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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'>Note, most of this is US-centric political stuff. Unless you have a special interest in that, do move along, nothing to see here. Or skip down to that last part, with which you might have some fun. 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><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>the government, now we hear the NSA is spying on Angela Merkel. Clearly this bunch is corrupt to the bone. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I see NOTHING wrong with the NSA spying on Angela Merkel. The only thing they did wrong was allowing themselves to get caught<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ja, I do see something wrong with the NSA spying on me however. If I were Merkel, I suppose I would feel likewise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A problem I have had with the current bunch is they don’t seem to know the difference between our friends and our enemies. They alienate exactly the kinds who we should be working hard to strengthen alliances, the Brits, the French, the commies, the Italians, DEFINITELY the krauts, all our natural allies as the world realigns after retiring the old capitalism/communism divide, these having merged into one nearly indistinguishable mass. The government should somehow farm out the task of surveillance to private companies and industries, for none of the above list are likely to be military adversaries. But our companies will compete against each other, and it looks like China will be home to the most of the strongest of those companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We see the current bunch are saying the Tea Party patriots are terrorists and coming very close to identifying them as national enemies. OK then what happens if they get a bunch of seats in congress next fall, more than they already have? Good luck in getting them to deal, after that treatment. So now Americans with libertarian political leanings are terrorists, while a guy who jumps on a desk and starts murdering fellow officers while shouting “Joseph Smith Ahkbar” is a perpetrator of workplace violence? They can’t bring themselves to declare that guy a terrorist, but a few politicians are terrorists, with bombs strapped to their chests and guns to our heads? Indeed?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So what if the IRS does manage to destroy the Tea Party? Who is next? Republicans? OK, once they are gone, who is next? You? There is no one to speak up in your defense, for they have already been disposed. It sure looks to me like we are about 2/3 down Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I thought of something else. All this time and oxygen spent on Obamacare guarantees that we aren't doing anything to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicai<span style='color:#1F497D'>d. </span>Since those are the REAL problem areas in the federal budget, Obamacare is like the magician making us look away from where the real action is. I can't believe I didn't see the trick before now! Even talk radio is ignoring that stuff for the moment.<span style='color:#1F497D'> –</span>Kelly<span style='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'>I have heard a closely related theory, is that this O-care is a sacrificial lamb, an intentional failure intended to distract us from immigration reform or a path to single payer. The reason I don’t find the theory compelling is that health care reform is the cornerstone of liberal thought, a huge expansion of government power, and something liberals have really wanted for a really long time. To fail this badly would need to call into question the whole notion of big government being trusted with anything, never mind our entire healthcare system, along with our medical records. I can’t imagine Obama and his people wanting to decrease the power of central government.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>I can imagine a younger generation coming up which is scarcely recognizable as a younger generation. They may wake up and see that the government came up with all these healthcare reforms and then sent them the bill. Then it will be the sixties all over again with many of the roles reversed in a sense. Instead of burning draft cards, that generation might burn their W2 forms. Then we have a whole new set of headaches.<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'>></span> I'll opt out unless I have an employer providing insurance by then… Kelly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Me too. I</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>n any </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>election the guy with the simplest shortest bumper sticker gets a big advantage. This was known even before there were bumpers, back in 1840 with Tippecanoe and Tyler too, which could be even further shortened to Tip and Ty. Later, it was: I Like Ike.<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'>In the coming election I can imagine the bumper stickers:<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 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Obama Lied, HealthCare Died<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 style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hillary Failed to Answer the 3am Call<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>HealthCare.gov is why the Republicans Just Said No<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><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'>My favorite I have thought of so far:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tune In, Turn On, Opt Out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>I can imagine a counterpart to that, perhaps a T-shirt worn by drunken cheerleaders at a frat party, emblazoned with the words:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> OPT IN! or no pussy for YOU!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Or a related meme, also appropriate on a young attractive female body:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> Opt in, shell out or fuck off.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Or<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> You no opt in, I no put out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>{8^D Kelly we could make a ton of money selling those shirts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Inviting creative minds in ExI-chat for T-shirt or bumper sticker suggestions, with no particular political view preferred. I am far more interested in making money than spreading any particular meme.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#376092;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>