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OH NO, Chely Wright is a Lesbian. OK, I didn't have a clue who she was but she seemed to think it might kill her career so she told everyone on Oprah (?). Just for the record, she was born in Wellsville, KS and is a country and western singer that thinks the crowd she sings for is a closed minded bunch that will dismiss her for her sexual choice. In the words of martin Luther King, "I have a dream" that one day no one will care who the heck she or anyone chooses to love. One of the most wonderful people I know is a lesbian and guess what? She works hard, has a garden, raised a family and I am pretty darned proud to have her in my family. Perhaps it was a slow news day and Oprah couldn't find anything more important to talk about. I wish Chely a good life and hope that she continues to sing and have a good life.

It only took 150 years for Senator Brownback in the name of Congress and the President to finally apologised to the American Indians for breaking it promises all these years. The sad part is that the President who has apologised to every other country in the world for our boorish actions didn't stand up and do the apology himself. I am not sure why Senator Brownback pushed this legislation through and it took 6 years to get the people in Washington to do the right thing. Our Indian friends have been moved off their territory and put in some of the saddest places on our earth in the effort to make more room for the European immigrants need for land to farm. It was a stroke of luck that some of the Indians have oil under their land and some are well off because of that stroke of luck. For the record, I think the Indians should get a strong pat on the back and move on with their lives. I also find it amusing that now Indian casinos are opening to help them get back some of what was stolen from them. Just like the above paragraph, "I have a dream" that someday we will all live together and get over who our ancestors were. Other than Las Vegas, I wonder if us poor white folks will ever own a casino. They let me rent one when I go there.

The Drag Races are here at Heartland Park, in Topeka, this weekend. Do you know who will make the most money? the tow trucks that will circle the parking area and pull cars out of the mud after a day racing following a week of rain. I went out there one year and could not believe that people actually paid good money to attend a function that doesn't have a parking lot. The crowning glory is that the tow truck drivers make you sign a waiver against any damage they do in pulling your car out of the mud. And, then charge you big $ to do it. Yes, I am not a fan of racing down a strip as fast as you can go just to see them do it. I think they need to have some system that makes them start with one car and if it breaks, you are out. Most of the big race teams pull their cars back to the pits and rebuild or replace the motors between rounds. To me, a simple sport like rowing is a lot nicer to watch.

It made the top of the page that our State Attourney general has banded together with several others to take Fred Phelps case to the Supreme Court. They want to find a way to stop him and the Westbrough Baptist Church from picketing funerals. The answer is to find out a way to publicly ridicule them for stupid speech and quit trying to curtail Fred's free Speech. In the long run, any restriction on free speech will just continue to erode it for the rest of us. If you say Fred Who? I am pleased. On the other hand perhaps some day no one will care what they do.

Isn't that kind of where I started this? Either I have to stop reading beyond the funny papers or find a way to not care. Not sure I can do the latter.

MUD