Threat levels
The U.S. Government will be getting rid of the color coded threat-level warnings. Apparently John Boehner felt that it was racial profiling to refer to threat level “Orange.”.
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Jimmy Buffett has been hospitalized in stable condition after falling off a stage during a concert in Sydney, Australia. No word on what triggered the fall, maybe he was searching for his lost shaker of salt?
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127 hours” was a semi-surprise nomination for Best Picture. Let’s hope it’s also not the length of this year’s Oscar telecast.
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that if there is a work stoppage he will cut his $10 million salary to $1. Of course, he didn’t add that if the owners break the Players union they will give him a $20 million bonus.
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A recent Danish study involving over 300,00 women found that having an abortion does not increase the risk of mental health problems, but having a baby does. Especially when that baby grows up to be a teenager.
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You cannot make this stuff up department: A travel client who probably flies 50,000 miles a year asked me for a nonstop flight from San Francisco to D.C. But she added, if it were cheaper, she would take a connection, as long as it departed and arrived at about the same times.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was not at the State of the Union address last night, but denied rumors that saying he was planning to leave his post. Apparently he just couldn’t get a date.
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So after all these SOTU “dates” last night, here’s the real question in Washington: which of these dates will result in a rose?
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from Marc Ragovin: It was so refreshing to see that spirit of bipartisanship at the State of the Union. Indicted felons were sitting next to paroled felons.
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And this commie pinko quote was passed on to me by Erin Grove.
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is of course a tiny splinter group that believes you can do these things. …Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”
Who said it? Former president Dwight David Eisenhower.
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
January 27, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Albert Pujols is reportedly asking for a 10-year, $30M deal from the Cardinals. Suprisingly, Scott Boras is not his agent. Even more surprisingly, Bernie Madoff is.
January 28, 2011 at 1:10 pm
oops, that should be a 10-year, $300M deal…once the wages top $7.50/hour, I’m terribly confused!
February 9, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I heard there was gonna be a “127 Hours” director’s cut that is literally 127 hours…