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This one certainly goes into the “weird stories” category.

Seems that Her father, her husband, and her mother needed to make some extra money, so they decided to do a holdup somewhere handy.  Well, Dad went out and randomly chose the Pizza place where his daughter worked.  Of course, he was wearing the standard wig and sunglasses to hide himself.

Well, during the robbery a scuffle broke out, knocking off the glass and wig and revealing the crook to his own daughter.

I can’t make this stuff up, it’s too good.  Read the story here!

As a complete side note, doesn’t the Pizza Patron guy look like Will Farrell?

As has been speculated, Angelina Jolie finally gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, bringing the Brangalina brood up to 6 kids, which is sort of like they are trying to repopulate some part of the world all by themselves. Both kids are reported healthy and everything is fine, they were born in a hospital in the south of France.

Now let’s see how long it takes Angelina to get her perfect hollywood figure back… 3 months?

Read more here.

I don’t usually go off the deep end on stuff like this, but I have to say that the US has sunk to a new sort of cultural low.  Double dipping the crap that is celebutard media, as it were.

First off, we have Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of (nutjob) singer Britney Spears and a disney TV star of her own getting knocked up at 16.  This isn’t a girl from a particularly broken home, not a run away, not some poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks… but a 16 year old tv star that lives with mom and dad.

Instead of the media doing the whole tsk-tsk which would have been the right thing to do, they have instead stalked her and taken pictures of her pregnant, and so on.   Now the biggest stupidity, OK! Magazine features this underage mom and her bastard child (she isn’t married after all) on the cover like they are perfectly normal and acceptable.

Anyone want to be on an upswing in teen pregnancies if this sort of coverage keeps up?

It Appears that once again, the “fine” people who bring you the Fox News Channel have seen fit to sink to a new low. This is saying a lot for a channel who’s “anchors” are more often that no actually spewing opinion rather than fact, and show incredible disdain for guests or commentators they don’t agree with.

Seems that two reporters from the New York Times wrote an unfavorable article Fox News showing certain downward trends in their viewership. Well, the reply was to use images of the reporters that had been modified to make them look bad, yellowing their teeth, making their ears stick up further, and receding their hairlines.

For a supposed news station that claims to be “fair and balanced”, this is a new low in journalism, or whatever it is they practice over there. I have to give the American people a hand if they are smart enough to change the channel away from Fox News. Trust me, you might actually find out the truth once in a while.

Read more about the story here.

Breaking a 5 year stretch of great play and good luck by Roger Federer, Raphael Nadal finally broke through and won the men’s crown at Wimdleton Tennis club in a marathon match that was delyaed by rain, went five sets plus, and finished almost in darkness. A true match for the masses.

In the other men’s final, Venus Williams beat her sister Serena.  Note that I call it the other men’s final, as these two girls are so significantly more powerful than their competition that it makes it a bit of a joke.  Venus has won at Wimbleton 5 times now, a place where the grass surface rewards the most powerful players and punishes anyone who doesn’t have a super fast serve or a powerful forehand.    More news from the men’s final here!

Insane number of wildfires have struck Northern and Central California, and according to Voice Of America, more than 400 seperate fires are burning. The loss of forest and natural spaces is a big deal, but so is the air quality. A state of Emergency has been declared, and people are told to stay indoors because the air quality is between 2 and 11 times worse than is healthy for humans.

From San Fran to the northern edges of California, the air is rank with the smell of smoke and fine particles of soot, the air worse that the supposed toxic air of Beijing, even.

More info here, and here.

Okay, so there isn’t really a gar red alert out there, but honestly, if you are out there filling your car or SUV, you are probably not wrong thinking there should be one.  G8 leaders are meeting and talking oil, but even they admit the problem may be more about demand than supply.  With the US dollar totally down the toilet, the oil producing countries are laughing their butts off as they take advantage and grow quickly.

My suggestion?  Take the bus… take a train… Try out a Smart Car!

I don’t if I am the only person that feels like this, but I am getting really tired of the proclaimations on high from Osama Bin Ladin. Every so often, this guy releases a new tape that randomly puts down the way the middle east is, how bad israel is, how the palestinians should rise up, how the US should be out of Iraq, etc. He calls and almost begs Muslims to rise up and kill the evil non-believers and free the middle east of these horrible vermin.

Please notice, however, that Mr Bin Ladin ain’t doing any of the dirty work himself. He is still Mr Bin Hiding, camped out in some random cave or spider hole somewhere not daring to show himself even for a second. Muslims would be doing themselves a favor to stop paying attention to a man who values his own life well beyond any of theirs. Click here to read more about his latest proclamations from the cave.

Congratulations are in order for a growing number of Americans who have stopped watching the biggest blight on TV, American Idol. This show should be called “America Average”, because the end result of 16 weeks of this crap is always a singer that nobody ends up paying attention to. Clay Aiken is doing Monty Python on broadway. Most of the other winners and runners up don’t have a record deal or can’t give away their albums. There are still 21 million idiots out there watching this show… please cut it out.

American Idol is losing it audience, click here to read more.

The set of the newest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solance, is turning into a virtual death trap for those involved. Since production has started, a number of accidents and odd events have occured, including the scrapping or not one but two very expensive Aston Martin DBS coupes, including one that sank to a watery grave in Lake Geneva. One stuntman suffered serious head injuries and at this point is still in hospital.

Now one of the technicians on the film has been attacked and left in a pool of blood by an apparent girlfriend. So while Mr Bond may be very good at escaping all sorts of peril, he might want to think twice about making any more movies!

Click here and read more of the story.