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June 19, 2009 02:10 PM EDT

and you wonder why we are going broke?

The expenditure below tells it all, doesn't it? Don't you wonder who came up with the idea to study? 

NIH Funds $423,500 Study of Why Men Don't Like to Use Condoms

In what government watchdogs are calling a waste of taxpayer money, the National Institutes of Health is spending nearly half a million dollars to determine why men don't like to wear condoms during sex.

The federal government is ... read more


June 18, 2009 10:58 PM EDT

A Judge? Caught on Tape ?

This is nice, isn't it? A judge caught on tape..... Houston judge indicted for keying neighbor's car Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. HOUSTON (AP) -- A former state district judge from Houston has been indicted after a surveillance videotape seemed to show he scratched his next-door neighbor's car with a key. Sixty-nine-year-old Woody Ray Densen was indicted Thursday on a state jail felony ... read more


June 18, 2009 10:09 PM EDT

2 Police Chiefs? under investigation?

AP Photo NY135 By JOE MANDAK Associated Press Writer MARTINS FERRY, Ohio (AP) -- Two Ohio police chiefs are being investigated in a suspected burglary aimed at supplying a tabloid with photos and other information about the surrogate mother carrying twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, an official told The Associated Press on Thursday. The alleged burglary took place in ... read more


June 18, 2009 10:07 PM EDT

Update on Secretary Clinton's Injury

As you may know, Secretary Clinton fell and fractured her right elbow yesterday...here are some notes about what happened.. Clinton update Fell in the basement en route to her car at 5pm Suffered a fracture of right elbow at 5pm .Went back to State then to hospital. She was walking with Richard Holbrooke - Holbrooke went ahead to W House meeting Treated at GW Surgery tbd No public ... read more


June 18, 2009 09:58 PM EDT

This joke went over like a lead balloon

File this one under_______ (read below and fill in the blank!)AP-Schwarzenegger-SculptureGov. Schwarzenegger's testicle sculpture a flop   (Stations: Note contents)   SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A reported gift from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to a legislative leader has gone over like the proverbial lead balloon.   Schwarzenegger has warned lawmakers they need to make some tough budget ... read more


June 18, 2009 08:21 PM EDT

Wrong ! (Olive Garden Sets it Straight)

Just got this email from my colleague: From: Riner, Corbett Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:52 PM To: Subject: Olive Garden calls Politico reporting "erroneous" From Olive Garden Spokesperson Rich Jeffers: “Information reported today by Andy Barr of Politico regarding Olive Garden’s ... read more


June 18, 2009 08:45 AM EDT

ouch!

First it was the nominee for the Supreme Court at the airport (Sotomayor fractured anchor)..now it is the Secretary of State! Secretary Clinton is reported to have fallen and fractured her elbow as she was en route to the White House. ... read more


June 16, 2009 06:31 PM EDT

This protest video was emailed to me

One of our producers (OTR Justin Wells) went to the protest (few blocks from our FNC NYC bureau)...he emailed me this video ... read more


June 16, 2009 12:38 PM EDT

Bail out California ????

President Obama has less than 50 days to decide this one.  California is in deep, deep, deep trouble.  It is now asking for the Obama Administration to bail it out.  Should it? California is the 8th largest economy in the WORLD! (bigger than Brazil, Canada etc.) If the Obama Administration does not bail it out, will California go into such a deep recession (depression) that it then drags down ... read more


June 16, 2009 11:00 AM EDT

Another apology? (not Letterman this time)

Another apology ....this time it is not David Letterman .....but a woman in Chicago...and the sarcastic headline could very well be "what is wrong with some people???!!"

Blogger Who Lied About Terminally Ill Baby Apologizes

Monday , June 15, 2009 A suburban Chicago woman has apologized for an Internet hoax in which she claimed to be pregnant with a terminally ill child, saying the story ... read more


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