The Trouble with Trefoils: Upset over the sale of cherished campgrounds by budget-strapped Girl Scout councils, some Girl Scouts say they will protest by refusing to participate in the annual sale of Girl Scout cookies.
This could get ugly. Imagine lines of Thin Mint buyers stretching for blocks, black-market sales of counterfeit Tagalongs and calls for President Barack Obama to tap the National Samoas Reserve. Please, just do as they say.
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Well, the heated seats are electric: The Treasury Department says 13,000 taxpayers attempted to claim the $7,500 tax credit for electric cars with vehicles that didn’t qualify, including a Hummer H3 and a golf cart.
A closer look at their tax returns showed that many of the same taxpayers had claimed dependents who were a bit on the furry side and drank water from a bowl on the floor.
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Let my people go: As his country falls further into unrest, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak says that he wants to resign but fears the country would sink into chaos.
That Mubarak hasn’t seen any of the media coverage of the riots tearing his nation apart is understandable; Egyptian state television has been running a marathon of “Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy.”
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