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<br><div><div>On May 18, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">Did you know that usury, which has been illegal since</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Georgia">the Byzantine emperors, is now legal in the US?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> </blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div>Still illegal in the Muslim world, that bastion of social equity...but more commonly called 'interest' in these parts, not 'payday loans'. Now legal? Wha? <br><br></div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Steven<br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>