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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Please tell me 
> what to do, what to say, say it or write and to whom. Educate me as to what 
> solid things you are doing to improve the situation 

First, I'd ask this:  to anyone, actually.  What has the federal government 
done under Bush that has *directly* affected your life?    Let me lay aside 
the 
for the moment such things as Bush started hurricane Katrina, or that global 
warming (even if it were true) has really changed the environment under Bush 
and because of Bush.  Further let me limit that to things that weren't 
already 
in play and in the works under previous presidents.  For example an good case 
could be made that NAFTA and GAT and such have had a direct and significant 
impact, but Bush W didn't bring those about single handedly.

Are you paying a lot more in taxes, under more suppressive laws, unable to 
obtain work, food, housing more now than before Bush?

If there's not a significant answer to my question, then I submit, as Cassius 
did to Brutus, "Our fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are 
underlings ..."

Bush is stumbling, I don't think he has a brilliant hidden master plan, and I 
wouldn't be a bit surprised to see his presidency crumble.  But in the 'work 
of the world' lives we live, what difference is that going to make?

Exciting social and economic times are ahead, but only for those with an ear 
to the ground and an eye on the horizon.  In that context, Bush is just a 
distraction, being swept along on the times same as us.

Suppose you could call, write, etc. and get us out of Iraq tomorrow, sign 
onto the Kyoto Treaty, and and and all other concessions from Bush.  How 
would 
life be any different?   The world will still be short on petroleum, and if 
we 
are past peak oil, it isn't going to change that a bit.  The ticking time 
bomb 
of stock-pension-SS-investments(including real estate) has still to be dealt 
with.  

What all that means is my suggestion is at least this:  forget about Bush.  
I'm convinced more and more each day that he truly is Zephod Beeblebrox.  
With 
the Bush addiction (through some twelve step program) suppressed, no mention 
of Bush, what do you have to say then?  Plenty, I'd hope.

There isn't anyone you can write to, call, email that is going to make much 
difference in the REAL problems we are facing. Oh, it might get Bush to quit 
saying "God told me..." or some such drivvel, but it won't do any real, 
material 
good.  Instead, any instance of not feeding the beast that would devour us 
DOES do some good.  And being an example of a sane, peaceful life outside of 
the 
bruhaha is far more valuable than yet another call or fax saying "Hurray for 
our side."

" But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me
  The Quarrel of the Universe let be
  And, in some corner of the Hubbub coucht,
  Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee."
                                                      (from the Rybbaiyat)