"Cain gets caught denying that he even knew that the company that he was CEO of paid TWO women over 10,000 each to not say anything about sexual harassment by him." Keep in mind too that we're not talking about a gigantic organization here. The head office of the National Restaurant Association only has about 48 people in it. (There's a Chicago office too, with about the same number.) Cain as CEO would have seen every one of them every day, in the elevators, the halls, the break room. In a group that size, everybody knows everything that is going on.

"... Rick Perry. He cut off the free candy and kept the state budget under control." Governor Bush was giving out free candy? Was this just at Halloween, or the whole year around? In what way was Bush's state budget out of control?

"At that rate it will take over 600 year ..." You think that the rate will stay the same?

"At that rate it will take over 600 years ..." You think the rate will stay the same?

"At that rate it will take over 600 years" In 1950 there were 2.5 billion humans. Now there are 7 billion. In 2050 there will be 11 billion. The rate is increasing.

"I agree that Obama would beat Perry or Cain, but Romney WILL beat Obama in debates." I'm quite certain that we'll get a chance to see whether or not that's true. They've already scheduled the debates, with the GOP participant TBD. It'll be Romney. Romney will be chopped down by his many flip-flops; Obama will come to the debate with every one of them at the ready. "But Gov. Romney, you say X now, but in 2007 you said Y, the exact opposite."

"You really don't want to expose that kind of personal information." That resume has been online, in one form or another, for more than three decades. In the old days, we called people who hid behind pseudonyms "anonymous cowards." That still applies.

Are you folks talking about the move with Tim Allen, or St. Nicholas aka Santa Claus?

"so it appears they've adapted without government interference" What does the government have to do with any of this? It's a real disaster when a wine-growing region can no longer grow its chief varietals. They have to tear out all the old vines and grow new ones, which takes years. And it produces huge problems with insects and plant diseases until the situation stabilizes. Massive loss of income. Consider the relative sizes of the US wine- and grain-growing industries.

"they're still building new things there" People are building new houses in parts of the Mississippi flood plane that have been underwater five years out of the last ten. "We should be building intricate seawall systems" We will, and it will cost trillions of dollars. "Florida would be swallowed in the sea" Florida is beyond help now.