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"Not since the Civil War (1861 - 65) has anything bad of this scale happened within the United States itself and the public is unprepared despite our total immersion in the on-screen ersatz heroics of avatars such as Dwayne Johnson. The terrible convulsion of the 1860s was preceded by a political time much like ours is now, with figures (calling them leaders is inaccurate) of no conviction backpedaling furiously toward strife."


1 posted on 02/12/2013 10:16:10 AM PST by blam
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The Real State Of The Union Is Bleak

I'd say so. Barry and Michelle need an overflow section for their "victims" seating area.

2 posted on 02/12/2013 10:20:37 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Now Playing. Obama II - The Revenge of My Father.)
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I’m still reading, but this line caught my eye: “This is all b.s. concealing the futile machinations of people so unfortunate as to hold political office in an unraveling they can’t control.”

I said in 2008 that the R’s may not want their guy to win because whoever wins will get blamed for the inevitable. It’s why, though I think Obama is an amateur at best and everything the movie 2016 implies, there is nothing he can do, really, so why not play golf and enjoy the good life while you can? No, I don’t really cut him that much slack, but you get my drift. i.e. I agree with the remark above.


3 posted on 02/12/2013 10:29:12 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Crap. I could have written that article, though it would not have been nearly as well said or interesting. It’s like the guy picked my brain and wrote about what he found, right down to the very last sentence.

BTW, we have a pretty serious chicken and egg thing going on at the bunker. We’ll be planting the garden soon.


4 posted on 02/12/2013 10:37:41 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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A slow recovey and the Fed's response
9 posted on 02/12/2013 2:09:09 PM PST by blam
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Good post. True on oil, IMO. But on the “chatter,” from what I’ve read on the Net and about television, lately, many with resources have been sponsoring doomsday stuff to fire up the panic and hysteria. And quite a few of the more radical government folks have also been stoking the craziness with declarations of plans about various kinds of control. Haven’t actually watched television for about 10 years except for an occasional video on the Web. The “paranoid” “chatter” appears to be popular with people from all kinds of occupations and classes—especially too many in leadership positions.


10 posted on 02/12/2013 2:23:11 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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The Fedgov is just like the family in 2007 riding a wave of false prosperity based on maxxed out credit cards and helocs on a house with negative equity.

Instead of leased luxury SUVs and a McMansion, they have purchased election buying entitlements with the credit card.


14 posted on 02/13/2013 4:11:02 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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