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One group of government stats says that the top 90-99 percent of the population owns about 40 percent of the nation's wea;th, and the top 1 percent owns about 30 percent. http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/papers/wgt95.pdf (Page 22.) Basically then the top 10 percent in the above...

I'm probably not the only person who doesn't understand - or pretend to understand - the implication's of Saddam's capture. I'm one of those clueless folks who thought we were looking for some guy named Osama. What happned? Seriously - I've got no idea what it means that "We got him." What...

In many of the church/state issues we run into what is called Ceremonial Deism. Where the religious connotations of say an opening prayer is more based on tradition rather than the following of a specific religion or invocation of a specific god. We see this often in protecting prayers at city...

If you go to weather.com and get the extended forcast, then right click on a sun or cloud graphic and hit properties, this is the URL. "http://image.weather.com/web/common/please_use_our_XML_feed_instead_of_scraping_this_page/31/" Scraping this page?

I read this and my Scottish relatives aren't in ( I called), so what does this mean? "A whang off a cut kebbuck's never missed" or "Mony tynes the half amrk whinger."

Sounds stupid, doesn't it. of COURSE they do...right? Well, they don't seem to matter to the person to whom the odds-against thing happened to. Also, consider that at any given moment, there are tons of people out there who are a 'victim' of some odds against bad luck, or are the recipients of...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/17/1063625062201.html Now, IF this is true, I'm betting he's planning on making some big ones from cloning dead people. The race is on.

Here's a funny story from a friend of mine. My buddy Thor was in an Arby's on lunch break one day. He sat down near a table where 2 big blonde (this is Minnesota) Nordic looking construction worker types were eating. In come a group of well dressed young people. They get some food from the...

I was looking at the topic about the born again Christian causing problems at the workplace, and I wondered again what exactly "born again" means. Most born again Christians were already Christians, but it seems they've had some kind of epiphany, usually at the urging of a minister or...