Nearly two dozen Detroit Police Officers have been put on leave after a routine check revealed that they have outstanding arrest warrants against them. Most of them are from unpaid parking tickets. BTW...they're still getting paid.
- This explains why the potholes haven't been fixed! All the cash is going to pay cops who are on the lamb!
- This gives a whole new meaning to "Cops & Robbers".
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George Clooney is engaged...again! This time to a British attorney who his rep says, "isn't some actress or someone in the entertainment industry...She's on George's level".
- I had no idea George was a British attorney.
- This is really gonna put a kink in his bromance with President Obama.
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The National Enquirer has revealed that there was so much family-fighting over the recently deceased Mickey Rooney's body, that two separate funerals were held on the same day. The children from all 8 of his marriages are also fighting over his estate. It's valued at only $18,000.
- A "Judge Hardy" will decide who gets what.
- They may be fighting, but everyone in the family agrees Mickey left some pretty small shoes to fill.
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Ukraine's Prime Minister says Russia is secretly trying to start World War III.
- C'mon...Not even Edward Snowden thinks that's a secret.
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Chase Bank is closing the accounts of hundreds of people who work in the adult film industry.
- Apparently they don't like doing business with people who's checks aren't the only thing that bounce.
- Adult film stars will now have to go back to stashing their money under the mattress.
- Of course some of them will just move their accounts to CitiGrope, uh, I mean, CitiGROUP.
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Al Gore, who is still married to his estranged wife Tipper, confirmed that he is dating an environmental activist.
- If they do get married, they're planning a romantic Honeymoon in Greenland.
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On this day in 1789, the infamous "Mutiny" on the HMS "Bounty" took place at 5:20 in the morning.
- So we know the EXACT TIME something happened on a wooden ship in the middle of the ocean two hundred and thirty years ago...but we still can't find that Malaysian Jet.
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Have a great day and I'll see you back here Tuesday! And don't forget to check out Podcast #119. Just click here... Podcast #119
-Dick