If you can't afford to take care of yourself, you don't deserve an animal.  We are becoming a handout society.  There is a segment of the population that is struggling, but isn't on assistance and they can't afford animals.   Rather than giving all our money away, let's use it to try to grow our GDP and get people work...more

Grand Canyon is good if you drive a snow mobile.

I think Powells in Portland Or is the largest.  It takes an entire City Block and there are several floors.  They also have other stores in seperat locations.

I can't believe they didn't include Powells in Portland, OR.  I think it is the biggest one.

Couldn't you just as easily rule lack of self-esteem as the cause of death.  Society now is looking for blame for everything.  It's disconcerting.    We need to teach personal responsibility. She must not have felt loved which is sad, but it doesn't mean she wasn't loved.  The question is why some people think  unhealt...more

This has been going on for a long time already.  Lots of trays and jewelry have been made with butterfly wings for a while.  There are collectors.  Lots of ants have been killed for no reason other than they weren't wanted.  How many people will be outraged because of this and walk by a homeless person and ignore them?...more

I am a killer too.  I have killed thousands of insects with my car on each trip I have taken and there could have been countless butterflies as well.  I suspect we have bigger problems than this.

I see a problem when a religion teaches more respect for a book than for people.  It is a book with words,  produced by a machine.  If you destroy a book it doesn't destroy the idea or the words.  It seems this religion is unforgiving.  People are going to burn down houses because someone who may not have even known wh...more

If you invest $2000 a year for 50 years, you will end up with more than $1 million?  I don't think so.  I am still trying to recover from losses since 2007 and I am putting a lot more than $2000 a year away. Why do they use such unrealistic numbers when trying to prove a point.  A loss of 50% requires a gain of 100% to...more