Gov. Palin’s appearance on Saturday Night Live resulted in *huge* ratings!
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/national-broadcast/e3i047c06d053d60ec8aafd9e65316d3b90
The biggest 5 Wall Street firms paid more than $3 billion to their CEOs between 2003 and 2007, while the firms the CEOs headed did all that packaging and selling of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system and helped create this global financial crisis:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aGL5l6xOPEHc&refer=home
94% of for-profit nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year! 100% of the nursing homes in Idaho, DC, Alaska and Wyoming were cited for violations!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/30nursing.html?src=tp
It amazes me that Americans 13 to 17 years old average 1,742 text messages per month! 40% of teenagers say that they can text message blindfolded:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/20messaging.html?pagewanted=print
Study found that sleeping with pleasant smells like flowers around resulted in happy dreams while sleeping with unpleasant smells like rotten eggs around resulted in bad dreams:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7628744.stm
New York insurance broker broke a tooth on an unpopped kernel of popcorn and sued the movie theater for this $1,250 dental bill, but his lawsuit was dismissed:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424889968
This 71-year-old Oregon grandfather went to the hospital for abdominal pains and got the results of his tests: the hospital said he was pregnant!
http://www.latimes.com/features/custom/oddnews/la-on-pregnant28-2008sep28,1,3367813.story
Pretty sad how keep stealing road signs with “666″ or “66.6″ on them–New Jersey had to change “Route 666″ to “Route 665″. Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado had to rename their “Route 666″ as “Route 491″ because of sign theft, with some signs showing up on eBay. Interesting that Pennsylvania hasn’t had a problem with their Route 666:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080929/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_highways666_thefts
West Virginia man farted in the direction of a police officer and was charged with battery! The prosecutor eventually dropped that charge:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26877682/
New York man blamed his GPS system for why he drove his car onto train tracks, where the car got stuck and destroyed by a train. :
http://wcbstv.com/local/gps.beford.hills.2.828972.html
A Chinese herb known as “horny goat weed” has been found to possibly be a natural version of Viagra with fewer side effects:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/30nursing.html?src=tp
