Lipperism

CUI’s most dramatic example of an alleged breach of one of the requirements contracts is the City’s not buying any dog food from the company during the five- month period. Surely, the company argues, the dogs (police dogs) could not go without food for five months—they would have been driven to roam in packs, eating small children, or even each other; the pathetic starved bodies of the weaker or more fastidious dogs would have littered the Chicago sidewalks. None of this happened. Therefore the City must have been getting the dog food from some other supplier, in violation of the requirements contract.

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car.

Injured black bears emerge from hibernation with barely a scratch. Although their body temperatures and heart rates drop dramatically and blood circulation slows, black bears heal while hibernating without infections and little scaring, reported zoologists in the journal Integrative Zoology. What’s more, the sleeping bears heal without eating, drinking, or relieving themselves.

Mr. Gruber, 46, hates traveling without his wife and three children, so he is tracking the case from his home in Lexington, Mass. There he crunches numbers and advises other states on health care, in between headbanging at Van Halen concerts with his 15-year-old son and cuddling with the family’s eight parrots. (His wife, Andrea, volunteers at a bird rescue center.)

Inevitably, the auctions turn out better for the animals’ owners than for the animals themselves. Three days after the auction, Kipper was put in a trailer and driven to a meat science laboratory at Texas A & M University, where he was slaughtered and placed in a cooler.
Once his drug test results come in, Kipper will be butchered, boxed and, along with 66 other top-ranking barrows, donated to charity. The four couples who bought Kipper will each receive a 54-pound gourmet pork package.

On a recent morning, Mr. Egal, 42, proudly unfurled a new banner only to be scolded by one of his partners that they could not use it in the bank because it had a picture of a camel. Some Islamic scholars say it is forbidden to depict animate objects. “Damn, man,” Mr. Egal grumbled. “I liked that camel.

Republican Swamp People — The Romneys move to the Everglades in an effort to woo the swing state of Florida. Excitement ensues when Mitt tries to drive to a rally with an alligator strapped to the roof of the car.