May 2012
Today is Friday, May 18. This is National Bike to Work Day, No Dirty Dishes Day and Visit Your Relatives Day. It's also National Cheese Souffle Day.
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Tampa tourism hucksters aren't too happy about the image created by the city council's approval of $829,000 for new police equipment - mainly gas masks - for use during the Republican National Convention in August. Maybe they'll just play up another council decision: to allow local bars to remain open until 3 a.m. for the four-day event expected to draw 50,000 visitors.
A New Jersey company is offering President Obama a lifetime supply of a product that promises to make his gray hair go away. Some hard-pressed taxpayers might wonder if there's a product that will just make Obama go away. There is. The label reads "Romney."
They did it again. For the second year in a row, the Democrat-controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly to reject the Democrat president's budget proposal. Four other resolutions offered by Republicans also were defeated by lopsided votes. The Senate has ignored its constitutional responsibility to produce a budget for almost three years.
Lunch with the president at the White House sounds like a very special occasion. The four top leaders of Congress might have a different opinion. President Obama got carryout from a sandwich shop down the street: four hoagies costing $62.79.
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A new "birther" is unearthed. A literary agency that represented Barack Obama in 1991 produced a promotional booklet which states he was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii," according to Breitbart News. Adding to the rebirth of the "birther" issue is a 2004 Associated Press story which refers to Obama as the "Kenyan-born U.S. Senate hopeful." The Arizona secretary of state threatens to remove Obama's name from the November ballot unless he receives confirmation of a valid Hawaii birth certificate.
Tampa tourism hucksters aren't too happy about the image created by the city council's approval of $829,000 for new police equipment - mainly gas masks - for use during the Republican National Convention in August. Maybe they'll just play up another council decision: to allow local bars to remain open until 3 a.m. for the four-day event expected to draw 50,000 visitors.
A New Jersey company is offering President Obama a lifetime supply of a product that promises to make his gray hair go away. Some hard-pressed taxpayers might wonder if there's a product that will just make Obama go away. There is. The label reads "Romney."
They did it again. For the second year in a row, the Democrat-controlled Senate voted overwhelmingly to reject the Democrat president's budget proposal. Four other resolutions offered by Republicans also were defeated by lopsided votes. The Senate has ignored its constitutional responsibility to produce a budget for almost three years.
Lunch with the president at the White House sounds like a very special occasion. The four top leaders of Congress might have a different opinion. President Obama got carryout from a sandwich shop down the street: four hoagies costing $62.79.
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The Defense Department has awarded $155 million in research funds among 63 academic institutions for projects such as "dynamics of multifunction brain networks" and "multivariate heavy-tail phenomena." We can hardly wait for the researchers' findings.
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