The Day After - 9/12/02

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?THE DAY AFTER - 9/12/2002?

Well, from CHADS to SHAD, from Boom Times to a Battered Economy, the general public still seems more concerned about purely ?Bread and Butter Issues? than a world at war or domestic atrocity? In this respect - ?Not Much Has Changed Since 9/11!??

Of course, the boys with the political crystal-balls are busy again displaying their
Nostradamus (aka- Michel de Notredame) penchant for intrigue. Hell, some of those damned fools even say that the New York lottery has also fallen under the spell of the times, as the winning number in yesterday?s drawing turned out to be ?9-1-1?! Yeah sure, and Mickey Mouse (Sorcerer?s Apprentice) probably is running for president too? Well, if not president, at least the Governor of Florida!! (opinion)

As for our economy being weak, I say, never pre-judge anyone or anything on the basis of what you hear or see upon ?Yon Vested Tube!? TV after all, is the greatest weapon in the arsenal of those who would be kings. The gullible often sit for hours viewing the improbable, firmly believing that absolutely all of this tripe is indeed truth. Many within politics, in fact, rely heavily upon this sad phenomenon - ?How else, after all, do some get elected?? And in a recent test given to kids in New Zealand, asking them to locate their
own nation on a world map, it seems that many did not even know where in the hell they were planted? Some placed their country of origin in the mid-Atlantic, while a few others thought New Zealand to be in the Northern Latitudes?! And this amazing revelation is not limited to the ?Lands Down Under? either, as years ago, some teenage school-kids in the Southeast thought that the only way to get to their area from California was by boat! Yet another, thought that Portugal was situated somewhere south of Mexico?

Hey, and what about the military?s new order to ?Clean Up Their Act?!? The Pentagon is greatly disturbed over the fact that many of our combatants in Afghanistan have gone native! Beards, dirt and local clothing have replaced standard issue! As such, the order has come down that this practice is now verboten! ?Back to regs, or busted!? But what I found truly amazing in today?s news, was the fact that some in our government are charging that ?Slippery Saddam? is an abject liar (Hell yeah he is, but who in world
politics is not)? The words ?LIAR and POLITICIAN? are far from being oxymoronic!

Finally - ?What about those Floridians?? Apparently, the last presidential election was not
a one time shot when it came to political intrigue. The Hanging Chads, the absentee ballots, and the charges and counter-charges of corruption, are again beginning to surface in the Sunshine State. And this, in an effort to determine who will face off against one of the ?Bush Boys? in the next State gubernatorial elections. Hey man, if something works, don?t fix it! Fixing elections is one thing, but fixing the mechanisms that fix elections, is absolutely un-American!! ?Is nothing sacred!??

VERITAS