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Occasionally, you should toss all of your cookies just the keep the Native Sons of Alabama on their toes.

If you ask me, the line between Sarah Palin and satire is a fairly slender one.

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Do Vegas bookies have an over/under on how soon this new Pope will be found dead in his apartments? I'm thinking with every statement, his health gets more precarious.

Hold my calls, Miss Blankensop. I'll be busy pruning my Rolodex.

Exactly. I feel like an Afrikaner when I say it.

The problem is that when you tell folks you're not spying on them and then they find out you are spying on them, you take away any measure of trust that you may have built up over the years. Trust is an enormously valuable asset, not only in diplomacy but in all human relationships. It takes a huge investment of time and energy to build up trust and only an instant to lose it. Once lost, it may never be regained. Edward Snowden is not the one who told the Germans one thing and then did another. It was our government. He's also not the one who told U. S. citizens they were definitely not being spied on, even while they were. It was our government that lied to us. Snowden merely told us the truth about it. Think of it like this. Let's say you find your ideal husband, settle down, and start a life together. You tell him you want to be faithful to one another and he promises you he will never stray. You keep up your end of the bargain but, after your third child together, your neighbor tells you that he's been cheating on you all along. Would you say, "Oh my, all husbands do that - no problem"? Or would you be hurt? Would you blame your husband for cheating, or your neighbor for telling you about it? Or yourself, for asking him to be faithful and believing that two-timer in the first place? And where are the kids in all of this? I can tell you my answers to these questions, but I have a hunch they may not be the same as yours.

I find even the name to be a little creepy. Same with "Homeland". I always feel like I should be saluting something.

Just don't ask for crackers with your soup or salad in merry old. They will have to confer to decide what it is you really want and then say something like, oh, you want crisps? And, of course, if you are in a proper bar that realizes that Americans drink too, then when you order a "proper" drink, they will ask/state, you want ice with that, don't you? The answer is, of course, thank you very much. After all, we want ice served with ice, do we not? And, certainly with any other beverage, short of beer, which must be consumed "English style" at room temperature, which is, after all, not 70 or 80 degrees as in the US, but about 40 or so, the average temperature of your average English hotel room. Best regards, RA1

He doesn't write and tell us all the details. Best regards, RA1

I wouldn't mind trying the Celebre line of products EXCEPT for the presumed prerequisite. Best regards, RA1.

I am pretty sure Christians did their part to secularize Christian holidays. Christians like/need money too, especially US Christians. I have read a rendition of the history of the Bible as recounted by a 6 year old boy. He did much better than MS. Palin. Best regards, RA1

I have often characterized my career as giving away millions of dollars worth of advice every day and just, once in a while, needing to sell an airplane to pay the bills. Perhaps I should have listened to your CEO or maybe I did. Best regards, RA1

I try to follow what a high-tech CEO I knew used to berate his sales force to do: "Sell what you've got!"

Thanks. I find that surrounding oneself with informative, thought provoking contributors with the gift of expression encourages one to up his game. We are fortunate to have such a group here, the characteristic I like most about this site, narrowly beating out the hot guys. Ah well, priorities change with age.

But you'll like North Carolina. Now go climb in your shipping crate.

Aww I want a kid like that. (One that is run by batteries! )

Oh, I am pretty sure he insists upon being present when "it" is. Best regards, RA1

Ah! Nothing jogs the memory like flattery. Our CharliePS, long ago in a galaxy far, far away (well, on the Other Site, at least), posed an open question to the forum, to the effect of: What pleasures do you think will take the place of sex for you, once the sex drive wanes? I came up with: Savoring the smooth satin lining and the measured gait of my pallbearers.

What, another reference to BN's blog?

I can only see a sliver of the guys on either side but as others said, I need my resolution.When I tried to come into the site where you check the "I Agree" and enter, these are not available. I had to go into my past visited pages to get into the forum.