HAPPY EASTER

To a Bluebonnet Harbinger of spring Fashion plate with delicate Blue and White flowers with green leaves. Ringing out that winter is gone with its Cruel blast of Arctic wind that rules The Temperate Zone with numbing freeze. Delicate flower of the Texas Plain Growth uninterrupted through the fall and winter rain Covered in snow but growing on Until the warm spring days bring forth Delicate blue and white flowers, That burst forth in springtime songs To tell of all the things that are to be... And of all the things that have been. Roots nourishing on the decayed bones of buffalo, Growing in land that was trodden on by hooves of Indian Ponies. Limestone rock laid under ancient seas. Flowers of prehistoric times Surviving through drought, flood, fire... Plants growing from seed lying in the ground. Unable to grow until a time determined by nature's law, Bringing it forth to spring out of the soil. Delicate flower of thee I sing Praises on your beautiful frame That shows forth the work of God. You who can survive the stress of time And bloom with brilliance every spring. Send hope that the human race will also Survive Atomic bombs, pestilence and flood To do the work of the Divine Who was resurrected at Eastertime. By Luther Butler

Jeb Bush Renews Calls to Help Schiavo - EarthLink - U.S. News

Jeb Bush Renews Calls to Help Schiavo - EarthLink - U.S. News The Bushs have shown their concern for this poor comatose lady. In calling Congress back into session millions of dollars were wasted. In contrast think of the poor people in the United States who have been cut off of assistance. Think of the children who will go hungry because of the inhuman action of President Bush. Think of the military people who have been killed and injured in the Middle East because of the stupid actions of our President. This is a political move by Bush to capture public support. He cares nothing for the suffering people of the world.

Red Lake, Minnesota

The school shooting in Red Lake, Minnesota was where Nick Fielding in my novel, AIDS, NO PLACE TO DIE, worked one summer while he was in reform school. Red Lake is where he started a half-breed son who was killed by another inmate. Nick's friend, Chief, was from this village, and after WWII, he hoped to return there. Instead while he was in the South Pacific.....buy the book online.

Bush

"To fix" colloquialism used by rural people to remove the balls from male animals. Whenever President Bush fixes something, the American people lose their balls. http://www.moderateindependent.com/v3i6ashton.htm Xrated, but the best analysis of the Bush administration I've read.

luther butler's thoughts

ATLANTA - Shackled and surrounded by 19 officers in a cinderblock jail room, the man accused of overpowering a courthouse deputy and killing a judge and three others appeared Tuesday before a magistrate for the first time since the rampage. MY COMMENT: On the news there was an announcement it would take a month to decide what to charge this monster with. My gut feeling is that they should get a long rope, throw it across the limb of a tall tree, and put this murderer out of his misery. What is there to decide? The man stood in court and shot innocent people. The only possible defense this man's lawyer could make is a plea of insanity. Could this man's actions have been caused by drugs?

Iraq War

(Since the Iraq election the brutality goes on. Perhaps these thoughts that are copied best explain the situation) To DEBBIE LINCOLN from big mamaFriday, Mar 11, 2005 (12:03:47 am CST)Stephenville Empire Tribune Bulletin board.>>>>> Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace: Dwight David Eisenhower : 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969 >>>>>>Eisenhower,in his farewell message January 1961, also warned about the military-Industrial complex. Now almost half of our tax money goes to the mil-Ind complex. You wouldn't think starting wars would be in thier self interest now would you? Of course the people working in the industry need thier jobs but I'm not sure that the jobs can fully justify the cost and the influence that the mil-ind has on our government. The "is any war justified" question is loaded. Of course a war can be justified if all else fails or we are surprise attacked. The invasion of Iraq was unjustified because they were not a threat to anyone, had no WMDs, had done nothing to us and was unable to defend themselves. We were not attacked by Iraq as some believe and some would have you believe. I think dick cheney is still telling that to the true believers but in public he will admit that Iraq did not attack us. The true believers will believe anything as long as it isn't true.