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What's the real federal deficit? Updated 8/4/2006 9:55 AM ET By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY The federal government keeps two sets of books. The set the government promotes to the public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005. The set the government doesn't talk about is the...

Last week Darat, for fun (!), posted several sets of JREF rules. Somebody I mentioned this to described this as "a very localised version of trainspotting". Anyway, today I sat an exam and was confronted twice by rules I broke, which did not matter, but which the invigilators think did...

In my dating days, it was... dating going steady engaged married With 2 daughters I've learned it's way more complex. There is not only an engagement ring, there is a promise ring. What is THAT? And then there is not just breaking up there is "a break" as in you are NOT broken up, you are...

Is it possible to submit an application and still remain publicly anonymous for safety reasons?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060118/pl_nm/rights_massachusetts_dc Will old mistakes be repeated? Will Frist keep his mouth shut? It will be interesting to see how this one pans out. Poor little girl. I highly doubt she had any form of living will. So what will be the breaking point in this...

Taken from CNNews: If seeing ghosts and apparations means you can't be a security guard may be other types of employment should be included... :)

From someone-a medium no less-on Bad Psychics who obviously has a problem with Randi/JREF having final decision on million dollar challenge! You love this: Told you :D

John Christie is the publisher of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel in Maine. This column was in the Sunday, September 4th edition of the Kennebec Journal. It's about hurricanes from his own perspective as he has been through some hurricanes himself. Hurricanes

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I think this is a subjective question, but I think it might be interesting to hear different opinions as to which set of rules would be considered more moral, and the reasoning behind these opinions: The Satanic Bible 1-Indulgence, not abstinence. 2-Vital existence, not spiritual pipe dreams...

You know that trick where you pull your thumb off? You don't really pull your thumb off. You bend both your thumbs and hold them together, then use your index finger to make it look like your thumb is coming off. If you try to really pull your thumb off, it would really hurt. ;)

Sorry if this is a repost: http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-06a-05.asp ... I see ...

It's not at all hypocritical! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1803&ncid=1278&e=3&u=/washpost/20041117/pl_washpost/a54572_2004nov16

Apparently, fillibuster rule can be changed with a simple majority: NY Times

I really want to hear from the German skeptics here....what do you think of the controversy over the "new rules" instituted a few years back eliminating the B (double s) and wreaking all sorts of havoc with tried and true grammar and spelling? Now that the deadline is coming up and it's time to...

Inpired by Upchurch’s post to this thread I wish to point out the difference between Laws in a Society and Rules of private clubs or forums and how those differences apply to the management of the later. It’s safe to suggest that the laws are nothing but a manual on how groups of people can...

Just wanted to make the point. Ed Schultz rules. That is all.

(NOTE TO MODERATOR AND OTHERS: this is an article by Bret Stephans of the Jerusalem Post. I post it here instead of a link because the link requires registration, so clicking on it won't actually get you to the article. Is there a forum policy about forbidding/allowing such links?) There was a...

First of all, don't think this doesn't apply to you. Keep in mind, you're going to share the road with us, and if we're not running safe, you're in real trouble. Second, after reading countless articles, and reading through the Federal Highway regs on this, the only thing I can say is...

I work in a small place with a bunch of good god fearing Christains. We have this little Xmass tree and maybe a pointsetta here n there. We got to talking about how our organiztaion dosent have any rules when it comes to holiday decore (although the Xmas party has morphed into the "holiday...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,104721,00.html ...full article I think the idea that race played a part in this is stupid. Nevertheless, the police and the system are at fault for this guy's death. WTF is up with beating people with nightsticks? When an animal has escaped from the zoo...

Dean Cottons up to Southern Voters "Race, guns, God and gays"...There's the right wing strategy in a nutshell. I don't know whether he can win, since he actually says what he's thinking and means what he says, but I keep liking this guy more and more.

I came across this great book Statistical Rules of Thumb by van Belle. He posts some monthly rules of thumb on his website I thought others would find useful. http://www.seattlecrc.org/vbelle/monthlyrule.htm