{"id":385,"date":"2011-09-07T02:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucebramson.com\/2011\/09\/07\/proud-of-my-prediction-at-m-y-o-b-3\/"},"modified":"2011-09-07T02:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T02:58:59","slug":"proud-of-my-prediction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"PROUD OF MY PREDICTION!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1994, I wrote The Orphanage<\/em>. While it was on alt.sex.stories, it was reviewed by a reader who remarked about its \u201csly political humor\u201d. As with all my stories, it wound up on the Nifty Archive.<\/p>\n

In 2004, I wrote the sequel, The Orphanage Revisited<\/em> and sent it to Nifty. Here is the penultimate paragraph:<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in the end, it was Wayne Henry Lane who was right: the Hilltop scene couldn\u2019t last, and it didn\u2019t. The complete melt-down of the Middle East in 2005 and the world-wide economic collapse in 2006 put us and thousands like us out of business, but also put the skids under Dubya and his neocons and his \u201cReligious Wrong\u201d. There\u2019s never before been an impeachment of both the President and the vice-President. The Republicans were crippled, and when in 2009 President Obama declared a state of emergency, it was so the New Deal could be dusted off and people could get to work to un-do the damage of the previous seven years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So, I was off a bit in my timing of the economic collapse (which we are living right now), and so far, the Middle East hasn\u2019t quite melted down (yet), but it seems I WAS right about Senator Obama\u2019s successful run to be our President. I\u2019m delighted he made it!<\/p>\n

My only regret is that Dubya will leave office, rather than being thrown out<\/strong> of office. Likewise, it annoys me greatly that none of the perps responsible for our current economic meltdown are in jail, or are even likely to be. There\u2019s no accountability any more for ANYthing: I hope Barack can do something about that once he is actually seated in the White House.<\/p>\n

Like many others, I\u2019d made up my mind to leave this country if Mr. Obama lost to the Repugnant Party. This posed a little problem, because my house-mate (thinking likewise) thought New Zealand might be nice, but I thought Portugal was a better choice for me. I read a blog that includes wonderful photos of Portugal. Most of the men are too butch and beefy for my taste, but it looks like Lisbon closely resembles San Francisco; it has hills, a bay, bridges, antique trams, and pretty mild weather. However, except possibly to visit, I doubt I\u2019ll go there.<\/p>\n

Likewise, I decided that if Mr. Obama won, I\u2019d have the engine in my Chrysler rebuilt: the car has gone just shy of 200K miles. I know I\u2019ll never go out and blow 20-30-40 kilo-bucks for a modern plastic car that I don\u2019t fit in, so $6K\u00a0 to have the engine running well seems like a bargain.<\/p>\n

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My Chrysler<\/p>\n

This car will run until I crash it or my body crashes! The engine rebuild is complete, and I\u2019m still breaking it in. Too bad I can\u2019t be rebuilt in like fashion.
\nMy regular narrative will resume on the next page.<\/p>\n

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In 1994, I wrote The Orphanage. While it was on alt.sex.stories, it was reviewed by a reader who remarked about its \u201csly political humor\u201d. As with all my stories, it wound up on the Nifty Archive. In 2004, I wrote the sequel, The Orphanage Revisited and sent it to Nifty. Here is the penultimate paragraph: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}