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I suppose so. I was pointing out that the cities you call "hellholes" are the location of the offices, homes, and playgrounds of the hyper-rich and their top servants.

Pay 'em and the State Police would probably be stunned at the number of 13-year-old girls who'd be completely comfortable, and even amused, to provide phone/text sex and promises of meetings to old pervs.

The perception morons have of New York is truly weird. You do understand that's where Wall Street is, right?

No Lives Matter.

What about the space aliens? Let's say they do. Let's say they manage to "smuggle in" three big-ass loads of explosives and set them off. Yeah, we call that 9/11. We killed four times as many people the same year in ordinary domestic criminal homicides. And the government and the economy...

I actually did a few years in "threat analysis." The hysteria is, not to put too fine an edge on it, stupid.

Potential threat of what, exactly? Violent overthrow of the government? By people armed with scrub brushes and rakes?

Pretty good for getting shots of hotties nekkid on their roofs and balconies too!

Popular misconception. In point of fact, the Second Amendment states quite clearly what the exact "point" of the right is. "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the Security of a free State, the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The ability to raise a...

Actually, they should have nothing to do with each other. Assault is a crime whether it occurs during a protest or in a bar. Protesting is generally legal, and a right (reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions can apply). Declaring a protest "illegal" is troubling, and should require a...

I'm not sure I'd call it "assault with a deadly weapon," but it's certainly assault with a weapon. That's a felony ride in U.S. states. He should do time. And not in his room.

Um. . . because revolution isn't the desired goal of demonstrations? Just a thought.

Meh, inflation happens. Smart governments do what they can to keep it in check. Interestingly, the U.S. Federal Reserve's inflation "target" is 2% per year. Remarkably sensible to not be barking about zero inflation. One of the rare instances of the government not promising the moon and the...

My bad. Wrong thread.

I can honestly say it never occurred to us to put an old English person on our money. . . Another dumb thing about the U.S. The one-dollar note (we also have two-dollar notes, but they're rare and no longer printed). The Treasury stated 20 years ago that replacing the one-dollar note with a...

Ya get the strangest things in American law. We had a case where a guy was caught smuggling U.S. currency into the U.S. The prosecutor tried to hem him up, but the judge pointed out that there's no law against bringing U.S. currency into the U.S. The prosecutor actually advanced the theory...

I consider the one-colour, one-size money the dumbest thing the U.S. does. Well, one of the dumbest. One can hardly imagine a way one could set up the system more conveniently for error and fraud.

in the U.S. in April was down to 4.9% from a high of 9.1%. Nice to see the old tricks still work.

Correct. It is entirely possible to guess correctly. To state as fact that which one does not reasonably know is fact, however, is poor journalism. Don't worry about it.

To you? Yes, I suppose so.