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• Still, you've got to feel good about a country in which the official starts of its presidential campaign and its Christmas shopping season coincide.
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• How about that footage on the news yesterday of our new Commander-in- Chief on the deck of the aircraft carrier (Teddy Roosevelt?
  ).. After throwing one of his snappy salutes (he's *almost* got that down), I half expected him to give the order, "Let's turn this thang around....
• What is 133 years old and still running hard? The Reagan-Bush ticket.
• The top 10 good things about being in Iraq right now, from "Late Night With David Letterma
  ---------------------------------------------------- 10....
• What this country needs is a good 5 dollar plasma weapon.
• Comprehending Mathematicians -- Take Two A mathematician is a person who says that, when 3 people are supposed to be in a room but 5 come out, 2 must go in to return the room to an empty state.
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