I couldn't find any dog news in Europe that might have been behind such an image. However, yesterday Scots at First Presbyterian Church in Wichita, Kansas celebrated Heritage Sunday in Scottish kilts with bagpipes, marched down the center of sanctuary playing bagpipe music, and spent half an hour in front of the church after the service performing various bagpipe numbers. The Scotch backdrop might have made me look like James Mason in the opening scenes of Journey of the Center of the Earth. Perhaps the same thing happened in Scotch Presbyterian Churches everywhere at the same time. We enjoyed a breakfast of pancakes and sausage with coffee surrounded by banners featuring The Rampant Lion and St. Andrew's Cross, which were explained on surrounding bulletin board essays together with the history of the church. Note the bearded lion seeming to charge into the weather image from the middle right, from the Caspian Sea area and just above Turkey. Also see Green and the Great Religions.

Early on Nov.2, 2004, the day of the Presidential Election, a ghostly hand with a thumb in Montana appears with a finger between two parallel lakes above America pointing to "Winnipeg" to indicate a decision made between two alternatives. Simultaneously, a top-hat like structure appears over the President Bush heartland in Texas with a tongue hanging out of the top of it, and it looks at first like a landslide for Bush as the dog legs slide down into Mexico from above. The top hat is hungry for the thumbs-up!
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I thought I had been fooled out of my ballot for a while, which made me hot under the collar, but when I got to the Election Commissioner's Office downtown, they told me where to go and vote, since I registered before the October 18, 2004 deadline. I voted at the College Hill United Methodist Church, working my way through a three-page ballot stored on a clever voting machine and getting through it in the allotted 5 minutes. It made me wish I had studied the ballot beforehand with more care and read up on all the candidates and issues. I was pleased not be dealt out of the electoral process, at least. It was easy to vote for stability and continuance, since incumbents where always positioned in the "on top" position.

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