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FDA: "Our Bad"

WASHINGTON (CAP) - FDA officials held a press conference yesterday to address concerns regarding a recent meningitis outbreak blamed on tainted pharmaceuticals.
"We're sorry about the 'steroid injections' debacle," spokesman Brian Navez told the press. "We feel really bad about that whole thing."
Navez suggested that the FDA's annual budget has failed to keep pace with the growing number of products introduced into the marketplace each year.
"This morning alone we received applications for the approval of three new drugs developed to treat erectile dysfunction, and one snack cracker developed to treat erectile dysfunction," he said.
Looming budget cuts have intensified the agency's difficulties. "In my district, we've all actually been sharing one computer," Navez admitted.
Regulatory officials have raised concerns in recent years that the FDA's focus has become too broad for effective regulation.
"At this point it's like, do you guys want to know if this new eyelash-thickening serum is going to give you seizures, or do you want us to keep rats out of your kids' chicken nuggets?" Navez asked in closing. "Because we can't do both."
Contributing Writer

TOKYO (CAP) - Women live longer than men partly because after a certain number of years the men just go "meh" and throw in the towel, a new Japanese study suggests.
Dr. Katsuiku Matsukawa of the Tokyo Medical and Dental University said a study of more than 300 elderly couples found that for most men, there comes a day when they just will themselves into the afterlife rather than put up with one more minute with the spouse destined to outlive them.
"Whereas the women know if they can just outlast the man, they can have years, sometimes decades of enjoyable and fulfilling experiences ahead without them, many of them involving cheesecake with like-minded spunky old female friends," explained Dr. Matsukawa.

WASHINGTON (CAP) - A new study out of the Pew Research Center finds that the wedding of Honey Boo Boo's mother June Shannon to longtime boyfriend Mike Thompson has devalued all marriages to the point where people are ashamed to admit they share the same connubial status as the reality show couple.
"People have been watching the train wreck that is Mama June and Sugar Bear since Honey Boo Boo's Toddlers & Tiaras days and - Oh my God, I can't believe I just said that sentence with a straight face," said Pew spokesman Dr. Francis Spitznagel.
"The bottom line is that 87% of the couples we surveyed wanted to immediately annul their marriages just to ensure they had nothing in common with those two wastoids," Spitznagel added. "The other 13% thought we were talking about a new Yogi Bear movie."
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