Fool’s News

Rosie O’Donnell

A Michigan couple who spent five years trying to conceive has turned to MySpace.com in search of birth parents so they can adopt a child.

Sherry and Karl Dittmar already have a biological son and two adopted sons, but they also want a little girl.

“Dear birthmother,” their MySpace posting begins. “We cannot imagine how difficult making an adoption plan for your child must be. … Thank you for including our profile in your search for the right family to raise your baby.”

The MySpace page had not drawn any offers of a baby by Wednesday morning, although the couple got a lead on a pregnant teen who was considering adoption, Sherry Dittmar told The Associated Press. She said she had received more than 1,700 messages since Monday alone.

Yes, I said could, not does.

For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for “life in the universe.”

There’s still a lot that is unknown about the new planet, which could be deemed inhospitable to life once more is known about it. And it’s worth noting that scientists’ requirements for habitability count Mars in that category: a size relatively similar to Earth’s with temperatures that would permit liquid water. However, this is the first outside our solar system that meets those standards.

Pretty cool.

David Letterman presented the Top 10 Favorite Bush moments. Here it is:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IBWFL5-K8aU

Here’s an older Top 10 on the same topic (some clips are repetitive):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ujuggH6jc

Though it may no longer be “cool” to do so, I still love most things French.  In keeping with that theme, CNN provides a list of the best boulangeries in Paris. Here.

In Hickman, Kentucky, officials released a prisoner from a state facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered the man be freed, and didn’t catch the mistake for nearly two weeks.

Timothy Rouse, 19, is charged with beating an elderly western Kentucky man and was at the Kentucky Correctional & Psychiatric Center in La Grange for a mental evaluation. He was released from that facility on April 6 after officials received the fake court order.

It contained grammatical errors, was not typed on letterhead and was faxed from a local grocery store. The fax falsely claimed that the Kentucky Supreme Court “demanded” Rouse be released.

The center’s defense:  prison officials did not notice that the fax came from a grocery store because policies did not require checking the source of a faxed order and that misspellings on court orders are common.

Would you ever allow such a picture of yourself to be used as a press photo?

It’s the image AOL uses.

…can change.

Pope Benedict XVI  has reversed centuries of traditional Roman Catholic  teaching on limbo, approving a Vatican report released Friday that says there were “serious” grounds to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven.

Having been raised Catholic, I find this interesting.  On one hand, I like the fact that the Church can actually reverse direction on occasion.  On the flip side, why has the Church permitted centuries of misconception to persist?

Although Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized are with original sin and thus excluded from heaven, the Church has no formal doctrine on the matter. Theologians, however, have long taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, a state commonly called limbo, but without being in communion with God.

Benedict approved the findings of the International Theological Commission, a Vatican advisory panel, which said it was reassessing traditional teaching on limbo in light of “pressing” pastoral needs – primarily the growing number of abortions and infants born to non-believers who die without being baptized.

Regardless of your position regarding the Don Imus-Rutgers women’s basketball team fiasco, one of CBS’s board members is calling for Imus’s dismissal. Bruce Gordon, a former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said, “His remarks are so significant that I believe that the right outcome is for him to be terminated.” That statement was somewhat tempered when he said he feels that the two-week suspension CBS Radio levied against Imus is the “right step” for now.

Interestingly, speaking as a board member, he asserted, “It affords management the opportunity to do due diligence and evaluate what this means to the company, the brand and what it stands for. Once due diligence is completed, it is my belief that the facts should determine that he should be terminated.”

Doesn’t that sound a little prejudgmental? Let’s do due diligence then we’ll fire him. Isn’t the purpose of due diligence to gather information to decide what should be done? It’s reminiscent of the notion, “Well, okay, we’ll have a trial before we hang him.”

If you’re going fire him anyway, why waste people’s time and energy, and corporate resources conducting due diligence. What a waste.

If that is what Mr. Gordon really believes, I must wonder what he’s doing on the board of a huge entertainment company or CEO of the NAACP.

Ouch! When an expensive, new sofa was delivered to the home of an interracial couple in Canada last week, the last thing they expected to see was a racial slur used to describe its color: “Nigger-brown.”

The couple’s 7-year-old daughter pointed out the label and asked, “Mommy, what is nigger brown?”

Stunned by what they had seen, the husband and wife complained to the store that sold them the sofa. That retailer passed the complaint on to its supplier who, in turn, blamed a company based in China, City News in Toronto reports.

Check out video here.