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1.4.06 @ 12:01AM

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Don't think for a second that I think the Republicans should get a free roll. They are just as flawed, evil and corrupt as their counterparts on the other side of the aisle, if for many different reasons -- and this party also is made up primarily of sociopaths. Without going into the faults of the Republicans, let it just be said that it is obvious that at some point the party must have underwent mass castration at some secret ceremony.

The bottom line is simple.

The leak, or whatever you want to call it, revealing the fact NSA was operating in clandestine fashion in the home land, is hardly the point. It is a mere distraction that serves as a talking point for those representing the body politic corrupt. The questions about NSA, which is far more secretive than the Central Intelligence Agency ever was, need to be discussed in private.

This country is at war, threatened as it has never been threatened before and in a manner almost unfathomable, and the hard decisions that need to be made to insure the future of this great country are the only issue. It matters not what political eunuchs such as Senator Schumer say.

Just to put this in a personal perspective, I am a Republican in exile from politics and an Episcopalian in exile from organized religion. Both have become organizations that believe in everything and thus nothing and that has left me in a place somewhere to the right of the John Birch Society and to the left of Lenin.

I do not wish to come across as some tobacco-spitting hillbilly from the outback but I am beginning to wonder if today's Washington politicians are the anti-Christ.

No, I don't think that is a ridiculous question either.

Peace, brothers and sisters.
-- Kelso Sturgeon
Henderson, Nevada

THANKS, BUT...
Re: Ralph R. Reiland's A New Years Resolution:

The very thought of Allen Ginsberg as a New Year's resolution makes Paris Hilton sound good (after the appropriate vaccinations).
-- David Govett
Davis, California

STILL FREE
Re: Ben Stein's Good Morning, 2006:

Thank you Ben, again. You are really extraordinary. From a grateful heart.
-- Nan Patton

Thanks again to Ben Stein for reminding us how memories of our happiest moments contribute to our lives. Think of the memories made today for the participants and spectators at the 117th Tournament of Roses Parade. Whether you love a parade or not you need a heart of stone not to admire those willing and proud to march 5-1/2 miles in a driving rain -- one that most of us would not walk out to get our newspapers in -- to continue in a tradition unbroken since 1890.

December 7, 1941 did not cancel the annual parade. September 11, 2001 did not. That says something about the pride, trust and sheer guts of the American people -- to congregate in what could be harm's way -- in spite of all. I don't know what protected the throngs in 1941, but I have no doubt the Patriot Act protects us now.

Who could watch without a ripple of pride, as the United States Marine Corps Band passed, playing the Marines' Hymn? There was a time when children could sing along to that music. In our politically correct schools, who allow no recruiters on campus, I doubt the lyrics are even known, much less how they came to be. The reference "to the shores of Tripoli" comes from the Marines, in 1805 taking part in the capture of Darnah (now Libya) during a war with the Barbary Pirates (sounds like a baseball team, doesn't it?). Then in 1847 Marines were called upon to assist in the capture and occupation of Mexico City and the Castle of Chapultapec, a.k.a. the "Halls of Montezuma." These two engagements -- reversed in chronology for purposes of "scanning" -- were cited in what was to become the Marines' Hymn.

From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country's battles
On the land and on the sea
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean
We are proud to bear the title
Of United States Marine.

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