I can't believe after what I posted the other day I actually went over and read. You're right - that thread was pretty funny. Then I stumbled on the thread about FEMA and the relief efforts here in Florida and the blood pressure shot through the roof!! I actually pushed my chair back and backed off the page with just a finger! Yikes. I knew it was pointless to leave a message, they'd just delete it - so I had to get off. I had to get off quickly.

So....I'll just have to take your comments and insight on what they say over there. I'm not nearly as strong as you! :-)

Remember -- the operative modality of the self-deluded power elite is "DIVIDE and CONQUER".

It's worked so far.
And my prediction is that it will continue to work.

Want some more predictions that you can count on?
NO PROBLEM --

There will never be meaningful campaign finance reform.

Things that are extremely profitable because they are illegal, will remain illegal.

There will come a point when the grass roots supporters of the power elite will realize what is going on -- but it will be too late.

NPR will never make the distinction between an assault rifle and a semiautomatic version of an assault rifle -- clear to its listeners.

Clint Eastwood will long to be known as a kind and beneficient man in his dotage -- he may even succeed.
And he is a swell guy -- even if -- well you know -- the popularization of the cool-kill guy -- the "This is the world's most powerful handgun and it can blow your head clean off." He was only acting after all. It's not like he was actually hurting anyone.

The United States will finally become what its first European settlers were running away from. As the true middle class is nickel and dimed to death. *

*See the early middle ages -- where appointed Roman tax collectors taxed the people out of their own property -- thus effectivly enslaving them and creating the serf class out of former free men. And these tax collectors these "Counts" became the European "royalty".

"Divide and Conquer" is etched upon their obscured agenda.

They don't need taxes to do this this time.
They can even do it while "reducing" taxes.
All they need to do, is be able to convince us that
free markets are a sacred cow and that its only fair that you have to compete with Chinese slave labor run by robber generals, and others desperate nobodys attempting to scramble out of the ruinious black hole that they allowed their leaders to put them in.
Desperation sharpens competitiveness.

Listen; One man's labor is worth $6.75 an hour, anothers is worth $67,000 dollars an hour.

Hey -- Just be happy you ain't maken $ .13 an hour
Jocko.