FIRST, THEY CAME FOR THE PEACEMONGERS

War is sell. Propaganda rules, so it's a done deal for Iran and Syria. Peacemongers will be dealt with as part of the problem. If you're patriotic, you'll go along with the presidents/potentates.

So get your flags and ribbons ready. They'll be needed for a long time this time. Think of all those Arabs and Muslims yearning to breathe free. We might have to knock off most of them because freedom isn't free - especially when it's given away.

Presidents use power, often arrogantly, as everyone knows. Things will get worse before we catch on. Someday we'll be wise enough to avoid conflicts - like the French, Swiss, Italians, and Swedes who have had enough of war. Their genes remember. They want no more war.

The war people will call it isolationism, but we'll tell the world: "If you can't overthrow your Stalins, Hitlers, Maos, Saddams, and Castros, then maybe you don't deserve to live free." Liberties have to be struggled for from the inside out. We'll no longer plant democratic governments. Oh, neither will we send CIA assassins into your countries. It's your country, your government. You know what your problem is, solve it yourselves.

Meanwhile, we must endure the silence of the lambs being led to wars. Protesting will become more dangerous. During the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau went to prison for refusing to pay a tax to support the war. When Ralph Waldo Emerson visited his friend behind bars, he said, "Henry, what are you doing in?" Thoreau replied, "Ralph, what are you doing out?"

We'll have to decide whether we are in or out.

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Thoughts While Jaywalking

* Many thousands marched in every city yesterday, demanding immigration reform. The cry was heard: "USA, We will stay." They want to be legal; they want citizenship. But wait, if we make Americans out of them, who's going to do the jobs Americans won't do?

* The truth-twister on radio, ("Which one, you ask?) Glenn Beck, is claiming that President Bush's Mission Accomplished ceremony on the ship in San Diego harbor four years ago was meant only for those sailors returning from Cheney's War in the gulf. Most of his listeners are too sharp for that one, but apparently Glenn doesn't think so.

* The president used his veto against the bill to withdraw troops. He'll meet with the Democrats in Congress about a different way to deal with this war to end all wars.

* Senate majority leader Harry Reid says Bush got us into the middle of a civil war. Who could deny that? I mean, besides Snowjob Tad? Saddam's secular government kept the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds from what they're doing now. The peacemongers pointed this out BEFORE Shock & Awe. We can't bring the dictator back, can we?

* Governor Richardson has the experience, judgement and soul to be a very good man in the White House. His likely vice president would stay close by, so she could make coffee and greet visitors.

Meeting & Events

What Don't Women Want Expo....coming soon. Watch for time and place.

Help Wanted

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Twenty-Years-From-Now News

* President Juan Aquino ordered the U.S. Army to seize all the oil fields in the United States yesterday. He intends to nationalize all future oil pumping and reserves allocations. He said, "Our oil is our oil, not Chevron's or Exxon/Mobil's." Oil executives intend to fight in the courts. The Supreme Court will probably take the case in future months, weeks or days.

* Top tune on the Hit Parade is "Who Would Buddha Bomb?".

* Water rationing begins in St. George on June first. Anyone caught gulping - not sipping - H2O will be sent to Purgatory and housed with loiterers.

Quote

"History is bunk." - Henry Ford