I’m the co-writer of this blog along with Rick, and my ideas sometimes seem off the wall to the sadly unimaginative, so who am I to quash original thinking and analysis?

I am glad to read your ideas and, only slightly light heartedly add my own revenue producing possibility.

Open a brothel in the Capitol, which pretty much only means adding a red light bulb to a long existing situation. Except none of us gets kissed…first.

Pass a law, when they’re not making at pass at whomever is walking slow enough for a lawmaker to catch, that all liasons shall be permanently private and that all revenues shall be taxed at 25%, which funds will be directly sent to pay off the national debt. Two weeks? Three, maybe?? We’d be free and clear.

Plus, imagine the release of all that tension! The whole atmosphere in the DC area would elevate along with other parts. This is an open and shut case, really.

And THAT is exactly the time to raise (sorry) the idea of decriminalizing grass. A 70-year-old Senator who’s just been laid, if he can still remember the experience an hour later, is far more inclined to vote “What the hell!!” than some uptight, frustrated self-rightous mid-western ex-lawyer.

Let the flirtations begin. And…while you’re up, babe, would ja pass me that joint?

M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M….Democracy!

Robert M. Katzman

(And no, I don’t plan on putting a bid in to be the fresh towel supplier. Why, the very idea! Hey, who told you, anyway?)

Thank you for writing your thoughts.

I agree with #1. I’m for letting the rest of the world go its way and be focused on America first. If we are threatened the forcefully and quickly eliminate the threat without restrictions. The U.N. is not needed in such situations at all. In war, fight to win as the primary goal. No occupations, no nation building, no excuses, and no apologies.

I agree with #2.

I agree with #3, mostly.

I agree with #4, somewhat. I’m for free trade with any country. I don’t go along with national ideas of persecuting another nation for their human rights record, how they treat their people. What people do in other countries as long as they are no threat to us, should not be dealt with by Americans on a national level, but an individual can refuse to purchase goods or services from anyone.

I don’t agree generally with #5. Some of the specific laws you are referring to may be okay by me to void.

I don’t feel depressed about the lack of real progress at this time because Americans have not suffered enough yet to take real action to enact such changes. I don’t want Americans to suffer at all, but we do and that’s a fact.

At some point, I’m counting on Americans to set things straight with a new reality focus on the way things really are in the world. The current deep recession already marking its appearance is one sign that change might come. Fighting wars to stalemate or loss is another example when Americans decide that method isn’t sustainable. Court cases backlogged to the point of paralysis is a contributing factor of ill ease too, perhaps.

Many Americans think we should set the “example” for the rest of the world. How naive that is! I look at the rest of the world and realize they are setting the “examples” for us.

Don