This from CNN today:

(CNN) -- Some lawmakers lashed out at the CEOs of the Big Three auto companies Wednesday for flying private jets to Washington to request taxpayer bailout money.

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So Hurricane Ike, the size of Texas, is bearing down on Texas and people in Galveston have been told to get the hell out or face certain death. But:

"I believe in the man up there, God," said William Steally, a 75-year-old retiree who planned to ride out the storm in Galveston without his wife or sister-in-law. "I believe he will take care of me."

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