money

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1075545450213370.xml These guys gall me. Cleveland has a football stadium, a baseball stadium, a basketball arena, and a "convocation center" at the downtown university which also hosts sporting events, all built using public...

In terms of advancing science, wouldn't the billions of dollars spent landing that thing on mars have been better served if distributed as research grants to medical-- and other-- researchers around the country? Could that money maybe have cured diabetes (for example?) Not that science won't...

http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/5/2004/01/13/story105.html

I'm an RN and a skeptic. When AltMed topics come up in my field, I usually try to ask the person advocating the Alt treatment a couple of 'thinking' questions to get their skeptical juices flowing. You guys probably know that doesn't make me very popular at work. Somewhere on-line a while...

http://www.msnbc.com/news/995422.asp?0dm=C17MT&cp1=1 These are the self-same d!ckheds who tried to buy UNIX code rights from one particualr company, and failed. Then they went ahead and said that they didn't have to; they already had the rights due to previous licensing. :rolleyes: What...

For Australian skeptics - mark your calender now! : Mind Body Spirit Festival From last year's festival I especially liked this leature : Wow! Entraining a tree! Just what exactly do they do at IBM nowadays????

Colin Powell: "We wouldn't want to saddle the Iraqi people with debt." But OK to saddle the American people with this debt? Just the initial $87 billion will take 30 years to repay. Never mind whether or not we should authorize the money, or what we could have done with it to rebuild our...

http://www.canada.com/news/business/story.asp?id=3EE5B44F-6EA7-4D4A-AF6E-9C7BBEA256CD

The Montreal Expos baseball team is looking for a new home cause french canada has never been to $upportive ofthe team. I guess the DC area and Portland Ore are tryingto get the team. Which always means a new stadium! I was always OK with public money going these stadiums (within reason)...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94764,00.html This makes me wonder if making a big deal about things like the ten commandments is worth it? For that matter, recently I was thinking about the use of the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, on US money and in the courtroom. For the...

Has anyone in the U.S. actually sprayed some starch on a large bill to see how the cashier reacts when they use the "yellow pen" on it? Were you delayed getting home? I've always been tempted to try this, but I'm concerned about the possible hassle and loss of a legitimate bill. What are the...

This comment got me wondering. If "bad energy" resides in money, I wonder how long it lives there. Does it eventually leak out? Does bad energy last longer in coins than it does in paper money? If you have money with bad energy in it, but it is kept in the bank, will it spread bad energy...

Should all people with jobs be paid the same amount of money? I chose no. I think it would be communism if everyone was paid the same amount of money.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/09/PROPN.TMP ..full article This judge doesnt think so.