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October 23, 2010

Best Laugh of the Day

While I find the entire Juan Williams/NPR debacle uproariously funny... here's what really made me laugh....

Juan Williams calls for the government to defund NPR

Really Juan? Seriously?

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October 13, 2010

The Rescue

UPDATE 2: Everyone is out! The President and his wife stayed until the last rescuer was back on top and the President closed the lid on the shaft. Wow! What an incredible 24+ hours.

UPDATE: All the miners are out, now the rescuers are being brought out. Once they are all on the surface we can say - what a wonderful ending to a very bad situation. We can't say that very often.

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I'm peeking in periodically to the Fox News live feed of the rescue of the Chilean miners. The best part of the Fox coverage - no talking by idiot news people. It's a live feed only with sound. I listened to the BBC feed for about 20 minutes last night and the blathering reporter about drove me up the wall.

I am very impressed, not only with the crews doing the rescue, but also the fact that the President and First Lady are there to greet every miner! They are taking plenty of time to talk to all the family members and help them through the last few minutes of waiting. They could have taken the easy way out, waited until the rescue was over and then brought all the miners to their place for a dinner or something. They didn't and I find that tremendously impressive.

Of course I haven't watched the entire thing and maybe I missed something, but from what I've seen, everyone involved in the rescue has been simply amazing.

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