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If you drive far enough down most any county route in north-central Florida you'll notice, as if a video on constant replay, a variety of sights that seem to appear and then re-appear time and again. Dairy farms, patches of uncleared woods, country churches, graveyards, and in the midst of this pastoral landscape also the more technological aspects of cellphone, radio, and microwave towers. More ... What unbelievable gall it takes to quit your part-time job with full-time pay, stating that you don’t know what to do as you pack your bags and head for home, or vacation, or the campaign trail. More ... You notice, I said Casey Anthony, not Caylee Marie Anthony. I think that’s where the distinction lies. The victim in the case, a missing 3-year-old is no longer the "story." Instead her mother Casey and grandparent’s Cindy and George is now "the big news." More ... When I was a little boy we used to play a game where we wore a blindfold and tried to put a slip of paper on a drawing of a donkey we couldn't see. I thought of that as I watched the chattering class, blindfolded and frantically trying to pin the blame for the Wall Street debacle on everything but the real donkey, the Democrats, whose symbol is… guess what? More ... Settle down people. For crum's sake, you're going to burst a collective blood vessel here and end up squirting self-righteous juice all over your nice slacks. All this garment staining simply because Barack Obama said his opponent's call for change was similar to applying lipstick to a pig. Which made John McCain go crazier than a drunken evangelist in a transvestite strip bar, accusing Obama of insulting Sarah Palin. More ... Duplicity, which Webster's dictionary defines as "doubleness of heart or speech; the act or practice of exhibiting different or contrary sentiments, at different times, in relation to the same thing," perfectly describes this character flaw in Obama. However, a more commonly used term is "two-faced." More ... We appear to be in calamitous times with nothing but bad news rolling out from the economy, the weather, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cost of fuel just to name a few. But what often matters to us most is how it breaks down to the local level. It's overwhelming to take on all the troubles of the world and lately there's just too much of it. More ... If there's truth in humor, what do late-night jokes tell us about the presidential campaign? More ... |
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