I don't have medical insurance yet because I'm looking for an insurance company that offers a warranty. The way I look at it, if my mechanic at Merchants Tire and Auto is willing to guarantee his break job for 50,000 miles, I should be able to find a doctor who will at least guarantee that I will not catch a cold for 6 months after treating me with penicillin, [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: health insurance
Added: Fri, 25 Sep 2009

As part of his "King for Kids" charity bike-a-thon, LaBron James traveled through the streets of Ohio this week, which really isn't much different than what he does during the basketball games he plays in Ohio during the NBA season... [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: Sports
Keywords: basketball
Added: Sun, 23 Aug 2009

The current South Korean president met with six senior
North Korean officials this week delivering a message from North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, saying that they hoped to ease bilateral problems between the two countries.  The officials then proceeded to raid their hotel's "All you can eat breakfast buffet"and in room mini-fridges, and left the country with suitcases of hotel towels and bath soaps. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: north korea
Added: Sun, 23 Aug 2009

Lego reported a 60% rise in profits for the first six months of 2009 as it said parents were turning to its building blocks during a recession, both as toys for their children and as a basis for new homes after losing their old ones to foreclosure. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: legos
Added: Mon, 17 Aug 2009

McDonald's reported sales increased in July, as the nation's biggest fast food chain benefited from cost-conscious consumers, promotional coffee drinks, and an expectation that a universal health care bill that will take care of our clogging arteries will pass Congress. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: mcdonalds
Added: Tue, 11 Aug 2009

A New York City hot dog vendor has been evicted from his spot outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art because he couldn't pay his rent bill of $54,000 a month.  The snack cart owner said that he was $310,000 behind on his rent payments.  At that price, there is only one man that can save the hot dog vendor cart in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  New, this fall, look for the Donald Trump Kosher, 100% all-beef hot dog, putting the reality back into hot dogs.  The hot dog that plays apprentice to no one... [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: trump tower
Added: Mon, 10 Aug 2009

The Italian police are investigating the theft of  $16m in cash and jewellery from a Saudi princess vacationing on the Italian island of Sardinia.  The police have no leads, but if anyone wants to see some sample jewelry pieces "that are very similar but in no way are the same", please visit Louie's Pawn Shop off exit 15A in New Jersey during their fire sale of middle eastern jewelry. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: new jersey
Added: Sun, 9 Aug 2009

The News Corporation, owners of such newspapers as the New York Post, is getting ready to begin charging fees to online customers for news content on all of its websites.  This would be a first for the News Corporation, as it never actually has posted real news content to its websites before. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: new york post
Added: Thu, 6 Aug 2009

I love basketball so much, that when I was a kid, I wouldn’t go to bed unless I took 5,000 shots.  If I was in the NBA, they’d call me an all-star, but since I got cut from my high school basketball team, they called me obsessive compulsive. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: Sports
Keywords: basketball
Added: Fri, 31 Jul 2009

A flute carved more than 35,000 years ago has been discovered in Germany. Scientists believe it is the world's oldest
musical instrument. The vulture-bone flute was found in the Hohle Fels cave of southern Germany, and its authenticity was confirmed after Keith Richards remembered playing the flute during a Stones concert 20,000 years ago.  [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: Entertainment
Keywords: rockn roll
Added: Wed, 24 Jun 2009

David Letterman apologized for making a joke about one of
Governor Sarah Palin's daughters after she publicly criticized him. 
Now if we can only get her to make him apologize for some of his other
jokes.
* This joke submitted by someone who will never get a chance to write jokes for the Letterman Show. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: sarah palin
Added: Tue, 16 Jun 2009

An international plan to construct a nuclear fusion reactor in France is being threatened by rising costs, technical challenges, and French workers refusal to understand anything that you're saying. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: france
Added: Tue, 16 Jun 2009

In the latest New Yorker magazine, CIA director Leon Panetta fired back against criticism that former VP Dick Cheney has been leveling against the Obama administration.  A spokesman for Mr. Cheney said that he felt bad about his remarks, and to show there were no hard feelings, has invited Mr. Panetta to go hunting with him. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: shoot kill
Added: Mon, 15 Jun 2009

The courts allowed the bankruptcy proceedings for Chrysler to go forward this week.  The bankruptcy was approved after the judge told Chrysler to sit in a room for a few minutes while the judge went to talk to his manager. [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: cars
Added: Fri, 12 Jun 2009

New research shows that sea levels could rise faster along the east coast of the United States than in any other densely populated part of the world.  Concerned residents along the New Jersey shore immediately asked the scientists for more details, such as "What exit"? [more]

Author: Tony Lombard
Category: News
Keywords: new jersey
Added: Wed, 10 Jun 2009