The lesson for today

[kentuck]

It is that the corruption runs so deep that not even a silver sword or the brightest light of truth can penetrate.

The lies have taken root. It is much like the days of McCarthy.

Like lemmings, they(we) see the cliff up ahead, but they(we) keep marching along.

Do they(we) really think the truth will not emerge??

Do they(we) not understand that a trial without witnesses, especially under these circumstances, would not be a legitimate trial.

It would be incomplete. It would not be a fair trial.

Can they(we) not see that?

The people will exact a price from those on the wrong side of this issue.

[NCLefty]

1. Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

At their darkest moment in Mordor--on the barren plains of Gorgoroth--with their journey seemingly going on forever like an "ever-darkening dream," Sam and Frodo escape in hallucinations, imagining they're back in sunny Hobbiton. In this waste land, with Mount Doom billowing black smoke into the sky, even the stars are blotted out at night. Sam never lets go of the phial of Galadriel, however. He wears it around his neck--a glowing symbol of goodness and hope, the antithesis to the evil Ring of Doom on its golden necklace, weighing down Frodo's head like a millstone.

/Marianne Williamson mode OFF

[kentuck]

2. +1000

[burrowowl]

5. Excellent take

[lastlib]

3. As I said during the impeachment hearings,

Repubs face a stark choice: they can choose to be onthe irght side of infamy--or they can be buried by it.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Cheer up!

In this environment Nacht und Nebel won't be needed. Opposition is irrelevant.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Brilliantly stated K!