Your pets are adorable, the economy's incredible, it's National Donut Day and other great news

click to enlarge Your pets are adorable, the economy's incredible, it's National Donut Day and other great news
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Sadly, no picture you can ever provide can ever match the glory and splendor of Boone, my family's dearly departed Australian shepherd. All animals are total uggos in comparison.

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FOOD: Mmmm... National Donut Day... [drools]

NEWS: Fun fact: Each WSU student would have to pay $133 every year to pay for WSU football coach Mike Leach's salary. Here's the university's plan to fix its athletics budget. (Hint: Soak the students.)

NEWS: Cathy McMorris Rodgers says that if she was advising Donald Trump, she'd tell him to release his tax returns.

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The economy is absolutely amazing
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