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(FiniteTimes.com) - In an expected move, American Airlines announced today that it would begin charging $8 for pillows and blankets on some flights. A bit more surprising was news that they’d also begin charging passengers for stewardess — now called in-flight consultant — use. Continue Reading »

(FiniteTimes.com) - In a stunning move, sources are telling The Finite Times that the city of Vancouver has approached Washington, DC about possibly hosting the 2010 Winter Olympic Games that are slated to open this Friday. Continue Reading »

(FiniteTimes.com) - If you’ve been too busy recovering from a Super Bowl hangover or digging out from several yards of snow (howdy Washington), you might have missed the news story that’s been raging through the blogosphere, left wing: Sarah Palin wrote crib notes on her hand for a Q&A session at the so-called Tea Party convention held this past weekend. Among the notes she wrote to herself: “Energy,” “Tax Cuts,” and “Lift American Spirits.”

Many on the left are holding Palin up to ridicule because she apparently has to remind herself what her core values are. A brief stroll through history, however, reveals that hers is not an isolated case. Continue Reading »

(FiniteTimes.com) - Sarah Palin announced today that her popular biography, “Going Rogue,” would soon be available as part of the Books For Dummies series, a subsidiary of Wiley Publishing, Inc. Continue Reading »

Ted Turner this week won the right to 88 bison from a faltering Montana program designed to protect the animals. An overjoyed Turner immediately set to work “improving” the bison, releasing the above photo that he is calling “Colorized Cow, 1″.

(FiniteTimes.com) - Investigators in Connecticut and California are coordinating their efforts to investigate what they say is the most decentralized and deranged terrorist cell they’re ever seen. And did we mention that it’s d-list? Continue Reading »

(FiniteTimes.com) - In a nod to their Commander-in-Chief, a joint military commission has recommended that the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy on gays in the military that has been in place since 1993 should be scrapped in favor of a sliding “gay meter” that would be used to determine if someone was too gay for military service. Continue Reading »

(FiniteTimes.com) - The annual budget put forth by President Obama this week manages to pack much into its $3.8 trillion framework, but robust support for NASA is not one of the blessed. Among the agency’s cuts is the Constellation program, a Bush II-era initiative that would have placed man again on the moon within the next decade. Continue Reading »