By the year 3000, Jesus will have made His appearance and returned all species of life killed off by man's greed. All signs of man's existance will be wiped off the face of the Earth. I am 66 years old, a real Chritian person and have no worries. Is there something about eternal life you do not understand?

Yes, all the critical issues of survival are coming to a head, and we as a society are simply running out of time and resources to keep consuming at ever-increasing levels, which supply-side marketing ideology has conditioned everyone to expect as the natural order of things. What a complete disaster!

I'm sorry for the loss of your old friend, Outback. Death leaves a hole that can't be filled.

Now we're on the right track. A nuclear winter will negate global warming and reduce overpopulation all in one fell swoop.

#23 OU812 assumed that I was poor and you said nothing. Right wing trolls seem to have a double standard.

I'm a retired clinical psychiatrist and have conducted extensive research to determine what was the underlying cause of my patients anxiety, depression, and neuro-developmental spectrum disorders. The common cause is population density stress and our resulting chronically over-active stress response, which no-one else has put together under a single name, although reports on increasing anxiety in college students, increasing depression, etc., and marked increases in every other "disease of civilization" abound. Mother Nature long ago installed a population regulation mechanism in our DNA and it is increasingly active, resulting in ALL the diseases afflicting us modern humans. A key biomarker is infertility: 100% increase in 34 years: 8% in 1982, but now 16.7%. The report recently published by Israeli researchers noting a 50-60% decline in sperm counts was so alarming that the lead author warned of an oncoming extinction of the human species. He was correct. He predicted us reaching universal (in the develpoed nations included in the study) "low" sperm counts within 23 years! My predictions, drawn from published animal models, give a 2,125 AD (CE) date for the total irreversible loss of all human fertility due to population density stress. In any case, we will die out as a species from some cataclysmic result of human overpopulation, including the obvious secondary climate change. We need to voluntarily restrict our reproduction to one-child families or perish from the earth.

#28 Look at any chart of the Dow or Nasdaq and you do not see a big jump last January until now. It is a fairly straight line for the last 7 years. This is a continuation of the Obama boom. I say 7 years because of the Bush depression which you and OU812 like to ignor.

@#28: Is it your point that we are still enjoying the economic glow from a Democratic administration, which shepherded us out of the doldrums of the last Republican administration -- despite total obstruction, bordering on treason, from the Teapublican congress that arose after 2010 -- or is it that you, on behalf of your pussy grabber, is trying to take credit for a recovery that Republican leadership did everything to thwart?

Regardless of your point, it is beside the point. To cite the good times during an expanding bubble, while ignoring the fundamentals that will inevitably cause it to burst, is like trying to detect the whole movement of climate change by looking out the window in the morning to see if it's a sunny day.

2950-10K it seems that OU812 is worse than having no soul. "Bachmann" seems to think that no one else has a soul.

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see, she/he got his in life on the backs of others. those who fought for the good of the people, not against it. Probably as a teacher in a public school system. now that he has his, now it is penny pinching time and you can all go get yours. the less you have the more the little pittance that he has will seem to be worth to him. in a state of delusion he yearns to be recognized as being part of the wealth class. he gives himself credit for making the wealth class wealthier? i could go without everything and have more energy and self worth than he could with millions in the bank. Another example of how sad and pathetic some can people be.

Great blog, SueN! Thanks for stepping in.

No matter what they say, Republican politicians everywhere, from the local level to the national, primarily work for millionaires and billionaires to fulfill the two main goals of their biggest donors and mentors, at the expense of their poorer constituencies: tax cuts for the wealthy; deregulation of their monopolistic empires -- so that their so-called "free" market can go about freely polluting and poisoning our environment, free of restraint and accountability, while freely cheating workers, taxpayers, and consumers out of their hard-earned money.

The lion's share of welfare (i.e., the taxpayers' teat) flows to the top of society -- not to the bottom -- in the form of huge subsidies to private industry, with a wink and a nod from well-greased politicians, on both sides, under an entrenched system of crony capitalism, which has enabled a massive redistribution of wealth from a struggling middle class to a pampered class ensconced in golden palaces dotting the kingdom.

Society's tiniest class, a ruling elite of the greediest, most ruthless sociopaths on the planet, are busily gobbling up every last morsel of prosperity left in our cobwebbed cupboards. To mix and paraphrase their favorite false metaphors, once the fat bastards have "trickled down" on us, and their "rising tide" has sunk our boats, we may lick the crumbs off their plates.

Anyone who believes the garbage economic theories of fascistic economic predators is a goddamn fool!