Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 16, 2017

Trash talk and satellite dish:

Warning: note drug content.
ANTONIO SABATO, Jr., is quickly learning that politics can get very ugly, very fast. TMZ reports his estranged wife, CHERYL, alleges he's had a big, fat prescription pill problem, fessed up to using meth prior to 2009 and was motivated to get sober after the birth of his daughter. Antonio admits he went to rehab to quit sleeping pills and an advocate for addiction issues, but claims: "Whatever else she says is just a bunch of lies."
The 90's soap star is planning to run for Congress and filed divorce documents on December 27th. (Lee)

Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places:

Warning! Note sexual content!
This will certainly bring more people to church! The Social Club in Tennessee has a permit that lets it operate as a church, but apparently it's a swingers club. Two undercover inspectors were able to get in with a $40 dollar cover and were brought around to different room where some people were "engaged" and others watched. A lawyer for the owners of the business still maintains that it's a church. It's the second such location in Nashville that's been used as swingers club. (Myers)

Tampering with Mother Nature:

A tiny, uninhabited piece of land in the South Pacific Ocean, called Henderson Island, is considered one of the most remote islands in the world. It's also covered with the most garbage. LiveScience says Henderson Island is so remote that it's visited only every five to 10 years, and then just for research purposes. And it has earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most polluted island. In a new study, researchers estimate that 37.7 million pieces of plastic --amounting to 17 tons of plastic debris-- litter the beaches of Henderson Island. That's 681 pieces of debris per square meter (or, if you don't speak metric system, about 62 pieces of trash per square foot). That gives Henderson Island the densest plastic pollution ever recorded anywhere on Earth.
The island sits near the center of the South Pacific Gyre ocean current, which means litter from South America or debris dropped by fishing boats culminates at the island. Just one beach on Henderson Island will have more than 3,750 new pieces of litter wash up every day.
Editor's note: To put this in perspective, If Henderson Island were the island TOM HANKS landed on in "Castaway," he would not have had to wait four years for a piece of Port-o-Potty to wash ashore before he could make the raft that would ultimately lead him back to civilization. From the looks of these pictures,he could have built his own motorized tug boat with sleeping quarters, a full working kitchen and a volleyball court (for Wilson, of course) with all the trash he'd scavenge from the shore line. (Bartha)