Up to 90 percent of U.S. paper money contains traces of cocaine.
(American Chemical Society, August 2009)
God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'
(Ann Coulter, columnist, on Fox News)
I was skimming through a compilation of some of the “mini-mob” quotes the other day, those that have been heard at the health care town hall forums, but often have had little to do with health care.
It is one of the most productive fisheries in the world but within one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The decisions are not easy and have questions for all of us to consider when discussing development and technological fixes, be it Laos or the U.S.
I certainly don't know if this woman is demented, a shill or merely frightened of change but, no, you can't debate a table nor should one expect that avoidance will make it all go away.
Quite by accident I came across this riveting presentation by Professor Elizabeth Warren. Of note is that her talk was given in 2007, more than a year before the Howdy Doody economic system we created in America finally unraveled.
Professor Warren is a well known and well respected authority in bankruptcy and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She has for some time been a strong critic of America's credit economy. Warren succinctly points out in her presentation what happened to us in only a single generation.
I was at Kansas University Medical Center yesterday morning meeting with some people. I learned that arthritis was the leading cause of disability in the United States.
What else I found out about the disease is that if caught in time it is usually treatable; most people can live quite normal lives without the ever increasing debilitating effects. Of course this means access to affordable health care as well as education. The new drugs that are currently available are quite expensive as well. Anyway....
Alain de Botton, philosopher and novelist, talks about the global phenomena of snobs. His presentation is both witty and perceptive and well worth watching. What is truly our own? See Envy.
If you don't like this kind of health care system, what are you planning on doing about it? Our insurance executive here is laughing all the way to Palm Beach. It won't go away on its own.
Chinese assets are very safe.
(Timothy Geithner, Secretary of Treasury)
Morsel-Blandishment-Sport-Desire-Climax-Barbarian! But you, kid, are ahead of all the Latin girls.
(Ausonius, Roman poet 310-395)
An able Goth wants to be like a Roman; only a poor Roman would want to be like a Goth.
(Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths 454-526)
Frank Rich points out in his New York Times column this past Sunday that, according to Census Bureau data, America will be a “white-minority” country by 2042.
