As unsettling and disturbing as these images are, they seem to echo the permanently frozen, impossible faces we see splattered in the pages of every magazine and even our own city streets.
While Bush is working hard to repeal the estate tax permanently, it's impossible to say definitively what the tax laws will be like in 2011.
Republican leaders knew at the start of the year that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to permanently extend President Bush's tax cuts, given the discomfort over soaring budget deficits and the Republicans' tiny majority in the Senate.
If the TPP treaty is signed and ratified, with the current language still intact, it would make permanently fixing cellphone unlocking impossible.
The other reason why it's virtually impossible to permanently muzzle anyone that talks homophobic and race trash is either the sphinx-like silence of top politicians, broadcast industry leaders, and corporate sponsors.
Further, it is impossible to permanently segregate zoo animals from wild rodents.
For example, he says, non-essential staff should not be hired "permanently", because that makes them impossible to sack.
Indeed, if Congress put the McConnell rule into effect permanently, it would make it impossible for a small group of lawmakers to push the country into default.
"We know that there are winners and losers – managing losing funds from a high base is challenging, but managing on a permanently low base is becoming impossible.
Augustus himself had been well aware that it was impossible to disguise permanently the supremacy that accumulation of powers gained piecemeal conferred; his deportment in his last years differed little from that of Vespasian, Titus, and the so-called five good emperors who followed them.
