Bush's Secret Shame

David Mamet's cartoon "Bush's Secret Shame" First I thought "Henry V" is it the king dons a disguise and talks to the troops. One of the troops was holding a bunch of leeks in the production (Welsh I think) I saw in Connecticut at the Stratford Theater there (school trip, went out of business maybe back now) went on to Broadway, which I saw in a Humanities class trip. The King wore these linkages with springs that made him about a foot taller and the 1970 (?) production was almost madcap. Then I thought "Blackie" the Clark Gable character who comes out to see the vast humanity in tents and on lines after the San Francisco earthquake in a film I think of the same name, after reading the comments. The real "Blackie" of "India" was involved in the Far East trade and lived there on Nob Hill. Of course, then there was "Star Trek", a the killing of Joan Collins by "fate" so she doesn't lead a student peace movement that leads to a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Kirk and Spock go back to the soup kitchens of the Great Depression (Leonard "Bones" McCoy freaks out thinking of the stitching and cutting by scalpel) not caused actually by stocks crashing, small percentage involved in it, though today over 50% invested, the Dust Bowl and other weather factors we so soon forget more the major cause) Yep this sure looks scary for a Sunday comic. Makes me want to knock on the union hall door and get on a "Lake Boat". Thanks.* * Reference to DVD/film "Lakeboat" (2000, written by David Mamet) and the Seaman's Union Hall in Buffalo, NY. Boats stopped stopping there. The "Edmund FitzGerald" like "Lake Boats" haul taconite ore to Detroit and elsewhere (rich iron ore, from Mesabi Range, named (?) after the Taconic Range (orogeny) in New York and Vermont, a "Taconic Parkway" in New York State. New York was once a large iron center, operations in the Adirondacks, and in the Hudson Highlands, where for example, the "West Point Foundry" in Cold Spring, NY was, currently having its fifth season of industrial archaeology by Michigan Technological University. The "Lake Boats" also haul Midwest grains, Buffalo, NY, "Queen of the Lakes City" or something, was once known as the "grindstone of North America" or something. General Mills, Inc., was running three shifts when I was there last looking for work. I've seen some in the Eisenhower Locks, near Messina, NY in the St. Lawrence Seaway. The government is going to look at the ballast they sweep out and there is now a huge fine if one is caught diving on the wreck of the "Edmund FitzGerald" in Ontario, Canada ($750,000?).