Sir;.... We are two of the few people who ever went anywhere in a Nash Rambler. I went to Saturn in ours, and my brother drove... That car got great milage; there and back on one tank in one afternoon on a dead battery... I got to run the radio and the glove box... Let me tell you something else... The captain on that space craft was a lttle boy 80% paralysed by polio... I saw a man try to give him a dollar bill one time on a ferry boat, and saw my brother refuse and refuse, and finally take the money, and when the man was out of sight, four leg it over to the rail and throw that money in the lake...And I was all the time thinking: take the money, take the money, and calculating how many sodas and popsicles it would buy.... You would have to know my mother, or my father to know no child of theirs would be a begger... They did not take a cent of social security, and while social security did help my brother after highschool, he has supported himself with productive employment since... So, one hard case to another, Mr. Bill; quit holding it against the world... Your hard case father made you sour on the world, and on all the screw ups who make mistakes... My father taught me: Never kick yourself for making mistakes... Making mistakes is easy, and not making mistakes is hard... Life shits on some people, and sometimes every one around them gets hurt... And that is a problem of our society that there are too few safety nets, and too many golden parchutes... People are more easily rescued after being too mean, or too criminal than for doing everything right and having the moon fall on them... It isn't a game of who dies with the most... Do you think your father's contempt got him closer to heaven or only got him on the ladder sooner??? I think, if I die with a nickle in my pocket I will have failed in this life... I am older in my way than that old Nash... Money is no substitute for honor... You can buy some honor with money, but only when you have bought the money with honor... My money came to me out of my honor, and when I give it, I have the honor... Today, I would be that man on the ferry boat ready with a dollar, and not to injure some ones pride, but to help them on their way... How hard is that??? Nothing is impossible for a man who has been to Saturn... I have seen the impossible done, and have done it a few times myself, but never without the ability to escape the past and to imagine a better world... Sir; Try to imagine a better world with you in it... Would it matter then how much you own, because my thought is, that if money is an impediment to friendship, and if my money means you are going to spend the night in the cold, then I am missing something essential to the human spirit...I try and try to think of that profession baseball player's name, who died with plenty of cash and a reputation for ruthless play, and before he died, he said: I wish I had made more friends.... Me too... And I could give a rat on whether they know my name...I only hope they miss me when I'm gone....Thanks...Sweeney

Sir;... The more I see you on tv, or read your articles the more I see that the gulf between you and reality is too big to be bridged by reason.... People like you are made and not born, and your father perhaps wrecked your humanity, but you will never heal without effort in that direction... To tell you of my brother, his wrecked body was not a badge of pride, or a curse, but only an impediment to be got around or over... So long as you celebrate your disease there is no hope for your recovery... Now, I want to tell you something, that if God will forgive me, I did often curse my fate for being born the legs for another, and I often siddled from beneath my load... But the want we endured, and the tragedy we shared never stopped us from counting our blessings, and personally, to grow up sharing not only a house, but my health and mobility with another made me strong beyond belief, and seeing close up the pain and loss of my parents made me strong enough to endure as terrible a loss in my own life.... It is great to have enough, but only by having too little at some point does one grow sensitive to the needs of others... I will not justify poverty, and I will not suggest that poverty does anyone good when clearly it has deformed and diseased so many...And the thing is, Mr. Bill, that liberty does not say -give me your healthy, your wise, your wealthy and fully insured... This is always a land which has tried to make the best with the least... And if has finally reached the point, where to support one more billionaire, thousands would have to drop dead, then that is the fact, and we all need to adapt to it.... This land has plenty to give, and many who could live on what we trash, but also many who will trash rather than share... So, take care of your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves...Just remember that we live with less so we can fulfill our human obligation to care for the human wreakage all about us...Remember, sir, that each person has to choose at some point to be a member of their own family, and take on the responsibility of that family; and no less, do we all need to choose to be members of the family of man, and live up to our obligations to each other, as human beings. ..And Sir; I am my brother's keeper, and while it was a job I was born to, I still had to learn to do it, and to accept, and I learned first to be kept, and from that lesson learned to keep. ...If no one has kept you, then you do not know, and may never know with what love we may bear our burdens, and with what strength we may stand by our own... Does that make sense???Thanks...Sweeney

So, O'Reilly, am I supposed to take away the message that if my father is 5 feet 3 inches tall I'm inherently out of luck? You get more and more incoherent with each column.

Re: Masako;... Wouldn't you laugh like hell if Master O'reilly's insurance on his bank accounts went to worthless because the government he has been trying to deny funding to for years went belly up just like the capitalist class??? Government pension insurance, and government bank insurance are both on the edge of failure... Wachovia alone could have broken the one, and the big three going bankrupt could break the other... It is a pyramid scheme, and Mr. Bill is the ku Fu.. Won't he be coffin mowing the grass and taking the trash??? It is kind of hard for an old Irishman to beat an illegal alien off his gig....Mr. Bill better lay off the sauce, and get fit....Thanks...Sweeney