Archive for the ‘old people’ Category
The media never fails to mix fact with whatever the dick is relevant at the time. The only reason this story is worth mentioning is because of how it is spinned.
Here’s a story that brings home just how morbid this housing crisis can be: Heather Newnam of Tamarac shot herself yesterday instead of letting cops evict her for failing to pay her rent.
It’s a depressing tale, but perhaps what’s more depressing is reading what amounts to Newnam’s final public words on her Twitter account. Writing under the name rsangel04, bits of Newnam’s life played out in her posts.
This is obviously written to play off how terrible the current economy is. This woman couldn’t pay her rent so she SHOT herself in the head to avoid eviction. Read the rest of this entry »
“Why doesn’t she age?” Howard Greenberg, 52, asked of his daughter. “Is she the fountain of youth?”
Such questions are why scientists are fascinated by Brooke. Among the many documented instances of children who fail to grow or develop in some way, Brooke’s case may be unique, according to her doctor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine pediatrician Lawrence Pakula, in Baltimore.
“Many of the best-known names in medicine, in their experience … had not seen anyone who matched up to Brooke,” Pakula said. “She is always a surprise.”
Somehow a genetic anomaly occurred so that this girl never ages and somehow everyone is pretending like this is a good thing.
THEY MURDERED HIS SOUL!
This isn’t really surprising, I mean, religious people are susceptible to believing in some funky shit. Moreover, that melodramatic chubby lady was kind of right, they thought they were actually helping him (maybe).
But what I really want to know is, is this guy writhing around the floor trying to convince everyone that it’s working? Like, “Yes mom, I went to the Exorcism, yes Mother, I do not enjoy the hot beef no more. No more ooga booga gay demons.”
IRONICALLY, HE LOOOOOOOOVES CATS!!!!! That doesn’t even make sense with the– and the WHaaaaAAAAaaaaatttt?!!!!
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