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Whew! What a long strange trip it’s been. This will be the last article I write on this blog. I would like to use this final post to summarize my thoughts and feelings about what has occurred over the past year. The blog up will stay up for a few days to allow comments and touch base with so many of you that I have grown accustomed to interacting with.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said yesterday that the collapse of financial markets worldwide occurred as a result of the withdrawal of the Clampett fortune from the Beverly Hills Commerce Bank in Beverly Hills, California.

Not much about the Keeneland sales makes much sense to a man of modest means like me. Three million for a daughter of grade three winner Chimichurri, while the first foal out of Azeri can't find a home at 7.7 million.

Well, the big night arrived, and the three of us gathered together to experience this historic moment in America the only way we knew how:  via the warm glow of our computers.  Welcome to the recap of the big finish for the Democratic National Committee Convention.  Jon, Dw, and I are ready to take

North Dakota’s real-life Jed Clampett (CNN.com) August 6th, 2008 Herb Geving unleashes a broad smile in his 11,000-square-foot mansion. The former cattleman, farmer and owner of a North Dakota garbage business is now retired, able to count the dollar signs brought in by three oil wells.

OLD JED’S A MILLIONAIRE! Arabs and tyrants aren’t the only people getting rich on the recent run-up in oil prices.  Ordinary people in North Dakota are getting rich too: In less than a year, Stohler and his wife, Lorene, 82, have become millionaires from the production of one well on their land near Dunn Center, a mile or so from the sod home where Oscar grew up.

See here videos of the 10 richest fictional characters, according to Forbes magazine. The publication checked the original stories for information on the wealth of each one and arrived at the equivalent amounts in the real world, as of market close on December 10, 2007. Mythological and folkloric characters were excluded.

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - President Bush met with oilman Jed Clampett at his Beverly Hills Estate yesterday to appeal for an increase in production at Mr. Clampett’s backwoods refinery. Mr. Clampett, a once-poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, discussed the matter with the President over a dinner of hog jowls and squirrel stew in the fancy eating room.

Today is West Virginia’s primary. But you wouldn’t know it if you followed Barack Obama around. He is off today gallivanting around in Missouri or who knows where else. And that is because he doesn’t believe the voters in the remaining states deserve his presence. Barack Obama doesn’t really believe in Democracy.

Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads—"Take Me Home," John Denver Them thar Wellesley gals is so country. Kinda like good ol' "can I git me a huntin' license here" John Kerry, nothing makes Hillary Clinton feel more comfortable than to find herself in the hills and hollers.