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Witchiepoo wrote:I can't decide between Nader and Barr.

Any suggestions? Other than the standard response of the brainwashed, of course, which is that I'm wasting my vote.

It's probably closer to wasting your time (not that this is any different from voting for a major candidate).

Barr

Nader

I'm pleased to see that a poster on T4T is agreeing with GD that the first decades of the 19th century were part of an Awakening. Interestingly enough, he limited his analysis to a study of specific individuals which falls in line with my analysis of historical events. http://fourthturning.com/forum...

Democrats will likely win 2008, since the last few Republican administrations were viewed with increasing contempt as the younger generation started to have more say in matters, especially on issues such as the Iraq war, and the older generations have been dying off. But the Democratic administrati...

This is really strange. I expected a rise today, but this was huge!!! What's the talk? Are people saying the worst is over? From what I've read, people seem to still be very wary, and think that this will be short-lived. I think most investors are just looking to capitalize on what they knew would b...

Maybe we'll get a 6.32% rise or something today.

http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/ is competing with John in the pessimism contest.

Could we just keep having weeks like last week, with no "black day"? Isn't there some mechanism after the 1987 false crash put in place to prevent freefalls from becoming power dives? Well, I'm not sure there is much difference between a dark gray day and a black one. I don't think there is any gen...

There also seems to be a cycle longer than Toynbee's but shorter than Toffler's, which I see as "Civilizations often come in pairs." To whit: Classical Civilization stretched from the rise of Athens to the Fall of Rome. Medieval Civilization, from the 5th to the 15th Century. Western Civilization a...

John wrote: Why does that seem odd?

I imagine most slaves were not polled at the time, and if they were, they had many reasons to be dishonest.