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Song of the week: Six Strings, Mt. Pleasant String Band



Ramble:

Just not ready to blog... with each passing day we walk away from the principles our Founding Fathers established...

Please don't misinterpret this as a personal throwing in of the towel... to the contrary... it is more of a convenience thing... Writing our political officials weekly from the local to federal level is time consuming and sucks all creativity out of me...

Besides, plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas...come before blogging.

If you are not actively contacting your Congressman and Senators on a regular basis.. please do so. Check my sidebar for easy links to Kentucky officials. Thank you notes are in order for 215 Congressmen that voted NO on HR.3962.

One other thing... Scooter Trash Husband and I have decided we will continue to NOT support the GOP. We will support specific campaigns... gone are the days of writing 1 check. New York District 23 was the deciding factor...

I leave you with the words from someone I miss... Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Speech to CPAC
February 6, 1977

[...] When a conservative states that the free market is the best mechanism ever devised by the mind of man to meet material needs, he is merely stating what a careful examination of the real world has told him is the truth.

When a conservative says that totalitarian Communism is an absolute enemy of human freedom he is not theorizing—he is reporting the ugly reality captured so unforgettably in the writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

When a conservative says it is bad for the government to spend more than it takes in, he is simply showing the same common sense that tells him to come in out of the rain.

When a conservative quotes Jefferson that government that is closest to the people is best, it is because he knows that Jefferson risked his life, his fortune and his sacred honor to make certain that what he and his fellow patriots learned from experience was not crushed by an ideology of empire.

Conservatism is the antithesis of the kind of ideological fanaticism that has brought so much horror and destruction to the world. The common sense and common decency of ordinary men and women, working out their own lives in their own way—this is the heart of American conservatism today. Conservative wisdom and principles are derived from willingness to learn, not just from what is going on now, but from what has happened before. [...]

Read the entire speech here.

I'll return to regular Sunday postings as time allows.

P.S. Dear Kentucky or Anonymous or whoever you are-- I leave you with this glimpse into how serious I am... If given the opportunity to opt out of Social Security today... (I am 20-25 years away from retirement and have paid into Social Security for 24 years) I would do so in a heart beat.

Have a great week everyone!

Question Authority

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Song of the week: This Time, Earl Klugh



Ramble:

Critical thinking as defined by Dictionary.com is the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.

I was a Liberal for about 1 year--- Along with being a college student I became a member of PETA and my Sociology & Philosophy Profs could do or say no wrong... One day my very liberal... dare I say... Socialist professor stood in front of class and exclaimed, "Question Authority!!" He then went into a long diatribe as to why those folks (on the right) should be questioned... Well... this girl after a period of time thought to herself... "Why should only those on the right be questioned?"

Americans should do more of that...critical thinking... If you watch the network news... question what they are presenting...if you read something question it's accuracy. It is good and should be encouraged to read and gather information from several sources... Facts are facts...

When did they quit teaching critical thinking in schools... why are parents oblivious?

Global warming is real.
The recession is over.
Acorn only has a few bad seeds.
National healthcare is an awesome idea.
Republicans hate Olympic athletes and are relived Chicago will not be the sight of the 2016 games.
What the President and current Congress are pushing for is NOT Socialism.
Michael Moore tells the truth.
Letting Israel fend for themselves is OK.
Cutting the DOD budget makes sense.
We are safer today than we were prior to 9/11.
The recession is over.

Now get to work... check the facts... the facts never lie.

Have a great week everyone!

Hope You Guess My Name

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Song of the week: Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones



Ramble:

I caught President Obama's speech to the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) last night... If you didn't pay attention to the words he used during his campaign... if you haven't paid attention to his first 9 months in office... there is no question where he wants to take this country. I became physically ill listening to the speech... my mind reeled thinking about all those I care about and their children. What kind of country are we going to be handing over to the next generation??

If you have never paid attention to politics... it is now time... for your children's sake... for the future of this great nation... we all need to take responsibility and take a stand...

I haven't been able to find a transcript or video of the speech yet... but will add it as soon as I have located it. The articles I have read simply cover small bits of the speech... healthcare, his joke about the CBC not wanting him to stand on the right, addressing caricatures of him with a Hitler mustache...

Update: 9/28/2009 Here is the transcript. Read this. Read it now.

8:20 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: They didn't want me to be on the right. (Laughter.) It says: CBC. (Laughter.)

To all the outstanding guests here tonight, to our outstanding Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Barbara Lee, please give her a big round of applause. (Applause.) To her outstanding foundation chair, Kendrick Meek, please give them a round of applause. (Applause.)

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is in the house. (Applause.) The House Majority Whip James Clyburn is in the house. (Applause.) Chairman of the DCCC Chris Van Hollen is in the house. And my great friend and the chair of the DNC, Tim Kaine, please give him a big round of applause, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Applause.)

I want to begin by congratulating all of the recipients of the Phoenix Award for outstanding contributions to American life. I have to single out one of tonight's honorees, for whom I can personally vouch, our Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice. (Applause.) Susan is doing a fantastic job as ambassador, especially this past week when we were at the United Nations, and we are all lucky, all of America is lucky to have her representing us there. So please give her a big round of applause. (Applause.)

I look out at all of you tonight -- on members of Congress, on state and local officials, on leaders of all kinds -- and I am reminded of the extraordinary acts of public service being rendered by African Americans today. I'm reminded of the difference each of you is making at every level of government, in the quiet neighborhoods of our small towns and the bustling streets of our big cities.

But I'm also reminded that it wasn't always this way. I'm reminded of a time long before the CBC was formed; long before the Civil Rights Movement was sparked; when just a lone African American was serving in the United States Congress.

A North Carolinian by birth, the child, some say, of slaved, George Henry White was the last of that first generation of African Americans elected to Congress in the aftermath of Appomattox. But at the end of the 1800s, with a segregationist Supreme Court handing down "separate but equal"; with African Americans being purged from the voter rolls; with strange fruit growing on the poplar trees, White decided against seeking reelection -- meaning that once again, neither the House nor the Senate would be occupied by a single African American member.

At the end of an inspiring farewell address, the gentleman from North Carolina said, "This, Mr. Chairman, is perhaps the Negroes' temporary farewell to the American Congress; but let me say, Phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again." (Applause.)

Members of the CBC, all of you gathered here today, tonight is a fulfillment of that prophecy. While George Henry White might not have foreseen the exact details of Montgomery and Selma; while he might not have foreseen the precise outlines of the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act, and all the struggles to come -- he knew that someday, African Americans would sit in our City Halls and State Houses. He knew that someday, the halls of Congress would be walked by Representatives and Senators of every creed and color. He knew, as Frederick Douglass knew, as Harriet Tubman knew, as Martin Luther King, Jr. knew, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. (Applause.)

More than a century has passed since Congressman White left Congress. In that time, we have faced a number of difficult tests and bitter trials -- as a people and as a nation. There have been dangers to peace and security; there have been barriers to justice and equality; there have been threats to opportunity. So we are by no means the first generation of Americans to be tested, but tested we have been. Most recently we've been tested by an economic crisis unlike any that we've seen since the Great Depression.

Now, I have to say that some folks seem to have forgotten just how bad things were when I took office. (Applause.) They seem to be exercising some selective memory. So let's just take a stroll down memory lane. (Applause.) Our economy was shedding 700,000 jobs every single month -- more than the entire population of Baltimore losing work every month. Credit had dried up. Loans for nearly everything from college to cars were nearly impossible to come by. Our entire financial system was poised on the brink of collapse with many fearing that what has been called the Great Recession would become another Great Depression. You remember that.

That's why we acted boldly, that's why we acted swiftly to put in place a Recovery Act that was passed with the help of members of Congress here tonight, and that's being carried out with help from governors and mayors here tonight. As a consequence of those early actions we're cutting taxes for 95 percent of working families. Not for the rich folks, but for ordinary folks. Putting some money in their pockets. (Applause.) We're extending and increasing unemployment insurance for 12 million Americans to help them weather this economic storm. We are making COBRA 65 percent cheaper so Americans don't lose their health care coverage if they're out there looking for work. (Applause.) We are saving the jobs of teachers and police officers that Americans rely on all across the nation. And we're putting Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, schools and waterways with the largest investment in our infrastructure since the Interstate Highway System was built in the 1950s.

Because of the actions we've taken so far, we have stopped the bleeding in our economy. So the next time some of these folks come up asking you what the Recovery Act has done, you tell them it has prevented us going into a much worse place. That much we know. That's been confirmed.

But we also know that we've got a long way to go; the progress we've made has been uneven; and that this recession has hit communities of color with a particular ferocity. Today, more than one in seven African Americans are out of work -- the highest in nearly a quarter century. More than two out of 10 African Americans -- and three out of 10 black children -- are living in poverty.

So this economic crisis has made the problems in the communities of color much worse. But we all know that these problems have been there for a long time. Communities were struggling to catch up long before this economic storm came ashore. One study that looked at trends in this country over the past few decades found that while roughly seven out of every 10 middle class white children end up surpassing their parents' income, roughly seven out of every 10 middle class black children do not. Think about that. For the majority of some Americans upward mobility, for the majority of others -- stagnation or even downward mobility. That was taking place over the last decade, before the economic crisis. That kind of inequality is unacceptable in the United States of America. (Applause.)

Bringing hope and opportunity to places where they're in short supply -- that's not easy. It will take a focused and sustained effort to eradicate the structural inequalities in our communities -- structural inequalities that make it difficult for children of color to make a success of their lives, no matter how smart or how driven or how talented they are. That's why we're launching Promise Neighborhoods to build on Geoffrey Canada's success in Harlem with a comprehensive approach to ending poverty by giving people the tools they need to pull themselves up. That's why I've created an Office of Urban Affairs to lift up our cities with a coordinated strategy to unleash their potential. That's why my administration -- under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder -- is serious about enforcing our civil rights laws and tearing down barriers to equal opportunity. (Applause.)

But of all the barriers still standing in 2009, few are more unjust, few are more entrenched, few are more inhumane than the barriers to a healthy life and a good education. (Applause.) Barriers that constrain the dreams not only of African Americans, but of all Americans. Barriers that can, and must, and shall be overcome.

For the sake of every American living today and for the sake of every American yet to be born, we must bring about a better health care system -- not in 10 years, not in five years, not in one year -- this year. (Applause.) I know there are voices out there telling us we're moving too fast when it comes to health insurance reform. They're telling us to slow down. They're telling us to wait.

But how are we supposed to tell Americans like Easter Spencer to wait? This is a woman who discovered a lump in her breast back in June and was told it would be six months before she was eligible for health insurance that would cover the cost of removing it. We're telling her to wait?

How are we supposed to tell Americans like Nathan Wilkes to wait? This is a man whose health insurance came with a cap, so when the claims started piling because he had a sick child, he was left to frantically search for another option, or face $10,000 in out-of-pocket costs.

Let me tell you: We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. We've been waiting since the days of Harry Truman. We've been waiting since Johnson, and Nixon, and Clinton. We cannot wait any longer. (Applause.) "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over." There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now. (Applause.)

Now is the time to enact health insurance reform in the United States of America. (Applause.) Now is the time to offer stability and security to Americans who have insurance. Now is the time to make it affordable for those who don't have health insurance. (Applause.) Now is the time to slow the growth of health care costs for our families, and business, our government. (Applause.) That's the kind of reform that we need. Now is the time. And that's what so many members of Congress here tonight and all across the country are working so hard to produce.

Now, many of you are probably familiar with our plan, but I just want to go over a few things so you know what to tell your friends and neighbors and folks in the community who ask about it, because they may be seeing some misinformation -- just a little bit. (Laughter.) I was up at the G20 -- just a little aside -- I was up at the G20, and some of you saw those big flags and all the world leaders come in and Michelle and I are shaking hands with them. One of the leaders -- I won't mention who it was -- he comes up to me. We take the picture, we go behind. He says, "Barack, explain to me this health care debate." He says, "We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you -- I don't -- that doesn't make sense to me. Explain that to me." (Applause.) He didn't understand. So let me just clarify.

If you already have health insurance, under the plan we've developed you will not -- I repeat, you will not -- have to change your coverage or your doctor. We are not requiring those changes in this legislation.

What we will do is make insurance work better for everybody. It will be against the law for insurance companies to deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition. (Applause.) It will be against the law for insurance companies to drop your coverage when you get sick, or water it down when you need it the most. (Applause.) They won't be able to place some arbitrary cap on how much coverage you can receive in a given year or a lifetime. We will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses. Because in the United States of America, nobody should go broke because they got sick. (Applause.)

We will make it easier to identify health care disparities and work to close them. That's long overdue. And insurance companies will be required to cover, at no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies. There's no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer before they get worse. That makes sense, it saves money, it saves lives, that's what we're going to do. (Applause.)

So that's what we do for the folks with health insurance. And we'll finally offer the tens of millions of Americans who don't have health insurance some affordable choices. We'll do this with a new insurance exchange -- a marketplace where individuals and small businessmen can shop for an affordable health insurance plans that works for them. As one big group, so they'll have leverage to get a better deal than they get right now. A much better deal. That is going to save them money.

Now, there are going to be some who claim that, well, this is a government takeover of health care. There are going to be some who suggest that they're going to lose their choices. We are talking about expanding choices. And I just want everybody to remember that they said the same thing when we tried to pass Social Security. They called FDR all kinds of things that we cannot repeat here today. They said the same thing about Lyndon Johnson when we tried to pass Medicare. They are saying the same things now, trying the same tactics -- but we are going to get this done this year thanks to members of the CBC and members of Congress all across the country. (Applause.) And thanks to you at the grassroots level that are going to stand up and insist that we cannot afford to wait any longer. (Applause.)


Now, the key to progress for all Americans is not just healthy bodies, it's also a well-educated mind. (Applause.) And we know that the African American community will fall behind in the United States and the United States will fall behind in the world unless we do a far better job than we've been doing of educating our sons and daughters. Unless we close the achievement gap that sees black students and brown students lag behind their white classmates, year after year, decade after decade. Unless we reach all the students who are dropping out of school and giving up on their future.

Today, almost a third of students drop out of high school -- a third -- and a disproportionate number of them are African American or Hispanic. That's not just a loss for the African American community or the Hispanic community. That's a loss for all Americans. That's the future workforce. In the 21st century -- when a good education is a prerequisite for success, when the jobs of tomorrow require a bachelor's degree or more, when the countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow -- we need the talents, the energy, the contributions of all our children, not just some. (Applause.) We need to prepare every child in America to compete with any worker in the world.

Now, there are a number of things government can do to offer our kids a 21st century education. It can increase Pell Grants and Perkins Loans and simplify financial aid forms. It can establish better standards and assessments in our schools. It can reward teachers who are doing a great job and move bad ones out of the classroom. (Applause.) It can -- it can improve quality in early learning initiatives. It can rebuild our crumbling schools. It can offer all our children a complete and competitive education from cradle to the classroom, from college through a career. That's what government can do. That's what government must do. And that's exactly what we've begun to do, here in Washington, across this country.

And I've said it before and I know I may sound like a broken record, but I'm going to say it again: Government alone cannot get our children to the Promised Land. (Applause.) Government can't put away the PlayStation. Government can't put our kids to bed at a reasonable hour. (Applause.) Government can't attend those parent-teacher conferences. (Applause.) Government can't read a book to your child at night. (Applause.) Government can't help them with their homework. (Applause.) Government can't make sure they leave to school on time. (Applause.) These are things only a mother can do and a father can do. These are things that a parent can do. (Applause.)

We need to accept our responsibilities -- as parents and community leaders. We need to be good role models and encourage excellence in all our children, every last one of them. We need to let them know there are no excuses for not doing your best, every day, all the time, in order to achieve your dreams.

We've got to push our kids to aim higher. I don't want all our kids aspiring to be ballers and rappers. I want them aspiring to be teachers and doctors -- (applause) -- and scientists and engineers. (Applause.) I want them aspiring to be members of Congress and Supreme Court Justices. (Applause.) I want them aspiring to be the President of the United States of America. (Applause.) I want them to have their sights set high. (Applause.)

No excuses for mediocrity. If they come home with a B, don't tell them "that's great." I know some of you all do that. (Laughter.) Tell them to work harder and get an A. Set their sights high. (Applause.)

A world-class education. Affordable, quality health insurance. Jobs and opportunity. All of us accepting responsibility for ourselves, and our children, and our common future. That's how we'll make life better for the African American community, and thereby make life better for the larger American community. (Applause.) That is how we will build a new foundation for our economy that yields lasting, shared prosperity. That's how we'll take up the cause of freedom, and justice, and equality in our time, just as earlier generations of Americans took it up in theirs.

Remember what it was like for George Henry White in the early days of the 20th century, as he was bidding farewell to the House of Representatives, the last African American to serve there for a quarter century. Remember the taunts, the threats, and the attacks braved by White, braved by Lewis, braved by Chisholm. Remember all they did -- (applause) -- all so many others did -- to make it possible for us to be here tonight, to make it possible for you to be here tonight, to make it possible for me to be here tonight. (Applause.)

Because I know that if we can act as they did -- with the same sense of unity, the same sense of possibility, the same determination, the same sense of purpose -- then we will not only help America's people live healthier lives, we won't just help America's children live out their dreams, but it will be said of us, as it is said of our forbearers, that when the need was great, when the moment was hard, when the odds seemed against us, we did our part to perfect our union.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)

END
8:45 P.M. EDT

The transcript can be found here.

Have a great week everyone!

Fall Cleaning

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Song of the week: Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?, She and Him



The days are getting shorter and the evenings are cooler. It's time for fall cleaning and I inevitably will find myself distracted by photo albums and all the projects I didn't get to over the summer--- okay... past three summers...

As I go into this nostalgic mode I yearn for pop music from the early 60's. This song is only a couple of years old, but it has that wonderful Petula Clark, Lulu, Dusty Springfield poppy kind of flavor. If you are not familiar with She and Him, you may be familiar with actress -- Zooey Deschanel.... She was the older sister in Almost Famous and more recently she was girl elf to Will Ferrell in the movie Elf--- they sang the duet Baby It's Cold Outside-- an absolutely charming moment.

So, this is a cute, campy song and it suits her voice--- M. Ward and Zooey do a lot of covers and a lot of jazz... she definitely falls into "girl singer" status with me... so as I do some fall cleaning... I intend to listen to some music that makes me happy. I suggest you do the same.

Have a great week everyone!

A Life Remembered: Hilda Marcin

Since 2006 Dale C. Roe has organized an effort called Project 2996 in order to remember the lives of those lost on a beautiful September morning in 2001. Thank you for stopping by and remembering Hilda Marcin with me. And after you have read my tribute I invite and encourage you to visit other blogs and read their tributes to those lives stolen from us. A list of participants and a link to their blogs and webpages can be found here.
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Hilda told her daughters many times the worst day of her life was the day Americans were attacked on their own soil - Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941...

Hilda was someone we all would have wanted to know. She was a happy energetic woman that loved life and loved to laugh. She adored her family and stayed close to her friends. She loved to garden and read, especially history. She loved to sew and work crossword puzzles. In her younger years she was a strong swimmer and loved to dance. She could do cartwheels well into her 50’s and she learned how to drive a car after her husband’s passing at the young age of 64. She was an excellent cook and loved to have parties during the summer months. Friends and family recount many fond memories sitting in her kitchen and having coffee and talking and laughing, laughing and talking. She was adored by people of all ages and fit in with any crowd. When her husband passed away, it was suggested that she move to a retirement community and she replied, “Why would I want to be around all those old people?”

Hildegarde Zill was born and grew up on a farm in a little town, Schwedelbach, Germany where she had a pet goose. It was not uncommon for her to wrap piglets in blankets and bring them in to the house on cold winter nights. Her father was a musician in the famous Krone Circus. When he was away performing with the circus, Hilda's mother would rent out a room to make extra money. On one such occasion in 1929 Hilda's mother rented the room to a Jewish seamstress. A few days later police officers showed up on the farm and demanded half of everything produced on the farm. As Hilda told the story to her daughters, her mother cut the head off a chicken and boldly handed the chicken head to the officers saying, "Here's your half!" The police told Hilda's mother to no longer rent rooms to Jews. The policemen took the Jewish seamstress away to "live with others like her." Sensing turmoil, Hilda’s family left Germany that same year, leaving their farm with just a few belongings. Her father, mother, and three brothers all immigrated to the United States via Ellis Island and settled in New Jersey. Hilda was eight years old and could speak German and French but did not speak English. Her mother forbade French and German newspapers in the house forcing Hilda to learn English. During the Depression, Hilda's father had a pushcart vegetable stand. Hilda and her mother scrubbed floors to help pay the bills.

After World War II started, Hilda was hired as a bookkeeper at the Kearny Shipyard in New Jersey. She worked seven days a week and used to joke that she could have christened the battleships by reaching out her office window. After meeting on a blind date and a whirlwind courtship of three months, Hilda Zill married Edward Marcin on February 13, 1943. Edward was a welder and later became a police officer. Hilda and Edward were married until his death in 1979. Later, she worked for 20 years as manager of Waiters and Waitresses Local 109's Retirement and Welfare Fund, but it was her 14 years as a special education aid for the Morris County Public Schools that she most loved. The children she worked with had been abused, neglected or from drug addicted families. The staff and students loved her.

Hilda was not afraid of anyone. One time a thug tried to mug her and steal her purse, "I know your game!" She whacked the guy on the head with her umbrella. Her home in New Jersey had been burglarized three times. One time she chased a would be robber with her then late husband's billy club. She knew who he was and contacted his parents and apologized to them, but said she had to turn him in for his own good.

The woman was meticulous, organized and frugal. Whether it was because she endured great hardship during the Depression or because she was a member of the Greatest Generation, or it was German upbringing, or a combination of all three, Hilda kept records of everything. She saved buttons from old clothing because they were good quality and should not be thrown away. Nothing was wasted and everything had a place.

Winters were becoming more and more difficult with each passing year and so June 2001 she retired as an aid to relocate and live with her daughter in California. She had made her reservations for the flight to California in March. Being organized and meticulous as she was known to be, she gave both her daughters duplicate copies with an accounting of her assets as well as a prepared obituary in the event that something should happen to her.

On September 11, 2001 along with 36 other passengers, Hilda Marcin boarded United Flight 93 to start a new chapter of her life. Little did she know that she was on the front lines of a new battle, a new much more sinister war. I imagine in those last horrifying moments of her life Hilda was comforting others on board that fateful flight. I imagine she offered words of encouragement to those around her. Through out her life she showed no fear. I am sure that is how she lived to the very last moment. Little did she know, that she would forever be one of the heroes of United Flight 93.

May God rest her soul and continue to offer comfort to those she left behind.

A Life Remembered,







Hilda Marcin
1922 - 2001


Resources:

Post Gazette
National Park Service Flight 93 Volunteer Newsletter
Among The Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman
San Francisco Chronicle
SF Flight 93 Memorial
United Heroes
Daily American
Legacy.com

Thank you for pausing and remembering Hilda. I also invite you to read and remember the lives of Toshiya Kuge, Tom Burnett, Deora Bodley and Marion Britton. I have linked them below or you can find them at the top of my side bar.

2008: I remember Toshiya Kuge.
2007: I remember Tom Burnett.
2007: I remember Deora Bodley.
2006: I remember Marion Britton.

Congressman Joe Wilson, I think I love you!!

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Michael,

Just a little note to wish you a happy birthday and may we have many many many old people moments together. I love you.

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