The President emails me.

The Prez and I - we're in touch.  
He wrote me today - I'm at lunch.
Although I'm supposed to be cleaning,
clearly I'm writing, not cleaning,
but cleanly or clearly not much.

 Sometimes the POTUS wants five bucks.  Once he needed three bucks, and I gave him three bucks.  He had discovered my donation threshold, you see.

Barack Obama:  We've asked him for five bucks like, eight times you guys, and bupkus.
Advisor:  We're out of ideas sir.
Barack Obama:  Three bucks.
Advisor:  Excuse me sir?
Barack Obama:  Ask him for three bucks.
Advisor:  But...but...the email is set up to ask him for five -
Barack Obama:  GOD DAMNIT I SAID ASK THE MAN FOR THREE DOLLARS DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME.

Clearly tensions run high at times in the Oval Office.  Two weeks later...

Advisor:  Sir!  Sir!  It worked!  He did it!

Hands Barack Obama three dollars.

Barack Obama:  Yes.  Yes he did.

The End.  Or is it??

Ahhh...lots of fun so anyway he wrote me today:

"Friend --

Moments ago, the Senate voted to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

When that bill reaches my desk, I will sign it, and this discriminatory law will be repealed."

Right?  Like he's sitting there in the back row watching the Senate vote with his fingers poised over the Blackberry keyboard just WAITING to hit the Update! button. 

I'm conflicted...
So, now gay folks can go die...for...what exactly?  Maybe if they serve and survive they may marry.  Maybe, gay or straight, people can serve in exchange for health insurance?  Maybe if everyone contributed a child to military weapons testing programs we wouldn't have to find excuses for their sale or employ in other countries?  We'll just buy our own weapons and use them on our donated children.  War is obsolete.  An eye for an eye makes depth perception difficult, and may lead to further figurative losses of vision.

More on this...as long as the wars continue.  Surely they cannot.  Closing thought: what if we spent all of our war budget on sending food and water to countries that need it?  Some people will benefit more than others, and we will be accidentally rewarding those less deserving as a side-effect - but would that not be preferable to accidentally blowing up innocents as a side-effect?  America must learn the lessons of empire history doth teach.  Or whatever.  Maybe we'll be the first empire to not collapse on itself and be totally great along the way.  Sure.  Sure we will.