Won’t you fly high?

Free Bird! Continuing a tradition started by President John Kennedy, President Barack Obama, D-Pass This Stuffing, pardoned two 45-pound turkeys, Liberty and Peace, in a White House ceremony.

Obama refused to extend the pardon to the turkeys in Congress.

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More turkey talk: Bellingham’s city council has approved an ordinance that puts gobbling turkeys and crowing roosters on par with barking dogs in the city’s noise ordinance. Failure to quiet fowl noises can result in a $99 citation.

This has only made the dog even more smug than before; he knows no one’s going to eat him over a $99 ticket.

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Survey says: Pollster George Gallup Jr., 81, son of the founder of the Gallup Poll, has died in Princeton, N.J. Gallup joined his father’s polling organization in 1954 and retired in 2004.

Gallup’s obituary has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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Please don’t feed the professor: Sacramento State officials have told a professor that he can no longer demand that his students bring him snacks. The professor walked out of class recently when his students failed to comply with his demand.

The university said care and feeding of professors is the responsibility of the teaching assistants who are trained to handle them.

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