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September 12, 2009

This Week in Tweets

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  • Former Mass. Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey says she's not running for US Senate. Her supporters can only dream about what would have never been.

  • Madonna lights Sabbath candles with Netanyahu. Then offers to adopt Hamas.

  • I just bought a book of Annie Leibovitz's photos. Unfortunately, it only contained Chapter 11.

  • Michael Jackson glove sells for $49,000 in Australia. The buyer gets something that touched greatness as well as many kids.

  • Transgender activist runs for mayor of Idaho town. His/her campaign slogan: "Change you'll probably find confusing.

  • Cape Cod bans swimming due to great white sharks -- until great white sharks ban eating swimmers.

  • Turtle thought to be extinct spotted in Myanmar -- under house arrest since 1988.

  • Contraception to be dispensed at Revere, Mass. high school. Most popular contraception method: saying you're from Revere, Mass.

  • Why didn’t we listen to Rush and Glenn about Obama’s school speech? Already, there are reports of kindergarten finger-painting cooperatives.

  • Massive 3,700-year-old wall uncovered in Jerusalem. Archeologists believe they’ve discovered the original Fenway Green Monster.

  • Madonna lights Sabbath candles with Netanyahu. To keep things in perspective, he also attended a Passover Seder with Carrot Top.

  • Venezuela to export gasoline to Iran – after Chavez and Ahmadinejad agree to disagree about who is crazier.

  • Transgender activist runs for mayor of Idaho town. Also the first candidate to accuse an opponent of “staring at my Adam’s apple".

  • Obama “Green Jobs” adviser resigns. In a parting fit of anger, he told Obama to “take this job and recycle it!”

  • Jon Gosselin says he despises estranged wife Kate. Kate shoots back: “You turn me on when you’re bitter and spiteful.”

  • Author Naomi Wolf to write history of the vagina. Asked why, she said, “I saw an opening and went for it.”

  • Companies fined for selling hazardous sweatshirts. “My friend went to Disneyland and all I got was this lousy skin disease.”

  • NYC man charged in Ponzi scheme, diverting client's money to porn business. Or as Bernie Madoff would call that: diversification.

  • US comes in 2nd behind Switzerland in competitiveness poll. Obama immediately orders Kraft to drill holes in Cheez Whiz.

  • 3 more great white sharks tagged off Mass. coast. Not-so-great white sharks are starting to feel left out.

  • 3 more great white sharks tagged off Mass. coast. Two ask, “Does this tag make my fin look big?”

  • Ky. mother upset after football coach has her son and other players baptized. The hard part was fitting them all in the whirlpool.

  • Gold price rises over $1,000. Said one financial expert: “It’s never too late to start investing in rappers’ teeth.

  • Hugh Hefner files for divorce. Apparently, his wife became suspicious of the 4 other women in their bed.

  • Preacher says God wanted him to hijack Mexican jet. How come God never tells people not to bring crying babies on planes?

  • If Joe “You Lie” Wilson has proven anything, it’s that he has what it takes to be the next Joe the Plumber.

  • Fed survey shows US recession may be over. Its proof? Homeless people are starting to build additions onto their cardboard homes.

  • Calif. GOP lawmaker quits over taped sex comments. He's also the first politician whose resignation speech included heavy breathing.

  • Pres. Obama regrets delaying details for health plan – although he may still delay announcing do-it-yourself prostate exams.

  • Tim Cahill enters race for Mass. governor. His campaign slogan: It looked like a good idea in the beginning.

  • Harvard study: Businesses not ready for H1N1 flu. However, they are ready for the after-flu sale.

  • Marijuana farming increases amid ailing economy. DEA reports sharp increase of disoriented scare crows.

  • John Stossel is leaving ABC News for Fox News – “where, finally, I won’t be harassed by those pesky fact-checkers.

  • Treasury Sec. Geithner says bailout programs are shrinking – thanks to his innovative “Preparation H Financial System.”

  • Study: Condoms help reduce global warming – meaning you can help the environment by planting something other than a tree.

  • Yankee Stadium gives out free prostate exams. Authorities still on the lookout for rogue peanut vendor wearing rubber gloves.

  • Government of Sweden uses state funds to produce feminist porn. Director is looking for male actors who can express their feelings on cue.

  • Government of Sweden uses state funds to produce feminist porn. First project: “Debbie Does Betty Friedan.”

  • Indiana court: Pizza shop must pay for 340-pound employee’s weight-loss surgery – and stop paying him with calzones.

  • SC GOP joins lawmakers asking Gov. Mark Sanford to resign – or, at the very least, join a more discreet dating Web site.”

  • Studies: 1 dose of swine flu vaccine works. 2 makes you smell like bacon.

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September 05, 2009

This Week in Tweets

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  • Chris Brown says he still loves Rihanna – in a vicious violent kind of way.

  • There’s a description for Dick Cheney’s callous disregard of basic human rights: his warm and fuzzy side.

  • Same-sex marriages begin in Vermont. Or as opponents are calling it: Sodom and Gomorrah meet Ben and Jerry.

  • NJ teacher accused of selling grades for $1,400. The tip off? Her last test asked “How many grades must I sell to earn $8400?”

  • Disgraced former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer is thinking about elected office again. His goal: Become disgraced NY State Comptroller Eliot Spitzer.

  • Honolulu wants to ban body odor on buses. Apparently, our Constitution does not include the right to remain malodorous.

  • Ohio judge silences defendant with duct tape – or as he calls it, binding arbitration.

  • Fire seen on JetBlue flight after it lands safely. Passengers charged $10 for fireworks display.

  • Circus billionaire plans show while visiting space aboard Russian Soyuz capsule. Highlight will be clowns crawling out of space toilet.

  • Rolling Stones deny 68-year-old drummer Charlie Watts quit the band. They say he just wandered off.

  • Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store – automatically nominating him for the Leona Helmsley Humanitarian Award.

  • Pfizer to pay record $2.3B penalty for drug promos. Company must also stop claiming “Viagra keeps the men on Mt. Rushmore hard.”

  • Internet addiction center opens in US. Said one user: “It’s great! I’ve been logged on for 3 weeks!

  • Part of finger bitten off at Calif. health care reform protest. The biter was there to protest socialized chewing.

  • Federal agency approves plan for Gulf of Mexico fish farming. Work will begin after engineers design a tractor that won’t sink.

  • Montana girl admits trying to poison dad’s Jell-O – proving once again that even poison can make Jell-O taste better.

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