Here's some more REALLY "Good News"

Now, after all the "Fun Stuff" I've put up today -- we go to "Some Assembly Required" for more hilarity. Please follow link to original --- if you can bear even MORE "GOOD NEWS"!
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Short Form: The eurozone is closer to complete disintegration with each passing day, as one or more debt 'restructurings' draws closer. It will be dominoes on an impressive scale as banks, governments, and nations tumble. Either the eurozone will unravel and trade and transit barriers will quickly arise or some as-yet unidentified miracle occurs. One or the other.

Adding It Up: The American middle class has become irrelevant. If you don’t make $200,000 a year, you don’t matter. Or so the advertising wizards say.

Where's the Beef Recovery? The world is united in reporting bad economic news. China is cooling as the government fights inflation. Europe is a mess and not getting better. In the US the GDP growth at 1.8% is below expectations, the housing market is still falling, unemployment is stuck at 9%, and consumers are not consuming – but paying more for food and fuel.

S-C Redux: In real terms, US housing prices are back to pre-2000 levels. A decade with no appreciation. Sometimes a house is just a home.

Diet Plan: Republicans say that feeding the hungry costs too much and endangers the tax cuts for the rich, thus the program must be cut

Question: What would be the US national debt if we did not (a) have the Bush tax cuts? (b) have the economic crash due to the GOP's campaign of deregulation and their adulation of the market economy? Or (c) the Bush wars? TARP and the stimulus are insignificant next to these.
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All the news out there, and the posturing of our "Masters Of The Universe", the entire Republican Party -- along with some Democrats, and most "Neo-Libs" -- truly is the "Theater of the Absurd".

The inability of our Beltway types to truly understand what is happening out here in the rest of the country, along with the lies being spread by all the right-wing "pundits" is just insuring we will go down the tubes. As we appraoch true third world status, as our infrastructure disintegrates, ansd even the almost rich begin to feel a serious pinch, I wonder what direction our country will take.

As the right wing keeps on ginning up the anger, rage, resentment, do you think they realize they might just lose control of the pseudo-"movements" they have spawned -- leading to REAL movements and the possibility of insurrection?

Isn't this how the Civil War started? South Carolina had been talking about secession for years -- they were never taken seriously, until they were -- and over 600,000 died in the resulting war.

Here's a chart from Wikipedia:

Wars ranked by total deaths
Rank↓ War↓ Years↓ Deaths↓ Deaths per Day↓ Deaths per Population↓
1 American Civil War 1861–1865 625,000 599 1.988% (1860)
2 World War II 1941–1945 405,399 416 0.307% (1940)
3 World War I 1917–1918 116,516 279 0.110% (1920)
4 Vietnam War 1955–1975 58,151 26 0.03% (1970)
5 Korean War 1950–1953 36,516 45 0.02% (1950)
6 American Revolutionary War 1775–1783 25,000 11 0.899% (1780)
7 War of 1812 1812–1815 20,000 31 0.345% (1810)
8 Mexican–American War 1846–1848 13,283 29 0.057% (1850)
9 War on Terror 2001–present 5,491 2 0.002% (2010)
10 Philippine–American War 1899–1913 4,196 1 0.006% (1900)
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1.988% of the total population -- or about 6,192,600 people DEAD -- that's what this lying scum is fooling around with.

With all the guns in private hands, with the high level of polarization -- that might be a very low number. Remember, the 625,000 figure is just MILITARY casualities.