If Susan Rice is The President's first choice for SoS, should he nominate her?

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71. Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! You know what I mean exactly.

It is the *exact* same snarl that they use when they say the word OBAMACARE.

I live along the southern rim of Yosemite (Bass Lake), but perhaps I am being a bit cruel in my characterization of the total population here. I mean, now that I think about it, I did notice a bumper sticker on a local car that said "Mountain Democrats" on it. That was about 2 weeks *before* the election, and I was so moved that I approached the driver, who was completely unfamiliar to me, and I complimented them on their courage. At first there was a look of total bewilderment on their face, so I pointed to the bumper sticker. Then they said that it isn't really all that bad in this area, and they told me about their group "Mountain Democrats", and invited me to attend a meeting, sometime.

Now, in the weeks since the election, I have noticed two more cars driving about town with the same bumper sticker; and I'm pretty sure they were different cars.

But you have to understand my trepidation. Most of the people here drive pick-up trucks, and *all* of the pick-up trucks have gun racks in the windows.

Another way to describe it is to say that I was a bicyclist when I moved here. I came from a metropolitan area where cycling was a respected means of transportation. I even used to get paid a monthly stipend by my employer for riding my bike to work every day, because it meant that they didn't have to expend energy in finding a place for me to park my car.

But after I came here, when riding my bicycle, I became sport for the pick-up truck drivers, just like most of the animals lying along the road that they award themselves points for. I kid you not.

As far as my punking them with the boxes of Kleenex tissues went, it was received by them just like I calculated it would be. It was one of those type of things that I am sure didn't even phase them, until much later that night. You know, about the same time they realized that they had the same plug of chew in their mouth since just before dinner. And I don't even want to tell you what I suspect the men were doing when they realized it.