So, it is starting. The Global meltdown and chaos in the streets. So warns George Soros in a Newsweek interview:

“At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he says, peering through his owlish glasses and brushing wisps of gray hair off his forehead. He doesn’t just mean it’s time to protect your assets. He means it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil.” Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America he predicts riots on the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties. The global economic system could even collapse altogether."

Run for the hills! The maurauders are coming! Too bad Mike Royko isn't here to see it - his articles about the end times of the last generation's apocopalypse were pretty funny, though the governments of the world may use our fear to curtail the civil liberties thing. Now THAT's something to watch out for!

It started to accelerate with Ronald Regan's pre-election and the set-up of allowing Tehran to fall with our embassy hostages, thru 9/11 and the passage of the diabolical "Patriot Act." Keep some flints and steel handy....

Maybe they just bought a Windows Phone 7.5 device that can't be upgraded to 8.

Mojo: It started to accelerate with Ronald Regan's pre-election and the set-up of allowing Tehran to fall
JK: I see you slept through history class too (in addition to logic, chem, physics& econ.). Tehran fell during Carter & Carter cheered the return of Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris to rule the country. Carter did not get our hostages freed - Regan did.

PS: Ayatollah Khomeini was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis and his fatwa calling for the death of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie.

Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians (including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners; but also lauded as a "charismatic leader of immense popularity" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini

PS2: Carter was the President before Reagan who told us to suffer through an energy shortage and high inflation - Regan had a different approach: fix the problem.

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JK

Oh, boy. More sniping selections from JK's Encyclopedia Delusiona.

Anti-Carter CIA guys & others, et al., allowed the embassy staff to be captured in order to ensure the toppling of Carter's Administration. There's a lot more to the actual history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise ).

Don't forget Iran-Contra, either! -- Reagan schmeagan.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/156284/irancontra-20-years-later-and-what-it-means#

Mojo: Anti-Carter CIA guys & others, et al., allowed the embassy staff to be captured in order to ensure the toppling of Carter's Administration.
JK: I see you are into conspiracy theories too. Let me guess those same conspirators faked the moon landings! And 9/11?

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JK

And so ends another rip-roaring episode of "JK's Laff Riot."

JK: Carter did not get our hostages freed - Regan [sic] did.

Your account of history conveniently leaves out one very important detail, Jim - the price Reagan (and we) paid at the time to free those hostages.

John Rettig: Your account of history conveniently leaves out one very important detail, Jim - the price Reagan (and we) paid at the time to free those hostages.
JK: Guess I got taken. Actually I wasn’t paying attention to politics back then.
What was the price?
And were the lives of the hostages worth that price?
(I never did understand why Carted didn’t try agin to spring them (or grab the Ayatollah as a bargaining chip.))

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JK

Jim,

Google "Iran-Contra affair", or look here if you want a fairly neutral source.

John Rettig: Google "Iran-Contra affair", or look here if you want a fairly neutral source.
JK: Not interested in trying to decode which part of an extensive web page you consider responsive.

If you have a point to make, make it.

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JK

For the record JK-
The Greeks defeated Xerxes of Persia (what is now Iran) and his navy, and went on to enjoy vast amounts of honeyed wine, Ouzo, fried calamari and Gyros (He-ros). Clearly this sabbatical was well deserved.
Then Microsoft comes along with their crappy OS and its imminent crashes and the city states once again rose up to meet the new agressor.
Lest we forget--
Prior to being President, Carter had won the hand of a princess on Mars.
Prior to being president Reagan had multiple wives and monkeyed around with an ape in a movie. As president Reagan secretly provided arms to Iran, the arch enemy of the Greeks.