental (i.e. your) money, and eventually gets "back on its feet" by shuffling bills around and calling it "paying back your debts"… and shorting the American taxpayer … [...]
But you already know that. I think the best comments for today came by way of Tam:
[...] Generally speaking, I do not like thieves. As I have said before, I view a person’s money as a physical manifestation of their lives, and when someone steals something from you, they are, in fact, stealing a portion of your life that you can never, ever get back. They … [...] If you do not shop at your local Goodwill (or whatever equivalent you may have in your local area), you are an idiot. Excuse the poor image quality, but take a look at this:
One slightly-used 5.11 long-sleeve tactical shirt (retails new at around $50) and a new-with-tags-still-on … [...] … You start to realize everything you wanted to say has already been said, and typically in a better fashion. … [...] Well, now, this is just sucky news:
[...] On the one hand, a movie based off Battleship On the other hand, it seems to give the Navy some good airtime (despite dressing the actors in the same mind-numbingly idiotic Navy Working … [...] Ready Made Resources is currently offering 25% off Mountain House long-term canned food, with free shipping on all case lots (six can increments). I will confess that the idea of 25-year life-span canned food has always intrigued me for emergency situations, but I have never really had the storage … [...] The internet is an interesting place… you write stuff, throw it out there, and you are never really sure what will come of it. And then sometimes you find out. Yesterday morning I got a friendly email from 1 with a Bullet indicating that he had taken my ammo shelf … [...] So apparently some lady just got acquitted of murdering her child. *shrug* Ok. Do I think she did it? Hell if I know. From the very, very brief glances I have made at the story in the news, I could probably be convinced that she did. But that is kind … [...] Stop wasting your money (well, my money, actually) sending me not-quite-bills for that DVD you sent me all those months back. I did not ask for the disc, I did not order it, and I did not request it, and I hate to break it to you, but if you … [...] I forced myself to watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis live today… it was always a childhood dream of mine to ride that ~4 million pounds-of-force candle into the sky, so it seemed only fitting. At any rate, the Atlantis had just cleared the tower with all indications … [...] Over the years, I have come to expect less and less from the "dead-tree media"*, what with their invariably behind-the-curve reporting, error-filled articles (which they, of course, treat as journalistic gold), and rampant-but-baseless belief that they and they alone control the news scene. Thankfully, these steadily-decreasing standards have repeatedly saved … [...] |
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