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“Just two people, and the animals and the plants,” she said. “So quiet.” She took off her shoes, and stretched her legs to wet her toes in the river. “And all we say is being said for the first time.
The Second Amendment, written by the Anglo James Madison, a slave owner, says, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” As long as the poor people in this country kill each other, which is what so many of them are doing day after day, the federal government, obviously, is content to regard them, as Columbus might have done, as a well-regulated militia.
We are all so often bad news for somebody else. AIDS, I read somewhere, was probably brought into this country by a Canadian flight attendant on an international flight. And what had his crime been? Nothing but love, love, love. That’s life sometimes. And he is surely as dead as Columbus now. And I’m killing the world with garbage, three cans a week, sort of like Chinese water torture.
Until practically the day before yesterday, we were loved by only some countries. Now all countries love us, and we should feel like Marilyn Monroe standing over an air vent in the sidewalk, with her skirt blowing up around her ears, absolutely adorable!
the crosses on the Nazis’ tanks and planes testified that those inside believed themselves, as did Columbus, to be in the service of Jesus of Nazareth.
There aren’t that many bears left in all of Germany, I heard on the radio this morning, nor elephants in Mozambique. And his kids are all going to want cars when they’re old enough, and they’ll reproduce.
