Like NPR lately, the Wobblies admitted that they've been using the word God more lately than ever before!

Also, like NPR, whose airwaves are loaded with spiritual content intended to save their financial public broadcasting asses, the
Wobblies have admitted that they were always a religion, and that Joe Hilstrom (aka, Joe Hill) was their second Unitarian Minister. Jesus was the first! His turning the water into wine and serving piles of alewives (fish) to the multitudes was not only said to be a miracle, but it was the actual very first Unitarian-pot-luck-supper, and it set the standard for all the rest. (Chicagoans remember those rotting die-off alewife piles on the beaches of Lake Michigan a few short years ago. -- No miracle we strongly " with all the faith-based vehemence we can muster!!!)

Did you ever wonder how Joe Hill knew all those hymn tunes he wrote his songs to? Did you ever wonder how Utah Phillips... ????? Whatever!

Well, just think about these words here. I know you'll see the obvious "rightness" of what I've told you in, this, my first epissle. Whether there will be more will depend on how you take these mental ruminations of mine. Like the cows on my ol' uncle's farm, I've chewed the grass, and then given forth these pearls of wisdom before swine. Swill 'em down! As with a compact little fur ball, I've been brief; that, in order to leave you room here in cyberspace to toss your own lunchtime meals into this thread. The realization of all this caused me to turn off the strange "Speaking Of Faith"" radio show on Sunday morning last because it dawned on me (Dracula's last words) how this sad dynamic was swelling the $$$$$$$ amounts in NPR's coffers. --- They've learned to play the game. Like the stars and stripes, long may they wave.

George Bush, be happy with these sad successes. For now, it seems you have won. But...

Art Thieme