Battery Park

This morning, he was in his home (in California). He couldn't find his ashtray- the one he had in his lap, the one he had JUST set a lit cigarette down in. It had to be somewhere, but it just wasn't around. Never mind that hospitals don't generally allow smoking.

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Noone reads this, but should anyone come across it, my dad is back... extremely frail, damaged, and maybe not whole... but no longer empty.

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The body that lays in the hospital bed is not my father. The tubes that pour life into that shell must be feeding and breathing someone else. That can't be him. I know my Dad. I feel my Dad. I see it in his smile, his eyes, his attitude, even in his gestures.

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No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.  Section I, Article II of the US Constitution

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14 years in the House of Representatives.
Ambassador to the United Nations.
Secretary of Energy.
Two-term governor of New Mexico.

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It's been 40 years since there was a political convention that mattered, and now things are shaping up to where we might have two.

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In a press release dated December 2nd, Sen. Clinton snarkily lashes back against Sen. Obama's claim: "I have not been planning to run for President for however number of years some of the other candidates have been planning for."

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My pride-and-joy turns 10 this Tuesday, but we'll be doing the party-thing on Saturday night.  Plans had been to take him and a few of his friends to an indoor water park (an idea that looks even better now, for reasons that will be clear).  But in talks between him and his mom (coincidentally my wife- what are the odds?!), they agreed that he'd rather have a simple party and instead have a little nicer gift.

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In what appears to be the latest meme to buzz through the Internet, I actually earned something called a "Blogger Reflection Award."  This, despite the fact that this blog here really only exists so that I can harrass my favorite conservatives-who-really-ought-to-know-better: Soccermom and Barry (the one who stuck this icon on me). 

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Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech

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