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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (56739)	10/21/2009 10:09:52 PM
From: TobagoJack	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217949

a lot of hogwash bravado horsepoo rubbish, and accompanied by whistling in the dark of empires past <<At the end of the day, America is a unified nation forged by wars, under the rule of law, with a (largely) unifying language and patriotic creed, and one of the oldest and most deeply-rooted democracies in the world. As the Supreme Court demonstrated during Watergate, it can break presidents who violate the law>> let me comment, a bit, here and there, so that the obvious truth emerges to be apparent to all [EDIT: At the end of the EMPIRE's day, America [BRITAIN, FRANCE, ROME, ... MONGOLIA] is a unified nation forged by wars [IS THERE A NATION FORGED BY PEACE?], under the rule of law [ZIMBABWE IS UNDER RULE OF LAW, AND ITS PRESIDENT IS NO LESS EDUCATED THAN OBAMA, OF THE SAME BASIC GENE LATTICE, AND IS ACTUALLY MORE EXPERIENCED IN NATION BUILDING], with a (largely) unifying language and patriotic creed [PHILIPPINES, ... ARGENTINA ... INDIA, ALL COME QUICKLY TO TOP OF MIND - IN FACT, ARE THERE NATIONS NOT (LARGELY) UNIFIED BY LANGUAGE AND NOT PATRIOTIC? I.E. ARE THERE STARS NOT SPHERICAL IN SHAPE OR BARRELS NOT CYLINDRICAL IN FORM? IN FACT, TRUTH BE TOLD, TEAM USA IS ONE OF THE MOST NATURALLY DIVISIBLE TEAM IN GOOD TIME, WHEN BAD TIMES ORIGINATE FROM DEEP WITHIN, AS THERE ARE HAIRLINE CRACKS TOO MANY], and one of the oldest and most deeply-rooted democracies in the world [SO WHAT? GREECE IS NO MORE]. As the Supreme Court demonstrated during Watergate, it can break presidents who violate the law [YES, BUT CAN IT AND DOES IT DO ANYTHING TO TEMPER THE RIDICULOUS WASTREL THAT IS CONGRESS, MADE IN THE IMAGE OF THE TOO MANY VARIETIES OF AND INCREASINGLY COMPLICATED CONSTRUCT PEOPLE BY THE RAPIDLY EVOLVING SAME BUT VERY DIFFERENT PEOPLE?] rain is coming, powered by the wind, and some words of ancient wisdom come quickly to the remembering mind, and i quote google / wikipedia "Paper tiger Paper tiger is a literal English translation of the Chinese phrase zhi laohu (Chinese: 1), meaning something that seems as threatening as a tiger, but is really harmless. The phrase is an ancient one in Chinese culture, but sources differ as to when it entered the English vocabulary. It is found translated to English as early as 1836, in a work by John Francis Davis.[1] In a 1956 interview with the American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Mao Zedong used the phrase to describe the United States: “ In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of; it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.[2] ” In Mao Zedong's view, "all reactionaries are paper tigers" - superficially powerful but prone to overextension leading to sudden collapse. When Mao criticized Soviet "appeasement" of the United States during the Sino-Soviet split, Premier Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pointed out, "the paper tiger has nuclear teeth.[3]"

To: Snowshoe who wrote (56739)	10/21/2009 11:53:27 PM
From: KyrosL	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217949

Sounds like TEOTWAWKI -- but with an outcome quite different from TJ's expectation. Let's see who's right.