Limbaugh/Palin 2012

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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]

How very open-minded of you. God forbid we choose the best man or woman for the job.

Nope. Let’s find the most telegenic, “BMI appropriate” person.

Truly, bigotry does come in all “shapes” and “sizes”.[/quote]

I don’t see bigotry here. I don’t expect our president to be handsome or pretty. That man or woman could be ugly for all I care. I just don’t want the president to be fat.

If we expect our president to have gone to college, why can’t we expect our president to not eat cake or drink beer in excessive amounts?

There’s only one way to get fat and that is to consume more calories than one expends.

It has to do with personal responsibility and making sacrifices for one’s own health.

Similarly, we don’t respect people who indulge their pleasures today by spending all their money. People have to be financially responsible and save some money for the future.

We teach kids to sacrifice for the future by studying hard today and being good students. They can’t play all the time. They have to study. We also need to teach kids to consume only the appropriate amounts.

A fat president would be a terrible example of gluttony.

[Arraya]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Arraya: Why is it that, after I read one of your posts, I always have the urge to make sure my doors are locked and my ammo stockpile is secure?

Geez, you’re a ray of frickin’ sunshine, you know that, right?[/quote]

Allen, just calling it like I see it. Don’t think for the moment the powerful monied interests behind the scenes are not looking at social-economic trends for manipulative purposes. The world is ripping apart at the seams right now and nobody here lives on the seams so they don’t see it.

The macro picture is an absolute nightmare and the 4 decade, in the making, American debt bomb is going off at the same time world oil supplies are peaking which alone equals a new economic paradigm.

We have 17 states close to shut down status. Extrapolate that out 6 months and it will be double with budget shortfall trajectories. Soon massive amount of state services will be cut. Real unemployment is pushing 20% and the underlying fundamentals that are pushing it are not, and probably can’t be addressed. Tax receipts are collapsing fast. All default rates are spiking and national foreclosures have been pushing 300K for the past three months. World trade and industrial outputs have fallen faster than the depression. Like 700k people are losing extended benefits this month and the list goes on and on…

That’s just off the top of my head…

Geopolitically,

Revolution is in the air with coups, currency collapses and riots across the globe.

China looks like it is trying to gnaw it’s dollar paw off to save itself and is being coaxed along by Russia. Which, btw, would de-fund our government and military.

Israel is poised for a fall attack on Iran and who knows how the will spiral out of control. The suez canal transports a lot of oil.

Swine flu is not going away and in the southern hemisphere is is mutating and wreaking havoc on hospitals in argentina. Even though it’s not flu season it’s spreading very fast through the US now. Which portends a nasty nasty flu season with potential systemic healthcare problems regardless of death toll. Juxtapose that with the amount of people w/o insurance and 50% of the hospitals in the country operating in the red and you have a big problem.

I’d say this fall we should have crash 2.0 with associated surging unemployment and a possible move away from the dollar via all the bilateral agreements that have been set up over the last year.

Personally, I think Russ has the right idea in studying permaculture and intentional communities.

Decentralized, networked tribes are in our future….

Have a nice day;)

[Arraya]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Arraya: Why is it that, after I read one of your posts, I always have the urge to make sure my doors are locked and my ammo stockpile is secure?

Geez, you’re a ray of frickin’ sunshine, you know that, right?[/quote]

Allen, just calling it like I see it. Don’t think for the moment the powerful monied interests behind the scenes are not looking at social-economic trends for manipulative purposes. The world is ripping apart at the seams right now and nobody here lives on the seams so they don’t see it.

The macro picture is an absolute nightmare and the 4 decade, in the making, American debt bomb is going off at the same time world oil supplies are peaking which alone equals a new economic paradigm.

We have 17 states close to shut down status. Extrapolate that out 6 months and it will be double with budget shortfall trajectories. Soon massive amount of state services will be cut. Real unemployment is pushing 20% and the underlying fundamentals that are pushing it are not, and probably can’t be addressed. Tax receipts are collapsing fast. All default rates are spiking and national foreclosures have been pushing 300K for the past three months. World trade and industrial outputs have fallen faster than the depression. Like 700k people are losing extended benefits this month and the list goes on and on…

That’s just off the top of my head…

Geopolitically,

Revolution is in the air with coups, currency collapses and riots across the globe.

China looks like it is trying to gnaw it’s dollar paw off to save itself and is being coaxed along by Russia. Which, btw, would de-fund our government and military.

Israel is poised for a fall attack on Iran and who knows how the will spiral out of control. The suez canal transports a lot of oil.

Swine flu is not going away and in the southern hemisphere is is mutating and wreaking havoc on hospitals in argentina. Even though it’s not flu season it’s spreading very fast through the US now. Which portends a nasty nasty flu season with potential systemic healthcare problems regardless of death toll. Juxtapose that with the amount of people w/o insurance and 50% of the hospitals in the country operating in the red and you have a big problem.

I’d say this fall we should have crash 2.0 with associated surging unemployment and a possible move away from the dollar via all the bilateral agreements that have been set up over the last year.

Personally, I think Russ has the right idea in studying permaculture and intentional communities.

Decentralized, networked tribes are in our future….

Have a nice day;)

[Arraya]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Arraya: Why is it that, after I read one of your posts, I always have the urge to make sure my doors are locked and my ammo stockpile is secure?

Geez, you’re a ray of frickin’ sunshine, you know that, right?[/quote]

Allen, just calling it like I see it. Don’t think for the moment the powerful monied interests behind the scenes are not looking at social-economic trends for manipulative purposes. The world is ripping apart at the seams right now and nobody here lives on the seams so they don’t see it.

The macro picture is an absolute nightmare and the 4 decade, in the making, American debt bomb is going off at the same time world oil supplies are peaking which alone equals a new economic paradigm.

We have 17 states close to shut down status. Extrapolate that out 6 months and it will be double with budget shortfall trajectories. Soon massive amount of state services will be cut. Real unemployment is pushing 20% and the underlying fundamentals that are pushing it are not, and probably can’t be addressed. Tax receipts are collapsing fast. All default rates are spiking and national foreclosures have been pushing 300K for the past three months. World trade and industrial outputs have fallen faster than the depression. Like 700k people are losing extended benefits this month and the list goes on and on…

That’s just off the top of my head…

Geopolitically,

Revolution is in the air with coups, currency collapses and riots across the globe.

China looks like it is trying to gnaw it’s dollar paw off to save itself and is being coaxed along by Russia. Which, btw, would de-fund our government and military.

Israel is poised for a fall attack on Iran and who knows how the will spiral out of control. The suez canal transports a lot of oil.

Swine flu is not going away and in the southern hemisphere is is mutating and wreaking havoc on hospitals in argentina. Even though it’s not flu season it’s spreading very fast through the US now. Which portends a nasty nasty flu season with potential systemic healthcare problems regardless of death toll. Juxtapose that with the amount of people w/o insurance and 50% of the hospitals in the country operating in the red and you have a big problem.

I’d say this fall we should have crash 2.0 with associated surging unemployment and a possible move away from the dollar via all the bilateral agreements that have been set up over the last year.

Personally, I think Russ has the right idea in studying permaculture and intentional communities.

Decentralized, networked tribes are in our future….

Have a nice day;)

[Arraya]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Arraya: Why is it that, after I read one of your posts, I always have the urge to make sure my doors are locked and my ammo stockpile is secure?

Geez, you’re a ray of frickin’ sunshine, you know that, right?[/quote]

Allen, just calling it like I see it. Don’t think for the moment the powerful monied interests behind the scenes are not looking at social-economic trends for manipulative purposes. The world is ripping apart at the seams right now and nobody here lives on the seams so they don’t see it.

The macro picture is an absolute nightmare and the 4 decade, in the making, American debt bomb is going off at the same time world oil supplies are peaking which alone equals a new economic paradigm.

We have 17 states close to shut down status. Extrapolate that out 6 months and it will be double with budget shortfall trajectories. Soon massive amount of state services will be cut. Real unemployment is pushing 20% and the underlying fundamentals that are pushing it are not, and probably can’t be addressed. Tax receipts are collapsing fast. All default rates are spiking and national foreclosures have been pushing 300K for the past three months. World trade and industrial outputs have fallen faster than the depression. Like 700k people are losing extended benefits this month and the list goes on and on…

That’s just off the top of my head…

Geopolitically,

Revolution is in the air with coups, currency collapses and riots across the globe.

China looks like it is trying to gnaw it’s dollar paw off to save itself and is being coaxed along by Russia. Which, btw, would de-fund our government and military.

Israel is poised for a fall attack on Iran and who knows how the will spiral out of control. The suez canal transports a lot of oil.

Swine flu is not going away and in the southern hemisphere is is mutating and wreaking havoc on hospitals in argentina. Even though it’s not flu season it’s spreading very fast through the US now. Which portends a nasty nasty flu season with potential systemic healthcare problems regardless of death toll. Juxtapose that with the amount of people w/o insurance and 50% of the hospitals in the country operating in the red and you have a big problem.

I’d say this fall we should have crash 2.0 with associated surging unemployment and a possible move away from the dollar via all the bilateral agreements that have been set up over the last year.

Personally, I think Russ has the right idea in studying permaculture and intentional communities.

Decentralized, networked tribes are in our future….

Have a nice day;)

[Arraya]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Arraya: Why is it that, after I read one of your posts, I always have the urge to make sure my doors are locked and my ammo stockpile is secure?

Geez, you’re a ray of frickin’ sunshine, you know that, right?[/quote]

Allen, just calling it like I see it. Don’t think for the moment the powerful monied interests behind the scenes are not looking at social-economic trends for manipulative purposes. The world is ripping apart at the seams right now and nobody here lives on the seams so they don’t see it.

The macro picture is an absolute nightmare and the 4 decade, in the making, American debt bomb is going off at the same time world oil supplies are peaking which alone equals a new economic paradigm.

We have 17 states close to shut down status. Extrapolate that out 6 months and it will be double with budget shortfall trajectories. Soon massive amount of state services will be cut. Real unemployment is pushing 20% and the underlying fundamentals that are pushing it are not, and probably can’t be addressed. Tax receipts are collapsing fast. All default rates are spiking and national foreclosures have been pushing 300K for the past three months. World trade and industrial outputs have fallen faster than the depression. Like 700k people are losing extended benefits this month and the list goes on and on…

That’s just off the top of my head…

Geopolitically,

Revolution is in the air with coups, currency collapses and riots across the globe.

China looks like it is trying to gnaw it’s dollar paw off to save itself and is being coaxed along by Russia. Which, btw, would de-fund our government and military.

Israel is poised for a fall attack on Iran and who knows how the will spiral out of control. The suez canal transports a lot of oil.

Swine flu is not going away and in the southern hemisphere is is mutating and wreaking havoc on hospitals in argentina. Even though it’s not flu season it’s spreading very fast through the US now. Which portends a nasty nasty flu season with potential systemic healthcare problems regardless of death toll. Juxtapose that with the amount of people w/o insurance and 50% of the hospitals in the country operating in the red and you have a big problem.

I’d say this fall we should have crash 2.0 with associated surging unemployment and a possible move away from the dollar via all the bilateral agreements that have been set up over the last year.

Personally, I think Russ has the right idea in studying permaculture and intentional communities.

Decentralized, networked tribes are in our future….

Have a nice day;)

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Arraya]Have a nice day;)[/quote]

Arraya: Great idea. After I down a bottle of vodka and some Librium, that is.

Kidding aside, while I agree with much of what you’re saying, I don’t know that the outcomes you describe are the only possibilities.

I think the rise of the internet and the widespread availability of information (not knowledge, information) has both upside and downside. While I certainly agree with the free and open dissemination of information, how it is used is still open to interpretation.

Similarly, in terms of outcomes, I think there are multiple possibilities and not all of them are as dire as the ones you sketch out. At least, I hope not.

The one area I’ve been watching closely is China, especially the western part. The recent unrest with the Uighurs has captured my interest and attention and how China handles this will be illustrative. I don’t see that China will be able to completely divorce themselves from the US, either in terms of currency or commerce and Russia’s continued politicking (to me) is nothing more than a nearly failed state with delusions of greatness trying to exercise what little influence she still has.

If oil does drop to $20/bbl by year’s end, that will finally put paid to Putin and his Pamyat buddies’ hope for the return of a Greater Russia to the world stage.

As with everything else: We’ll see, right?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Arraya]Have a nice day;)[/quote]

Arraya: Great idea. After I down a bottle of vodka and some Librium, that is.

Kidding aside, while I agree with much of what you’re saying, I don’t know that the outcomes you describe are the only possibilities.

I think the rise of the internet and the widespread availability of information (not knowledge, information) has both upside and downside. While I certainly agree with the free and open dissemination of information, how it is used is still open to interpretation.

Similarly, in terms of outcomes, I think there are multiple possibilities and not all of them are as dire as the ones you sketch out. At least, I hope not.

The one area I’ve been watching closely is China, especially the western part. The recent unrest with the Uighurs has captured my interest and attention and how China handles this will be illustrative. I don’t see that China will be able to completely divorce themselves from the US, either in terms of currency or commerce and Russia’s continued politicking (to me) is nothing more than a nearly failed state with delusions of greatness trying to exercise what little influence she still has.

If oil does drop to $20/bbl by year’s end, that will finally put paid to Putin and his Pamyat buddies’ hope for the return of a Greater Russia to the world stage.

As with everything else: We’ll see, right?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Arraya]Have a nice day;)[/quote]

Arraya: Great idea. After I down a bottle of vodka and some Librium, that is.

Kidding aside, while I agree with much of what you’re saying, I don’t know that the outcomes you describe are the only possibilities.

I think the rise of the internet and the widespread availability of information (not knowledge, information) has both upside and downside. While I certainly agree with the free and open dissemination of information, how it is used is still open to interpretation.

Similarly, in terms of outcomes, I think there are multiple possibilities and not all of them are as dire as the ones you sketch out. At least, I hope not.

The one area I’ve been watching closely is China, especially the western part. The recent unrest with the Uighurs has captured my interest and attention and how China handles this will be illustrative. I don’t see that China will be able to completely divorce themselves from the US, either in terms of currency or commerce and Russia’s continued politicking (to me) is nothing more than a nearly failed state with delusions of greatness trying to exercise what little influence she still has.

If oil does drop to $20/bbl by year’s end, that will finally put paid to Putin and his Pamyat buddies’ hope for the return of a Greater Russia to the world stage.

As with everything else: We’ll see, right?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Arraya]Have a nice day;)[/quote]

Arraya: Great idea. After I down a bottle of vodka and some Librium, that is.

Kidding aside, while I agree with much of what you’re saying, I don’t know that the outcomes you describe are the only possibilities.

I think the rise of the internet and the widespread availability of information (not knowledge, information) has both upside and downside. While I certainly agree with the free and open dissemination of information, how it is used is still open to interpretation.

Similarly, in terms of outcomes, I think there are multiple possibilities and not all of them are as dire as the ones you sketch out. At least, I hope not.

The one area I’ve been watching closely is China, especially the western part. The recent unrest with the Uighurs has captured my interest and attention and how China handles this will be illustrative. I don’t see that China will be able to completely divorce themselves from the US, either in terms of currency or commerce and Russia’s continued politicking (to me) is nothing more than a nearly failed state with delusions of greatness trying to exercise what little influence she still has.

If oil does drop to $20/bbl by year’s end, that will finally put paid to Putin and his Pamyat buddies’ hope for the return of a Greater Russia to the world stage.

As with everything else: We’ll see, right?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=Arraya]Have a nice day;)[/quote]

Arraya: Great idea. After I down a bottle of vodka and some Librium, that is.

Kidding aside, while I agree with much of what you’re saying, I don’t know that the outcomes you describe are the only possibilities.

I think the rise of the internet and the widespread availability of information (not knowledge, information) has both upside and downside. While I certainly agree with the free and open dissemination of information, how it is used is still open to interpretation.

Similarly, in terms of outcomes, I think there are multiple possibilities and not all of them are as dire as the ones you sketch out. At least, I hope not.

The one area I’ve been watching closely is China, especially the western part. The recent unrest with the Uighurs has captured my interest and attention and how China handles this will be illustrative. I don’t see that China will be able to completely divorce themselves from the US, either in terms of currency or commerce and Russia’s continued politicking (to me) is nothing more than a nearly failed state with delusions of greatness trying to exercise what little influence she still has.

If oil does drop to $20/bbl by year’s end, that will finally put paid to Putin and his Pamyat buddies’ hope for the return of a Greater Russia to the world stage.

As with everything else: We’ll see, right?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
George Washington[/quote]

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Interested in a small wager?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
George Washington[/quote]

[citation needed]

Interested in a small wager?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
George Washington[/quote]

[citation needed]

Interested in a small wager?

[Anonymous]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”
George Washington[/quote]

[citation needed]

Interested in a small wager?

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