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A blessing and a curse. I mean, sure, just like they have since elementary school, people make fun, they point it out to their friends when they see your name, but its also a very memorable name. They also remember your name. When youre running for Public Office people remembering your name is a really important thing. I would say name recognition in this case is an asset but his name is mr. Butt, so i dont want to say asset. Sorry. In any case, nobody has to call him mr. Butt any more because now what you should call him is mr. Mayor. Last night, against all the odds in the world, tom butt wa...

Of delight when tom butt is in the news. If that is your last name and you choose a life thats going to keep you in the public eye, having a giggleinducing last name like that is probably both a blessing and a curse. I mean, sure, just like they have since elementary school, people make fun, they point it out to their friends when they see your name, but its also a very memorable name. They also remember your name. When youre running for Public Office people remembering your name is a really important thing. I would say name recognition in this case is an asset but his name is mr. Butt, so i d...

Gone years, the furby in 1998, paying three times the retail price for furbies for more than 100 . People have barely recovered from the tickle me elmo in 1996, in one case, 300 people jostling for a stores last remaining tickle me elmo left a store clerk with a broke on rib and a concussion. Cartier used the toy to market a Million Dollar diamond necklace. That came with a tickle me elmo doll included. But before all those hot toys, it was the Cabbage Patch in 1983. You would think money was being given away. But the mad rush was for a doll. The Cabbage Patch kid doll, shoppers went wild, the...

Or 60 just trapped there on the highway. A good number of them on fire several of them continuing to burn. Youre watching live pictures right now of the fight from the sky and the ground. This is a plane dc10 that has been called in to help fight this blaze, dropping the fire retardant, an air tanker and helicopters also on scene. We saw firefighters for the first time recently on the ground right now. Again, the issue, so many of these cars trapped on the freeway with their gas tanks full. So there is urgency to get this fire out at least on the freeway as soon as possible. Look at the choppe...

Obamacare among other initiativings. But then he put that flag tweet out there which raised plenty of eyebrows, in part because the Supreme Court has upheld the view even if you find the notion of burning a flag abhorrent, it is still protected under the First Amendment as part of free speech. So its a little unclear why he decided to just toss that out there, especially on a day when he was already making news. The Transition Team announced that donald trump had decided on georgia congressman tom price to be the next head of health and Human Services. This is someone whos been a vehement crit...