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Continuing hard on the heels of mandatory psychological testing for students, we have this.

That would be the prediction of economic Armageddon for the US as a result of Bush's fiscal policies. I fully expect that within the next four years, we'll end up rioting in the streets, and I further fully expect that we, as a nation, however fucked up and broken, will not survive this presidency.

I miss Reagan, I really do.

Link courtesy of theferrett.

Maybe this isn't the best time to be considering digging out my old essay on the effects of money on a gift/barter economy and posting it here. Or perhaps it is.

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Slightly better news on the legal front.

I found out today that the cousin of one of my nieces got killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb went off. Is it just me or is it time to bring back the WWI-WWII custom of hanging a flag in the front window of the house, with stars to indicate the number in your family serving and the number dead?

My mother said, when I suggested that, that they didn't seem to be encouraging that any more. We both said "I wonder why..."

Also, I'm curious to find out when the US got turned into a banana republic? I mean, this whole administration is coffer-robbing on a level that we haven't seen before, but of the sort readily available in said banana republics.

I had to triple check to make sure I hadn't written coffin-robbing there. Apt as that might be.