12-02-2010, 11:25 AM
Myra Bronstein Wrote:Barack Bush has failed to fulfill his promise to close the Guantánamo Bay concentration camp withing one year. Shocking... if you were so gullible as to believe him.
However, 42 activists were arrested at the US Capitol in a day of action to denounce Obama's broken promises on Guantanamo. So that's a pretty good trade off, eh?
Ah, the benefits of a national state of emergency. What a wonderful tool to have at one's disposal...
Can we make it Barack O'Bush henceforward -- it has a better ring to it. (Sorry to our Irish readers, no insult intended - I'm a big fan of the people of the Leprechauns btw)
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14