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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body 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><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 12, 2013 7:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] eput this crazy system out of our misery: was RE: Euthanasia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>> They are not going to default John.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>They are unless House Republicans learn to become potty trained in the next 6 days or so<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>John k Clark <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Johnny, be of good cheer me lad. They aren’t going to shut down the government. It is all political posturing. Here’s why I think so. Both sides, and particularly the Tea Party, have the option of the Obi Wan Kenobi defense. Prediction: they will take it right up to about midnight on the 16<sup>th</sup>, then pass a clean continuing resolution with no strings attached, which is what the president and the senate are demanding. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The message the Tea Party gets to send is: OK, you guys have two seats of power, or possibly 2.5 seats, and you demonstrated you are willing to shut down the government to keep this turd sandwich of a law called ObamaCare. OK, we aren’t willing to shut down the government to stop it, but you are. So this is all yours, all of it, enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John, if O-care fails, don’t you think someone should be held accountable? If it succeeds, shouldn’t someone be rewarded? Doesn’t that seem fair?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Tea Party has seen the disastrous roll-out of the O-care site. They have gone on HealthCare.gov and they have seen what happens. (Go ahead, do it.) The Tea Party believes this whole scheme will fail catastrophically and will cause a lot of damage on its way down. So they are currently making sure they go on record and getting plenty of attention as the party opposed to it. Why shouldn’t they, if they are expressing their beliefs? Any why shouldn’t their opposition stand up for their beliefs as well? They should in both cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That is all it is, really. A deal will be made on the 16<sup>th</sup>. The stock market agrees. If you dislike the Tea Party and you think O-care will succeed, then be of good cheer, for when O-care works out, those ugly Tea Party guys will go away and will lose big in November 14. If O-care fails of course, then we can be sure the Tea Party will remind us early and often what happened in these three weeks in October. If that happens, they will surely do quite well in the November 2014 elections. If you believe O-care will work, be of good cheer, for you have nothing to worry about and the future is bright.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I know what is actually going on here, and I am not worried.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Are you worried? Why?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>