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03 June 2009

"If Rip Van Worldaffairs..."

"...had gone to sleep in 1940 and woke up today, imagine his surprise."

"He would identify a small plantation in Asia owned by a bunch of lunatics and populated by 20 million slaves. He would see that they had fired some missiles and developed nuclear technology which could probably devastate Japan, a country 10x its size and a million times its productive and intellectual capacity."

"He would probably say WTF is wrong with Japan? Why would it allow itself to be threatened, by force, by this inconsequential crime family?"
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UPDATE: Oh, they're in trouble now...
"Let the rebuking begin!"
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LAST WORD: Not much of a mathematician either

Okay... now that whole inability to process those financial numbers is starting to make sense.

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