NEW YORK -  Several New York women suffered third-degree burns from their bikini underwire -  two died.

Bikini wearers beware:  the underwire in your bikini bra can be lethal in temperatures over 90 degrees.

Twelve New York women suffered third-degree burns when the underwire in their bikini tops became superheated during a recent 90-degree afternoon.

“After about an hour, I was hurting,” 50-year-old Robin Corrente, of Yaphank, told The New York Post. “I went up to take a shower and I realized … I had a lot of blisters.”  The blisters soon multiplied and Corrente had to be taken to a hospital, where doctors removed a chunk of flesh about “the size of a quarter” from both her right and left breast.

Two other women weren’t as lucky as Corrente.  “The sun superheated the underwire of the bikinis worn by Maria Compandori and Selena Ruiz – both of the Bronx,” said NYFD paramedic, Tom Hillstrom.  The burns were so severe the women went in to full cardiac arrest and died.

Bikini designers across the country are trying to find alternates to the underwire used in bikinis.  “There may be some plastic substitutes that can offer the support women need,” said Jessica Williams of the Bikini Makers Association of America (BMAA).

In the meantime, ladies, be careful out there.  If you have underwire in your bikini, either replace it or take it off.

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WASILLA, AK – In her upcoming memoir, Bristol Palin tells how she lost her virginity – twice!

Bristol Palin’s upcoming memoir is entitled, Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far.  In it she reveals how Levi Johnston took her virginity when she was drunk on wine coolers — then he ran off to brag about it to his friends.

She ran off and told her friends Levi had a small package.

The big revelation in her memoir is that she claims that six months after she gave birth to Tripp, she miraculously became a virgin again.

“I just woke up one day and looked at my private parts in my little mirror and saw that I was a virgin again!  It was a miracle from God and Jesus.  They gave me a second chance to be a good girl,” writes Bristol.

In her book, Bristol calls it the Immaculate Virginity.

The first time Bristol lost her virginity it went like this:  Bristol was on a camping trip with friends when she got drunk for the first time on wine coolers. She recalls waking up in her tent alone with no memory of what had happened, until she heard Johnston describing it to their friends outside.

She had been a virgin and had intended to wait until marriage to have sex. Afterward, she spoke to Johnston, and they agreed to wait until marriage to do it again.  The pact didn’t last long – they had sex right after they made a pact not to have sex again.

Palin says she was on birth control pills (for cramps) when she learned she was pregnant with son Tripp, now 2.   Levi wanted to name Tripp, “Cramp,” but Bristol won that argument.

After eight home pregnancy tests, she realized she had to face the truth. Her parents, she says, were understanding, though they insisted she stay in school. And Johnston’s reaction?

“Better be a (bleeping) boy,” he said.

Bristol was hurt by his comment, but wanted to please him.  “Maybe if  we keep having sex it’ll turn into a boy if it’s girl,” Levi said.  So Bristol and Levi went at it – day and night.  And Levi was right – “having lots of sex affects the gender of a baby,” writes Bristol.

The second time Bristol lost her virginity it went like this:  Bristol was working on Dancing with The Stars with her dance partner, Mark Ballas. They wanted to take a break, so they went camping with some of his friends.  Ballas gave her some wine coolers and she got drunk – Bristol again says this was the first time she got drunk.  When she woke up, she was backstage at DWTS and Ballas was bragging about “bagging Bristol.”

She was hurt, but she kept having sex with Ballas.  She hopes to have a baby with him soon and after that – she hopes to be a virgin once again.

“I believe in re-virginization,” Palin says in her memoir.

Palin’s book, which has a cover photo of her holding Tripp, comes to stores on June 24.

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BENTONVILLE, Ark., — A Wal-Mart executive insists the company paid off several Supreme Court Justices.

The whistle-blowing comes mere hours after the nation’s highest court threw out a massive discrimination suit against Wal-Mart Stores. The suit was the largest employment discrimination in U.S. history with claims from 1.5 million women that they had been discriminated against in both pay and promotions.

In a series of secret hotel room interviews, the fifty-four year-old turncoat, wearing a wig and moustache, detailed the specifics of cash-drops and hand-offs in several posh Washington apartment buildings.

Using a microphone and voice-distortion software, he explained. “I don’t want to call it protection money because Wal-Mart is not in the business of killing people or hurting people, unless, of course, you count all the processed food we sell. Five Justices received cautionary letters, and followed by a delivery of cash. It was clear. It was understood. As long as the Justices throw out the suit, they don’t have to worry.�

When pressed to list the names of Justices who received money from Wal-Mart, the informer would only reveal the project acronym: SKRAT.

“The Wal-Mart people are no joke. During one late-night session about the case, someone even put up one of our old signs and crossed out ‘Prices.’ It said ‘Beware of Falling Justices.’ I was scared for my life,� he continued.

Much to his chagrin, the tipster is still employed by Wal-Mart. He promises to divulge the full story and publish his notes and journal as soon as his kids are out of college. “I’ve got two kids in college, my hands are tied. I have to keep working for these Wal-Mart pigs. Not to mention, I can’t afford to shop anywhere else. I just wanted to do the right thing. I had to tell someone.�

Supporters of women’s rights have been protesting Wal-Mart stores for months. Jessica Spearhead, an organizer for AllianceforJustice.org, spoke for the growing crowd outside of the Supreme Court, “We knew Wal-Mart was this sleazy, but we didn’t realize the Supreme Court was just as shady.�

Agents for film director Kathryn Bigelow have been reaching out to the informant to secure movie rights for his story.

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SAN FRANCISCO – The Animal Control and Welfare Commission has banned the sale of goldfish.

The original law puts the squeeze on puppy and kitten mills that supply pet stores, and to discourage “impulse buys” of hamsters and other small pets that often wind up being dumped at shelters.

But now it covers goldfish, guppies and tropical fish.

“Most fish in aquariums are either mass bred” under inhumane conditions “or taken from the wild,” commission member Philip Gerrie said. That leads to “devastation of tropical fish from places like Southeast Asia,” he said.

The ban, which the commission just adopted after a year of study, was expanded to cover animal breeders as well as pet stores. As you might expect, it has local merchants like Ocean Aquarium owner Justin Hau dumbfounded.

“The city is taking more and more control,” Hau said. “They are very stupid.”

Commission President Sally Stephens, who opposed the ban because it would include small animal-breeding operations, says it’s up to the Board of Supervisors to make the final call.

“No more goldfish in San Francisco.  It’s done.” Stephens said.

The Commission recently approved a ban on declawing cats.

Supervisor Eric Mar, who introduced a measure Tuesday to keep big pet store chains out of the Richmond District, was noncommittal about the commission’s latest law.

Supervisor Sean Elsberand wasted no time in saying “this is another Animal Welfare idea that will go down in the history of San Francisco as a progressive city.”

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A new report states that the hallucinogen in magic mushrooms has countless medical benefits.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that’s credited with inducing transcendental states. Now, they say, they’ve zeroed in on the perfect dosage level to produce transformative mystical and spiritual experiences that offer long-lasting life-changing benefits, while carrying little risk of negative reactions.

The breakthrough could speed the day when doctors use psilocybin–long viewed skeptically for its association with 1960s countercultural thrill-seekers–for a range of valuable clinical functions, like easing the anxiety of terminally ill patients, treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, and helping smokers quit. Already, studies in which depressed cancer patients were given the drug have reported positive results. “I’m not afraid to die anymore” one participant told The Lookout.

The Johns Hopkins study–whose results will be published this week in the journal Psychopharmacology–involved giving healthy volunteers varying doses of psilocybin in a controlled and supportive setting, over four separate sessions. Looking back more than a year later, 94 percent of participants rated it as one of the top five most spiritually significant experiences of their lifetimes.

More important, 89 percent reported lasting, positive changes in their behavior–better relationships with others, for instance, or increased care for their own mental and physical well-being. Those assessments were corroborated by family members and others.

“I think my heart is more open to all interactions with other people,” one volunteer reported in a questionnaire given to participants 14-months after their session.

“I feel that I relate better in my marriage,” wrote another. “There is more empathy — a greater understanding of people, and understanding their difficulties, and less judgment.”
Identifying the exact right dosage for hallucinogenic drugs is crucial, Roland Griffiths, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins who led the study explained.

That’s because a “bad trip” can trigger hazardous, self-destructive behavior, but low doses don’t produce the kind of transformative experiences that can offer long-term benefits. By trying a range of doses, Griffiths said, researchers were able to find the sweet spot, “where a high or intermediate dose can produce, fairly reliably, these mystical experiences, with very low probability of a significant fear reaction.”

In the 1950s and ’60s, scientists became interested in the potential effects of hallucinogens like psilocybin, mescaline, and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on both healthy and terminally ill people. Mexican Indians had, since ancient times, used psychedelic mushrooms with similar chemical structures to achieve intense spiritual experiences.

But by the mid ’60s, counterculture gurus like Dr. Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley were talking up mind-altering drugs as a way of expanding one’s consciousness and rejecting mainstream society. Stories, perhaps apocryphal, circulated about people jumping out of windows while on LSD, and some heavy users were said to have suffered permanent psychological damage. By the early ’70s, the US government had essentially banned all hallucinogenic drugs.

But recent years have seen the beginning of a revival of mainstream scientific interest in mind-altering drugs, and particularly in the possibility of using them in a clinical setting to alleviate depression and anxiety. A 2004 study by the government of Holland (pdf) found psilocybin to have no significant negative effects.

Here in the United States, too, the climate may be shifting. In a statement accompanying the announcement of the Johns Hopkins findings, Jerome Jaffe, a former White House drug czar now at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said the results raise the question of whether psilocybin could prove useful “in dealing with the psychological distress experienced by some terminal patients?”

The hope is that the long-lasting spiritual and transcendental experiences associated with psilocybin could–if conducted in a controlled and supportive setting, and with appropriate dosage levels–help ease patients’ fear and anxiety, allowing them to approach death with a greater sense of calm. (You can see one terminally ill cancer patient speak movingly about the positive effects of psilocybin here.)

Griffiths thinks the drug may have the potential to alleviate the suffering of terminal patients. He’s currently leading a separate Johns Hopkins psilocybin study, using volunteers who are depressed after being diagnosed with cancer. “So far we’ve had–anecdotally only–very positive results,” comparable to the study with healthy volunteers, he said. A study from the University of California, Los Angeles last year reported similar positive results.

But Griffiths said his study, under way for three years, has only recruited 20 patients, in part because oncologists are more interested in curing cancer than helping patients cope with its effects, so they don’t refer provide many referrals. “Most oncologists just don’t get it,” he said. “It’s not the focus of their research, and they’re busy people.”

But the experience of one volunteer in Griffiths’s study offers a glimpse of the potential benefits. Lauri Reamer, 47, told The Lookout that she participated in two Johns Hopkins psilocybin sessions last September, not long after ending intensive chemotherapy and radiation to treat a rare form of leukemia that, several times in the preceding few years, had almost taken her life.

Reamer, an anesthesiologist from Ruxton, Md., with three young daughters, said that although her disease was in remission by that time, she was still suffering psychologically from the trauma of the illness and the treatment. She had walled herself off emotionally, she said, and was unable to show empathy for others or even for herself.

The psilocybin had an immediate impact. “At the end of the session, I was just in this joyous, happy, relaxed state,” she said. “The drug was gone–what was left was just this peaceful calm.”

That calm had lasting benefits. Reamer said the experience–what she called “an epiphany”–gave her the impetus to get out of a failing marriage. Since doing so, she said, both she and her daughters have been much happier.

“I don’t think it was the drug that did it,” she said. “It was the drug that helped me find the clarity.”

That’s not the only improvement. “My sleeping has gotten better. My relationships have gotten better with people,” she said. “The fog has lifted.”

“The best thing it did for me was heal me psychologically and emotionally and allow me to be back in my kids’ lives, be back to being a mother,” Reamer concluded. As she spoke, she was taking her daughters–two 15-year old twins, and a 6-year-old–on a trip to Hershey Park.

And although doctors tell her that, thanks to the effect of the illness and the treatment, she likely has only 10 or 15 years to live, she’s able to approach that challenge with equanimity.

“My fear of death kind of disappeared,” she said. “I’m not afraid to die anymore.”

Griffiths, of Johns Hopkins, said Reamer’s experience isn’t an outlier among the volunteers, both sick and healthy, who have tried psilocybin. “People feel uplifted, and very often have a sense that everything is O.K. at one level,” he said. “That there’s sense to be made out of the chaos.”

“When you see people undergoing that kind of transformation,” he added, “it’s really quite moving.”

Zachary Roth

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WASHINGTON, DC -  Rumors are swirling on the internet that Weiner may be providing cover for Hillary’s love interest.

It turns out that Weiner, who has designs on becoming mayor of New York recently married Huma Abedin, a top aide the top aide for Hillary Clinton.

A Muslim of Indian/Pakistani descent, Abedin is attractive, and while Bill Clinton gallivants around the world in every strip club he can find, rarely does he make an appearance with Hillary.  Abedin, on the other hand, is with Clinton day and night.

An unnamed State Department official told WWN what was already suspected about Hillary. “She is a lesbian and the Bill Clinton marriage is just a sham for public consumption.”

A top level U.S. Department of Justice official is saying off-the-record that Michael Musto’s rumor about Hillary Clinton fooling around with one of her top female aides Huma Abedin is based in reality!

“I am close enough to Hillary and Huma to tell you that this ‘rumor’ is true,� the official told WWN at a Del Taco in Georgetown.  “It is well known inside her campaign that Hillary and Huma are an item.

“If you call Hillary’s residence in DC first thing in the morning, Huma answers the phone,� the official continued. “Same thing late at night and on the road. It’s a closely guarded secret that Hillary’s inner circle guards at all costs.  For a fee, of course.�

It looks like Hillary wants to keep this in the closet. Many questioned why Hillary  suddenly dropped out of the presidential race in 2008. She wanted the White House more than life itself.  If the Obama campaign got hold of this information, that may have been the deal made with Hillary. “Obama gets the nomination, and you get Huma.”

Why would someone as driven as Clinton just quit when the brass ring was in reach?

So where does the Weiner fit in?

Weiner is a front for Huma as Bill is for Hillary. She’s happily married to a lech congressman, and Hillary is happily married to an ex-president.  Of course neither wife spends any time with their husbands, but spend an inordinate amount of time with each other.

If this all turns out to be fact, that would explain why Hillary gave up the White House bid, and is apparently deciding to never pursue it. Not as long as Obama is around. Politics ain’t pretty, but Huma is, and that was enough to make Hillary derail her own lifetime ambition. She’s now focusing on the Islamization of the United States.

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NEW YORK – Congressman Anthony Weiner has joined the “intactivists� and the growing fight against circumcision.

Rep. Weiner (D-NY) made the announcement at a press conference this afternoon outside Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s east side.

“I’m trying to move forward as a public figure and as a progressive thinker. My goal as an elected official is to follow and explore the will of the people. And the people are saying, Congressman Weiner it’s time to stop the circumcisions. This is not about religion. I know you’ve all seen photos of me, and maybe you can’t tell, but I am also a victim of circumcision. It’s time for us to get together, and heal.�

Set to hit the ballot in San Francisco this November, the MGM (male genital mutilation) Bill calls for the circumcision of boys under the age of 18 to be considered a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. A draft of the legislation has been written for 46 states.

Weiner has launched an online campaign to get the MGM bill on the New York City ballot this November.

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WASHINGTON, DC – Sarah Palin told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that Paul Revere discovered America in 1915.

The former Alaska governor, originally told reporters in New England that Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”

Many Americans were quick to point out that Paul Revere took his “midnight ride” to warn the colonists that “the British are coming”, he was not warning the British that “the British are coming.”

 On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Palin corrected herself.

“You know what? I did mess up about Paul Revere. I have since skimmed some history books and I learned that Paul Revere actually was the one who landed on Ellis Island and discovered America in 1915 – right after Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.”

Even Paul Revere was confused by Palin’s remarks:

Palin went on to say that it was Betsy Ross who convinced Paul Revere to make apple pie for the Indians he was about to kill with his machine guns.  She said she believes that Paul Revere is our least known, but greatest, U.S. President.

“I know my American history,” she said.

When Chris Wallace pointed out her many historical errors, Palin said.  “You know, Chris, if you put lipstick on a duck, it quacks.”

Wallace told Palin that Paul Revere was never President of the United States.

“Oh, Chris, there you go again, believing the propaganda put forth by this evil Obama administration.  They just want to erase all of the good American history we all learned in kindergarten. But I won’t let them forget about Paul Revere or Ghandi.  Two of our greatest Americans.”

When asked if she was going to run for President, Palin told Wallace, “That depends if George Bush runs again.  If he doesn’t, I will be certainly be the candidate, if he does, then I will have to wait until 2014 when we have our next election.”

The Sarah Palin bus tour continues today. She’s heading to Toronto, Canada to spend time with “real Americans.”

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MOORESTOWN -  The plane survived a crash on the Hudson, but it couldn’t survive a trip through New Jersey!

If you were driving in parts of South Jersey on Sunday afternoon, you may have seen a large airplane stuck in the road.

U.S. Airways Flight 1549, the plane that made a miracle landing on the Hudson River in 2009, was being transported to a museum in North Carolina, and while en route, the craft got stuck turning a corner in Moorestown, Burlington County.

The incident happened at about 2 p.m., taking crews about an hour to cut down poles and traffic signals to allow the rig to get through Main Street.

The craft began its journey on Saturday from a warehouse in New Jersey where it has been stored since Capt. Sullenberger made an emergency landing almost two years ago; crews and passengers were able to make it to safety due to the captain’s decision.

The plane is being transported to the Carolina’s Aviation Museum where it will be on display.

To track the progress of the plane, click here.

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HOLLYWOOD -  Comedian Bill Maher announced he renouncing his American citizenship and moving to Tahiti.

On Friday night Bill Maher told his “Real Time” audience that Americans were “f**king” morons” and that “anybody could be elected President in “this f*^%king stupid, country.”  He finally threw in his American towel and announced he was moving to a place “where the people are smart and the asses are tight.”  He’s moving to Tahiti – with himself.

Maher, who reportedly is afraid to go to the Midwest and Southeast because “I may get gang-raped by a bunch of rednecks brandishing Twinkies and Bibles”, also said that rumors that hookers have been refusing to come to his Hollywood Hills home (because he “smells like dead goat”) in the last few weeks, had nothing to do with his decision.

Julia Monday, a spokeswoman for Maher said the self-proclaimed “comedian” has been pleasuring himself for a long time and was not affected at all by the hooker boycott.  “They can’t take away his bank account or his ego, so he’s fine,” said Monday.  “He’s so in love with himself that it doesn’t really matter where he lives.  He pleasured himself eleven times today – once without his silk sock.”

Maher spends the majority of his days looking into his gold-plated mirrors, combing his hair strands and telling himself that he is smarter, better and more beautiful than anyone on earth.  He despises anyone who is not Bill Maher and he certainly doesn’t want to spend any time whatsoever with anyone making less than $5 million a year.  “Everyone else is a f*^ing a**hole” Maher said.

Americans were quick to respond to Maher’s decision.  “Who? Never heard of him.” said Molly Joneston from Peoria.  “Maher? That sounds like some kind of bowel disease.” said Tom Kay of Buffalo.  “Isn’t he that guy who porked his pony?” said John Banyon of El Paso, TX.  “I know Maher,” said Tommy Flannagan of Harvard University.  “After he spoke at our school, he offered to take me back to his motel room and teach me how to be politically incorrect with his ‘vacuum cleaner’.”

HBO continues to fully support Bill Maher and his megalomaniacal rantings.  They are dedicating the entire July 4th weekend to a Bill Maher special entitled “F*k America and the motherf*%ers who live there!”  He plans on charging Americans an extra $5 to watch his special.

WWN will not be updating the Maher story.

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SYDNEY -  Thousands of  rabid rats were found on a Qantas plane.  Twelve passengers were killed.

Authorities determined that the rats were in a  compartment holding medical equipment,  They escaped and then attacked passengers – killing twelve.

The rodents were found in every part of the plane – the flight attendants galley, First Class, Coach, and even in the cockpit.  One of the victims killed by the rats was the pilot, Captain Darryl Woozer.

Passengers tried to fight off the rats as best they could but there were just too many of them.  “I pulled off my seat and used it as a battering ram against the rats,” said passenger Abigail Montrose.  “But I couldn’t stop them, they kept coming.  My husband was bitten about seventy times, but luckily he survived.”

She did kill a few of the rats.  Here’s one of Abigail’s rat kills:

A Qantas spokeswoman called the incident “very unusual.”  She declined to be named, citing policy.

But Randy O’Brien  of the Transportation Workers Union told WWN that members have had concerns about flying again on Qantas flights.  They fear that rats have target the airline.

A Qantas spokeswoman denied that was the case. “This is a very irregular occurrence,” she said.  “We doubt passengers will be bitten by rats any time soon.”

Qantas, Australia’s national carrier, has experienced a series of troubles in recent months, including an engine explosion and forced landings.

American authorities are looking into the incident.  The FAA wants to ensure that no rat attacks will occur on flights originating in America.  “We’ve already had a snake problem and an alligator problem on flights,” said FAA representative Cindy Sharlin, “we don’t want a rat problem too.”

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PHILADELPHIA – Rabid beavers have killed over 70 residents in the last week.

Wildlife officials are warning Northeast Philadelphia park visitors about rabid beavers after three hundred people were bitten near a city creek in the past few days.

On Friday, Pennsylvania State Game Commission confirmed that three dozen rabid beavers were captured in the Pennypack Creek tested positive for rabies.  They were all positive for rabies and half were positive for ebola.

The rabies and ebola confirmationa came after two doezen separate biting incidents earlier this week along the water between Bustleton Avenue and Ax Factory Road.

Game Commission Officer Jerry Slovak described what happened when a couple fishing in Pennypack Creek Wednesday was attacked.

“The beavers kind of went underwater and came up.” Slovak said “The wife started screaming and the husband looked 0ver and saw the beaver chewing on her face.”

Most of the victims of the beaver killings were founds stacked on top of each other – damming up a local creek.  Authorities had to break the dam and take the victims to the nearest morque.

No one is sure where the rabid beavers came from – but local authorities are speculating that the beavers may have been planted by Mets fans eager (as beavers) to get back at Philly fans.

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WWN Financial News – Groupon Deal of the Day – 50% off IPO shares!

In a rare demonstration of corporate “eating your own cooking,� Groupon, Inc. today unveiled a coupon entitling investors to participate in its highly anticipated IPO at a 50% discount to the IPO price.  Groupon filed with the SEC for a $750 million offering on June 2nd, but it is widely anticipated that Groupon will raise $1 billion or more in the offering and value the company at $20 billion.  Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse have been tapped to co-manage the IPO which is expected by October.

The coupon went live on Groupon’s site at 6:53 p.m. June 3rd and “tipped� within 50 minutes via 50 purchases.  The offer remains open for 8 more hours.  Coupon denominations can be determined by the purchaser, and in the case of Groupon’s Groupon, the average face value is in excess of $5 million.

The Company’s IPO underwriting group was taken aback by the surprise move, but lead banker on the transaction, Bill Strong of Morgan Stanley, commented, “It’s highly unorthodox to offer a coupon discount in a major IPO, particularly for such a high profile deal.  Because Groupon’s model requires customers to offer goods services for 50%-90% discounts, they just got backed into a corner.�

Google, which made an unsolicited $6 billion bid for Groupon last year, was rumored to be among the first to secure one of the IPO discount coupons.  Sources who could not be identified given pre-offering SEC restrictions, said a high concentration of coupons were sold to Silicon Valley and Chinese investors.  It was also rumored that many coupons had been purchased via an IP address linked to Wal-Mart – known for its everyday discount prices.

Groupon founder, Andrew Mason, commented, “If you are not careful, new economic realities can make you obsolete in seconds.

Today’s consumer is challenged – they expect things to be free or at least half price.  Paying full retail is so 1990s.  In today’s global economy, you can sell products and services for ½ price or less – because you make up for it in volume.  What better way to prove our model than by using it in our IPO.   The servers are humming with demand and we’ve already raised nearly $400 million toward our IPO.�

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Scientists have found complex, alien worms living a mile below the planet’s surface.

Scientists and extraterrestrial experts always assumed aliens would be living above ground – and they are – but this new discovery proves that aliens are also living in subsurface of earth.

Nicknamed “alien worms from hell,� the nematodes, or roundworms, were found in several gold mines in South Africa.

The two lead researchers, Gaetan Borgonie of the University of Ghent in Belgium and Tullis Onstott of Princeton University, said the discovery of aliens so far below ground, with nervous, digestive and reproductive systems, was akin to finding “Moby Dick in Lake Ontario.�

“This is telling us something brand new,� said Onstott, whose pioneering work in South Africa over the past decade has revolutionized the understanding of microbial life known generally as extremophiles, which live in places long believed to be uninhabitable.

“For a relatively complex creature like an alien nematode to penetrate that deep is simply remarkable,� he said.

One of the subterranean alien nematodes was formally named Halicephalobus mephisto after the “Lord of the Underworld.�  H. mephisto was found in water flowing from a borehole about one mile below the surface in the Beatrix gold mine.

The research places far more complex alien life in an environment where researchers have generally held it should not, or even cannot, exist.

Borgonie said that although alien nematodes are known to exist on the deep ocean floor, they have generally not been found more than 10 to 20 feet below the surface of the ground or the ocean bed. But he saw no reason they wouldn’t be found farther down. The alien nematodes he ultimately discovered live in extremely hot water coming from boreholes fed by rock fissures and pools.

Borgonie confirmed that the alien worms were from Mars.

Scientists seeking life beyond Earth are intrigued by the microbes that are living below the surface of Mars, in particular — a planet that is now cold, dry and bombarded by harmful radiation but was once much wetter, warmer and better-protected by an atmosphere.

“What we found shows that harsh conditions do not  exclude complexity,� Borgonie said.

He said that if life did originate on Mars and if it had sufficient time to go underground deep enough to survive worsening conditions, “then evolution of Martian life might have continued underground. . . . Life on Mars could be more complex than we imagined.�

Carl Pilcher, director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute in California, said that the nematode discovery will help NASA learn about extraterrestrial life.

“Subsurface environments like those described in these papers exist on other worlds in this solar system and in other planetary systems,� he said of the new work and Onstott’s earlier discoveries.

“We can now say that worlds with such subsurface environments, in fact, harbor subsurface life, both microbial and multicellular,� Pilcher said. “This knowledge . . . can help guide us in developing missions and experiments to study other worlds.�

Alien worms, up to one-third of an inch in length, were found in two mines, and DNA of another was found in a third. They were found in water flowing from boreholes in the rock of the mines at depths from two-thirds of a mile to more than two miles. The alien worms nearer the surface were brought to a lab and survived, while the specimen at the deepest level was a DNA sample from an alien nematode but otherwise impossible to identify.

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NEW YORK – Embattled Congressman Anthony Weiner has signed a deal to be the new spokesperson for Viagra.

Anthony Weiner is finally giving in – he realizes his days as a Congressman are coming to a close and he will never be Mayor of New York City.  It’s all because of a the “junk shot seen round the world.”

After talking it over with his staff, Weiner has decided to capitalize on his his crotch shot and – “turn it into lemonade.”

“I can say with certitude that this has had a negative effect on my family life and my job that New Yorkers have sent me here to do.  I must look to the future.  And the future is… Viagra.”

Weiner was quick to point out that he has never used Viagra in the past.  “I do not have ED and I’m most often – a stud.  Ask my 21-year-old friends.  They haven’t seen one picture of me in which I wasn’t erect.”

Weiner will be no longer be talking about the National Debt, Jobs or the War in Afghanistan.  He will be talking about “when the moment is right” for Viagra?

He turned down Cialis  and Levitra because – “who needs an erection to last more than four hours” – even though his photo erection has lasted over a week now.

Weiner said that Viagra isn’t just for Erectile Dysfunction.  “Viagra also helps blood flow in the body, which includes blood flow in the brain.  I think I could use a little help in that department.”

“I take Viagra not for my penis, but for my brain.”

Maybe they are one in the same…

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