In the mean time, the President's call to action did not seem to calm the fears of residents in the exclusive, Orange County, California neighborhood. "Look we voted over 90% Republican in the last election. He'd better do something about this or I'll go to a John Birch Society and raise Cain," said Helen Dale of Rolling Pastures Estates. "If this bee starts stinging everyone it could kill my show horses, my prancing horses, my house staff...why I just don't know what I'd do. I guess I could order something," she continued in desperation.

     Lloyd Thurston II, a private equity banker, was equally worried. "I don't want to catch this sh*t!. It's worse than AIDS. Well maybe not. At least with AIDS you get sex first. But I mean it will devastate home prices here, probably cause a worldwide shortage of prancing horses, and may put off the debutantes ball. I don't know what my daughter's going to think. God is she going to be pissed off at those bees!"

     For his part, Norm Abrams took it all in stride. "Hell we've had one wetback after another with this wall. First WallMart said no, then the Chinese said no. Finally Sears stepped in and agreed to fund it as long as they got exclusive advertising space and Bob and I built it in a Craftsman style. The original 12 feet was a stretch for a Craftsmen but now they're talking about 40 to 50 feet. I just don't know what that will look like. Maybe we could do chicken wire, paint it desert sand and do a sort of little Frank Lloyd Wright action and say it is ' blending in' with the neighborhood."

     It was pointed out to Mr. Abrams that a chicken wire fence will not stop killer bees he said, "Oh yeah. Sorry. Forgot about those. How ' bout a giant bug zapper?" All funding from the new emergency spending bill will go to Coto de Caza to insure itself against losses in the prancing horse trade should an invasion occur.