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>>>( and BTW I would hardly characterize myself as a Republican. I prefer to think of myself as the love-child of George Orwell and Edmund Burke <s> )
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>>Smoke corn do you?
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>At one time or another in my life I've probably smoked everything that I could get lit - but corn? I think I'm missing an allusion ??? ( though I have illusions to spare <s> )

Isn't Burke the guy who was trying to create a corn free market back back before free markets were common? And if there's one thing that Orwell was famous for besides writing, it was being in a constant haze of smoke. Oh, and that's corn free market, not corn free market. ;)