Posted on 05/10/2010 11:08:42 PM PDT by WINGED PEGASUS
...you're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment... some(information) of which don't rank all that high on the truth meter. With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and Play Stations... INFORMATION becomes a DISTRACTION, a DIVERSION, a form of entertainment(????), rather than a tool of empowerment...the means of "EMPANTSATION"( which in the Presidents new vernacular may mean "without pants" but in the authors humble opinion, feels that he meant to say "EMANCIPATION". of course, since emancipation occurred over 146 years ago, both of the Brothers word usages would be incorrect.) So....all of this (information)is not only putting pressure on you; it's putting pressure on our country....
While Watching his books along with the thousands of others going up in smoke at the Berlin Book Burnings of 10 May 1933, (almost 77 years to the day of the Brothers statement in Virginia)Children's book author Erich Kastner quoted poet Heinrich Heine when he uttered the following: "Where They Have Burned Books, They Will End In Burning Human Beings."
Into the Memory Hole It All Goes: The Ministry of Plenty Has Announced Today That the Chocolate Ration Has Been INCREASED From Thirty Grams per Week to Twenty Five Grams per Week. Mother Earth Thanks The Brother For The INCREASE From 30 to 25!
Berlin! ...Hows all that Hope and Change working out for them? Not so good Huh. (thanks for the visual!)
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