European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Wiley a. Hall Iii you too can join War of words on drug dealers , so. Iress Forton bullwinkle stopped by the of her Day to enlist my Aid in the War against drugs. He carried a pad and Pencil and he wore an exp Ion of fierce determination not unlike the one to Downeyjr. Wears on his show. I stepped Back in alarm. But bullwinkle i cried i m just an Ordinary Guy named Joe. What can i do eyes hashing. Bullwinkle grabbed me by the shirt front and slapped me once twice and yet again. Tears of frustration and shame sprang into my eyes. Be a Man he screamed. Take a stand nearly every politician in this proud Nalion has expressed contempt for drug dealers and you can do no less. Do you want them to fight this War alone As usual bullwinkle was right. George Bush president of the United states launched hostilities with a vengeance nearly a year ago when he called drug dealers Shine and a lethal can his appointed drug Czar. William Bennett fired a even More telling blow when he called them scum. In countries such As Colombia where politicians have been afraid to Tell it like it is the drug lords have run wild murdering looting and bombing to their hearts contend bribing officials and importing drugs North by inc kilo Load. Even in America Good people have been silent Loo Long blubbering Aboul the causes of drug use such Asur an despair and Middle class angst and about the need for treatment facilities and education and jobs. Suddenly though we have found leaders with the courage to stand toe to toe or at least camera to Telvi Sion with i Csc Slimy cancerous sleaze balls and Tel them what Slimy cancerous sleaze balls they really arc. shouted bullwinkle. And worse i d Call them athlete s foot fungus. I d Call them offal and Slob Ber. I d Call Ihm an inf Culious wow i d Call Ihm renegades and hypocrites traitors and i cried and sneaks backsliders backstabbers. And rat Good said bullwinkle. And never forget that they Are liars cheats and felons. They Are rogues charlatans and yeah i said. And they re ugly too they put the u in said bullwinkle angrily. They look like 10 Miles of bad Road. They look like someone hit them with inc ugly Slick 365 limes. Wow and they Are dumb they arc stupid they arc brainless shallow imbecilic idiotic feeble minded fools we went Well into the night bullwinkle and i. We filled up Page after Page with insults. And after we had Fri shed i admin that Felt much better. I never dreamt that the War against drugs would be so easy. The Baltimore evening Sun a Onu cursive wry James Kilpatrick 0 country life can be lust what the doctor ,,._ huh i re Hin c in Ial ? your faithful do kindling to Cul fire logs to stack scrabble a. If these arc the dog Days of summer let us have More of them. Here in the Blue Ridge mountains icy recently have been perfect Days sea Blue skies with Spinnaker Clouds nothing much to do around the farm a labor Day Lime with no labor. To be sure others Are toiling away. My wife is in the Kitchen up to her elbows in tomatoes she is making spa Ghelli sauce for the Winter. Across the Ravine up in the High Meadow Jimmy Falls is spinning fresh Cut Hay into wind rows his big red tractor crawls in steady laps across inc Field. After a while a Man is coming to varnish the deck. A Bumble Bee big As a Blimp is hovering Over Patch of Clover. Your correspondent has been sitting on a Bench outside the of fice thinking about a Book to Lake to a desert Island. This is no labor at All. The desert Island reveries arc prompted by a piece in the Wall so ret journal. U had to do with a popular radio show in England in which guests arc inv cd to identify their desert Island wishes. They May take to the Island eight recordings one Book and one luxury Ilam they simply could not live without. This is obviously an unusual desert Island for it comes Wilh a Library locked with Standard reference works a Bible the Complete works of Shakespeare and so on. This is to prevent sensible guests from choosing As i hair one volume the boy scout manual. It is All veddy British and it has the sound of Good fun. What recordings to take your faithful servant sitting on the Bench has been using his foot to scratch Happy s Back. Happy is the 10-year-old Shetland the Small successor to a Long line of collies that grew to size extra Large. She sleeps most of inc time and she has no interest in playing the desert Island game. This is also a quiet Tim for wildlife. Rabbits have made a condominium of the woodpile. Our disgruntled squirrels foiled by Audubon Bird feeders have abandoned the Back Yard and gone somewhere else to sulk. Two House Wrens have taken up residence in a hang ing Basket of impatiens. So it goes at summer s end. After a no labor weekend there will be chores to do Kindlin o Cut fir to Slack Garden tools to put away. The Daylight hours dwindle and the nights grow Cool. It won t be Long before a pumpkin Moon rises Over red Oak Mountain and the Roadside stands sell local cider. Country living has its draw backs but at its Best country living can be very Good indeed. Or Teiml Pieu Syndicate the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government
