I read the news today.....oh boy....re write.

This blog entry was originally posted on Thursday September 22. I wanted to edit and re-write part of it.

I love the news today.....the potential for economic meltdown has the stock market plunging. The same page has the news that fewer people applied for unemployment last week. BUT, not enough people to signify an economic improvement.

I've written about my lack of  business and economy knowledge so many times I'm starting to look like a Smurf. However, I remember reading less people unemployment, GOOD, more people unemployment, BAD.

Aren't you sick to death of all the nay sayers?

Something about the ex-football player and egomaniac Terrell Owens caught my eye. He is in Korea for stem cell treatments because his knee is not responding to traditional rehab. The article doesn't say what's involved in the treatment. It's more about Owens desire to return to the NFL. It does say his knee may not be the issue that has kept him unemployed. That teams may be fed up with his past behaviours and are reluctant to disrupt their chemistry.

Aside from my surprise at reading what many are thinking about him, I loved this, I am reprinting exactly, "The wide receiver, now a free agent, will also have stem cells collected as part of his treatment," Lee-Jung-No doctor and president of the Chaum Anti-Aging center said in a phone interview Monday. Take another look at his "docs" name.

The guy who will not go away, Levi Johnston.

Talking about the release of his tell-all book, he told us that now, looking back, it seems as though his ex-fiancee's mother, Sarah Palin, had the hots for him.

"Even growing up my friends would always say that [Palin would flirt with him], it seems kind of weird. Then one of my publishers said she had a cougar crush on me!"

Hasn't he had more than his allotted fifteen minutes of fame? Could all of this "news" be coming from the Sarah for some political office group? It sure is keeping her name in the limelight, and look at me, I'm helping.

A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died.

He ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-liter jar of sour cream.

Shortly afterwards, he became ill and died, according to local news.

Dumplings, called "vareniki" in the former Soviet republic, are a staple of Ukrainian cuisine and are often stuffed with a range of fillings from mushrooms to cherries.

This guy must have really liked sour cream.