Reply #5: photobucket appears to be working fine this morning but it DID shut down, as I said earlier...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Here is the file in question:


And while I cannot actually read Arabic; here is my interpretation:

Contradicting the message at Photobucket, none of my imagery became available during the "maintenance." Pictures in subsequent posts come straight from source-sites. The preceding graphic is from my Photobucket file. It was the one I attempted to upload when I lost all access to Photobucket. Nothing could have made the spoof funnier than this odd coincidence.

Certainly, abuses of civil liberty and our Bill of Rights are not funny at all. Issues involving loss of freedom in America are of paramount importance, especially with so many fine Americans dying this very day to defend those freedoms. Still, fear, as always, is this administration's top-tool in the shed. Succumbing to fear of Bush-controlled secret policing organizations gives them power. While conventional wisdom might suggest that we do everything possible to avoid imperial entanglements, we must remember that German citizens likely felt this very same way, as Hitler took control before WWII. Will history actually repeat itself, if we forget the lessons it offers?