Monday, September 1, 2008
And in Utah: The Chainsaw Massacre that Went Awry...
Robert Stanley Craft got so mad at his family that he allegedly took a chainsaw to his adult stepson, but couldn’t get it to start. Then, Salt Lake City police say, he reached for the weed whacker, but he couldn’t get it started either. The stepson fled, and after pummeling the family home with a...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
And in Canada: More Devastatingly Fascinating Political News...
At this year’s Ottawa gay pride parade NDP [New Democratic Party = Socialist] MP [that’s not Military Police but Member of Parliament] Paul Dewar marched behind the party’s new pink Jack Layton [leader of the NDP] banner while the region's gay hockey league sashayed under Steven Harper’s [Canadian...
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Friday, August 29, 2008
And in Canada: Dion and God...
When Stephane Dion [Leader of the opposition Liberal Party] appeared on CTS’s Michael Coren Show, he used the word ‘God’ twice when talking about the environment. Michal Coren pounced and asked the Liberal leader if his people had told him to refer to God because CTS is a faith-based network. Dion...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
And in Tennessee - Black Bear Has Strange Taste in Clothes...
John Pala and his family were touring Tennessee when his young son, Evan, was attacked by a black bear. Pala fought the animal and got his son free. They fled, and in doing so, John Pala stepped right out of his shoes. Wildlife officials who shot the bear later found one of the shoes in the bear’s...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
And in Italy - Heavens Rumble over Nun Pageant...
That sound you hear is God slapping his forehead. Here’s the deal: Starting next month, an Italian priest is organizing a beauty contest for – wait for it – nuns. Because let’s face it, when it comes to vanity and cultural pressure, nuns have been spared the beauty industry’s torments far too long....
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Monday, August 25, 2008
And here’s More News from the US Campaign Trail...
According to Jimmy Kimmel of ABC, “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigned for the first time together in Unity, New Hampshire. Their tour goes from Unity to Tolerate, Rhode Island, and Getting on My Nerves, Virginia; and then to Crazy Make Up Sex, California.” (Maclean’s, July 21, 2008 ) Good...
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Saturday, August 23, 2008
Today's Special: Evian for Kids
The joke that Evian is “naïve” spelled backwards is about as old as the “mineral-rich glacial sands in the pristine French Alps” through which, company lore has it, every drop of Evian water trickles for 15 years. Now, the arrival of Evian “Les Petits”, bottled H 2 O for four- to ten-year olds makes...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Cocktail Waitresses and Home Appliances...
Sure, booze makes you blow money in a casino, but so do the hot cocktail waitresses. That’s because erotic thoughts loosens your grip on your wallet, say Stanford University researchers. In a test, men shown a steamy photo gambled more cash than those who looked at home appliances. Brain scans...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Today’s Special...Gross-Out Energy Drink...
Featured in the new Ben Stiller comedy Tropic Thunder, a fictitious energy drink called Booty Sweat is becoming a reality. The gross-out name disguises the fact that the drink Paramount Pictures is going to market alongside the movie is more akin to cherry soda. Says a Paramount consumer-products...
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Monday, August 18, 2008
And the Dog Ate Their Homework...
It was bad enough that, on a pamphlet intended to congratulate local residents on a successful recycling program, municipal staff in Birmingham, England, accidentally used a skyline photo of Birmingham, Alabama. The splendidly sorry excuse for an excuse proffered by a spokesman for the British city...
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