Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Jokes: ships in space, torture on earth, drug scientists

CIA Director Michael Hayden said in an interview that whether waterboarding is torture is "an uninteresting question for the CIA."

"And if it was interesting to us, we’d torture someone until they told us all about it."


CALGARY - Canada's first astronaut says he's ready for life in cramped conditions that will slowly wear down his body and mind.

Then after that family road trip, he’s going into space!


TRENTON, N.J. – Drug company Pfizer Inc., is laying off up to 800 scientists in its latest effort to refocus and cut overhead

Pfizer is helping to locate jobs for the displaced, and also spearheading experiments to create superheroes to save us from the ranks of mad scientist supervillains these layoffs will no doubt create.


WASHINGTON - The head of NASA says the cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year's planned retirement is $3 billion a year plus extending the risk of a deadly accident.

But buying out the lease at this point would be a real mess.


NASA's new shuttle will not be ready until March 2015, which would mean five years of NASA relying on Russia to get astronauts to the International Space Station.

Yes, that’s right America! Oil is down, the economy’s in the tubes, and now you have to depend on Russia for a lift.


A large fuel oil slick spilled into the Celtic Sea is heading to the coasts of Ireland and Wales.

The spill could enrich the already storied Irish culture, as Irish and Black Irish meet Greasy Black Irish.


A toy fair exhibitor in New York is offering a Bernard Madoff doll, which comes with a hammer to smash it to pieces. The doll retails for $99.95.

$100 seems kind of steep.. wait a sec, are we entirely sure that this toy company isn't owned by a parent company owned by Bernard Madoff?

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