Great letter in local paper (repuke might vote dem)

[eissa]

As some may know, I live in a VERY conservative part of California (I refer to it as the Alabama of California -- lots of Bible-thumping, Enquirer-reading, Springer-watching, immigrant-hating folks). Therefore, this letter in our local paper really made me smile. Enjoy!
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It's more than a little bit upsetting to hear supposedly responsible people, including President Bush, talk about expanding the presence of humans into space. Space projects cost huge sums of money, and money is the real subject of this letter.
There's an old country song that laments having "heartaches by the numbers," and "troubles by the score." We blundered into a very nearly impossible situation with an unaffordable and unknown price tag in Iraq. Both our health-care and immigration policies are in a shambles, our Social Security system is supposed to be going broke and now the president wants to head for the stars.

Having voted for George Bush in the last election, I may do so again. But he doesn't have a lock on me. Both Howard Dean and John Edwards are looking better and better, and I'm sure as heck not too old to change!

JACK STEVER
Oakdale

[redqueen]

1. Good news

The people you can only fool some of the time are waking up early!