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Thank you, President Barack Obama and the United States Navy Seals.

I saw Peggy Noonan on teevee this morning saying Yes, We Can.  I guess this election is over.

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My son just called and said he didn’t think Osama is in hell yet.  “It takes a full 36 hours to fall that deep into hell.”

And Verdelia announced on her arrival a few minutes ago, “I’ll take my coffee this morning strong, black, and hot.  Just like my President.”

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Y’all, all my peacenik friends – and Lord knows I have plenty of them and I love them to pieces and need them in my life – are telling me that I should not be rejoicing over the death of any soul, even bin Laden’s.

I know they are right.  I know that.  I know that revenge is the Lord’s.  I understand that intellectually and I wish I could always feel it in my heart.

But, sometimes turning the other cheek is asking too much of a mere mortal like me.  I’ve told y’all before that I am a woman of faith but that I have backsliding blisters all over my butt.

The people in the World Trade Center were innocent souls.  bin Laden was not.  I suppose that makes some kind of difference to me.  It doesn’t make it right, but it does give it some ethical base.

So, in honor of my peacenik friends, I will stop turning on the tv every fifteen minutes to check that Osama bin Laden is still dead.