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CNN CONFIRMS: GOD STOLE MISSING MALAYSIA AIRLINES PLANE

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Students watch as artists finish a school-ground painting inspired by the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Philippine city of Makati. (Photo: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
Students watch as artists finish a school-ground painting inspired by the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Philippine city of Makati.
(Photo: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – With reports that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people on board might have flown for six and a half hours after its transponder stopped sending signals on March 8, the search for the missing Boeing 777-200ER has expanded to a vast area stretching from the Indian Ocean to as far north as Kazakhstan.

Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any theories – from mechanical problems and pilot error to hijacking and pilot suicide.  But they seemed to have missed one possible cause of the plane’s disappearance. 

It took anchors and analysts from a respected U.S. news cable network to state the obvious: God may have stolen the plane.

The anchors and analysts bandied about the idea Sunday afternoon that something “beyond our understanding” happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, that “something” being perhaps supernatural maybe?

“Especially today, on a day when we deal with the supernatural,” the anchor said. “We go to church, the supernatural power of God…people are saying to me, why aren’t you talking about the possibility — and I’m just putting it out there — that something odd happened to this plane, something beyond our understanding?”

What is surprising to television viewers is that the cable news network was not Fox News. It was CNN. The Anchor? Don Lemon.

Film and TV, Human Interest, The Media

THREE-YEAR-OLD YOUTUBE SENSATION DEMANDS $50,000 TO APPEAR ON THE ELLEN SHOW

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Mateo arguing with mom Linda
Mateo arguing with mom Linda

San Jose, California – Chances are you have seen the YouTube video of three-year-old Matthew (Mateo) Beltran of San Jose, California, arguing with his mom Linda about how he should be allowed to have cupcakes for dinner.

The video went viral, generating more than two million hits and counting. TV host Ellen DeGeneres featured the video on her show and invited Mateo and Linda to be guests on her show.

Mateo likes to argue, his mom said. “When I told him Ellen wants to invite us to her show, he argued with me as usual. This time it wasn’t about cupcakes, but about money.” Mateo wanted Ellen to pay up for his appearance on the show. “We need to charge Ellen $50,000,” Mateo said.

When Linda told Mateo that “this isn’t about money,” Mateo argued: “But it is Linda, it is! Listen, Linda, education is getting to be more and more expensive. I don’t want to be stuck with paying huge educational loans when I grow up.”

Linda lost this argument, and both she and Mateo are awaiting word from Ellen.

Here’s the YouTube video that went viral.

International, Law Enforcement, Politics, The Media

THE CURIOUS CASE OF TWO FILIPINO WOMEN

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Arroyo, left, and Napoles
Arroyo, left, and Napoles

Manila, Philippines – It’s like a story out of Hollywood. Like “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” starring Brad Pitt.  Only more serious. And more complicated.

The cast of characters: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, former president of the Philippines and currently a member of the House of Representatives, accused of plunder and election fraud; and Janet Lim-Napoles, businesswoman, accused of masterminding the pork barrel scam that siphoned 10 Billion pesos of taxpayer money into fake nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the pockets of politicians.  Both had petitioned for bail and both were denied.

Arroyo is under hospital arrest in a government hospital in Manila while Napoles is detained in a high-security bungalow in Santa Rosa, Laguna, just south of Manila.

Jealousy ensues. Arroyo complains that she has been denied furlough for her birthday to be at her home in Pampanga while Napoles is living with special treatment in a bungalow. Napoles envies Arroyo because the latter is in a hospital. Napoles’s previous request to be in a hospital has been denied.

Enter Miriam Defensor-Santiago, feisty member of the Philippine Senate.  She demands that Napoles be billed 150,000 pesos per month as reimbursement of taxpayer money being spent for her  bungalow arrest and double security measures.

Enter the lawyers for Arroyo who demand that the government pay not only for her stay and food at the hospital but also all of her medical and treatment expenses.

Finally, enter Senator Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto who proposes that both women become roommates at the bungalow in Santa Rosa. “Equal treatment for equal evil deeds,” Sotto says.

And who’s footing the bill? Sotto says that both crimes the women are charged with involve misuse and, presumably hoarding of stacks and stacks of money. Arroyo and Napoles should have no problem paying for their detention, even if it means for life.

Stay tuned for the next chapter of this curious case indeed.