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The title violates parallelism. It should read "A Fourth of July Carol," or, alternately, "An Independence Day Carol."

"It's your imagination, kid. Come on. Let's keep a little optimism here."

The closest noun I could find to salute graphically the victory of Mike Pelfrey tonight in Pittsburgh.

Awesome dog, and I used to have a shirt just like that.

"I purposely made a moral choice to put the pleasure of my penis ahead of the emotional well-being of my wife and family. I regret that they found out about it, and now I have to act contrite for a good long while. Sucks to be me." - John Edwards.

I guess you could hold it up at a Skynyrd concert when "Free Bird" is played.

No way I can beat that, so I will simply quote it.

When the Chinese won't lend us any more money.

I really do like the camera angles at the Washington ballpark, especially when a Mets homerun leaves it.

"This just in: U.N. orders sensitivity training for entire European country."

Trees, and, um, submarines?

My friend Ivan wrote this. http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/index.cfm...74969&rfi=8

Holy F. Santana gets a W!

Godwin's Law might get suspended in this case, as the South Ossetia-Sudetenland comparison is valid.

From BBC: Georgia and Russia agree on truce Russia and Georgia have agreed a truce brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and have approved the principles of a full peace plan. The exact details of the proposals appeared to be still under discussion. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili suggested some details agreed by Russia were unacceptable and said the document needed fleshing out. Earlier, Russia announced its military activity in the area was completed and witnesses saw troops pulling out. But despite the diplomacy and apparent withdrawal, rhetoric on both sides rem

Here is a long article from which I got everything I know about this: A long article about this

Must be pro-Russian media, which gives me the impression that Saakashvili's entire political life is based upon "standing up" to Russia on the South Ossetia/Abkhazia issue. Plus, any country which borders on Russia and tries to join NATO is taking its life into its hands. Putin don't play that. If Saakashvili REALLY thought the EU or the U.S. would get his bacon out of the fire on this, he was crazy. But, it should be said that this situation reminds one of the Sudetenland in 1938, and we may have a new Cold War on our hands. Let's see what happens with the Ukraine.

Can you see me waving from the next state over? Happy birthday!

Best wishes on your special day!

In this case, Georgia is the drunk friend who decides he wants to get into it with a tiger at the zoo, moons the tiger, tells the tiger he's going to kick its tiger ass, then jumps in the cage and promptly gets mauled. The U.S. is the not-as-drunk-and-possibly-on-probation friend who gets out of there ASAP before the cops show up.

Hope you have the best of all possible birthdays!

Hey, all it took was one disgruntled Bosnian Serb, a gun and a twist of fate to start the Great War 94 years ago this month.

Yeah. I used to have a lot of respect for McCain - I would have voted for him, in all likelihood, in 2000 - but that vote says to me that a soul has been sold.