Elmer's Brother

The guy plays better with nine fingers than I do with ten.

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Mark Steyn on experience:

First, Governor Palin is not merely, as Jay describes her, "all-American", but hyper-American. What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I'm not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. And for the gun-totin' Miss Wasilla then to go on to become Governor while having five kids makes it an even more uniquely American story. Next to her resume, a guy who's done nothing but serve in the phony-baloney job of "community organizer" and write multiple autobiographies looks like just another creepily self-absorbed lifelong member of the full-time political class that infests every advanced democracy....

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h/t FJ, Robert Louis Stevenson and um um Boy George

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AND now back to our regularly scheduled program........

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I've met some people who talk out of both sides of their mouth but this takes the cake. I joined in a discussion about homeschooling after Nikki made assertions like this:

I do understand a parent embracing the homeschooling philosophy for several reasons. Control of curriculum and topics, friends, diet, convenience and school shootings to name only a few.

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YOU'RE STILL THE ONE (Shania Twain)

When I first saw you, I saw love.
And the first time you touched me,
I felt love.
And after all this time, you're still the one I love.

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