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Over the years, according to a June Chicago Sun-Times report, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois has freely used “swagger and braggadocio in talking about his 21 years of military service” as qualification for office.
When one contrary fact after another about his record was pointed out by reporters, Kirk explained, “I simply misremembered it wrong.”
He admitted that, contrary to his numerous public statements, he was not actually “in” the Iraq Desert Storm war; did not actually “command the Pentagon War Room” when he was assigned there as a Navy Reservist; and was not actually once Naval “Intelligence Officer of the Year.”
He is now vying for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Barack Obama.
Google said . . .
“If Google told you to jump off a cliff, would you?” asked a Fortune magazine columnist, describing the lawsuit filed in May by Lauren Rosenberg, asking for damages of more than $100,000 against Google Maps after she was struck by a car.
Rosenberg had queried the map service for a “walking route” between points in Park City, Utah, but a short stretch of the suggested route lacked sidewalks.
Rosenberg was hit while walking in the street.
Though Google and other map services “warn” users against walking in the street, Rosenberg’s route was delivered on her small Blackberry phone screen.
A professional
In May, the chief media spokesman of the Nye County, Nev., sheriff’s office, Det. David Boruchowitz, announced to the press the arrest of a man charged with burglary and assault.
The suspect’s name, he reported, was Det. David Boruchowitz.
The chief investigator on the case, Det. Boruchowitz told
reporters, was Det. David Boruchowitz.
Three days later, all the charges were dropped, but that announcement was made by someone else.
Ozzy puzzle“Why are you still alive?” is the question doctors ask Ozzy Osbourne, the hard-rock singer and reality-TV star, who says he is now clean and sober after a lifetime of almost unimaginably bad habits.
In June, he started two new ventures: undergoing the three-month process of genetic mapping (to help doctors learn why, indeed) and becoming a “health advice” columnist for London’s Sunday Times.
At various points in his life, the now-cholesterol-conscious, vegetarian Osbourne said he drank four bottles of cognac a day, smoked cigars like they were cigarettes, took 42 prescribed medications and many more “backstage” drugs that he could not even identify.
Osbourne also has a Parkinson’s-like genetic tremor, was once in a medically induced coma after an accident, and endured anti-rabies shots after famously biting into a bat on stage (“I thought it was a rubber toy,” he said).
