I said my piece. Said my peace. I am part of a large family.

The title/lyric is a line from I Am Part of a Large Family, a song by Great Lake Swimmers, a Canadian folk group I listen to almost exclusively in the mornings because it's so mellow. Check their site out by clicking the title.

Did anyone else see this????

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There's no sign of a family reunion planned, but U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins.

So says the vice president's wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the senator from Illinois.

The two men could hardly be more different. Cheney is an advocate for pursuing the war in Iraq to try to stabilize the country, while Obama wants to get U.S. troops out of Iraq.

Mrs. Cheney told MSNBC on Tuesday that it was "an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family line for lives that have taken such different and varied paths."

The common ancestor was Mareen Devall, who the Chicago Sun-Times said was a 17th century immigrant from France.

Mrs. Cheney said she discovered the link through family research for her new book, "Blue Skies, No Fences," about growing up in Wyoming.

Here's a pic of one of their shared ancestors from Long, Long Ago...


Notice some similarities to both descendants:

Deep wellspoken African influenced voice, slick threads, atheltic prowess.

Empire insider, warmonger, torturer, recluse, 2nd most pwerful, yet most feared man in the Empire.

See another pic of same relative and you'll see different similarities to the two:

On the one hand; warm, selfless, thinking of bigger picture, looking out for young soldier(s).

On the other; white, bloated, scarred, near expiration, gay blondeheaded child.

Having posted that much I remembered this scene from Kevin Smith's movie Chasing Amy:
WARNING, this is from a Kevin Smith movie and so not for the faint of heart!


What an hysterical place we live in; America. Where these two come from the same ancestor, where movies can make fun of real civil struggles by making fun of a movie, and where such a movie can be the touchstone for half the conversations dorks like me have in a day.