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We're fucked.

"The Great Depression" will seem like a golden era.

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"...but I like a placebo,"
 
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Dubya ASSesment.


"...but I like a placebo,"
 
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What he won't say, even with all the cams off, is that he and his people bought the booze.
 
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Yeah, Bush was the barman and he declared a 7 year Happy Hour.
 
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He wanted everyone to hand their Social Security over to Wall Street. It'll be great they said!

McCain was in on that too.

Someone investing in the DOW the day Dubya took office would have made 1.1% per year on their investment up to the day he leaves office. That person would have actually lost quite a bit, considering inflation.

Republicans are in fact, good with money. Just not YOUR money.
 
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This is where we are as a country, and it's a sad fuckin' affair.


"...but I like a placebo,"
 
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When Obama returns, I foresee something like this:

"Yes, I was wrong about the surge. UNderstand that, until then, the higher level people were constantly wrong. THis guy named Rumsfeld, for example. That said, who wanted to take YOUR social retirement and give it to Wall Street? Which is currently being hammered and even seeing RUNS on banks for the first time since the Great Depression?"
 
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Shoved it in, without lube, and broke it off.


Shit. That is bad.
 
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Brother can you spare a dime


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A dime back then is like a dollar today...
 
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Sometimes I find myself wondering how our woes seem to the rest of the world. What do they think of our complaints?
"Gah! They lent me too much money!"
"I got a house I can't afford! Woe is me!"
"I can't fill up my SUV that cost six Third World villages! The injustice of it all!"
How does this play in, say, Darfur?
 
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At oxfam we use a couple of reference amounts to illustrate what your money over there can actually get people. For just 25 euro a family in a crisis zone (such as Darfur) can get temporary housing and cooking and sanitary supplies. For 250 an entire village can get a pharmacy stocked with the most essential medicines. Kinda puts things in perspective.


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Sometimes I find myself wondering how our woes seem to the rest of the world. What do they think of our complaints?
"Gah! They lent me too much money!"
"I got a house I can't afford! Woe is me!"
"I can't fill up my SUV that cost six Third World villages! The injustice of it all!"
How does this play in, say, Darfur?


How did late era Imperial Rome strike, say, the subjugated Jews and other barbarians?

If I were wealthy, just once on Gib's birthday, he'd see skywriting above Vancouver that said:

BUNCHA YUPPIE PUSSIES!!!

Maybe we could all pitch in.

Do it for the Gibber.
 
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You guys aren't fucked, you're too big to fall (and I say that as a non-American).

You've just had an easy ride for a few decades, and that's about to change.

Get your debt sorted, make some more friends, and join the party!

PS - And grab a beer while you're at it, I recommend Amstel.


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Memory is short. Media persuasion is effective. To titanium wren you listen.


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that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears.
I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments,
and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air."
I am an architect, a constructor of worlds,
a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody,
a silhouette against the darkening sky.

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Oh, "world's last superpower" indeed.

There's alway China.


The Lithos School of Curiousity is now enrolling
 
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And another.


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I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories
that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears.
I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments,
and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air."
I am an architect, a constructor of worlds,
a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody,
a silhouette against the darkening sky.

--Lebbeus Woods
 
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And another.




Someone took the Lawnmower man WAAAAAY too seriously.
 
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...Yet the dominos keep tumbling.


"...but I like a placebo,"
 
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