NO News Day :: Worst Scenes Category

Wow !! When this scene hits Zorgon, those monsters will be prepared for us. Dang it!
Retrieved by Pat Darnell

This morning we present three episodes of screened fighting in bizarre situations sent blindly into outer space over the past fifty years on very high frequency radio waves.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1eFdUSnaQM

Later in the day we find Zorgonites practicing up for the pending fight with Shatner... without their rubber dino suits. Little do they know that Shatner will be the excretion of a glow worm in twelve million lightyears from now when they land on earth...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccF50ssJKVA

Thankfully, we have caught up with Bill Shatner and his Zogby School of Disdain, who is training young people to oppose the Zorgonites .... This is an instance when the other fella says: "Jim, I'm a Kung Fu Artist :: Not a Doctor!"
#3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6c5fAPRAcg
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No News Day :: Muncheritis -- and other Urban Legends

Today: A ... 'Dubious Smoke, the Shoe, Cat Food for Black Sorority, and Dusk to Dawn Ramadan Pork' ... no News Day
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and Guest 'ismokedoobies'

MSN News: A juicy-red tomato fight, scorching wildfires and Muslim fasting during Ramadan highlight this collection of eye-catching images. [HERE] -- and -- [HERE]
NBC News correspondents and producers across the U.S. shed light on the news of the day.

Illegal Aliens were hired to watch over now retired Marijuana Grove in Sierra Nevada

This week’s bust in California is one of the largest yet, and is the first time Sequoia National Park had to close down an exhibit as a result of a drug bust. Sadly, that exhibit is a well-known cave, with a crystal-covered interior.

Beth Fritsch, who was visiting the park from Maryland, told the AP:

“I’m fine with the trees, but I really wanted to see the caves. It’s sad to see that this is happening now inside the national parks.”

"America's public lands are under attack," Mr. Walters said. "Instead of being appreciated as national treasures, they are being exploited and destroyed by foreign drug-trafficking organizations and heavily armed Mexican marijuana cartels," said Drug Czar John P. Walters.

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Ramadan Mubarak Decorations, Free Ramadan Mubarak eCards, Greeting Cards ...
Ramadan is the holy month of fasting from dawn to dusk and offering our prayers to the almighty. Reach out to your friends, family and loved ones with our warm and wonderful May Allah Be With You!

A warm and heartfelt Ramadan wish for your near and dear ones. [HERE]
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Muntadhar 'the Shoe' Al-Zeidi Freed SOURCE [ ... ]
Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, the Iraqi man who threw his shoe at President George Bush, will be freed from prison next month after being put in jail for the shoe throwing. [ ... ]
Al-Zaidi was initially sentenced to three years after pleading not guilty to assaulting a foreign leader, then the court reduced it to one year because the journalist had no prior criminal history. The act of the 30-year-old reporter during Bush's last visit to Iraq as president turned him into a folk hero across the Arab world amid anger over the 2003 invasion...
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Sorority, 'the Zeta Phi Bettys', accused of making pledges eat cat food [SOURCE]
Zeta Phi Beta's Web site says the sorority was founded in 1920 by students seeking to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women.

Colorado State suspends group over food, sleep deprivation allegations. A police report obtained by The Rocky Mountain Collegian newspaper says pledges told authorities they were forced to eat cat food and perform "strenuous physical activity" that made one student seek medical attention.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - Colorado State University has withdrawn recognition of a sorority after an investigation into several alleged incidents of hazing, including being deprived of sleep and being made to eat cat food. (AP. updated 8:32 a.m. CT, Fri., Aug 28, 2009)
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In Conclusion:
Comment 10 [HERE]

ismokedoobies Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 3:25 am
ummm, it shoulnt be legalized, all that we’ll get is dirt weed, and people that have never done it before will start doing it. that will start problems i think. they shouldnt do it. but they shouldnt criminalise it so harshly either

Headlines -- Top News Story "Couch Monsters"

PHOTO: "Come on Honey, let's go shopping for a new Couch. The old one has too many of Bristol's Love Stains on it." [Sara Palin]

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With so much at stake members of the MooPig Staffers Club in St Paul don't know whether to look up or look down. "We have a triad of choices to make in our journalistic observations," says Onob Orp, Chief Desk Editor, MooPig Minneapolis.

"You see, we still have to find out if user generated news is true, right?" continues Orp. "If it is a UFO story, we look up all day? and if it's a archaeology story, we have to look down all the way to below the surface? But today this couch story has us stumped."

MooPig International has faced conundrums before. We even subscribe to AOL, because well we were one of the first to subscribe to its email. It brings a solemn vow to our audience that even on "No News Days" we will continue to look up or down, even search AOL archives, or all around for the truth be told.

But today's top story requires MooPig to get up close and personal, and look in your couches.

But First lets see the line ups --

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But the biggest story today is -- A Phobia Of The Couch: A Buyer's Remorse Story

Used Couch Comes with Stowaway Cat | AP | Animal News, National News

SPOKANE, Wash. (March 13) - The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27. After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa.
Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on Tuesday night and felt something move inside the couch. He pulled it away from the wall, lifted it up and there was the cat, which apparently crawled through a small hole on the underside.

Facing Your Phobias | Love * On the Couch with Dr. Gail Saltz
Ten percent of people suffer from some sort of phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear that can cause anxiety and borderline panic. The most common phobias are towards animals like dogs, cats or spiders. Many phobias tend to develop at a young age, but they can often set in later in life and are called “situational phobias.”

Mendenhall contacted Value Village, where she bought the couch, but the store had no information on who donated it. So she took the cat to SpokAnimal CARE, the animal shelter where she works, so it could recover, and contacted media outlets in hopes of finding the owner.
Sure enough, Bob Killion of Spokane showed up to claim the cat on Thursday after an acquaintance alerted him to a TV story about it. Killion had donated a couch on Feb. 19, and his 9-year-old cat, Callie, disappeared at about the same time.

References:
Kulish, N. (1996). A Phobia Of The Couch: A Clinical Study Of Psychoanalytic Process.. Psychoanal Q., 65:465-494.(1996). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 65:465-494
Conversion from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis and the differences between the two have been the subject of discussion and controversy in recent years. The theoretical and technical questions that have been raised suffer from the lack of detailed clinical accounts that might help to elucidate the processes involved. The author presents a case of a woman whose refusal to use the couch for three years became a central organizing resistance and took on the structure of a phobia. It is argued that the case, rather than a conversion from psychotherapy to psychoanalysis, was one of psychoanalysis from the beginning, with the conflicts about the couch analyzed as are any other resistances. [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.]

Hunting Season Opens: Cutting through the Bias, No Bull

No, not for just any Large Big Dumb Animals
Unless you mean Governors at the National Governor's Conference | Retrieved by Pat Darnell

Part-time MooPig CNN "Commentary Analyst" Wilma Storensen of Two Girls Waffle House, Knife River, MN has some tips for hunters this winter: "Many times we go hunting for Bull. We need lots of bull to fill in the cold, dark days and nights of winter. Most the time hunters hunting bull can see tell tale signs from bull scat over and around herds of heifers."

"For cold storage we like the not too young nor too old bull meat," says Wilma. She then divulges the top secret of Minnesotan success in cutting through the bull.

"If you want to improve your chances of catching perfect bull, there is one more ingredient to include in your hunt," says the crafty business woman and matriarch. "Without Bias, there will not be any Bull. You have to look for the bias."

According to CNN's Campbell Brown's commentary if there is No Bias, then there is No Bull. She provides us with this template of very up to the minute Questions to ask when hunting for Bull.

CNN's Campbell Brown admonishes Rendell. Here are the Questions posed by Ms Brown in OP/ED on CNN --

1. How many times have politicians been warned about the dangers of open microphones?
2. If a man had been Obama's choice for the job[National Homeland Security Sec], would having a family or not having a family ever even have been an issue?
3. Would it ever have prompted a comment?
4. Probably not. We [know] that with a man there tends to be a wife in the wings taking care of those Family concerns?
5. As a woman hearing this, it's hard not to wonder if we're counted out for certain jobs, or certain opportunities because we do have a family, or we are in our child bearing years. Are we? It's a fair question.
6. If you're a childless single woman, with suspicions that you get stuck working holidays and weekends, and the more burdensome shifts, more often than your colleagues [who have] families -- are those suspicions well founded?
7. Is there an assumption that if you are family free [then] you have no life?
8. Governor Rendell, ...I know what you meant to say, but your comments do perpetuate stereotypes that put us in boxes, both mothers and single women.
9. IN government and beyond, men have been given benefit of the doubt, when it comes to striking the right work\ life balance. Women are owed the same consideration.

There you have it from MooPig's own: "Bull Hunters, remember Look for the Bias, and Happy Hunting!"
What’s your opinion of Ed Rendell’s comment about Janet Napolitano? Tell us what you think.


Reference
Brown, Campbell: No author cited, 12.04.08, SOURCE LINK HERE

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Lebanese Farmer Finds Giant Potato
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(Dec. 7) - A farmer from Lebanon hopes to enter the Guinness Book of World Records after discovering a massive potato on his land.
"I've been working the land since I was a boy, and it's the first time I've seen anything like it," Khamil Semhat told AFP on Saturday.
Sehmat said the super-sized spud weighs nearly 25 pounds and that he did nothing special to grow it: "I didn't use any chemicals at all." He plans to send in details of the potato to Guinness and hopes to be included in next year's edition.

Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat holds his giant potato in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. The enormous vegetable weighs 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds) and Semhat says he is planning on contacting the Guiness Book of Records.

(AFP/null)