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America’s “Oh Sh*t!” Moment

America’s “Oh Sh*t!” Moment. Civilizations don’t decline gradually, they collapse suddenly. “What all these collapsed powers have in common is that the complex social systems that underpinned them suddenly ceased to function. One minute rulers had legitimacy in the eyes of their people; the next they didn’t.” Looking at President Gilligan, the cargo-cult political and academic establishments and glib liars of the MSM, ya gotta wonder if the tipping point is almost at hand…

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Bonfire of the Absurdities: After 35 year career writing software for IBM mainframes, am now self-employed contractor thinking of joining a union and striking for higher wages. Cured morbid fear of heights when I learned to look at them as lengths standing on end. Uncompromising in refusal to accept browser cookies. Amateur investor who has accumulated a small fortune in the market after starting out years ago with a large one. For recreation, I run, hike, kayak and play tennis but will not consider synchronized swimming under any circumstances.

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Big Al says:

November 1, 2011 at 6:59 am

Nothing to worry about until we start to have incompetent leadership.
- danybhoy says:
  
  November 1, 2011 at 8:04 am
  
  We are there right now.