Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’

The Beatles: Rock Band

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

President Obama addressed the nation’s students in a back-to-school address. Actually, President Bush was better at this than Obama. Bush was on the same level as schoolchildren.

New research shows that moths, caterpillars and fruit flies could soon take the place of mice used in scientific testing of drugs. But, it also raises new side effects such as a night time obsession with the porch light.

“The Beatles: Rock Band” will be released today. But, be careful. Buy the original. On the street there are already pirated editions called “Beatlemania: Rock Band.”

Federal authorities say a Brooklyn man ran a Ponzi scheme for 31 years. The money was sunk into bad real estate deals and to run a mail-order pornography business. Well, he figured that while he was screwing people they might as well get a happy ending.

Amazon.com is offering free books or $30 to customers whose copies of George Orwell’s “1984″ were deleted from their electronic Kindle reading devices. Ironic, but Orwell predicted this would happen.

A Salt Lake City woman who held a Guinness World Record for her long fingernails had them broken off in a car crash. She hadn’t cut them in 30 years. But, on the bright side she can now finish typing that letter she started in 1979.

A 19-year-old woman in Florida was accused of taking $7 in change from a car parked at a police station. She was confused and thought Obama’s program was called “Cash from Clunkers.”

Police arrested a woman in Alaska accused of shoving her friend out of a moving vehicle. The two had been drinking at a bar. We know it wasn’t Sara Palin. She would have quit before the shove was completed.

President Obama addressed the nation’s students in a back-to-school address. Then afterward he invited them all back to the White House for a Root Beer.

Kim Jong Bill

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

President Obama turned 48-years-old this week. He invited officer Crowley, proffessor Gates and Joe Biden for the big cake summit.

Former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Ill this week and has been successful in getting the North Korean government to release two American female journalists. His one request was that when released, they don’t wear a blue dress.

A 49-year-old Illinois man drove his riding lawn mower to the gas station for beer because he has a revoked license and a previous DWI. He was arrested for Driving under the influence. His case may be used as the storyline on NBC’s new show: “Lawn and Order.”

Barack and Michelle Obama have made Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List. No longer on the List is Angelina Jolie. But Jolie is still #1 on the list at Humongous Lips monthly.

Paula Abdul has sent a Twitter message announcing that she is quitting “American Idol.” Who is she taking career advise from? McLean Stevenson’s old business manager?

A cheese maker in Switzerland lost a metal spring and was pretty sure that it was in one of his expensive cheeses. He took seven cheese wheels to the local airport and ran them through the X-ray machine until they found the spring. This was the safest way to find the spring without cutting the cheese.

Marine scientists are going to the middle of the Pacific ocean to study an open sea area that is hundreds of miles wide where plastic debris is accumulating. They have dubbed it the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” or A patch of Euew.

A new government report says that a child born last year will cost about $221,000 to raise through age 17 for a middle-income family. And at age seventeen the child reciprocates to the middle-income family with the middle finger.

A 56-year-old Connecticut woman was honored at a 2008 dinner as “Nurse of the Year” by the Connecticut Nursing Association. An investigation discovered that she is not a nurse and spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the award dinner. Next Year she’s planning a big party for her being nominated as inmate of the year.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is back from a European vacation with his family. He’s trying to enforce a new state law to crack down on businesses hiring illegal immigrants. Especially women from Argentina.

A woman in Alaska was sentenced to 20 days in jail for letting her 7-year-old son drive while she was passed out drunk in the passenger seat. Is Britnay’s kid 7-years-old already?

An 86-year-old Chicago woman has been arrested 61 times since 1956. This time she was picked up for shoplifting wrinkle cream and stuffing $252 worth of groceries into her pants. Wrinkle cream is a sensible choice. She wanted to look good for her mug shot.

Arrested 61 times? Maybe she’s a slow learner.

According to the National Enquirer.com Oprah Winfrey is being sued for 1.2 trillion because an author says she stole material from his work and published it under another name. Didn’t he break one of the ten commandments: Thou shalt not sue Oprah?

If it isn’t a commandment, she has connections and can have it changed.

In Missouri, a woman and her mother were asked to leave a Burger King because the woman’s 6-month-old child was not wearing shoes. No shoes, but the kid was wearing a suit and tie.

A hypnotist in South Korea has been fined for kissing a woman he thought he had put in a trance. If you’re so boring that you put women in a trance I guess it’s less embarrassing to just say your a hypnotist, yeah, that’s it….a hypnotist.

I’m Back!

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Out in theaters this weekend: “G-Force.” Out in Alaska this weekend: Golly Gee Force.

A developer in Ohio has redesigned a church into a workout center called Faith Gym. It’s for people who exercise religiously.

A 32-year-old man robbed a restaurant in Florida by stealing the cash register and running away. He hit the place during the dinner hour: 3:00PM

On the same day The Tour de France ended French President Nicolas Sarkozy collapsed while jogging. It’s referred to as his Tour de Floor

John Barry, the man who made WD-40 a household product has died at 84. They found one more use for the product at his funeral. It works great to silence squeaky casket hinges.

Several weeks ago a woman in Ohio killed a fawn with a shovel when she found it in her garden. Some call her the terminator. In actuality she’s a Fawn-icator.

Testical Festival is a ball

Monday, March 30th, 2009

A rash of encounters with coyotes near Denver has alarmed residents. Since December, four people in the Denver area have been nipped or bitten. Coyotes have also been seen flying down the highway on rocket sleds, bouncing off cliffs with springs on their feet and offering free bird seed.

Over the weekend hundreds of millions of people around the world turned off lights for an hour in honor of Earth Hour. Environmental activists say that the event was a huge success. Ever since Bernie Madoff went to prison he’s been celebrating Earth Hour daily. Every night it’s “Lights Out.”

Alaska’s Mount Redoubt erupted several times over the weekend sending plumes of ash tens of thousands of feet into the air and rained down on communities including Anchorage. Governor Palin snapped into action immediately and looked hot.

Visibility was so bad that Sarah Palin went to her back yard and couldn’t see Russia.

General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House. Why shouldn’t the White House ask him to leave, they’re paying him.

The New Jersey SPCA found 80 cats and one dog living in a home in a million-dollar neighborhood. Investigators wore masks to help them breathe and found 2 feet of feces in one room. To have the public understand how disgusting it was, authorities say it’s like spending a weekend in Newark.

In Oakdale, California they held their annual Testicle Festival. It’s a fundraiser where the Rotary Club Fry’s up 400 pounds of bull testicles to diners who pay $50 apiece. I would not go to this event and eat testicles. Call me old fashioned but I like to carry my testicles home in a sack.

A computer worm known as Conficker is set to get more aggressive on April Fools’ Day and may cause massive network outages. But, don’t confuse it with the worm your computer gets from downloading porn. That’s not Conficker, it’s Donglicker.

A new government study says that cats and dogs are a factor in more than 86,000 serious falls each year. This is their way of getting revenge for being blamed for farts.

Hearing statistics like this makes you stand back and take paws.

A man in Florida threw a Molotov cocktail at his neighbor’s trailer, but the wind shifted and set fire to two cars in the man’s own yard. His cars didn’t just get trashed. They got white-trashed!

Tina Fey Entertainer of the Year

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

In 2008, the Holiday song “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth” has also become President Bush’s credo towards Iraqi news conferences.

An Indiana couple who weighed more than 700 pounds combined have undergone weight-loss surgery on the same day. This is a little-known medical procedure called synchronized slimming.

Municipal officials in Anchorage, Alaska have given a cease-and-desist order to stop the creation of a giant snowman because it brings crowds that cause traffic to the point of endangerment. It also blocks Sarah Palin’s view of Russia.

Actor David Spade donated $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department so that they can buy rifles. Police wanted to gear the purchase to Spade’s personality and used the money to buy sawed-off shotguns.

This is an ironic donation from an actor who starred in a sit-com titled “Just Shoot Me.”

Tina Fey was voted Entertainer of the Year by the Associated Press. She was selected as the performer who had the greatest impact on culture, entertainment and the sale of stylish eye wear.

Where did I put my Ginkgo?

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A navel vessel from India sank a suspected pirate “mother ship” and chased two attack boats in the Gulf of Aden. This worked out better than their original plan to disable the pirates’ on-board computer and then ignore their calls to tech support.

Burlington Vermont is America’s healthiest city according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of course it is. It’s so cold up there nobody comes out of their house to spread the flu.

Michael Jackson’s attorney says that the pop star is too sick to travel to London to testify in a lawsuit. Jackson really doesn’t want to go because he heard they have a Big Ben. He’d be there in a second if they had a little Ben.

The defeat of Alaska Senator Ted Steven’s on his 85th birthday marks the end of an era. He is the longest serving Republican in Senate history. Now from the illegal deck he had built in his back yard in Alaska he can see retirement.

The University of Virginia led a study of the dietary supplement ginkgo and found that it didn’t help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly. But, be careful out there, there are now thousands of confused elderly driving around on ginkgo who think they saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico.

A 44-year-old exotic dancer in Canada is suing a strip club for firing her because she is too old. A 44-year-old stripper? Wait a minute, something smells fishy.

Ellen DeGeneres is “saddened beyond belief”

Friday, November 7th, 2008

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran congratulated Barack Obama on his win. It’s the first time an Iranian leader has done so since 1979. And coincidentally, it was done wearing the same Members Only jacket.

With Obama’s win I guess his “illegal aunt” staying in the country will only be an issue over at Fox News.

A drunk motorist in Alaska was charged with auto theft and has no memory of taking the wrong vehicle from the parking lot of a gentleman’s club. He was disoriented because he thought he saw Russia from his rear-view mirror.

A 45-year-old woman had to be restrained using duct tape on a United Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to Chicago after she became unruly and started fighting with flight attendants. It goes to show you that duct tape can be used to fix anything that’s “cracked.”

A woman jogging in Arizona was attacked by a rabid fox and ran a mile with it clamped on her arm. She ran that last mile doing the “fox trot.”

A Florida couple became among the first to use the name Obama for their child born: Sanjae Obama Fisher on Tuesday night. Thank goodness Obama won. If McCain won the kid’s name would be Sanjae Grandpa Fisher.

Ellen DeGeneres said that she is “saddened beyond belief” by the passage of a constitutional amendment in California banning gay marriage. DeGeneres may be bi-polar. It’s difficult being both “saddened beyond belief” and “gay beyond belief” at the same time.

A handwritten copy of the 1864 speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the White House after being re-elected is being auctioned by Christie’s in NY. When President Bush heard it was handwritten he wondered why Lincoln didn’t use a computer.