Michael B. Duff

A great explanation of capitalism, explained in a way that highlights the morality of it.

If you listen to the very end of the video, it sounds like Sherrod is telling a story about how she OVERCAME some racial prejudice in the course of helping this man, but the video is only showing the first part of her speech. The real idiot ball might end up with the White House that forced her resignation before hearing the whole story.

"Money is nearly always the factor that motivates people to betray their countries. Politicians and administration officials often dine with the rich but are not rich themselves. Many believe they're entitled to great gobs of money. It's an intelligence officer's dream to have a target set as good and large as the pool of American politicians. Internet searches will reveal a wealth of assessment information on these targets' weaknesses and past behavior, their speeches and writings. An officer will then prey on those who want money and have the lowest level of patriotism."

The suit, filed in August 2005, alleged that Morgan Stanley told clients it was selling them precious metals that they would own in full and that the company would store. But Morgan Stanley either made no investment specifically on behalf of those clients, or it made entirely different investments of lesser value and security, according to the complaint.

Brilliant

The 23-year-old Bielecki used his relatively privileged position as a German-speaking Catholic Pole to orchestrate the daring rescue of his Jewish girlfriend who was doomed to die.

Oil from BP's blown out well is again seeping into the Gulf of Mexico, but this time, more slowly and scientists aren't convinced the cap that stopped the flow last week is making things worse.

"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land — so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."