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> Saw this coming 100 miles away. Liberals. What you gonna do?
[Mordant cackle]. Ah, the travails of the apparatchik class. I keep myself sane by reminding myself that the Empire is $%^ed, burned, toast. This is just one of the feeble, dying embers of the beast -- sort of the US equivalent of the last Soviet crackdown on the independent republics in 1990.
The parallels between Obama and Gorbachev continue to accumulate faster than I can type them up.
-- DRR