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Surprised not to see anyone screaming about the SCOTUS decision.  Me, I was seriously considering a retirement move out of the U. S.  Like Chile or some other Godforsaken place far off the radar screen.

Matters didn’t improve this morning, the day after Obama’s State of the Union address when the Republican in the household mused that it was believable in his lifetime (he’s in his mid-forties) that the U. S.  evolves into a dictatorship.  This is an Eisenhower Republican who hated Bush & the neo ~ cons.

Can’t you just see it though?  Our new corporate citizens invoking a war to protect their interests…and the gov doesn’t move fast enough, so they kinda sorta help it along…bloodless coup?

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Unquantified disaster situation now in the impoverished nation of Haiti.
See the Clinton Foundation website for ways to support the worldwide response,
as well as to obtain or submit survivor information.

Couple of dirt bikes and the Mohave desert. Leave the cellphones at home…

Here is a photo taken at the Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, 12/31/09.  Now back home in Western NY & all I see out my window is snow, snow, snow!