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Hee, hee.... that's great... very funny....

KarmaGirl, Try Tanqueray and Wild Cherry sparkling water. One of Old Crabs favorite relaxers. Not to much of course since it tends to disorient people if taken in too much.

The Great Oak Treehouse door is creeking open. The Old Crab peeks caustionatly out. OC skitters out to the Candy Cane fence and plunks down his Soapbox. The Old Crab is about to speak. A hush falls over the Fantasyland denizens, Feline and GM rush down from the Chocolate covered moon, WOM stops his sermon on copy-cats and trolls, Jafo stops admins, Weaksid is still for once, Javabean stills his jitters, Shmmooppy, well, is still Shmmooppy. The Old Crab rustles around abit on his Soapbox and as the final snickering dies down, the Old Crab draws in a deep breath and finally he begins .....tomorrow the conclusion. Maybe.

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1. Social Security. Won't be there. Republicans will have bought 5 new Super Aircraft Carriers to bomb small stone age nations to smithereens.
2. Tax Cuts. Only for the Upper Tiers of society. Reagan’s trickle down to the poor theory all over again. Kensington economics haven't worked: back then and it won't work now. The rich are going to keep all money from any tax cuts. They need to buy their yearly Rolls Royce and their 75 room mansions need to be kept clean
3.Insurance. Who can afford it? Insurance, Corporations, Pharmaceutics Co., HMOs have the Republicans right where they want them, their back pockets. Most nations have National Health Care. We’re more Capitalistic about it. If you can afford to live with health insurance great if not you’ll have to die.
4.Has anyone outside of Texas ever really looked at W.Bush and his abysmal Texas record? He wrecked Texas and he's in now in charge of 49 more states and a vast military organization. Oh Lord. Hep Us. Please. Just like a cat in new litter box. I'd like to think that intelligent people would vote for Alfred E. Nueman before they'd vote for Bush again. Or Gore.
5. Home Land Defense. What the hell are the FBI & CIA for? 177,000 more SNAFU's waiting to happen. The original purpose for the FBI - counter espionage and US protection from saboteurs as well as Federal crime busters. My Uncle Ken was in the Naval Intelligence Service during WWII and Korea and was later a Naval Attaché Officer in Moscow, W.Germany at the time, Singapore, and China. The man has more degrees in his pinky than WBush and HBush combined will ever have He’s staunchest ally the Republicans can have. However, if Uncle Ken thinks the new Cabinet position should be called the Bureau of the Utterly Useless who is OC to argue. Give the FBI the resources, personnel, computer equipment, etc. and let them do the job they were intended for. Why start from scratch when we already have the means to fight the bad guys? .
6. Sept 11. They got LUCKY people. The attack was like Pearl Harbor. A 1-10,000,000 million shot. All it’s done is turn normal everyday US citizens into screaming mimi's with a persecution complex. We got our vengeance. Now they're on the run. Over reaction such as WBush et.al. has foisted off on people has us seeing a terrorist under every rock and dropping from trees like bird doody.
7.Iraq ain't got no Weapons of Mass Destruction. What they do have is sloppy record keeping. Hey I blow up tree stumps and don’t record it. Blown up, gone. Why keep records of it? That’s simplistic but probably accurate Iraq thinking. However, WBush does have a personal score to settle with Saddam. Wake up people it's personal. HBush failed to get Saddam so he's sent his boy out to accomplish the mission.
8. Education. Our schools are in a deplorable state. The teachers are underpaid and overburdened with societal needs. That was back in 1955. Our schools are in a deplorable state. The teachers are underpaid and overburdened with societal needs. That was in 2003. When are people going to finally wake up to the fact and see this argument for what it is-a political ploy for votes! If we really want to do something we need to build energy efficient well built schools, provide nutritional brkfst and lunch for every student, and pay teachers an above average salary. The children’s future and our nations future depends on them. Take all the fat cat administrators out of their plush offices and put them back into the classrooms. A proper school needs a principal, 2 vice principals, dedicated teachers, a nurse and a maintenance staff to run the physical plant. The rest of the admins. can be thrown to the 4 winds.

The Old Crab now skitters from his Soapbox and once again retreats to his Treehouse where he quickly shuts and bars his door.

The Treehouse door slowly opens again. The Old Crab scuttles out and grabs his soapbox and skittles back to his Treehouse once again........saying over his shoulder as he once again starts to bar his door.....GET YOUR OWN SOAPBOX!

, Hmmm.. I wonder how much of OCs prodictions will come true

/me produces a large soap box made out of chocolate
/me sets up the soap box near the candy cane fence

i would like to declare the following points for consideration. remember, a lot of these are more deep than you might expect:

a) do unto others as you would have them do unto you
love, acceptance, kindness and a BIG HUG can make the world a FAR nicer place!
c) in the name of a religion that says "do not kill", how many people have been killed?
d) think for your self!
e) sometimes force may be the only solution. if you TRULY believe this, then at least have the good grace to be direct, clean, and not to gloat.
f) just because people don't agree with you is NO reason not to respect them as people
g) all people are worthy of great respect
h) true people are kind and trustworthy
i) not all people shaped things are people

and perhaps the main point of all of this:

if you have nothing nice to say, then what to say? what does saying something mean / nasty / cruel do for you? it may not be true that there is something good in everyone, but you should always be able to find someone to say something nice about.

/me reaffirms the core belief that went into the creation of the chocolate planet

this is a world of CHOCOLATE! it defies the normal rules of physics. so what? are you going to say that just because it is made out of fantasy and magic it isn't real???

this is a home away from home for anyone who is ready and willing to accept a HAPPY, FUN, LOVING place to live!

this place is open to any and all, just so long as you are willing to accept and abide by the house rules. basically, be happy, and make others happy. if you are sad, say so, and we will work to make you happy!

however, if you wish to make us unhappy, then please visit another world.

/me has looked at the world of man
/me has looked at what it is often called to "be a man"
this is WHY feline is a cat, a dragon, a poly-morph, and even leonine

i have found my path to happiness, love, cuddles, acceptance, family, friends, loved ones, and all the good things in life. and the best bit is, i am inviting all of you to join me in creating this world, to each make part of it your own.

/me climbs down from the chocolate "soap" box
/me eats the box, since it is chocolate
/me does a quantum shimmer, allowing me to glide through OC's tree house door as if it wasn't there
/me forms a curled up ball of cute *PPUUURRRR*ing fur on OC's lap

/me is going to lie hear, looking cute and adorable until i have melted any hard bits in OC's heart

Feline is getting philosophic on us now. Must be tired.. Thinking too much

But yet all true. Good Speech

/me claps and whistles

/me comes looking for the speech she just posted. Gone! Washed clean........ Now THATS a soapbox!

/me gets a not-soap box, gets a chocolate crayon and a piece of paper and writes. Then crawls up on the box and unfurls a big banner...

"Tickles, Spanks, Smooches, and Candy-canes for sale FREE!

/me gets down from the box due to slow business and sits on OC's staircase drinking coffee. Maybe when feline gets done looking cute, he and OC will come drink coffee with me!

Copies this post before submission.

Sale Free is a oxymoron.. Or a paradox

Could always spank somebody with a candycane Yum

feline-Old Crab is sorry for ruff'ling your fur. The Great Tirade was more in the vein of a 'Spoof' than a Diatrade. If OC were serious the Tirade would have been 25 pages in length and serious; and posted on the MSGB outside where the entire world would have seen it. Then there would've been a real brawl and brouhaha. OC will now retire from the msgb.

...OC is coming back, right?

Probably tonight about 1am EST.

/me takes off all his clothes, puts on a chocolate fig leave, grabs one of OCs Candy Canes and dances around the fire like a mad man. Just because he doesn't have a speach like verybody else but still has to make a point

/me sits back against a nice tree trunk and watches the proceedings

/me understands WW prefers a full moon for his soapboxing.

pssssst, Ws............ I can see your point.....

/me looks for a blushing icon....

/me invites werewolf for some suds and some tunes....

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein
Werewolves of London
If you hear him howling around your kitchen door
Better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late last night
Werewolves of London again
Werewolves of London
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
Better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
I'd like to meet his tailor
Werewolves of London
Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's
His hair was perfect
Werewolves of London
Draw blood

sorry couldn't resist

Warren Zevon....

A RECORD

No action, whether foul or fair,
Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere
A record, written by fingers ghostly
As a blessing, or a curse; and mostly
In the greater weakness or greater strength
Of the acts which follow it; till at length
the wrong of ages are redressed
And justice of GOD is made manifest.

-unknown

/me passes through gathering up all the soapboxes and asking for donations of chocolate, sweet graham crackers, and marshmallows....

/me goes to the forest and gets ready a whole pile of forked newgrowth twigs for marshmallo and hot dog roasting...

/me gets a bonfire built big and sits back thinking of smores.... ooo, and lookie there... a shooting star!

/me feels lucky since the last oyster had a little pearl!