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He didn't do the extra time 30 years ago because the judge was going to break the deal on the plea bargain and sentence him to up to 50 years in prison. No matter what you think of his actions, it's ridiculous to get a guy to plead guilty by promising him a lesser sentence and then letting the judge change that and instead give him a huge sentence. If criminals stop trusting the plea bargaining system then suddenly there will be no more plea bargains and every single arrest will go to trial which will cost the court system billions of dollars.

It looks great! I'm psyched to see it! So far no glitches that I can find!

The wall street journal is the fox news of newspapers.

I'll mention it to my parents. Though, honestly, I think they'd reject the idea of a trust because it would make the land feel less "theirs" and the idea of owning this land because of it's family significance is very strong and important to them.

That's amazing. I can't imagine being that self aware at age 11!

We don't want income from the land. We just don't want to be forced to sell it to people who will turn it into condos.

The problem is that they can't transfer title or just sell it to us for a dollar in advance (which is one way to get around it) because my brother is in law school and has serious school loan debts and unfortunatly I was married at one point and my ex wife not only didn't let me have dick she also put me into debt. While I'm paying that off now there's not much the creditors can do to me because I don't have any property to seize and if my brother went behind on his school loans again he doesn't have any real property to grab. But, if the title of the land was put into our names if he got into debt trouble finishing law school or my creditors decided to be dicks they could try to put liens on the land.

My parents have looked into it. The advice from an estate planner: "Hope the land isn't worth too much money when you die."

I'm an illegal immigrant in france and how it works for me is that I pay 20 euros for any doctor visit no matter what they do during that visit. I also take xanax twice a day. My xanax prescription costs me about 6 euros a month. If I was a legal immigrant I'd get the 20 euros for the doctor visit refunded to me by the government as well as the cost of the xanax. As it stands, however, I'm still getting a pretty decent bargain and great medical care.

I'm surprised my score was so low. My Internet feels fast.

The thing is you can find a horror story about anything to make it look bad, because fuck ups happen. Taking the very few and far between horror stories that sometimes happen in the UK and Europe and using them to describe national health care systems would be like finding one story about a male escort who gave some dude AIDS and using his story to imply that all male escorts are disease ridden reckless assholes.

But he's such a hot bastard.

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Yes, It is the idea of the land that bothers me a lot more than the money.

No. What will happen is will that places like redtube will take over porn and the click through ads there will make t hem enough money to get it done.

Word. If I knew that my brother and I wouldn't have to sell our legacy to condo builders I'd feel so much better. It's not so much us losing the land (since it belongs to our dad so it's not ours to lose) it's the idea of this thousand acres of nice land becoming a bunch of condos on Lake Winiepsake that bothers me.

Well, as a single guy what do I do if the land is valued at $3.6 million? Estate planning only helps if it's cash you are trying to avoid paying taxes on. And while it's not worth that much now, my parents could live another 20 years and who knows what a thousand acres of land in new hampshire will be worth by then.

You can get any porn you want free these days. The people who used to make money in porn are setting up dating and hookup sites now instead - because that's where the money is.

I'm a democrat and I still see the estate tax as insane and unfair. It's taxing money that has already been taxed when it was earned. And, it can be very, very unfair in some situations. For example, my family is far from wealthy (both teachers) but they inherited a large piece of land in New Hamshire from my grandparents. If, when they die, this piece of land ends up valued at more than $2 million (which is possible) then my brother and I would have to pay estate taxes. But, neither of us makes enough money to pay the estate tax (and my parents would probably leave us very little cash) so we'd end up having to sell the land we inherited just to pay the estate tax on the land.

Which heterosexual icon would you hire as an escort if you could? Don or Jack?

I'd argue that the insurance industry has proven that the government couldn't possibly do worse. The entire industry is built around the business plan of denying people's claims even when they are valid and hoping people won't complain about it. Also, with a government run system people wouldn't be looking at bankruptcy if they became ill. Andrew Sullivan has a great article this week where he tells his own personal story of the US health care system and explains why we need a public option. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/c...icle6832054.ece

I'm just planning and staying a cynical bastard forever.

I don't understand why it isn't easy to get health care passed now. Think of all the shitty things the government does with our money every day. For once they want to give us something useful in return for our tax dollars and we take to the streets and scream "no!" It baffles me.

The House of Representatives have sent new rules of conduct to it's members. Under the rules you can call the president a "nit wit." You may not, however, say that he fucks goats. http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/...l_putdowns.html

Time to grab a baby and stick it in a corner.