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This is my letter to the record companies... I sent out to many today.

Yesterday, I took 19 cd’s of Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffet, and James Taylor to a used cd store and sold them. We have a collection of over 200 different ones, so I may be going back if I have anymore of those who speak out in this concert against President Bush or any concert for that matter. I was given $38.00 (of which I originally spent $255.00) and I sent it to the RNC. Before when Natalie Maines, of the Dixie Chicks spoke out her views I sent my cd's to her record company. But this time, I did not want to spend any more of my hard earned money mailing them back. I am sick and tired of the artist who will just not shut up and sing. I am tired of the smear campaign they are involved in against President Bush, and most of all during this time we are at war. They are aiding the enemy in their hate and rage. My husband and I have spent many hundreds of dollars going to the above concerts many times and I will NEVER listen to another one of their songs again. After our last Willie concert, he was so stoned he could not remember the words to Beer for my Horse, that should have taught us something!

I am upset and will use my ability as a consumer to not support them. Yes, they have a right to speak their mind, and they have over and over. We have our right as a consumer to not support them and their beliefs. We have men and women who are in harms way and the more these types of hate concerts go on the more it aids the people who want to destroy us. The real heroes in my mind are our military and their families.

I am one person, but I know many who feel the same way I do. You might wonder why Fox News ratings are so high. It is because they give a fair and balanced reporting instead of NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and almost all newspapers biased view. We are a split country and I fully support President Bush, no matter how many of the so called Elitist is using their fame to flame him.

You all are forgetting who pays part of your bills. I know that James Taylor has royalties and is ok for life, but he lost one of his big fans, in me. His decision to go out on this 30 something concert, in swing states during October, has sent me away from him and all the others for good. I also have had to stop going to movies with stars that are so public in their hate and anger against President Bush and my conservative values.

Thank God, we have XM radio now and we can choose our stations and what music we listen to while traveling in our car. Because when they play any of the blabbing anti- American artist songs, (YES, I said anti- American) artist, we will flip the channel.

Isn't America Great? We have a choice to not buy or go see their concerts or movies. If and when it hurts their pocket books, maybe they will realize who they have alienated by being so bluntly public in their political views. You all can have the Michael Moore’s and propaganda of the world. I will take President Bush and his family along with our values as my agenda.

God Bless America- and God Bless President Bush, his family and his cabinet.

Good idea.

If anyone is interested, I've got a real collector's item: Bruce Springsteen's Live 1975-85 box set -- the original LPs, without a single scratch on them (in fact, they've never been played in nearly 20 years).

I'm hoping someone out there has a dipsh!t family member (preferably a distant cousin -- perhaps a public school psychiatrist or administrator -- who has already been disowned by the family) who is willing to pay me a fortune for this marvelous collector's item.

All proceeds from this sale will be used to help finance Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads.

Uh, no -- I mean, all proceeds will be donated to Greenpeace. Yeah, that's it.