Post your Pad count here...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

But happiness is much more than money. It's being healthy, free from pain, being able to take care of yourself. It's having good times with friends and family.



Furthermore, happiness means being able to speak what's on your mind without fear, to worship the God of your choosing, and to feel safe and secure in your own home.



Happiness means having opportunity--to get an education, to be an entrepreneur. What's more satisfying than having a big idea and turning it into a thriving business, knowing all the way that the harder you work, the more reward you can expect?



With this in mind, five years ago researchers at the Legatum Institute, a London-based nonpartisan think tank, set out to rank the happiest countries in the world. But because "happy" carries too much of a touchy-feely connotation, they call it "prosperity."



Legatum recently completed its 2010 Prosperity Index, which ranks 110 countries, covering 90% of the world's population.



To build its index Legatum gathers upward of a dozen international surveys done by the likes of the Gallup polling group, the Heritage Foundation and the World Economic Forum. Each country is ranked on 89 variables sorted into eight subsections: economy, entrepreneurship, governance, education, health, safety, personal freedom and social capital.



The core conceit: Prosperity is complex; achieving it relies on a confluence of factors that build on each other in a virtuous circle.



Ultimately how happy you are depends on how happy you've been. If you're already rich, like Scandinavia, then more freedom, security and health would add the most to happiness. For the likes of China and India (ranked 88th), it's more a case of "show me the money." What they want most of all? The opportunity to prove to themselves that money doesn't buy happiness.

blaze has groupies?

[PETE'S BROTHER]

and fuck that, thome was fun

[Diamondjimi]

For a paint huffer...

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

i no that guy.

[SunisinuS]

and fuck that, thome was fun

[SunisinuS]

[chefcraig]

I long for the good old days of spontaneity when preparing for a press conference...

[Diamondjimi]

[Little Texan]

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[Bob_R]

With this post my post count can be read read backward or forward

3443

[chefcraig]

With this post my post count can be read read backward or forward

3443

Coincidentally, you can read either Blaze's or Nitro's posts backward or forward, and they still make roughly the same amount of sense. Which is to say of course, very little.

[kwame k]

[Little Texan]

I can understand Nitro's posts, but his are all basically the same post over and over, like a broken record player... the bankers control the world, Obama is in bed with the bankers, Obama's not a socialist but a fascist, the sky is falling, etc. Blaze's posts, however, I believe you have to be either dropping acid or have swallowed a bottle of cough syrup in order to decipher them.

[Little Texan]

Thome's posts gave you a complete headache trying to make heads or tales of them.

[Terry]

I thought they were a "made for each other" type of couple...

Fuck you Diamondjimi for making me spit diet Coke all over my monitor.