Stop trying to cloak your racism in patriotism. (It doesn’t matter, both parties are corrupt.) You really think McCain, who was selected by the RNC as the ‘front runner’ for the 2k8 elections, mysteriously got old over night? If all these people were really so sure about him during the primaries, why weren’t they paying attention to it then? He was selected by the RNC because he’s the next to die.

By the way, for the record, McCain was born in Panama. Sure, it was in a US Consulate, technically deemed ‘US territory’ but his father was an Admiral serving in that location. Anyway, it could be argued that McCain isn’t a US citizen since he was born in Central America.

The point is Mr. Cox, you are putting great information forth, and thank you for it. It’s just that some of us don’t understand the mechanics of it, even though we sort of kind of get the general drift.

One thing Mrs. Traynham, if you can remember, the last time a Dem was elected president the same paranoid nonsense occurred with the ammo market, which elevated the price for a while. I bought into it then, but don’t now. I also still have most of what I stocked up on then now. Mr. O (I refuse to acknowledge him as a legit president until he produces his actual birth certificate) has a lot to deal with giving the current state of the economy rather than go after our guns/ammo. And, there is the Heller decision of last year, the only chagrin is that it was a 5-4 decision instead of the 9-zip it should have been.

The real question is who will build it?

If we don’t bring back some kinda of manufacturing base into this country we are going to decline. I wished we stop focusing on Detroit and think about new things to builds; important things like microchips and electronic components. Using our material sciences to create new special materials that we create in this country?

In 10 years what we lug around as laptops will fit inside a watch. Are we going to be one to benefit from that technology?

Your fascinating article made me whimper with insecurity due to ignorance and leaves me with one big question: if we over on the “Katy, bar the door!” side are right and we’re going to face a time of tribulation and possibly the Anti-Industrial Revolution, will the survivors make do with current technology, or do you think the new technology will emerge triumphant? It certainly sounds like something I’d be interested in were this 1981, but in 2009 I tend to buy coffee, alcohol, ammo, and silver. Will this, like HDTV render my shiny new computer with Vista (which I loathe so much I’m working on my five-year-old Dell which has XP) inoperable?

Adapt or die is the rule in business, so I’ll hope for more articles that put this in terms we kindergarteners can understand. I don’t know if you’ll laugh or clutch your aching head, but they lost me in Physics the first day when the instructor said, “Electricity goes through wires like buckets of water go through the pipe,” a concept that STILL makes no sense to me. Is it pour-space-pour or do the buckets clog up at the bottom? When the electricity in alternating current runs back into the wall does it go through my meter twice? You only think I’m joking. I always look at a cord I have unplugged dubiously, never certain if there is still a little trickle of electricity in there or not…On the other hand, I think Egyptian hieroglyphics are simple and that the easiest thing in the world is to teach a small child to read. I’m not hopeless, just ignorant.

I did enjoy your excitement and what I grasped, thanks.

LBT