I read somewhere once a description of history as being a natural selection of accidents.Buddy’s idea of different factions with different agendas going for the same target makes a lot of sense to me. Actually that wouldn’t be a bad way to describe the Democratic party itself, but it would apply to forces outside the US that work against us – the jihadis, OPEC, Iran, the Russians, the Greens, even – you name it.

I have to confess a lot of this conversaton is way over my head – much that is obvious to buddy, mongoose and others is greek to me, as I suspect it is to many others also. So keep going guys – we’re all in your debt and learning all the time. Whoever may be pulling the strings here and whatever their plans for the rest of us, they are surely counting on a fair degree of ignorance or apathy or both on our part.