probably not meant as an obit

[click image, via BlueHawk]

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I mean I think the guy must have written it before the SCOTUS nuked us, but just in case he missed it:

Of course, there's one other possibility, which is that this time the Cheney Party goes balls-to-the-wall, bringing down on our heads a full-on fascist dictatorship, serving corporate interests in total, and likely launching a couple of good wars abroad to complement the complete repression of dissent and freedom of expression at home.

The "Cheney Party" DID go balls-to-the-wall, and brought "full-on fascist dictatorship" down on our heads with that decision two days ago.

I MEAN, DUH.

Or, if he had the chance to fix this before posting it and just didn't, he probably was still too stunned by the blow to the head to rethink that paragraph.

The other thing wrong with the peace is that the author still doesn't seem to realize that not even the party big shots care much about parties anymore. He doesn't seem to realize that none of these people get to live if they don't do what they're told—that the fabulous amounts of money toward their empowerment to follow these orders are only a gratuity, a sweetener for having the "grace" to capitulate, to hold the post but abdicate their oath and follow orders instead of the Constitution... to sell out instead of forcing the bad guys to make them dead persons of probity.

Mental conditioning dies so very, very hard. The longer one waits to begin shedding it, the WORSE it gets.
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Reminder:

In fact, the world is an abode of truth
for one who is truthful with it
and an abode of well-being
for one who understands it.
It is an abode of riches
for one who learns from it
and an abode of counsel
for one who takes the warning from it.

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It started out with well-being
and created misfortune,
awakening desires and fears,
causing alarm and alert.
So some people revile it
on a morning of remorse,
while others will praise it
on the day of resurrection,
for the world reminded them
and they bore it in mind,
and it spoke to them
and they verified what it said,
and it cautioned them
and they took the warning.

The world is a transitory abode,
not a permanent abode.
And the people in it
are of two sorts:
one who sells his soul
and ruins it,
and one who ransoms his soul
and frees it.

—Counsels of Ḥaḍrat 'Alī
[translated by Thomas Cleary]

Clearly, our government is full of people who sell their soul and ruin it, but WHAT of the rest of us? There's no hope if we don't learn.
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Fast.
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