Scoop’s Views

“This is our first full week of using the pasties during mammograms,” the X-ray tech explained. “I wake up with nightmares that I’ll forget to take one off of a 90-year-old nun one day and she’ll end up in the E.R. and they’ll find her with pasties and wonder what’s going on in the convent!”

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Last night’s glaring ending to the six-week Pennsylvania primary election was proof enough that Sen. Barack Hussein Obama never cared about Pennsylvania; intended his inflammatory comments as many around the country interpreted them; and just “wants to get on with the game” of the election.

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BALAD, IRAQ — 4th Iraqi Army Division Scouts, advised by U.S. Special Forces, detained one suspected insurgent cell leader in an operation in Kirkuk province.

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A group of protestors, numbering somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, and described as Chinese-Americans, decided to protest CNN’s Hollywood office yesterday, protesting CNN’s commentator Jack Cafferty, who made a comment on CNN’s The Situation Room, back on April 9 — almost two weeks ago. Among his comments that day, Cafferty apparently called China’s goods “junk” and its leaders a “bunch of goons and thugs.”

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Obama is spending money left-and-right in his attempts to woo the voters in Pennsylvania. He’s running commercials that are seemingly accurate, but some of the truths — the realities — at the fringes of the ad are in question. Did the pharmaceutical industry really put wording in legislation that Medicare cannot negotiate for lower prices with manufacturers of medications? No.

It was politicians, just like Barack Obama — a senator — put together the wording, and later, after being approved by a committee, was sent to the Senate and House, for approval. If the wording bothered Sen. Barack Obama, why did the senator from Illinois not make a motion to change or delete the wording? It’s a common practice, as is another common practice of adding bills that alter other legislation onto popular bills being brought for vote. Barack Obama has had time to change the Medicare language about price negotiations he’s ranting about.

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While listening to the the Senate hearings last week on the conflict in Iraq, I became sick to my stomach by the way the politicians were demanding clear cut answers, but also by comments that were made.

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In the 1960s, most children and teenagers knew — or watched — one of the most popular cartoons of all time: The Flintstones, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Fred and Wilma Flintstone, a most unlikely of pairs, and their neighbors, Barney and Betty Rubble, often had laughs, but they had to content with real life, too, albeit in the cartoon era in the Town of Bedrock, where from worked atop a dinosaur’s back, hauling out loads of rock from Mr. Slate’s quarry.

Dengue fever, a sometimes deadly mosquito-borne virus, has hit the lives of those 55,000 people around Rio de Janeiro in the last four months along, Brazilian authorities told CNN. At least 67 of the victims have died, with more than half of dead younger than 13.

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April 4 has a couple of interesting items that have made an impact on society. One that’s helped lead mankind forward digitally, the other helped lead mankind forward, somewhat, through civil rights.

Sky News television is reporting that British model Naomi Campbell has been arrested aboard a British Airways plane sitting at the gate at Heathrow Airport. The British model was led from the plane by police, then into the terminal, in handcuffs.

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