And oddly enough, there was almost no news coverage of this massive protest on October 27th - almost none, which leads us to believe that the US is now a controlled police state wherein the news media is somehow systematically caged and silenced on controversial subjects such as the war in Iraq. Bush/Cheney run a secretive, imperialistic administration, encompassing rendition, torture, wiretapping, fear mongering and total unaccountability to the public for their actions.

What in heaven are we to do? Besides the war in Iraq, the US is now employing Blackwater military groups around the world to do the bidding of the military-industrial complex which includes big oil companies, large corporations interested in the status quo and others who like to see the world governed in an authoritarian and capitalistic way. The bottom line is first and the most important "value" of this authoritarian and nazis-like political reality currently called the United States. It is in charge of the world, or wants to be, and is reckless enough to start a war to establish an unassailable controlling world "democracy" to insure the interests of the already rich and powerful. First Bush sent troops to Afghanistan, then Iraq, and currently he is talking about going into Iran and perhaps starting a world war three. Anyone who is opposed to this modus operandi of "war first and diplomacy sometime later" is called unpatriotic and unwilling to "support our troops."

I'll tell you what, I must confess that I'm somewhat pessimistic at the moment about all of this. We, up here in heaven, are naturally as safe and sound as we can be. But "our troops on the ground" so to speak: all of you still living earthlings, especially in the US, are being subjected to vanity of the worst kind. You have a president who is nearly crazy, or who may in fact be crazy, to have you believe he is a lovely Christian gentleman trying to do the will of God, or at least the will of his personal savior, Jesus; when actually this poor devil, Bush, with an ego bigger than the size of Texas, is completely deluded, and why oh why so many of his "subjects" have believed in him over the last interminable almost seven years, we have no idea. He has lead his country into hell and will leave it right there.

His huge extended family is all wrapped up in the business of munitions and I don't care if not one single bullet was manufactured personally by G. W. Bush, it just looks so bad that the Bush family would be connected, in any way at all, to materials used in the Iraq war by the military. A situation like this has never happened before in US history, that a president would start a war and then profit from that war. "Tasteless" you say? No, "criminal" would be a better description. That's what the angels think anyway, and they can't wait for Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney to leave office.

Well kiddies, I'm sorry that my political report here isn't a little bit more reassuring and upbeat. In the fall you know the heavens are all astir with the coming Thanksgiving/Christmas seasonal rush. And if you think the season starts early down there on earth where you are, you'd really be surprised at the vast arrangements that are beginning to go on up here! Yes, we decorate and yes, we get together and yes, we exchange gifts and yes, we sing! I'm sure some of you have heard us singing. (We're always heard by the Christmastime drunkards, but that's another story.) I'd better close for now, my dears.

Love to all,
You have my prayers,
And my sympathy,

Grandma Minutia