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Also very happy to see Elizabeth Dole lose. I thought she was useless for NC as a senator. Right up there with John "the useless cheater" Edwards. I thought she was a poor senator to start with, but when she started running attack ads questioning her opponents religiousness (not a word?), I think she lost a lot of support. I was really hoping she would fall.
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And not quite as important, but still exciting, is this mornings picture from Deer Valley's Empire Lodge. I'm pretty sure this is how it is supposed to look.
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Interesting tidbit: This is just a few hundred yards from where they are building the new high-end Montage Hotel. A few weeks ago, they had to stop construction because they uncovered a store of 19th century dynamite used for silver mining. Seems there was over a dozen cases of very old explosive. Very lucky they didn't set it off with the heavy equipment. It was safely removed and work has restarted.
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I agree with you...it is very good to see that this country has come a long way. However, according to Tavis Smiley, voting in Obama means nothing to young black kids. To me, and I know I'm a white dude, but what else needs to happen for a young black kid to say to themselves, "see, I can do and be anything I work hard enough for."
Some of my black colleagues are more than outraged at Smiley's comments.
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