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Interesting comment on Laura Ingraham this morning concerning the Olympics

This was emailed in to her show (it's a paraphrase, but fairly close I think):

Us going to the Olympics to participate in the celebration is kind of like going over to your next-door neighbors for a barbeque and taking the revelry in, knowing he has his children tied up in the basement...

Kind of crude, but not wholly inaccurate...the spectacle will be interesting to watch, to be sure.

And while we're at it... isn't it interesting the timing of Russia's incursion into Georgia when the world is focused on the Olympics? Hmmmm

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