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• What's a Crisafulli?

  
  
  Here a Crisafulli, there a Crisafulli, everywhere a Steve Crisafulli.
  
  Sightings of the freshman Florida state representative and Brevard home boy were published twice within the pages of Sunday's Florida Today.
  
  Matt Reed's interview Crisafulli: GOP fuss made us get [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:04am EST
  by Sheree

• Weekend Zen

  
  
  There is no sense pretending
  Your eyes give you away.
  
  Breakdown.
  
  Tom Petty. 1999.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:30am EST
  by Sheree

• Welcome Home Atlantis

  
  
  Space Shuttle Atlantis has landed.
  
  Happy Thanksgiving, one day later. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:51am EST
  by Sheree

• Thanksgiving

  
  
  Good morning.
  
  

  Nearly 150 years ago, in one of the darkest years of our nation's history, President Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving. America was split by Civil War. But Lincoln said in his first [...]

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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 7:07am EST
  by Sheree

• Turkey Casserole

  
  
  Time to mix it up.
  
  Let's get read to Turkey Casserole.
  
  Lou Dobbs split with CNN, but is considering a political run, with an extra sprinkle of spice. He's reaching out to Latinos....?
  
  Lou Dobbs Reaches Out to Latinos [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by Sheree

• Turkey Sandwiches

  
  
  What's the secret to a perfect turkey sandwich?
  
  Topics of the day to butter the bread.
  
  Slather about these stories while constructing what many consider the best part of Thanksgiving dinner.
  
  Don't forget the mayo.
  
  ***
  
  --Gov. Sanford' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:29am EST
  by Sheree

• Turkey Talk

  
  
  With the hopelessly socially-networked Talk to Me traveller in mind (you know the type, those who check in online before unpacking their carry-on, hey...that sounds a lot like me) my plan for for the pre-feast days leading up to the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Sheree

• Weekend Zen

  
  
  It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you...
  
  The Eagles.
  
  Desperado.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:01am EST
  by Sheree

• Happy Friday

  
  
  If you are among the 38 million travelers Triple A predict will hit America's highways to take the long road home for Thanksgiving, buckle up, be safe (no texting, drivers) and entertain the kids via travel games vs DVD player.
  
  Just [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:31am EST
  by Sheree

• Trials and Tribulations

  
  
  Heard over at Hardball, 11/18/2009:
  
  "...Shouldn't the Bush administration have done what a lot of people...think Barack Obama should do now, which is give a military tribunal? Why didn't they do it over the last six years?"
  
  It's the Big Question.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:31am EST
  by Sheree

• The Scene of the Crime

  
  
  Somewhere on this computer, I saved an email from an old friend, a mom like me.
  
  Difference being, on the morning of 9/11, my son sat safely sequestered in a high school class while her son woke to two jets slamming into the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:57am EST
  by Sheree

• Palin Reloaded

  
  
  As if she ever really left, the former governor of Alaska is back on the stump, this time to promote her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life.  Depending on which slant suits a reader best, the book is either "...a shot at redemption" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:52am EST
  by Sheree

• Race to the Top

  
  
  An unlikely threesome--Newt Gingrich, Al Sharpton and DOE Secretary Arne Duncan--dished mutual concern regarding the state of American education on Sunday's Meet the Press (11/15/09) with moderator, David Gregory. (View the discussion here).
  
  President Obama's initiative Race to the Top--$4.3 [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Sheree

• Weekend Zen

  
  
  Yeah Darlin' go make it happen...
  
  Steppenwolf. I'd say, right around 1969.
  
  Born to be Wild.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:30am EST
  by Sheree

• Happy Friday

  
  
  Is it just me or is anyone else picking up on a trend here?
  
  Can't control the spin? Take your ball and head home. Or in the case of Carrie Prejean threaten to do so.
  
  After calling Larry King inappropriate, the' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:24am EST
  by Sheree

• R-E-S-P-E-C-T

  
  
  As President Obama placed the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, my eyes flickered to text underscoring the somber image.
  
  Lindsay Lohan in secret affair with Heath Ledger at the time of his death.
  
  I quickly switched to another station. [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Sheree

• 11th Hour--11th Day--11th Month

  
  
  
  All we've been given
  By those who came before
  The dream of a nation
  Where freedom would endure
  The work and prayers
  Of centuries
  Have brought us to this day
  
  What shall be our legacy?
  What will our children say?
  Let them' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:15am EST
  by Sheree

• Homeland Insecurity

  
  
  My last stroll through airport security proved memorable, per usual.
  
  I actually thought I'd mastered the drill.
  
  Grab a couple of buckets, dump purse and shoes in one and laptop in the other. Prepare to walk through without any real sustainable eye' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:22am EST
  by Sheree

• In The House: 220-215

  
  
  Tap, tap tap.
  
  Hey. You.
  
  Take a look directly above this post, right below the title of this blog, Talk to Me.
  
  A quote from singer Marian Anderson has long headlined my thoughts.
  
  "There are many persons ready to" [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:52am EST
  by Sheree

• Weekend Zen

  
  
  Hold on to that feelin'.
  
  Journey. 1981.
  
  Don't Stop Believin'.
  
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:44am EST
  by Sheree

• Happy Friday

  
  
  “We're a work in progress. We're trying to get there [and] we're gonna get there. We're working our way toward getting better; we're going to keep trying, that's what I can tell you. It's not turning [around] overnight; we've just got to put the [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:10pm EST
  by Sheree

• Political Squawk: Herding Cats

  
  
  Tuesday may have been a double score for Republicans, but what about conservatives?
  
  The GOP chalked up two states in the governor column by the end of Election Night, but as far as the New York 23rd, the win by Democrat Bill Owens [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:21pm EST
  by Sheree

• The Off Season

  
  
  It's Election Day 2009.
  
  The off season elections, if you will, the sort of ED where Voters Weather and Turn Out can make (or break) political careers.
  
  One year after the election of Barack Obama, the talking heads are practically foaming at' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:41am EST
  by Sheree

• Soft Money Shuffle

  
  
  Quite the expansive interview of home boy state Senator Mike Haridopolos ran in Sunday's Florida Today (11/1/09).
  
  My guess is the black and white newsprint gets rolled out when one of Brevard County's own stands ready to assume the post of Senate president, [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:04am EST
  by Sheree