IF more cities showed the foresight to build real people-moving systems, as did New York City - as only one example - decades ago, part of our global warming crisis would be abated. But AmTrak in the USA, in terms of passengert travel, is a joke and becomes more unpleasant every year. Meanwhile, they have bullet trains in Japan and Europe. Most cities here in El Norte, with very few exceptions, act as if bus travel is an anachronism. Seattle, New York, San Francisco and Austin (TX) stand out as places that continue to make bus travel a viable and relatively inexpensive choice for their low-income citizens.

The rest of the country, from the personal experience of Yours Unruly, is basically "car country." Highways, freeways, miles and miles of concrete with more to come.

I lament this, as I have many times before here at G21.net. What are you people thinking? The last I knew, you have created a country where there are 2.5 automobiles per person. Why? Why can't you get over your love affair with a machine that kills more people per year than died at 9/11 and actively destroys the very air we breathe? Stop and think about both those facts as you turn on your ignitions this morning. Suicidal is what you are and it drives me up the wall!

IF you put half as much in public transportation, in all its forms outlined above, as you did in building more highways and driving all those autos all by your lonesome, our greenhouse gases problem would be stopped in less than five years and the polar ice-caps would stop melting. Think about it.

So then, there's that two-fer thing, which she won't mention but that we all know is true. Elvis is a hero in Europe, he get's rock-star crowds. Tell me she won't send him around to cut deals, et cetera.

Now I know I'm not the only person who has a feeling of discomfort with the idea of dynastic politics taking hold in America. Didn't the Founders, including George Washington, agree that dynasties and the royalty were not what we are about? This is not an originial idea and I shan't pretend it is. Still, it makes my skin crawl that we Americans could let two families dominant our politics for (potentially) three decades. Besides, I never liked Yalies. They are creepy people.

What happened to the fresh air on which this country was founded?

I know I can't be the only person who feels this way.

Between her ties to the San Francisco and Los Angeles political machines (thanks, Nancy Pelosi) and - let's face it! New York - Hillary has the fundraising thang down. I won't even bring up Bill's charm prowess.

But let's remember a few things about the Clintons:

• On the campaign trail, they courted the gay vote. IN OFFICE, they caved and pushed through the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy." Betrayal.
• On the campaign trail, they courted the Labor vote. IN OFFICE, they pushed through NAFTA and started next on GATT. Betrayal.
• On the campaign trail, the courted Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund. Then IN OFFICE, they pushed through a "welfare reform" bill that effectively increased the number of American children living in poverty. Betrayal.

  Marian hasn't forgotten. Neither should you.

What we do know is one thing: the nine (9) dwarfs the Democrats are offering and nearly same number the Republicans are offering are a joke. I'm waiting for the Stealth Candidate who jumps in after we've gotten bored of these presumptive losers. Will it be Al Gore redux? Will someone come out of nowhere and raise enough money or have enough money (Bloomberg) to blow all these idiots away?

I suppose that's Devil's Advocate thinking. We'll be stuck with Hillary and Rudy and cry all the way home from work because we continue to wait for a real President.

Juan Williams Can Bite Me!

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