Breaking News Thread

[Flynbyu]

Sad that you know what that cop is covering up.

Thw other pictures of the accident show the rear of the car where the engine is located 500 feet back from the front. Where the cop is standing, there is light pole he is covering up that is blodd stained. I'm sure that's where the body was resting. I saw the pictures on the LA Times website. Very tragic.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

GO JON STEWART!

CNN Story:

NEW YORK (CNN) -- After a week of pointed verbal barbs, host Jon Stewart sat face-to-face with financial analyst Jim Cramer on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and continued the assault Thursday. Stewart blamed Cramer and cable network CNBC for being irresponsible cheerleaders in the lead-up to the stock market meltdown.

Stewart, whose acerbic brand of satire centers largely on the political news of the day, has held Cramer's frenetic, nearly cartoonish, stock-advice show, "Mad Money," and other CNBC programming up as examples of an anything-goes attitude that contributed to the financial collapse.

"I understand you want to make finance entertaining, but it's not a [expletive] game," Stewart said during the recorded interview, segments of which aired on Thursday night. "When I watch that, I can't tell you how angry that makes me."

Stewart's blistering criticism of Cramer this week has included a censored, two-word phrase he spoke into the camera after airing video of Cramer enthusiastically urging viewers to buy stock in Bear Stearns.

The global investment bank and brokerage firm collapsed soon after the comments aired and was eventually sold with stock prices less than one-fifth what they were when Cramer pushed them.

Cramer has fired back. In a string of interviews with NBC news outlets affiliated with CNBC, Cramer disputed some of Stewart's claims and noted times he's made more cautious comments about the economy.

In one interview, he sarcastically feigned distress at being attacked by a comedian and, on an appearance on Thursday's "The Martha Stewart Show," pounded a wad of dough with a rolling pin, pretending it was Stewart's face.

"Mr. Cramer, don't you destroy enough dough on your own show ... ?" Stewart said early in the program.

After declaring he's a "big fan of the show," Cramer appeared contrite during the interview.

"I think that everyone could come in under criticism because we all should have seen it more," Cramer said. "I don't think anyone should be spared in this environment."

Cramer pushed back very little in an interview far more serious than most that Stewart conducts. iReport.com: Stewart 'demolished' Cramer

He complained when Stewart suggested CNBC's reporters are "in bed" with Wall Street financiers and said he's worked with government officials to try to crack down on abuses in the industry.

"Absolutely, there's shenanigans, and we should call them out," Cramer said. "Everyone should. I should do a better job at it."

Stewart did call it "unfortunate" that Cramer has become the prime whipping boy in a larger complaint -- "the gap between what CNBC advertises itself as and what it is."

"We're both snake-oil salesmen to a certain extent," Stewart said. "But we do label it 'snake oil' here."


~Brian

[Krandall]

Man.. Stewart calls it like it is! 

[Flynbyu]

I like the shit out of him and Colbert.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Colbert is a straight up badass.. He tells it like it is.. No sugar coating what so ever.

I like his callout on bush he did a while back.

[Flynbyu]

Colbert is a straight up badass.. He tells it like it is.. No sugar coating what so ever.

I like his callout on bush he did a while back.

Not to mention, he's really funny.



~Brian

[P.I.M.P.]

 SALT LAKE CITY -- Police arrested two people after a fight broke out at a Salt Lake convenience store Thursday night. Officers say one of the suspects used a broken coffee pot as a weapon.

Police don't know what caused the altercation between several people outside the 7-Eleven at 109 E. 300 South around 8 p.m. But after a few minutes, it moved inside.

One of the men involved in the fight grabbed a coffee pot.

Lt. Craig Gleason of the Salt Lake City Police Department said, "It was first like a blunt object he was trying to strike them with, but it broke and became an edged weapon."

Officers arrived to find the man chasing people with the broken pot. He refused to stop so they used a Taser on him.

The man fell on his makeshift weapon, cutting his upper body and cheek.

He was taken into custody along with a woman involved in the fight.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5838944

[Krandall]

 

Coffee pot for the win!

[Peelz]

I love the mock interviews they do on that show.

[P.I.M.P.]

Fucking idiots living down south in Utah county. Bunch of GD Mormons. First ten foot walls now this shit. It'll never pass but just want to know why we got the whole shipment of idiots!

SALT LAKE CITY -- A proposal to tax caffeine in Utah is being met with skepticism, even outrage, from people who cherish their diet colas and coffees.

"It's like taxing candy. You shouldn't do that," one man told us.

Another said, "I don't think that you necessarily need to tax everything that's bad for you, or someone thinks is bad for you."

The state lawmaker proposing the tax is Rep. Craig Frank, R-American Fork. He tells the Salt Lake Tribune the state already taxes addicted smokers, so why not target a broader-based addiction?

Frank says it's a response to proposals to hike the tax on cigarettes. Those measures failed this legislative session.

This is part of a master study resolution that lawmakers unanimously approved, so it will get a closer look over the next year.

Frank told the Tribune he has seen research that caffeine can cause spontaneous abortion, psychological abnormalities and other disorders.


http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=5829408

[Flynbyu]

WTF is going on in Utah?

Damn.

~Brian

[P.I.M.P.]

It's called the Mormons.

[Krandall]

It's called the Morons.

*fixed*   

[Peelz]

It's called the Morons.

*fixed*   

epic quote change.

[P.I.M.P.]

I was originally going to put that but didn't know if ya'll non Utards would get it. Thanks for the change!