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Just got back from vacation, and ending up reading the Senate's report on the financial crisis: http://fcic-static.law.stanford.edu/cdn_media/fcic-reports/fcic_final_report_full.pdf For a government report, I thought it was well done. Interesting read. I'll endeavor to work my way through the many excellent suggestions contributed in this thread. We are all engines of karma

It's seems to be the audience for most Democrats... We are all engines of karma

That was the point of my early post. I should have been more explicit in my criticism, as billvon rightfully pointed out. We are all engines of karma

Agreed re: spin. We are all engines of karma

Read this article today: New, convincing evidence indicates global warming is caused by cosmic rays and the sun — not humans http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/08/26/lawrence-solomon-science-now-settled/ Here's the Nature article: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html While the physics shows CO2 forcing is valid in direction, it's not the dominant driving force in the weather system. Coupled with the CERES data (which shows the Earth is losing plenty of heat, much more than predicted by AGW models), it'll be interesting to see what the AGW priests have to say now. In the interest of full disclosure, I am not advocating wanton pollution of the Earth. We are all engines of karma

Is this why the eye wall didn't regenerate? I thought this was a pretty good article: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110828/D9PDAF0O0.html We are all engines of karma

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That made me jump out of my skin... I'm going to check under my bed now. We are all engines of karma

That's so vivid that I'm scared of them now... We are all engines of karma

I always find it disconcerting when my horoscope make sense. We are all engines of karma

If the cops had done their job, this wouldn't have happened. They were repeatedly robbed. Granted, their judgement was flawed. If anything, the moral here is use rock salt, IMO. We are all engines of karma

I live just north of NYC. The Weather Channel (aka around here as The Disaster Channel) definitely over-hyped this storm. Streams of people needlessly evacuated. They are going to be roundly dismissed the next time a storm comes along, and rightfully so. We are all engines of karma

I think you could use the word SCAB scratched into his car as a clue here. We are all engines of karma

Thanks for all of the suggestions! We are all engines of karma

If you have a mtg backed by FNMA, etc., then yes they are responsible for P&I payments to bond holders. We are all engines of karma

Here's a quote from an article in today's WSJ: The Soft-on-Crime Roots of British Disorder So the burglars might hurt themselves, and then the medical system would have to pay for it. Can you imagine the power the government will start exerting in our daily lives in order to save medical costs? Obamacare cannot be allowed to stand. We are all engines of karma

I'm pretty much open to anything. As long as someone thinks it's a good book, I'm going to take a look at it. I've never really been big into fiction. As soon as I perceive it violating the first law of thermo, invariably I lose interest We are all engines of karma

Going on vacation for a week, and looking for some good books to read. Anyone have suggestions? Thanks. We are all engines of karma

Taxable income for millionaires and billionaires last year was a little over 600 billion. Even if they take all of it, it's not going to solve Obama's spending problem. The federal government has a spending problem, big time. We are all engines of karma

Duggen should have had sympathy for them, and thought through the consequences of his actions before hand. We are all engines of karma

Did this "study" include any sampling from London? Or, did he just exclude people on the dole in general? We are all engines of karma

There's hope Obama won't bankrupt the country. We are all engines of karma

I read the WSJ every day. They've run several opinion articles about that controversy. Other than increasing font size and adding a sports page (), Murdoch has left them alone. We are all engines of karma

From today's WSJ Après le Déluge, What? Riots and flash mobs have root causes that government can't reach. The riots in Britain left some Americans shaken. In the affluence of the past 40 years, and with the rise of the jumbo jet, we became a nation of travelers. We have been to England, visited a lot of those neighborhoods. They were peaceful; now they're in flames. But something else raised our unease as we followed the story on TV and on the Net. I think there was a ping on the national radar. We saw something over there that in smaller ways we're starting to see over here. The British press, left, right and center, was largely united in a refusal to make political excuses for the violence. Almost all agreed on the cause and nature of what happened. The cause was not injustice; this was not a revolt of the downtrodden masses, breaking into stores looking for food. The causes were greed, selfishness, a respect and even lust of violence, and a lack of moral grounding. Conscienceless predators preyed upon the weak. The weak were anyone who happened to be passing by, and those, many of them immigrants, who tried to defend their shops and neighborhoods. The iconic scene was the 20-year-old college student in East London who was beaten for his bicycle and fell bloody to the ground. His tormentors, with a sadistic imitation of gentleness, helped him up. Then they rifled through his backpack to get his phone and wallet. It was cruelty out of Dickens. It was Bill Sikes with a million YouTube hits. The denunciations were swift and fierce. Max Hastings, in the conservative-populist Daily Mail: "The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. . . . Nobody has ever dared suggest to them that they need feel any allegiance to anything, least of all Britain or their community. . . . Not only do they know nothing of Britain's past, they care nothing for its present." In the left-tilting Guardian, youth worker Shaun Bailey called the rioters opportunists. "Young people have been looting the shops they like: JD Sports and mobile phone shops have been hit, yet Waterstone's [a bookstore] has been left alone. These young people like trainers [sneakers] and iPhones; they are less interested in books. This is criminality in a raw form, not politics." View Full Image noonan0813 ZUMAPRESS A well known local gang in Normanton, Derby wears scarves and hoods to protect their identity. noonan0813 noonan0813 In the right-leaning Telegraph, Allison Pearson asked: "Where are the parents?" She told of a friend who'd called a mother to tell her her son was out and acting up. The mother yelled at her for calling at 2:15 a.m. "The adults are afraid and the children, emboldened by adult timidity, are fearless." More stinging and resigned was the brief essay by Theodore Dalrymple in the intellectually bracing City Journal. The subject—the decline of Western society—has been his for 20 years. He has written what he saw as a doctor working in British prisons. "The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population" in the riots did not surprise him. "To have spotted it required no great perspicacity on my part; rather, it took a peculiar cowardly blindness, one regularly displayed by the British intelligentsia and political class, not to see it and not to realize its significance." At fault in the riots were the distorting effects of the welfare state and a degenerate British popular culture: "A population thinks (because it has often been told so by intellectuals and the political class) that it is entitled to a high standard of consumption, irrespective of its personal efforts; and therefore it regards the fact that it does not receive that high standard, by comparison with the rest of society, as a sign of injustice." Much of what they have is provided by others, but they are not grateful: dependency doesn't encourage gratitude but resentment. *** What does this have to do with America? What we're seeing on the streets in Britain right now is something we may be starting to see here. It hasn't come together in a conflagration, but it is out there, and I think it's growing. And as in Britain, it doesn't have anything to do with political grievances per se. Philadelphia right now is under curfew because of "flash mobs." Young people send out the word on social media, and suddenly dozens or hundreds of them hit a targeted store, steal everything on the shelves, and run, knowing no one will stop them or catch them. It's happened in other cities, too. Sometimes the mobs beat people up on the street and take their money. There are the beat-downs in McDonald's, where the young lose all control and the old fear to intervene. There were the fights and attacks last weekend at the Wisconsin State Fair. You've seen the YouTubes of fights on the subways. You often see links to these stories on Drudge: He headlines them "Les Miserables." Some of these young people come from brokenness, shallowness and terror, and are bringing those things into the world with them. Here are some statistics of what someone last week called a new lost generation. In 2009, the last year for which census data are available, there were 74 million children under 18. Of that number, 20 million live in single-parent families, often with only an overwhelmed mother or a beleaguered grandmother. Over 700,000 children under 18 have been the subject of reports of abuse. More than a quarter million are foster children. These numbers suggest the making—or the presence—of a crisis. We are all engines of karma

Ah, wasn't it over by then? We are all engines of karma