I guess all us loyal democrats (that leaves me out) right now are waiting for the other shoe to drop. George Bush had a few political tricks last month but the well now appears to be running dry at this crutial point nineteen days out before the election. Things look so bad for the republicans all of us are assuming they have something up their sleves to spring on us at the last moment to turn the elections to the Republicans. They want to tilt the playing field in their favor and the only question is how? The North Korea nuclear bomb testing won't help them because KTLK today said that while Clinton was President there were cameras constantly fixed on their Plutonium supply as part of an agreement. Bush blew off all prior agreements in 2002 leaving North Korea free to do as it wills. We know from tests that their latest nuclear bomb used Plutonium, so Clinton can't be at fault for their setting it off. There is bad news from Iraq today (as if there wern't enough) Generals and others are saying that violence is up, even if we haven't yet lost the seven thousand American lives lost on Iwo Jima. I guess all their worst fears are coming to pass and insergency, etcetra, is escalating in Bhagdad despite our heavier occupation of that city. The whole republican party is so scandal ridden you lose track. You have the whole Indian tribe gambling deal in Texas. You have the oriental whore house and failure of Ton Delay and Jack Abramoff to bring a key bill to the floor. You still have fundamentalist Christians appearing to defend Ken Ley and Enron. This whole sex with a page scandal gets worse every day, but at least the offending priest forty years ago has come forward and confessed. Of course we're assuming the Born Again community won't want to turn out in great numbers. On KKLA they were saying just yesterday that the numbers look worse for the Republicans now than they did for the Democrats in 1994. The people who want a ballanced budget and an overturn of Roe vs Wade, and Social Securety privitization were disappointed long ago. Al Franken says that as of now the Democrats will gain seven senate seats, which is one more than they need to take both houses, and that a swing of fifty - five O - house members is likely. People keep saying "I wish the election were held today". You know something propagandistic is going to happen. Perhaps this football stadium scare was a test balloon. Perhaps there will be a Bin Laden vidio tape like just before the election of 2004 to throw the election. There are roomers of democrats being removed from voter regestration rolls in Ohio just like last time. And the thing is- - if the Democrats and people of comon sense don't take over soon, we're going to have some sort of a quazi fasciest state in America where nobody will have any rights. As the people from KTLK point out, Wednesday October 17th. was a dark day in American history because that's the day President Bush signed a bill that strips all of us of our civil rights. You never know who is going to be declared a "security risk" now. Perhaps George Bush will be so dispondant at both houses going democratic that he'll just resign. I don't think he's a man who likes to lose - - not with all that cocaine coarsing through his system. We have to keep our fingers crossed.

Randy Rhodes the other day has a Christian pastor on. We know Bush hasn't been straight with members of the Born Again community. He made promises to them he didn't keep concerning eight billion dollars to the poor and other "faith" causes. Nobody should be surprised about Bush turning out to be a liar. They say that Karl Rove is a non-believer anyhow. It is said that we don't have to keep the ten commandments today because the book of Galations in the Bible gives us a pass and that "The Law" was "nailed to the cross". That book got included in the Bible the same reason "turn the other cheek" and "Prince of peace" got in the Bible. Both the Paul and Jesus remarks had anti-semitisum as their modas opperandi. There was so much of the New Testament that seems to have been included merely because it was a way of sticking it to the Jews. I'm not against morality; I'm in favor of morality. My beef against the Christian religion has little to do with morality per se, but a lot of other stuff I don't care to dealve into. Randy Rhodes says she is a Christian. If that is so maybe she can write a treaties on the subject, just like Marcion did. And then the Catholic Church can burn it. I think the whole "Christian Right" has about as much good karma as Samantha Brady and Lexi Carver, at this point.

News Flash: I just heard that Wierd Al Yankivich commited suicide by blowing his brains out. I never heard that before and I hope it isn't true.

What we need in this country is some tranquility in government. But we won't get that untill Carrie Brady gets her revenge. No, that's not right. Untill we fully investigate president Bush and he is made to account for all his crimes one way or the other. Impeachment seems out of the question with Dick Chaney waiting in the wings. But there would seem a lot of ways to make the last two years for President Bush mighty unpleasent. You know, a year ago Arnold Swartzenegger was in big trouble after his ballot measures failed - all four of them. But the Governater took a hint and got his act together and in his next January message gave perhaps the most liberal State of the State message since Pat Brown. It was refreshing to hear. I don't see what would prevent George Bush from "getting religion". It's contrary to his nature as an invetterate liar and stubbornness to the point of irrationality, but perhaps if he prays to whatever God he worships, he'll get some answers.