[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: Are you insane? Mess with me; mess with the Raiders; mess with Volvo Corporation, but for God’s sake, don’t mess with the nuns!

BTW, who is Chris and why are we invoking his name?

I’ll work on the expletives.

Bullshit.

There, I said it.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: Are you insane? Mess with me; mess with the Raiders; mess with Volvo Corporation, but for God’s sake, don’t mess with the nuns!

BTW, who is Chris and why are we invoking his name?

I’ll work on the expletives.

Bullshit.

There, I said it.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: Are you insane? Mess with me; mess with the Raiders; mess with Volvo Corporation, but for God’s sake, don’t mess with the nuns!

BTW, who is Chris and why are we invoking his name?

I’ll work on the expletives.

Bullshit.

There, I said it.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Duke: The appointment of Sarah Palin should dispel any and all doubts as to the intentions of the Republican Party. That was pandering, pure and simple, and any attempts to claim otherwise is bulls**t.

The stalwarts of the Right are making no attempt to dress that move up as anything other than what it is, a shameless ploy to garner what now constitutes the “loyalist” vote for the GOP: un- or under-educated evangelicals who will blindly do as they’re told by a political machine built to maintain nothing other than power.

This isn’t Reagan’s party; it isn’t Goldwater’s party; s**t it ain’t even Nixon or Ford’s party.

I won’t be voting for either of these two clowns come November.

I agree with Gandalf’s sentiment that we have entered a new and dangerous phase in our history and we need to move past “wedge issues” and the “culture wars” and “identity politics” and realize that we are standing on the edge of the abyss.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Duke: The appointment of Sarah Palin should dispel any and all doubts as to the intentions of the Republican Party. That was pandering, pure and simple, and any attempts to claim otherwise is bulls**t.

The stalwarts of the Right are making no attempt to dress that move up as anything other than what it is, a shameless ploy to garner what now constitutes the “loyalist” vote for the GOP: un- or under-educated evangelicals who will blindly do as they’re told by a political machine built to maintain nothing other than power.

This isn’t Reagan’s party; it isn’t Goldwater’s party; s**t it ain’t even Nixon or Ford’s party.

I won’t be voting for either of these two clowns come November.

I agree with Gandalf’s sentiment that we have entered a new and dangerous phase in our history and we need to move past “wedge issues” and the “culture wars” and “identity politics” and realize that we are standing on the edge of the abyss.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Duke: The appointment of Sarah Palin should dispel any and all doubts as to the intentions of the Republican Party. That was pandering, pure and simple, and any attempts to claim otherwise is bulls**t.

The stalwarts of the Right are making no attempt to dress that move up as anything other than what it is, a shameless ploy to garner what now constitutes the “loyalist” vote for the GOP: un- or under-educated evangelicals who will blindly do as they’re told by a political machine built to maintain nothing other than power.

This isn’t Reagan’s party; it isn’t Goldwater’s party; s**t it ain’t even Nixon or Ford’s party.

I won’t be voting for either of these two clowns come November.

I agree with Gandalf’s sentiment that we have entered a new and dangerous phase in our history and we need to move past “wedge issues” and the “culture wars” and “identity politics” and realize that we are standing on the edge of the abyss.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Duke: The appointment of Sarah Palin should dispel any and all doubts as to the intentions of the Republican Party. That was pandering, pure and simple, and any attempts to claim otherwise is bulls**t.

The stalwarts of the Right are making no attempt to dress that move up as anything other than what it is, a shameless ploy to garner what now constitutes the “loyalist” vote for the GOP: un- or under-educated evangelicals who will blindly do as they’re told by a political machine built to maintain nothing other than power.

This isn’t Reagan’s party; it isn’t Goldwater’s party; s**t it ain’t even Nixon or Ford’s party.

I won’t be voting for either of these two clowns come November.

I agree with Gandalf’s sentiment that we have entered a new and dangerous phase in our history and we need to move past “wedge issues” and the “culture wars” and “identity politics” and realize that we are standing on the edge of the abyss.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Duke: The appointment of Sarah Palin should dispel any and all doubts as to the intentions of the Republican Party. That was pandering, pure and simple, and any attempts to claim otherwise is bulls**t.

The stalwarts of the Right are making no attempt to dress that move up as anything other than what it is, a shameless ploy to garner what now constitutes the “loyalist” vote for the GOP: un- or under-educated evangelicals who will blindly do as they’re told by a political machine built to maintain nothing other than power.

This isn’t Reagan’s party; it isn’t Goldwater’s party; s**t it ain’t even Nixon or Ford’s party.

I won’t be voting for either of these two clowns come November.

I agree with Gandalf’s sentiment that we have entered a new and dangerous phase in our history and we need to move past “wedge issues” and the “culture wars” and “identity politics” and realize that we are standing on the edge of the abyss.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: I don’t want to draw any overly strong parallels here, but there are certain aspects to this crisis that remind me of the 1930s and more from a political standpoint than an economic one.

I fear a return/retreat to the sort of strident nationalism that became so pervasive during the Great Depression and led us ultimately into WWII.

Putin is already ahead of the curve in his exhortations to the Russians to remember their grand history and his willingness to use military force to make a point is worrisome.

Even more worrisome would be how far the US would go to retain our primacy in the world. We have the world’s most powerful military and have enjoyed our own version of “Splendid Isolation” for decades. We have plentiful natural resources, including energy and are sitting on the biggest pile of gold bullion on the planet.

Do we exercise good judgment, fiscal prudence and restraint or do we go all NASCAR on everybody? I hope for the former and fear the latter.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: I don’t want to draw any overly strong parallels here, but there are certain aspects to this crisis that remind me of the 1930s and more from a political standpoint than an economic one.

I fear a return/retreat to the sort of strident nationalism that became so pervasive during the Great Depression and led us ultimately into WWII.

Putin is already ahead of the curve in his exhortations to the Russians to remember their grand history and his willingness to use military force to make a point is worrisome.

Even more worrisome would be how far the US would go to retain our primacy in the world. We have the world’s most powerful military and have enjoyed our own version of “Splendid Isolation” for decades. We have plentiful natural resources, including energy and are sitting on the biggest pile of gold bullion on the planet.

Do we exercise good judgment, fiscal prudence and restraint or do we go all NASCAR on everybody? I hope for the former and fear the latter.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: I don’t want to draw any overly strong parallels here, but there are certain aspects to this crisis that remind me of the 1930s and more from a political standpoint than an economic one.

I fear a return/retreat to the sort of strident nationalism that became so pervasive during the Great Depression and led us ultimately into WWII.

Putin is already ahead of the curve in his exhortations to the Russians to remember their grand history and his willingness to use military force to make a point is worrisome.

Even more worrisome would be how far the US would go to retain our primacy in the world. We have the world’s most powerful military and have enjoyed our own version of “Splendid Isolation” for decades. We have plentiful natural resources, including energy and are sitting on the biggest pile of gold bullion on the planet.

Do we exercise good judgment, fiscal prudence and restraint or do we go all NASCAR on everybody? I hope for the former and fear the latter.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: I don’t want to draw any overly strong parallels here, but there are certain aspects to this crisis that remind me of the 1930s and more from a political standpoint than an economic one.

I fear a return/retreat to the sort of strident nationalism that became so pervasive during the Great Depression and led us ultimately into WWII.

Putin is already ahead of the curve in his exhortations to the Russians to remember their grand history and his willingness to use military force to make a point is worrisome.

Even more worrisome would be how far the US would go to retain our primacy in the world. We have the world’s most powerful military and have enjoyed our own version of “Splendid Isolation” for decades. We have plentiful natural resources, including energy and are sitting on the biggest pile of gold bullion on the planet.

Do we exercise good judgment, fiscal prudence and restraint or do we go all NASCAR on everybody? I hope for the former and fear the latter.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Gandalf: I don’t want to draw any overly strong parallels here, but there are certain aspects to this crisis that remind me of the 1930s and more from a political standpoint than an economic one.

I fear a return/retreat to the sort of strident nationalism that became so pervasive during the Great Depression and led us ultimately into WWII.

Putin is already ahead of the curve in his exhortations to the Russians to remember their grand history and his willingness to use military force to make a point is worrisome.

Even more worrisome would be how far the US would go to retain our primacy in the world. We have the world’s most powerful military and have enjoyed our own version of “Splendid Isolation” for decades. We have plentiful natural resources, including energy and are sitting on the biggest pile of gold bullion on the planet.

Do we exercise good judgment, fiscal prudence and restraint or do we go all NASCAR on everybody? I hope for the former and fear the latter.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Beyond the feeling that neither McCain nor Obama has any clue as to what to do here? I don’t see either candidate stepping up and telling the American people what are now home truths: We need to stop buying s**t we cannot afford, we need to go back to our core strength of manufacturing and production and we need to stop these nasty and expensive foreign misadventures.

I would opine that the US has managed to gull the rest of the world for the last 25 years into believing we were possessed of a financial acumen that didn’t exist and that we’ve managed to sustain an unsustainable standard of living through insane amounts of debt creation (personal, commercial and governmental) and now the bill has come due.

I would also say that I think our days of being a world leader in banking and insurance are over, but
then I see the problems in the Euro zone, and China and even the Mideast, and realize that the whole world is pretty sideways right now, so who the hell knows? We are in completely uncharted waters right now, even relative to something as catastrophic as the Great Depression and while the US won’t emerged unscathed, we seem to be ahead of the curve (in terms of timing) of many other countries.

In response to your sign-off, I can only offer the wisdom of Devo: “Whip it. Whip it good”.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Dan: Beyond the feeling that neither McCain nor Obama has any clue as to what to do here? I don’t see either candidate stepping up and telling the American people what are now home truths: We need to stop buying s**t we cannot afford, we need to go back to our core strength of manufacturing and production and we need to stop these nasty and expensive foreign misadventures.

I would opine that the US has managed to gull the rest of the world for the last 25 years into believing we were possessed of a financial acumen that didn’t exist and that we’ve managed to sustain an unsustainable standard of living through insane amounts of debt creation (personal, commercial and governmental) and now the bill has come due.

I would also say that I think our days of being a world leader in banking and insurance are over, but
then I see the problems in the Euro zone, and China and even the Mideast, and realize that the whole world is pretty sideways right now, so who the hell knows? We are in completely uncharted waters right now, even relative to something as catastrophic as the Great Depression and while the US won’t emerged unscathed, we seem to be ahead of the curve (in terms of timing) of many other countries.

In response to your sign-off, I can only offer the wisdom of Devo: “Whip it. Whip it good”.

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