Nomad News-Vol.4-No.76

AND PEOPLE VOTE THESE GOMBIES IN:I published the following in another series of small messages called "The Long Trip Back" that are completely political in nature. I received several queries asking what a Gomby was so I thought I would explain: In 1956 I visited friends in St. Thomas, one of the American Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. We experienced a short shower every afternoon, at which time the natives always covered their heads with anything available. They believed the rain contained "Gombies", evil spirits that entered the brain and made them do crazy things. I believe this to be an apt description of a lot of our elected representatives so have used it as such. Here's the message: "Led by Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), 26 Democrats have formed the Senate Climate Control Caucus, disregarding the fact Congress has defeated 692 bills that have touted the same theory. The country is going to Hell in a hand basket and these gombies want to put an additional tax on American businesses that are already hard-pressed in a worldwide economy. There was a time when scam artists like these went to the Big House. Today, unfortunately, they are rewarded with reelection." I am going to add another line here that was not in the original script: Maybe it's the voters who have been aflicted with Gombies. (Copyright-Andy Dolan)