Who Shot The Sheriff?

Last Saturday afternoon after watching the Tuscon shooting news story develop live, I made a post about it. I presented the comments made by the sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, during his news conference.  I've reposted those below.  While listening to him speak, nothing seemed political to me.  I admire him for "telling it like it is".  I believe that he provided his description of declining mass social mood.  It was amazing to watch the Fox News Militia attack him all week.  The "big baffoon", Rush, took him on.

"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. Let me just say one thing, because people tend to poo-poo this business about all the vitriol that we hear inflaming the American public by people who make a living off of doing that. That may be free speech. But it's not without consequences."
Clarence Dupnik, Pima County Sheriff

Deceitful Mouthpieces And Their Non-Thinking Worshippers

"There were already two fiscal hurricanes churning towards our shores before Obama and his non-critical thinking Democratic minions launched a third storm. No matter how many intellectually deceitful mouthpieces like Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, and Sean Hannity ignore the facts, the fiscal foundation of the country is crumbling under the weight of unfunded entitlement promises, out of control government spending and far flung military misadventures. Only someone who is intellectually bankrupt, like Krugman, would declare the National Debt at $8 trillion as a looming disaster when George Bush was President, but declare that a $12 trillion National Debt headed towards $20 trillion isn’t a danger now that Barack Obama is President. Olbermann proclaimed Afghanistan a disastrous misadventure when Bush was President. Now that Obama runs the show, the surge is working and Obama’s brilliant leadership has turned the tide. Hannity never uttered a negative word about a Republican neo-con, the Iraq War or the Afghan strategy between 2001 and 2008. Now he defames Obama on a nightly basis for being weak on Defense, despite that fact that Obama has doubled the troops in Afghanistan and proposed the largest Defense budget in the history of the country. The non-thinking worshippers of these ideologues never question or even reflect upon the facts."
James Quinn, The Burning Platform

Entire article: http://theburningplatform.com/blog/2010/04/04/sunday-bloody-sunday/

An Interesting Question

"If we treat the credit doubling that occurred between 2000 and 2008 (from $26 to $52 trillion) as a normal bubble that will follow the same pattern of decline as numerous historical bubbles, then we might reasonably predict that some $26 trillion of debt will somehow "go away" over the next 6 years. This is indeed a massive black hole."
Chris Martenson www.chrismartenson.com

I once again turn to the theory of "mass social mood". U.S. debt rises from $26 to $52 trillion during the Bush administration and there are no tea parties. No protests. No communists nametags. No socialist remarks. No threats. No angry town halls. Isn't that interesting?

While the cycle "turned over" in the 1999-2000 timeframe, the "momentum of the mood" is just gaining steam. A few trillion of debt additions this year and the mob is seeking a lynching. Prior to the Obama administration taking office, the U.S. had $54 trillion of underfunded obligations. Why is Team Red just getting mad now? Why didn't they get mad at Bush? Why weren't Rush, Sean, and Ann lashing out at Bush for not dealing with this massive debt obligation? Why were they okay with increasing it by $26 trillion over 8 years?

A review:
http://randomroving.blogspot.com/2009/02/325-minute-investment.html