The Eurozone debacle is hitting all of us in the wallet big time. LK strongly suggests that we exorcize our inner ostrich.

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LK believes that the President’s transparent insincerity just bit him in his poll numbers. Mitt still doesn’t realize that no one forgets high school lowlights.

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The BBC reports that that Mein Kampf is being published by the German state of Bavaria, for the first time since WWII.  It brought to mind the piece below (written in 2009), which used the Jews in pre-war Germany as an example of a larger human tendency, and of a looming global unease.  LK

Following World War I, there were millions of Jews living in Germany, Austria, Poland, and myriad other Western and Eastern European countries.  During the 1920’s and early 30’s the seeds of Nazism were planted and Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 sealed the evil deal.

During this Rosemary’s Baby-like gestation period there were Jews who felt the change coming and emigrated, despite having to leave careers and wealth behind, and despite having to deal with starting anew in foreign lands.

There were others who also felt the rumbles, but did the equivalent of sticking their heads in the sand, acting as if perhaps they were exempt from the oncoming tsunami, or deferring to their ultimately deadly sense of inertia, which caused them to stay put.

There were also those who were impervious to the odor of the foul winds, whose antennae weren’t sensitive enough, and who didn’t have the ability to process what they were able to feel, and went about their business as usual.  They too fell hard.

The second group, the group that, with effort, ignored the impressions received by their senses and souls, could rightly be called the true “victim class”, as they were the ones who, for lack of a gentler way to put it,  chose to become victims.

I submit that there’s something brewing in America, and in the world, that will result in changes as substantial as those that led to the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil War, the Crusades, and countless other historic tipping points.  It hasn’t yet solidified enough to have a name or recognizable shape, but vapors will turn into clouds, and clouds into icebergs,  and those icebergs will cause our Titanic world to undergo yet another tectonic shift.

While I’ve used the Jews in the period prior to WWII as an example of the types of choices we humans make in the face of foundational fissures, my point applies to all of us now living in the Western World.

The question is, will we, as groups and/or as individuals, choose to heed the early warning signs as they steadily become more apparent, or will we simply hope that by going about our daily work and daily play we can avoid the inevitable?  And will those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear make the extra effort to assist the third group, those without the ability to perceive or avoid the dangers ahead?

There is much to ponder, and much to do.

                          

In this case, we’ve clearly got a very troubled poor soul who didn’t wait for the “Post” part before directing, in the most tragic of ways, his Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome on other poor innocent souls.

In this case, 3’s definitely not the charm:

This is cold, politically way incorrect, and what I believe to be true:

                          

On today’s show, LK:

De-mystifies the Greek debt debacle and makes it clear that the Credit Default Swap mess that threatens to bring down Europe and played a big part in bringing down Lehman Brothers is nothing but a bunch of bookies/bankers who can’t pay off winning bets.  For once, it’s the bookies/bankers who need their knees broken.

Points out that the Chinese are cleaning our clocks in a way that’s eerily similar to how we brought down the Soviet Union in the ’80’s.

Suggests that no one give up a job they hate in search of greener pastures just yet (don’t stop looking, just don’t give up the bird in the hand), because it’s a misconception to believe that the better economic numbers mean that the coast is clear.

Chastises the NFL players, disses Santorum (like shooting fish in a barrel of contraceptives), takes 30 seconds instead of the 2 full shows it takes other hosts to reconcile the rush from Rush, and declares the Republican quest for the nomination close to a done deal for Romney now that Ted Nugent’s endorsed him.  Cat Scratch Fever, Mitt’s new campaign theme song.

Talks with Dr. John Palumbo about the folly of Afghanistan and the pursuit of inner peace.

Have a ball.

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Rick Santorum wanting to “throw up” made LK want to throw up (and the Rickster got his just desserts last night in AZ and MI).

Johnson & Johnson and Google are both members in good standing of the evil empire of sovereign corporations.

The Mad Max movies continue to be the blueprint for the slow but steady breakdown of society as we know it.

Obama apologizes and the Afghans riot in a further display of his impotency and their irrationality.

All presented with as much good cheer and resilience as a realist can muster.

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