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		<title>Suggestions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As signs of catestrophic anthropogenic global warming - or whatever the eco-Leftist are currently trying to re-brand it as - keep failing to appear and more and more actual science, as opposed to <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/warmists-in-denial/">willful fraud</a>, surfaces, it's looking a lot like the Warmists are out of ideas of how to promulgate the doctrine and dogma of Al Gore's <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/copenhagen-prayer/">doomsday cult</a>.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56650" title="Suggestions for AGW" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/suggestions-agw.jpg" alt="Suggestions for AGW" width="450" height="350" />
<strong class="highlight">Suggestions? ...Bueller...Bueller?</strong></p>

At this point in history, having beggared credulity and staining the already tarnished reputation of what passes for science these days, I don't even think "crowd sourcing" will help the Warmists. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As signs of catestrophic anthropogenic global warming &#8211; or whatever the eco-Leftist are currently trying to re-brand it as &#8211; keep failing to appear and more and more actual science, as opposed to <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/warmists-in-denial/">willful fraud</a>, surfaces, it&#8217;s looking a lot like the Warmists are out of ideas of how to promulgate the doctrine and dogma of Al Gore&#8217;s <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/copenhagen-prayer/">doomsday cult</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56650" title="Suggestions for AGW" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/suggestions-agw.jpg" alt="Suggestions for AGW" width="450" height="350" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Suggestions? &#8230;Bueller&#8230;Bueller?</strong></p>
<p>At this point in history, having beggared credulity and staining the already tarnished reputation of what passes for science these days, I don&#8217;t even think &#8220;crowd sourcing&#8221; will help the Warmists. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;m quite happy to say the days of people lending credence to <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/environment/cryptoclimatology/">Cryptoclimatology</a> are over. Their search for <em>Hotfoot</em> has turned up little or nothing that is believable.</p>

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		<title>Bain or Bane</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 12:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama, his handlers, and his cultists have been attacking GOP Presidential Nominee, Mitt Romney over his time with Bain Capital. As is usual for the Left, they continue to attack Romney because he was a successful businessman, something that Obama has never been even close to being.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56632" title="Romney vs. Obama" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/romney-v-obama-1.jpg" alt="Romney vs. Obama - Bain or Bane" width="450" height="311" />
<strong class="highlight">Bain or Bane - Choose Wisely In November</strong></p>
Americans have a choice in November. We can support Mitt Romney with his strong background in turning around failing businesses and saving what could be saved, or we can let the Liberals reinstall Obama to the Presidency and allow him to continue to drive America's economy off a cliff.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama, his handlers, and his cultists have been attacking GOP Presidential Nominee, Mitt Romney over his time with Bain Capital. As is usual for the Left, they continue to attack Romney because he was a successful businessman, something that Obama has never been even close to being.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56632" title="Romney vs. Obama" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/romney-v-obama-1.jpg" alt="Romney vs. Obama - Bain or Bane" width="450" height="311" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Bain or Bane &#8211; Choose Wisely In November</strong></p>
<p>Americans have a choice in November. We can support Mitt Romney with his strong background in turning around failing businesses and saving what could be saved, or we can let the Liberals reinstall Obama to the Presidency and allow him to continue to drive America&#8217;s economy off a cliff.</p>
<p>It is our choice, not that of the Liberals, Progressives, or their minority tenants&#8217; who will decide the immediate future of the United States of America. Will it be Bain or Bane?</p>

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		<title>The Truth Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 12:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="creepy-screamer" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/creepy-screamer-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />When dealing with activists of any stripe, be it racial, gender, sexuality, or a pet cause, be aware of one simple thing - They will almost invariably speak their subcultural allegiance first and the truth second if at all. This is a negative trait that is self-reinforcing because all of these causes preach a form of orthodoxy that requires such relegation of the truth to, at most, secondary standing as a metric of "authenticity" on the activists' parts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="creepy-screamer" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/creepy-screamer-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />When dealing with activists of any stripe, be it racial, gender, sexuality, or a pet cause, be aware of one simple thing &#8211; They will almost invariably speak their subcultural allegiance first and the truth second if at all. This is a negative trait that is self-reinforcing because all of these causes preach a form of orthodoxy that requires such relegation of the truth to, at most, secondary standing as a metric of &#8220;authenticity&#8221; on the activists&#8217; parts.</p>
<p>What this means for us is that, due to the activists&#8217; mental and ethical deformity and the constant reinforcement of that deformity, they can rarely, if ever at all, be reasoned with. In some extreme cases, elder Black and Feminist demagogues being the most common example, you can&#8217;t even placate them because the war they have created in their minds is an end in itself and they couldn&#8217;t &#8211; not wouldn&#8217;t &#8211; recognize victory even if they achieved it.</p>
<p>Remember, since the truth is less than important to them than solidarity and orthodoxy in their cause, these activists and their core followers cannot be reasoned with. As such, there is no point or purpose in engaging with them. It is better and saner to either ignore them or silence them through denying them a venue and audience, through ridicule, or through applied targeted force in the most extreme cases.</p>

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		<title>Fight For Your Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All you Leftist domestic enemies of America, you Liberals and Progressives, along with all those minorities you use a sharecroppers every election had best get up, get out, and fight for your enslavement because we, the People are going to do our best - and, if needs be and the Devil drives, our worst - to keep you free.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56559" title="Obama Poster" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obamaposter.jpg" alt="Obama Poster - Fight For Your Right To Government Dependency" width="450" height="609" />
<strong class="highlight">Fight For Your Right To Government Dependency</strong></p>

It's not that we value you or your personal liberty; we don't. It's that we can't maintain Americans' liberty and let you give yours away in favor of government dependency.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All you Leftist domestic enemies of America, you Liberals and Progressives, along with all those minorities you use a sharecroppers every election had best get up, get out, and fight for your enslavement because we, the People are going to do our best &#8211; and, if needs be and the Devil drives, our worst &#8211; to keep you free.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56559" title="Obama Poster" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obamaposter.jpg" alt="Obama Poster - Fight For Your Right To Government Dependency" width="450" height="609" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Fight For Your Right To Government Dependency</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that we value you or your personal liberty; we don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s that we can&#8217;t maintain Americans&#8217; liberty and let you give yours away in favor of government dependency.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that you deserve your personal liberty; you don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s that we know that liberty is a Divinely granted right and, as such, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you&#8217;ve earned it or not.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not even that we think there will be a near-term positive outcome from you maintaining your liberty; there won&#8217;t be. It&#8217;s that, no matter how much pain and misery your liberty brings us all, it&#8217;s wrong to meekly allow you to surrender it.</p>
<p>So, if you all really want to enslave yourself to government dependency, you&#8217;re going to one Hell of a fight on your hands. The American people &#8211; the sons and daughters of our nation who, by the mercy and grace of the God(s), carry its spirit within us &#8211; are going to use <em>every</em> means at our disposal to defeat you.</p>
<p><em>Intra vita in tantum misericordia est mortem, in tantum atrocitus est servitutem</em>.</p>

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		<title>Chomsky And The Shark</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky has for decades been a guru of the Leftists. The Liberals and Progressives have sucked down his repetitive attacks upon America, swallowed, and begged for another load. That might have just changed though because Chomsky has in all likelihood, in the eyes of the Left, <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump%20the%20shark" title="Urban Dictionary - Jump The Shark" target="_blank">just jumped the shark</a>. 

Chomsky, among other things, just he called Obama a murderer.

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Don't expect to hear or see much about this in the Lamestream Media. They'd be too conflicted as to who to side against and who to protect to let this hit the national airwaves.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Noam Chomsky has for decades been a guru of the Leftists. The Liberals and Progressives have sucked down his repetitive attacks upon America, swallowed, and begged for another load. That might have just changed though because Chomsky has in all likelihood, in the eyes of the Left, <a title="Urban Dictionary - Jump The Shark" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump%20the%20shark" target="_blank">just jumped the shark</a>.</p>
<p>Chomsky, among other things, just he called Obama a murderer.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t expect to hear or see much about this in the Lamestream Media. They&#8217;d be too conflicted as to who to side against and who to protect to let this hit the national airwaves.</p>
<p>Actually, so far, it&#8217;s being largely hushed up by the people controlling the Left. They seem to be using their normal tactic of silencing dissent and violations of acceptable <a title="PsySR - What is Groupthink?" href="http://www.psysr.org/about/pubs_resources/groupthink%20overview.htm" target="_blank">groupthink</a> on Chomsky, much as they <a title="Care2 - Stop Main Stream Media from Reporting on Sara Palin" href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-main-stream-media-from-reporting-on-sara-palin/" target="_blank">tried to do</a> with Sarah Palin. That, in itself, is quite telling.</p>
<p>My guess is that Chomsky just lost his following by attacking Obama and will now be heavily censored by the Left, with only approved speeches, articles, and interviews receiving widespread dissemination &#8211; at least until after the 2012 elections in November.</p>

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		<title>European Vacation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been a couple of weeks, maybe even a bit longer, the Obamas must be tired from all the campaigning, even with Barack's occasional breaks to "telesign" some legislation. It's about time for them to <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/the-shameless-michelle/">take another vacation</a>. I mean they're entitled to it, aren't they, as the First Black Family? It's sort of like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery" title="Wikipedia - Reparations For Slavery" target="_blank">reparations</a> by proxy. :-P

Personally, I'd suggest that the Obama's take a European vacation. It'd be quite educational for Sasha and Malia.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks, maybe even a bit longer, the Obamas must be tired from all the campaigning, even with Barack&#8217;s occasional breaks to &#8220;telesign&#8221; some legislation. It&#8217;s about time for them to <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/the-shameless-michelle/">take another vacation</a>. I mean they&#8217;re entitled to it, aren&#8217;t they, as the First Black Family? It&#8217;s sort of like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery" title="Wikipedia - Reparations For Slavery" target="_blank">reparations</a> by proxy. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':-P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Personally, I&#8217;d suggest that the Obama&#8217;s take a European vacation. It&#8217;d be quite educational for Sasha and Malia.</p>
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<strong class="highlight">The Obama&#8217;s Studying European Archeology</strong></p>
<p>They could tour the historic ruins and Obama could teach his daughters about how Europe continues to influence the &#8220;America&#8221; that he wants to build. He could also explain how creative destruction is necessary when The One wants to fundamentally change something&#8230;</p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth be told, I'm a strong proponent of education. I'm just not a big fan of useless education or (mis)education, which is what America's schools and, most especially, colleges seem to excel at.
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<strong class="highlight">The Extinct Thesaurus</strong></p>
Seems to me that our far too hallowed halls of "higher education" are churning out a bunch of evolutionary dead-ends that are largely lacking in basic modern survival skills.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Truth be told, I&#8217;m a strong proponent of education. I&#8217;m just not a big fan of useless education or (mis)education, which is what America&#8217;s schools and, most especially, colleges seem to excel at.</p>
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<strong class="highlight">The Extinct Thesaurus</strong></p>
<p>Seems to me that our far too hallowed halls of &#8220;higher education&#8221; are churning out a bunch of evolutionary dead-ends that are largely lacking in basic modern survival skills.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not going to take a <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/krugmans-eurodammerung/">K–T extinction event</a> to finish off these people either. &#8220;Edupogenic&#8221; climate change (ECC) will get them just as easily as they pursue lifestyle and career goals that are unsustainable in the modern economic climate.</p>
<p>Ah well, all we oh-so-loathed &#8220;no nothings&#8221; will, like the mammals of the Tertiary Period, still be here and will be, once again, ready to step in. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summing up Obama's "evolved" stance on Gay Marriage is really quite easy. It's a simple case of his being Gay For Pay.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56416" title="Obama On Gay Marriage" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obama-on-gay-marriage.jpg" alt="Obama On Gay Marriage" width="450" height="308" />
<strong class="highlight">Sure! Obama Will Go Gay - For $15 Million In Donations</strong></p>
The Obama Campaign and the Dems in general were looking at loosing the financial support of both Queers and seriously pro-Queer donors, a situation made acutely worse by North Carolina passing <a title="HuffPo - Amendment One, North Carolina Gay Marriage Ban, Passes Vote " href="http:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/amendment-one-north-carolina_n_1501308.html//" target="_blank">Amendment 1</a> by a wide margin, defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman in the state's Constitution.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Summing up Obama&#8217;s &#8220;evolved&#8221; stance on Gay Marriage is really quite easy. It&#8217;s a simple case of his being Gay For Pay.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56416" title="Obama On Gay Marriage" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obama-on-gay-marriage.jpg" alt="Obama On Gay Marriage" width="450" height="308" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Sure! Obama Will Go Gay &#8211; For $15 Million In Donations</strong></p>
<p>The Obama Campaign and the Dems in general were looking at loosing the financial support of both Queers and seriously pro-Queer donors, a situation made acutely worse by North Carolina passing <a title="HuffPo - Amendment One, North Carolina Gay Marriage Ban, Passes Vote " href="http:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/amendment-one-north-carolina_n_1501308.html//" target="_blank">Amendment 1</a> by a wide margin, defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman in the state&#8217;s Constitution.</p>
<p>So the Campaigner-in-Chief, under the direction of his handlers, had to say <a title="ABC News - Transcript: Robin Roberts ABC News Interview With President Obama" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-robin-roberts-abc-news-interview-president-obama/story?id=16316043#.T7TQI8XLISh" target="_blank">something</a>, preferable something nuanced with lots of exit pathways and few commitments.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>At a certain point, I&#8217;ve just concluded that&#8211; for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that&#8211; I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. Now&#8211; I have to tell you that part of my hesitation on this has also been I didn&#8217;t want to nationalize the issue. There&#8217;s a tendency when I weigh in to think suddenly it becomes political and it becomes polarized.</em></p>
<p><em>And what you&#8217;re seeing is, I think, states working through this issue&#8211; in fits and starts, all across the country. Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times. And I think that&#8217;s a healthy process and a healthy debate. And I continue to believe that this is an issue that is gonna be worked out at the local level, because historically, this has not been a federal issue, what&#8217;s recognized as a marriage.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, the boy will do Gay for Pay alright. He&#8217;s got limits though &#8211; no Full Service; he won&#8217;t bend over that far, not when it might cost him more than he&#8217;s getting for it. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p class="highlight" style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got a more important and pressing question than what Obama wants people to believe is his personal stance on Gay Marriage is though. Does America&#8217;s newest rent boy think that the queers &#8211; single, involved, it&#8217;s complicated, or married &#8211; <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/obamas-jobs-strategy/">could use some jobs</a>?</p>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="The Leftist, Socialist, Anti-American Pseudo-Economist Paul Krugman" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/krugman-despondent.jpg" alt="The Leftist, Socialist, Anti-American Pseudo-Economist Paul Krugman" width="150" height="215" />I'm not one to pay overly much attention to the various things that spew from the maw of Paul Krugman. The pontifications, ramblings, and rants of a rabidly fanatical Keynesian neo-Socialist who makes his rent working for the filthy rag known as the New York Times aren't the sorts of things that I, or any other American, normally pay much heed to - except to keep an eye on what our nation's enemies are thinking or emoting.

Krugman is willfully dead wrong more often than not on causation and dead wrong, again willfully, <em>every</em> time when it comes to remediation

All that being said, Krugman is not an idiot and he is skilled enough to make <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/eurodammerung-2/" title="NY Times - Krugman - Eurodämmerung" target="_blank">solidly plausible predictions</a> of future events, especially relatively near-term ones.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="The Leftist, Socialist, Anti-American Pseudo-Economist Paul Krugman" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/krugman-despondent.jpg" alt="The Leftist, Socialist, Anti-American Pseudo-Economist Paul Krugman" width="150" height="215" />I&#8217;m not one to pay overly much attention to the various things that spew from the maw of Paul Krugman. The pontifications, ramblings, and rants of a rabidly fanatical Keynesian neo-Socialist who makes his rent working for the filthy rag known as the New York Times aren&#8217;t the sorts of things that I, or any other American, normally pay much heed to &#8211; except to keep an eye on what our nation&#8217;s enemies are thinking or emoting.</p>
<p>Krugman is willfully dead wrong more often than not on causation and dead wrong, again willfully, <em>every</em> time when it comes to remediation</p>
<p>All that being said, Krugman is not an idiot and he is skilled enough to make <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/eurodammerung-2/" title="NY Times - Krugman - Eurodämmerung" target="_blank">solidly plausible predictions</a> of future events, especially relatively near-term ones.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Some of us have been talking it over, and here’s what we think the end game looks like:</em></p>
<p><em>1. Greek euro exit, very possibly next month.</em></p>
<p><em>2. Huge withdrawals from Spanish and Italian banks, as depositors try to move their money to Germany.</em></p>
<p><em>3a. Maybe, just possibly, de facto controls, with banks forbidden to transfer deposits out of country and limits on cash withdrawals.</em></p>
<p><em>3b. Alternatively, or maybe in tandem, huge draws on ECB credit to keep the banks from collapsing.</em></p>
<p><em>4a. Germany has a choice. Accept huge indirect public claims on Italy and Spain, plus a drastic revision of strategy — basically, to give Spain in particular any hope you need both guarantees on its debt to hold borrowing costs down and a higher eurozone inflation target to make relative price adjustment possible; or:</em></p>
<p><em>4b. End of the euro.</em></p>
<p><em>And we’re talking about months, not years, for this to play out.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Of course this isn&#8217;t exactly rocket science or even one of the more arcane examples of the semi-mystical art form known today as the study of Economics. Both hyperinflation and the end of the Euro in the near future are easy predictions to make in the wake of Greece&#8217;s Keynesian meltdown and financial collapse.</p>
<p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em></em></p><strong class="highlight">NOTE:</strong> Krugman&#8217;s prediction of a European financial meltdown matches my own and naturally feeds into whatever level of Confirmation Bias that I&#8217;m saddled with.</p>
<p>Of course these events will happen and happen soon. They were foreordained from the moment of Greece&#8217;s financial implosion under the weight of their Socialist economic policies.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll add though that these event will, in turn, most likely lead to the breaking of the European Union by 2015. They can&#8217;t hold together as a government &#8211; or meta-government, or whatever they are &#8211; without a common currency.</p>

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		<title>How Women Have Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seventy years - a little over three generations - can completely the societal landscape. How women have changed in that time is astounding, and not in any way that could be rightly considered good or flattering. Their devolution from Great to Grift is a national tragedy.

<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56302" title="Feminism 70 Years Later" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/feminism-70-years.jpg" alt="Feminism 70 Years Later - The devolution of Greatest to Grift" width="450" height="419" />
<strong class="highlight">From Greatest To Grift In 70 Years</strong></p>

A first blush it truly amazing that the granddaughters of the generation of women who took to the factories and built the US war machine in WW2 degenerated into Sandra Fluke's generation of grifters seeking hand-outs from the government. It just doesn't, on the face of it, make sense that We Can Do It turned into We Can Get Free Shit.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seventy years &#8211; a little over three generations &#8211; can completely change the societal landscape. How women have changed in that time is astounding, and not in any way that could be rightly considered good or flattering. Their devolution from Great to Grift is a national tragedy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-56302" title="Feminism 70 Years Later" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/feminism-70-years.jpg" alt="Feminism 70 Years Later - The devolution of Greatest to Grift" width="450" height="419" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">From Greatest To Grift In 70 Years</strong></p>
<p>A first blush it truly amazing that the granddaughters of the generation of women who took to the factories and built the US war machine in WW2 degenerated into Sandra Fluke&#8217;s generation of grifters seeking hand-outs from the government. It just doesn&#8217;t, on the face of it, make sense that We Can Do It turned into We Can Get Free Shit because this seems to be a <em>prima facie</em> reversal of feminist goals and thought.</p>
<p>A deeper look, however, reveals that this degeneration had to be expected. Feminism and gender equality has been billed as a Civil Rights issue and in America <em>all</em> the Civil Rights movements have degenerated within three generations into grift and dependency upon the government for subsidence and/or convenience hand-outs. It&#8217;s just more shocking and painful to see it happen to American women, who have done so much and come so far.</p>

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