April 4 2008 Pregnant Man stuns Oprah audience

I love this story. This is a report on the reaction of Oprah audience members as they are fed misinformation aka "a miracle." Fabulous! Oprah's guests are a couple expecting a baby, only the husband is pregnant, not the wife, only the husband is a trans-gendered female on testosterone therapy. So, basically, this isn't a pregnant man, but a pregnant female taking high doses of testosterone. Take a nap while watching the Oprah audience members drop their jaws and mouth the word "what?".

April 3 2008 Woman bites pit bull attacking her pet

What wouldn't a pet owner do? This woman's dog was attacked by a stray pit bull while out for a walk. After several attempts to separate the dogs, she decided to enter the fray and bit the attack dog herself. She claims any pet owner would do the same exact thing. REALLY? I would never ever never stick my face up to the foaming mouth of a pit bull to chomp down on its snout. (Original story published April 4)

April 2 2008 Fanged Pond Creature confounds Officials

Ummm. This is a really awful imitation of journalism. CNN pathetically lures you in with that old bait and switch reporting style. The picture of the "fanged pond creature" is fantastic, but once you watch the video, you learn the specimen was not found in the pond, but in the parking lot near the pond. It is decomposed and was run over all winter long. Scientists believe it is a trout, flattened by twin cab pickup trucks and thawed by spring. (Article and Drawing from April 4)

April 1 2008 Things a Stepmother should never say

Just how bad is CNN news reporting? Today it outsourced a major headline to Oprah.com. Yes, this article originated on Oprah.com and CNN picked it up because . . . because. . .well, just because. The only good part of this article is they somehow paid Edie Falco enough to pose for the photo. MAJOR FILLER ALERT! In other CNN.com headlines today: Jessica Simpson is out of the hospital, your April Fool's day pranks (which is just a cheap solicitation for you to do CNN's reporting for them), Woman accused of stalking John Cusack and Ballpark of Legos took 7 years to make.

March 31 2008 Addicted Doctors Still Treating Patients

Boozing narced MDs are at it again raising malpractice insurance rates for docs who come to work sober. These doctors are being sheltered in a confidential recovery program that allows them to simultaneously continue their practice. The article claims about 8000 docs around the country are currently in the program.

March 28 2008 Aunt charged in murder too obese for jail

How fabulous is Nancy Grace, with her sensationalized delivery of each and every sentence, her seizure inducing graphics, and that charming yet authoritative way she beats her desk with a bic pen like it was a gavel. In this clip, Nancy has no less than 4 analysts assisting her point of view. I love that Nancy berates the aunt for being fat and lounging at home and then chastises an analyst for a fat joke. The story under this 1000 lb expose of sensational outrage: a morbidly obese woman kills her 2 year old nephew. The 27 year old was arraigned in her bedroom yesterday and claims the boy got stuck under the bed, which doesn't quite explain the multiple skull fractures. The mother, 20, left her toddler and 2 younger, yes! younger than 2 years old, children with the bed-ridden sister. The mother was also charged in the death for failure to protect her child. Nancy really gets her feather's ruffled over the thought of this woman skipping out on jail. The lady can't get out of bed due to her weight, she's in jail already. "I hope you're watching lady!"

March 27 2008 Dozens killed in battle against "outlaws"

Outlaws? Battle against Outlaws? CNN did a wonderful diversionary follow up to Bush's Monday proclamation that US soldiers will not die in vain. First, they headlined an article about Saddam Hussein's last days. Yeah, remember him, remember how you just woke up one morning to news that he was dead, executed after the trial by an uninternational court of law for killing 148 people in 1982, while still on trial for killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Trial for killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Trial for killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. So Bush was talking Monday about his orders to send 4000 US soldiers to their deaths and no one mentioned, like always, the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have died in Bush's Operation Occupation. And today, the intense fighting in"oil rich" Basra, the green zone, Sadr City and all over the southern region is marginalized by CNN reporting as a battle against outlaws! The Pentagon and Bush would like to reiterated that all of this new and escalated fighting is simply proof of the success of the surge in US troops.

March 26 2008 Man drilling hole with gun kills wife

This headline, I kid you not, was located directly above an article advocating squabbling with your spouse (see right image). The man was installing a satellite for cable TV and believed the best way to drill a hole in the living room wall was to shoot it with a .22 caliber handgun. He shot twice thinking everyone was inside and the second bullet fatally killed his wife. The second article claims that fighting with your spouse can actually lengthen your life. Proof? If this poor wife had simply told her husband what an idiot he was instead of taking a walk around the block to vent her anger, she just might have had a longer life.

March 25 I (heart) Mom, newborn kitty's fur says

I know! Another bad animal headline. But I couldn't resist. This video shows ( i guess) a little kitty with writing on her side. I could 't figure this out for the longest time. It looked more like MIV period ( Mobilize the Immigrant Vote.) Then I read the caption which explained the kitten's mom was "Dottie." Thus the spot or "dot" or as CNN reports "MOM." Then I realized the blob that looks like an M was really more like the state of Illinois and possibly this kitten ate that cornflake. Or maybe it was an M, as in the virgin Mary. Blessed kitten.

March 24 2008 Eight Burned Bear Investors

From CNN money: A line up of the poor Bear Stearns insiders and their losses in the buy out. Smiley pictures accompanied by brief descriptions of their time at the firm and mind boggling loss figures. But they aren't glum. Why? Because instead of filing for bankruptcy, the federal reserve gave JP Morgan $30 billion in a non recourse (i.e. don't worry about ever paying that back) loan to buy the BS shares for pennies on the dollar or rather 2 bucks (which they amended today to 10 bucks) for each BS share suckers purchased for over 100 bucks. And BS shareholders have no say so or vote. Smells like an Enron pig sty, only this time tax payers are bailing out the big guys. Is this called Asocialism? Public money flows to private company BS. Private company BS passes public money to private BS employees. Private company BS has no money. Public money flows in to bail out private company BS in distress and private company JP assumes ownership.
Wise man, Christopher Cox (former Rep. CA., R. and present SEC Chairman) claims Bear Stearns' losses are due to lack of confidence, but not of lack of capital. No kidding? It certainly takes billions to lose billions.