>>>>Wow.
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>>>>At 10 am if you went to Google news Obama was not mentioned anywhere on the page - even under names in the news.
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>>>>And today Sarah Palin will be named VP candidate...
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>>>>we are about to have the first VP married to an Eskimo !
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>>>Shouldn't that be "Inuit"?
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>>If she were a Democrat, it would be important <bg> but since she's a Republican political correctness is probably not as important.
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>>( joking, of course, and Inuit is surely the correct tribal designation for many of the population of Alaska who were there first. Not sure how many of them care, but for any who do, fair enough. Probably offensive to the Yupik, but I don't think they care either. In Alaska I think they use the term Eskimo without a pejorative connotation, though in Canada they are more sensitive about it since there is a more homogeneous native population and - well - because they are Canadians <s> )
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>Well, can't say I care much really. And don't let the Canadian Census Bureau hear you calling anybody a 'Canadian'.
Oh God - Canadian American? Citizen of the Multi-Cultural People's Republic of Canada? Canadien ou Canadienne ? Non-Mexican/Non-American residents North of Honduras? The Evolved Ones? Serfs Toiling under the Jackboot of the Mounties?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
