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Posted: 4:34 a.m. Friday, Nov. 5, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 11/05/10 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • KOTV - An Oklahoma Muslim has filed a federal lawsuit against a ballot measure to prohibit state courts from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases. Muneer Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma, said he filed a lawsuit Thursday that alleges State Question 755 is unconstitutional. The ballot question was approved in Tuesday's general election with 70 percent of the vote. Awad says the measure is a political attack on the Muslim community. He says it passed following a well-funded campaign based on misinformation and fear. The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to block the results of the election from being certified by the state Election Board on November 9th.  The measure is scheduled to go into effect on January 1st.
  • TULSA WORLD - The city of Tulsa's biannual surplus property auction will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday at 108 N. Trenton Ave. About 75 bicycles will be the first items sold. The auctioning of vehicles and other items is expected to begin about 10 a.m. Merchandise can be viewed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. The site will open at 7:30 a.m. Saturday before the sale begins. Set for auction are buses, trucks, cars, vans, tools, office equipment, furniture and many other items. All sales are final. It is the bidder's responsibility to determine the condition and quality of merchandise. Three auctioneers might be selling simultaneously, so bidders who are interested in multiple items should bring a proxy. Cash and credit cards will be accepted for purchases. Checks will be accepted only if they are accompanied by a letter of guaranty from the financial institution on which the check is drawn. Payment is required in full within one hour of the auction's end.
  • Rebuked by voters, President Barack Obama is turning overseas, heading to Asia for 10 days of diplomacy, tourism and dealmaking that could boost the battered chief executive and highlight his political skills on the world stage. Obama risks criticism he's fleeing the Democrats' midterm election wreckage for friendlier territory as sets out Friday on the longest foreign trip of his presidency, a sojourn through India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan aimed at highlighting America's increasing engagement with Asia. The trip is anchored by must-attend gatherings of world leaders in South Korea and Japan, timing unconnected to Tuesday's midterm elections. The abbreviated stop in Indonesia, where Obama spent four years as a boy, was already canceled and rescheduled twice.
  • The days of easy store return policies may soon be over, according to a Yahoo! Finance column, which says stores are cracking down and making their policies tougher for returns and refunds. Currently about one purchase in 10 is returned and the rate has increased since the economy went south, with retailers reporting $43 billion in returned items just during last year's holiday season. Retailers want to hold on to more of that money, and also fueling the change are new computerized tracking systems that evaluate customers' shopping habits before approving or denying a return. So today, if you try to make a refund, many stores will give it only in exchange for information like your cell phone or mailing address, which they may use in such a system, or simply to get the information for marketing purposes.
  • WORKERS LIE ABOUT TAKING DAYS OFF FOR STRESS: Millions of people lie by claiming they have an upset stomach or that a relative is ill, rather than admitting they are taking off from work because they are stressed out. One in five workers has taken time off for stress but almost all were too afraid to admit why they needed sick leave. Seven out of ten would like to discuss the issue with their employers although one third want their manager to make the first move when they were showing signs of strain.
  • 30% OF WOMEN HAVE BEEN ESTRANGED FROM THEIR MOMS: In a survey conducted by 20th Century Fox as part of a promotion for the new season of "Family Guy", eight out of 10 people said that the women in their families were responsible for ongoing family feuds, something four out of 10 people said they are currently going through. Fathers were ranked second-most responsible and sisters came in third, which leads us to believe that "women family members" probably means "moms and nosy aunts." Even sadder, a third of the women polled said they'd gone through periods of estrangement with their mothers.
  • TEEN SUSPENDED FOR DRESSING AS A KNIGHT, RIDING HORSE TO SCHOOL: Dan Depaolis was suspended from his Massachusetts school after riding a horse to school dressed as a medieval knight. Depaolis was celebrating "medieval day" during the school's spirit week in which student's dress up in different themes and are awarded points for their costumes. The school's Vice Principle compared the seriousness of the incident to bringing a gun on campus. The teen's parents thought it would be a funny stunt but school officials deemed it dangerous and suspended the boy for two days.
  • YAHOO NEWS - What's the value of a song? Jammie Thomas-Rasset has spent the last few years in court debating that question. The Minnesota mother of four is being penalized for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2006, but how much she owes the record labels has been in question. The jury in her third trial has just ruled that Thomas-Rasset should pay Capitol Records $1.5 million, CNET reports, which breaks down to $62,500 per song. It's a heavy penalty considering the 24 tunes would only cost approximately $24 on iTunes, which was Thomas-Rasset' argument, too.
  • Former "Partridge Family" heartthrob David Cassidy has been charged with driving under the influence in Florida. The Florida Highway Patrol says his car was stopped around 6 p.m. Wednesday for weaving and nearly causing an accident. Cassidy told a trooper that he had a glass of wine at lunch and a pain pill at 3:30 p.m. Troopers reported finding a half-empty bottle of bourbon in the back seat. The FHP says Cassidy failed a field sobriety test and two breath tests. He was released from jail early Thursday. His spokeswoman, Jo-Ann Geffen, told TMZ he took a pain pill and was tired from attending a funeral, but insists he was not drunk. She wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press that Cassidy thanked family, friends and fans for their love and support.
  • COVINGTON, Ga. -- A 9-month-old baby is in critical condition at an Atlanta hospital after she was attacked by two raccoons while sleeping in her crib in the same room as her mother. Authorities say they are investigating how the raccoons got inside the home and whether the family was keeping the animals as pets. Newton County Sheriff's Lt. Tyrone Oliver says authorities arrived about 4 a.m. on Wednesday after the mother called 911 to say the baby had been attacked. She was bitten severely on her head and on other parts of her body. Oliver says the raccoons were outside the family's house when deputies arrived, and that one was aggressive and fatally shot by a deputy. The other raccoon was given to animal control to be tested for rabies.
  • Things are apparently a tad tense between the White House and NBC News. The New York Post reports that the White House called NBC "Nightly News" anchor BRIAN WILLIAMS last week to complain about a comment he made regarding the discovery of a pair of package bombs reportedly intended for the U-S from Yemen --an episode that PRESDIENT OBAMA referred to as a "credible threat." So what irked the White House? A on-air reference from Williams that characterized the bombing effort as being "almost inept." NBC News isn't commenting on the rumor.
  • Bloomberg News reports that Treasury Secretary TIM GEITHNER held a private meeting last April with comedian JON STEWART to talk about the nation's economic problems. The apparent justification for the meeting? Stewart connects with young voters. The meeting with Stewart is contained on Geithner's public calendar, which was recently updated through this past August.
  • And let the 2012 polls begin! A new CNN/Opinion Dynamics poll puts PRESIDENT OBAMA behind both former Govs MIKE HUCKABEE and MITT ROMNEY in hypothetical presidential match-ups. Huckabee beats Obama 52-to-44-percent, and Romney leads Obama 50-to-45-percent. The president does beat SARAH PALIN, 52-to-44-percent.
  • Doctors in Shanghai, China, have removed a chopstick from a man's stomach. It's about time, since he swallowed it nearly 30-years ago. The 50-year-old man --known only as ZHANG-- remembers swallowing the chopstick back in 1982. But, since it never caused him any pain, he never went to the hospital. But, he recently started having stomach problems. Then, he passed out one day. So, Zhang figured maybe it was time to do something. Doctors removed the object and expect the man to recover. When they asked how and why he swallowed it in the first place, he wouldn't answer. But, he did admit to having been in "an agitated emotional state" at the time.
  • Your mom was right. You really do become your friends. Researchers are predicting that over the next 40 years, 42-percent of Americans will be obese, and it will all be the fault of their overweight friends. Researchers at Harvard say if your friend becomes obese, your chances of gaining weight are increased by more than half. They believe that's what's behind the current obesity epidemic. Unfortunately the opposite is not true. Findings printed in the journal PLoS Computational Biology claim hanging out with thin people does not make you lose weight.
  • Hip-hop star Kanye West now says that he regrets accusing then-President George W. Bush of not caring about black people during a televised concert telethon following 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Bush writes about the accusation in his new memoir, Decision Points, that it was the lowest point of his presidency and has called the charge disgusting. In an interview Wednesday (November 3rd) with a Houston radio station, West said of Bush, "I definitely can understand the way he feels to be accused of being a racist in a way because the same thing happened to me [when] I got accused of being a racist." West said he was the target of the accusation after he infamously interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at MTV's Video Music Awards last year because he thought Beyonce should have won the award. West said in the interview, "In both situations it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw. With him it was a lack of compassion with him . . . not taking the time to rush down to New Orleans. With me, it was a lack of compassion in cutting someone off in their moment." West said he believes Americans are too eager to play the race card, and that the episode with Swift has made him more opened minded. "Now, I really more connect with him on just a more humanitarian level," he said, adding that he and Bush felt the same grief the morning after their incidents.
  • BACON FLAVORED SODA: J&D Foods, a company that specializes in all things bacon, has recently come out with bacon flavored soda. Some of their other inventions include bacon flavored envelopes and a giant Kevin Bacon statue made out of -- you guessed it -- bacon. Justin Esch, president of J&D Foods, partnered with Jones Soda to create the new product. Esch said, "They know soda. We know bacon. We were destined to merge our technologies for something big."
  • WYOMING COPS LOSE BOX OF DRUGS: A deputy in Wyoming lost a box of meth that was being used to train police dogs. The deputy accidentally left a box labeled "METH" on his bumper and drove away after canine training. The box contains roughly an ounce of methamphetamine. Police are asking people to be on the lookout and contact the sheriff's office with information.
  • '127 Hours' has gotten audiences fainting, vomiting and worse in numbers unseen since 'The Exorcist' - and the movie has not even hit theaters yet. James Franco plays real-life rock climber Aron Ralston who made headlines when he resorted to self-amputation to free himself from a boulder that pinned his arm to a canyon wall for five days in 2003.
  • Facebook quietly introduced an "Unlike Page" button into its News Feed recently, which allows users to opt-out of receiving unwanted messages from pages they had previously said they "liked." Now, when a user clicks the "X" button to remove a story from their News Feed, there's an option to unlike the page, which joins other options including "mark as spam, "hide this post," or "hide all" posts from the offending page.
 
 

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