Just for Andy, Here's a thought that I heard...esp knowing that 'It rains on the just and the unjust"--but the quip I used to hear regarding that (as the reason why bad things happen -- 'cause of the fall of Adam and Eve and how the world was 'broken'), was that G-d would lessen it for those in his "family"... "If this is the treatment a red state gets, imagine if something happens to a blue state." Couldn't resist (even knowing it might cause the sleeping giant to awaken and fuss again <g>), Marlena in Missouri