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Incidentally, tribal elder Laughing Woman, although laughing, is in no way associated with whack-o-matic fun.
What bothers me is that while my childhood was far more "normal," I demonstrate more responsibility in my financial obligations (school loans, etc.) than my elder siblings and, frankly, would be embarrassed to ask my father for money because I couldn't get a handle on life.
In more recent times, the various Bushies have repeatedly snarled at me from afar for all my digs at Geo the Elder.
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's elder brother Borislav, Yugoslavia's ambassador to Russia, told La Stampa of Turin Friday that his country has no plans for acts of terrorism in NATO countries but that "if the war gets worse, I don't know what will happen."
If that law had been passed and effectively enforced, it would have prevented the elder gunman from acquiring the handgun used in the massacre.