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Finally…someone gives PETA a taste of their own medicine.
Sooo…I have a very weird British sense of humor. So when Dodge rolled out their new commercial campaign for their tent event, I thought the dry introduction of the monkey at the end was absolutely hilarious. However, the ever omnipresent watchdogs of PETA didn’t think the monkey in the suit was a knee slapper,... »
Obama signs historic health care reform bill, aims to promote it on the road
Washington (CNN) — President Obama on Tuesday signed into law a sweeping health care reform bill, the nation’s most substantial social legislation in four decades, achieving a top priority of his administration. The jubilant signing ceremony capped a political victory for Obama that supporters hope could guarantee his place in ... »
What if you were on a plane and heard this on the air radio?
Boy Directs Air Traffic From JFK Airport By SHELLEY NG wpix.com NEW YORK (WPIX) An air traffic controller and his supervisor have been relieved from their duties after the Federal Aviation Administration discovered the controller allowed his young son to give directions to pilots at John F. Kennedy International Airport last month. The boy’s father is a veteran air... »
Man dies waiting for ambulance for 30 hours during storm
DAN NEPHIN Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill — and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a... »
White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers to step down
By Lynn Sweet: Chicago Sun Times WASHINGTON–White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers told me Friday she will step down next month, after presiding over 330 events in the White House in 14 months. Rogers is departing after achieving a major goal of President Obama and First Lady Michelle — opening up the White House to make... »
Tiger Woods’ Statement: Why Do We Care?
My regularly scheduled program was interrupted this morning by breaking news on ABC 7. I honestly thought that there was an actual crisis in the world somewhere and the American people were about to be addressed by the President. Imagine my not-so surprise when I saw that the interruption was for Tiger Woods’ statement... »
The $555,000 Student-Loan Burden
by Mary Pilon THE Wall Street Journal When Michelle Bisutti, a 41-year-old family practitioner in Columbus, Ohio, finished medical school in 2003, her student-loan debt amounted to roughly $250,000. Since then, it has ballooned to $555,000. It is the result of her deferring loan payments while she completed her residency, default charges and relentlessly compounding interest rates.... »
Jordan Miles, Teen Violinist: Beat By Police Over Mt. Dew Bottle
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI PITTSBURGH — The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head. Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him... »
Alaina Reed Hall dies at 63; actress was Olivia Robinson on ‘Sesame Street’
Alaina Reed Hall, a singer and actress who played Olivia Robinson on “Sesame Street” for a dozen years beginning in the mid-1970s and later played Rose Holloway on the situation comedy “227,” has died. She was 63. Reed Hall, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, died Thursday at Saint John’s Health Center in... »