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February 2010
George Bush disses himself
Proving that politicians are always funnier after they leave office, former President George Bush cracked on his own reputation while talking about his book to be released this November, Politico reports.
“This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one,” Bush said Friday, Feb. 26, at a Bush Cheney Alumni Association at a Washington hotel.
Cheney, who is recovering from a mild heart attack, did not attend the breakfast.
Bush, the 43rd president, said he is trying to stay out of the public eye.
“I have no desire to see myself on television. I don’t want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do,” he said according to Politico. “I’m trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn’t like it when a certain former president — and it wasn’t 41 or 42 — made my life miserable.”
Bush’s joke was apparently about Jimmy Carter, the 39th president.
What do you think?
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State to launch cuss-free week
Some Californians might have very soapy mouths next week.
The California Assembly approved a resolution Thursday, Feb. 25, that would establish “Cuss Free Week” there the first week of March.
The state Senate is to vote on the measure week. If approved it would take effect immediately, the Los Angeles Times reports, pointing out that the measure comes with no enforcement mechanism and is simply a means to promote greater “harmony and connectedness.”
You can’t ignore a ‘little thing’ called free speech, but maybe a cuss free week isn’t such a bad idea. Some potty-mouths obviously should clean it up.
More than 90 percent of people who responded to a 2006 poll said they do not think profanity is acceptable in the workplace.
The hope is that Californians will “act like you’re at your grandma’s house,” according to a blog on ABCNews.com.
What do you think? Would a cuss free week work in Ohio?
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Chuck Liddell and Heidi Northcott’s naked exercise voyeur video a naked hoax
Turns out UFC champion Chuck Liddell and his poker-playing girlfriend Heidi Northcott were not victims of a naked exercise-voyeur.
Instead, TMZ reports that a video of the somwhat famous buff bods working out completely in the buff bod was all a part of a lame viral campaign for Reebok.
The intentionally shaky 42 second video has been removed from YouTube for violating the video sharing site’s terms of conditions.
But don’t despair naked semi-celebrity exercising fans. CBS’ Crimesider’s site has posted the video on its site.
What do you think? Is this campaign lame of genius.
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Visits up at nudist church
Now here’s a church that takes the “come as you are” thing seriously.
Members of Whitetail Chapel in Ivoa, Va. worship completely in the buff, baring their souls and everything else.
The church is part of Whitetail Nudist Resort which received more than 10,000 visitors last year, according to a report by WVEC 13 News in Virginia.
“I really don’t think God cares what you wear when you worship. The thing is worship,” said Richard Foley, a member of the congregation, said.
Business is up 12 percent at the resort.
What do you think?
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All teachers from struggling high school fired after refusing to work unpaid hours
A controversial move Tuesday, Feb. 23, that had a Rhode Island school board fire all of the teachers at a struggling high school has caused great debate about the role of educators and parents in instructing children.
About 93 teachers, counselors and other workers at Central Falls High School were fired after the they refused to work extra, unpaid hours in an effort to help improve test scores.
The teacher’s union - which has vowed to fight the board’s decision - said it wanted more pay for the additional work which included offering more tutoring, mandatory lunch with students and a longer school day, the Providence Journal reports.
The high school has just a 48 percent graduation rate. Only 7 percent of its students are proficient in mathematics by 11th grade, the New York Times reports.
Teacher have said that change is needed, but the board is making them scapegoats.
Central Falls is a depressed community with a 13.8 percent unemployment rate. What do you think? How responsible are teachers in the failure of students and what role should parents have?
What do you think?
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Tony Kornheiser suspended for slamming Hannah Storm’s outfit
Mess with the Storm and get tossed like a twister.
ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser learned the hard way that it is best not to be sexist and make fun of a lady’s outfit.
The co-host of “Pardon The Interruption” is on a two-week suspension for slamming Hannah Storm and her sassy get up, according to USA Today.
Here’s what the radio show host said according to the Huffington Post:
“Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt … way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now…She’s got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body … I know she’s very good, and I’m not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won’t … but Hannah Storm … come on now! Stop! What are you doing? … She’s what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.”
ESPN executive vice president John Skipper called Kornheiser’s comments “entirely inappropriate” and hurtful, according to USA Today.
But what do you think? Was the suspension justified?
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Valentine’s Day “break dancing” leads to felony charges
We’ve all seen bad dancing.
Authorities in Elma, N.Y. say Ryan Baczkiewicz’s dance moves were criminal. Someone will never make it on ” So You Think You Can Dance.”
The 18-year-old Cheektowaga, N.Y resident has been charged with a felony criminal mischief charge after allegedly break dancing in a house and damaging the hardwood floors, according to WIVB.com.
Officials say Baczkiewicz went uninvited to a Valentine’s Day party thrown by two sisters and was wearing some sort of diamond belt buckle.
His electrifying moves apparently scratched up the floor, causing $3,000 in damage.
The homeowner complained to police after returning from vacation, the TV station’s Web site reports.
Baczkiewicz’s mother questioned the charges, noting that the homeowner had a ‘friend’ at the sheriff’s office.
Her son is also charged with criminal trespassing.
Seems like the charges are a little stiff, but what do you think?
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Former Fox 45 anchor Asa George lands new position
Wondering what happened to Asa George?
After an eight month job search, the former “Fox 45 in the Morning” anchor landed a position at WDJT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.
She will begin this week as a morning anchor there.
On April 8, Dean Ditmer, general manager of Fox 45/ ABC 22, said George was let go due to economic pressures at the station.
The five-year employee was replaced by Kylie Conway on “Fox 45 in the Morning.”
What do you think?
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Actress with Down syndrome: Sarah Palin should have sense of humor about ‘Family Guy’ role
Sarah Palin should grow a sense of humor says Andrea Fay Friedman who played a ‘Family Guy’ character with Down syndrome in the show’s Valentine’s Day episode.
Friedman, who has Down syndrome, responded to Palin’s criticism of the episode.
The following is posted on the website Palingates:
My name is Andrea Fay Friedman. I was born with Down syndrome. I played the role of Ellen on the “Extra Large Medium” episode of Family Guy that was broadcast on Valentine’s day. Although they gave me red hair on the show, I am really a blonde. I also wore a red wig for my role in ” Smudge” but I was a blonde in “Life Goes On”. I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska” was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm”.In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life. My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
The same statement was sent to the New York Times with the second paragraph reportedly partly edited out.
Friedman played Ellen, a character with Down syndrome, in the Family Guy episode. Over a romantic dinner with Chris, one of the show’s main characters, she said her mother is “the former governor of Alaska.”
Palin, her daughter Bristol, and other advocates for the mentally disabled criticized the show immediately with Palin calling it a “kick in the gut”
Earlier this month, the former Alaska governor, called for the resignation of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel after he reportedly called liberals ‘F-ing retarded.’
What do you think?
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Push on to have John Mellencamp running for Senate
There maybe a Sen. John Mellencamp in the near future.
There is a mounting push to have the liberal rocker seek a senate seat.
At least three Facebook pages, including Draft John Mellencamp for Senate!, have been set up supporting Mellencamp’s bid for the seat being vacated by Indiana’s Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh.
And it doesn’t stop there.
Brent Budowsky, a former aide to Bayh’s father, Senator Birch Bayh, voiced his support of the Hoosier rocker on the The Hill’s Pundit’s blog.
“John Mellemcamp is one of the great advocates of small-town America, of the kind of “square deal” for Americans that Teddy Roosevelt once championed. He is a voice for working people and a champion of farmers who puts his talent, his body and his money behind his words,” Budowsky wrote.
On Thursday, a Mellencamp spokesman told the Associated Press that the “Our Country” singer and Farm Aid co-founder ”has no statement to offer.”
What do you think?
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Dick Cheney in hot water over support of waterboarding
What’s a little, er, waterboarding among friends?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is catching all sorts of flack on the internet for voicing his support of waterboarding as a tool to get information from accused terrorists.
During an interview Sunday with ABC’s reporter Jonathan Karl, Cheney said he opposed President Obama’s ban on waterboarding, an internationally recognized form of torture.
“I was a big supporter of waterboarding,” Cheney said. “I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Read transcript of interview here.
Some have gone as far as calling the former VP a war criminal.
“So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. I repeat: the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime,”Andrew Sullivan wrote earlier this week in his “Daily Dish” blog for The Atlantic. “There is no statute of limitations for such a crime; and the penalty under law is either the death penalty or a prison sentence for life.”
What do you think?
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Court: Slamming a teacher on Facebook = free speech
A court ruling involving a high school girl who slammed a “lame” teacher online has ticked off opponents of cyber-bulling.
A federal magistrate in Florida ruled Friday that Katherine “Katie” Evans had every right under the First Amendment to diss one of her high school teachers online.
Now 19, Evans created a Facebook page about “the worst teacher I’ve ever met” as a high school senior in 2007. Evans took the page down after several other students defended the teacher.
When the school found out that there had been a page, Evans was suspended for three days and kicked out of her Advanced Placement classes.
She sued her principal in 2008, seeking to have the suspension ruled unconstitutional and reversed. She also wanted her legal fees paid and the suspension removed from her permanant record.
Magistrate Judge Barry Garber on Friday ruled that Evans, now a journalism student at the University of Florida, was right.
“Evans’ speech falls under the wide umbrella of protected speech,” Garber wrote according to the Associated Press. “It was an opinion of a student about a teacher, that was published off-campus, did not cause any disruption on-campus, and was not lewd, vulgar, threatening, or advocating illegal or dangerous behavior.”
What do you think?
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Is Dick Cheney right? Should gay military ban be lifted?
Fighting with Vice President Joe Biden was only one of thing things Dick Cheney did during his “This Week” interview Sunday, Feb. 14, with ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
The former vice president also said he thought the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will and should end.
“I think society has moved on,” Cheney said when asked if the policy that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military should be scrapped.
The father of an openly gay daughter said he thought the issue was a “generational question.”
“Twenty years ago the military was a strong advocate of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell when I was the Secretary of Defense. I think things have changed significantly since then, he said. “My guess is the that the policy will be changed.”
Is Cheney right. Has society moved on? Should the ban be lifted?
Watch the clip from the show below. It starts at about 8 minutes, 20 seconds.
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Area pro-life youth appears on The O’Reilly Factor, FOX News
A Shelby County teenager who was denied an honor at the Ohio House for an National Right to Life sponsored oratory contest win, appeared on FOX News today, Friday Feb. 12, and “The O’Reilly Factor,” Thursday, Feb. 11.
During this show, Bill O’Reilly, blasted House Speaker Armond Budish, who initially stopped 19-year-old Elizabeth Trisler from being honored on the House floor. She has received the proclamation.
O’Reilly said Budish changed his mind after The O’Reilly Factor started to investigate the story.
The Ohio Right to Life and the ACLU of Ohio had previously urged Budish to reverse his decision, according to the Dayton Daily News’ Ohio Politic’s Blog.
Reached by phone Friday, Trisler said the media attention from FOX and several newspapers and local TV stations has been amazing.
FOX News contributor Sarah Palin has been asked to present an award to Trisler at an Ohio Right to Life event March 5 in Columbus.
Trisler commended Budish for reversing his decision.
“I think that was a very wise move on his part,” the senior at Sidney Christian Academy said. “I don’t hold any grudges.”
Trisler, who appeared on O’Reilly’s show with her mother Sandi from television studio in Dayton, will be honored Wednesday at the house.
Keary McCarthy, a spokesperson for Budish, said there was a concerned Trisler would use the moment to advocate for her position on abortion.
“The speaker believes that it is important to avoid having political interests on either side of the aisle abuse this brief opportunity for recognition,” McCarthy has said.
O’Reilly said Budish’s move was clearly a political play.
“It seems to me that Mr. Budish didn’t want to hear the other side because he’s a pro-choice guy,” O’Reilly said.
Trisler won first place in the National Right to Life Oratory Contest in Charlotte Saturday, June 20.
O’Reilly asked Trisler to explain to Budish why his earlier decision was wrong.
“If you really want tolerance then how come you can’t tolerate me or anyone like me who differs from you,” she said. “You said it was too controversial of a subject, but I think in that you were only saying that you didn’t agree with with I said.”
What do you think? Should Elisabeth Trisler be honored?
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Want to turn him on on V-Day ? Buy a pumpkin pie and lavender
Who needs Viagra when you can get your hands on pumpkin pie and lavender.
That odd odor combination tops the list of those proven to get a man’s engine running, according to Chicago’s Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation.
Rush out to Krispy Creme if that doesn’t work.
The smell of black licorice and doughnut was the next best odor combination to stimulate men, according to the research.
Other arousing aromas included pumpkin pie and doughnut, Orange, lavender and doughnut, black licorice and cola, black licorice, doughnut and cola, lily of the valley and buttered popcorn.
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Area grad smacked in Super Bowl commercial
A familiar face to some Miami Valley residents was smacked over chips during an ad that aired during the Super Bowl Sunday.
Former Dayton resident Dion Lack, known as Roderick Lacking, starred in the Doritos’ Super Bowl commercial “House Rules” by Joelle De Jesus of Hollywood, Calif.
The 2000 Colonel White High School grad was smacked after eating an overprotective little boy’s Doritos, a spokesperson for the snack food maker confirmed.
“Keep your hands off my mama and keep your hands off my Doritos,” the little boy warns Lacking in the 34 second spot.
The commercial was one of four consumer submitted Doritos ads aired during the football game as part of Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest.
The creators of the four winning ad and two semi-finalists that didn’t make the telecast won $25,000.
This is the second year the Dayton area has been represented in the Doritos contest.
A commercial by Mike Goubeaux, a 2000 Tippecanoe High School grad, was a finalist last year, but didn’t make it to air.
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Magazine to auction erotic cartoons
Some people read “PLAYBOY” for the cartoons.
Those people will get the chance to own some of those cartoons during an online and live auction Friday, Feb. 26.
More than 100 original cartoons will be auctioned at Heritage in Dallas as part of “Hugh Hefner’s Funnies: Over 55 Years of PLAYBOY Cartoons.”
The online auction will be at HA.com.
The collection includes pieces by Hefner and several Playboy artists, including Alberto Vargas, and original “Mad Magazine” editor Harvey Kurtzman.
Some feature nudity, and the cartoons won’t be cheap.
A piece by Hefner is expected to sell for about $1,500 while one from Kurtzman could sell for as much as $20,000.
What do you think?
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Film not football, movie theater offers free popcorn Sunday
From Meredith Moss, Staff Writer
Here’s a good deal for those looking for something interesting to do while everyone else is watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 7.
The Neon movie, 130 E. Fifth St., Dayton is offering free popcorn on Sunday afternoon or evening for anyone who comes to see a film.
You might even want to consider a double feature, both of these two are winners: “Crazy Heart” has an amazing performance by Jeff Bridges and great music, “A Single Man” staring Colin Firth is also getting lots of Oscar buzz..
What do you think?
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Is the thong dead?
If Cosmo says it, it has to be true and in this case, thank goodness.
The magazine that brings the world headlines like “Hot, Sexy, Hair” and “99 Sex Moves,” declares the thong dead in its February edition.
Cosmopolitan - a publication clearly known for its hard-hitting, investigative journalism - says it conducted an “investigation” and uncovered that advancements in no panty line technology has sealed the thong’s faith.
Once considered one of the “50 Ways to Turn ON Your Man,” thongs have been eclipsed in popularity by more comfortable undies like the boy shorts, Cosmo reasons.
The fact that the one advantage the thong had over all other styles of underwear has now been completely eliminated puts a major, er, crack in the thong’s appeal, the article saysSeen & Overheard runs daily in the Dayton Daily News. Twitter with me at DDNSmartmouth.
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Cheating gov. had the bit about not cheating taken from wedding vows
Now here’s a sign things may not end well: your hubby-to-be refuses to promise to be faithful and has the bit about not cheating removed from your wedding vows.
Ding, ding, ding, buzz.
Jenny Sanford says that’s what happened before she married now disgraced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
In an interview set to air 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, on ABC, the estranged Mrs. Sanford reportedly tells Barbara Walter’s that she took a “leap of faith” and married Mark Sanford in 1989 anyway.
Details of the couple’s marriage became the nation’s business in June after Sanford ‘disappeared’ while supposedly hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Mark Sanford and family during his 2007 inaugural ceremonies. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)Turns out the S.C. Gov. was visiting his lover Maria Belen Chapur in hot and spicy Argentina.
This was no fling.
Gov. Sanford apparently considered Chapur his soul mate and after his wife discovered love letters, he asked his wife for permission to cheat, Ms. Sanford told ABC.
“I could never have imagined this. I mean, I could never have even made this up. It never occurred to me that this person I knew, who was actually a fairly grounded person, would be asking me something so morally offensive,” Jenny Sanford reportedly told Walters. “He said, ‘Why, why can’t you just give me permission?’ I said, ‘Well, why would I give you permission? I mean, who, who gives their spouse permission to go see their lover?’”
Sanford, who moved out of the governor’s manison before the scandal broke, has a new book coming out.
Here’s an early interview
What do you think?
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Sarah Palin wants Rahm Emanuel canned for calling the ‘r-word’
One things for certain, Sarah Palin is no fan of one notoriously foul-mouthed chief of staff.
And the Fox News contributor wants to do more than clean Rahm Emanuel’s mouth out with soap.
Palin took to Facebook to voice her complaints against “Mr. Potty Mouth” for comments the Wall Street Journal reports he said about a liberal group with complaints about President Obama’s health-care overhaul.
(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)“F—ing retarded,” Mr. Emanuel reportedly said in reference to the group.
In a Facebook post, Palin compares the the phrase to calling blacks ‘the N-word.’
“Just as we’d be appalled if any public figure of Rahm’s stature ever used the “N-word” or other such inappropriate language, Rahm’s slur on all God’s children with cognitive and developmental disabilities - and the people who love them - is unacceptable, and it’s heartbreaking,” she wrote.
Palin compelled the president to remove Emanuel and “not allow Rahm’s continued indecent tactics to cloud efforts.”
“Yes, Rahm is known for his caustic, crude references about those with whom he disagrees, but his recent tirade against participants in a strategy session was such a strong slap in many American faces that our president is doing himself a disservice by seeming to condone Rahm’s recent sick and offensive tactic,” she wrote in a letter seemingly directed at the president.
Truth be told, she probably wants him fired for breathing too.
What do you think? Should Rahm get the ram? Is the r-word nearly as bad as the n-word?
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Whiskey contest win could earn area women $700,000 in ‘double gold’
From food and wine writer Mark Fisher
Monica Frazier of Bradford will have a chance to win $700,000 worth of gold bars in San Francisco on Friday, Feb. 5.
The 31-year-old was randomly selected from more than 150,000 online entries as the winner of the Canadian Mist Whisky “Hunt for Double Gold” contest.
On Friday, she’ll be taken to Marina Green near downtown San Francisco where she will have one hour to search for up to 100 gold-colored coins numbered 1 to 100 which will have been randomly hidden around the park, according to a spokesman for Canadian Mist Whisky.
After the search, she will select 10 coins from all the coins she found, and if the two numbers randomly drawn before the search match the numbers on two of Frazier’s selected coins, she will win the value of two gold bars worth over $700,000.
Multiple attempts to reach Frazier were unsuccessful last week and this week. As part of the sweepstakes prize, she will spend three nights in downtown San Francisco beginning on Thursday, Feb. 4 through Sunday, February 7.
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Spring coming early, Dayton’s groundhog does not see her shadow
Ivy is a lady groundhog with her own mind.
The Miami Valley’s furriest meteorologist did not see her shadow during a Groundhog Day celebration today, Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.
Ivy at this year’s Groundhog Day event. (Chris Stewart, staff photo)If Ivy is right, we are in for an early spring.
She broke rank, rendering an opposing decision from groundhog heavy weight Punxsutawney Phil.
IvyThe grand-groundhog of all woodchucks saw his shadow, meaning there will be six more weeks of bad weather.
Buckeye Chuck, who is spun as Ohio’s official weather predicting groundhog, sided with Ivy, according to the Marion Star. His predicted an early spring as snow fell on spectators.
Not surprising Kristy Creel, a spokeswoman for the Boonshoft, is rooting for the hometown groundhog.
Creel said Ivy has been correct more than 80 percent of the time, adding that Phil has been right only about 60 percent of the time.
“She’s pretty accurate so I am going to take it for what it is,” Creel said of the 9-year-old groundhog.
Phil’s supporters of course see it differently. They say he has been right 100 percent of the time, according to an National Geographic article.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center has estimated that he has been correct only correct about 40 percent of the time.
Who has it right, Ivy and Chuck or Phil?
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Are we in for six more weeks of bad weather? Legendary groundhog makes his call
Its not looking good folks.
Punxsutawney Phil, the grand-groundhog of all weather predicting groundhogs, saw his shadow this morning, according to the Associated Press.
This all means there will be six more weeks of winter weather, according to lore.
A Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the weather in Punxsutawney, Pa. since 1887.
But don’t despair. Phil isn’t the only groundhog with an opinion on such matters.
Ivy,, the Miami Valley’s resident weather predicting fur ball, will make her call later this morning.
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery’s Groundhog Day celebration is 10 a.m. today, Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 2600 DeWeese Parkway, Dayton.
All outdoor activities are free; indoor activities are included with regular admission, $8.50 adults; $7.50 seniors and children 2 to 12; children younger than 2 and members are free.
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Group: robot should replace groundhog
If PETA had its way, Punxsutawney Phil would go to the old groundhog’s home and be replaced by a robot.
The animal rights group subjecting the famous fur ball to loud crowds is cruel.
He should replaced by an animatronic model that could be used to predict the weather, PETA says according to the Associated Press.
We all knew robots were taking over, but come on. Who wants a groundhog without a pulse?
William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, defended the use of Punxsutawney, saying the animal is “being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania.”
Meanwhile, Ivy, the Boonshoft’s resident groundhog, is preparing to make her prediction.
What do you think?
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Ivy trained and ready for Groundhog Day prediction
Ivy, the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery’s resident groundhog, is pumped up and ready to predict.
The fur ball has been training for four weeks for her spin in the shadow, according to Kristy Creel, a museum spokeswoman.
If she sees her shadow, we are in for six more weeks of bad weather.
IvyThat has meant waking from a 22-hour nap, munching on two vegetarian biscuits with assorted fruits and vegetables, working out and snacking on sweet potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower.
Boonshoft’s Groundhog Day celebration is 10 a.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 2600 DeWeese Parkway, Dayton.
All outdoor activities are free; indoor activities are included with regular admission, $8.50 adults; $7.50 seniors and children 2 to 12; children younger than 2 and members are free.
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Did Dave Matthews channel Cliff Huxtable?
Couldn’t figure out where you first saw the super sweet moves Dave Matthews broke out during his band’s Funkadelic-sized jam session at Sunday’s Grammys?
Word around the campfire ( the Internet) is that the energetic band leader somehow channeled the grooviest dad to ever bust a move on a situational comedy - good, ole Dr. Heathcliff ‘Cliff’ Huxtable.
But what does the campfire know? Maybe Matthews was just being Matthews. Check out the video below and decide for youself.
Click her to see Bill Cosby break it down as Cliff Huxtable.
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