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OBAMA/BIDEN '08

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."

* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend five different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

* If you spend three years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend twelve years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend eight years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend four years in the United States Senate representing a stat e of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, four years on the city council and six years as the mayor of a town with possibly 9,000 people, twenty months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for nineteen years while raising two beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.

* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now. 

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Destination of the Week: SANTORINI, GREECE

Its Friday (yay!) and who out there doesn't wish they could get away, somewhere far away. So in an effort to do a regular "column" like feature on this blog....every Friday I'll post my "Destination of the Week". Places I would like to visit sometime. I'm hoping you'll discover a new place or find somewhere you'd like to get away to as well. So here's my first postcard in its most familiar form...




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KEEP A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY!

I got this in an email and it made me giggle..here's the full list.

1. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom... Don't disguise your voice.
3. Everytime someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with it.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it 'IN'.
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to Espresso.
6. In the memo field of all your checks, write 'For Smuggling Diamonds'.
7. Finish all your sentences with: 'In accordance with the prophecy'.
8. Don't use any punctuation on all your inter-office memos.
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Order diet water whenever you eat out, with a serious face.
11. Specify that your drive-through order Is 'To Go'.
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital. Ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.\
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, 'Rock Bottom'.
17. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream 'I won! I won!'
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling 'Run for your lives! They're loose!'
19. Tell your children over dinner, 'Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.'
20. And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity… Send this e-mail to someone and make them smile.

It's Called … LAUGH THERAPY!

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