Archive for October 16th, 2009
The Heene hoax
The entire world has pretty much figured it out by now.
The “balloon boy” incident had to be a hoax. Look at the facts.
Richard Heene is a known media whore. His family has been on the ABC reality show “Wife Swap” twice and Heene was working on a new series with its producer before it was canned. He was also attempting to a pitch a show to TLC – but the network didn’t want it.
Heene called the FAA immediately after the balloon took off. That makes sense. The second call? A TV news channel. His third call was to the police.
The family has been all over the news channels since the incident, even though Falcon – the boy who everyone thought was in the balloon – has thrown up twice during interviews.
And let’s not forget that in one of them he told his parents “you said we did this for a show.”
When police searched the Heene’s home, they did not check the attic that Falcon was hiding in because they didn’t believe that a small child could get up there by himself.
He didn’t. His father put him up there.
I sincerely hope that Child Protective Services in Colorado starts an investigation into this family. A man that pretends his child is in mortal danger to get media attention should not be considered a good parent.
Gov. Paterson cuts education funding
http://ubspectrum.com/article/40584
I haven’t had anything published in the paper in a while and this was a fairly easy article – so it was a good warmup.
I just watched Gov. Paterson’s presser online and then grabbed a few key quotes. I then grabbed some quotes from some opposing viewpoints and stuck them at the end. I could have spoken to some officials at UB but I wrote the story around 5 p.m. so no one would have been there.
It’s a short, straightforward article. Quick and dirty but someone had to do it.
