Oh I can't keep it in, I can't keep it in, I've gotta let it out.
I've got to show the world, world's got to see, see all the love
love that's in me.

I said, why walk alone, why worry when it's
warm over here. You've got so much to say, say what you mean,
mean what you're thinking, and think anything. - Yusuf Islam, born Steven Demetre Georgiou, best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens

As the buzz around an imminent bombing attack costing thousands of human lives on Iran by Israel remains at high volume -- God bless sports (and music too for that matter. I still listen to the politically-maligned Cat Stevens' first four albums regularly even though his manager tried unsuccessfully to get me into his latest work over dinner a few months ago).

I wonder how much more violent and distrustful this world would be (than it is already) without things like The Beatles, U2, Bach, basketball, the Olympic Games, tennis, golf...

As travel and communication among citizens from disparate parts of the world continue to become much easier over the coming decades, we can rightly expect more trust and less violence to develop around the world too.

See, it's not all gloom and doom away from the financial problems that the Democrats and Republicans and their cronies on Wall Street and at the Fed keep exacerbating with their endless redistribution of wealth into the real estate ownership class. That stuff too will pass, if we'll finally let the excesses of the credit bubble work themselves out.

And on that note, please be very vocal about fighting these programs to bail out the bondholders (not to mention the shareholders) of these investment banks and GSEs. For the first time in months, I'm encouraged that the Democrats and Republicans in power are actually worried that we're onto their fiscal and monetary scams. Don't let them take more of your money to give to themselves and rich bankers and Wall Streeters. Can you believe they actually want you to believe that their forcefully taking your money for themselves is actually good for you? Since when does taking from the poor and fiscally responsible help the poor and fiscally responsible?

I figure this horse ain't dead yet, and if we'll keep kicking it, we might actually have an impact on slowing the theft of our freedom with our hard-earned money and the outright socialization of our financial system.

Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun
Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller - That obviously very evil dude, Cat Stevens, again