First of all, it's grossly inacuurate to blame this war on religious leaders. I've yet to hear anyone in our church, or any church, offer up a prayer for the military to continue to successfully kill those of a different faith. Like most wars, this is about money and power, with religion serving as part of an orchestrated smokescreen.

I'm not a big Bush fan and I absolutely in the strongest of all possible terms detest and abhor his ill-conceived, idiotic and immoral misuse of my tax dollars in the MiddleEast, especially when done in the name of "protecting" me.

From my perspective however, this "Do Nothing Day" does not have the ability to hurt the salaried fat cats and Neocons who do like this war, but would be more likely to impact the day laborers and hourly workers inclined to participate in the protest.

You still need a week's worth of food,fuel and services every seven days, regardless of when you purchase it. Monthly spending totals in America for January are going to be the same regardless of what is spent on Black Thursday, and all those big feeders way up in the economic food chain are still going to laugh all the way to the bank.

As a symbolic gesture I think it fails as well. All it does is further open the doorway for Pro-Bush pundits and late night comics to paint those involved as folks who would probably "do nothing" most days anyway and expect the government to subsidize them (PLEASE don't misunderstand-I am not suggesting that is a valid viewpoint,just a tempting target for talking-head wags).

You wanna protest? Then work to give him a congress in '06 that won't tolerate this MiddleEast insanity, don't just "Do Nothing" and expect something good to come of it.

Oh, and *Laura*... be sure and tidy up the house because the Men in Black will be over shortly to discuss the repercussions of your really stupid suggestion, even tho obviously made in jest.