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Ha! Y'all giving him grief over that fern story.

10 reasons why so many people are moving to Texas By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington Every way you look at it, there are a lot of people moving to Texas. Five of the 10 fastest-growing cities in the country between 2011 and 2012 were in Texas, according to new figures from the US Census...

Oh, man. I totally lol'd.

Here's a Forbes article that explains it better. http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2013/04/11/the-correlation-between-the-gold-standard-and-stupendous-growth-is-clear/ Mind you, I'm not necessarily advocating a return to a Gold Standard.

You're always negative. How can you claim to be a Cowboys fan? Why don't you go find some other team to root for! (This is all tongue in cheek, by the way.)

If that's the case, all we need is Peter Weller to move there and become a cop. Oh, and to get gunned down horrifically.

If Detroit doesn't go to complete shit, how will we ever get Robocop?

True. But it seems like the defensive ends are panning out thus far. Spencer has performed well, and there have been a few glowing reports about a Wilbur and Crawford.

We don't know what they're doing. There are no sources.

As usual, Theebs owns these discussions.

You're just saying that because Lee is white.

We've vacillated between fiat and hard currencies at various times in our country's past. The argument for fiat currency is that economic downturns aren't as severe. Of course, economic upturns generally aren't as prosperous either. We went off the Bretton Woods Gold Standard in 1971. The...

The video explains the respective consequences of high and low interest rates. With low interest rates, you get more spending now at the expense of spending in the future.

Yes, it's a video. But it's a good one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SNVx7Nl65M&feature=youtu.be

There's one I haven't seen yet. :lol