In The News May 15th, 2007

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This is the news for May 15th, 2007.


Scientists have learned that a star in our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to be almost as almost as old at the entire solar system. It was discovered by employing techniques similar to those used to date archeological remains here on Earth. When questioned on the oldest star in the galaxy, Jane Fonda said she couldn't have done it with out the support of all her fans.

Last Friday a judge handed down a sentence for 13 months in prison to a man pretending to be mentally retarded in order to claim disability benefits. The man pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to defraud the government and to Social Security fraud. He began receiving disability benefits when he was 8. The judge and jury were baffled at why the man would do what he did, considering he is a multi-millionaire and starred in movies such as(show picture of ben Affleck) Armageddon and Good Will Hunting, his first break through movie. Ben Affleck's was not available for questioning.

The Recording Industry Association of America is taking college students all over America to court for illegally downloading songs. Whether it is for downloading 10 songs or 10,000 songs the Association state they will prosecute, however they are offering to settle out of court as in the case of Sarah Barg, who was expected to pay $3,000 or $7.87 per song. That is except for the 5 Nickelback songs, the Association stated she can keep those free of charge.

Angry Scientologists are trying to get a BBC documentary about their faith scrapped amid claims of "gross bias" by the presenter of the program, John Sweeney. Furious church members - including actor John Travolta - say the program should be ditched because Mr. Sweeney showed he was biased by losing his temper and shouting at a top scientologist. DC contacted John Travolta about his accusation, in which Mr. Travolta said, "nah nu nah nu" and hung up the phone. It is suspected that Robin Williams was at Mr. Travolta's house and answered the phone for him.


Irish scientists monitoring dolphins living in a river estuary in the southwest of the country believe they may have developed a unique dialect to communicate with each other. When studying the whistles that dolphins make and categorized them, the scientists found most were used by both sets of dolphins -- but eight different whistles were only heard from the Irish dolphins. The scientists didn't release all of the sounds to the public, but they did provide the following in a press release. "play a clip from boonedock saints." We are on edge to hear what the other unique dolphins sounds may be.


George Lopez the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't in a lead role any longer. His show was cancelled this week and he has some words about it. After hearing about his show being cancelled he said, "TV just became really, really white again," and after hearing that with out his expensive tan he is no more Hispanic than David Spade, Lopez said, "You got me."


Two school employees who staged a fake gun attack on a group of students during a field trip have been suspended, school officials said Monday. During the last night of a weeklong trip to a state park, staff members convinced 69 sixth-grade students that there was a gunman on the loose. One official has said the exercise was intended as a teaching tool and after they told the kids about the gunman, they said the only place that was safe from him was in their pants, where they had gumdrops and candy canes waiting for the children to suck on.

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  • is that supposed to be funny? BORING LAME BOOOOOOO

  • TRYNA be funny

  • amen to that

  • I know this guy has the booze hidden somewhere.

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