Bury the UNDEAD !

              Oddly enough this Memorial Day, I am thinking about one of

    the world's most famous undead - Lenin of the former Soviet Union. The

    man -who was an uncompromising atheist and " dialect materialist "- would

    be appalled to behold his putrescent, mummified corpse in Red Square.

          His brain - which planned a worker's utopia, not a Gulag nightmare -

    has been in a glass jar for year now. Nothing was learned from it, except

    that the communist " genius " may have been prematurely senile.

           The extreme hardening of his brain tissue is the perfect metaphor

    for ALL decayed dogma. A logical " system " for the Infinite - the human

    heart - will always elude us .

             But is it not common decency to finally put Lenin's remains - he

    was a Great Man - into Mother Earth ?

               And I think they will do less mischief there - reminding Russians

    of a very dialectical principle : ALL things pass away -even bloody utopian

    dreams .

John Glenn -just what NATO needed !

             National hero John Glenn's noble and sobering words in

    support of the NATO mission in Yugoslavia - " we must prevail .. "

    should strengthen the will of the alliance nations to do just

    that .

          His advice, I suspect, goes counter to the self-indulgence and

    self absorption of prosperous and cynical times - and the political

    ambitions of implacable Clinton haters !

          " A life spent focusing on itself will occupy a very small universe ",

    Glenn said.

            The horror in Kosovo - and the World Court branding President

    Milosovic a war criminal - should fire the moral imagination of the

    country.

             A NATO triumph here will be remembered 1000 years from now as

    its " finest hour ".

            When NATO troops escort those million refugees back to their

    homeland amidst a crushed foe , the whole FREE WORLD will be applauding-

    relieved that pure evil did not go unchecked.

            And irony of ironies the " Draft Dodger " - Bill Clinton - will

    leave office with the aura of a war hero !

              May the Force be with him !

Help Mrs.DiPrete !

To say on the front page of your paper ( May 27) that a

person - Mrs. DiPrete here - does not qualify for welfare - " no matter

how poor " - is to suggest that the Roosevelt Era, the New Deal, two

generations of progressive social change NEVER EXISTED or were a very

big mistake.

Mrs. DiPrete strikes me as old fashioned wife and mother type-

rendered unfit for the everyday work world.

She should get at least some minimal help until retrained for

the job market .

I wish her well. And is there any excuse to endlessly torment

her husband and family ?

Al Gore - the NEXT president !

Dear Mr. Gore, Vice President of the U.S. :

My retired parents have keen instincts here. They

told me Sunday that the transcendental moment of political

fate had passed : when YOUR vote won the day for sanity on

gun control.

Someone on National Public Radio described you as THE

MAN ON THE WHITE HORSE .

Proud of you, my family now thinks Al Gore as THE NEXT

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!


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comment from Ron Marshall:

Morning Ron--I just received your forwarded message to Al Gore. I can
    assure you that Gore is the Right's worse nightmare--worse than  Clinton
    in their eyes! Clinton may be a "closet Liberal" but Gore is a the Real
    Thing! To the far Right, he's an insidious tool of the New World Order
    Conspiracy. Gore will take away their guns and leave them defenseless
    against hordes of inner-city criminals and United Nations "occupation"
    forces operating in a clandestine fashion on US soil! Gore is an evil
    exponent of One World Government. For conservatives, his record and
    commitment to environmental protection is nothing short of subversive &
    "anti-capitalist." For all these reasons, Gore will have an immense
    appeal to the moderate voting majority who want some sane measure of gun
    control (especially after the bloodbath in Littleton), strong
    environmental protections, & a President they can trust to preserve not
    tear away at the social compact between the people and their government.
    WHEN Gore is elected President he will be the first 21st Century
    president--e.g., of the new Millennium! This will be viewed as an
    ill-omen by many on the Right. The insidious New World Order  Conspiracy
    will then be unstoppable in their view. For conservatives, any chance of
    making a U turn back to the 19th Century, or at least turning back the
    clock by several decades,  will be thwarted by Gore's "out of the closet
    liberalism" A genuine "compassion fascist" & "environmental wacko." In
    fact, we may witness nothing short of hysteria when Gore takes his oath
    of office. That will make talk radio more fun than ever as far as I''m
    concerned. For those who embrace the Right--defined as the haunting fear
    that someone somewhere is getting an even break, Al Gore brings instant
    shudders! Just listen to the Toxic Jockeys on the radio who exploit
    their sense of paranoia! Ah yes--the Millennium is gonna be fun to
    watch! More popcorn?

    Take care buddy. I'm sure the Vice President will be very touched by
    your letter. Well done indeed!

    For the New World Order--Ronnie the Blue Helmet