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Tim Tebow led the Florida Gators to the college football national championship Thursday night, beating Oklahoma, 24-14. Sam Bradford of Oklahoma won this season’s Heisman Trophy Award, but Bradford couldn’t lead his team to the national title.

Here’s how the Heisman Trophy Award voting went this season:

1) Sam Bradford of the University of Oklahoma polled 1,726 points to capture the award.

2) Colt McCoy of Texas polled 1,604 points.

3) The 2007 Heisman winner, Tim Tebow of Florida received 1,575 points.

It seems the Heisman voters only looked at Oklahoma’s explosive offensive numbers instead of also factoring in guts, courage, heart, toughness, leadership, and ability to inspire. In all of those categories, Tim Tebow wins handily.

As I write this, the conventional wisdom is that Tebow will return to play in his senior year at Florida. Then he will go pro and I believe he will be the next Brett Favre.

He is bigger and probably stronger than a young Brett Favre that could mean great longevity for Tebow.

He has all the charm and personality that makes him extremely likable. Football fans all across the country will love him.

He has class and a wonderful, inspirational story that will follow him every day of his life. I firmly believe it is impossible not to see him, hear him, or learn about him and not like him.

Again, thank you Mrs.Tebow for choosing not to abort your baby who turned out to be an incredible role model.

I sympathize with fans of the Utah Utes, the only major undefeated team in college football. Utah feels it should hav eplayed for the national title, and even though it didn't, dserves the crown because they're 13-0. The two teams fighting for the championship, Oklahoma and Florida, each have one loss.

Unfortunately, Diviision I college football doesn't have a playoff system, and the champiosnhip should be decided on the playing field, not in the courts.

Thursday night, Oklahoma meets Florida for the national championship of college football. It’s a matchup pitting last year’s Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow of Florida against this year’s Heisman recipient, Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford.

Conventional wisdom would have liberals cheering for Oklahoma. There’s no way lefties could pull for any team led by Tim Tebow for two reasons:

1) Tebow of Florida: Nice, solid young man. But he’s always talking about, you know……(whisper) God.

2) Tebow’s not even supposed to be around. He should have been dead a long time ago if not for his mother.


GO FLORDIA!


GO TIM TEBOW!

The plan is to have a UW clinic provide second trimester abortions. Here are details from the Wisconsin State Journal.

Thank God state Senator Glenn Grothman is asking tough questions.

Here's a press release about this travesty issued by Wisconsin Right to Life:


Wisconsin Right to Life Condemns UW Hospitals and Clinics, UW Foundation and Meriter Hospital Decision to Perform Second Trimester Abortions
Plan Re-Ignites Public Indignation Over Babies Who Survived Abortion Attempts at These Hospitals

For immediate release: Wednesday, January 7, 2009

“Wisconsin Right to Life unequivocally condemns the decision by UW Hospitals and Clinics, the UW Medical Foundation and Meriter Hospital to open up a secondtrimester abortion operation at the Madison Surgery Center,” declared Barbara Lyons, Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life. “The decision brings these medical facilities full circle back to the early 1980s when six babies within a short time span survived abortion attempts within their corridors.”

In 1982-83, two babies survived abortion attempts at UW Hospitals and Clinics and four babies survived abortion attempts at Madison General Hospital (now known as Meriter Hospital). All of the babies died within 27 hours of birth. The abortions were performed up to the 26th week of pregnancy.

“Intense public outcry rose from these live births which were the subject of numerous media articles,” stated Lyons. “Wisconsin Right to Life will join other organizations to work to overturn this horrendous decision which is a blight on what should be the life-saving, not life-taking, work of medical professionals and facilities.”

Wisconsin Right to Life
Barbara L. Lyons
Executive Director, Wisconsin Right to Life
Email: admin@wrtl.org
Phone: 877-855-5007
www.WisconsinRightToLife,org
Wisconsin Right to Life | 10625 W. North Ave. | Suite LL | Milwaukee | WI | 53226-2331

President George W. Bush, center, poses with President-elect Barack Obama, and former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, left, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, right, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The story.

Last year, Jennifer and I attended a wedding reception at the Heinemann’s in Greendale before it closed. We had no idea the restaurant had such wonderful space for receptions and the like.

Back at the beginning of this decade, Heinemann’s ran a restaurant in what is now the US Bank building across the street from the state Capitol that I patronized often for great, I’m talkin’ great bakery goods. The rent must have been too much because it was gone much too quickly.

The MJS is looking for Heinemann’s memories. I’m sure that pound cake will be mentioned a lot. I’ll miss the best muffins I’ve ever had.

Tradition. The best thing about tradition is that it does provide great memories. The worst thing about tradition is that it’s sometimes involves something good that finally came to an end.

One of my OUTRAGES OF THE WEEK in this past Saturday’s Week-ends entry was our warm and fuzzy, out of money, but warm and fuzzy nonetheless federal government offering coupons if you needed help adjusting to the digital TV conversion coming in February.

I guess that no matter how many money-grubbing hands are out there, eventually even Uncle Sam cries “uncle.”

My goodness, liberals. You’ve got to be crying and bleeding all over the floor. How, my God, how are these oppressed people going to manage without their three household TV’s?

I think they’ll find a way. The solution will probably involve getting on one of their many cell phones…

Millwaukee TV stations are reporting the Franklin Common Council has agreed to close the Buckhorn tavern for 90 days for its role in the tragic deaths of two people struck down by a drunk driver on Christmas Day 2007. The driver had reportedly been over-served earlier in the day at the Buckhorn. Eddie Keck is serving a 36-year sentence for killing a West Allis couple after drinking heavily at the Buckhorn.

The Council's License Committee had voted to reject the recommendation of a special prosecutor to close the Buckhorn for 75 days. Franklin's Police Chief  Rick Oliva said closing  Buckhorn for 90 days sends a powerful message. Indeed, in this economy, when a business is forced to close down for three months, that's a serious punishment.

Even so, the 90 day closing, while unprecedented, will be little consolation for those who wanted Buckhorn's license stripped away permanently.

The question I've posed in the past remains: What would have to happen in Franklin for a liquor license to be taken away for good? I would love if someone could answer that for me.


MEDIA COVERAGE

WISN-TV has EXCLUSIVE video of Eddie Keck being over-served at Buckhorn

WTMJ-TV

FOX 6 NEWS

CHANNEL 58


More background in TOP TEN FRANKLIN STORIES OF 2008: #9

There I was earlier this evening on Broad Street in downtown Greendale, making some quick returns to the local library before heading to a high school basketball game where I was the official timer.

A dark sky, light flakes filling the air, and just off in the distance, the bells chiming from Greendale Village Hall. The melody was so easy to pick up. For a brief moment, I had to stop and think. This is January 6th. But the bells were appropo tonight, and unfortunately in these parts, could be that way right through April.

"And since we've no place to go......"

I smiled as I hopped back into my car at the wondrous timing of Mother Nature and those Greendale bells.

It has nothing to do with Congressional, state, or local politics, breastfeeding in public, Brittany Spears, or even Brett Favre. But it is a sports topic.

No matter who wins the FedEx National Championship Thursday night, Oklahoma or Florida, the victor won't stop the avalanache of discussion about how Division I college football is the only college sport that's decided without a true playoff format. Polls, computers, subjective analyses by coaches and reporters all have a say in who plays for the so-called national title. Again, it can be argued the game doesn't matter. Just ask the folks in Utah and their undefeated Utes.

While listening to SIRIUS Satellite Radio this week, I heard Tim Brando, often seen on CBS, argue vociferously for a playoff system. I can hear you, loud and clear. Yeh, yeh, yeh, that same, tired old debate. Brando, however, has a different take. His plan would result in what hecalls a Final Four of college football. The words, "Final Four," in sports are madly magical. The NCAA semifinals in basketball are not just games, they are a happening, an event embedded in the fabric of America.

Brando would keep all the bowl games, and then take the winners, and I can't remember from which games, but it would be four of the following five: Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta.

The four teams would be seeded with # 1 facing # 4 and #2 facing #3. The two winners would then meet for the national championship.

As compelling as such a system might sound, it appears a playoff format isn't coming anytime soon. There's just too much love for the current way of doing things.

But a Final Four in college football sounds incredibly appealing.

Next year, when you get invited to bowl games, do yourselves a favor.

Say no.

Stay home.

Save yourselves a lot of embarassment.

Last year, state Senator Mary Lazich blogged that the government is going to regulate your lawnmower.

You can add “television” to the list.

Tuesday night, the Franklin Common Council will take up the Buckhorn controversy. Specifically, aldermen will consider the License Committee’s vote that a special prosecutor’s recommendation that the Buckhorn have its license suspended for 75 days be rejected. On Christmas Day 2007, Eddie Lynn Keck was reportedly over-served at the Buckhorn, left the tavern and struck and killed two people that night in a drunk driving accident.

Almost a year ago, the Franklin Common Council retained Roger C. Pyzyk, a private practice attorney who also is the Greenfield city attorney, as a special prosecutor to see if Franklin officials could take action against the tavern.

Franklin aldermen regarded the Buckhorn controversy as a hot potato, refusing comment and deferring the entire matter to Pyzyk. The city has left itself wide open to criticism that it has bungled this entire affair. The slow wheels of the criminal justice system passed judgment on Keck months ago. Franklin City Hall continues to stumble.

While I’m on record supporting a much stronger action against Buckhorn, and still do, and that is a revocation of its license, I find it highly ironic that the Franklin Common Council, in the interest of due process, stepped aside to bring in an impartial prosecutor. The prosecutor after months and months of review, paid for with Franklin taxes, came up with a recommendation, and now the Council is poised to turn it down. So, we’ve made what progress at the city level in over a year?

Personally, I believe it’s time for the aldermen to take a stand and tell the public exactly what it is they want. They ultimately have to vote on something, and the time to keep hemming and hawing is over.

Franklin aldermen, if a 75 day suspension isn’t right, what is? You were elected to make tough decisions. This is one of them, one the public is running out of patience over.

For more details on this entire story, read my recap in TOP TEN FRANKLIN STORIES OF 2008: # 9.

I have often said that we (the United States) are our own worst enemy when it comes to our illegal immigration dilemma. Here's another example.

Illegal immigrants are being smuggled into America through the Las Vegas airport. Federal agents are aware. So are local agents in Las Vegas. The response the local agents get from the feds: ignore the problem.

HT: Dad29 via Moonbattery.

Prepare to be outraged.

Believe it or not, there is a fair amount of thought and research that goes into each week’s Culinary no-no. Unlike the millions of other food blogs, mine focuses on the taboo. It would be mush less arduous a task writing about culinary elements that work.

However, this week the no-no came like an Acme Company safe out of a Warner Brothers cartoon window, a virtual no-brainer crying out, “Write about me, Kevin! Write about me!”

Admit it. When was the last time you ate this combination: Ham, pork, sugar, salt, sodium nitrate, water, and potato starch? I believe I was 10 at the time.

What concoction do you get when you mix ham, pork, sugar, salt, sodium nitrate, water, and potato starch?

The fad started during World War II and hasn’t stopped since. Hawaiians may have loved it, but I recall my father saying GI’s got so sick of it they’d toss the cans out train windows. I happen to trust their palates and judgment.

My wife and I were in the 50^th state last month and I’m baffled. With all that wonderful seafood and Hawaii raising more of its beef, why would you settle for a can of Spam at dinnertime? We never saw Spam or any variation of it on any menu at any of the places we dined. But then again, we didn’t hit McDonald’s or Burger King.

Spam is a hot commodity in Hawaii, and is popular all across the country as well. Winning recipes made with Spam have surfaced at state fairs, including Wisconsin’s.

Again, I’m confused.

It’s one thing to hold a festival in its honor or try to get creative to win a blue ribbon. But this, I mean really…..

This is inexcusable.

Why?

Why?

Those idiots deserve whatever punishment they get. If there’s any justice, they’ll be forced to eat all 32 cans.

Last October, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Managing Editor George Stanley tried his best to convince readers that the paper is fair and balanced. He cited some examples and then wrote,
 “In these cases the press, in all its forms, is not leading public opinion but reflecting it.”

He added, “We're here to serve all readers - conservative, liberal, independent and nonpolitical.”

Stanley was referring primarily to the paper’s reporters. I don’t buy it, and my skepticism applies to both the news and editorial coverage.

In my blog last October, I challenged the paper: “Stop telling us you’re fair and balanced. Prove it.”

Today, I begin a new feature on This Just In. Every week, I’ll review the most coveted editorial pages of the week by opinion-makers as well as the most widely-read, the Sunday “Crossroads” section of the Journal Sentinel. I will keep track of the conservative and liberal pieces published and keep a running score throughout the year.

I will not count pieces by Journal Sentinel columnists or Journal Sentinel editorial writers, short Quick Hits or Advisory Hits. Judgment is, of course, subjective, but I’m pretty sure I can perceive if an opinion piece is conservative or liberal.

What about Monday through Saturday? Sorry. I’m going to concentrate on the Sunday pages. If others want to take on the task of monitoring the other days, God bless them.

What about reviews based on column inches or word totals? Sorry. I have a life. The article is either conservative or liberal leaning. In the box scores, it doesn’t show how a basket was made, it just adds them up. That’s what I’m going to do. Let’s start.


TODAY’S LIBERAL PIECES:

Gregory Nemet and David Weimer: Now's the moment to levy an import tax for energy research

Dan Kohler and Andy Jorgensen: Let's capitalize on our energy assets  (Uses the term, “investment, “ code for spending)

Mary T. Wagner: How about a tax on what leads to trouble?


TODAY’S CONSERVATIVE PIECES:

Michael J. Mathias: Elections a cure, not curse


Labeling Mathias’ piece “conservative” wasn’t easy. Mathias is a liberal blogger who is running for the Milwaukee School Board. He takes the position that the board should remain an elected body, unlike the Journal Sentinel that recently editorialized for an appointed board.

This is nothing new. Liberals often turn swiftly to the right when running for office. I can’t speak for the level of sincerity in Mathias’ statements, but his is a conservative view and the paper did publish an opposing stance.

But isn’t it interesting. The only “conservative” piece on the editorial pages today doesn’t come from a true conservative.


MJS SCORECARD:

TODAY: Liberal-3, Conservative-1

YEAR TO DATE: Liberal-3, Conservative -1

 

Early morning preparations continue for President-elect Barack Obama's Inaugural Reviewing Stand on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

 

Palestinian protesters throws stones at Israeli troops, not seen, during clashes at a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza, in the Shuafat refugee camp, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. Israel showed no sign of slowing a blistering seven-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, destroying homes of more than a dozen of the group's operatives Friday and bombing one of its mosques a day after a deadly strike killed a prominent Hamas figure.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

 

Two Egyptian men look at the smoke caused by an Israeli air strike at the Gaza border, seen from the Egyptian border crossing terminal of Rafah, Egypt Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. Israel bombed a mosque it claimed was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives Friday, but under international pressure, the government allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports to leave besieged Gaza. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinians look down on the rubble of the destroyed house of senior Hamas militant Nizar Rayan after an Israeli airstrike hit a nearby mosque in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. Israel showed no sign of slowing a blistering seven-day offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, destroying homes of the group's leaders and bombing one of its mosques a day after a deadly strike on a prominent Hamas figure killed him and most of his family. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Supporters of Israel's recent attacks on Gaza and Hamas rally at the Federal Building in Westwood area of Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)


 

 

Praying men block Piccadilly in London, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Thousands of protestors marched from the Embankment to Trafalgar Square in support of Palestinians in Gaza, then on to the Israeli embassy.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)


 

 

Hundreds of shoes are seen in the road along Whitehall, as police guard the entrance to Downing Street in London, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Several thousand people, many carrying Palestinian flags, marched past British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Downing Street residence to a rally in Trafalgar Square, London. Outside Downing Street, hundreds of protesters stopped and threw shoes at the tall iron gates blocking entry to the narrow road. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)






Potholes everywhere: A plastic cap that had had fallen off a previous car popped into the air as another car ran it over on North Central Avenue over the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago.
(Al Podgorski/Chicago Sun-Times) 


 

 

Workers move the wreckage of Continental Airlines flight 1404 to a site outside a Continental hangar at Denver International Airport in Denver on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009 from the ravine where it crash landed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

 

Sumo grand champion Hakuho from Mongolia pounds steamed rice into the dough used for rice cakes at the Miyagino Stable in Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Rice cake called "mochi" is traditional New Year food in Japan. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

Oklahoma City firefighter C.J. Seitz carries a chihuahua from a house that was destroyed in a morning fire in Oklahoma City , Okla., Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. No one was injured in the fire. (AP Photo/Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman)

A portion of Robert Graham's bronze sculpture symbolizing the 54 social programs of the New Deal is seen at the Roosevelt Memorial December 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. Robert Graham, a sculptor whose works are seen in public spaces throughout the United States, died in California December 27 at the age of 70. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)


 

 

The lines to pay property taxes were long at Milwaukee City Hall on Monday and Tuesday, after cold and snowy weather kept taxpayers away earlier in the month, City Treasurer Wayne Whittow said. Property taxes are due Jan. 31, but many taxpayers hustle to pay them before the end of the year to claim them as an income tax deduction. Journal Sentinel photo: Jack Orton 


 

 

Three members of the animal rights group AnimaNaturalis sit inside a cage to call attention to the sale of pets in front of a shopping mall in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. The group was protesting the sale of pets, saying people should opt for adoption instead. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

 

An Australian sheep-dog chases after a ball near the western German town of Breckerfeld on December 31.(SASCHA SCHUERMANN, AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

 

Laura Backman, of Portsmouth, R.I., rear, watches as her pet duck "Lemon" paddles across the floor with the assistance of a wheeled cradle in Backman's living room at her home, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. The two-and-a-half year-old Pekin duck has a brain disorder that leaves the bird with difficulties balancing.(Steven Senne, AP)

 

In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Shelby, a three-year old female snow leopard reclines in the freshly snow covered greenery at the Bronx Zoo's Himalayan Highlands exhibit, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008 in New York. Forecasters are calling for snow and brutally cold temperatures as a cold front whips into New York City on the last day of 2008. Shelby's apparent confront is a stark contrast to that of the New Year's Eve revelers across town as they brave high winds and falling temperatures later in the evening on New York City's Times Square. (AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)

A woman rides horses through the snow covered landscape on a sunny day outside Zumikon near Zurich January 1, 2009. Photo: Reuters


 

 

People skate on frozen canals in Kinderdijk's Mill Area, a UNESCO World Heritage site, near Rotterdam, Netherlands, Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Kinderdijk, where the mills date back to the 18th century, is a good example of a low countries area where water management is carefully organised with a system of historic mills and waterways. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)


 

It may be cold outside, but Daniel Jimenez, 3, of Franklin is keeping the flowers in bloom Friday at the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum in Milwaukee. Daniel’s parents, Israel and Sherry, say that he enjoys working with real flowers in the family’s garden. Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff






The door leading to the Green Bay Packers locker room displays a sign allowing media members to enter as players clean out their lockers inside Lambeau Field on Dec. 29, 2008 following their 6-10 season. Photo by Corey Wilson/Press-Gazette

Green Bay Packers linebacker Desmond Bishop cleans out his locker inside Lambeau Field on Dec. 29, 2008 following a 6-10 season. Photo by Corey Wilson/Press-Gazette







Green Bay Packers players (clockwise from left) J.J. Jansen, Mason Crosby, Jordy Nelson, Brian Brohm and Matt Flynn play cards while players clean out their lockers inside Lambeau Field on Dec. 29, 2008 following their 6-10 season. Photo by Corey Wilson/Press-Gazette

A cross and shoulder pads are all that remain in the locker of Green Bay Packers safety Nick Collins after players clean out their lockers inside Lambeau Field on Dec. 29, 2008 following their 6-10 season. Photo by Corey Wilson/Press-Gazette

  

Charlotte Bobcats guard Gerald Wallace (3) is fouled by Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva (31) during the second half of the Bobcats' 102-92 win in an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Villanueva was charged with a flagrant foul. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

 

Mail carrier Thomas “Mac” McGinnis has been wearing a Santa suit for nearly 20 years on Christmas Eve. “It’s a tradition now in Bay View. I have to do it,” McGinnis said. Audio Slideshow
Journal Sentinel photo: Kristyna Wentz-Graff

 

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a New Year's Eve vespers service, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI is calling for 'sobriety and solidarity' in 2009 as the world struggles with economic and social woes. His appeal was made amid the splendor of St. Peter's Basilica during a New Year's Eve vespers service on Wednesday. Benedict described these times as being 'marked by uncertainty and worry for the future.' -- (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

 

Dick Clark kisses his wife, Kari, on the set of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" in New York (Dec. 31, 2008). Photo: msn.com

 

Angela Sytko of New Jersey, right, and T.J. Clark New York’s of Brooklyn Borough kiss at the stroke of midnight during New Year’s Eve festivities in Times Square in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. — AP Photo/Peter Morgan

 

Police constable Lee Dingsdale receives a kiss from Aiden Cooper as revellers take to Princes Street to celebrate New Year on December 31, 2008 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Around 100,000 people are expected to brave freezing temperatures to see in the bells in the Scottish capital. Getty Images

 

Thomas Moeller, 31, and Sandra Neunaber, 30, kiss after Moeller asked Neunaber to marry him in front of the Brandenburg Gate on New Year's Day January 1, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. An estimated 1 million revelers descended on the area in front of the Brandenburg Gate to celebrate. Neunaber said yes. Getty Images

 

Robbie Knievel makes a successful jump in front of the Mirage volcano in Las Vegas Wednesday, December 31. Photo: Sam Morris, Associated Press

In Valencia, Spain, revellers took part in an unusual new year's tradition - a red underwear race. Photo: AFP

 

Seattle, Wash., resident Andrew DaCosta enters the Magic Kingdom on New Year's Day morning as the first person in the country to receive free admission to a Disney theme Park in 2009 as part of Disney's "What Will You Celebrate?" campaign. (Preston Mack, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts)

 

Participants race into the water during the annual Waupaca Polar Bear Plunge on the shores of Limekiln Lake at Becker Marine in Waupaca on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. Dan Powers/Gannett Wisconsin Media

Photos from the Lure Bar & Grill Polar Bear Jump on New Years Day near Green Bay. Tom Loucks photos, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.

People watch the sunrise on New Year's Day from a beach in the resort city of Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

Black and white twins Hayleigh and Lauren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya — who incredibly are ALSO twins with different coloured skin. Photo: africanamericanchild.com