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Families are getting ready for Thanksgiving and for many that includes a pie from Gizdich Ranch in Watsonville. For over 60 years, Gizdich Ranch has never missed a Thanksgiving, selling delicious pies to literally thousands. For Thanksgiving alone, they’re pumping out around 7,000 pies. “Thanksgiving is the busiest holiday that we have," said Cynthia Gizdich. "It’s the busiest two weeks all year long and we have to prepare for it. So that includes the grocery stores and all the people that did call in early enough to get their pre-paid pre-ordered pies.” Gizdich Ranch said its pies attract customers from...

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio on Thursday vaulted into second place in a daily tracking poll, but still trails front-runner Donald Trump by double-digits in the New Hampshire primary Trump leads the GOP field with 36 percent support, according to the WHDH/UMass Lowell poll, followed by the Florida senator with 15 percent support, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) with 14 percent support, former Florida governor Jeb Bush with 8 percent support and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with 7 percent support.

Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the grand opening of Washington, D.C.’s first Costco Thursday morning, meeting with co-founder Jim Sinegal and CEO Craig Jelinek and most importantly, searching for pies. Biden, who re-activated his Costco membership yesterday, declared “I’m looking for pies” as soon as he got a cart, perusing the bakery’s offerings while shoppers gathered around him. Biden, who also gathered a number of children’s books intended for a charity in Delaware, resisted attempts by employees to bring him into the tire department, saying “Hey man, I don’t need tires. I don’t drive anymore.” The vice president ended...

Best office "Secret Santa" ever? Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise shopping blitz through the brand-new Washington, D.C., Costco store on Thursday, emerging with a 32-inch Panasonic flat-screen TV, some kids' books, a big apple pie and Duraflame logs. He then brought his loot back to the White House compound. "I'm looking for pies," Biden told Costco employee Ivey Stewart, his native guide through the wilderness of the big-box store's opening-day frenzy. Biden, who was welcomed by Costco CEO Craig Jelinek and co-founder Jim Sinegal, flashed his membership card (yes, the vice president has his own membership card). "In...

When I read the October 27 Quote of the Day my first thought was “physician heal thyself” (right after “somebody call the guys in the white coats!”). Anyone who can equate the ownership of semi-automatic weapons with the abuse of children is obviously teetering on the edge. Little did I know just how out there the good doctor really is, though. The quote came from Ronald Pies’s, Why Psychiatrists Must Confront Gun-related Violence. And as I started reading the whole thing, it became obvious that Dr. Ron may have suffered what those in the head shrinking biz call a break...

Vegetarians are to be allowed to compete in the World Pie Eating Championships for the first time. In previous years the only filling available to contestants was one of meat and potato. But next month, following "relentless pressure" from the Vegetarian Society, a cheese and onion version will also be on the menu. Tony Callaghan, the event's organiser, has also changed the rule on the number of pies to be eaten. First prize has traditionally gone to the contestant who could eat the highest number of pies in three minutes. The current record stands at seven. On December 13, however,...

Boris Johnson was embroiled in an astonishing row last night after he attacked the TV chef Jamie Oliver and his campaign for healthier school dinners. The shadow higher education minister criticised Oliver's crusade days after David Cameron endorsed the chef's campaign. Mr Johnson even offered support to the mothers in Yorkshire who passed fast food to their children through the school fence in protest at the introduction of "over-priced, low-fat rubbish" in the school canteen. "I say let people eat what they like. Why shouldn't they push pies through the railings?" Mr Johnson told a fringe meeting in Bournemouth. "I...

One of two men accused of throwing cream pies at nationally syndicated columnist Ann Coulter last year pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Friday. Phillip Edgar Smith agreed to pay $915 in restitution for damage caused to a backdrop screen that was hit by one of the pies, said deputy Pima County Attorney Noah Van Amburg. Judge Paul Simon gave Smith a $250 fine, but told him that if he pays the restitution by Dec. 5 he will suspend the fine, Van Amburg said. According to police, Smith and William Zachary Wolff, both 25, threw the tofu cream pies at Coulter...

"…though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view."--William F. Buckley, National Review, Jan 11, 1956. On March 31, 900 students, faculty and community members gathered in a Western Michigan University lecture hall to hear Pat Buchanan talk about immigration and the culture war. The conservatives on campus, led by Young America's Foundation (YAF) supporter Matt Hall, had worked tirelessly to bring Buchanan to their campus. They had a track record of hosting and organizing many successful events featuring YAF speakers and...

Straight from Michael Moore's front page, his "To Do" List... CALL ON THE GERMAN FEDERAL PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE RUMSFELD AND OTHER U.S. OFFICIALS FOR WAR CRIMES AT ABU GHRAIB

The pie lady: Still baking after all these years 09/15/02 BURLINGTON — Alice Brown knows how to make a mean apple pie, the kind with a bulging top crust flecked with fork points and an oozing filling that’s tart enough to give it some tang. At 94, she bustles around her Burlington kitchenette, stoop-shouldered but engagingly girlish. Her hair is as light and puffy as the late summer clouds that float outside her apartment building. She wears a Christmas apron and leans on a walker. Her feet are wedged into thick, orthopedic shoes with Velcro straps and she admits she...