[Cincinatus' Wife]

Don't wake Mrs. backhoe! Excuses is right!!

[backhoe]

During the Recent Eight-Year Unpleasantness that afflicted this country, I started keeping a scrapbook. I did this because I had a powerful, but yet-unproven sense that we were not being told "the rest of the story...."
( Yes, that was the precursor to those "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast- the stories the Media won't talk about, or will only mention once to cover their tracks... )

And sure enough, once I started clipping items from the Florida Times-Union, the WSJ, the Washington Times, and various flyers & periodicals, the pattern became clear and pellucid.... the Sons of Bees were hiding stories!

I recall a wonderful telephone call from a C-Span viewer
( back before it became a DNC "talking point" machine.... )

She said:

"Up there in Washington, you're all scared of anything to do with guns....
....out here in America, we're scared of anything to do with crime...."

I thought that hilited the perfect, yet subtle, separation between "us" and "them...."