When my Mom had cancer and had to go to Shands in Gainesville for extended treatments, the Hope Lodge is where she stayed. No charge. Thank God for Winn-Dixie for supporting such a wonderful service. They have my support.

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I’m sure most everyone has heard this:
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying that, “Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young [...]

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Hurricane Katrina turned FEMA into a “symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy” so far beyond repair that it should be scrapped, senators said Thursday.
Actually, I could’ve saved them a lot of time and money wasted on congressional committees by making this one recommendation: Don’t reside on land that is beneath sea level!

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President Bush to the White House press corps:
I am here to break some news, I have asked Tony Snow to be my press secretary. Tony already knows most of you. He agreed to take the job anyway.

Gas prices. For the past few days, those two words have been enough spike anyone’s blood pressure. And now, everyone is calling for somebody’s head, usually the oil companies. For a while, I was right there on O’Reilly’s “They’re gouging us” bandwagon, but now I’m not so sure. Sure, Exxon/Mobil’s 400 million retirement package to [...]

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But [...]