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As (a strategist) put it in an interview: If a house is on fire, the owner does not care what color the fireman is.

Complete article: Near-Flawless Run Is Credited in VictoryBy ADAM NAGOURNEY, JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENY ( Read more... )

Thanks to smacaski for the link to this "little gem" being sold at the Texas Republican Convention:


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Okay, I don't have a lot of experience with "this sort of thing," but I just can't fathom these stories when I hear them -- how does this happen? "Oh, woops. There's a baby inside me, and he's ready to come out."

Bumble-bee woman in shock birth

Puffins spend the winters at sea, floating, swimming and diving for food, coming to land only during the nesting season. In the winters they catch fish, squid, worms and other much smaller marine organisms, which means they are more flexible feeders than other seabirds. "So whatever the problem is, it's got to be a widespread one," said Professor ( Read more... )

As I try to reduce the amount of stuff I call "mine," I found this website that does a great job listing organizations that accept all kinds of STUFF for donation. It has categories for furniture, appliances, exercise equipment, clothes, books, computers, bikes, office supplies, medical equipment, et cetera, and delineates the coverage area for the ( Read more... )

CHINA: The forestry bureau in Fumin County, in southwestern Yunnan Province, paid more than $60,000 for a team of painters to spend 45 days painting a barren hillside green, news reports said. “The painters were saying it was to adjust the hill’s feng shui,” The Beijing News quoted a villager as saying. Residents said the hillside, a dis-used ( Read more... )