OpEdNews - Page 3 of Article: <b>Mr. Rove's Opus of Deception: 9/11 And The Lonesome Ballad of Blind Willie McMansion.</b>

I'm having this recurring vision of flocks and then more flocks of returning, roost-seeking chickens. There will be so many flocks of roosting, rampaging, revenge-reaping chickens (Also known as: the collective enmity of the people of the world beyond our shores ... peck, cluck, cluck peck; ad this to, our nation's financial insolvency (personal and collective) ... cluck, cluck, scratch, peck, scratch peck; those combined that with the increasingly apparent realities of Global Warming ... peck, peck, peck, scratch, CLUCK!; as well as, our Nation's crumbling infrastructure; plus, the vast catalog of other ills looming over us ...CLUCK! CLUCK! PECK! PECK! PECK!) Returning chickens, all ... thronging the streets, boulevards, Interstate highways, back roads, and private driveways of the U.S.A. Such a proliferation of barnyard fowl blowback -- it will look like Col. Sanders, OD'd on bad acid, having a vision of his eternal damnation to come.

Are we utterly defenseless against these pervasive and pernicious narratives? I don't believe so -- if we practice the imperative of the free: That being: Question everything -- from street signs to sacred assumptions; from the cant of local boosterism to the hagiography of the famous, both living and dead. There may be hope for us yet: If we face down and call out those everyday, soul-grinding, life-defying lies that begin the process of acceptance of -- hence complicity in -- the preventable tragedies that have come to define our times.

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