Whatever you do, don't invade Iran!

Don't go there! Please, no invasion of Iran, no drones, no spies sent over to incite, no exploding cigars, no dirty tricks.

We got enough on our plate without meddling in other people's affairs.

Americans seem to get a charge about being the agent for freedom and democracy in the world. ("But not in my backyard")

Maybe it's because we feel guilty about killing off our indigenous population and bringing in 10 million slaves to do the heavy lifting or the wars that got us California, Cuba and the Philippines.

We were supposed to be a shining light, a city on the hill for all the world to admire our goodness, according to our early Puritan settlers. But, alas, we fell short.

So we tell the world how to act right: no nukes for Iran and North Korea ,yet nukes for Israel and India; free and fair elections for Iran , yet we don't respect the outcomes when Hamas wins in a free and fair election.

So, Americans, how about a new ethic: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...

Our smoke and mirrors economy.

Ever since we gave up the ghost on manufacturing and relied on the financial sector our economy is nothing but bubbles and smoke and mirrors. Making things makes an economy;flipping papers does not.

Obama's Imperial Presidency

I thought it was just Bush--the guy with a reverse Midas touch--everything he touched turned to shit-- with his three failed businesses, Iraq, Katrina. Now Obama, --with his empire of bases, his battle carrier groups that patrol the 7 seas, the nuclear subs that are impregnable to a first strike nuclear attack, the trillion dollar a year military machine—Obama inherits his predecessor's wants (empire) and his means (attack anyone who stands in our way).

Bush and Obama agree? Why yes, they both work for the Wall Street/Pentagon complex. Our oligarchs and their enforcers, though, are short on money and their smoke and mirrors economy is not working. So like other once powerful empires (England, Spain, the Dutch) we recede.

GM bankrupt! --End of manufacturing= end of US empire

End of manufacturing= end of US empire. When the finance whizzes and bankers took over the economy they got addicted to making easy money by flipping papers and creating bubbles.

Sadly, these guys don't do manufacturing--it's too hard a buck. So we begin to sink into a weird world of credit default swaps, sub-prime mortgages and hedge funds. And not even (Larry Summers) can put our humpty-dumpty, old empire back together again.

Get used to it, boys, we're heading toward 2nd tierdom-hopefully we'll become a caring nation.