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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....
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  They say the King died 10 years ago, but we know he's still out there somewhere....
• STUPID LAWS - CANADA: - Pauline M. Marshall offers a couple from her home town in Fort Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan (Canada).
  (since not all silly, outdated laws are from the US) 1....
• WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN OAKIE' AND A DAMN FOOL?
  THE RED RIVER. In Texas, we're proud to have the best politicians that money can buy....
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  * "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure....
• FROM NATIONAL REVIEW, February 15 1993, The Week, p.
  14 "Little noted by the press, vegetable-rights activists raided the kitchen of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D....
• Fun History facts to know and tell ...some of these you may have seen before.
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