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Sarah Palin is the new Borat

It's official.  Just when I think she can't get any ding-battier, she has to go and do something like this:

Here's our former potential VP 'pardoning' a Thanksgiving turkey in Alaska -- while standing in front of the slaughter line.

You really have to give credit to the TV camera person, though.  This is framed so brilliantly it cannot be an accident.

Niiiiiice.

In other news, I just got a little book that one of my neighbor's just published on Minnesota's first full-service airport -- Curtiss Field.  Maybe not the most exciting reading for most of you, but this airport used to reside just 2 blocks to the north of me.  Fascinating.  Charles Lindbergh even made a stop here before he became famous.  Anyway, you can read about it here if you're interested...

To sum up, I live with 5 or 6 blocks of Minnesota's first airport, the State Fair, and a zoo and conservatory.  Beat that.

A Beautiful Day

I spent the first few hours last night at a friend's house watching the early returns.  Then I came home and had a brew or two (or three...  lost count, actually).  And at 10:00, just like everybody else, I just cupped my mouth and didn't know what to do or say or think.  Just stared at the screen.  Speechless.

The only political rally I've ever attended in my life was when Barack Obama announced that he was going to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States of America.

They played this song when he took the stage.

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

That's what I feel right now. I'm also thinking about Charles Alexander.  I saw this video a few days ago and it just socked me in the gut. 

Charles, I hope you had a beautiful day.

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