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In case you were too excited by the Democratic Convention Coverage, feel free to check out the Republican Platform Committee Meeting on C-Span 2.

I just learned from Adrienne King of Hawaii that you can't (statutory) rape a boy, its called sodomy...even when older women are doing it.

History, that is.
Call me easily distracted, but the Olympic Games (the back story of the Olympic Games is probably more accurate) combined with Russia’s invasion of Georgia in the past week or so have gotten me dwelling on foreign policy. Too bad I couldn’t have been on vacation in Hawaii.
Anyway, I just [...]

States look to lower the age requirement for certain offices:

I’m on my way home from Hawaii and snapped this “newsy” photo at LAX baggage claim.

Could it be that the violent and unpredictable nature of our world causes voters to prefer Republicans?

Might it also be possible that said world is in this state constantly?

Nah.

I guess this is nothing new:

Sen. Barack Obama, speaking to a gathering of minority journalists yesterday, stopped short of endorsing an official U.S. apology to American Indians but said the country should acknowledge its history of poor treatment of certain ethnic groups.

Two men are sailing to Hawaii on a boat made of junk through a pile of junk in this story. Their blog is at junkraft.com.

Several months ago, the lady who runs the Tennessee Twirlers organization told us at a parent meeting, “Like it or not, you are all pageant Moms now.”  That has such a negative connotation to me, but I look at it as part of the process for Melissa to be able to twirl. 

Sen. Obama gave a pretty good speech today in Missouri on the topic of "patriotism". In it, he wove in past experiences with his family, watching the Astronauts come ashore in Hawaii with his Grandfather, or being taught about the Declaration of Independence by his mother in Indonesia.

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