dogged policework!
anyhow I didn't go to your FB looking for answers to a trivia question, but I'm not blind

THat is a picture of a real nose

didnt the Kaiser flee to Holland when the Germans rejected him?

The American 2-party system is about to implode, on the Democrat side I'm aware from the outside that idealists are sick and damn tired of trying to accomodate the splinter blocs such as unions that actually care about the results of policy and the established blocs are getting fed up being taken for granted by newbies.

On the Republican side there is actually a plutocrat core that wants a globalist corporatist state which embraces the welfare state and cheap foriegn labor.  They literally want to combine demographic trends certifying Republican majorities with a commitment to prefer Republican incumbents no matter what.  They complain of the "waste" involved in primary elections and openly hope for their elimination, in favor of choosing the candidates through control of funding in secrecy.  The inevitable result of an undying Old Guard seems not to bother them. 
They have no concern for reform or idealism except that it is harnessed and contained within their conspiracy and such zombies as Trent Lott are quoted as saying "We gotta contain this Tea Party".  Against these again are people who actually give a damn what policies are enacted.

In both cases the authoritarians have abandoned traditional (and tested) campaign methods such as canvassing neighborhoods door to door and personal interaction, in favor of mass media.  They are so far gone as to ridicule the emotional desire of Americans to trust their leadership, insisting that voters appreciate a good lie timely told.  Their manner is clerical; the party apparat is the vicarate of the New Revelation and all that is required of the masses is obedience and discipline, not debate.

The fruit of this is 10% approval of institutions and a 45% voter turnout.

in 1979 Anwar Sadat said, I paraphrase, "Screw this annihilation of Israel bullshit, we want NAP with Israel to concentrate on infra.  There. We won't attack. Unilateral NAP.  You gonna screw that up Jews?"  Since then Egypt has had the benefits of peace.

The rest of the Arab world imagines that it can force Israel to BUY recognition and keeps trying to sell it.  Actually if they copied Sadat and just gave up eliminating Israel they'd reduce a lot of tensions in Israel and US and the US would be more supportive of horsetrading.  But they fail to see the corollary of "we won't agree to not destroy you with invasion" is, "genocidal wars of aggression are on the table"

and that's withotu the interference of the Iranian secret service and its terrorist cadres promoting Shiite militias anywhere that will raise them.

knows all there is to know about the crying game

i love how hundreds of thousands of people make millions of transactions over a few hours, and within minutes, some asshat on a network tells me why they dumped Google.  It's because of jitters.  Somehow the movement of billions is never "the cold-blooded denouement of two years of intrigue".  No, they're jittery about Congress.

well maybe 2 decades 

well maybe 1 decade

harder to be more hardcore zionist than the Israeli PM

I got it because Gwenydd is Australian.
So I just waited til he gave it away.  <dragnet theme>

Yes it is open ended; they will buy bonds from now on until YOU PEOPLE restore the economy.

They don't print money btw

they order banks to give it to them. 

See in order for the FDIC to guarantee 100% of deposits it requires banks to keep a set % of deposits on hand as cash.  Like, maybe, 20%.  They work to calculate how much.  Too much, and the banks will lend 90% of the deposits and the taxpayer has to make that up if it goes sour.  Too few, and the economy slows down as credit dries up.

So what the Fed is doing, after figuring out what's safe and necessary for the bank to keep in the vault...they take it out of the vault, and give the bank an IOU.

It can only go wrong if all the banks fail at once or something, and that can only happen 1 in a 1000 years.  Well ok maybe 3x in a 100 years, as recently as 4 years ago. But what are the odds?

well couple of facts

2/3 of Egypt 2012 was born since 1979

And if Mubarak was a valuable dictator-ally he'd still be there.  Any dictator we gotta prop up...ain't worth it.

money and guns will teach them to love freedom

although now I'm hearing "Obama ended the Pax Americana"  and that's bogus

Pax Americana held because we pledged our economy, technical advantage, population, industrial capacity and nuclear arsenal to confront enemies

That ended a long time before Obama

we're building a caring society where schools will be sued for allowing kids to get HIV on the playground

"Lets say they did go with a federal lawsuit, which they could have lost.
When they lose, does the judge set a fine? And is this fine paid to the family again, or to the gouverment??"

Pengy would know the details of ADA...some states like CA there's a *fine* in civil rights lawsuits, here it's $5000.   But sometimes there can be "Punitive damages" usually for extra malicious behavior or very callous indifference, on top of compensation for lost income or expenses paid out
owning property with slippery steps that I didn't know were slippery - no punitive damages
owning property and not giving a damn that somebody slips after every rain - maybe punitive
owning slippery steps and watering them then betting somebody will yell like Goofy - prison + punitive damage in civil suit

>>Also why would that lawsuit be so expencive? I really dont see the 'damage' the family had to be that high? (perhaps the child had 1 year without school and maybe some shrink costs should the boy need it because of this)<

ha ha attorneys fees and costs are a dark parallel dimension.

Lawyer spends 20 mins drafting stipulation at $350/hr.  Assistant spends 10 mins at $150/hr to copy it and fax it and mail it to opposing counsel.   Opposing assistant spends 5 mins at $150/hr to receive and flag it to attorney. Opposing attorney spends 5 mins at $350/hr to read it.  Opposing attorney spends 30 mins discussing it with associates, thats $350x 0.5 x 3. Opposing attorney spends 5 mins signing it and typing cover letter.  Opposing assistant copies and faxes and mails signed stip.  Assistant spends 5 mins receiving and flagging stip for attorney.  Attorney spends 10 mins to read and sign stip.  Assistant spends 45 mins making 4 copies and a proof of service, original and copy to courthouse, copy to opposing counsel, and copy to client with cover letter. 

that's 2.15 hours at $350 an hour and 1.25 hours at $150 an hour
$752.50 + 187.50 = $940 in fees + postage + copies at $0.15 / page
and that's to agree on something.