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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (408316)	7/16/2010 11:43:09 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

We even adopt some from overseas if they show promise. Still on the drugs theme. youtube.com Saw a documentary on the USA South by Rich Hall. Thought it was good. news.scotsman.com

To: Terry Maloney who wrote (408316)	7/17/2010 6:19:50 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

Some hope for entertainment next year.... >>Soon Obama should get a magnificent gift: the beginning of Republican jockeying to challenge him in 2012. The list of current suspects is littered with characters, including Palin, the Tea Party Princess. A Gallup report released on Friday found that Palin is the “best known and most positively rated of five possible contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.” That alone speaks volumes about the vacuousness of the Republican Party. Palin is all cheer and no leader. But, now that Levi Johnston, Palin’s daughter’s baby-daddy, has announced plans to join the family, and presumably bury the hatchet, a major loose end has been tied down for her. Then there’s Newt Gingrich who decided to test the waters and stir the pot this week by saying that he has “never been this serious” about running for president. It’s not clear to me that he’s serious, but the very thought of Newt and Sarah squaring off thrills me to no end. I keep imagining the scene from “Clash of the Titans” (the original movie, not that awful new one) when the Kraken meets the head of Medusa. Cheesy and awesome! (In case you didn’t see it, they’re both destroyed by the demigod, golden boy who grew up with an absentee father.) Newt once said, “I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.” Ha! That’s rich, and wrong. It certainly isn’t true today as some Republicans, including Gingrich, casually toss around Nazi references. I’m betting that the battle for the Republican nomination will be beyond nasty. Not only are we likely to have Sarah and Newt, but bungling Bobby Jindal; the devastatingly boring Mitt Romney; and Mike Huckabee, who reminds me of Floyd the barber from “The Andy Griffith Show.” He once told an N.R.A. group that he couldn’t wait to get to heaven for the duck hunting. It wasn’t enough that Jindal last week signed the Louisiana “gun-in-church” bill. Huckabee wants guns in heaven. And if there is a God, and he answers earnest prayers, then he will do one small thing that will complete my life in 2012: He will nudge the endlessly embarrassing Michael Steele into the race. Please, God, please! A campaign will require these candidates to air out their hollowness in full view, explaining why they see a phantom in every corner, a plot behind every policy, doom along every horizon. They will have to take positions instead of just give grief. They will have to develop a plan instead of simply picking apart Obama’s. And they will have to point out the pox on their opponents, which will be great to watch. nytimes.com