[Hatfield]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Parse the words carefully, amigo, because they mean things.
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Maybe you should understand your own words first, amigo.

Demagoguery: a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.

Gee, that sounds a lot more like the previous administration than the current one.

[quote=Rt.66]Hatfield, I don’t know if I cherry picked or left anything out. Afterall, I included the link right at the top and encouraged people to “go take a look at http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/20…” before including my snipet of the list. Good job finding those elusive zingers on the list.
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Well, I guess I was trying to amplify on a point made earlier – the list does contain a lot of salient & likely outcomes of the current fiasco. But the bullet list is made a lot less compelling with the inclusion of some batshit-crazy notions like “In the future the consequences of unpayable debt could include indentured servitude, debtor’s prison or being drummed into the military” and “Modern healthcare will be largely unavailable and informal care will generally be very basic.” I was half-expecting David Byrne’s “In the future, women will have breasts all over” to make an appearance.

I mean, if the author really believes we are headed inevitably towards the Mad Max scenario, you’d think he’d start with that premise, not bury it in a bullet list which otherwise contains salient predictions. And the list itself is made considerably less compelling as a whole. It’s kind of like the metaphorical crazy guy on the street corner mentioned earlier – if he keeps saying things, some of them are bound to be true. 🙂

BTW, if you’re not subscribed to John Mauldin’s newsletter, I highly recommend it. It’s free, it comes out a couple times per week, features a lot of great guest writers (including Richard Russell) and it does a pretty good analysis of what’s going on right now. And unlike a lot of the free newsletters out there, it’s virtually free of spam or incessent offers to sign up for this, buy that, etc. You can sign up at http://www.johnmauldin.com/

[Hatfield]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Parse the words carefully, amigo, because they mean things.
[/quote]

Maybe you should understand your own words first, amigo.

Demagoguery: a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.

Gee, that sounds a lot more like the previous administration than the current one.

[quote=Rt.66]Hatfield, I don’t know if I cherry picked or left anything out. Afterall, I included the link right at the top and encouraged people to “go take a look at http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/20…” before including my snipet of the list. Good job finding those elusive zingers on the list.
[/quote]

Well, I guess I was trying to amplify on a point made earlier – the list does contain a lot of salient & likely outcomes of the current fiasco. But the bullet list is made a lot less compelling with the inclusion of some batshit-crazy notions like “In the future the consequences of unpayable debt could include indentured servitude, debtor’s prison or being drummed into the military” and “Modern healthcare will be largely unavailable and informal care will generally be very basic.” I was half-expecting David Byrne’s “In the future, women will have breasts all over” to make an appearance.

I mean, if the author really believes we are headed inevitably towards the Mad Max scenario, you’d think he’d start with that premise, not bury it in a bullet list which otherwise contains salient predictions. And the list itself is made considerably less compelling as a whole. It’s kind of like the metaphorical crazy guy on the street corner mentioned earlier – if he keeps saying things, some of them are bound to be true. 🙂

BTW, if you’re not subscribed to John Mauldin’s newsletter, I highly recommend it. It’s free, it comes out a couple times per week, features a lot of great guest writers (including Richard Russell) and it does a pretty good analysis of what’s going on right now. And unlike a lot of the free newsletters out there, it’s virtually free of spam or incessent offers to sign up for this, buy that, etc. You can sign up at http://www.johnmauldin.com/

[Hatfield]

[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Parse the words carefully, amigo, because they mean things.
[/quote]

Maybe you should understand your own words first, amigo.

Demagoguery: a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.

Gee, that sounds a lot more like the previous administration than the current one.

[quote=Rt.66]Hatfield, I don’t know if I cherry picked or left anything out. Afterall, I included the link right at the top and encouraged people to “go take a look at http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/20…” before including my snipet of the list. Good job finding those elusive zingers on the list.
[/quote]

Well, I guess I was trying to amplify on a point made earlier – the list does contain a lot of salient & likely outcomes of the current fiasco. But the bullet list is made a lot less compelling with the inclusion of some batshit-crazy notions like “In the future the consequences of unpayable debt could include indentured servitude, debtor’s prison or being drummed into the military” and “Modern healthcare will be largely unavailable and informal care will generally be very basic.” I was half-expecting David Byrne’s “In the future, women will have breasts all over” to make an appearance.

I mean, if the author really believes we are headed inevitably towards the Mad Max scenario, you’d think he’d start with that premise, not bury it in a bullet list which otherwise contains salient predictions. And the list itself is made considerably less compelling as a whole. It’s kind of like the metaphorical crazy guy on the street corner mentioned earlier – if he keeps saying things, some of them are bound to be true. 🙂

BTW, if you’re not subscribed to John Mauldin’s newsletter, I highly recommend it. It’s free, it comes out a couple times per week, features a lot of great guest writers (including Richard Russell) and it does a pretty good analysis of what’s going on right now. And unlike a lot of the free newsletters out there, it’s virtually free of spam or incessent offers to sign up for this, buy that, etc. You can sign up at http://www.johnmauldin.com/

[Hatfield]

Oh give me a break. “Dangerous extremist,” my ass. That you would say this about AT MOST a moderate leftist says way more about you than it does him. Go back to your AM talk radio.

Getting back to the doom and gloom posting:
> I know you said you didn’t agree with it, but
> if you don’t agree with much of it, you have
> dismiss it all.

It was interesting how the OP cherry-picked predictions from the list. The predictions that were posted here seemed intriguing and I too followed the link and had to laugh at some of the other predictions that were not posted here. I definitely think we’re in for very rough times ahead, but universities shuttering? Armageddon? C’mon.

[Hatfield]

Oh give me a break. “Dangerous extremist,” my ass. That you would say this about AT MOST a moderate leftist says way more about you than it does him. Go back to your AM talk radio.

Getting back to the doom and gloom posting:
> I know you said you didn’t agree with it, but
> if you don’t agree with much of it, you have
> dismiss it all.

It was interesting how the OP cherry-picked predictions from the list. The predictions that were posted here seemed intriguing and I too followed the link and had to laugh at some of the other predictions that were not posted here. I definitely think we’re in for very rough times ahead, but universities shuttering? Armageddon? C’mon.

[Hatfield]

Oh give me a break. “Dangerous extremist,” my ass. That you would say this about AT MOST a moderate leftist says way more about you than it does him. Go back to your AM talk radio.

Getting back to the doom and gloom posting:
> I know you said you didn’t agree with it, but
> if you don’t agree with much of it, you have
> dismiss it all.

It was interesting how the OP cherry-picked predictions from the list. The predictions that were posted here seemed intriguing and I too followed the link and had to laugh at some of the other predictions that were not posted here. I definitely think we’re in for very rough times ahead, but universities shuttering? Armageddon? C’mon.

[Hatfield]

Oh give me a break. “Dangerous extremist,” my ass. That you would say this about AT MOST a moderate leftist says way more about you than it does him. Go back to your AM talk radio.

Getting back to the doom and gloom posting:
> I know you said you didn’t agree with it, but
> if you don’t agree with much of it, you have
> dismiss it all.

It was interesting how the OP cherry-picked predictions from the list. The predictions that were posted here seemed intriguing and I too followed the link and had to laugh at some of the other predictions that were not posted here. I definitely think we’re in for very rough times ahead, but universities shuttering? Armageddon? C’mon.

[Hatfield]

Oh give me a break. “Dangerous extremist,” my ass. That you would say this about AT MOST a moderate leftist says way more about you than it does him. Go back to your AM talk radio.

Getting back to the doom and gloom posting:
> I know you said you didn’t agree with it, but
> if you don’t agree with much of it, you have
> dismiss it all.

It was interesting how the OP cherry-picked predictions from the list. The predictions that were posted here seemed intriguing and I too followed the link and had to laugh at some of the other predictions that were not posted here. I definitely think we’re in for very rough times ahead, but universities shuttering? Armageddon? C’mon.

[Hatfield]

“When you see ten problems rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.” — Calvin Coolidge

[Hatfield]

“When you see ten problems rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.” — Calvin Coolidge

[Hatfield]

“When you see ten problems rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.” — Calvin Coolidge

[Hatfield]

“When you see ten problems rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.” — Calvin Coolidge

[Hatfield]

“When you see ten problems rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.” — Calvin Coolidge

[Hatfield]

The Valentine 1 is nice because not only does it detect all types of police radar and laser, and can keep track of multiple signals at once, and the directional arrows tell you which direction the radar is coming from.

This is handy, for example, when you’re going up 395 and some asshat blows past you doing 100 in an Escalade. At this speed it’s pretty hard to get zapped from behind if you’re reasonably diligent about watching the rear view mirror. And it’s very easy to get zapped from the front – pop over a hill, and if there’s a cop there, you’re toast.

So I use what Car and Driver calls “the patsy method” where you are detecting the radar that’s being aimed at other cars, not you. In this case, once the asshat blows past you (and one always does), you let him be your patsy and follow at a distance of about 1/2 mile to a mile, matching his speed and checking the rear view mirror frequently. When the detector goes off, see what direction it’s coming from. Almost always the radar is front of you – in front of your patsy as well – and almost always the patsy will not have a radar detector himself.

I’ll drop down out of warp speed and watch the patsy get nailed. I would say in the past 3 or 4 years of going up to Mammoth, I’ve seen at least 10 people get nailed, and the cop never even sees me. I’m doing 65 by the time I come into his view. It makes for an efficient and entertaining drive.

The other nice thing about the V1 is that it has a remote control option which allows you to hide both the display and the detector itself.

[Hatfield]

The Valentine 1 is nice because not only does it detect all types of police radar and laser, and can keep track of multiple signals at once, and the directional arrows tell you which direction the radar is coming from.

This is handy, for example, when you’re going up 395 and some asshat blows past you doing 100 in an Escalade. At this speed it’s pretty hard to get zapped from behind if you’re reasonably diligent about watching the rear view mirror. And it’s very easy to get zapped from the front – pop over a hill, and if there’s a cop there, you’re toast.

So I use what Car and Driver calls “the patsy method” where you are detecting the radar that’s being aimed at other cars, not you. In this case, once the asshat blows past you (and one always does), you let him be your patsy and follow at a distance of about 1/2 mile to a mile, matching his speed and checking the rear view mirror frequently. When the detector goes off, see what direction it’s coming from. Almost always the radar is front of you – in front of your patsy as well – and almost always the patsy will not have a radar detector himself.

I’ll drop down out of warp speed and watch the patsy get nailed. I would say in the past 3 or 4 years of going up to Mammoth, I’ve seen at least 10 people get nailed, and the cop never even sees me. I’m doing 65 by the time I come into his view. It makes for an efficient and entertaining drive.

The other nice thing about the V1 is that it has a remote control option which allows you to hide both the display and the detector itself.

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