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"Safety Net" slashed for wealthy tax cuts
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Published Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 12:34 PM EST
Feb 28 2011

This chart prepared by the Center for American Progress discloses the greed and hypocrisy of the GOP. They slash safety net programs for children, the poor, and the unemployed while supplying obscene tax cuts for the wealthy. Where's the outrage, teabaggers?

(From the Center for American Progress)


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Quote of the day
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Published Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 5:58 AM EST
Feb 28 2011

Getting old just means you buy your drugs indoors.
-Elayne Boosler


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Quote of the day
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Published Sunday, February 27, 2011 @ 6:56 AM EST
Feb 27 2011

How about a compromise: everybody leave the toilet seat at 45 degrees?
The Covert Comic


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Quote of the day
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Published Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 1:26 AM EST
Feb 25 2011

Why is a 3% tax increase on the richest "socialism" but a 14% pay cut on middle class is "doing your part?"
-RT @gregwatanabe RT @gwangung (via Andy Hoover and Beau Boughamer)


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Quote of the day
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Published Thursday, February 24, 2011 @ 8:03 AM EST
Feb 24 2011

Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is "King."
-Craig Ferguson


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Quote of the day
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Published Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 11:47 AM EST
Feb 23 2011

The working classes didn't bring this on. It was the big boys that thought the financial drunk was going to last forever and overbought, overmerged and overcapitalized.
-Will Rogers (October 25, 1931)


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Rick Santorum's "Google Problem"
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Published Tuesday, February 22, 2011 @ 5:22 PM EST
Feb 22 2011


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Happy birthday, Riley
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Published Tuesday, February 22, 2011 @ 8:40 AM EST
Feb 22 2011

Riley is the second youngest of the pack, but is, I believe, the oldest soul. Look in those eyes and tell me there isn't a person in there. (By the way, I don't believe in reincarnation. But in a previous life, I did.)


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Observations of the day
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Published Monday, February 21, 2011 @ 5:01 AM EST
Feb 21 2011

I was stunned by the price of dried fruit at the supermarket. "We're in the organic section," Cindy pointed out. "Ok," I said, "let's see how much it costs in the toxic section."

A friend posted on Facebook he bought a bison-mushroom meatloaf at Whole Foods. Ok, this genetic engineering business has officially gone too far.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
-Fran Lebowitz


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The capital of Bahrain is...
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Published Friday, February 18, 2011 @ 8:31 AM EST
Feb 18 2011

Manama. Close enough.

(Incidentally, the pink things are called "snowths.")


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Quote of the day
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Published Thursday, February 17, 2011 @ 12:14 PM EST
Feb 17 2011

When anyone mentions 2001 to them (or Terminator, or Matrix, or Tron, or...) IBM prefers to bring up the helpful question-answering computer on Star Trek. C'mon IBM! You just invented SkyNet! Own it!
-Ken Jennings, Jeopardy champion, on IBM's "Watson," the Jeopardy-playing supercomputer

Bram Stoker
(I for one welcome our new computer overlords)
-Ken Jennings' Final Jeopardy answer in the match he and Brad Rutter lost to IBM's Watson.


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Observation of the day
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Published Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 11:48 AM EST
Feb 16 2011

Producer Chuck Lorre's vanity card from the end credits of Monday's Two and a Half Men on CBS.


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Quote of the day
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Published Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 1:24 AM EST
Feb 16 2011

"A beard covers a multitude of chins."

(The official KGB photo for 2011.)


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Yet another sheltie birthday
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Published Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 12:27 AM EST
Feb 15 2011

Déjà Vu, who turns 14 today, is the oldest of our sheltie pack and the undisputed "Queen Mum." She is reserved and dignified- except when she rolls on her back in the snow and bounces on her front legs at dinner time like a low rider. I like to thing of her and Lucy as the canine version of the Banger sisters.


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A whole lotta love...
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Published Monday, February 14, 2011 @ 2:44 PM EST
Feb 14 2011

Puppy love is no laughing matter when you're a puppy.
-Gamerman, Amy

"All you need is love?" Yeah? Try payin' the effin' rent with it.
-Richards, Keith

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-Rowland, Helen

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
-Gabor, Zsa Zsa

A man in love is like a clipped coupon-it's time to cash in.
-West, Mae

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
-Mannes, Marya

All I know of love is that Love is all there is.
-Dickinson, Emily

All that matters is love and work.
-Freud, Sigmund

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
-Schulz, Charles M.

And when I say you sucked my brains out, the English translation is that I am in love with you.
-DiFranco, Ani

Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
-Rudner, Rita

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
-Rowland, Helen

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
-Wilde, Oscar

But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
-Kierkegaard, Soren

Did you ever notice that "love" spelled backwards is "evil"? Well, not exactly, but it's still pretty scary.
-Unattributed

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum- "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch."
-Rivers, Joan

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
-Holiday, Billie

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
-Parker, Dorothy

Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.
-Parker, Dorothy

Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
-Gibran, Kahlil

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
-Brooks, Mel

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
-Murdoch, Jean Iris

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
-Terence

Four be the things I'd have been better without:
love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
-Parker, Dorothy

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship- never.
-Colton, Charles Caleb

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
-Gabor, Zsa Zsa

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
-Johnson, Lyndon B.

Grief is the price we pay for love.
-Meyer, Sir Christopher

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
-Congreve, William

Hold fast to whatever fragments of love are left, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.
-Powell, Dawn

I love you more today than yesterday. Yesterday, you really got on my nerves.

-(Greeting card)

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
-Bissonette, David

I suppose that when a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
-Wilde, Oscar

I think most folks that are hooked up are like me, and suspect they hit the love lottery, but they haven't finished scratching off the ticket yet.
-Andy, Mark

I will show you a love potion without drug or herb, or any witch's spell; if you wish to be loved, love.
-Hecato

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that!
-Lehrer, Tom

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere.
-Cher

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-Barry, Lynda

If love is blind, why is Victoria's Secret so successful?
-Unattributed

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-Tomlin, Lily

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
-Getty, Estelle

If men were as great lovers as they think they are, we women wouldn't have time to do our hair.
-Dietrich, Marlene

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
-Mansfield, Katherine

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
-Hemingway, Ernest

If you love a man, set him free. If he comes back, it means he's forgotten his sandwiches.
-Birtles, Jasmine

If you really love someone it shouldn't matter what's been in their orifices.
-Unattributed

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
-King, Alan

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-McLaughlin, Mignon

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
-MacLaine, Shirley

Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
-Wilde, Oscar

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
-de Saint-Exupery, Antoine

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
-Brown, Helen Gurley

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, re-made all the time, made new.
-LeGuin, Ursula K.

Love doesn't make people into fools. But it might expose them.
-Bryon, S.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Jones, Franklin P.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.
-Marx, Groucho

Love is a decision, not an emotion.
-Unattributed

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
-Groening, Matt

Love is a series
Of darlings and dearies
Of honeys and sweeties
And sugared entreaties
Of moonings and spoonings
And cooings and billings
All tempered, of course,
By occasional killings.
-Harburg, E.Y.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-Groening, Matt

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant.
-Cole, Jim

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
-Mencken, H.L.

Love is an extension of life, and lust is an extension.
-Dangerfield, Rodney

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-Frost, Robert

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn.
-Thurber, James

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-Aristotle

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
-Unattributed

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
-Renard, Jules

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it, the more likely one is to contract it.
-Chamfort, Nicolas

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Key, Ellen

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
-Maugham, W. Somerset

Love is the cheapest of religions.
-Pavese, Cesare

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
-Murdoch, Jean Iris

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-Lawrence, D.H.

Love means having to say you're sorry every five damn minutes.
-Maher, Bill

Love, not time, heals all wounds.
-Rooney, Andy

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-Esar, Evan

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
-Kerr, Jean

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
-Marlowe, Christopher

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
-Nelson, Willie

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
-Mencken, H.L.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
-Parker, Dorothy

Oh, now there's only one kind of love that lasts. That's unrequited love. It stays with you forever.
-Allen, Woody

People ask if it's possible to find love after age 40. The answer is yes; you just have to reach your hand down a little lower.
-King, John Alejandro (The Covert Comic)

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
-Yates, Douglas

Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born.
-Welsh Proverb

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
-Unattributed

Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.
-Unattributed

The best proof of love is trust.
-Brothers, Dr. Joyce

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
-Wilson, Sloan

The first duty of love is to listen.
-Tillich, Paul

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
-Bret, Antoine

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-Hubbard, Elbert

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five year old men more.
-McCullough, Colleen

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
-Lewis, Joe E.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-Chesterton, G.K.

The whole thing about matrimony is this: We fall in love with a personality, but we must live with a character.
-de Vries, Peter

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children and children love hamsters.
-Ellis, Alice Thomas

There is nothing finer than the love of a good woman. But the love of two bad women is nothing to sneeze at.
-Spiro, Lev L.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
-Galbraith, John Kenneth

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
-Brown, John Gregory

To be loved, you have to be nice to everybody every day. To be hated, you don't have to do squat.
-(From the TV series The Simpsons)

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
-Nash, Ogden

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
-Lewis, C.S.

True love comes gently, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
-Segal, Erich

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
-de la Rochefoucauld, Francois

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love.
-Antiphanes

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
-von Eschenbach, Marie Ebner

We're here to ruin ourselves, and break our hearts and love the wrong people and die.
-Shanley, John Patrick (From the film Moonstruck)

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
-Westcott, Bruce F.

When the coin is tossed either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if the metal is right, under the one will always be the other.
-Brenan, Gerald

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.
-Sullivan, Harry Stack

When wounded by those you love, try to keep in mind that there is a vast gulf between malice and weakness.
-Johnson, Lyle

Who, being loved, is poor?
-Wilde, Oscar

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.
-Montagu, Ashley

You need someone to love while you're looking for someone to love.
-Delaney, Shelagh

You've decided to love me for eternity and I'm still deciding who I want to be today.
-DiFranco, Ani


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I like the cut of your gibberish...
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Published Monday, February 14, 2011 @ 7:05 AM EST
Feb 14 2011

"Now, who can argue with that?"

According to the CBS Los Angeles website, Ms. Branson is a winner of the Frank Shakespeare Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. Frank was Bill's dyslexic brother.


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If only...
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Published Sunday, February 13, 2011 @ 12:16 PM EST
Feb 13 2011


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Quote (tweet) of the day
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Published Saturday, February 12, 2011 @ 7:22 AM EST
Feb 12 2011

‎I resign as leader of Egypt. No, not RESIGN! I REIGN! REIGN! DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT!
-Hosni Mubarak
[about 14 hours ago via TweetDeck]


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Unintended consquences
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Published Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 11:56 AM EST
Feb 11 2011

The Catholic Church has approved a new app that lets you make confessions over your iPhone. It also raises the possibility of accidentally butt-dialing God.
-Conan O'Brien


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Quote of the day
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Published Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 10:45 AM EST
Feb 11 2011

Despite the massive protests, the Egyptian president is still refusing to leave. They're calling him "Leno of the Nile."
-Craig Ferguson


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Lest we forget
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Published Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 10:29 AM EST
Feb 11 2011

Sarah Palin- and her IQ- are 47 today.


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Let's do it anyway...
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Published Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 7:11 AM EST
Feb 11 2011

Some late night television shows just have non-descript theme music. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has a philosophy.

It's hard to stay up
It's been a long, long day
And you got the sandman at the door
But hang on, leave the TV on
And let's do it anyway
It's okay!
You can always sleep through work tomorrow, OK?
Hey hey!
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.

Tell the clock on the wall
Forget the wakeup call
Cause the night's not nearly through
Wipe the sleep from your eyes
Give yourself a surprise
Let your worries wait another day
And if you stay too late at at the bar
At least you made it out this far
So make up your mind and say
Let's do it anyway!
It's okay!
You can always sleep through work tomorrow, okay?
Hey hey!
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.

Life's too short to worry about
The things that you can live without
And I regret to say
The morning light is hours away
The world can be such a fright
But it belongs to us tonight
What's the point of going to bed?
You look so lovely when your eyes are red!

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.

The world can be such a fright
But it belongs to us tonight
What's the point of going to bed?
You look so lovely when your eyes are red!

It's hard to stay up
It's been a long, Long Day
And you got the sandman at the door
But hang on, leave the TV on
And let's do it anyway
It's okay!
You can always sleep through work tomorrow, OK?
Hey hey!
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.


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Safety check
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Published Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 9:03 AM EST
Feb 10 2011

It appears some of my online accounts have been accessed by someone other than myself, so I'm locking down some things and taking appropriate security precautions. I'll be off the air for a while, but stay tuned. As Arnie said, I'll be back.


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What about his brother, Shaved?
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Published Wednesday, February 09, 2011 @ 10:03 AM EST
Feb 09 2011

FORT WAYNE – Despite garnering far more support in an online poll than the thicket of other suggestions, residents shouldn’t expect Fort Wayne’s new government center to be named after the city’s longest tenured mayor.

Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said naming 200 E. Berry St. The Harry Baals Government Center was “probably not” going to happen.

“We love Fort Wayne, too,” she said. “We’re not going to make any decisions that look bad.”

The name has received 882 votes on the city’s website, www.feedbackfortwayne.org as of Monday afternoon – more than triple that of its nearest competitor: Eugene Johnson Memorial Center.

Johnson was the properties manager for the Allen County Public Library while it occupied the building. The city’s online poll allows anyone to submit names for the building and then vote on the suggestions.

Baals – pronounced “balls” by the then-mayor but “bales” by his descendents – became the Republican nominee for mayor in 1934 and was elected for three successive terms. He returned to politics in 1951 by winning a fourth term but died in office in May 1954. His accomplishments include elevating the railroads in town and negotiating the contract with the Army to establish Baer Field as an air base.

While Baals was a popular mayor, Malloy noted he had an unfortunate name and some elected officials have said such a name would be an embarrassment to the city.

Regardless, Malloy said the online feedback effort has been a success because it has generated interest in local government and created buzz.

“I’m glad people want to get involved,” she said. “We are having fun with government.”

Frank Suarez, city spokesman, said public voting on the issue will remain open through Friday. When it is closed, Mayor Tom Henry will be given as many as 10 finalists from which to choose the name for the office building. Suarez said Henry will make the selection after talking to division directors and community leaders, but he said the name will come from the list of suggestions made by the public.

The city bought the building, the former Renaissance Square, and is remodeling it to house most city and county departments. The City-County Building would then be the home for the city and county police departments.

(from the Ft. Wayne, Indiana Journal-Gazette)


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Bleh.
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Published Tuesday, February 08, 2011 @ 11:38 AM EST
Feb 08 2011

February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.
-Dr. J. R. Stockton

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
-Joseph Wood Krutch

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.
-Kathleen Norris


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Happy birthday, Lulu...
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Published Monday, February 07, 2011 @ 12:26 PM EST
Feb 07 2011

Lady Lucia (aka "Lucy" or "Lulu") is a feisty 13 today, which makes her either 91 or 68 in human years, depending upon whether you use the old or new human-dog years age equivalency tables.

Both are irrelevant to this saucy lady, whose personality is less like a Shetland sheepdog and more like the madame of a bordello. She's mouthy, fearless, and has an aggressive, determined gait, just like Spike the Bulldog in those old Warner Bros cartoons. Forget to let her out or feed her in a timely manner and she'll march right up to you and give you a piece of her mind.

She sleeps a bit more than she used to, but when she's awake, look out... when Lucy's on the move, you know it.

Lucy's big secret... she's a snuggle bunny. When no one else is around, she'll curl up next to you, kiss you senseless, then fall asleep and snore in your ear. The perfect lady, indeed.


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Quote of the day
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Published Monday, February 07, 2011 @ 9:06 AM EST
Feb 07 2011

What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming.
-Pittsburgh's own Christina Aguilera, flubbing the lyrics of the national anthem at Super Bowl 45.

You just know someone's going to produce a porno movie with that title...


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Bigger is not necessarily better
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Published Friday, February 04, 2011 @ 7:58 AM EST
Feb 04 2011

Back in the late 60s and 70s, around the time the term "rip-off" entered the vernacular, Ralph Nader spearheaded the movement that put into place many of the consumer protection laws and policies that still survive today.

One of these was the requirement for "unit pricing"- indicating on the grocery shelf price tag the per unit cost of the packaged item in ounces, pounds, etc.

This was enacted to enable consumers to easily determine the cost of a product, since some manufacturers used deceptive packaging to trick purchasers. That 99-cent sale item, for example, might contain only 28 ounces of a product in a box designed to look identical to the 32 ounce box next to it. Divide the price by the number of ounces, however, and you'd discover the "sale" item actually cost several cents more per ounce.

I believe people either have forgotten about unit pricing or have never learned how to use it. Couple that with the almost universal assumption that the larger the package, the lower the unit cost, and it appears companies are again taking advantage of consumers.

Last night I ran out to buy cat litter. I usually get the largest container I can, since our inside feline apparently has the digestive system characteristics of a zebra-noshing wild cat from the Serengeti. Out of habit, I looked at the unit cost of the big containers positioned at eye level- 2.9 cents per ounce- then glanced down at the smaller containers on the shelves near the floor- 2.3 cents per ounce.

Curious, I looked at a number of other items and was surprised to find that about a third of the time, the unit price of the smaller package of an item was actually cheaper than the "large economy" version.

I suspect this isn't unique to the Pittsburgh market. Companies are taking advantage of shoppers' mathematical illiteracy and lack of shopping skills.

Keep your eyes open the next time you're in the supermarket, and do the comparisons yourself. I think you may be surprised at what you find.


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Sign of the day
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Published Thursday, February 03, 2011 @ 4:58 PM EST
Feb 03 2011

"Give Charlie Sheen six more weeks of rehab."
(sign held by a spectator at the Groundhog Day celebration in Punxsutawney yesterday)


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Ned?
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Published Wednesday, February 02, 2011 @ 6:15 AM EST
Feb 02 2011


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Sarah Palin is totally a super-hot Russian spy!
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Published Tuesday, February 01, 2011 @ 7:31 AM EST
Feb 01 2011


Categories: Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Video, WTF?


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Know your breeds
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Published Tuesday, February 01, 2011 @ 7:22 AM EST
Feb 01 2011

(via www.ratemyfunnypictures.com)


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