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AUSTIN, REPUBLIC OF TEXAS - There's a fellah up in Maryland who has the misfortune to drive a white van. From what I hear, he's been stopped by the police so many dang times that he put a sign on his van window that says, "This Ain't The One!"

Cain't say as I can blame him, my fellow Sanitation Engineers, as he lives right now in the center of Terror American Style...MORE



by STUART ALTMAN

NEW YORK, NY, USA - Now that Congress has given President Bush the go ahead on Iraq all that remains is choosing up sides. Not that I am biased, but those two sides will be:

1. Bush's Pro-Democracy Freedom Loving Nations team or
2. Saddam's Terrorist Weapons of Mass Destruction and I'll Damn Well Use Them team.

Some of these nations keep hoping that the U.N. can order Saddam into a peaceful agreement. However this ignore's one big fact: Saddam is a dictator. Dictators by their very definition don't take orders. If Saddam were a fast food worker his greeting would be "Hi, my name is Saddam, welcome to McDonalds, can you take my order?"...MORE



by GAYNOR PAYNTER

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Hello all you G21 readers - herewith, warm greetings from South Africa are sent your way! I hope and trust that this letter finds you all in good health as well as good spirit, and if you are feeling down, allow me to impart an idea which I am trying to absorb in my own head - that you are responsible for the creation of your own happiness, you instil it in yourself.

Someone planted the seed of an idea in my head the other day: Repeat the following thoughts to yourself aloud each morning a certain number of times (let's say, five times): I am a happy person. I am a happy person. I can create my own happiness. In fact, I issue you a challenge - say that to yourselves five times each morning for the next week, and email me at gpaynter@telkomsa.net to let me know what transpired, and how your outlook on life and was enhanced or changed. I hereby commit to do the same, and the outcome of this experiment (your experiences and mine) can be the subject of a future letter from South Africa....MORE




by ROD AMIS

NEW ORLEANS - 14 October, 2002: I have been living days that seem like weeks. It seems the deeper you venture into the French Quarter the more layered things become. It is as though the ghosts who walk amongst us insinuate their own unfinished dramas into the lives around them. If you are fleeing drama, the Quarter is no place to live.

So much is different here by dint of the cramped and ancient architecture and the fact that lives are carried on chock-a-block with this city's major industry: debauchery. Trash pickup here in the French Quarter, for example, doesn't happen at intervals of days, but daily. There is no room for dumpsters, so the local sanitation crews come in every day, except Sunday, to carry away all the refuge of homes and bars and strip clubs. Sometime you think they should be dragging bodies away, as well. After 5:00 p.m. the restaurants and bars, flats and condos, deposit the refuge of another day's play and commerce on the sidewalks to be hauled away. ...MORE

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