[Blind Eye Jones]

International jet is just that -- international, which means they are not hanging around lobbing cocktails but drinking them. They are high paid lackeys chanting, "We are the world... It is the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

[goldstategop]

The A-listers and Great Men Of History are oblivious to the ground shifting beneath their feet. That's what happens when you talk exclusively to people in your own circle. You have no idea about the mood of the masses - and they're pretty fickle at that and can turn on those in power in a New York minute as Republicans have ruefully discovered this month. Institutional advantages don't count for much to hold the ramparts when the other side's on the offensive. The Democrats don't give me as much worry as the Jihadists. The latter are the ones we need to be concerned about or they'll be the last ones standing when its finally all over.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus