It's a day of giving.

Malia and Sasha have a dog.

And America has a new ScuttleButton winner.

One thing is for sure: The winner is someone who included his or her name and city/state. You can't win without that.

And how do you play? It's simple: Just take one word or one concept per button, add 'em up, and arrive at a saying or a name.

Remember, the answer does not necessarily have to be political. For instance, the answer to a puzzle a while back was "Minnesota Twins" -- not political at all, unless you're thinking Mondale and Humphrey instead of Killebrew and Oliva.

Last week's buttons, in case you forgot:

R.I.P. (tombstone on a baseball) April 3, 1995 -- a button mourning major league baseball in the wake of the 1994 players' strike that extended into 1995.

Win with Ben -- Ben Blackburn gave up his congressional seat in 1982 to seek the Republican nomination for governor of Georgia, but he lost the primary to Bob Bell.

Betty Roberts for Governor -- She lost the 1974 Democratic gubernatorial primary in Oregon to Bob Straub.

A Great Idea/Betty Roberts for Governor -- I just told you who she was!

Women for Goode Government -- Wilson Goode was elected mayor of Philadelphia in 1983, the city's first African-American mayor.

Elect Toomey City Council -- Not sure who this is. Massachusetts?

So, when you add Baseball + Ben + Betty + Betty + Goode + Toomey, you kind of get ...

Baseball Ben Betty Betty Good To Me -- (or "Berry Berry" Good To Me) -- regardless, it was the catch phrase of Garrett Morris, who regularly played this fictional Latino baseball player, Chico Escuela, on NBC's Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment in the 1970s, using a fake accent. Of course, the English translation would have been, "Baseball has been very, very good to me."

(And there has also been original attribution to this quote by the Pittsburgh Pirates' late Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente.)

The winner, selected at random among the correct responders, is (drum roll) ... Brooks Hilliard of Scottsdale, Ariz.

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12:53 - April 14, 2009

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