From the Sarah Palin playbook:
“It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where—where do they go?”
And this:
“I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.”
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In another city, a group of youngsters had a Watch the Veep Debate Party. A sub-group played a game that had but one rule: you take a drink every time Palin says the word, maverick. How’d it come out?
“They were all on the floor before the thing ended.”
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“(A proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage) has to do with dividing God’s children. The one thing people better understand is God loves every (gay person) every bit as much as he loves any Republican.”
--Mudcat Saunders, known as Virginia Democrats’ Bubba Coordinator.
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“What the church has done wrong is that it has created these holy huddles of Christian magazines, music and schools that have set them apart from the world because the world is bad. Instead of doing what Christ did, and bring light to the world, they retreat from it.”
--Jim Beckemeier of a Southern Baptist congregation that meets in a St. Louis bar.
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No further signs of arrested development are needed but U-2’s Rattle and Hum remains artful.
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Our Boston agent reported this week on Theo Epstein, Red Sox’ boy wonder general manager:
“His grandfather and great uncle won Academy Awards for writing the screenplay to Casablanca.”
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Lifted from a Dallas paper’s obituary:
“He was one of eight children. His older sisters regularly beat him up, put him in dresses and then forced him to walk to the drugstore to buy Kotex and cigarettes.
“He never met a stranger and was stranger than most. He is survived by . . . .two ex-wives, unpaid taxes and many loyal, loving friends.”
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Sixth-grade teacher in another town where the Mexican population runs 25 percent.
“Parents night is the night the Mexican parents come to thank me for teaching their children.” She sighs.
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She is about 62 and she has in her home a mother and mother-in-law and two dogs. The two older women are in their nineties. The tough part is this: she lives in New Orleans where she has a solid job.
When Gustave came calling evacuation of New Orleans was mandatory. The hurricane was due to hit Monday, and she loaded her car with the two nonagenarians and the dogs. They left New Orleans at six a.m.
Twelve hours later, they were in Hattiesburg, Miss. That’s about 120 miles or so from New Orleans. They averaged 10 miles an hour.
A friend remained in cell phone contact and looking at a map tried for rooms along the way. Finally she found one … that’s one room for three adults and two dogs and, oh, yeah, her son and girlfriend were traveling with them in another car. So make that five adults, two dogs, one bed. This was at Hampton’s Inn in Cullman, Ala.
They arrived in Cullman at 3:30 a.m., that’s about 21 ½ hours of bumper-to-bumper highway travel. They were offered a house in Middle Tennessee and spent most of the week there.
And along comes Ike. In a telephone conversation the New Orleans lady said, “I can’t do this again. We’ll stay here. We’ll pray. We’ll hope for the best.” |
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