and the Great Unwashed is willfully ignorant of.....geophysical limits. Ms Bigmack

to be able to read some GOOD NEWS with Sunday AM coffee! Thanks for this post. Ms Bigmack

kind of dangerous, what with me being one of those unstable, Marine, Viet vet types.

I gently pointed out that we sent a total of 3 million soldiers and Marines there over the years, sometimes 500,000 were in the country at the same time. We had control of the air, helicopters, tanks, unlimited supplies, all the ammo we could use, and modern technology. We outnumbered North Vietnam more than 100 to 1. They lost 1 million soldiers and 2 million civilians. South Vietnam lost about 200,000 soldiers and 1 million civilians. We lost 58,000 dead and another 150,000 wounded.

I asked him if he wanted a wider war than that? What victory did you want?

Then I asked him if he had been in the service. Yup. Navy supply clerk. I was getting a little wound up at this point and called him a fucking pogue and left the area.

He probably fought in his own way..... never retreated, but he probably backspaced a few times.

that nothing will make me satisfied unless some of them are in jail. Fraud is fraud, goddamit!

Jail, or they could be like some Japanese execs and take the "honorable" way out. The up-and-down cut as well as the side-to-side.

Bastards may have killed this country.

NO! This CAN'T be happening HERE!!!! This is where I live. Global climate change, and all the wretchedness accompanying it, is happening where THEY live. Aaaaaggggg. It's over. Ms Bigmack

in the concluding paragraph to this NYT's piece that I'm missing? With two unemployed, and one underemployed kids(s), today's (quaintly described) "predicament" seems pretty damned serious to this chile - Ms Bigmack

"However severe, our current predicament seems mild compared to the calamitous unemployment of the early 1930s. Hence, average Americans, mystified by the complexities of finance today, still await a new season of financial reform."

I always play the race card on any of this stuff.

People in certain areas (that will go unnamed) would vote to have their state opt-out simply because they can't stand the idea of their "hard earned tax dollars" (puke!) going to provide health care to brown/black people. They'll vote against their own self-interest to make sure "those people" don't get care.

If you have a homogenious and cohesive group, rational national boundaries, and a relatively modern society, a modern, western country like the US can "build" a nation. We "rebuilt" Japan and Germany after WWII, for example.

Afghanistan has none of those things.

Attempting to nation-build in Afghanistan is a clusterfuck.... complete with goat option.

James Howard Kunstler ranks REAL close to one! Ms Bigmack

I'm NOT surprised, but I AM appalled. Ms Bigmack

if there war any "justice" in this strange world, that would/should read "....WE have brewing." Ms Bigmack

the freshwater, Greenland ice mean a significant shift southward for the thermohaline current? But then I live on the west coast, so no problemo. Ms Bigmack

And MANY thanks for posting this - Ms Bigmack

Well....there's the new grandchild that we adore.....and now a tangible connection to this dubious future..... Scary. We'd do almost ANYTHING to protect her future. Alas, why do we feel SO alone..... Ms Bigmack

as in CORRECT! Roubini's sure my choice......tho they usually don't consult with those of us out here in the Great Unwashed...... Ms Bigmack