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June 29, 2008 at 12:55:50

Headlined on 6/29/08:
Missing in America

by George Eyres Masters (Posted by Ed Tubbs) Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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Too scared to let my mind wander, I do anyway. I remember a girl back in the World- her face, the way she looked at me when we ate ice cream. Heat and water loss scrambles my thinking, makes my tongue thick, and caves in my cheeks. Stay here, don't drift, I tell myself. Easy to get sun drunk. Easy to sleep walk. Shake it off, bite your lip. I do and taste how the bitter bug juice mixes with the sweet copper of bleeding gums and the salt that drips off my nose.

I talk to myself. Mumble silently is more like it. Watch where you put your feet, look for movement, for a wire, a vine, stick and stone signs, a slight depression, for geometry- a straight line, a circle, a triangle, for what doesn't belong. Don't stare, you'll get hypnotized, scan. Doing it without thinking, repeating the movements like an endless rosary, my Marine squad stretches a hundred meters single file along the floor of Happy Valley.

I'm driving home

The car in front with the ribbons turns off. I go straight. Rolling down the windows, I crank up Rod Stewart on the radio and scratch Jack between his soft and beautiful ears. He likes his window all the way open. He moves there to put his face in the breeze. You want to do something for our troops, bring them home.

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Wolfie

$400 a barrel of oil if we attack Iran!

Cheney cares? , Dubya cares? Conyers cares? Pellosi cares? Reid cares?

Barack-a-chanack cares? Billary cares?

Mass on Washington D.C.

Do not allow any traffic in nor out. Stop it in its dirty tracks. Stay there

until every soldier we have return from our seven hundred bases and

untold number of wars, incursions, actions, and any other CIA or FBI or

Secret Service backed black box operation. Reduce the defense budget

by 90% and then keep a peace force in D.C. for a hundred years.

by Wolfie (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 33 diaries, 1208 comments) on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 6:54:11 PM

I am retired with not enough money saved to counter inflation and being forced back into the work force. I am a vet, (Vietnam era), extremely disappointed with the aggressive, imperialistic direction this country has taken in Iraq, to control and usurp it's oil, and the extent to which BOTH parties are complicit.
Nick van NesI am retired with not enough money saved to counter inflation and being forced back into the work force. I am a vet, (Vietnam era), extremely disappointed with the aggressive, imperialistic direction this country has taken in Iraq, to control and usurp it's oil, and the extent to which BOTH parties are complicit.

New Law

I propose a law which states no congressman or congresswoman should be allowed to vote for war unless they have experienced war first hand, front line, themselves, and if they have children and grandchildren between the age of 18 and 45, all their children and grandchildren must be taken from school and or jobs or homes or from whatever they happen to be doing or not doing and report for duty and be shipped to the front lines where they will be expected to hunt down and kill other human beings and be shot at themselves. No exception. The People have had enough of these freedom loving politicians.

by Nick van Nes (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 175 comments) on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:12:10 PM

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Kathryn SmithHello friends
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bravo! I applaud and second this idea!

Let's write to our grassroots leaders and propose that they push for this to become law. If hte grassroots is behind it with signatures out the wazoo, it may become reality.

I would bet that conservative and liberal entities alike would support this as law.

BRAVO!!! Let's go for it! This gives me hope!

Let's write a TSUNAMI of letters to our grassroots leaders!

epariser@moveon.org

info@credoaction.com

info@truemajority.org

info@couragecampaign.com

THANK YOU ALL!!

by Kathryn Smith (96 articles, 2 quicklinks, 41 diaries, 406 comments) on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 10:22:26 AM