Steeped in a tradition of neologistic originality, the CBO reached deep and pulled up "hairbrainism" as a categorical signifier for the intellectual heirs of Emerson. Ralph Waldo was an American original for sure, but he lacked the essence of American originality. Like Condoleeza Rice, he was a person "educated beyond his understanding." he was, in short, a bit of a turkey. Today few of us care to look back toward Emerson as we dyspeptically assess our American roots. No – from the jack-pine savages shooting each other in the north-woods deer-hunts of Wisconsin, to the wash-board scratching, accordion playing cajuns of the Lousiana bayou we honor our country-fried roots. And if Ben Franklin’s noble bird found favor at the pestilential feasts of the first Thanksgiving, well today we have Turducken. Turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken… it’s not just a holiday novelty! It’s good all year round.
Tur(key)-Duck-(Chick)en. Get it?
from:
POSTCARD FROM THE SOUTH: Turducken a bayou holiday choice: Turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken a tasty dish
by Anne Rochell Konigsmark
source: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, December 6, 1998.
via: 
HighBeam Research
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Josephine Finlay, my wife’s mother, was the most vital, bright and big hearted persons I will ever know, a beacon of goodness. She died of liver cancer at 67 because they could not find the source.
Remember Apocalypse Now –
Brando: “Are you an assassin?â€
Sheen: “I am a soldierâ€
Brando: “You are neither. You are an errand boy sent by grocery clerks…â€
We are under attack by dark forces, “Grocery Clerks†who have the power to:
- Get us to raise debt ceilings high enough to destroy our economy
- Wage wars abusive enough to make the whole world hate us,
- Divide us into blue and red states to enable us to better hate each other
And, finally, eliminate political remedy by having the outcome of our elections
be determined by who counts the votes rather than how we vote.
We defeated Nazism and Communism. They were easy because we knew who the enemy was. This is much worse. The Republic will surely come to an end, and Judeo Christian Civil Society with it, if we do not find the source, identify the Grocery Clerks and stop them.
A tall order… It is clear we cannot trust our own security apparatus, which has not been able to stop the Grocery Clerks so far.
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