tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post4868610847628672098..comments2023-10-16T04:24:51.078-05:00Comments on You Will Anyway: Team SportsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-25280533358603452232009-12-18T15:52:24.519-06:002009-12-18T15:52:24.519-06:00i absolutely believe in cycles. to me, that's...i absolutely believe in cycles. to me, that's the pattern of our universe, and there's no getting around it. we are condemned to go round and round and round.<br /><br />a few years ago, i was saying that it's our turn to cycle down, and the chinese would be the next world's superpower. i haven't seen anything since to make me change my mind.<br /><br />i'm with you on mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200810039724970988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-92140751027305210652009-12-18T14:14:43.866-06:002009-12-18T14:14:43.866-06:00m,
I've read several books by Kevin Phillips a...m,<br />I've read several books by Kevin Phillips and Paul Kennedy.A recurring theme of their is how Western Empires cycle thru growth with manufacturing and trade and a middle class develops.The empire booms,then financialization sets in and people invest overseas and insurance/leding supplants the real economy. The Spanish saw it happen to them and some called for a return to manufacturing/Osohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513535195785731541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-33503640877093381242009-12-18T08:23:29.828-06:002009-12-18T08:23:29.828-06:00well, i am in total agreement. however, all i did...well, i am in total agreement. however, all i did was one march before the invasion and one street corner protest (holding signs). any time i ever wrote to a congressman, i always got back a form letter explaining their already explained stand on the issue. that march i was in went to a reps office, and he wouldn't let us in. instead, he sent an office aide out to the parking lot with a mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200810039724970988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-65338120539006994212009-12-17T15:33:20.782-06:002009-12-17T15:33:20.782-06:00m,
why you dirty rotten no-good....no just kidding...m,<br />why you dirty rotten no-good....no just kidding.Had I read it I'd probably have conceded it was likely but hoped for better.<br /><br />There's a saying, expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed.<br />Maybe we get what we deserve.<br />For example,people always question what one person can do.When the buildup to the Iraq war had begun in earnest there were numerous Osohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513535195785731541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-40000308752866231282009-12-17T15:03:29.339-06:002009-12-17T15:03:29.339-06:00yes. when i was living in seattle, i had a neighb...yes. when i was living in seattle, i had a neighbor who moved to the states from ireland after he won the irish sweepstakes. he told me that the irish are amused at our insistence on pretending that our politicians are ever anything but corrupt, and acting shocked when we (always, eventually) find out they are. even tho i know they are corrupt, i still expect them to not be and get disgusted mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09200810039724970988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5938903.post-60282594486646264342009-12-17T09:11:22.638-06:002009-12-17T09:11:22.638-06:00Disgusted. Too disgusted for words.Disgusted. Too disgusted for words.Vigilantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.com