i just read an article in scientific american that the coast of the carolinas is experiencing the fastest sea level rise in the world. at the same time the state senate passed a bill banning any state agency from talking about sea level rise or climate change.

i think that sums up the present atate of delusion in the united states. knut is commanding the seas withdraw.

everyone should read the book by chris hedges:empire of illusion"

people really believe fairy tales down there, and their great society is sefl destructing because of it.

they believe if you regulate the financial industry you will kill ythe economy, after the financial industry had just destroyed the economy with unregulated shennigans. they believe you can run deficits forever, and that the rich should never pay taxes. they believe in angels.

i am commming to doubt it is ever going to turn around. it can take fifty years for the whole system to collapse from within. witness the end of the soviet system and the fall of the west roman empire, and we seem to be in that last fifty years.

really guys, you can't stop the ocean by legislation and you can't pay debt by lowering taxes. and you can't allow the financial sector to run the regulations and bond ratings and expect they will do anything but steal all the money.