OT: “Obama administration warns public to expect rise in US casualties”

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Rus: I think Rome took about as long as we (America) will to run this thing into the wall.

Look on the bright side: Jamul and Fallbrook are enough off the beaten path to be ignored by the large mobs of angry villagers with pitchforks.

Not as a parting shot, but food for thought: If you had to choose to trust the Russians or the Chinese, would you? I know that’s a worst case example and it would appear to support my point, but both of these countries wield power and influence in today’s world and far outside their borders. That’s the worldview that informs my approach.

[NotCranky]

Not as a parting shot, but food for thought: If you had to choose to trust the Russians or the Chinese, would you?

If I had to choose between the Russians, Chineese and Americans to trust. I would trust none….

I understand this triad of “semi- super power” to “superpower” is the crux for you. I don’t have an answer. I don’t think we need to be doing some of the things we are doing to deal with balance between the three and in fact I think we are probabaly raising the odds that we will find out how “untrustwothy” they are more than helping.

I will say this though. Clean fuel isn’t going to stop us form “protecting” the oil and gas in Iran and Iraq…not until China’s aquisition of those same resources would be a lot more irrelevant than it is today. This would be if the future follows the conventional path.

I am actually sometimes concerned about China and The U.S waging war, or at least some types of war, on the populations of both and other parts of the world, in cahoots. this is just an idea that occurs from time to time. It might be happening already.Anyway You understand where my trust level is at.

On that note I think I’ll go check out 1984 again.

[NotCranky]

Not as a parting shot, but food for thought: If you had to choose to trust the Russians or the Chinese, would you?

If I had to choose between the Russians, Chineese and Americans to trust. I would trust none….

I understand this triad of “semi- super power” to “superpower” is the crux for you. I don’t have an answer. I don’t think we need to be doing some of the things we are doing to deal with balance between the three and in fact I think we are probabaly raising the odds that we will find out how “untrustwothy” they are more than helping.

I will say this though. Clean fuel isn’t going to stop us form “protecting” the oil and gas in Iran and Iraq…not until China’s aquisition of those same resources would be a lot more irrelevant than it is today. This would be if the future follows the conventional path.

I am actually sometimes concerned about China and The U.S waging war, or at least some types of war, on the populations of both and other parts of the world, in cahoots. this is just an idea that occurs from time to time. It might be happening already.Anyway You understand where my trust level is at.

On that note I think I’ll go check out 1984 again.

[NotCranky]

Not as a parting shot, but food for thought: If you had to choose to trust the Russians or the Chinese, would you?

If I had to choose between the Russians, Chineese and Americans to trust. I would trust none….

I understand this triad of “semi- super power” to “superpower” is the crux for you. I don’t have an answer. I don’t think we need to be doing some of the things we are doing to deal with balance between the three and in fact I think we are probabaly raising the odds that we will find out how “untrustwothy” they are more than helping.

I will say this though. Clean fuel isn’t going to stop us form “protecting” the oil and gas in Iran and Iraq…not until China’s aquisition of those same resources would be a lot more irrelevant than it is today. This would be if the future follows the conventional path.

I am actually sometimes concerned about China and The U.S waging war, or at least some types of war, on the populations of both and other parts of the world, in cahoots. this is just an idea that occurs from time to time. It might be happening already.Anyway You understand where my trust level is at.

On that note I think I’ll go check out 1984 again.

[NotCranky]

Not as a parting shot, but food for thought: If you had to choose to trust the Russians or the Chinese, would you?

If I had to choose between the Russians, Chineese and Americans to trust. I would trust none….

I understand this triad of “semi- super power” to “superpower” is the crux for you. I don’t have an answer. I don’t think we need to be doing some of the things we are doing to deal with balance between the three and in fact I think we are probabaly raising the odds that we will find out how “untrustwothy” they are more than helping.

I will say this though. Clean fuel isn’t going to stop us form “protecting” the oil and gas in Iran and Iraq…not until China’s aquisition of those same resources would be a lot more irrelevant than it is today. This would be if the future follows the conventional path.

I am actually sometimes concerned about China and The U.S waging war, or at least some types of war, on the populations of both and other parts of the world, in cahoots. this is just an idea that occurs from time to time. It might be happening already.Anyway You understand where my trust level is at.

On that note I think I’ll go check out 1984 again.

[NotCranky]

Not as a parting shot, but food for thought: If you had to choose to trust the Russians or the Chinese, would you?

If I had to choose between the Russians, Chineese and Americans to trust. I would trust none….

I understand this triad of “semi- super power” to “superpower” is the crux for you. I don’t have an answer. I don’t think we need to be doing some of the things we are doing to deal with balance between the three and in fact I think we are probabaly raising the odds that we will find out how “untrustwothy” they are more than helping.

I will say this though. Clean fuel isn’t going to stop us form “protecting” the oil and gas in Iran and Iraq…not until China’s aquisition of those same resources would be a lot more irrelevant than it is today. This would be if the future follows the conventional path.

I am actually sometimes concerned about China and The U.S waging war, or at least some types of war, on the populations of both and other parts of the world, in cahoots. this is just an idea that occurs from time to time. It might be happening already.Anyway You understand where my trust level is at.

On that note I think I’ll go check out 1984 again.

[afx114]

I dunno, I thoroughly enjoyed Rome and the areas it used to oversee when I visited there a couple years ago. Was the fall of Rome such a bad thing?

[afx114]

I dunno, I thoroughly enjoyed Rome and the areas it used to oversee when I visited there a couple years ago. Was the fall of Rome such a bad thing?

[afx114]

I dunno, I thoroughly enjoyed Rome and the areas it used to oversee when I visited there a couple years ago. Was the fall of Rome such a bad thing?

[afx114]

I dunno, I thoroughly enjoyed Rome and the areas it used to oversee when I visited there a couple years ago. Was the fall of Rome such a bad thing?

[afx114]

I dunno, I thoroughly enjoyed Rome and the areas it used to oversee when I visited there a couple years ago. Was the fall of Rome such a bad thing?

[NotCranky]

BTW my foundation for anti-war views is that war is an act of volition.Extrapolating on your comparison of individuals to nations and ruminating on violence; neurotic individuals often have a tendency not to avoid fighting, even when the prospects for civility are almost overwhelming. Their volition is overcome by the defect of being neurotic.

The constructs of nationhood have made nations neurotic and their people neurotic in a way that promotes volition for war.How those constructs got put in to place I am not sure, part of the evolutionary process I guess.Borders are one of them. As the world becomes smaller the idea that we can throw off some of these troublesome arrangements has hope. I certainly don’t think the first round of “globalism” will be a success but maybe the third or fourth or fifth could. By the time it does there will be no borders. This may all be a bunch of malarkey, but worshipping past history, the idea of nations and ancient religions will never get us there. These things also subjugate everything else, even when we pretend they don’t as in these ecumenical,international worship meetings in the Washington Cathedral(or wherever they are held) .

Were we not going to take a break?Yikes

[NotCranky]

BTW my foundation for anti-war views is that war is an act of volition.Extrapolating on your comparison of individuals to nations and ruminating on violence; neurotic individuals often have a tendency not to avoid fighting, even when the prospects for civility are almost overwhelming. Their volition is overcome by the defect of being neurotic.

The constructs of nationhood have made nations neurotic and their people neurotic in a way that promotes volition for war.How those constructs got put in to place I am not sure, part of the evolutionary process I guess.Borders are one of them. As the world becomes smaller the idea that we can throw off some of these troublesome arrangements has hope. I certainly don’t think the first round of “globalism” will be a success but maybe the third or fourth or fifth could. By the time it does there will be no borders. This may all be a bunch of malarkey, but worshipping past history, the idea of nations and ancient religions will never get us there. These things also subjugate everything else, even when we pretend they don’t as in these ecumenical,international worship meetings in the Washington Cathedral(or wherever they are held) .

Were we not going to take a break?Yikes

[NotCranky]

BTW my foundation for anti-war views is that war is an act of volition.Extrapolating on your comparison of individuals to nations and ruminating on violence; neurotic individuals often have a tendency not to avoid fighting, even when the prospects for civility are almost overwhelming. Their volition is overcome by the defect of being neurotic.

The constructs of nationhood have made nations neurotic and their people neurotic in a way that promotes volition for war.How those constructs got put in to place I am not sure, part of the evolutionary process I guess.Borders are one of them. As the world becomes smaller the idea that we can throw off some of these troublesome arrangements has hope. I certainly don’t think the first round of “globalism” will be a success but maybe the third or fourth or fifth could. By the time it does there will be no borders. This may all be a bunch of malarkey, but worshipping past history, the idea of nations and ancient religions will never get us there. These things also subjugate everything else, even when we pretend they don’t as in these ecumenical,international worship meetings in the Washington Cathedral(or wherever they are held) .

Were we not going to take a break?Yikes

[NotCranky]

BTW my foundation for anti-war views is that war is an act of volition.Extrapolating on your comparison of individuals to nations and ruminating on violence; neurotic individuals often have a tendency not to avoid fighting, even when the prospects for civility are almost overwhelming. Their volition is overcome by the defect of being neurotic.

The constructs of nationhood have made nations neurotic and their people neurotic in a way that promotes volition for war.How those constructs got put in to place I am not sure, part of the evolutionary process I guess.Borders are one of them. As the world becomes smaller the idea that we can throw off some of these troublesome arrangements has hope. I certainly don’t think the first round of “globalism” will be a success but maybe the third or fourth or fifth could. By the time it does there will be no borders. This may all be a bunch of malarkey, but worshipping past history, the idea of nations and ancient religions will never get us there. These things also subjugate everything else, even when we pretend they don’t as in these ecumenical,international worship meetings in the Washington Cathedral(or wherever they are held) .

Were we not going to take a break?Yikes

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