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NYC was born from its location as a hub for manufacturing, industry, commerce, etc. After all the manufacturing and industry left, what remained was cultural, arts, tourism, and wall street. Wall St...

Except that Dr. King's niece is attending and supporting Beck's rally ?...

Also, while NYC's system is certainly old (1910) the other subways in the world are fairly old too so its not exactly an excuse: London Underground: 1863, Tokyo Subway: 1927, Moscow Metro 1935....

Yep, all those poor Asian and Indian students who score in the gifted class must have also have had all the breaks because of private schools and nannies too right? oh wait that brings up an uncomfort...

In Tokyo they clean the subways _during_ rush hour. They have dudes vacuuming the stairs of the stations while people are walking down them. When you have a metro population of between 35 - 39 million...

The hilarious thing here is this. So you had Bush was evil, and everyone disliked him. But now with Obama who is also evil, everyone shows that they simply disliked the flavor of evil of the Bush, not...

This country is getting retarded quick. I think we need to throw a parade for diversity; complete with party hats and confetti and then maybe everyone can shut the fuck up and get back to, you know, s...

I believe his wife said it was gout (and that he was not diabetic or some of the other things reported)...

So you all do realize that he is going to be in charge of (in addition to many other things) the IRS right? I would kind of be hoping a guy like that might be clued in enough to do his own taxes. But...

#6 He will have his chance soon. No more 'one president at a time' excuses. Grab some popcorn, its going to be hilarious....

Awesome, Starbucks has won me back!...

#10 most people wouldn't leave their job. But some of the "C" level folks of large companies have enough money so that they are working just for the hell of it, and could easily live the rest of thei...

#20, they may not feel sorry for them, but they will feel sorry when the people who give them their work close up shop and stop paying. People seem to forget in a _service economy_ that the people ma...

Yes, banks shouldn't have lent money to people who should never have been able to afford houses. _however_ look into "Community Reinvestment Act" for a little history. And yes, the ratings agencies w...

Its not the wealthy who got us in this mess, that is the exact opposite of what happened. Its all these fucknuts who watched MTV Cribs, The Food Channel, and all this other BS and mistakenly thought ...