Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Tony Avella, a Councilman from Queens, does not like seeing those horse-drawn carriages on Manhattan streets. "You know, enough is enough. It's time for this industry to end," he said.
Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders joined a protest sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "These ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Rod Blagojevich, the embattled impeached Governor of Illinois, has been making the media rounds. In an interview on the CBS Morning Show on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, Julie Chen asked Governor Blago about the effect of this ordeal on his family:
Chen: What do you tell them at home?
Blagojevich: Well, for ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
A British crime-fighting canine named Max died of nasal cancer on Sunday, January 25, 2009. Max was nine years old.
The Springer Spaniel had spent seven years detecting cocaine and other drugs for the Avon and Somerset Police in Great Britain. He was euthanized at the Tiverton police station in ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Although another version of this same video was uploaded to YouTube three years ago, Dottie the Dalmatian is suddenly getting a good ride as a web sensation. The dog does have mad bike riding skills!
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
The news reports are not just being cute when using the word "cheesy" to describe the Phil Mousepower video uploaded to YouTube on January 21, 2009, by the Virginia Department of Taxation. The puppet-mouse super hero video is apparently an attempt to encourage people (six-year olds?) to file taxes online. ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Sumo is nobody's lap dog. The little Maltese belonging to former French president Jacques Chirac, 76, and his wife Bernandette, 75, is clinically depressed and on medication. Despite the antidepressants, he became particularly violent the other day, and attacked Mr. Chirac, sending him to seek treatment at a hospital in ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
On January 21, 2009, the American Kennel Club (AKC) announced its list of the top 10 most popular purebred dogs in the United States for 2008. For the 18th consecutive year, the top dog is the Labrador Retriever:
1. Labrador Retriever
2. Yorkshire Terrier
...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Ratchet was a one-month old puppy, rescued from a pile of burning trash in Iraq by United States soldiers, then adopted by Army Specialist Gwen Beberg in May 2008. When Spc. Beberg tried to get Ratchet out of Iraq, the Army confiscated him and sent him back to the base, ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
My friend Peggy sent me this video about Joe Mansheim, a Minnesota truck driver, and his companion duck Frank.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
India, also called "Willie" and "Kitty," the Bush family cat, died at the White House on January 4, 2009. The black American short-hair was 18 years old.
When the President's daughter Barbara was nine years old, she named the cat "India" after the former Texas Ranger baseball player, Ruben Sierra, who ...
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