Political satire and commentary by author Irving Wesley Hall. Available now with free shipping. Imagine an Obama presidency without the mess left by George W. Bush. Can the Einstein Sisters save the world from Bush's eight-year nightmare? The political satire, "The Einstein Sisters Bag the Flying Monkeys," is available online or from most bookstores as a 628-page paperback, published by Not In Kansas Press. For more information, to listen to interviews with the author, to read free excerpts, or to order the book, go to www.notinkansas.com. http://www.notinkansas.us Irving Wesley Hall goes video as "Reverend Irving" with readings from "The Einstein Sisters" and commentary. Check out his YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/user/reverendirving. http://www.youtube.com/user/reverendirving As of Friday, March 27, 2009, 4,262 U.S. military personnel have been killed since the beginning of the Iraq war, according to published reports. "We're Not In Kansas Anymore" brings together news, analysis and links to provide the latest information on the escalating wars and the peace movement. http://www.notinkansas.us/munchkinland.html#TOLL In October 2000, Florida's Shepherd's Vale School represents a bizarre parallel universe. In the real world, public schools don't stone students for violating the Ten Commandments. High school business majors don't build Armageddon theme parks. The school's loveable mascot isn't sacrificed on an altar after a winning football season. The principal doesn't send his Jewish students to Israel to worship Satan in order to speed up the end of the world. The nerds aren't angry prophets who warn of eternal war, economic collapse, the destruction of the Constitution, and the shredding of the Bill of Rights -- if George W. Bush steals the approaching election. At Shepherd's Vale, they do. Albert Einstein's fictional great-great granddaughters, Tina, Norma, and Maxine -- three Jewish girls -- find themselves at Christian Zionist Shepherd's Vale after their parents mysteriously abandon them to serve a sinister neo-conservative think tank in Washington that is planning a "new Pearl Harbor" to launch a disastrous war in the Middle East. Because the girls love The Wizard of Oz, they call the neo-conservatives "Flying Monkeys" after the Wicked Witch's infamous death squad. With Angela Jordan, their loyal and feisty African-American Baptist bus driver, they find themselves trapped inside ex-wrestler Reverend Moriah Godley's authoritarian Ten Commandments charter school with hundreds of too-perfect students in a mythical hardscrabble town not featured on Florida's tourist maps. http://www.notinkansas.us/index.html Before dawn Juanito Gonzales bounced into the elegant high school boardroom with his magical laptop computer clutched in his hand. He was the smallest senior and the tenor in Shepherd's Vale School's Gospel Quartet, whose performances had made Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Juanito famous throughout south Florida. . . . Among Godley's twelve disciples, little Juanito could instantly lift the big man's spirits. The lad wasn't a native Floridian. The seventeen-year-old from Sugar Land, Texas, had transferred to Shepherd's Vale for his junior year. His classic 1949 Studebaker's upkeep and credit cards were covered by his hometown patron's political connections. Only Godley knew that the same powerful Congressman, Tom DeLay, had arranged the boy's parents' documented immigrant status. The principal understood that Juanito's charm flowed from an ambition to lift his family out of poverty. Chapter 2 also online. http://www.notinkansas.us/kansas.html Jesus materialized through the back wall of the Holy of Holies and soon stood a few feet away. "Yo!" Candy greeted Him matter-of-factly. "Whadup?" Honey and Taffy said indifferently, casually moving closer. "You're not surprised to see Me?" He asked. "We heard You were hanging around the school yard," said a blase Honey. http://www.notinkansas.us/poppy.html "I tend to be paranoid," Maxine confessed, stunned by Jesus' appearance. "I'll try not to feed that," Jesus promised. "For instance," she added, "I hope there were no Judases at tonight's meeting." He saw the worry lines cross her face. "I just don't know about Miss Bowdler, the old school librarian," she elaborated. "Judases?" He repeated. "You know, Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed You." "Oh that crazy story!" He exclaimed with a scowl. "Look, I didn't have a disciple named Judas Iscariot, and none of them betrayed Me. Another case of the Gospel writers currying favor with the Romans to prevent imperial persecution of their little Christian communities." http://www.notinkansas.us/poppy.html#Judas Mrs. Waters continued. "Next, the eighth question. What's the most important lesson from Adam and Eve's tasting the forbidden fruit? Six?" "I wouldn't touch nothin' if anybody said it would kill me -- especially Jehovah." Chubby-faced Seven said, "You shouldn't go naked outdoors." Five smelled of the milking barn. "Stick with dairy products. They're better than fruits and vegetables." The chauvinistic lad in the Two chair said, "Eve should have asked her husband first -- before doing anything except shopping, washing dishes, and cleaning the house." http://www.notinkansas.us/ruby.html Jeremiah explained his latest prophecy to his friends Jonah and Joshua. "George W. Bush may not be smart enough to know he's the Antichrist. He's just playing the role. Losing the election only to be declared the winner by the painted harlot and the Supreme Court might appear to a simple-minded person like Bush to be a miracle wrought by God's guiding hand." http://www.notinkansas.us/ruby.html#binLaden And seeing the decision of the Supreme Court, the Antichrist went up into the White House: and when he was set, his supporters came unto him. And he opened his smirking mouth, and lectured them, saying, Cursed are the poor: for theirs is the kingdom of debt servitude to the banks because they will be denied bankruptcy; Cursed are they who mourn: for they shall not see the coffins with their children coming home from my bloody battlefield; . . . http://www.notinkansas.us/castle.html "I have a question, Mr. Cheney," said Jonah, taking to his feet. "The big fellow in the first row," Cheney said, eager to inject some humor into the tense atmosphere created by his earlier horror story. "Now I know why Shepherd's Vale has a championship football team," he quipped. "You a tackle or a guard?" "Neither, sir," Jonah said. Cheney's lame attempt at humor produced groans instead of laughs. "My question is, if you know so many details about the enemy's plans, why didn't you tell us straight who the enemy is?" http://www.notinkansas.us/castle.html#BHB Miss Bowdler reached into a corner utility closet for an old style round broom. Then she stooped to a lower shelf and set on the counter an exact replica of the Wicked Witch's hat from the 1939 film. She locked the library door from the inside. Angela watched Miss Bowdler's wrinkled hands lift the witch's cap and position it on her head. The old woman squinted her eyes and put her fingers to her lips like the movie witch, and, for the first time caught Angela in her gaze. "Hello dearie," she chortled in a familiar raspy voice. http://www.notinkansas.us/haunted.html#Chapter22 The underlying theme of this article is the new American "Judeo-Christian" religion. "Judeo-Christian" used to be a respectable scholarly term for a tradition that includes both the Old and New Testament. However, in the United States during the last three decades, Judeo-Christian has also become a powerful code word. Among Zionist neo-conservatives and Christian Zionists — especially politicians — it refers to a political and religious alliance among strange bedfellows. http://www.notinkansas.us/monkeys.html Irving Wesley Hall presents 10 questions and answers. http://www.notinkansas.us/monkeys.html#CZ First of a four-part series on how the American military's use of depleted uranium is sickening our troops, as well as those of our allies and the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. http://www.notinkansas.us/du_1.html Part two of the depleted uranium series. http://www.notinkansas.us/du_2.html The widely distributed and cited part three of the depleted uranium series: At the beginning of George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq, hundreds of thousands of 1991 Operation Desert Storm vets suffering from Gulf War Illness were praying that United Nations weapons inspectors were right and that Bush and Cheney were lying about Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). After all, most of the ailing vets were casualties of those weapons even though the Pentagon maintains that Iraq never used them. How could that be? http://www.notinkansas.us/du_3.html Final part of the depleted uranium series by Irving Wesley Hall: Was Army Sgt. Michael Lee Tosto the first American victim of the Bush administration's March 2003 "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq? The 24-year-old North Carolina tank operator died "mysteriously" in Baghdad on June 17, 2003. http://www.notinkansas.us/du_4.html Excerpts from Irving Wesley Hall's satire The Einstein Sisters Bag the Flying Monkeys, plus satire. http://www.notinkansas.us