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Don't Miss the Coronation Rehearsal

Guy T. Sturino
January 31, 2006
Today will be a day to remember. A coronation rehearsal will be held this evening in the Royal Round House. All five hundred-thirty eight members of the new parliament are commanded to attend. This prestigious event marks the culmination of the efforts of Lord Cheney, Royal Regent of New Christendom, working on behalf of the haves and the have more's, to prepare young George, the Crown Prince, to assume his rightful place in the Oval Throne Room at White Castle.

In attendance, as hand maidens to young George, will be Lady Liberty and Lady Justice. Their previously high status has been reduced in keeping with the elevation of the King’s Barrister to the Imperial Court just this morning by a vote of 58 to 42.

Several Barons are also expected to attend the rehearsal. Resplendent in new purple jackets, they will hold a separate celebration to commemorate their elevation in status by the assumption of powers which had previously been held by the now defunct Congress of the old republic.

The prescient Royal Physician and First Officer Parliament, Sir Frist, will be on hand to watch for any nonsense by those who might take umbrage with any remarks made by young George. The press had reported that some disgruntled members of the now defunct Congress had planned to turn their backs to young George if he put too rosy a glaze over the state of New Christendom. These rumors have been dismissed as extremely unlikely.


Some of the things we expect to hear from the Crown Prince are:

The war against the evil doers in Iraq is going well.

Another evil doer, Iran, is mistreating its citizens and will need to be dealt with soon.

The attempt to form a cooperative monarchy in Palestine has failed, so assistance to the people of Palestine will be stopped immediately.

The people of New Christendom have many reasons to rejoice, if they can afford it, health care will continue.

The money corporations have saved by eliminating pensions will help fund new factories in destitute nations.

Minorities, including women, will be pleased to take their rightful places behind and to the side of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men who will treat them kindly.

Other remarks may include some indication of the new monetary controls proffered by the King’s Exchequer and new rules governing citizens’ behavior put forward by the Lord of Christendom’s Security Guild.

The culminating event of the coronation rehearsal will be the burning in effigy of the Magna Charta and the Constitution of the old republic as pipers perform God Save the King.

This is likely to be the last edition of this newsletter. We are told that all provisions of the Bill of Rights will be suspended pending the end of all hostilities world wide.
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Guy T. Sturino

My Name is Guy Sturino and I came to be in November of 1940 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. By the time I reached six years old my dad was back home and we had defeated both Germany and Japan.

The country was riding high. Sure, times were tough. Both my parents worked fairly regularly, but still we moved often and we spent a few of those early years in government project housing. TV came to our house when I was eleven.

When I was twelve I became an alter boy at Holy Rosary Catholic Church. Like all alter boys, I even thought someday I'd become a Priest. By the time I finished high school that illusion was gone and with it my fondness for the Catholic church. But, that's another story all by itself.

In high school Civics class we learned that we were the greatest. We learned that Democracy meant capitalism and Communism was the same as socialism. We were taught that Democracy was good and that socialism was bad. At the same time Joe McCarthy was telling us that Communists were hiding under our beds and if the bomb didn't get us those Commies sure would.

I took all that with me when I joined the Marines in '59 when my education really got started. In Thailand I learned about Buddhism, and how people who had very little and worked from dawn to dusk every day were the happiest and most sharing as a group that I had met up until that time. In Japan I saw and lived in a culture built around working together to achieve great things as opposed to the do-it-yourself rugged individualism expected in the American culture. Along the way I got to visit the Philippines and South Korea.

When I came home in '63 I drove a bread truck for a while and then hand poured aluminum in a foundry until the GI bill was signed in '65. I got a degree in Applied Science and Technology and went to work for American Motors. After a few years as a chassis engineer I moved over to quality control and eventually traveled Europe assessing quality systems in supplier manufacturing facilities. By the time I had interacted with workers in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy, as well as China, South Korea and Japan, I had a totally new perspective on what was a fair return for a days work.

I worked for a couple of other companies before vacationing in Virginia Beach with my daughter and deciding that the tickets in my pocket for Riyadh and New Deli were simply too much after just returning from Beijing. I found a pizza shop for sale and bought it. Unfortunately I wasn't very successful as a restaurateur, and took a job as a substitute teacher for a year.

Undaunted, I applied for a job as a teacher assistant the next year and got it. Two years later I was teaching algebra in an alternative high school where, at 62 years old I retired.
I already had a serious interest in politics, but having the time to actually watch the House and the Senate on Cspan really got my interest. I learned things about our government that I certainly never heard about in school and I had to wonder why not. About 2005 I decided to begin sharing my thoughts on the web. By the middle of 2007 I sort of lost, not the interest, but the drive to communicate.

Recent events have changed that.

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