If you want ...

As Mayor Bloomberg said the other day:

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"You have a lot of kids graduating college, [who] can't find jobs," said Bloomberg, during his weekly radio show on Friday. "That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here."

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Just vote for Republicans. Via Jill, a pretty sober analysis of what America would look like as a Tea Bag nation:

In the Tea Party’s America, families must mortgage their home to pay for their mother’s end-of-life care. Higher education is a luxury reserved almost exclusively to the very rich. Rotten meat ships to supermarkets nationwide without a national agency to inspect it. Fathers compete with their adolescent children for sub-minimum wage jobs. And our national leaders are utterly powerless to do a thing.

At least, that’s what would happen if the Tea Party succeeds in its effort to reimagine the Constitution as an antigovernment manifesto. While the House of Representatives pushes Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) plan to phase out Medicare, numerous members of Congress, a least one Supreme Court justice, and the governor of America’s second-largest state now proudly declare that most of the progress of the last century violates the Constitution.

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Take a few minutes and read it. Tell me what would happen in such a world. I don't see this country surviving it.

Chelsea vs. Manchester United this morning. If you don't see me here anymore, you know I've had a stroke*. Heh ...

*I am a HUGE Chelsea fan.