Kathy,

You said that soon a person would have to get a passport just to get 
on a confounded airplane? Is this domestic flights, right here in 
this country, if a person is going somewhere else in this country 
like Arizona or Denver, perhaps?

Mari says she'll take the freakin' train! Or do you have to have a 
passport for that, too, or the bus? This is getting ridiculous!

Welcome to the Gulag. The U.S. might just as well tack to some other 
letters like S R! We're gonna be living in a damned dictatorship! 
Keep all identity documents with you at all times! Show them at all 
times or be shot! Chips come next! Take them, or be beheaded! Oh, the 
good old guilotine. Talk about sliding down the razorblade of life! 
My gosh! Sweet Jesus! Where did our country go?


LOVE IN CHRIST, WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS,

Purple Reeva Parry and Purple Mari.


On Friday 6/29/2007 08:16 PM, Kathy Du Bois said:
>Hi Guys,
>         I've been following with interest the discussion about 
> where America is going.  If Hillery becomes president all bets are 
> off, that's for sure.  So, for the fun of it, I thought that I'd 
> throw another stick on the fire just to see where the flames go.
>         I wanted to bring up a comment that I heard last week  on a 
> talk radio show having to do with food and fuel.  The conversation 
> was about ethanol and how we are using our food to make a less 
> sufficient form of fuel for our gas tanks while people around the 
> world are starving even more because the cost of the food that is 
> left is going up.  They're now talking about making fuel out of 
> fruit, not just corn and, because the cost of corn has gone up, 
> that explains why the cost of dairy products are just sky 
> rocketing.  Out here, we can pay almost $4 for a gallon of skim 
> milk at times and that's from a dairy here in Maine.
>
>         Anyway, the conversation that I was listening too also 
> included a comment, would you rather import your food or your 
> fuel?  We've already had massive pet food recalls because of 
> contamination.  Other countries don't have the strict guide lines 
> that we do and just think of what would happen to us if we start to 
> become dependent on other countries for our food like we have our 
> fuel.  It's all so unnecessary too.  If the government would let us 
> build more refineries the costs of fuel would go down, or if we 
> followed through on the research to convert coal into fuel the cost 
> would go down, but, instead, we are dependent on foreign oil, which 
> funds terrorism and we are becoming less able to put food on the 
> table because it might end up in our tank as well.  I just can't 
> imagine God being pleased with this craziness!
>
>         By the way, Lelia, I want to stay out of debt as 
> well.  Right now, we still owe for a car, and it's repare, and our 
> trip out to Wisconsin for Dad's funeral, but otherwise, we are 
> trying to say no to a lot of stuff to get out of debt as fast as 
> possible.  I think that you're wise to feel that way.
>
>Something else that we have  to start saving up for is to get pass 
>ports for our family, at more than $125  a piece if we want to take 
>the short way to Michigan through Canada, or by next January, if we 
>want to board a plane.  I start feeling claustrophobic if I let 
>myself think about it.  It's all just so different now.  Where are 
>we going?  Who knows.  I'm glad that the one who does know is my 
>constant companion.
>Kathy