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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spike<br><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anders it was a great relief to see your post midnight (PST) comments, for it indicated the world had not come to an end. The Keynsians were assuring us that if sequestration were not averted, the apocalypse would be upon us</span><span style='color:#1F497D'>… spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>OK, so this is what anarchy feels like. Oh, the humanity, he wept. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As a result of a 48 billion dollar cut in this fiscal year’s reckless government spending (out of an approximately 3.8 trillion dollar outlay) we are assured that THE END is upon us. Representative Maxine Waters warned that it would result in the loss of 170 million jobs. I will confess that the words million, billion and trillion do rhyme, however the American people have collectively called bullshit on their own government. I collected a few of my favorite quotes from the usual suspects:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"A few hours of fitful sleep, the sound of sirens and screams of the victims of the Barackalypse rending the night air . . . I saw their fires in the dark, savagery swiftly tearing away the thin veneer of civilization only government diversity programs provided." Rick Wilson</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"The #sequester may now join the Mayan Calendar and the Y2K bug in the "[Stuff] Everyone Survived" Hall of Fame." Brandon Morse<o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"OH MY GOD THERE ARE GOVERNMENT WORKERS SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTING ALL OVER THE PLACE, THIS IS HORRIBLE, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP" He added, "BREAKING: CALIFORNIA DECLARES WAR ON OREGON; KENTUCKY LAUNCHES SNEAK ATTACK ON TENNESSEE. MASS CHAOS." Brendan Loy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Just looked out the window. Five hedge fund guys fighting over a piece of raw meat." John Podhoretz<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"It wasn't until I ate my neighbor's pancreas that I realized president Obama was right about the sequester." Jonah<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Nothing to worry about! I grabbed my double barrel shotgun & blasted #sequester through the door, just like the VP said." Sebastian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"I don't think my neighbors are taking sequestration seriously. They're giving me weird looks and making fun of my war paint and loincloth." Becket Adams<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>