The Decline and Fall of Western Civ for 15 Feb.
It's the end of the world as we know it...
- I'm not sure what shocked me more, the idea the two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip is involved in a cheating scandal, or the fact that Waltrip is racing with a Japanese make of stock car.
The Associated Press reports a cheating scandal that had already brought down four teams now has ensnared another -- that of two-time winner Michael Waltrip -- tarnishing NASCAR's signature race and Toyota's highly anticipated debut.
Disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli will soon get a movie made about their less-than-spectacular career, following in the cinematic steps of such icons as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash, Reuters has learned.
The project will be written and directed for the General Electric Co.-controlled studio by Jeff Nathanson, who previously wrote the Leonardo DiCaprio crime caper "Catch Me If You Can." He has secured the cooperation of Milli Vanilli alumnus Fabrice Morvan, who has been pursuing a comeback for years, as well as the estate of his colleague, Rob Pilatus, who died of a drug overdose in 1998."I've always been fascinated by the notion of fakes and frauds, and in this case, you had guys who pulled off the ultimate con, selling 30 million singles and 11 million albums and then becoming the biggest laughing-stocks of pop entertainment," the paper quoted Nathanson as saying.
- Al Gore and other global warming alarmists can come out now. The Associated Press reports the monster snow and ice storm that hit the Midwest and Northeast blew out to sea, leaving behind huge snow piles, frigid temperatures, highway logjams Thursday. The storm was blamed for at least 14 deaths.
- The wintry weather caused other problems as evidenced by this story.
Jet Blue Airlines apologized late Wednesday to dozens of passengers who were kept sitting on planes at New York's JFK Airport for 10 hours or more without ever taking off, reports wcbstv.com.
The airline said half of its 550 flights were cancelled because of a winter storm that also caused massive traffic and transit delays throughout the Tri-State area."We had very limited toilet usage while we were on the plane," said Elizabeth Regale, who logged 10 hours of what she described as hell on a trip to nowhere.
The New York Post quotes one trapped passenger:"They had nothing but pretzels and peanuts to give people, and soft drinks," said John Farrell, 48, of Brooklyn, who was on a Fort Myers flight that landed at 10 a.m. but didn't unload until 6:50 p.m.
- And finally, watch President Rush Limbaugh and VP Ann Coulter on "The 1/2 Hour News Hour" Sunday at 10PM ET on the Fox News Channel. The segment is sure to strike fear and self-loathing into the coldest liberal hearts...
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