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In response to a few websites blaming the Liberals for this godawful bill to throw good money after bad at Wall St., I just wanted to point out that over here in Portland, OR the opposition to the throwing money at Wall St. is coming in large part from the Left and the Dems from the Willamette Valley such as Senator Wyden, Congressman DeFazio and Congressman Blumenauer all voted against this god awful bill. You might be interested in checking out the bill that DeFazio introduced to have Wall St. bailout Wall St.

I stumbled upon this article about a year ago and in my interactions with people getting hip, or body checked into peak oil and the apparent end of the empire; I have found the following to be pretty damn accurate. 

http://www.hopedance.org/cms/content/view/413/106

The Waking Up Syndrome by Sarah Anne Edwards and Linda Buzzell

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality." — T. S. Eliot

Just dealing with our daily lives keeps most of us too busy to worry about whether or not the sky is falling. We focus on getting to and from work, paying our bills, doing our errands, and, if our time-stressed schedules allow, enjoying a little time to relax with friends and family.

But we’re deluged of late with dire pronouncements from high-profile newscasts, documentaries, and scientific reports about global warming, melting ice caps, dwindling oil supplies, and a looming imminent economic collapse. Closer to home, we’ve experienced climate-related disasters: floods, wildfires, hurricanes, wildfires, and severe droughts.

While the sky may not be falling, this day-after-day onslaught of alarming news is making it more difficult simply to overlook the triple threat of environmental, climatic and economic concerns. It’s leaving many of us feeling like Alice in Wonderland, being sucked down a Rabbit Hole into some frighteningly grotesque and unfamiliar world that’s anything but wonderful.

Few of us are eager to contemplate, let alone truly face, these looming changes. Just the threat of losing chunks of the comfortable way of life we’re accustomed to (or aspiring to) is a frightening-enough prospect. But there’s no avoiding the current facts and trends of the human and planetary situation. And as the edges of our familiar reality begin to ravel, more and more people are reacting psychologically. A noticeable pattern of behavior is emerging.

We call this pattern the Waking Up Syndrome, and it unfolds in six stages, though not necessarily in any particular order.

IMHO, all large organizations have their own special strain of strained logic and occasional outright insane, naturally some organizations are considerably worse then others.  The previous company I worked for was a really bad combo of hyperactive and anal-retentive, though the team I worked with was fairly level headed all things considered, kind of a small company inside a big company. 

My rather metaphoric thinking about the elected Washington DC was something along the lines of ....

Here is a crazy cute video of two roommates who bought a lion cub back in 1969 and their reunion with the then fully grown lion a year later in Africa.

From all my animal behavior courses I should mention that with cats, a it is a pretty big sign of affection when they rub the top of their head on you. When they just rub the side of their head on you it is still friendly but more of a marking their territory.