The Dixie Chicks' new album is being released sometime in May, but you can go to their website and hear the single "Not Ready to Make Nice" right now. I like the song (I paid I-Tunes 99 cents for my download already), but some of the words disturb me, as being the peacemaker that I strive to be, lines like "It’s too late to make it right - I probably wouldn’t if I could" bother me in so many ways.

However, yesterday's "interruption" of the Chinese president by the Falun Gong protester at the White House, got me thinking that good change comes from people "not ready to make nice."

This whole week, protesters of the Chinese government's cruelty to members of the Falun Gong, a peaceful, spiritual practice without any formal organization, property or membership, have lined the streets of DC handing out literature and urging people to contact their congressional representatives and the President to call for an investigation into the concentration camp charges, and to demand that the government of the People's Republic of China cease its persecution of Falun Gong immediately, and release all Falun Gong prisoners of conscience. [As background, Chinese President Jiang Zemin banned the practice in China on July 20th, 1999. What has followed over the last five years is the violent persecution of millions of Chinese citizens.]

In the meantime, Hu Jintao and Bush sat down with top business leaders in our country for a nice lunch.

Guess they were ready to make nice.