The tip-off was the sunglasses.  A New Yorker faces a $135 traffic fine for using a mannequin as her "plus one" in the high-occupancy vehicle lane of the Long Island Expressway.  An alert sheriff's deputy on Long Island became suspicious this week when he saw the "passenger" wearing sunglasses and using the visor. The problem: The sky was overcast.  When he stopped the vehicle, he found the mannequin, fully dressed with a long dark wig, blazer, shirt and scarf.  ***MARLAR: The driver said it was an honest mistake as he thought his plastic mannequin was actually Cher.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are having lunch at a posh Washington restaurant.  She's telling him what a fool he is and how he ought to do this and do that.  People in the restaurant notice how he's getting lambasted by her - it's quite embarrassing.

A waiter, hurrying down the aisle, trips and spills an entire bucket of melted ice water on Pelosi's head.  Immediately, she screams and begins to melt.  She fades into a puddle muttering "What a world ...what a world."  

Reid looks up at the waiter, and says.  "How do you like that?  It works on bitches too."

The storm has been nicknamed the "Nancy Pelosi" storm because like her face nothing in Washtington is moving.

BOSTON -- A woman, Rhiannon O'Donnabhain (oh-DON'-oh-vin),who was born a man, sued the IRS after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction in medical expenses for sex-change surgery, finding it was a cosmetic procedure and not medically necessary.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Tax Court ruled that O'Donnabhain should be allowed to deduct the costs of her treatment. The woman who battled the IRS over the tax deduction says she feels like she won a victory for all transgender people.

Don’t get your hopes up yet, Honey. Wait till you see your IRS audit.

Talent is in the ear of the beholder Taylor Swift sqeaked out some sounds at Grammy's last night million dollar vocals good for about a buck fifty? 

Morning rush hour took an alarming turn Monday as a single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Neither the pilot nor his passenger, a traffic reporter for Philadelphia media outlets, was injured.

When NJ State Troopers arrived on the scene, they immediately arrested the pilot… because he was black. 

A man was charged with attempted murder after authorities said he drove his truck through the window of a service station. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian said a 49-year-old man pulled into a BP station on Alabama 75 in Pinson Sunday morning and got into a dispute with the clerk because the pump was turned off. Christian said the station has a pay-first policy.  Christian said the suspect went back to his Ford Explorer and drove through the plate glass window and into the counter.  ***MARLAR: After making bail he tried to drive himself home... but ran out of gas.

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