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Thursday night...

Note to my friends, I am safely back in Paris.

There are times when this city really gets on my nerves -- it's so dang serious here, most of the time -- but it's always good to come back. Paris has a cocooned feeling...it's gradually become one of the most familiar places I've ever lived...and it's very, very old. As a native New Yorker, I keep thinking I'm having the feeling of what it's like to be a transplant gradually getting accustomed to Manhattan.

It was an interesting trip, to Barcelona and then Valencia...nothing like my vaguest, fuzziest expectations...definitely a "busy break" and not a vacation...and the main thing I discovered in Spain is that I speak French. I also got quite a bit of work done on the 2006 annual edition of Planet Waves -- Parallel Worlds. The picture is coming into focus, for both the annual horoscope and the articles for the associated Web page.

I would like to hear from you on your reactions to the "president's" speech today. Did you see it? Did anyone read the transcript, and if you have any favorite quotes, would you please share them? I'll tell you -- it really got me thinking about our society's priorities.

Why should anyone profit from higher gasoline prices? I just saw on CNN that Sam's Club is cashing in, because they sell petrol. Am I missing something, or is this just market capitalism? This was followed by an ad for a cellular service provider in Iraq -- "free Iraq," as the ad said. That was really weird.

Here is the transcript of Señor's presentation. And now I see that there has been massive flash flooding and mudslides in El Salvador and Guatemala from yet another hurricane -- places that have certainly suffered enough. I am watching video of the places collapsing. People escaping with their dogs and livestock. This world.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/bush.transcript/

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