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		<title>By: Artfldgr</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i didnt say 1984, i was referring more to aldous huxley... in which the masses dont realize that they are this way... in THAT type of situation, the masses ARE allowed to talk, they are promoted to talk more... because all talk no action is the way to go. 

on handouts... lee, did you get a guaranteed loan for school? did you plan on that as part of the financial future?  its a handout lee...  unless you paid for all your schooling with all your money and didnt use a guaranteed loan, you got a hand out. if you have ever collected welfare, got school lunch, free examination, and more... you got a handout. 

russians can buy drugs too...  they drink to death...  so how is your missive on beer and alcohol, two drugs that keep the population quiet, and drain their capital while puttig them out of the game, evidence of freedom? 

you ARE losing all your rights lee... carrying a knife on a plane is not a right. and if you cant tell that it isnt, then you lost your rights!!!!  i have a question, if the state thinks you hit a child in your house, do they need a warrant to take your child away and put it up for adoption?  nope... (i didnt say you actually hit the child, i said they THINK you did).   when you walk into a subway, the police can search you for no crime. how is that being safe from searches as the cosntitution says?   in a legal altercation with a female, even if she commits the offense, her identity is secret, yours is public... so how is the right to know your accuser...   the lsit goes on.. 

and i will say you ARE a moron, if you think that carying a weapon on a private plane when the owner doesnt want you to, is a right. 

&lt;i&gt;I’m not the one making analogies between myself and Daniel Craig ( he’s an actor in a movie, not a partisan).&lt;/i&gt;

your so stupid... ANALOGY...  a tool for using common knowlege between two people to explain something that isnt part of it. 

if you draw an analogy to a han dynasty emperior, i am no so stupid as to think you think you ARE a han dynasty emperor.   

boy are you dumb...  no wonder you like socialism.. with such broken thoughts you cant function... 

&lt;i&gt; I’m not the one comparing my shortcomings to Einstein ( he was a genius, not a paranoid with delusions of grandeur).
&lt;/i&gt;

thats funnier than the last idiotic thing. 

YOU were the one that set the standard for smarts and competency was punctuation and skill in everything...  

your too stupid to get that the analogy to me. but to the fact that if the rest of the world was like you, no one would know einstein...   beacuse einstein fai;ed m,ath, and by analogie to your analysis, that makes him an idiot not to be listened to. 

its YOUR analogy...  

i am not saying that because i dont spell check, i am as smart as einstein. 

i said that the fact that you use lack of spell check as a proxy for intelligence, you would never recognize an einstein. 

is that spelled out for you in the simplest terms that a person who is way below average can understand? 

how would a man like you with a brain like mush know how to test the validity of my points? 

a moron cant determine mental acuity and facility with invention and orignal thinking.  which is why people like you come out of the woodwork, and use spellign as a iq proxy. 

but totally ignore attending bronx science.  

by actually entering the school i fit the textbook definitino of GENIUS. 

AVERAGE IQ of these HIGH SCHOOL students is 145. 

145 is AVERAGE there...  

let me know if you can name another school with the same creds. 

A short list of alumni achievements include: 
7 Nobel Prizes in Physics 
5 Pulitzer Prizes (not counting team reporting) 
5 National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology 
Past Secretary of Defense, Air Force, Navy 
President of Amherst College (2003 to present) 
President of Columbia University (1980 to 1993) 
President of Teachers College (1994 to 2006) 
Chancellor of UCLA (1997 to 2006) 
Dozens who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices 
1% of the membership (selected by peers) at: 
National Academy of Sciences, 
National Academy of Engineering 
Institute of Medicine 
Executive Editor of The New York Times (1994 to 2001, 2003) 
Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek (1984 to 2005) 
Other awards such as: 
Rhodes Scholars 
Guggenheim Fellows 
MacArthur &quot;Genius&quot; Fellows 
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of S&amp;P 500 companies. 


 

what did YOUR freinds in high school do? 

may i ask YOUR sat scores? 
i was 50 pts shy of a perfect score. 

&lt;i&gt;Not to mention, what I say, and what is said about me on an anonymous blog (or what any commentor says, for that matter), should be taken (if at all) with a grain of salt. But for you, it’s personal, isn’t it? You really think you’re saving the world, don’t you?&lt;/i&gt;

nope.. not the world...  just a few people... 

&lt;i&gt;Tin hatters like you are as predictable as the sunrise. Always the age old cry: “Why doesn’t anyone believe me? You’re all just too stupid to see the truth!” Well, at least I can see through you like a sheet of Saran wrap.&lt;/i&gt;

you have not refuted my facts. 

you have ASSUMED that i am a tin hatter because your ignorance puts REAL facts in the same category. 

WHICH fact is wrong...   

the ONLY thing you have done was get a bug up your ass because you are ignorant an stupid of the facts. 

you have not decided to read one link i post. you dont like long posts becasue long posts tax limited mental capacities. (which is why the population doesnt like them when they used to). 

lee... 

you are too young to know what your talking abotu. 

your also too stupid with hubris to learn from those older than you. 

ridiculing me as a tin hatter, well, that doesnt make me a tin hatter any more than calling you mary poppins will make you fly...

the reason people who are very smart here tolerate me is that i am not a tin hatter. 

that is, my facts are verifyable. the sources are not tin hat sources. there are no secret documents i only have. 

in fact.. most of the long stuff you dont like is quotes from books and papers written by marx, engels, lenin, stalin, and many others. 

most of the time, i am just repeating what they say they want, are going to do, or have stated is a goal which has remained unchanged in 60 years. 

by the way... 

just one more little thing...

you about as right about me as you were about obama being a good thing for the country.. 

i am old.. i will not live through the misery that you will live through watching your children and family live through this. 

check out what a dark realestate salesperson is in russia...   



right now, all the people like you sure that socialism and communism are different (Despite your being the only ones to make that distinction, while the giants and authors of the ideology do not), are about to find out the truth. 

it wont matter to me... 

but the reason you dont know me, or where i am.. 

is the same reason that i am here to write you. 

my family kept their mouths shut. so that when an ass wipe like you  gets caugth in the machine... they dont tag me as the person to grind up next!!! 

lee... wait lee...   

i dont really care whether you believe me or not...

in fact, i dont care what really happens to you, since your actions do not bode well for any one who shares your genes!!  after all, you got suckered, and your on my case because i didnt get suckered with you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i didnt say 1984, i was referring more to aldous huxley&#8230; in which the masses dont realize that they are this way&#8230; in THAT type of situation, the masses ARE allowed to talk, they are promoted to talk more&#8230; because all talk no action is the way to go. </p>
<p>on handouts&#8230; lee, did you get a guaranteed loan for school? did you plan on that as part of the financial future?  its a handout lee&#8230;  unless you paid for all your schooling with all your money and didnt use a guaranteed loan, you got a hand out. if you have ever collected welfare, got school lunch, free examination, and more&#8230; you got a handout. </p>
<p>russians can buy drugs too&#8230;  they drink to death&#8230;  so how is your missive on beer and alcohol, two drugs that keep the population quiet, and drain their capital while puttig them out of the game, evidence of freedom? </p>
<p>you ARE losing all your rights lee&#8230; carrying a knife on a plane is not a right. and if you cant tell that it isnt, then you lost your rights!!!!  i have a question, if the state thinks you hit a child in your house, do they need a warrant to take your child away and put it up for adoption?  nope&#8230; (i didnt say you actually hit the child, i said they THINK you did).   when you walk into a subway, the police can search you for no crime. how is that being safe from searches as the cosntitution says?   in a legal altercation with a female, even if she commits the offense, her identity is secret, yours is public&#8230; so how is the right to know your accuser&#8230;   the lsit goes on.. </p>
<p>and i will say you ARE a moron, if you think that carying a weapon on a private plane when the owner doesnt want you to, is a right. </p>
<p><i>I’m not the one making analogies between myself and Daniel Craig ( he’s an actor in a movie, not a partisan).</i></p>
<p>your so stupid&#8230; ANALOGY&#8230;  a tool for using common knowlege between two people to explain something that isnt part of it. </p>
<p>if you draw an analogy to a han dynasty emperior, i am no so stupid as to think you think you ARE a han dynasty emperor.   </p>
<p>boy are you dumb&#8230;  no wonder you like socialism.. with such broken thoughts you cant function&#8230; </p>
<p><i> I’m not the one comparing my shortcomings to Einstein ( he was a genius, not a paranoid with delusions of grandeur).<br />
</i></p>
<p>thats funnier than the last idiotic thing. </p>
<p>YOU were the one that set the standard for smarts and competency was punctuation and skill in everything&#8230;  </p>
<p>your too stupid to get that the analogy to me. but to the fact that if the rest of the world was like you, no one would know einstein&#8230;   beacuse einstein fai;ed m,ath, and by analogie to your analysis, that makes him an idiot not to be listened to. </p>
<p>its YOUR analogy&#8230;  </p>
<p>i am not saying that because i dont spell check, i am as smart as einstein. </p>
<p>i said that the fact that you use lack of spell check as a proxy for intelligence, you would never recognize an einstein. </p>
<p>is that spelled out for you in the simplest terms that a person who is way below average can understand? </p>
<p>how would a man like you with a brain like mush know how to test the validity of my points? </p>
<p>a moron cant determine mental acuity and facility with invention and orignal thinking.  which is why people like you come out of the woodwork, and use spellign as a iq proxy. </p>
<p>but totally ignore attending bronx science.  </p>
<p>by actually entering the school i fit the textbook definitino of GENIUS. </p>
<p>AVERAGE IQ of these HIGH SCHOOL students is 145. </p>
<p>145 is AVERAGE there&#8230;  </p>
<p>let me know if you can name another school with the same creds. </p>
<p>A short list of alumni achievements include:<br />
7 Nobel Prizes in Physics<br />
5 Pulitzer Prizes (not counting team reporting)<br />
5 National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology<br />
Past Secretary of Defense, Air Force, Navy<br />
President of Amherst College (2003 to present)<br />
President of Columbia University (1980 to 1993)<br />
President of Teachers College (1994 to 2006)<br />
Chancellor of UCLA (1997 to 2006)<br />
Dozens who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices<br />
1% of the membership (selected by peers) at:<br />
National Academy of Sciences,<br />
National Academy of Engineering<br />
Institute of Medicine<br />
Executive Editor of The New York Times (1994 to 2001, 2003)<br />
Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek (1984 to 2005)<br />
Other awards such as:<br />
Rhodes Scholars<br />
Guggenheim Fellows<br />
MacArthur &#8220;Genius&#8221; Fellows<br />
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of S&amp;P 500 companies. </p>
<p>what did YOUR freinds in high school do? </p>
<p>may i ask YOUR sat scores?<br />
i was 50 pts shy of a perfect score. </p>
<p><i>Not to mention, what I say, and what is said about me on an anonymous blog (or what any commentor says, for that matter), should be taken (if at all) with a grain of salt. But for you, it’s personal, isn’t it? You really think you’re saving the world, don’t you?</i></p>
<p>nope.. not the world&#8230;  just a few people&#8230; </p>
<p><i>Tin hatters like you are as predictable as the sunrise. Always the age old cry: “Why doesn’t anyone believe me? You’re all just too stupid to see the truth!” Well, at least I can see through you like a sheet of Saran wrap.</i></p>
<p>you have not refuted my facts. </p>
<p>you have ASSUMED that i am a tin hatter because your ignorance puts REAL facts in the same category. </p>
<p>WHICH fact is wrong&#8230;   </p>
<p>the ONLY thing you have done was get a bug up your ass because you are ignorant an stupid of the facts. </p>
<p>you have not decided to read one link i post. you dont like long posts becasue long posts tax limited mental capacities. (which is why the population doesnt like them when they used to). </p>
<p>lee&#8230; </p>
<p>you are too young to know what your talking abotu. </p>
<p>your also too stupid with hubris to learn from those older than you. </p>
<p>ridiculing me as a tin hatter, well, that doesnt make me a tin hatter any more than calling you mary poppins will make you fly&#8230;</p>
<p>the reason people who are very smart here tolerate me is that i am not a tin hatter. </p>
<p>that is, my facts are verifyable. the sources are not tin hat sources. there are no secret documents i only have. </p>
<p>in fact.. most of the long stuff you dont like is quotes from books and papers written by marx, engels, lenin, stalin, and many others. </p>
<p>most of the time, i am just repeating what they say they want, are going to do, or have stated is a goal which has remained unchanged in 60 years. </p>
<p>by the way&#8230; </p>
<p>just one more little thing&#8230;</p>
<p>you about as right about me as you were about obama being a good thing for the country.. </p>
<p>i am old.. i will not live through the misery that you will live through watching your children and family live through this. </p>
<p>check out what a dark realestate salesperson is in russia&#8230;   </p>
<p>right now, all the people like you sure that socialism and communism are different (Despite your being the only ones to make that distinction, while the giants and authors of the ideology do not), are about to find out the truth. </p>
<p>it wont matter to me&#8230; </p>
<p>but the reason you dont know me, or where i am.. </p>
<p>is the same reason that i am here to write you. </p>
<p>my family kept their mouths shut. so that when an ass wipe like you  gets caugth in the machine&#8230; they dont tag me as the person to grind up next!!! </p>
<p>lee&#8230; wait lee&#8230;   </p>
<p>i dont really care whether you believe me or not&#8230;</p>
<p>in fact, i dont care what really happens to you, since your actions do not bode well for any one who shares your genes!!  after all, you got suckered, and your on my case because i didnt get suckered with you!</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, yeah,
It&#039;s just like &quot;1984&quot;.  Big Brother&#039;s watching (even though he still lets you expose &quot;the truth&quot;).  I&#039;m losing all my rights ( like taking a knife onto an airplane).  I&#039;m becoming dependent on government handouts ( yet I still have enough money to buy beer and marijuhana after taxes).  He&#039;s been coming for me since the Adams administration.  But I&#039;m the one out of touch with reality, huh?  I&#039;m not the one making analogies between myself and Daniel Craig ( he&#039;s an actor in a movie, not a partisan).  I&#039;m not the one comparing my shortcomings to Einstein ( he was a genius, not a paranoid with delusions of grandeur).
Not to mention, what I say, and what is said about me on an anonymous blog (or what any commentor says, for that matter), should be taken (if at all) with a grain of salt.  But for you, it&#039;s personal, isn&#039;t it?  You really think you&#039;re saving the world, don&#039;t you?
Tin hatters like you are as predictable as the sunrise.  Always the age old cry:  &quot;Why doesn&#039;t anyone believe me?  You&#039;re all just too stupid to see the truth!&quot;  Well, at least I can see through you like a sheet of Saran wrap.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, yeah,<br />
It&#8217;s just like &#8220;1984&#8243;.  Big Brother&#8217;s watching (even though he still lets you expose &#8220;the truth&#8221;).  I&#8217;m losing all my rights ( like taking a knife onto an airplane).  I&#8217;m becoming dependent on government handouts ( yet I still have enough money to buy beer and marijuhana after taxes).  He&#8217;s been coming for me since the Adams administration.  But I&#8217;m the one out of touch with reality, huh?  I&#8217;m not the one making analogies between myself and Daniel Craig ( he&#8217;s an actor in a movie, not a partisan).  I&#8217;m not the one comparing my shortcomings to Einstein ( he was a genius, not a paranoid with delusions of grandeur).<br />
Not to mention, what I say, and what is said about me on an anonymous blog (or what any commentor says, for that matter), should be taken (if at all) with a grain of salt.  But for you, it&#8217;s personal, isn&#8217;t it?  You really think you&#8217;re saving the world, don&#8217;t you?<br />
Tin hatters like you are as predictable as the sunrise.  Always the age old cry:  &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t anyone believe me?  You&#8217;re all just too stupid to see the truth!&#8221;  Well, at least I can see through you like a sheet of Saran wrap.</p>
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		<title>By: Artfldgr</title>
		<link>http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/13/making-predictions-about-the-economy-or-much-of-anything-else/#comment-99953</link>
		<dc:creator>Artfldgr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;For someone who tested in the 99.999 percentile, I would think your spelling and punctuation skills would be better than you demonstrate.&lt;/i&gt;

and if they were perfect then what?   einstein failed math... so whats your point other than to try to disparage me and discredit me because i dont have the time to play spell check for a moron? 

i dont have the time you do lee..   i dont have the time to type 10 pages, and make it a thesis report when the ass hat on the other side is not going to discuss the words, but look at punctuation, spelling etc...  


after all that, to disparage my punctuation makes you out to be what?  

&lt;i&gt;Yep, Art and only Art can predict the future of the world, but he’s not “arrogant” about it, just “honest” about his abilities.&lt;/i&gt;

arrogant?   i am honest..  if i then play humble, you win because i then dont type because i am afraid that an ass hat like you might call me a bad name... 

again... nothing to do with the points you made, and my response... 

lee... i am not a collectivist... your pretending i am illiterate, because i dont spend my time on punctuation but on content!!!  then you pretend i am arrogant, when i am being honest, and to annoy me, you refuse to drop predition. 

a prediction and analysis are not the same thing. 

i give you the basis for my thinking. linking to the data, the historical context... tactical and cui buono... you realize that teh CIA, NSA, tavistock, kgb, DIE, and all thes eother agencies ahve people that do what i do?  are they all tin hatters? 


&lt;i&gt;For someone with more than “three brain cells” like me, one would think you could tell the difference between a falling sky and an acorn dropping off a tree.
But, when the whole world is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking, right?&lt;/i&gt;

and what makes you think that enemies are not out to get you? 

you still have not explained in real world terms WHY what i am saying is not so...   my analysis was dead on... while yours was? 

oh yea... completely and entirely wrong and off planet... but it had great punctuation, and was humbly written so your mommy can put it on the fridge. 

you and other leftists have swalloed the koolaid that says that times have changed. that those things dont happen any more.. etc. 

why not?   

did we genetically eradicate the power hungry and sociopathic? nope... not that i know of.. 

did we learn taht captialism isnt an ism, and that socailism is slavery?  nope.. not that i nkow of. 

in fact, we havent even learned that hitler was a socialist on the left... he was never on the rigth, and the weimar republic was a lot more liberal than hitlers left was. 


lee... 

why dont you read about the asian guy that got into the zoo tank with a panda bear to hug it. 

he is like you!!!!  out of touch with reality... 

if i told him that the cute panda was going to tear his face off... like you, he and you would chime in that i am paranoid.. how can such a cute cuddly thing be so dangerous... 

well, that cute and cuddly thing is a bear (actually related to the racoon family, not bear), and it has teeth claws, and without weapons its higher on the food chain than we are... 

so he got mauled... and they nearly had to kill the bear. 

russia has not changed... is it a free state? 
china has not cahnged... is it a free state? 

of course you dont know the three times that russia previously pretended to loosten up, and the time that mao did it. 

your history is completely incomplete... and you dont know what happened, why, or what.   

Lee, your dreams do not trump experience. 


you havent given a coutner analysis to mine. 
none waht soever. 

all you have done is call me names... misattrubute me to crackpots... complain about the length of posts... insult me as arrogant rather than honest... 

its not a falling sky...  i never said that...
[usually these things arent doom. is russia, germany etc all still here after two world wars? so no, its not falling sky... i never said it was. you did]

and i have said that small acorns grow up into large trees. 

my family served with the forces against the axis... got that?   my famkily was in europe at the time of the wars... i am a refugee child...  some were part of their own army... some were a part of hitlers forces... some were a part of stalins... 

when it was all over, they taught me about the natures of the political systems, and the people and means to ends, and how to get there and what to watch out for when it comes. 

out of a family of more than 500 people... 

there is only 5 of us left now...  
only one is young

are you going to tell me that for them the sky did not fall? 

want to know how the russians took care of my grandfather?   

they cut his belly... pulled out his intestines a little bit... then they nailed that bit to a tree, and forced him to march around it poking him with bayonetts till he unraveled the 30 feet of intestines around the tree... then left him...  

my father, grandmother and a few others were under a pile of garbage watching... my grandfather buried them there to hide them... you know, close the door from the outside so no one looks. 

i have literally hundreds of personal stories that come with photos.   

you think they are myths...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>For someone who tested in the 99.999 percentile, I would think your spelling and punctuation skills would be better than you demonstrate.</i></p>
<p>and if they were perfect then what?   einstein failed math&#8230; so whats your point other than to try to disparage me and discredit me because i dont have the time to play spell check for a moron? </p>
<p>i dont have the time you do lee..   i dont have the time to type 10 pages, and make it a thesis report when the ass hat on the other side is not going to discuss the words, but look at punctuation, spelling etc&#8230;  </p>
<p>after all that, to disparage my punctuation makes you out to be what?  </p>
<p><i>Yep, Art and only Art can predict the future of the world, but he’s not “arrogant” about it, just “honest” about his abilities.</i></p>
<p>arrogant?   i am honest..  if i then play humble, you win because i then dont type because i am afraid that an ass hat like you might call me a bad name&#8230; </p>
<p>again&#8230; nothing to do with the points you made, and my response&#8230; </p>
<p>lee&#8230; i am not a collectivist&#8230; your pretending i am illiterate, because i dont spend my time on punctuation but on content!!!  then you pretend i am arrogant, when i am being honest, and to annoy me, you refuse to drop predition. </p>
<p>a prediction and analysis are not the same thing. </p>
<p>i give you the basis for my thinking. linking to the data, the historical context&#8230; tactical and cui buono&#8230; you realize that teh CIA, NSA, tavistock, kgb, DIE, and all thes eother agencies ahve people that do what i do?  are they all tin hatters? </p>
<p><i>For someone with more than “three brain cells” like me, one would think you could tell the difference between a falling sky and an acorn dropping off a tree.<br />
But, when the whole world is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking, right?</i></p>
<p>and what makes you think that enemies are not out to get you? </p>
<p>you still have not explained in real world terms WHY what i am saying is not so&#8230;   my analysis was dead on&#8230; while yours was? </p>
<p>oh yea&#8230; completely and entirely wrong and off planet&#8230; but it had great punctuation, and was humbly written so your mommy can put it on the fridge. </p>
<p>you and other leftists have swalloed the koolaid that says that times have changed. that those things dont happen any more.. etc. </p>
<p>why not?   </p>
<p>did we genetically eradicate the power hungry and sociopathic? nope&#8230; not that i know of.. </p>
<p>did we learn taht captialism isnt an ism, and that socailism is slavery?  nope.. not that i nkow of. </p>
<p>in fact, we havent even learned that hitler was a socialist on the left&#8230; he was never on the rigth, and the weimar republic was a lot more liberal than hitlers left was. </p>
<p>lee&#8230; </p>
<p>why dont you read about the asian guy that got into the zoo tank with a panda bear to hug it. </p>
<p>he is like you!!!!  out of touch with reality&#8230; </p>
<p>if i told him that the cute panda was going to tear his face off&#8230; like you, he and you would chime in that i am paranoid.. how can such a cute cuddly thing be so dangerous&#8230; </p>
<p>well, that cute and cuddly thing is a bear (actually related to the racoon family, not bear), and it has teeth claws, and without weapons its higher on the food chain than we are&#8230; </p>
<p>so he got mauled&#8230; and they nearly had to kill the bear. </p>
<p>russia has not changed&#8230; is it a free state?<br />
china has not cahnged&#8230; is it a free state? </p>
<p>of course you dont know the three times that russia previously pretended to loosten up, and the time that mao did it. </p>
<p>your history is completely incomplete&#8230; and you dont know what happened, why, or what.   </p>
<p>Lee, your dreams do not trump experience. </p>
<p>you havent given a coutner analysis to mine.<br />
none waht soever. </p>
<p>all you have done is call me names&#8230; misattrubute me to crackpots&#8230; complain about the length of posts&#8230; insult me as arrogant rather than honest&#8230; </p>
<p>its not a falling sky&#8230;  i never said that&#8230;<br />
[usually these things arent doom. is russia, germany etc all still here after two world wars? so no, its not falling sky... i never said it was. you did]</p>
<p>and i have said that small acorns grow up into large trees. </p>
<p>my family served with the forces against the axis&#8230; got that?   my famkily was in europe at the time of the wars&#8230; i am a refugee child&#8230;  some were part of their own army&#8230; some were a part of hitlers forces&#8230; some were a part of stalins&#8230; </p>
<p>when it was all over, they taught me about the natures of the political systems, and the people and means to ends, and how to get there and what to watch out for when it comes. </p>
<p>out of a family of more than 500 people&#8230; </p>
<p>there is only 5 of us left now&#8230;<br />
only one is young</p>
<p>are you going to tell me that for them the sky did not fall? </p>
<p>want to know how the russians took care of my grandfather?   </p>
<p>they cut his belly&#8230; pulled out his intestines a little bit&#8230; then they nailed that bit to a tree, and forced him to march around it poking him with bayonetts till he unraveled the 30 feet of intestines around the tree&#8230; then left him&#8230;  </p>
<p>my father, grandmother and a few others were under a pile of garbage watching&#8230; my grandfather buried them there to hide them&#8230; you know, close the door from the outside so no one looks. </p>
<p>i have literally hundreds of personal stories that come with photos.   </p>
<p>you think they are myths&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Artfidgr,
For someone who tested in the 99.999 percentile, I would think your spelling and punctuation skills would be better than you demonstrate.  I make typing mistakes, too, but c&#039;mon, dude!  Just a little cursory proofreading before you submit?
Yep, Art and only Art can predict the future of the world, but he&#039;s not &quot;arrogant&quot; about it, just &quot;honest&quot; about his abilities.
For someone with more than &quot;three brain cells&quot; like me, one would think you could tell the difference between a falling sky and an acorn dropping off a tree.
But, when the whole world is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking, right?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artfidgr,<br />
For someone who tested in the 99.999 percentile, I would think your spelling and punctuation skills would be better than you demonstrate.  I make typing mistakes, too, but c&#8217;mon, dude!  Just a little cursory proofreading before you submit?<br />
Yep, Art and only Art can predict the future of the world, but he&#8217;s not &#8220;arrogant&#8221; about it, just &#8220;honest&#8221; about his abilities.<br />
For someone with more than &#8220;three brain cells&#8221; like me, one would think you could tell the difference between a falling sky and an acorn dropping off a tree.<br />
But, when the whole world is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking, right?</p>
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		<title>By: Artfldgr</title>
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		<dc:creator>Artfldgr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;American Free Press, Infowars, Ziopedia, The Grassy Knoll?
&lt;/i&gt;

i am not familiar with those at all.. 

if you look at my links... they tend to be the times, wsj... pravda, ria novosti, uk times...  library of congress, the armies government website, asia times...  i have read das capital, and the koran, and tons of books on various subjects, and through my work i have access to the library collections of studies papers and such... (so lunch hours and evnings at home i tie in and read while my wife sleeps). 

all those things your attributing i never claimed nor said...    

lee... 
sometimes bad times do come... 
sometimes they come for simple plain reasons that no one wants to understand. 

one thing i have noticed is that the self esteem movement coupled with crap education makes people who think their crap education not only stands up to the past education, but vastly exceeds it! however they are hypersensitive, and so no one can tell them something they dont know. 

you can see the difference of the conversation, and it turns into a knotty battle because they want their opinions and feelings to be as valid as facts, and principals, and their knowlege is intimately tied to their feelings

so no one can tell them anything. 

if my predictions are dark, its because there is a lot of dark things arrayed around us. 

your view may be much brighter, because you dont know about yamentau, or the new missiles, or the new nuclear sub silos china has with 20 brand new nuclear subs...  or their papers, or the history. 

in other words. all those missing things are what makes your world brighter than it is. 

between self esteem and reletivism stunting them permanently on a pergatoried existence (where they want to know need to know, but can never know unless its along the lines of their keepers messages they grew up with), they also are unaware of the facts and conditions that would tell them that the choices they are making and the things they think are grand are really bad ideas. 

the people who were yelling fascist are now yelling and calling for a new kristalnact... yet the best they can do is project that the jews are nazis!! the more they are the left becomes what they have always been, the harder they project that to the other side. 

lee... you want me to be nicer and lighter... not because you want to know the facts, but because my facts are dark, beg caution, and say life is not a party... and how can you keep enjoying your party if someone is telling you its going to end. heck its not going to end to tomorrow, so why ruin tonight?   (yet they are also trained masochists which is why they have to participate in things that they dont like). 

not all my predictions are dark... but i am not really making predictions. i do no crow when i get it right, and i do not grouse when i get it wrong. 

and if you read me... i tell you how i get to my analysis... its not mystical... its not from those sites you talk about...    

lee, what if you were living in poland and this was august 1st? 

you would be telling me that this is crazy... i would  have left town... and on september 1st... with no warning... no declaration of war... (and actually more than a month before with troops in civilian clothes whe were causing distracting things for the news). 1.5 million troops come over the border.

within an hour of hearing the news, your city of krakow is being pounded by phosphorus and other incindiary bombs. German planes were coming over in squadrons of 50, every half-hour...

you flee to the other side of the country... and on the 17th.. the soviets come in from there. 

i on the other hand had already left. 

well, a similar story is what my fathers family went through. those that stayed... well, you dont believe what happened to them...those that left did ok... not great, but a heck of a lot better than everyone else ended up. 


i am not saying that there is going to be the next world war in the next few months. i have no way to make that conclusion

however, your a freaking idiot if you dont think that these things have to be in the analysis and equation. because one day, it may actually end up being that. 

my analysis has been really good because i figured out the game.. thats all... (its not any different than the game in the past!!! so its not so hard). 

i turned off the bable box, took out a map, and figured out cui buono. 

and your soooo dumb (like the young idiots at work who sit for days plinking away at a problem, then argue to my solution...then get smart, send it to me, and i send it back in 3 mins with the solution i told them!!!  you would think they might get smarter after 4 or 5 times). 

i am telling you how to figure it out... rather than try it yourself... your defending what? 

whats your basis for saying i am wrong? a rampant assumption that i am a tin hatter so just ignore it? how is that a valid way to make a choice when you havent even got a method to tell a tin hatter other than its bad news, and talks of spies. 

like bad news cant happen if its real bad, and that spies dont exist (even if they caught one last week, and the guys that slammed the towers were the same kind of thing). 

well... bad news and bad times do happen... and they are more often than not made worse by the state. you should see the woppers coming down the pike. england just restricted a bunch of chemicals that in the past kept things like the potatoe famine away... we have linked food to feul.. and we suckered starving people into growing it, and then didnt buy it from them since our own farmers did it too... so next year, they will all be starving in these african countries. 

its in the news lee... you just have to have three brain cells to see what will happen, and then not be turned by their bull shit, or their rewording it to something nicer. 

yes, you can sell more steak if you describe it as a juicy slab of choice fillet with potatoes, and gravy... 

you can also say slice of burnt dead cow, with hot tubers and pan drippings mixed with crushed grains. 

both are equivalent though.. and thats what the young and crippled (name of my daily soap opera), cant see that... 

which is why they can be sold communism by picking the right term. progressive, liberal, neo liberal, socialist, and tons more. 

you see. in truth, communism is a slice of rotten meat... but they tell you its incredible, wonderful, and such... 

the difference is that these are lies, and you cant tell the difference any more between the equivalent truths, and the spinned lie.

with reletivism, you cant discern the difference. just as you cant discern between tin hatter and an open analysis guess... (and the analyzer admitting that its a guess and that its following a hypothesis. and always cautioning that there is no real way to KNOW)
  
this is why most of your life is in a kind of slavery.. and at least i had a childhood that compared to today is quite idylicc. 

i self educated... no one skewed reality for me so bad that i have to protect it from others telling me facts. (like you)

good luck lee...  i do wish you the best. 

just remember, that betting on the same horse without consideration that another may actually win, will leave you broke and in the wrong place when the crap hits the fan. 

sometimes bad does happen
and sometimes people know things you dont
and somtimes they can figure better than you...

yes there are people that can do this better than me.. there is always someone better than me... but i admit it. (and your not it)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>American Free Press, Infowars, Ziopedia, The Grassy Knoll?<br />
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<p>i am not familiar with those at all.. </p>
<p>if you look at my links&#8230; they tend to be the times, wsj&#8230; pravda, ria novosti, uk times&#8230;  library of congress, the armies government website, asia times&#8230;  i have read das capital, and the koran, and tons of books on various subjects, and through my work i have access to the library collections of studies papers and such&#8230; (so lunch hours and evnings at home i tie in and read while my wife sleeps). </p>
<p>all those things your attributing i never claimed nor said&#8230;    </p>
<p>lee&#8230;<br />
sometimes bad times do come&#8230;<br />
sometimes they come for simple plain reasons that no one wants to understand. </p>
<p>one thing i have noticed is that the self esteem movement coupled with crap education makes people who think their crap education not only stands up to the past education, but vastly exceeds it! however they are hypersensitive, and so no one can tell them something they dont know. </p>
<p>you can see the difference of the conversation, and it turns into a knotty battle because they want their opinions and feelings to be as valid as facts, and principals, and their knowlege is intimately tied to their feelings</p>
<p>so no one can tell them anything. </p>
<p>if my predictions are dark, its because there is a lot of dark things arrayed around us. </p>
<p>your view may be much brighter, because you dont know about yamentau, or the new missiles, or the new nuclear sub silos china has with 20 brand new nuclear subs&#8230;  or their papers, or the history. </p>
<p>in other words. all those missing things are what makes your world brighter than it is. </p>
<p>between self esteem and reletivism stunting them permanently on a pergatoried existence (where they want to know need to know, but can never know unless its along the lines of their keepers messages they grew up with), they also are unaware of the facts and conditions that would tell them that the choices they are making and the things they think are grand are really bad ideas. </p>
<p>the people who were yelling fascist are now yelling and calling for a new kristalnact&#8230; yet the best they can do is project that the jews are nazis!! the more they are the left becomes what they have always been, the harder they project that to the other side. </p>
<p>lee&#8230; you want me to be nicer and lighter&#8230; not because you want to know the facts, but because my facts are dark, beg caution, and say life is not a party&#8230; and how can you keep enjoying your party if someone is telling you its going to end. heck its not going to end to tomorrow, so why ruin tonight?   (yet they are also trained masochists which is why they have to participate in things that they dont like). </p>
<p>not all my predictions are dark&#8230; but i am not really making predictions. i do no crow when i get it right, and i do not grouse when i get it wrong. </p>
<p>and if you read me&#8230; i tell you how i get to my analysis&#8230; its not mystical&#8230; its not from those sites you talk about&#8230;    </p>
<p>lee, what if you were living in poland and this was august 1st? </p>
<p>you would be telling me that this is crazy&#8230; i would  have left town&#8230; and on september 1st&#8230; with no warning&#8230; no declaration of war&#8230; (and actually more than a month before with troops in civilian clothes whe were causing distracting things for the news). 1.5 million troops come over the border.</p>
<p>within an hour of hearing the news, your city of krakow is being pounded by phosphorus and other incindiary bombs. German planes were coming over in squadrons of 50, every half-hour&#8230;</p>
<p>you flee to the other side of the country&#8230; and on the 17th.. the soviets come in from there. </p>
<p>i on the other hand had already left. </p>
<p>well, a similar story is what my fathers family went through. those that stayed&#8230; well, you dont believe what happened to them&#8230;those that left did ok&#8230; not great, but a heck of a lot better than everyone else ended up. </p>
<p>i am not saying that there is going to be the next world war in the next few months. i have no way to make that conclusion</p>
<p>however, your a freaking idiot if you dont think that these things have to be in the analysis and equation. because one day, it may actually end up being that. </p>
<p>my analysis has been really good because i figured out the game.. thats all&#8230; (its not any different than the game in the past!!! so its not so hard). </p>
<p>i turned off the bable box, took out a map, and figured out cui buono. </p>
<p>and your soooo dumb (like the young idiots at work who sit for days plinking away at a problem, then argue to my solution&#8230;then get smart, send it to me, and i send it back in 3 mins with the solution i told them!!!  you would think they might get smarter after 4 or 5 times). </p>
<p>i am telling you how to figure it out&#8230; rather than try it yourself&#8230; your defending what? </p>
<p>whats your basis for saying i am wrong? a rampant assumption that i am a tin hatter so just ignore it? how is that a valid way to make a choice when you havent even got a method to tell a tin hatter other than its bad news, and talks of spies. </p>
<p>like bad news cant happen if its real bad, and that spies dont exist (even if they caught one last week, and the guys that slammed the towers were the same kind of thing). </p>
<p>well&#8230; bad news and bad times do happen&#8230; and they are more often than not made worse by the state. you should see the woppers coming down the pike. england just restricted a bunch of chemicals that in the past kept things like the potatoe famine away&#8230; we have linked food to feul.. and we suckered starving people into growing it, and then didnt buy it from them since our own farmers did it too&#8230; so next year, they will all be starving in these african countries. </p>
<p>its in the news lee&#8230; you just have to have three brain cells to see what will happen, and then not be turned by their bull shit, or their rewording it to something nicer. </p>
<p>yes, you can sell more steak if you describe it as a juicy slab of choice fillet with potatoes, and gravy&#8230; </p>
<p>you can also say slice of burnt dead cow, with hot tubers and pan drippings mixed with crushed grains. </p>
<p>both are equivalent though.. and thats what the young and crippled (name of my daily soap opera), cant see that&#8230; </p>
<p>which is why they can be sold communism by picking the right term. progressive, liberal, neo liberal, socialist, and tons more. </p>
<p>you see. in truth, communism is a slice of rotten meat&#8230; but they tell you its incredible, wonderful, and such&#8230; </p>
<p>the difference is that these are lies, and you cant tell the difference any more between the equivalent truths, and the spinned lie.</p>
<p>with reletivism, you cant discern the difference. just as you cant discern between tin hatter and an open analysis guess&#8230; (and the analyzer admitting that its a guess and that its following a hypothesis. and always cautioning that there is no real way to KNOW)</p>
<p>this is why most of your life is in a kind of slavery.. and at least i had a childhood that compared to today is quite idylicc. </p>
<p>i self educated&#8230; no one skewed reality for me so bad that i have to protect it from others telling me facts. (like you)</p>
<p>good luck lee&#8230;  i do wish you the best. </p>
<p>just remember, that betting on the same horse without consideration that another may actually win, will leave you broke and in the wrong place when the crap hits the fan. </p>
<p>sometimes bad does happen<br />
and sometimes people know things you dont<br />
and somtimes they can figure better than you&#8230;</p>
<p>yes there are people that can do this better than me.. there is always someone better than me&#8230; but i admit it. (and your not it)</p>
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		<title>By: Oblio</title>
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		<dc:creator>Oblio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Give it a rest, Lee.</description>
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		<dc:creator>FredHjr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JimmyJ says:

&quot;Sure, Russia has economic ties with Iran.&quot;

It&#039;s more than economic ties, sir.  When you are providing some of your more advanced technology to the Mullahs - of the kind that can create monumental headaches for the nations that ultimately have to do SOMETHING about what Iran intends to do.

Or do you think the Mullahs are just bluffing when they say that there are certain things they are going to do?</description>
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<p>&#8220;Sure, Russia has economic ties with Iran.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s more than economic ties, sir.  When you are providing some of your more advanced technology to the Mullahs &#8211; of the kind that can create monumental headaches for the nations that ultimately have to do SOMETHING about what Iran intends to do.</p>
<p>Or do you think the Mullahs are just bluffing when they say that there are certain things they are going to do?</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hiding in your Unabomber shack in the woods.</description>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Artfidgr,
Well, for an independent analyst, why can I read anything you say on sites like American Free Press, Infowars, Ziopedia, The Grassy Knoll?
Sure, you take pieces of historical fact, then read the worst possible case scenarios as to future outcomes, always blaming nefarious elites, whose interests are to make me and the world their subjects.
Sure, there are problems south of the border, and the fact we have contingency plans doesn&#039;t mean they&#039;re inevitable, as you try to imply.
Sure, Russia has economic ties with Iran.  But Russia could be benefiting from Middle East tensions of their making now.  What are they waiting for?
As stated before, there is nothing I learn from you that I haven&#039;t already heard from truthers, tin hatters, and neo-nazi wannabies.  You may not mention certain groups I bring up, but I mention them for others to compare and contrast against your tripe.
Next year this time, you&#039;ll still be telling me the sky is falling.  See you in the court of public opinion then.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Artfidgr,<br />
Well, for an independent analyst, why can I read anything you say on sites like American Free Press, Infowars, Ziopedia, The Grassy Knoll?<br />
Sure, you take pieces of historical fact, then read the worst possible case scenarios as to future outcomes, always blaming nefarious elites, whose interests are to make me and the world their subjects.<br />
Sure, there are problems south of the border, and the fact we have contingency plans doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re inevitable, as you try to imply.<br />
Sure, Russia has economic ties with Iran.  But Russia could be benefiting from Middle East tensions of their making now.  What are they waiting for?<br />
As stated before, there is nothing I learn from you that I haven&#8217;t already heard from truthers, tin hatters, and neo-nazi wannabies.  You may not mention certain groups I bring up, but I mention them for others to compare and contrast against your tripe.<br />
Next year this time, you&#8217;ll still be telling me the sky is falling.  See you in the court of public opinion then.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Artfldgr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>U.S. military report warns &#039;sudden collapse&#039; of Mexico is possible
www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354


exerpt from report:
&lt;i&gt;The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and press by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U.S. military report warns &#8216;sudden collapse&#8217; of Mexico is possible<br />
<a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354" rel="nofollow">http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354</a></p>
<p>exerpt from report:<br />
<i>The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and press by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone.</i></p>
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