There’s always all those jokes about old ladies dying and leaving everything to the cat’s home.

Well in Italy it has just really happened - to the tune of $15 million.

Maria Assunta died at age 94 with no heirs and left her entire fortune to Tomassino, a stray cat she had adopted.

It sounds like the Italian economy needs the money more than the damn cat.

 The Huffington Post has it right.

Writing about the farce of congress calling French fries and tomato sauce on frozen pizza “a vegetable” in school meals, Krisitin Wartman notes large food companies such as conAgra and Schwan spent $5.6m lobbying. And, lo and behold, congress killed the proposed Department of Agriculture guidelines to increase the amount of (badly needed) fruit and vegetables in school lunches.

congressional vegetables

As usual, congress didn’t have the balls to do the right thing (is there anyone in either house who will do the right thing, not jus what ever will bring them the most money/best chance or re-election/power?)

The argument, conservatives are reported as making, is that it is not the job of the “Nanny State” to tell people what to eat.

There are so many flaws to this argument - in that we legislate what’s good for people in so many other places.

But the point Wartman makes is it’s not the government that controls our kid’s desire to eat the “sugary, salty and fatty products” that are causing them to become fat, diabetic, hypertensive and atherosclerotic.

“Corporations do” she says, through relentless advertising and their monopoly on schools cafeterias.

Plastic surgeons take note - buxom Mexican actress Salma Hayek has found a way, other than implanting silicone or saline at great expense, to make her tits bigger.She was a “skinny tomboy” until she went to a church where there was meant to be a cooperative saint that did a lot of miracles. She put her hands in the holey water and prayed to Jesus to give her some boobs (I have never heard it discussed, but do you think Jesus was a boob man?).

Divine

Any way, lo and behold, she has a famous pair of knockers now.