Ah. It's something makes me feel deep mortification, Stephen to know
that Calgary Alberta will have the 'honor' of hosting W for his first
post-presidential 'speech.' Just who is so willing to welcome a war
criminal to our province I don't know, but I am ashamed to even live
in the same country, let alone province....
Doug
On 11-Feb-09, at 10:11 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> The Emperor wears no clothes, has no clothes, cannot afford clothes,
> cannot even make clothes! Every day we get the naked picture. For
> months it has been a strip-tease. Now it’s really done. Problem is
> that no one really wants to look at the body, that is, the Nation’s
> naked body. It ain’t pretty, not at all. Nobody no more is talking
> about our natural good looks, our grace under pressure, our agility
> before others, the way our clothes hang just right. Most everybody
> is talking about the twisted blisters on our naked feet. That’s
> called nobody to pay the mortgage, no money do liquefy the assets,
> "no money, no money."
>
> We no longer even think of the Emperor. The one who thought he was
> the Emperor, he’s gone. Not a peep. We don’t even know if he is
> dressed, or undressed. He did do one curious thing. Instead of an
> Emperor, he left a Humpty Dumpty gone splat into pieces on the
> National floor. Nice guy, real nice guy, that Ex-Emperor! Why or how
> did so many of us fall for such a Fake??!!
>
> Now we discover that We the People, we are the Emperor. Absolutely
> nobody else. And we be naked full of blemishes, devastations and
> cuts. It ain’t nice. At least, as some kind of progress, "It’s US."
>
> And that tall ‘O’ circling, occasionally landing to take a grip, a
> temporary purchase. There is so much, so much, still to figure out.
> Or, what else to do, as they say, Play It, Play It as It Lays. So
> much already so flattened, so lain.
>
> To say nothing, to not 'protest too much', to even imagine the so
> many, for so long, 'in this situation by definition.' "We" did not -
> besotted with spoils - ever want to ever imagine.
>
> Stephen Vincent
> From "Day 23", "The First 100 Days of President Obama"
> Haptics et al at
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
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