In the dream I had
bush cheney rumsfeld
and condi were all
that were left of the army
and a few talk show
hosts: hannity, boortz
limbaugh and o’reilly,
and a few thousand elderly
National Guard folks,
who cheated out of their
retirement had no choice
but to keep on fighting
(hell most thought it
was the same as WWII
anyway—senility will
have its way, it's true)
And Ann Coulter of course
was there too, shooting wildly
at the backs of our deserting
young troops, who were
wearing signs that read:
‘You’ve got to go to war
with the army you’ve got
not the one you wish you had.’
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."