Ah, don't worry about Billy Jeff, none, ribit ... he's just getting a little anxious about the federal stipend he receives for the leather knee-pads he hands out to the women on the street corner near his New York City office ... apparently, the outfit that embosses them with the presidential seal in gold leaf is going up on their prices.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence