Two questions:

When did they cure cancer and aids?

And Why didn't I hear about it?

I can see the commercial now, "Ask your doctor if Lash-X is right for you. Side effects include loss of appetite, stomach cramping, bleeding gums, extreme pubic hair growth, diarrhea, ocular tenderness, male pattern baldness in women, and full body rashes, if you experience rectal bleeding or blindness, please consult your physician as these can be signs of a possible fatal condition."

Rickrolling was humorous until it became a meme. And you know a meme is tired and old when it goes mainstream, example the Foster's Home float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

This though, was quite funny.

Sadtomato, that's already happening, biofuels and ethanol are more profitable so many of the corn growers have already stopped selling their crops for food.

Things would be far better off if they'd just do away with the prohibition on industrial hemp. That way they could stop using the corn for biofuels, as well as the numerous other products that can be made from hemp.

This map maker clearly has his head firmly planted in his rectum. Everyone knows that everything east of Texas and south of the Mason Dixon line will become the country of Jesusana.

Scooterp, spend some time in other countries, nowhere is a hole, they've all got as many reasons for living there as the US does. Frankly I preferred both of the holes you described over my native US, far fewer nationalistic asshats than in the US.

@Yomerito:
All the more reason to legalize drugs and get them off the black market. The drug cartels will go away when there's no money to be made.

I don't know if I should be in awe, or running for my life.

I started typing before the clock started, so my 3 seconds doesn't count I'm sure. :-D

A lesson on how loans work: (For everyone crying poor Sallie Mae)

We have this system called Fraction Reserve Banking, essentially it means that for a bank to issue a loan, they only need to hold in reserve a percentage of that loan amount. Let us assume that a bank has to hold 10% reserve on loans, that means for a $100,000 they only need to have $10,000 in assets to issue that loan. The other $90,000 is created out of thin air. So when you then pay back the $100,000 + interest they then have that $100,000 to make new loans on and can now lend out $990,000, having only risked $10,000 to begin with. The process goes on and on.

At current the actual reserve percentage for banks is far lower than the that of the 10% I use in my example. So next time you hear about a bank being complete a-holes over some debt they want repaid, ask yourself how much stake do they really have in that loan, because chances are if the debtor made any payments the amount of money the lender actually risked has already been paid back.

Actually, he should have fought taken his pennies and left, only to fight the ticket in court on the grounds that since pennies represent legal tender, and as such are required to be accepted to pay any and all debts, the city's first refusal to accept them nullified his debt. If you offer legal tender payment for a debt and it is refused, you no longer have any responsibility to pay said debt.

It would have been better for everyone if they government had given the money to the citizens to pay some of their credit/loan debt. The money would have ended up in the same places, but the citizens would have at least gained some benefit from it.

It's a saddle rack.

They can have all the ones in my yard.

Maybe there's an abundance of squirrels and they've already gotten to all the acorns.

Would you prefer police on every street corner?

If you go into a store, office building, or walk past a bank you're on camera, is it really so bad that they're on the street?

CCTV cameras, while not really deterring crime, they do aid in catching and convicting street criminals. I'd say considering the minimally invasive nature of CCTV on the everyday lives of people, it's a fair trade off.

You have to think about stereotypes as you would caricatures, it's exaggerations we notice most that help us recognize the character. You'll notice them used quite often in film and literature as ways to identify tertiary characters without having to give them any actual development. That's why you see them in advertising so much.

Polx, Ford sells quite a few models that aren't available in the US, as do Chevy and Chrysler.

Also you have to remember that the Big 3 own many foreign automakers. Ford owns Jaguar and Aston Martin, etc., GM owns Vauxhall and Daewoo, etc., and Chrysler owns Mercedes. But I would think that if the parent companies fail, the subordinate companies would surely be picked up by someone else.