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Maybe it'll attract them and then again, maybe it won't. I followed the instructions; filled the container 1/3 with water, opened the pellet backing half way, put the latter into the former and swirled. So far I had to kill two yellow jackets with an envelope because they threatened to entangle their buzzing selves into my hair. Can't have that. So, squish. However, now I'm not sure if the bee trap is working or not. But at least it's a nice, bright yellow to contrast the jumble of paperwork on my desk ...

Bush was busy kissing rich arse at the Heritage Foundation - leadership for america. (http://tinyurl.com/3b5oyt ) Yeah. Right. Just the kind of leadership I want that aids the rich to become more rich. And they sit around looking smug, all with their brown noses and clean arses.

Let's see what bushbaby had to say these rich cats sitting in litter boxes made of gold ...

"One of the interesting things about the Heritage legacy is that the folks here have been tireless advocates, tireless champions of liberty and free enterprise and democracy and religious freedom."

Champions of liberty .. as in warrentless searches? no habeas corpus? mandatory passports (as in, Herr, let me see your papers)? Did you know that one of the meanings of the word "champion" is a person who lacks morals or principles? Forgive me while I thesaurusize .. villain, blackguard, bastard, evildoer, heel, knave, miscreant, reprobate, scoundrel and son of a bitch. I see bushbaby and I can agree on this, he and his go-to-guys are definitely evildoing bastards. What an odd feeling knowing this engenders. But democracy? I thought this was a republic and religious freedom? Yes, as long as we bend knee to the favored, dominant god and don't pay attention to that "damn piece of paper" we real Americans call the U.S. Constitution. Which god? Whose god? Why god? This is not and never has been a nation founded on any religious edicts, let alone xtian.

What else did bushbaby have to say ... ah here, regarding liberty, free enterprise, democracy and religion. They are all values. I didn't know this; last time I checked values meant a principle standard or quality considered worthwhile or desirable.

Okay, I agree, liberty is both worthwhile and desirable but we don't have liberty. Any more.

Free enterprise? Sure, as long as it's a fully owned subsidiary of the great and wonderful Monocorp ala bush abiding by its rules and bushs' circumscriptions we are free to think private businesses are able, and indeed encouraged, to operate competitively for profit with minimal government regulation. Or, have we already forgotten what free enterprise really means.

Democracy. What does that mean anyway. I know it's suppose to represent a government by the people either directly or through elected reps, that the majority rules with principles of social equality and respect for the individual but seriously, when was the last time this country resembled that or more so, when was the last time anyone has pointed out the pledge of allegiance which states, at one point, ".. and to the republic, for which it stands ..". Republic. Non-religious republic that shuns royalty. We are suppose to have a political order whose head of state is NOT a monarch and in which the supreme power lies in the body of CITIZENS who are entitled to vote for officers and reps responsible to THEM. I ask you, is this what we have?

Religious freedom. Oh, to be free to practice what I believe, or more accurately, what you may not believe .. to believe nothing, or everything. It's a pipe dream and bushbaby has the lips of a god flapping in his ear telling him how righteous the bushes are in making sure we all are thought to be xtians .. like them. Good 'ol xtians and their forgiveness and love and sword welding and torturing to convince us all of our latent love for their god. Belief. It can not hold a candle to knowing and the religious right can't know, they can only believe and have faith. In my book, those two things are earned ... hard earned. And easily lost but not by gods or ethereal spirits floating about the oval office whispering 'axis of evil' into the ear of a drunken, doped-up, monarch wannabe; they are earned or lost by corporeal beings ... people.

And we've not gotten past the first few lines of bushbaby's speech to his Heritage buds. What more is there, you ask.

"Our nation was attacked by a brutal enemy that despises freedom, that rejects tolerance, that kills the innocent in the pursuit of a dark vision. These folks believe that it's OK to subjugate women and indoctrinate children and murder those who oppose their harsh rule. They have stated clearly they want to impose this ideology on millions. ..."

I am so tired of the 9-11 pill being shoved down our throats. It was a horrible tragedy, an attack to be sure but who were the all really behind it? It has the smells and tastes of Pearl Harbor. Bushy spoke no lies only he and others are still pointing across the ocean (to those nasty dogs who will follow us home if we don't play with them in their yard as if their flying two planes into two buildings in New York City didn't show they already know where we live ..) instead of at themselves. The description fits when the digit is aimed properly.

I'd go on but it's tiring and I'm preaching in the dark to a crowd of deaf people. One of bushbaby's speech writers did get it right when they wrote, "History teaches us that underestimating the words of evil, ambitious men is a terrible mistake."

Point taken, bushbaby, I will strive to not underestimate your words ... they're all the buzz. And, the trap.

They, the ubiquitous They, are everywhere. But of course They are all over because They are .. ubiquitous. Enough of chasing my own tail when I could be chasing the pick-up that passed me in a tight curve in spite of the fact no passing was allowed. They are in such a hurry so They pass others, and me, and end up just a few feet from my front bumper at the light. They remain in front of me as glaring proof that the few seconds gained add + up to = nothing, even in the short run.

But They aren't getting it. Even when I wave happily at them at every stop, for miles, to remind Them of Their awesome gain. I suspect They don't check Their rearview's, but mostly I think They believe They are either the most important people on the roads ("Outta my way, I'm in a hummveeeee!!"), or the ONLY ones on the roads.

The rest of us peons just don't exist. Which may explain why They don't seem to notice my hand gesticulations.

It used to be a nice drive here; could pull out of my driveway onto the road and never look, there were that few vehicles. Now, I need a freakin' light if I want to cross. A regular speedway going on with the idiots ripping up air east and west at 80 mph passing each other and sometimes, ending up in a ditch. Nice, deep ditches since the county came through and volunteered 365 hard-earned dollars out of my pocket into theirs so I could have: a deep ditch. A good thing to have while in a drought and even better to have in conjunction with the new culvert so copious amounts of dust can billow in and out instead of being forced through by high winds like a sand blaster.

You'd think more of Them would be dead. Sadly, They cause the problems and, due to Their great speed, are gone in a flash happy belted tightly to Their arrogant ignorance of the consequences to Their actions.

I used to ride my bicycle on these roads. Used to be a safe pedal, the five miles to the nearest town, but no longer. Huge tractor-trailers by the hundreds bang by at the mandated break-neck-speeds mowing down raccoon, rabbit, deer and bird alike as if they were but snowflakes not worthy of notice. However, this manner of traffic doesn't dissuade yuppies from gaggling into bicycling groups and taking up a quarter of the road in Their annual joy ride "in the country". I am torn between who, trucker or yuppie, I'd like to prevail when the two meet in a tight curve.

At the end of the day what I'd like each and every motorist and bicyclist in a fifty mile radius to know is: Get the FECK off my planet. You're driving me mad!