Fame is proof that people are gullible

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Man held in death of JonBenet Ramsey.

President Bush hopped on a Harley-Davidson at a motorcycle factory Wednesday as he made an election-year pitch for Republican stewardship of the economy. Click on the link to see the picture. Very cool.

Scientists believe they have found a key gene that helped the human brain evolve from our chimp-like ancestors. It's true. Believe it.

NYC releases new 9/11 tapes. I've never heard anything this sad.

A 12-year-old boy managed to get around stepped up security and board a jetliner at an airport outside London without a passport or a boarding pass.

The universe really is expanding — astronomers are proposing to rewrite the textbooks to say that our solar system has 12 planets rather than the nine memorized by generations of schoolchildren.

Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to offer free, high-speed Internet access to everyone in its Silicon Valley home town — a hospitable gesture that the online search leader hopes to see spread to other parts of the country. Free? As in.....free?

Bruno Kirby, a veteran character actor known for playing the best friend in two of Billy Crystal's biggest comedies, "When Harry Met Sally" and "City Slickers," has died of complications from Lukemia. He was 57.

David Copperfield says he's found Fountain of Youth. "I've discovered a true phenomenon," he told Reuters in a telephone interview. "You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. ... Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they'll fly away. It's an amazing thing, very, very exciting." He needs to find something else and fast. A psychiatrist.

Man drinks potion for good luck: doesn't get any. Dumbass!!!

Malaysian bank robbers have botched a second daring attempt to steal a cash machine when an excavator they used to carry out the heist got stuck. Here's a hint. STOP BREAKING THE LAW!!!

A State Supreme Court Judge agreed to reduce a $300,000 damage award against Starbucks Corp won by a New York lawyer whose foot was burned by spilled coffee. Scum of the Earth!!! This would raise the price of Starbucks coffee and everyone knows it's high enough as it is.

Nebraska man arrested for 226th time. See story above.

Four firefighters were suspended by their force on Wednesday over a stunt which saw one of the men spun around in a tumble dryer at their fire station. Don't be so hard on them. That's just good clean, hahahaha, fun.

Thieves stole almost nothing but the kitchen sink from a church after the restaurant-style, stainless steel basin was left outside during renovations.

Three Mexican fishermen found drifting in the Pacific Ocean could have been lost for almost a year and two others were missing and presumed dead, the manager of a fishing company that rescued them said on Wednesday.

A wayward squirrel invaded a power substation and left more than 5,000 homes and businesses without electricity. 1 squirrel was harmed in the making of this story.

Southern Africa's Catholic bishops have warned priests to stop moonlighting as witchdoctors, fortune tellers and traditional healers, and to rely on Christ for miracles.

Nude man attacks Mo. police officer. The term, love one another, comes to mind.


Today in History: (does anyone read this? If so, let me know)
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops.

1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.

1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army. Without a fight?

1819 - Eleven people die and 400 are injured by cavalry charges at the Peterloo Massacre at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.

1829 Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited

1858 - U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal will force a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.

1861 Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

1863 Emancipation Proclamation signed

1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.

1870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion

1896 Gold discovered in the Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala

1898 Roller coaster patented

1920 Ray Chapman, of the Indians is hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality

1928 - Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, DC after killing 20 people.

1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

1934 US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (1922 m) in Bathysphere

1956 Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate

1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,330 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and fastest speed by a human without an aircraft.

1969 - Police raid on Spahn Ranch; Charles Manson arrested.

1975 - Serial killer Ted Bundy originally arrested for suspicion of burglary, only to later escape twice.

1984 - Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.

1985 Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn

1986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks

1987 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes on take-off from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing 155 passengers and crew. The sole survivor is four-year-old Cecelia Cichan.

1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence

2001 - A former butler to Princess Diana is charged with stealing hundreds of items from the Wales household.

2003 - U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.

2005 - West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.

Happy Birthday:
1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
1897 Robert Ringling circus master
1930 - Frank Gifford, American football player and announcer
1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, French-born singer and actress
1953 James Taylor rocker (Kool & The Gang-Joanna)
1957 Tim Farriss rocker (Inxs-Kiss the Dirt)
1958 - Angela Bassett, American actress
1958 - Madonna (Ciccone) Bay City Mich, singer/actress (Like a Virgin)
1960 - Timothy Hutton, American actor

Deaths on this day:
1854 Duncan Phyfe furniture maker, dies
1938 - Robert Johnson, American singer and guitarist (b. 1911) The creator of popular blues, as I call him.
1948 - Babe Ruth, baseball player (b. 1895)
1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)