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OK, I'll give it a go:

1) All the TIPS program aimed to do was to get people like the postman and the UPS guy and the cable guy to notice odd things in the neighborhoods they work in - like dirty old men in run down cars scoping out the little girls playing in the park by the school or large deliveries of fertilizer or Ahab the Arab cleaning his AK-47's on the porch. It was not asking them to peak through the windows. It was an honest attempt at utilizing people who are in our neighborhoods every day to be alert -- which is, by the way, something everyone of us has a responsibility to be right now - more alert to the things going on around us and more willing to get involved.

We are under attack. We are in a war. These people, who would call in a tip to TIPS, would not be ratting out your jewish doctor because he's jewish, or accusing HLL of robbing the Zales jewelry store just because she happens to have a closet or two full of jewelry (or shoes). They wouldn't be hauling Teacup off to the big house because she favors one of her pups a tad more than the other 3, and they wouldn't turn me in because I wash and wax my car only once a year.

IMHO, you are overreacting.

Now lets talk about Ian - the tv tonight said that his parents are filthy rich - Newport, Rhode Island kind of rich and that Chelsea marrying Ian would be like moving on up from the Wal Mart to Tiffany's.

We're supposed to expect a wedding for next summer. Oh and they said that he'd been raised by his parents to become a Senator or policy wonk or diplomat. God help him if he's foolish enough to marry into this family. A Clinton pink slip usually comes with a .38.

Thanks for the attempt to talk me out of my "funk". I do understand about people keeping an eye on things and reporting in things that might make us suspect someone is a terrorist or a child abuctor. I am all for that. But whenever the next Tyrant takes over, these same "programs" will - can be used - to give the Tyrant "tips" on people who are doing anti-Democratic party thingies - etc. It just makes me nervous...and it seems like every proposal is coming from the Commie Chinese handbook.

But, I will try to cool it.

Ack, ptooi. Glad I missed the intellectual hairball that was the Chelsea news, but I was at a meeting accepting a nomination as my county's GOP chair. Yikes! What was I thinking?!?

FWI, I agree that we should be concerned with any loss of freedom, however well-intentioned it may be during a dangerous time such as this, because every little bit we give up now we'll never see again. Once the gubmint takes something from us, or we give it anything - whether freedom, privacy, money, control over schools, regulation of the right to keep and bear arms, anything - it will never give it back.

By the way - I love President and Mrs. Bush and will never stop being grateful for their restoration of honor and dignity to the Presidency and to the position of First Lady. And, I like most Americans, will always cherish this President for his heart and soul and effort being poured out for our country, for our military, for all of us - with every ounce of strength he possesses. It has aged President Bush - these trials. He truly walks humbly with His God every day - and I will always and forever be grateful and happy that he has been and is our President. God bless him and the Vice President also - and Rummy - and all of them.

Now, if only somebody can protect this nation from these Demonrats and their media presstitutes who never get enough power, never get enough money, never get enough control, never get enough corruption, never get enough lawlessness, never get enough election fraud, never get enough abuse of power....etc, etc.