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  It happened to me this morning after church.  I was hanging around in the foyer waiting for my wife to signal she was ready to go to Gloria Jeans for coffee with Jess's family, something we do every after church every week.  A longtime friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, came up and we began to chat.  After a while, the topic shifted to American politics which continues to grab more and more of the world's attention, particularly since this is a Presidential election year, along with all of the seats in the House of Representatives, 1/3 of the seats in the Senate, probably about a third of the Governorships, as well as various State-level positions all the way down to county sheriff and municipal dog catcher.  Americans love their politics and, being an ex-pat Yank and dual American-Australian citizen, I dare say Americans take their politics with more fervor than your typical laid-back (some would say jaded) Aussie.  I say jaded in that Australian...
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  Hi Everyone, First-time blogger--welcome to my new blog. I am a homeschooler. Some people think I am funny. We'll see about that. For one English assignment I had to answer this question: “How important is a title in influencing you to consider reading a book? Explain your answer” My Answer: I find it to be quite important because if your gonna spend $12 on a book from Kmart it better be worth $12. However, if you were to go to Vinnies and find that they sell old books at 5 for $2 that would mean 30 books for $12 instead of $12 for 1 Kmart book. If you were able to get 30 books for the price of 1 I doubt actually looking at the title really matters. However, once you get home and realise you have no idea what you bought because you were just throwing Random books In your bag while your mother tells you that’s enough but you have to round out the 16 books you’ve randomly thrown in your bag to twenty books while calculating where you’ll get $400 to pay for 1000 St Vinnies book...
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