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Okay, apparently some people missed me (Rebecca). I will start posting some quickie thoughts and see how that goes. Not a lot of time to write the longer essays for which I became so famous (not).

First off today, I share this gem that I heard on NPR this morning. If you don't listed to NPR, you must start. This is where you get real, unfiltered news, and the BBC tells you what is going on in the world - there is a big world out there that does not think the U.S. is the center of the universe and it's refreshing to hear what they have to say.

So, the fine folks at NPR interviewed a Mexican gang member who is doing time in a Mexican prison. He was caught bringing guns over the border...INTO Mexico...FROM the United States. That's right -- it is so bloody easy (no pun intended) to get guns in Texas that this guy bought them there to bring back to Mexico for the gangwars. Are you listening Jan Brewer? Because Arizona is next. The illegal immigrants aren't bringing weapons IN to this country so much as they are taking them OUT because we make it so easy. Arizona now has ridiculous gun laws that make it possible to buy and carry a gun anywhere without a license and without training. Let the accidental shootings begin.

Speaking of Gov. Jan Brewer, here's the next thing I heard this morning. There are a million people running for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and pundits are wondering why so many people want this job. There aren't really any official duties, other than to be ready to take over the office if the Governor dies or steps down. Some say we should just eliminate the position. Jan Brewer is the reason why we shouldn't. Arizonans elected the woman my mother called "that nice Governor Janet" (Napolitano) but when she was promoted to head of homeland security for the Obama administration the poor people of Arizona got this nutjob hate-monger Brewer because they did not have an elected Lieutenant. So, vote carefully for a Lieutenant Governor who you really would want to be running this state. It could happen.

Fox "News" got the coveted front seat in the White House briefing room that Helen Thomas vacated in shame a few months ago. Will this mean that they will listen more closely and actually start reporting facts? No. No it doesn't.

Finally, here's your daily reason to hate Sarah Palin (I know, like you needed another one). She made a statement saying that President Obama doesn't have the "cojones" to fix immigration. That's right - she used the Mexican immigrants' own language to talk about how they are not welcome here and should just get out. Oh, cruel irony.

Happy Monday!