Thank you Akeneton for your response. Littlehawk, I appreciate you and agree with you more than you might imagine. Art, The fact that you have a photo of me in your wallet in a designer thong does NOT make you gay. (necessarily, nor does it rule it out.) SRS, yes, blushing, that is in fact, me although I tend to "dress right" and the photo was a mirror image.

As for Conservative administrations, I will heartily agree that they do not tend to be as caring as they should. Neither do Liberal administrations. To me, the key is, political parties, administrations, etc are inherently self-serving and not particularly interested in much except keeping themselves elected and in power. Now, people, that is a different thing altogether. People are good. People, by and large, care about their fellow man. COnservative people, Liberal people,Socialist people. They are all people. People have noble ideals.

Not all of them, mind you, some of them are stealing, whether it is Nikes and TVs from the storm-ravaged New Orleans, or stealing from their stock-holders in Corporate America. Some People are takers, some are givers. THe distribution of good people crosses party lines without as much as a glance. Same with the bad ones. Again, all my opinion,and I hope no-one finds this offensive. jimmyt