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Absolutely, unquestionably, without a doubt. Google Ida Fuller if you disagree. She paid into FICA for three years, for a total of about $23, or something like that. She retired, and a couple years later got her first check for $22. She died in 1970 after collecting about 1000X her money...

Well, it was foolishness from the start, but had it been real, it wouldn't have mattered if the bills weren't paid. It's kind of like the Austin Powers movie where Dr. Evil extorts the world's governments for a kazillion dollars so he won't destroy the world. After he collects, he says he's...

Ok, one more complaint. Think the font on the app could be any smaller? It's not adjustable.

I was being general, because like the boxer someone mentioned, going on relief of any kind is a shameful act; theft. Now, if your kids are starving, you do what you have to do for the moment, but like the boxer, you consider it a shameful thing, you never admit it to anyone, and you get off it...

Reminds me of a similar one in which a rabbi is observing a priest hear confessions. After each one, the priest would look heaven-ward and come up with a number of Hail Marys and money to be put into the poor box. The rabbi said he was impressed that the priest was able to pray for and get an...

Did he say how big his AC unit was?

That's the line that gets me. He doesn't even feel ashamed for collecting welfare-type benefits in the first place, something of which someone should be ashamed, and on top of it, doesn't feel bad for doing so when he obviously doesn't need the money. As Bastiat said, we have the form of...

Read their latest post? They have demands. Yes, demanding that EO do certain things and not do other things, then they'll make nice.

Actually, I've heard from urologists that lots of guys want to be circumsized because of problems with foreskin retraction and such. And I read in an online debate on the practice that lots of women won't "be with" a guy who hasn't been circumsized. I forget who the comic was who said he was...

SS should not exist. It's theft.

One reason they're stuck in that mindset is their horrendous, ignorant interpretation of eschatological passages in the Bible. The Second Coming was never intended to be understood as a physical, bodily return, but a figurative one. "On the clouds" is a Hebraistic term that denotes divine...

I just downloaded the Droid EO app. Like some other apps, I was a bit taken aback at all the permissions the app requires. I don't remember what they were, offhand, but there sure were a lit of them, and far more than what I would think the app would require, and some of them privacy-related...

And, speaking of the economy, let's not forget that the 9% "official" unemployment rate is substantially lower than the effective unemployment rate, which is, last I heard, something like 16%, and had been as high as the low-20s at times. How hard are people going to feel it at election time...

And, to finish the thought I thought you were going for, if it's an option and he chooses not to get the endorsement, he might find himself sitting sometime when he would otherwise get a load. But, it was hazmat, so he either won't even know it existed, or the van/truck next to him might get...

That's one reason why silver will be better, the cost per unit, and that there's a lot of junk silver including pre-1964 dimes.

Everybody's favorite little buddy, Glenn Beck, says Nutjob was yelling, "Allah akhbar!" as he stormed the ****pit door...

Yeah, but the alerts are all pretty much bogus anyway, so we'd all be dealing with the same fiction, which keeps the playing field level. Besides, your chances of being directly affected by a real terrorist are pretty close to zero to start with.

However, you might be at Point A, and you need something over at Point B. You have eggs, and a goat, and some vegetables. Are you going to transport all that perishable, fragile stuff from A to B, to make the transaction? If it's hot, the eggs will spoil and picked vegetables might not do so...

Americans Are Living In 1984 by Paul Craig Roberts The White House's 'death of bin Laden' story has come apart at the seams. Will it make any difference that before 48 hours had passed the story had...

Jerry Della Femina, the “Mad Men” Ad Man, Has Shrugged Jerry Della Femina, the legendary advertizing visionary, restaurant owner, and alleged inspiration for the popular AMC television show, Mad Men, has shrugged. As he wrote recently in The Independent (East Hampton), in 2008 he “decided...