How, ironic, Doug. No doubt, in W's heart, he has billed it as his first 'ski vacation' in years!
Stephen
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Snap - Vincent from "O"
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 8:02 AM
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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