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You ever pack that ball of crap in your avatar? Need a new closing loop?:) I thought you bailed?

That's just OBSCENE! The rich need all the help, political help, tax breaks, inheritance tax breaks they can get! Because w/o it, they wouldn't be rich any longer!! Which would diminish ALL of us. No one to look up to, no one to emulate! We'd be lost...! P.S.: Thanks for fleecing the rich :)

I can't even fathom what you are trying to say. Must be my lack of a law degree, immigrant background (but naturalized citizen), combined w/ a PhD (sciences) and an MBA. But you are the "rocket." Care to explain yourself to a mortal like me? So the billions being donated are going where you would donate the money. I mean, what the hell?

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They are not helping the poor and needy in America! Except maybe with a few library computers! The children of America are none of their concern as if abject poverty didn't exist in this third-world country of ours. And as if people were not dying from lack of affordable access to medical care! No, it needs to be an African, Haitian, or Bangladeshi child!!! Even better, a BLIND African, Haitian, or Bangladeshi child!!! But even that might not be good enough. Let them help the BLIND, ORPHANED African, Haitian, or Bangladeshi child!!! Cynical? Maybe! But that's how charities work including the Gates Foundation. P.S.: Of course, you need to be really blind to not see the need in America!!!

Millionaires and billionaires are not supposed to help the poor! Let's realize, and openly acknowledge, what we are facing is class-warfare!! So, I'll donate a $1,000 towards a billionaire's guillotine... Because his billions were taken from the people! Whether it is a Hedge Fund Manager on Wall Street, or our Dear Leader, North Korea, does not make a fuckin' difference! Their fate should be all the same! Who told you that millionaires and billionairs are supposed to help poor people? Giving free help to those who will not advance on their own is enabling the poor's dependence.

That's as scientifically sound as it gets! If you still believe that the millionaires and billionaires will save you...Good luck!!!! Social class is more than just how much money you have. It’s also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to—and has a strong influence on how you interact with others, according to the authors of a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. People from lower classes have fundamentally different ways of thinking about the world than people in upper classes—a fact that should figure into debates on public policy, according to the authors. Americans, although this is shifting a bit, kind of think class is irrelevant,” says Dacher Keltner of the University of California-Berkeley, who cowrote the article with Michael W. Kraus of UC-San Francisco and Paul K. Piff of UC-Berkeley. “I think our studies are saying the opposite: This is a profound part of who we are.” People who come from a lower-class background have to depend more on other people. “If you don’t have resources and education, you really adapt to the environment, which is more threatening, by turning to other people,” Keltner says. “People who grow up in lower-class neighborhoods, as I did, will say,’ There’s always someone there who will take you somewhere, or watch your kid. You’ve just got to lean on people.’” Wealthier people don’t have to rely on each other as much. This causes differences that show up in psychological studies. People from lower-class backgrounds are better at reading other people’s emotions. They’re more likely to act altruistically. “They give more and help more. If someone’s in need, they’ll respond,” Keltner says. When poor people see someone else suffering, they have a physiological response that is missing in people with more resources. “What I think is really interesting about that is, it kind of shows there’s all this strength to the lower class identity: greater empathy, more altruism, and finer attunement to other people,” he says. Of course, there are also costs to being lower-class. Health studies have found that lower-class people have more anxiety and depression and are less physically healthy. Upper-class people are different, Keltner says. “What wealth and education and prestige and a higher station in life gives you is the freedom to focus on the self.” In psychology experiments, wealthier people don’t read other people’s emotions as well. They hoard resources and are less generous than they could be. One implication of this, Keltner says, is that’s unreasonable to structure a society on the hope that rich people will help those less fortunate. “One clear policy implication is, the idea of nobless oblige or trickle-down economics, certain versions of it, is bull,” Keltner says. “Our data say you cannot rely on the wealthy to give back. The ‘thousand points of light’—this rise of compassion in the wealthy to fix all the problems of society—is improbable, psychologically.” The ability to rise in class is the great promise of the American Dream. But studies have found that, as people rise in the classes, they become less empathetic. Studies have also found that as people rise in wealth, they become happier—but not as much as you’d expect. “I think one of the reasons why is the human psyche stops feeling the need to connect and be closer to others, and we know that’s one of the greatest sources of happiness science can study,” Keltner says.

Just need date and time. Drive by, if your dare! Chilled beverages and food will be waiting for you and Julie. Too bad you are stuck in middle GA. :)

Why not leave the AF447 bantering to professional airline pilots? For example, pprune.org. Most people on here can't even fly a canopy!

Most American guys have no clue how to vow an attractive and gorgeous woman like you, re: Sexprison USA!! I think you are looking hot!And I want you! /M

And furthermore. If you don't have $1k to spare, that is further evidence that the 1% need a tax cut. After all, they are taking care of all of us!!!!

Seems that most Americans don't have a $1,000 to spare. Of course, the pathetic part is not why don't you have $1k to spare. BUT the real pathetic part is: Why would you even want to spare $1k? I don't get it!!!

MAN. I know plenty of stories from back in the golden days. Like early 2000s; when families of four would just come by and drop $1k on Saturday afternoon for a tandem for everyone. Plus video. And yes, here is a $100 tip for your pregnant wife and unborn child! SWEET!!! (P.S.: Biggest pay-off I ever got for a single tandem.) But even in those days it would have been a scary (and impossible) ride w/ three kids attached!!!

Given your background and involvement in the sport. Shouldn't you know these answers by now?

You are what you eat, and your mind has what you read! Dietary changes aren't enough! Don't buy any more bullshit by the pound! Offered from Washington at a discount. We are the 99%! It's taken me a while, making gradual changes, but, as noted in my post earlier on this thread, I've made a lot of progress. I already noted the changes as of last year, this year's been all about the meat - a couple months ago I finally bought a freezer (it's stuck in the corner of my dining room, so it's not like you have to have space if you're willing to make space!). Just this morning, in fact, I picked up a 1/2 of a pig, directly from a source I'd researched carefully. So now, there's 76 lbs of well-raised, humanely treated pork in my freezer. I can't wait to try the sausage for breakfast tomorrow! Also in the freezer is a 1/4 cow, that I bought directly from a friend's small family farm. Finding that was a stroke of random luck - I'd mentioned that I was considering getting a freezer so I could start buying high quality meat in bulk, and my friend mentioned that they had a 1/4 they'd been looking to sell (to help cover their costs of raising/processing). Win/win, and it is some seriously delicious beef. I mean, even the ground beef is good enough that I will cook a burger up, and eat it with nothing on it just so I can enjoy the taste of the meat. It took a small initial investment ($200) for a 7 CF freezer, and I figure the extra electricity costs me a few bucks a month, but I'm saving a huge amount on the meat relative to buying the meat piece by piece, so it'll pay for itself very quickly (and since I bought the freezer with a gift card I got through work as a spot bonus, it was kind of "found money" anyway). So while I'm paying more per pound than I'd pay for most cuts in the supermarket, by buying in bulk, I'm getting even the expensive cuts at a lower per pound price than I'd pay for the cheapest cuts at the farmer's market or the local butcher. You don't have to go vegetarian. But if you're willing to spend more time and money and "vote with your wallet" you can get better quality stuff. It tastes better, and it's better (by a long shot) for your health. That alone, for me, is worth it, even if the environmental/ethical impacts weren't there. Add that on, and it's a big win for me. The true "cost" of supermarket meat is hidden. I'd rather pay it up front for better stuff.

BINGO! The Russians defeated Germany in WW2, not the Anglo-Saxons. And what it is with these days w/ Iranians controlling US drones? And another plummeting to earth today in the Seychelles??? Can't you even get your computer games right?

Last think I knew that it took the whole world to overcome Germany; TWICE! And any Afghanistan warrior can outdo an American tank at any time. Seems the Americans will withdraw w/ their tail tugged in. I bet you are overweight, live on Pringles, Coca-Cola, and Fox News! Don't have a clue, but support tax incentives for the 1%.

Death Penalty Opposition EU Set to Ban Export of Drug Used in US Executions States in the US have long been having difficulty gaining access to a drug used in lethal injection cocktails. A new European Union regulation will make it even harder. As of the end of this week, EU pharmaceutical companies will no longer be allowed to export thiopental for use in executions. Ever since January, when the Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Hospira elected to stop making a key ingredient in the lethal injection cocktail used by several US states to execute death-row inmates, the United States has been searching for alternative suppliers. As of Friday, obtaining the drug from the European Union will become much more difficult. According to a report published Monday in the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, a new European Union regulation set to go into effect at the end of this week will prohibit the export of some barbituric acids unless a special permit has been issued. Among those chemicals on the list is the anesthetic thiopental, which is used broadly in the US for executions. When announcing its decision to cease production of thiopental, Hospira cited the drug's use in lethal injection cocktails as the primary reason. Numerous executions in the US have had to be postponed due to shortages of the chemical as a result of the company's decision. Simply replacing it with something else is not immediately possible due to the complicated process with which chemicals are approved for inclusion in lethal injection cocktails. As a result, many states have spent months searching for new suppliers abroad. A Significant Supporter In June, Germany's Vice Chancellor Philipp Rösler, who was health minister at the time, said he was asked by then-US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to help in the search for new suppliers of thiopental. "I noted the request, and declined," Rösler reported saying in response. He also wrote to German pharmaceutical companies asking them not to sell the chemical in the US. The Süddeutsche reports that Rösler was a significant supporter of the new EU regulation. Just two weeks ago, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Naari AG, which produces sodium thiopental in India, complained that Nebraska had illegitimately obtained a supply via a middleman. Naari CEO Prithi Kochhar wrote a letter to Nebraska's Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Heavican as well as to the state attorney general saying he is opposed to the use of the drug in lethal injections. "I am shocked and appalled by this news," Kochar wrote in the letter, which was first reported on by the Lincoln Journal Star. "I am writing to request that the thiopental which was wrongfully diverted ... to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services be returned immediately to its rightful owners, that is, that it be returned to us at Naari." In April, Indian pharmaceutical company Kayem Pharmaceutical Pvt. Ltd. halted sales of the drug for use in death penalty cocktails. The Danish company Lundbeck followed suit in June. P.S.: I do not believe that US citizens have even begun to acknowledge how far they have deviated from societally accepted norms in the 21st century. This country, the US, is living in the dark ages. And China is no excuse!!!

I want them out! They have nothing to offer to Europe!!! Hate their asses and bad, BAD teeth! Freddy Mercury is their only accomplishment. But then, the Brits hated him, too!

Thanks for the embedded link. W/ close to 26 out of 27 member nations signing of on the new treaty. The old joke was: "Fog in the channel. The continent cut off from England." Who cares about England anymore? I don't! The rest of the world doesn't either. Here's to fog...:)

Of course, the UK being marginalized, pushed out of the EU! That's a great victory for the United States of Europe! I was getting tired of those British asses anyways! US, Canada take care of your own? I am glad once they are out of our continental European hair! All yours! We don't want them!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/business/global/european-leaders-agree-on-fiscal-treaty.html?hp

Yep. Pilot error, maybe? Remote American pilot in FL no less. GAME OVER.

Because it is against zoning ordinances. And let's leave kids/wife/mistresses out of the equation. But his rotten corpse would stink up Wall Street after a few days. Bad for tourism!!! OK give me one good reason why we can't start by hanging his kids on Wall Street then his wife and then him infront of all the other CEO's? One good reason...just one....remember odds are your money was a part of this dea.

RIGHT ON! But these days it is like, "I am really sorry. But please don't take my Ferrari and yacht away from me!" Responsibility these days is out the window (ground floor!). P.S.: Too bad the letter bomb to Ackermann (CEO, Deutsche Bank) didn't make it to its intended recipient. It is not like he has not been throwing financial "bombs" left and right.

Or as Mao used to say: "Punish one to deter one hundred," and "Kill a chicken to scare a monkey."