Monday, 17 September 2012 13:48 | | 
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by John P. Kuchta Jr.
VNS Columnist
OK, they've gotten on my last nerve!
To quote an old country and western song, "Where I come from..." if someone gives you a gift, you thank them, speak well of them to others regarding the gift giver's generosity and just generally regard them as a hale fellow, well met!
You don't approach them with solutions that you recommend and that they need to launch to quiet a rowdy grandchild who keeps disturbing Sunday services.
No, get a gift of $1.2 billion that is keeping your sorry butt from being run over by the REALLY crazy bastards inside your country and you learn to tiptoe around certain issues.
If I had been the happy recipient of $1.2 billion, I might wince a little if I heard some of the gift givers red neck cousins calling me a filthy, turban-headed, child molesting, woman beater; but, I would avoid any mention at all of the cousins.
But, then again, that's "where I come from!"
VNS Columnist
OK, they've gotten on my last nerve!
To quote an old country and western song, "Where I come from..." if someone gives you a gift, you thank them, speak well of them to others regarding the gift giver's generosity and just generally regard them as a hale fellow, well met!
You don't approach them with solutions that you recommend and that they need to launch to quiet a rowdy grandchild who keeps disturbing Sunday services.
No, get a gift of $1.2 billion that is keeping your sorry butt from being run over by the REALLY crazy bastards inside your country and you learn to tiptoe around certain issues.
If I had been the happy recipient of $1.2 billion, I might wince a little if I heard some of the gift givers red neck cousins calling me a filthy, turban-headed, child molesting, woman beater; but, I would avoid any mention at all of the cousins.
But, then again, that's "where I come from!"
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