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There’s an app for that

In this age of electronics I have thought of a device that any hard-core conservative would be delighted to own. I call it a C-Pod, the C stands for conservative.

The device is in a box and has a push-button switch on top. When the switch is pressed the device shouts out in a loud, parrotlike voice: “It is socialism, it is not constitutional, it costs too much.”

Whenever the user hears something like “health care reform,” he presses the switch. Depending on what he believes, he may press the switch for phrases like Social Security, Medicare, homeland security or whatever else comes to mind.

Carl H. Dahlberg

Bonners Ferry, Idaho

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