Well, I'm not sure how much I'll post this week, but I hope to get something in here. Thanks to everyone for all the condolences and 'get well' wishes.

Everyone should read these quotes from Thomas Jefferson. The part that trips me out the most is, what is happening, it's all so obvious, how it will end so incredibly predictable in my opinion, yet when it happens 'they' will say there was no way we could have seen this black swan event, it was all unknowable (you know, like they said about the NASDAQ and housing bubbles right before they popped), and they will do their best to help us with the new international monetary system they need to implement (or we're all toast), and we'll believe them, again, and look to them to help us, because 'they are the experts'. It's been going on since ancient Roman times (and before), it's going on now, and people, collectively, are simply incapable of seeing it or understanding it, even when it is explained to them... It's so frickin' sad...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-01/ron-paul-why-i-dont-run-independent#comment-3026271