YO! Bidcaller, m' man!

Aren't you glad you left the D. C. area now? I have wondered how your move and relocating efforts were going. I had hopes that you and the Missus would be able to route through this way, but, alas, it was not to be this time. We can always hold out hope for a future meeting some day, however.

Thank you for the birthday wishes and the kind words, my friend. We're hoping you will have your computer out of its storage space and online again very soon. You always have something extra and special to add here whenever you elect to do so. We look forward to the return of more of a routine in your life so that you can once again grace us with you additions to our little meleé.

I guess you are now buried under folks demanding plastic sheeting and duct tape these days. What concerns me is that anyone would have to be told to maintain supplies of these commodities. I am from south Louisiana where hurricanes can wreak havoc, leaving us without power for days on end. No self-respecting Louisianian worth his weight in nutria gumbo or alligator tail etouffé would be without the supplies that would be essential and needed in the event of such a situation.

Among the top of the list of items on a preparedness list there are plastic sheeting and duct tape. The same should hold true for our northern neighbors who face regular blizzards and snow bound days. It just seems reasonable to me that they would already have such goodies salted away against a necessity.

Anyone living in the area west of Arkansas and northern Texas all the way westward to Nevada knows how bad some of those sandstorms can be. Simple preparations would include the same emergency items and supplies. After all, being powerless and blocking out the elements are fairly universal chores no matter what element is the cause for such needs or the locale of that need.

Anyone living on the left coast of this country has to prepare for earthquakes and severe Pacific storms in their area. Again, same supplies, with the exception of some added latté supplies, white wine and brié being laid by.

It would appear to me that the only ones making a big deal out of the advisory to have these supplies on hand are the terminally unaware and unprepared and the sour grapes, whine, bitch and moan Dumbocans who need something to use against a President that has the backing of over 70% of the population, a majority in both the House and Senate (though someone seems to have forgotten to tell the Senate Repooblicrats they have the majority now and how they can use that fact to finally get something done up there for a change. I guess the legacy of Bob Dole lives on in those chambers even after he has passed on to Viagra and Holiday Inn commercials.

In case of another unwarranted terrorist attack, I hereby pledge to use my humongous supply of duct tape to tape shut the mouths of Daschle, Gephardt and those other asses up there. Then, were the attack biological or chemical in nature, I would track down the source of the device used for delivery and devote my nearly inexhaustible supply of plastic sheeting to create an enclosed room around that source. Then I would use my 2nd Amendment persuasive powers to herd Susan Sarandon, Mike Farrell, Charlie and Martin Sheen, Janeane Garofalo, Barbara Streissand, Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Sean Penn and all the rest of Daschles' Dachshunds of Ankle Biters into that enclosure. The resultant silence after the first few gasps and gags would be the signal for wonderful time of reasoned peacefullness for the rest of us.

Then, with the exception of Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, Chung and King, we would experience a renaissance of rational thought on the tube if we were lucky enough to get Alan Colmes with the first whiff of the deadly gift from UBL or Saddam.

I know. I know. It is but a dream, but it is so comforting a dream to harbor. Humor an old lion, won't ya?