Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a law banning videos of dogfights, pit bull attacks and other animal cruelty. The Court found that the ban was too vague in defining “animal cruelty” and violated First Amendment free speech rights.
- Unfortunately, this means the Lion’s games will continue to be televised.
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Tuesday, Senator Tom Harkin and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro urged the FDA to place strict limits on the amount of salt that processed food makers can put into food. They say the American diet is too salty and cutting average salt intake from 1 ½ teaspoons a day to one teaspoon could prevent 100,000 deaths a year from heart disease and other diseases.
- They also called for workers at the Detroit Salt Mine -which lies deep below the city - to start looking for less dangerous condiments like Paprika.
- Plus they gave the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 5 years to significantly reduce their salt content or risk being drained by the Feds.
- Weren’t we all just drained by the Feds last week on Tax Day?
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Police in Oklahoma City arrested Sean Andrew McClendon for allegedly dropping his pants and shaking his derriere at women in two different Target stores on the same day last week. The man, who has a history of indecent exposure charges, allegedly did it in the Garden Section.
- The guy was obviously just shopping for some “Miracle-Gro”.
- Thank goodness he didn’t do it at Home Depot… They’re slogan used to be “You Can Do It. We Can Help”.
- On the bright side… the men’s department at the Target Store immediately announced a “Pants Half-Off Sale!”
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A new Pew Research study found that the typical teenage girl with a cell phone sends 80 texts messages a day, the typical boy sends 30 and one in three teens sends over 100. That’s over 3000 text messages a month making texting the most popular means of communication among young people.
- Young people… and Kwame Kilpatrick.
- OMG! LMAO! (FYI: I had to ask Jackie’s 8 year-old son, Charlie what that means).
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Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 84th Birthday today.
- Prince Charles, her heir-not-so-apparent said, “I think people are taking this whole ‘Long Live the Queen’ thing a bit too literally.”
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It’s not too late to celebrate! Yesterday was National Marijuana Day – a “holiday” dating back to 1971.
- So pull out your Willie Nelson CD’s, rent a Woody Harrelson movie and Par-tay!
- The “Doobie Brothers” marked 39th anniversary of the event by changing their name to “The Lipitor Guys”.
And speaking of illegal drugs… Workers digging up the lawn at John Lennon’s old home in Surrey, England think they found his long-buried stash of LSD. Lennon buried it after turning to transcendental meditation in 1967. He eventually changed his mind, but couldn’t remember where he buried it.
- Ironically, his memory loss was caused by excessive use of LSD.
- The remaining Beatles have called for the LSD to be preserved and Yoko Ono to be buried in its place.