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News Bits: Rain Dances & Cardboard Dumplings

  • Lady Bird joins LBJ, but her legacy lives on. Take a lap around Town Lake for her, and be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
  • Pray for rain--in Alabama. Lord knows we've had enough of it here, and we may even get more.
  • While you're at it, pray for grocery stores--Detroit doesn't have any. Maybe Whole Foods could move in if Mackey weren't so busy online.
  • Feeling broke? Head to Japan, where they have free money in public restrooms. You may not recoup the price of your plane ticket, but at least you can check out those storied Japanese vending machines. Resist the urge to hop on over to China for dumplings though--fiber may be good for you, but they're taking it a little too far.
  • Apparently librarians who knit top the "hip" charts. Does this mean grandma's now the epitome of cool?
  • Parking downtown can be annoying, but at least it won't run you almost a quarter mil. Yet.
  • Bush pleased with satisfactory progress in 8 out of 18 criteria. He's also concerned that, "as a result of violence and killing, there would be chaos." No way. Maybe we oughta pray for progress in addition to rain.
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By Kerry Skemp in on July 13, 2007 11:00 AM 0 Comments

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  • guest

    Let's keep this is perspective -- any way you spin it, it's still failure. The result is that our folks are continue coming home in body bags and Iraq falls deeper in chaos. And Bush just wants to joke about his newly remodeled press digs.

  • guest

    If Bush's No child Left behind policy applied to the war then with these results he'd lose funding or be shut down.

  • Kerry Skemp

    also here is the link to the full report for those who want it: http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/07/12/final.benchmark.report.pdf

  • Kerry Skemp

    the source i saw (and cited) only emphasized the progress on 8 of 18 (leaving me to use mad math skills to assume what happened on the rest), but thanks for the friendly correction. it should be fixed soon.

  • guest

    Wrong. Satisfactory progress on 8, unsatisfactory on 8, mixed on 2. Not no progress on 10.

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