I'm quite sure I would have answered many of the questions incorrectly.

For instance, I thought that the the law of the land dictated a separation of church and state. Or that the government needed probable cause for search and seizure and a warrant to prove it.

I also have these quaint notions about freedom of assembly, which would not include putting protesters behind cyclone fences. I am quite sure I would have gotten wrong that one about the government being elected by the people. And... that question about the duties of the president I'm sure I would have missed that by answering something about upholding the constitution. And we needn't go into my wrongheaded notions of taxation without representation.

Thank goodness there aren't any questions about international law or the Geneva Convention.

I suppose I should feel lucky I was born here, huh?

Come on everybody... leave Fred Thompson alone. He's an actor who played the role of a prosecutor depicting a system that has more people jailed then any other country in the world. His work as a lobbyist isn't going to help him either, as he was guided by who would pay the best, not what was right. And look... Richard Nixon thought the guy was an idiot....so what? He went back to school since that time? Noooo... he's still an idiot.

But he is a Republican idiot, and they have this notion that being an idiot should not be an impediment to becoming president. Not sure where they got that idea from, but there it is. So... just go out and vote for the guy. If for nothing else... we could have a teenager as first lady!

By opening the door to a Wi-Fi phone, and the hype surrounding the the 'need' to have a smart phone, Apple has created a market or market perception that should result in many more products that are competitive and more open sourced then Apples product. Just opening the door to Wi-Fi in a smart phone is a huge step.

Apple will get bitten in the ass for their attempts to stop the collective parallel computing power of the internet hackers who will certainly prevail over this latest attempt to force Iphone users to suck the corporate cock of AT&T.

Dyson: "Yep... when I was a kid... the model A was still a fine car. And I don't understand why there is all this fuss about me having a phone with a rotary dial. Perfectly good phone. All this new fangled talk about global warming... dagnabbit! God is the only thing that matters. I should know... I ain't gonna be around here in the time that this global warming thing might happen. The solution is trees. When we have burned up all the oil... we can burn wood."

The stock market... like the real estate market... is mostly fueled by salespeople. Those sales people, that call themselves 'broker' are supposed to be working as advocates for your investments, when in fact, they are working as advocates for their brokerage company. Their salary is enhanced by sales of more stock, not less. So... the incentive to protect their clients (the public) is, as usual, usurped by the greed and structure of greed that will one day expose the market for the Ponzi scheme that it is.

Then everyone will throw their hands up and cry "How did this happen! Why didn't we see this coming! It's so unfair!" And new demands for new regulations will be asked for...and the dutiful, not so dutiful government will pass some sort of loophole laden legislation that will have a clever title like "Healthy Market Initiative"... and, legislate as close to business as usual as they can get away from.

But this time might be different. The dollar is depreciating, we have no manufacturing base to speak of, the public has maxed out its credit, our various debt to... which ever debt ratio you wish to look at, is historically in.... another dimension... and fuel prices, to which everything is inevitably indexed, continue to rise unabated. There is a wall, and it is made of brick, and we are approaching it very, very fast.

One chapter of the Big Lie, is how the United States prevailed and won the cold war, empowering the people to rise up and 'tear down that wall'.... When in reality, the true demise of the Soviet Union was that they had engaged in a pissing contest of war machines with us, and essentially went bankrupt in the most catastrophic way possible. Their shattered economy pushed their political revolution.

Now, we are in a pissing contest with ourself. One as expensive as a real war, but it is not a real war. It is a very, very inefficient effort that is siphoning off hundreds of billions from the national treasure and its future for a return that thus far has been a slowly sinking and deteriorating scenario.... with no end in sight.

Lies, deceit and the capital crimes that are being committed in the name of whatever ism it is that we claim, can only word to distort the rest of our filters. We cannot see the demise of the Stock Market or the economy, because we have learned to look at things without common sense or logic, and call that normal.

The stock market is disconnected from the rest of the economy. It's like an engine about to blow... it's making a lot more noise right now... is very hot... but it doesn't have an awareness of the rod it is about to throw... or how devastating that is to the rest of the machine.

We will reap what we sow. And it's gettin' near harvest time.