The government has had bunkers to preserve themselves since the Fifties. They call it the "continuance of government" plan or something like that. A way to preserve our body politic in case of nuclear attack.

Since these facilities have come back into use and predominance with the terrorist reality, the media has chosen to talk offhandedly of it all as "the shadow government." They are having a ball with the term.

It's an interesting choice of words. Think of the more realistic things they could have called it, like the back-up government, reserve team, second string, alternate government, substitute, survival team, bunker government or even the gopher government. There are plenty of phrases they could have used. But no, they want to use "shadow government."

Any real conspiracy theorist worth his salt knows that the shadow government isn't something akin to leaders in a dugout, cave, or bunker, no matter how luxurious and well equipped it might be. The shadow government is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bildebergers, and to some, the Tri-Lateral Commission. These are clubs that our movers and shakers in government, industry, banking, news, Hollywood and the media belong to. And the question has always been—what possible reason is there for these leaders to meet in private?

Some would even put the United Nations in this grouping and roll it all together in what's known as the New World Order (or odor). The spreading of our empire tentacles into every other nation in the world and the most probable reason for the suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the heart of international banking.

To conspiracy theorists, the shadow government runs things. Our elected officials and the bureaucrats of Washington are merely pawns they allow to run for office and then tell what to do. This includes the hired hands, talking heads, or the very people who are now having such fun with the phrase "shadow government"—the lapdogs of media, masquerading as the free press. Operating inside parameters and under directives from the shadow government.

One of the transparent strategies of our leadership has been to first deny the charges, then laugh them off or try to make a joke of the accusations. And that may be what we're getting now. A very lame attempt to treat the idea of a shadow government as something equivalent to life in a cave, and do so without asking who is in these bunkers.

The next time you hear them use the phrase in this context, don't laugh with them—laugh at them. Like the brats they are, they really do need their faces slapped.