Attn: Annti...

There's a big to-do in your place.... GO. Ed's a rabble rouser, but circle Aug 29th and get your 'gelatinous tatooed butt' over there. Please.

And for the rest of you... While everyone is yelling USA! in endless choruses... I would say 'Shame!' Or why did Sixty Minutes have to show an expanded repeat version of poor and homeless children in America this past Sunday? Hearts sort of shrivelled, huh? I keep getting this 'impression' that a group of people over there have this mistaken idea that 'errm, you didn't work hard enough, so Gawwd didn't 'reward' you and make you prosperous, so it is YOUR fault if your children are going to bed hungry, and aren't going to have a chance at learning anything because they can't concentrate on anything if they don't have anything in their stomachs. TWENTY FIVE per cent of America's children are in poverty thanks to Bush and his co-horts.

You can pass a child on the street? Every fourth is HUNGRY in the most overfed FAT country in the world? Scrawny, you think? Parents 'don't care?'

Shame. That wasn't what I grew up with.

So Annti... big free clinic thing Aug. 29th. Get in their faces. So set your sights, darlin'... Might be a 'good' thing.

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