“Just eat ONE of those kids” a parent tells the real live dinosaur on exhibit running loose in the Museum of the Future. This awesome thing is in the LA Museum of Natural History and works similarly to how Big Bird operates.
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Morbidly obese Ohioans starving on food stamps
“For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach” is the title of a recent NPR topical personalized report. Not because people in Ohio are getting shorter, but because they don’t have a job and are suffering the squeezes of a tight budget.
“The Nunez’s van broke down last fall” begins the sob story. Now, Gloria Nunez’s 19-year-old daughter has no reliable transportation out of their subsidized housing complex in Fostoria, 40 miles south of Toledo, to look for a job.
Nunez and most of her siblings and their spouses are unemployed and rely on government assistance and food stamps, says NPR. “Some have part-time jobs, but working is made more difficult with no car or public transportation” they report, which doesn’t sound quite right in the context of the full story which is an attack on the state of the economy.
Nunez, 40, has never worked and has no high school degree. She says a car accident 17 years ago left her depressed and disabled, incapable of getting a job. Instead, she and her daughter, Angelica Hernandez, survive on a $637 Social Security check and $102 in food stamps.
NPR does’nt say if the reason 19 year old Hernandez has a different last name than her mother because she is married to some bum who can’t support her already or what, so who knows, but this part of the report is… interesting:
People tell Nunez her daughter could get more money in public assistance if she had a child.
“A lot of people have told me, ‘Why don’t your daughter have a kid?'”
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Laura Ingraham behind the scene’s bloopers on Fox Show
Hard News: Reporting Jesse Jacksons “Nuts” remark
When Jesse Jackson’s comments about Barack Obama broke yesterday evening, the true attraction for us wasn’t the story itself, but the beautiful awkwardness of watching every cable news anchor struggle to explain the story without being able to say one specific word.
AOL Food review: McDonalds Mushroom Swiss burger is evil between a bun
AOL Food lays the slamdangle down on McDonald’s Third Pounder Angus Mushroom and Swiss today.
Grade: F
Our food editor’s husband proclaimed that he’d just had the worst burger in all the land, so naturally, we had no choice but to sample for ourselves. Turns out he was wrong. It was in fact the absolute, most extremely, terribly, awfully horrible burger in the known universe.The industrial mushrooms had the flavor and mouth appeal of a sneaker insole, while earwaxen Swiss cheese and globbed-on mayo formed a thick slick which was, truth be told, necessary in order to moisten the throat sufficiently to swallow the spongy gray mass that was being hawked as an Angus patty.
Bad things happen when McD’s tries to get schmancy, and they beefed this one badly.
I don’t eat no mushrooms on no burgers and swiss doesn’t go on meat (or, eh, anything), so I’ve never tried it, but dang…
The O’Reilly Factor in a Minute
This delightful sum up of the June 17th 08 edition of the Factor is a series of cheap shots, but not too cheap to where it’s not hilarious. Sure chooses lines cut to convey a stereotype about the show to people who don’t watch it, but it’s still funny. The dig at Karl Rove made me giggle too.
Rosie O’Donnell compares ‘The View’ to shower rape. and calls Coulter an “annoying bitch”
Sneakiest goal ever
You’re doing it wrong: 21% of self-proclaimed atheists in US believe in a higher power
Another poll confirming that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God. Even the atheists??
Most Americans believe that angels and demons are active in the world, and nearly 80 percent think miracles occur, according to a poll released yesterday that takes an in-depth look at Americans’ religious beliefs.
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View Only Top Items in This StoryThe study detailed Americans’ deep and broad religiosity, finding that 92 percent believe in God or a universal spirit — including one in five of those who call themselves atheists. More than half of Americans polled pray at least once a day.
But Americans aren’t rigid about their beliefs. Most of those studied — even many of the most religiously conservative — have a remarkably nonexclusive attitude toward other faiths. Seventy percent of those affiliated with a religion believe that many religions can lead to eternal salvation. And only about one-quarter of those surveyed believe there is only one way to interpret their religion’s teachings.
Not your average Super Hero
This cracks me up.
Obviously a sign promoting the upcoming Will Smith movie Hancock, in which he plays – well, ok, nevermind. I’m ruining it by explaining it. Just enjoy. =)
Update: Apparently the movie had a crossover with the Dark Knight?…
