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Balloon Boy Hoax Hijacks News

What a six year-old looks like wishing he would have been a better liar like dad wanted him to be.
What a six year-old looks like wishing he would have been a better liar like dad wanted.

Sunday morning news is suposed to be a wrap-up of everything important that came up over the previous week.  This Sunday, however, most of it is devoted to the Colorado’s Heene family’s balloon project. 

With health care reform, the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan under terrorist attacks, and everything else, this story is dominating the Sunday morning news cycle here for some damn reason.  My guess as why is it originates from a family’s manipulation of the media and lead to major embarassment of the industry.
 
The Heene family was (and possibly still is) media gold: relatively good looking parents and children who do interesting things, have energy, and are not shy about signing reality show waivers.  They’d already been featured on Wife Swap and were pursuing their own reality show.
 
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Casket shopping in Arroyo Seco, NM

Thursday, my cousin decided we should all go out with her to find a suitable casket and make sure she is buried next to her mom.  In all there were six of us shuffling awkwardly around her in the funeral home – seven when her boyfriend showed up to pump out the tea, water and broth from her small intestine.

She’d been fighting a losing fight with appendix cancer which had spread to grow a tumor completely blocking off her small intestine.  Anything she ingested had to be pumped out. (more…)

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