This country suffers from severely misplaced priorities when tax maze preparers and strategists are paid much more and have better security than engineers and scientists.

Tim McVeigh blowing up Federal buildings; idiots shooting doctors in front of clinics; the Unibomber sending package bombs; government scientists sending anthrax through the mail to Senators and news media; the "D.C. sniper"...

Our country is seriously screwed up when we pay tax professionals more than engineers and scientists.

This works fine until we no longer have enough qualified engineers and scientists to sustain our national defense or produce 1/10th of what the Chinese do.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that in a seller financed deal the cash to pay the seller's down payment and the commission comes from the buyer.

.- including the scientist at the center of the scandal, Phil "Hide The Decline" Jones himself.Below are quotes from Mr.

The seller has provided a study by a soil scientist stating that “some of the lots would be potentially suitable for a drip sub-surface septic systemâ€.

It doesn't take a rocket-scientist to figure out how to profit from investing in real-estate; however, I can attest that it will take some time for them to accept your message.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know he was getting ahead of the press on that one.

Some very smart rocket scientists then figured that they could create "free money" by creating nationwide bundles of loans which would presumably have no systemic risk of decline while at the same time earning above-normal returns.