Sometimes there is this rare concordance in the force or something that just makes magic. I like news and I have news feeds on my iGoogle. Today from MSNBC, we have these two news items one right after the other and there’s no getting around the glaring fact that they ought to be related somehow. Why don’t they require Congress to get a few of these? Oh ye, I remember. Someone might use on on a Congressman or a Senator. We can’t have them telling the truth.

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