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  I spent HOURS yesterday reading and writing on Huffington Post – I think this election is THE most important of my life – God help the US if the 1% candidate wins.  I find it hard to believe Romney is doing well at all, and conclude that there are a good number of morons or self-interested people out there.  I feel no need to be polite to people I do not respect, a bad thing, maybe, but it mirrors the tone of the conversation here lately.

I believe, sadly, that we are in the twilight of the USA and that if we go farther on the road we are on now, that we will be (and quite possibly ARE) the newest Banana Republic.  When I was growing up – indeed, until I was 31, the biggest threats were Cold War related.  A HUGE amount of money was spent – squandered, I think, with 20/20 hindsight, trillions of dollars spent on evil things, like the 60,000 nuclear weapons built and deployed by the US.  I live in Oregon partly because the fallout patterns are good here and there are no military facilities here, except for National Guard bases and gunnery ranges in the empty east parts of the state.

The US is on a self-destructive course.

Vote, Americans.  This is the most important election ever.

Stay off this road:

I predict a great wailing and gnashing of teeth whoever wins, but disaster if the Republican candidate wins.

Ballots have already been compromised in Clackamas County, by a Republican Elections worker, who was caught changing mailed -in ballots from Democratic votes to Republican:  if you can’t win honestly. cheat?

Get a rope.

I honestly regret that my guns were stolen after the car wreck in 1998 when I was in the hospitals for 59 days.  I fear I will want/need them.

Guns are almost always the first things stolen.  I have lost 15 of them through theft.  Rifles, shotguns, and pistols, 13 of them in 96, when my storage unit got broken into and they stole the gun safe (along with my passport and birth certificate) and a rifle and revolver after the car wreck in 98.  The insurance I had then turned out to be a bad joke – less than a third of what the guns were worth.  I’ve never been in a position to replace any of them, and the prices of guns have soared since 2008.

 I’d like to wake up from this nightmare.

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