So… as I am typing this I have two cockatiels on my shoulder. One, Homer (er, female) stretches out her neck to bundle with my cheek. I turn and kiss her on the head. She nibbles my nose as a kiss back. What is it about birds that make you want to kiss them? Every bird owner I have met kisses their birds.

I remember one mascot cockatiel in a pet store in Indianapolis constantly had lipstick marks all over his head. Everytime the owner passed by, she kissed him again. They must have bred Super Cockatiels there because they were the size of small pigeons. Anybody else hear of Super Cockatiels? I have never seen such big cockatiels in my life.

We have 31 birds. Some are super cuddly, some are attack birds and cannot be approached without very thick gloves. (A couple of these unfortunates are rescue birds who just haven't gotten over the trauma yet.) One of the rescue birds, Cheeky is very kissable. He likes his feet to be tickled and he loves to play in between my fingers. That is, he goes to my hand and squeezes himself in between my fingers. I only had one other bird who did that, a Stella's Lorikeet named Ringo.

Okay, all you bird owners. Admit it. You like to kiss your birds, don't you?

I was laughing just this very morning at the thought of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck running as a team in 2012 only to find out that ol' Sarah and Glenn are contemplating it for real. According to a Newmax snippet found in my trashbin tonight:

By: David A. Patten

It's no secret that former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck share great respect and admiration — so their fans can be forgiven for wondering: Is a "dream ticket" of Palin-Beck ticket completely out of the question?

Perhaps not.

Palin initially chuckled when Newsmax broached the idea. But then she had some serious words of praise for the popular Fox personality.

"I can envision a couple of different combinations, if ever I were to be in a position to really even seriously consider running for anything in the future, and I'm not there yet," Palin tells Newsmax. "But Glenn Beck I have great respect for. He's a hoot. He gets his message across in such a clever way. And he's so bold — I have to respect that. He calls it like he sees it, and he's very, very, very effective."

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