Subject: Celebrate the 2nd national “I Love My Country and I’m Still Embarrassed by the President Day, April 1, 2005: Larry, you and your readers might want to support and wear a brown ribbon to protest the BS coming out of the White House. Tie a brown ribbon to your car antenna as an antidote to those snarky yellow ones. Secondly, wear brown to remind the world that these guys (and gals) are nothing but modern-day brownshirts. We'll call them the Bussholinis. Thirdly, because it's true patriotism and love for our Democracy to fight these anti-Democracy SOBs in the trenches, in the voting booths, in the media, and in your own communities at any opportunity. Show the World Who's the Real April Fool Here we are in 2005, after yet another stolen election, and more lies than ever, we are STILL outraged by the arrogance, ignorance, shortsightedness, and outright ineptitude of the Bush administration. No surprise. You'd think anyone with even a modicum of self respect would be, too. But yet again, the so-called "conservatives" in the administration (and their media shills) are pretending that just about everyone is behind the President, except for those pesky unAmerican Democrats. 50+ million of us, plus all those sidelined by voting fraud, intimidation, planned overcrowding and any other unAmerican tactics that could work. It's not just that we disagree with the current administration or even that we're just embarrassed. We're outraged! And embarassed that this great country has sunk to this level of pettiness, greed, and hipocrisy. We're embarrassed to have a President so arrogant, so dishonest, so hawkish, that in four years, he has nearly destroyed any good relations we had before he took office, and worsened those that were already bad. I'm embarrassed that we are the laughingstock of the world--when we're not just seen as the schoolyard bullies. To Participate: Either get some brown ribbon from a fabric store, or make your own. Making the ribbons or armbands is easy - just use tape and cut a brown paper bag, brown cloth, a brown sheet, ribbon, or anything else into strips 3 inches wide and 12-24 inches long. Or get brown ribbon. If you make a band or get ribbon for yourself, then make lots of spares to pass on to friends and strangers. Host an Embarrassed Party in your area! Know other people who are embarrassed? Make a party of it. Get voodoo dolls, play PIN THE BLAME ON THE PRESIDENT, march down the street with a local protest, get local media involved, whatever floats your boat. UPS is committed to keeping their fleet brown in honor of this event. The White House will be renamed the Brown House until GWB leaves. The Supreme Court maintains that the title of landmark equal rights decision Brown vs. BOE will not be renamed. Grocery stores nationwide will continue to offer brown paper bags along with plastic. Starbucks and numerous other coffe houses will proudly serve brown coffee all week. Farmers will only use brown manure until after July 4th. Mother earth herself will maintain the brownness of most soil indefinitely.