Friday, September 21, 2018

News for Week Ending Friday, Sep 21, 2018


1.   A 7-Eleven clerk in Ferndale, Michigan has been arrested and charged with embezzlement.  ***  Acting on an anonymous tip, police raided her home and found a veritable fortune in stolen Slurpees.

2.   Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is apparently a stickler for proper punctuation and he had his staff send out two memos to State Department employees instructing them on the correct use of commas.  ***  Here we’ve been worried about the Russians, and it turns out that our own Secretary of State is a gol-durned  commanist.

3.   Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin got their marriage license in Los Angeles last week.  ***  Marriage license applications are bit different in L.A.  To expedite future paperwork, couples also need to submit a preliminary list of all their irreconcilable differences.    

4.   In the high winds of Hurricane Florence, a North Carolina family that had to be rescued after refusing to evacuate explained, “We thought we’d be safe in brick house.”  ***   Folks, it’s never a good idea to base your survival strategy on a story you read in a children’s book.

5.   In New Mexico, authorities recently evacuated the Sunspot Solar Observatory near Roswell, the site of a rumored 1947 space alien landing.  ***  There was no explanation for the evacuation; a spokesman said you just don’t question an order from the mothership.


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