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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com> <br><b>/</b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <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'><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'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=m7035577723793464510gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>></span></b></span><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>></span></b></span><span class=m7035577723793464510gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>however I'm equally certain that our Dear Leader is far too stupid to realize that….</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=m7035577723793464510gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>></span></i></span><span class=m7035577723793464510gmaildefault><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>And STILL it doesn’t occur to you that he is playing chess while you play checkers.</span></i></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…Spike, a</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>re you actually trying to tell me <span class=gmaildefault>that </span>you are impressed by the deep intellect of <span class=gmaildefault>King Donald</span>?!<span class=gmaildefault> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>No John, I am astonished at you. You are failing to recognize an obvious cover story, complete with a nudge-wink. What would he need to say? That he wanted bigger main mast with big beautiful billowing mainsails? Sheesh. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The battleship story is to fund whatever it is they are really doing. We don’t know what that is, and they like it that way. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…I know what that funding had better be doing or somebody is going to end up in jail for embezzlement<span class=gmaildefault> and perjury</span>,<span class=gmaildefault> or at least they would if the president hadn't turned our justice department into a joke….<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>The funds which have a cover story are more carefully tracked than any you will find in government. This is why you have never heard of anyone prosecuted for fiscal camouflage.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…<span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>This isn't a James Bond movie, a</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> security clearance doesn't give someone a license to kill</span></b><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>,</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> or a license to commit perjury<span class=gmaildefault> and embezzlement….<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Stand by, let us observe the outcome, shall we?</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>After that incredible example of presidential stupidity I would now say the chance of our Idiot In Chief successfully achieving a third term drops to 15%. ….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I see, so does that mean you are not willing to make the bet?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>>…If we lived in a rational world I'd say the chances were 0%, but the existence of MAGA zombies proves that we do not….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>These MAGA zombies, much like their voodoo counterparts, are in your mind.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>>...</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>And this dumb shit is the guy you think is playing chess at a superior level!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>And yet, it is you who fails to recognize a cover story, one that has obvious tells. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…<b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Oh yeah, I'm sure Mr. Jupiter <span class=gmaildefault>B</span>rain<span class=gmaildefault> will be stunned by the awesome power of that scrap of paper, cosmological power not displayed since the first seconds of the Big Bang. </span></span></b> <span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>John K Clark</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>It’s a really great scrap of paper. It forms the basis for US government and prevents the kinds of horrors you worry about far too much.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>