<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Courtesy of today's (March 26, 2016) Spokesman-Review.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">----------------------------------</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span area="284,775,430,758" id="0" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Something wicked </span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man with the loud voice, made everything he shouted seem right and important.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A lot of people had been feeling less than, left out, unheard. He said exactly what they wanted to say but had never dared.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were no consequences.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He told his crowds who was in, who was out, who needed to go, who was worthy, who was not.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When people got pushed, it was “their” fault, those others worthless, dragging down the country best sent away.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The big voice boomed.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="Fid_6" area="209,755,348,583">All the rules seemed bent</span><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613">for the history he predicted.</span></span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gatherings grew wilder.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The future was coming straight at them, down the tracks, one white light warning, a warning.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">No one even looked up.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The speaker, a small man, would put everything right.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He knew what they wanted.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Fid_6" area="363,755,485,613" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Surely he would stop the train just in the nick of time.</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span area="435,604,505,594" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Barbara Baldwin</span></p><p class="paragraph" style="text-align: start; margin: 10px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span area="479,593,505,583" style="font-style: italic; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spokane</span></p></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">----------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></body></html>