Neil

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• A Custom-Built Mansion in Riverside, Calif. (House of the Day) (AOL Real Estate)

  Sep 12th 2012 8:42AM Like so many other wealthy Americans now, they are fleeing to Europe. They don't care if they lose money on their houses or possessions - they just want OUT. Around 100,000 Americans fled to Europe and Asia last year. This is never mentioned in the US or UK media.

• Homeless Man Robert Downs' Camouflaged Shack Shielded Him From Authorities for Months, Police Say (AOL Real Estate)

  Jul 22nd 2012 6:24AM How dare these homeless people try to live on public land. Don't they know that they are supposed to live in cardboard boxes on the streets? (which is also public land)

• Jail Time for Phoenix Man Who Hosted Bible Study at His Home (AOL Real Estate)

  Jul 8th 2012 7:06AM These primitive cretins need to be TAXED heavily for their drug-like nonsense.

• Where Would You Travel Just to Eat? (Gadling)

  May 20th 2012 5:01PM The question itself is stupid, but especially when you consider that most high level chefs have very different tastes than the general public. They spend their entire lives tasting and contemplating food all day long, every day. The things that would excite the average person are generally not very exciting to a chef. Ask the average American what country they would go to eat in, and they'll say America. Of course they probably haven't been anywhere else.

• House of the Day: Bayside Beauty in Baltimore (AOL Real Estate)

  Jan 30th 2012 3:06PM Why would ANYONE with $8.5 million to spend on a house want to live in Baltimore? For a fraction of that amount you could move to Europe and leave the crime ridden streets of the USA behind.

• Smartphones now make it possible for airport travelers to have food delivered to their departure gate (Gadling)

  Oct 9th 2011 2:27PM John - you don't get it. The food is from restaurants that are ALREADY LOCATED BEHIND THE SECURITY CHECK POINT. They simply walk the food over to where you are sitting next to your gate - typically from only a very short distance.

• The Search for Kuwaiti Cuisine ... in Kuwait (Gadling)

  Oct 3rd 2011 6:45AM Yeah, show us the Muslim hell holes of the world, America - that'll make you feel better about yourself. Where are the news stories showing ALL of the nations that are SO MUCH nicer and more free than America today? That's censored from Americans, just like Soviet Russia censored the outside world to Russians during the Cold War. PLAIN TRUTH - in my many years now as an expat American, I have yet to meet EVEN ONE other expat who would EVER go back to the USA.

• TV Tells Kids Fame is the Most Important Thing in Life, Study Finds (ParentDish)

  Jul 16th 2011 8:51AM Instead of blaming the media, which is REAL convenient, I realize, how about blaming the fact that these days both parents have full time jobs - and THEN some - just to pay the cost of living. Go back 50 years and most households had a working father and a stay-at-home mom who could actually take interest in her children. The "wonderful" advent of the women's liberation movement effectively doubled the workforce, enabling companies to get two employees for the price of one, with the blessing of the gullible American public for doing the right thing and hiring women. That's not to say that women should not be allowed to work, but when the social order changed so that women were EXPECTED to work, the raising of children became something passed off to daycare centers and elderly relatives who are not up to the task. The media is simply giving people what they want. If the ratings were super high on educational shows, believe me, that's what you would be seeing 24 hours a day.

• 'Green Mile' Actor Doug Hutchison, 51, Marries Aspiring Singer, 16 (PopEater)

  Jun 20th 2011 5:31PM NEWSFLASH: He's got a lot of money and he can do whatever he wants. That's how the world works. By the way, the age of consent in Germany is 12 with permission. It used to be as young as 10 years old in some ultra-Catholic countries, but I don't know if that's still true.

• 'Dance' Judge Mary Murphy Tells of More Arnold Womanizing (PopEater)

  Jun 10th 2011 7:18AM Sounds more like it was Lady Gaga you were watching.