"If America cuts and runs in Iraq, who's going to tell the families that their loss was in vain?"

Karl Rove, June 2, 2006

NOVEMBER, 2006

SHIFT HAPPENS: Workers in the dark

Democrats casting Secret Ballots, 2200 more troops for "one last push" in Iraq.

BUSH 41...

Sound like what you voted for?

The title sequence for George Romero's "DAWN OF THE DEAD" shows what it's like to go to sleep glossy & replete; having missed or ignored the subtle hints that things may be very different when you wake up.

By the time Johnny Cash (Peace be upon him) stops singing, we have seen and recognized how quickly Suburbia USA can become downtown Baghdad. For a few seconds we see what may be the most horrific image in the film; an impromptu press conference on the steps of the Capitol by nameless stand-ins for familiar faces either evacuated or already dead. With the screams of the zombie horde only heard and reacted to offscreen, the icons of the American Way; their faces frozen with the realization that the System has failed even them, fall back in mid-proclamation to the military helicopter behind them, replaced by soldiers firing into the crowd in front of the podium.

A "fake" Black & White newsclip from the Future that has BUSH 43, politicians Red and Blue, and New Bosses; the "same as the Old" Bosses, sweating bullets every night.

One of the most enduring horror film cliché's are the survivors; exhausted but jubilant, unaware of the unseen remnant of the Monster they believe dead and gone forever, yet still at risk as it grows to full menace again.

The Permanent Republican Majority is not dead.

It still threatens to slide out of it's red state womb to slaughter everyone in the newly blue delivery room and beyond.