October 28, 2004

• Want to win the War on Drugs? Stop buying them. Besides, the more money spent on illegal drugs, the lotto, or at casinos, the more the federal government figures you could pay in additional taxes. Throw vacations in there too. And remember that the national debt is also a tax. A tax that Bush ran up a record trillion dollars in the last year and a half.

• Want to win the War on Terror? Pull our military out of the more than 725 bases we've set up in 70 percent of the world. Bring the troops home and have them guard our borders. Give up the dreams of Empire and the New World Odor. It didn't happen overnight. Start watching where your hard earned money goes. How would you feel if the Russians or the Chinese had military bases across the U.S.? Soldiers are not diplomats.

• Want to get rid of George W. Bush? Let him think he's winning the election or has a good chance to win. This will keep him from having a snit fit or throwing a temper tantrum and possibly bringing us another 9/11. Then, go to the polls and vote him and his gang of thugs out of office. Show him that voting can be a "weapon of mass destruction."

• Want an honest election? It's not too late to go back to 19th Century paper ballots that you can fold and stuff in a box. Kinkos could print them up in no time. Have a check off square for each national and local candidate and let the precinct volunteers count the results by hand. Pay them and shelter or cloister them in luxury, we do it with juries. If you can't trust grandma and grandpa who can you trust? So what if results take a week? It's mostly the candidates and the media who want instant results. Remind them of the 2000 election debacle and tell them to stick it.

• Want stability in Iraq? Pull our troops out and send money. We should never have been there in the first place. We now have the choice of losing everything or slowly bleeding to death. A nation of people who live by God's law, pray at least three times a day, and have disdain for man-made laws will never accept democracy, particularly our form of democracy.

• Want even more stability in Iraq? Send enough money for the Iraqi people to rebuild their buildings, homes, and infrastructure themselves and contract with their neighbors to help do the job. After all, before we turned everything into rubble they did the job themselves. We will pay through the nose and the Iraqis will find work without having to join the army or police. Only Halliburton and other bloodsuckers will lose. We end up paying for mistakes we're going to pay for anyway. What's the difference?

• Want a good job? Go to work for the federal government. They've got good salaries, never fire anybody, and have tremendous health, retirement, and investment programs. The government is the nation's largest employer with offices in every major city. If you can't find a job with the feds directly, try a company with big government contracts. They've even "privatized" the Pentagon and free enterprise is disappearing with jobs awarded on cronyism, paybacks, and who you know.

• Want a flu shot? Isn't it ironic and literally sickening that we are warned not to buy prescription drugs from foreign countries when the only supply of flu vaccine comes from England and France? In the early Eighties, when I was hooked on "Afrin" nasal spray and paid $4.20 for it in the U.S., I was able to buy the exact same brand product in Mexico City for .17 cents U.S. Are we afraid of our own drugs sold in Mexico at lower prices? Are the pharmaceutical manufacturers that our so-called representatives in Congress refuse to regulate using other countries as a dumping ground for inferior product? Do people get the flu in Mexico? If not, then Texas, Florida, and other Southern States shouldn't need the vaccine either.

Senate majority leader Bill Frist made sure all members of the Senate could get flu shots because, get this, shaking so many hands puts them at high risk. Gee, somebody should send Adrian Monk and Sharona to teach the good Senators about wet wipes.

Meanwhile, we are told to wash our hands frequently and not touch our eyes, nose, mouth, or face. Maybe McDonalds will give away at least one disposable glove with each order of French fries. Will that be a right or a leftie glove with your order?

If that question were put to the federal government it would take years, several committees, and research into the needs, habits, usage patterns, and perceptions of the number of right or left handed people before they could plunge forward tentatively with an ambiguous answer. The fact that one glove could fit either hand would throw them into a complete tizzy.

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