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The President stopped to wish her a Happy 91st Birthday

President George W. Bush made an unscheduled stop on his way back to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Tuesday evening.

Ruth Harris was sitting on a chair by the road with a sign announcing her 91st Birthday.

The President saw the sign, stopped his motorcade, got out of the car and spent a few minutes with Ruth Harris while wishing her a happy 91st birthday.

Bush sat in a chair next to Harris and said "91 years old -- how special."

When neighbors noticed what was happening, they soon surrounded the president for a moment with him, too.

A heartwarming moment when a good and kind man stopped to give this lady a precious gift!

This is a side of President Bush the media has tried to hide for the past 8 years.

He has never felt the need to offer free rock concerts for a photo-op, nor does he pretend to be a "citizen of the world" choosing not to visit severely injured troops because a campaign manager advised against it.

It is a credit to this man that he can still be a good and kind person as well as a capable President in spite of the unjust demonizing by the far-leftists in Washington and reported far and wide by a biased media.

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Charles Atlas was right - revisited

I read every Mechanics magazine I could get my hands on when I was a kid. Mechanix Illustrated was my favorite but Popular Mechanics was also a must-read.

They all had Charles Atlas body building ads. Many of the ads showed a muscle-bound man humiliating a scrawny man at the beach calling him skinny and kicking sand in his face as he walked off with the girl.

Current research shows that Charles Atlas was right. Muscular men really do get the girls more often than their less brawny brothers.

Women choose musclemen for brief liaisons, but the less burly appear more desirable for long-term relationships because women believe they're more faithful and romantic. The brawny were seen as more domineering and volatile.

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Not just another New Jersey fat cat - updated

A very large cat was found waddling around in Voorhees, New Jersey. The cat had no collar and was taken to the Camden County Animal Shelter.

"She's built like a quarterback," said Deborah Wright, a shelter volunteer and current foster owner of the kitty. "I mean, how do you lose a 44-pound cat?!"

Shelter officials are calling the porky cutie "Princess Chunk."

Chunk indeed! Let’s hope she gets a diet as well as a good home.

The largest tabby on record weighed 46 pounds, 15 ounces. That cat, who lived in Australia, died in the 1980s.

The Guinness World Records has since dropped the category, fearing cat owners might harm their animals in an attempt to break the record.

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The owner of Princes Chunk has been found.

Whoever adopts the 44-pound cat found lumbering around Voorhees won't have to worry about kittens.

That's because "Princess Chunk" is a prince, and his real name is "Powder."

A veterinarian made the discovery on "Live with Regis and Kelly."

The hosts say the owner is an elderly lady who is moving and couldn't taken care of the cat, whom she named "Powder."

Since he was found on Saturday, the tubby tabby has been staying with Camden County Animal Shelter volunteer Deborah Wright. She says the cat eats normally despite its girth.

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Denver: overwhelmed by Democrat Convention

Newspapers here in Colorado are not reporting the problems facing Denver leading up to the Democratic National Convention beginning August 26. Maybe they are in denial.

The Los Angeles Times, however, is not afraid to tell it like it is:

Fundraising for next month's event is off by $10 million, Obama's stadium speech is a logistical migraine and the catering menu is a laughingstock. Don't even start with the flowers!

For nearly a decade, city leaders here have wooed the Democrats, hoping to lure their national convention to this often-overlooked town and showcase its new public transit system, bustling downtown and sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains.

Municipal leaders were jubilant when they won the right to hold this year's event. But the convention is raising questions about whether this perennial booster town has bitten off more than it can chew.

Besides being as much as $10 million short in fundraising, the host committee has been forced to cancel two dozen parties for delegates.

Denver officials are scrambling to deal with the logistical challenges of Barack Obama's acceptance speech being held at an outdoor stadium instead of in the arena where the rest of the convention will take place.

Even special daisies that the city bred partly to show off for the convention are failing to sprout.

At a conference last week Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (pictured) referred to the event as the "blasted convention" and compared it to a summer he spent painting a house for which he was never paid.

Speaking of the convention, Hickenlooper said:

"If we'd known back then what we know now, we'd never have done it,"

The host committee told caterers they should make "every effort" to ensure that each plate consisted of 70% organic food and 50% fruits and vegetables; include nothing fried; and contain at least three of these five colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white.

After caterers complained and the policy was mocked in the media, the host committee put out a defensive news release saying the guidelines were voluntary and fried food would still be available.

"That was not a good start, creating the food police," said Councilman Charlie Brown.

Actually, very little got off to a good start. One comedian, referring to the announcement about the organic food in five colors, said Mayor Hickenlooper is in trouble - right up to his brussels sprouts.

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Ex-Google engineers challenge the search giant

Cuil, pronounced "Cool" (rather than “Quill”) is a new search engine backed by $33 million in venture capital.

The search engine, which began last Monday, is spearheaded by four ex-Google engineers.

The main obstacle for Cuil, or any other challenger, is that Google has become so synonymous with Internet search that it may no longer matter how good the new search start-ups are.

Cuil is hoping to attract traffic by promising not to retain information about its users' search histories or surfing patterns - something that Google does, much to the consternation of privacy watchdogs.

Quil.com is proud of the fact they avoid Google’s vaunted PageRank which Cuil claims is subject to search engine spam through inbound link manipulation schemes.

Another plus for Cuil is that their searches won’t be plastered on a huge electronic ‘billboard’ scrolling around the Googleplex lobby.

One of the eye-popping events that continues to turn the heads of first-time Googleplex visitors is that recent Google searches are displayed along with displays of Google Earth zooming in on different cities.

And you thought your Google searches were private? Actually, nothing you do that has anything to do with Gooble is ever private!

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McDonald’s iced coffee on Vegas TV news set

Las Vegas Fox 5 TV viewers have been exposed to a “nontraditional revenue source” along with their morning news.

Two cups of McDonald’s iced coffee sit on the Fox 5 TV news desk, a punch-you-in-the-face product placement (BUY!) to chase down your morning news.

They’ve been on the Las Vegas station set for about two weeks, following the lead of a few TV stations across the country, and they’re still looking every bit as frosty and tantalizing (BUY!) as they were the first day you laid your eyes on them.

No wonder they look “frosty and tantalizing” -- they’re fake -- made to scale models filled with a bogus liquid and fake ice that never melts.

So there you have it -- fake coffee on the real news there for your viewing pleasure. Completely ignored by the news anchors, subliminally tugging you to your nearest McDonald’s for a cup of real iced coffee.

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The Obama ‘smoke and mirrors’ Berlin speech

When Mr. Obama (pictured below) made his speech in Germany, the adoring media reported in glowing terms of the huge cheering crowd assembled:

The American and European mainstream media reported Mr. Obama's Berlin speech in hagiographic terms. They repeatedly referenced the thousands of people who attended Mr. Obama's speech in Berlin.

Yet, in all the reporting about Mr. Obama's speech in Berlin, not once was it reported by the major media outlets in America or Europe that Mr. Obama's appearance was preceded by two free concerts by Reggae artist Patrice and rock artist Reamonn. Both are very popular performers in Germany.

With all the comparisons with Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech and Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech, I do not recall either of those speeches being preceded by free reggae and rock concerts.

Kennedy or Reagan did not need the cheap publicity stunt of a free concert by a popular singing star to attract a crowd.

The article, found at the link below, concludes by saying:

We need an adult in the White House - not a rockstar.

Could it be that the liberal media and the Washington Democratic party elite have been confusing this presidential election with an American Idol contest?

Presidents are elected to provide leadership, not entertainment.

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Natural childbirth out - the ‘posh push’ is in

Today, natural childbirth is a medical anomaly in the United States. In fact, many doctors are often thrown off guard when a determined woman insists on natural childbirth without pain medication.

One doctor who was asked about breathing techniques replied, "How do I know? I've only ever done two natural childbirths."

A small but growing number of women who seek to avoid aggressive medical techniques like induced labor, epidural blocks and Caesarean sections find they are a lone voice among their friends and doctors.

Pre-planned Caesareans (the ‘posh push’) are in vogue. Women want to avoid future complications of multiple vaginal births, like uterine or bladder collapse. And today's body-conscious women worry needlessly about loss of muscle-tone.

Now, new technologies, the rising cost of malpractice insurance and even the changing attitudes of women have all contributed to the near-demise of natural childbirth.

With the high cost of liability insurance, doctors must take on more patients to keep their practices lucrative. This gives them less time to wait out a long labor.

Doctors more frequently induce labor, using synthetic hormones like pitocin to strengthen and quicken labor, an intervention that was once used only as a "last resort."

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Clever ploy to revive Vista’s image

Microsoft is counting on Mojave enhance Vista’s image. Microsoft is also counting on the naiveté of computer users.

Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista.

The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a "new" operating system, code-named Mojave.

More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista.

The Mojave project is likely to be just one of many efforts designed to resuscitate Vista's image as well as lend strength to the Windows platform among stepped-up competition from Apple and Google.

Mojave indeed!

Microsoft may lure some individual users over with the Mojave trickery but it’ll take more than smoke and mirrors to get corporations to shell out millions to convert to Vista.

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