Strange & Stupid: Amusing News

CNN- Bar Mitzvah Boys everywhere have a new reason to shout “L’Chaim:” Apple is allowing nudity on the iTunes App Store.
“Hottest Girls” is the first of its kind allowed. The app is not new, but the 2,200+ nudie pics are. Before, they were resigned to bikinis and skimpy lingerie.

CNN Update: Shortly after this article was published the Hottest Girls app, which claims to be the first officially sanctioned iTunes app to contain topless photos, disappeared from the iTunes store.

Apple’s public relations team has not yet responded to questions regarding the application.

BRASILIA, Brazil (CNN) — Usually, when a rape victim is impregnated, the answer “abortion” seems fairly logical. Not to the Catholic Church! They excommunicated a Brazilian doctor for aborting twins in a 9-year-old rape victim. The girl had been repeatedly abused by her stepfather, who was not banned from the church. Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife did excommunicate the doctor, the child’s mother and the medical team involved in the procedure. The child was not excommunicated, Sobrinho said, because Catholic Church law says minors are exempt from excommunication.

President Lula agreed with the abortion, saying “As a Christian and a Catholic, I find it deeply lamentable that a bishop of the Catholic Church has such a conservative attitude,” on Globo TV.

The banned doc did receive some credit recently with a standing ovation for his work this week(at a Women’s Health event).

A new report by Brazil’s IPAS, a non-governmental organization that works with the health ministry, indicates that more than 1 million women undergo illegal abortions in Brazil each year.

This abortion was performed in Brazil’s northeastern city of Recife.

Gupta opts out of surgeon general consideration

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.

Gupta has told administration officials that he wants the job, and the final vetting process is under way. He has asked for a few days to figure out the financial and logistical details of moving his family from Atlanta to Washington but is expected to accept the offer.

When reached for comment today, Gupta did not deny the account but declined to comment.

Gupta’s only hesitation in taking the post is said to involve the financial impact on his pregnant wife and two children if he gives up his lucrative medical and journalistic careers. But he is expected to accept the position within days.

Reminder of why he wins:
His role as journalist and physician have sometimes overlapped. During the 2003 Iraq invasion, Gupta was embedded with a Navy unit called Devil Docs and, while covering its mission, performed brain surgery five times, the first of which was on a 2-year-old Iraqi boy.

(CNN) — A policeman and a former corrections officer unveiled on Friday their delectable discovery: the thawed body of a creature reputed to be Bigfoot,reportedly weighing more than 500 pounds.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, a pair of Bigfoot-hunting hobbyists from north Georgia, say they found the creature’s body in a wooded area and spotted several similar creatures that were still alive.

The carcass of the furry half-man, half-ape is 7 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs more than 500 pounds, they say. However, the two are not disclosing the exact location of their discovery to protect the remaining creatures.

Tom Nelson, chairman of the biology department at North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, said he’s “pretty skeptical” the world will feast its eyes on a new species Friday.

“That would certainly rock mammalogy,” joked Nelson, who specializes in the study of mammals. “I see a research grant in my future.”

Whitton and Dyer plan to unveil what they say is DNA and photo evidence of the discovery in Palo Alto, California, in conjunction with a group called Searching for Bigfoot Inc.

“The only person we would allow to come down and verify the body was ‘the Real Bigfoot Hunter,’ Tom Biscardi,” Dyer said, referring to Searching for Bigfoot’s CEO, who has been looking for the elusive, legendary creature in the United States and Canada since 1971.

The group says the animal is male, has reddish hair and “blackish-gray” eyes and human-like feet, hands and teeth.

Lifetime member of the church of LDS Chad Hardy had an idea that many have had before him: put hot dudes in no shirts into a calendar. Sell, make money. But his calendar wound up leaving him with a looming excommunication hearing, because releasing “Men on a Mission” was deemd unacceptable conduct by the church elders.

Already having sold 10,000 copies, “Men on a Mission” features recently returned Mormon missionaries, sans their white shirts and ties. They were all posed in fairly modest positions.

“You see more in a JCPenney catalog,” said Hardy, 31, who has his own entertainment company. “I just feel like my right to free speech is being violated.”

Hardy released the calendar to shake up Mormon stereotypes. In addition to the semi-nude shots, there are also photos of hte men in standard missionary outgits, and bios that explain each man’s beliefs.

“It has created an interfaith dialogue,” Hardy said. “People of all faiths have logged on and shared what they believe. They’re talking about what’s really important, not how bad it is that you took your shirt off.”

Some of the missionaries in the calendar, many of whom were recruited by Hardy’s friends at church events, have been asked by their church leaders about the project, but none has faced disciplinary action.
The 2009 calendar will be released in September.

By Judy McGuire
The unholy trinity of Photoshop, spell check and the Internet mean that even the most illiterate, personality-deficient, hideous troll can land a first date, much to a lady’s disappointment.
• “Forget” your wallet.
• Cry.
• Inappropriate disclosure of the personal kind.
• Inappropriate disclosure of the medical kind.
• Perplexing Puppetry.
• EXcessive EX Talk.

I add: fart a lot. No one wants that. NO ONE.

but actually, is this for real? can people really not figure this out themselves? maybe they don’t deserve a second date. or to procreate at all. if you’re a troglodyte, you should go the way of them…..no need to pass on stupid genes.