CM PRESS # 492

GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN
Link to OC Register article.

We should go even further than this.  Any time we topple one government and put another in power, we should send a bill to the new government and get paid for our work.  The pay we demand should also compensate our military people and the families of any who didn't make it.
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WE IMAGINE...

UPDATE TO CRISSY BROOKS STORY ABOUT THE WAYWARD MATTRESS
Link to original Daily Pilot column by Brooks.

In the above linked column, Brooks writes that a man from her Shalimar neighborhood was discovered to be an illegal alien (An illegal alien in Shalimar? Who'd a thunk it?), and was deported.  This caused some unhappiness among his mattress needing family that remains in Shalimar.

Brooks then gave a used mattress to the family.

We now imagine the adult woman who received the mattress writes a letter to Brooks.

Dear Senorita Great White Mother Brooks,

Gracias for the used mattress that you gave us.  You shouldn't have done it. Really.

Now, my children are scratching all the time from  bedbugs and one of them has head lice. 

Another one has ringworm. A third smells of old urine all the time and the fourth one has some sort of rash from head to toe.

Also, the  illegal aliens  our, er, cousins, who are renting floor space in our apartment, ah, visiting, say that after they take their turns to sleep on the mattress they get back pains and can't get hired when they stand on the corner looking for work. have trouble working.

My husband says that as soon as he sneaks back into Costa Mesa he's going to come find you.

We wonder, would it be possible for you to maybe go practice your compassion in Africa in the future?

We hear that Barack Obama's brother is living in a tiny hut with a dirt floor.  Maybe you can take the mattress with you when you go?


 /s/ Senora Not really needing a Great White Mother


P.S. Do you know a fumigation company that will tent our entire apartment building for free?  The bedbugs, the lice, the urine smell and even the backaches have now spread to all the other units from your demon mattress.
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Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose tears would come down to me,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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