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TATA MOTORS – WORLD’S CHEAPEST CAR

The Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors announced it is taking orders for their Nano, a very small bubble shaped car that is priced at $2000, making it the world’s cheapest car, at least until the release of an even smaller and cheaper car, the Shuffle, which has an autopilot that takes you to a random destination.

ALASKA VOLCANO

A total of five explosive events were recorded at Alaska’s Mount Redoubt, sending ash columns 60,000 feet into the air. Scientists have determined the cause of the eruptions is morning sickness from a volcano that was forced to keep it’s baby for political reasons.

The father, nearby Mount Torbert is planning to drop out of the Tordrillo mountain range to join an apprenticeship program and raise the baby.

CEMETARY PLANE CRASH

Last week in Montana, fourteen people died when a small plane crashed into a Montana graveyard. The pilots have posthumously been given bonuses from AIG.

MUSSOLINI

In Italy, the MSI-Fiamma Tricolore, an Italian right wing party, want expecting parents to name their child after Benito Mussolini. It was somewhat expected, since it would be difficult to name their child before Mussolini.

GM EMPLOYEES OPT FOR EARLY RETIREMENT

About 7,500 GM employees have signed an agreement for early retirement incentives if they leave the company. They were offered $20,000 in cash and a $25,000 voucher to buy a car. Many of the employees taking the deal indicated they’d use the car voucher to buy a Toyota.

BLOCKBUSTER & TIVO PARTNERSHIP

Blockbuster and Tivo just announced a partnership to deliver Blockbuster’s library of premium digital movie titles directly to the television set via Tivo DVR’s. Blockbuster OnDemand will feature content to both buy and rent, and the service is expected to be released in the second half of 2009, just in time for Blockbuster’s bankruptcy.

POST OFFICE RUNNING OUT OF MONEY

Postmaster General John Potter told Congress on Wednesday that the post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help. Options for fixing the problem included cutting delivery to five days a week, opening your credit card statements and selling them to an identity theft organization, and increasing the cost of a first class stamp to $2,000.

NORTH DAKOTA FLOODING

In Fargo and Bismarck, volunteers are scrambling to pile sandbags to protect the area from floodwaters, which mistakenly implies that North Dakota is worth saving.

SOMALI PIRATES

On Thursday, Pirates armed with machine guns hijacked two tankers in under 24 hours, which kicks off the 2009 Somali hijackathon. For just $10 a day you can provide one terrorist pirate with an ammunition refill and help him build a better life of stealing foreign goods and holding hostages for ransom.

GOOGLE EARTH PENIS

A U.K. teenager who wanted to be spotted by Google Earth has painted a 60-foot long image of a penis on top of his parent’s house. When asked how he painted the large image he replied, “I straddled the roof and traced it.”

JOHN MCENROE DUPED IN ART SCAM

Tennis champion John McEnroe was one of many who were duped in a sophisticated $88 million art investment scam. McEnroe lost $2 million from investing in a half share of two pantings, Arshile Gorky’s “Pirate I and II”. McEnroe was extremely disappointed and said he picked the paintings because he “40-loved” them.

ROD BLAGOJEVICH RADIO SHOW

Impeached former Gov. Rod Blagojevich filled in as host of a Chicago radio show Wednesday which caused a widespread panic when listeners confused the show with the tone of the Emergency Broadcast System.

THIS WEEK IN STATISTICS

According to a report from the National Federation of the Blind, fewer than 10% of the 1.3 million legally blind people in the United States read Braille. Instead, a largely increasing number are opting for voice-recognition software or other technologies that allow the blind to download audible porn.