Apologies to Ethel Merman & Irving Berlin.

[citizenq at hushmail.com]

"The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props
The audience that lifts you when you're down
The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops
The sheriff who escorts you out of town
The opening when your heart beats like a drum
The closing when the passengers won't come
There's no business like show business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing
Everything the traffic will allow
No where could you have that happy feeling
...
Let's go on with the show
Let's go on with the show!
The show!
The show!"


Anyone who thinks for a nanosec that this is anything but showbiz is a total idiot.

>RESPONSE TO TERROR
>L.A., S.F. Airports to Get National Guard
>Safety: Soldiers armed with loaded M-16s will boost security, starting
>today. The rifles will be
>fired as a last resort, a spokesman says.
>
>By PETER Y. HONG, TIMES STAFF WRITER

>National Guard troops with M-16 assault rifles are to report for guard
>duty at Los Angeles International and San Francisco airports today, in
>a move Gov. Gray Davis called "a symbol of the changes that have
>occurred at airports to enhance passenger safety."