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"I want to be in Kentucky when the end of the world comes, because it's always twenty years behind." - Mark Twain

Let me start my little grassroots endeavor here with some humor. God knows if you don't have a sense of humor about much of everything, you won't get too far. Laughter, music, and sex are some things they cannot take away from you.

And by they I mean the man, the big cheese, etc.

I have taken into consideration such endeavors may lead such officials with a bad taste and their mouth. No, they didn't just eat triple-anchovy pizza with a whole garlic clove thrown in.

Maybe they're afraid I'm...dare I say, a terrorist.

Well, if that's the case shouldn't these folks be considered terrorists? Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, Robert F. Kennedy, and pretty much all our founding fathers?

Then I thought, perhaps the "Founding Fathers" wouldn't know what to do in this situation. Washington was a military man, not some corporate lawyer. Even Lincoln in all his wisdom probably couldn't wrap his brain around the $700 billion and GM bailouts.

Let's get our minds off the past, despite the fact we should look at history for the answers. But the Founding Fathers are not going to answer all our questions. Even they had national debt and banking problems, military dilemmas, and if you were able to contact them in some sort of seance would more than likely ask for an iPhone for their birthday gift.

You're saying "Get to a point, please" and I confess, I love to ramble.

Basically, if this is the end of the world what an end to make, right? Even the optimist in me has to laugh at that somewhat. This is not the end of the world. The Great Depression was much worse. I don't know how my grandparents got through it all; perhaps they were just tougher people.

They didn't have wireless technology, HD televisions, video games, and half the amenities we now take for granted. And we all take things for granted. We also live in our own little worlds, in fear of what lies on the other side of the door, after 9/11 especially.

Perhaps it's time for something different: making things happen, speaking face to face with others instead of sending emails, uniting under a common cause, and resolving to transcend what our fearless leaders expect of us.

Peace and good fortune to all.