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| "The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war. The pulpit will - warily and cautiously - object... at first. The great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' "Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and char and lose popularity. "Before long, you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men... "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger" (1910) |
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| Twas the day of Christmas
As ole Sol broke the dawn Upon the Ascendent of this Capricorn morn. Conjunct in the First House Of me, mine and more Chiron wounds Venus The things we adore Neptunes illusion hiding our debt No not alone in this 2nd House duet Uranus suprises Oh woe is me The bank account empty As empty as the U.S. Treasury No Social Security, no Medicare, no school lunch No Gulf Coast Recovery, no oil, not from this Grinch Inconjunct Saturn to Uranus expose Inconjunct South Node and Mars come to blows. The 4th House is hot, tempers roil The turkey is burned the dinner is spoiled. Mars has joined this 4th House feast. Voices raised, drunk and unkind. Is Christmas over, can we leave? Is it Time? Ney Mars isn't finished opposing Jupiter is he Fury and anger focused on the 10th Wherein dwells The Bush who stole Christmas And created our hell. The Moon the People are tucked in the 9th Visions of Justice, of rights, of life, Dance in their heads Voices of angels, gifts for the poor Visions of Americans all smug in their beds Then in a twinkling out of the 2nd appear Uranus sesquiquadrate the Moon in the 9th Then Saturn sextile Pluto and Mercury too Ignite and empower the South Node the Moon. There in the heavens arose such a clatter. The People spoke up saying, "What the (*&*&^(*& is the matter! Spying and lying, torture galore, Rightwing judges, fundies and more. Then rising together their voices are heard Impeach the bastard He broke his word! Alas we are sated, the day is done The Sun sets on Christmas Day Capricorn has come A star rises in the winter grey Peace, on earth good will toward men We're back on the road again. The Christmas Day Chart, set for Sunrise Washington D.C. |
