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Karl Rove Subpoenaed...And Dissed!
2008-05-22 23:10:00
Karl Rove - the former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, and since a commentator on FOX News, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal, has been subpoenaed by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., a Democrat in Michigan, issued a press release today announcing that Rove is wanted to produce testimony about the politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ), and former Governor Don Siegelman's case.
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Julianne Hough Sings From New CD On Good Morning America
2008-05-22 23:08:00
Some women get all the talent! We thought Adam Carolla was joking when he plugged Julianne Hough's new CD on the finale of Dancing With The Stars this week...but it's true! Ms. Julianne Hough has a self-titled CD that was just released on May 20th. The gorgeous 19-year-old dancer - one of the best on DWTS - has a nice voice!
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Nick Hogan Spends Hours A Day On The Phone From Jail
2008-05-22 23:07:00
We don't know how, but somehow ABC Action News got sly and obtained audio recordings of phone conversations that Nick Bollea (aka Nick Hogan ) has been making from jail to his parents, Linda Hogan Bollea and Terry Hulk Hogan Bollea. In the calls, Nick sniffs as if he's crying, and complains that he can't take 8 more months of sitting in a windowless room half the size of his bathroom.
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Spike Lee Announces Michael Jordan, The Movie
2008-05-22 23:05:00
How many more years until LeBron James will get his? Hehe. Spike Lee announced at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday that he is shooting a documentary film about the life and career of retired NBA star Michael Jordan (financed by none-other-than the NBA themselves).
More About: Movie , Michael Jordan

John McCain And Ellen DeGeneres Talk Gay Marriage
2008-05-22 23:03:00
How awkward is this: Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has said in the past that he's proud to have led an effort in [Arizona] to protect the sanctity of marriage as between a man and a woman, and who supported the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (which banned federal recognition of gay marriage and domestic partnerships), was on the Ellen DeGeneres Show today.
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Singers Apparently Forget Singing Is An Art, Too
2008-05-22 23:03:00
Dang, what's up with all the singers wanting to be actresses, and not wanting to call themselves singers anymore? According to yesterday's SFGate Daily Dish, Beyonce Knowles semi-confirmed her April 4th New York wedding to Jay-Z by saying, I don't deny it. I just don't talk about it...A lot of actresses that have had successful relationships don't talk about them, so neither do I.
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Kentucky Election Results Are In, Oregon's Almost Complete
2008-05-21 13:34:00
Barack Obama has the lead in Oregon with 58% of the vote and 21 delegates thusfar; Hillary Clinton is about 16% behind with 42% of the vote and 14 delegates. As for the Republicans in Oregon, Ron Paul faired much better in the Beaver State: Paul got 45,114 votes so far, claiming 15% of the vote - though still about 70% behind Senator John McCain.
More About: Results , Election , Kentucky , Complete

Mariska Hargitay Pregnancy Speculation
2008-05-21 13:33:00
Mariska Hargitay and her hubby Peter Hermann were at the Joyful Heart Foundation Gala in New York City yesterday. Seriously, how gorgeous are they? And Mariska's red jade earrings - love it! The Joyful Heart Foundation is an awesome cause (cofounded by Mariska herself, six years ago). After playing Detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU), Mariska said her eyes were opened to "the epidemic of sexual assault" in America.
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A Possible Victory For Both Cattle And Beef Eaters
2008-05-21 13:31:00
Strange that there could be a victory for both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike, eh? But a new bill could mean just that. The Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act could protect both cows and people, as it would ban USDA inspectors at slaughterhouses from approving meat from downed cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and equines. According to the HSUS, at least 13 of the 16 cases of mad cow disease in North America have involved downed animals; and in February, the largest beef recall in U.S. history was revealed after animals who appeared sick, injured, and unable to walk were led into the food supply.
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Kristi Yamaguchi First Woman To Win Dancing With The Stars
2008-05-21 13:30:00
First there were twelve contestants...now there is one! There could only be one winner on ABC's Dancing With The Stars , and for the first time in six seasons of celebrity dance competition, the winner is a woman (in America, that is). Kristi Yamaguchi and her partner Mark Ballas were pegged for the favorite from the beginning - before the show started, even!
More About: Dancing with the Stars , Woman

If Ohioans Don't Speak Up, They May Lose Pit Bulls Entirely
2008-05-21 13:28:00
Some cities in Ohio - like Parma and Garfield Heights, for example - have already lost their right to own pit bulls and similar mixed breeds in Ohio, after the city councils passed Breed Specific Legislation (BSL). Now, every city in Ohio may stand to lose ownership rights to own these pups of England ancestry...unless Ohioans speak up and say otherwise.
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May 20th News Roundup, Stuff You Don't Want To Miss
2008-05-21 13:26:00
40,000 troops to be deployed in the fall; Nas changes his controversial album title; Jessica Alba weds longtime boyfriend Cash Warren; Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz celebrate their honeymoon in the basement with inflatable palm trees; all this in our May 20th News Roundup .
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Dude, Is This Appropriate?
2008-05-21 13:24:00
I like Fergie Ferg...but maybe her concerts should be 18 & over? Stacey Ferguson, aka Fergie, performed on the Today Show today, and sang her version of Heart's Barracuda. It was all going okay until she got down on her hands and knees and started doing various...erm, poses...in front of the teens and tweens in the audience.
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What's Going On With Nancy Pelosi?
2008-05-21 13:22:00
Nancy Pelosi has never really been one to keep quiet, but things seem to have been mum on the Pelosi front lately. What is the Democratic majority leader up to? Well, she actually flew to Baghdad, Iraq on Saturday in an announced visit to the capital, where she reportedly held talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Mahmud Mashadani.
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Come On, Not Everyone Can Rock This Color
2008-05-21 13:21:00
Natalie Portman showed up for the Le Silence de Lorna premiere at the 61st International Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France yesterday in a ruffled navy blue dress and loopy updo. You know, I have very little in my closet that's navy blue: maybe one or two things. It's just one of those colors I was never drawn to.
More About: Color , Rock

Thing 2 Wins Flavor Of Love 3, And Deelishis Lookalike Contest
2008-05-21 13:19:00
Last night was the season finale of Flavor of Love 3. Not that we watched it, or care. But we find it interesting to point out that the winner - nicknamed Thing 2 (as opposed to her twin sister, Thing 1, who was also a contestant) is totally a knock-off of the Season 2 winner, Deelishis .
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Hayden Panettiere Teams Up With...Eva Longoria?
2008-05-21 13:19:00
Animal rights warrior and environmentally-friendly actress Hayden Panettiere is offering a prize package to eBay bidders: a ticket on Condor Cruises' Condor Express for lunch, a whale-watching tour, a $1000 American Express gift card, and tickets for the winner and five of his/her friends to a Save The Whales Again fundraising dinner.
More About: Eva Longoria , Teams

Remembering Frank Sinatra
2008-05-20 05:14:00
One of our favorite Italian-American personalities - Frank Sinatra - passed away ten years ago last week. On May 14th, 1998, a decade ago Friday, Francis Albert Sinatra died at age 82 in Los Angeles, California. He was a singer, an actor, a producer, a director, and above all, a legend.
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Dennis Rodman Out On Party Bail
2008-05-20 05:12:00
Dennis Rodman was out celebrating his birthday in Las Vegas over the weekend, just weeks after his release from an overnight jail stay in California. Rodman was arrested over a domestic dispute on April 30th in which Los Angeles police say he injured another person. Dennis is being accused of hitting a woman at an LA hotel. So now - out on $50,000 bail - Rodman, who just turned 47, hit up Hawaiian Tropic Zone's Torrid Nightclub at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, where he spent Friday night smoking cigars and canoodling with comedian Scott Carrot Top Thompson.
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Angelina Jolie Knows All Walks Of Life...So What?
2008-05-20 05:10:00
The UK's paper The Sun has dug up vintage video of Angelina Jolie , at 23 years old and allegedly in a drug den. In an article - published today, and entitled, From Heroin To Heroine (even though Angie didn't take any drugs in the video) - The Sun writes, The shocking scenes show just how far she has come to now travel the Third World as a UN ambassador.
More About: Life , Walks

Charles Barkley's No 'Dumbass' - He's Paying Those Gambling Debts
2008-05-20 05:08:00
No, Charles Barkley didn't call himself a dumbass intentionally: it was a little trick fellow anchors on TNT Sports TV played on him. Within the wording of the teleprompter, one of his co-anchors typed something funny on the screen...and Barkley read it out loud. Funny stuff! Check out the video.
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Janet Jackson Turns To Authoring
2008-05-20 05:06:00
Unfortunately for Janet Jackson , her last album hasn't gone so well: it started out okay, with the first single, Feedback, reaching #19 on the Billboard's Hot 100. But the singles released after that didn't make a splash, and the album sales for Discipline have dropped to about 310,000 copies in the US, making it one of her least successful albums. But Janet isn't discouraged; she has a couple of things in the works.

Senate Passes Victory For American Public, Loss For Media Giants
2008-05-20 05:05:00
Gotta love Bill Moyers: he tells it like it is, y'all. According to StopBigMedia .com, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received thousands of phone calls and over a quarter of a million letters, protesting the FCC's plan to allow the largest media giants to consolidate even further. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced the measure to the Senate ; Illinois Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was one of the proponents of the bill.
More About: Victory , Public , American

Ron Paul's Revolution Hits No. 1 On NY Times Best Seller List
2008-05-20 05:00:00
What's up with West Virginia? They disappointed Ron Paul supporters with last week's WV primary results: Ron Paul received only 5% of the vote; 5% behind Mike Huckabee who scored 10% and has declared himself out of the race for months now. But there's also good news going for Ron Paul: last week, his hardcover book Revolution : A Manifesto hit #1 on the New York Times Best Seller s list.
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Chinese Product Boycott...Your Recalls Revenge
2008-05-20 04:56:00
Are we Americans as dumb as we appear or is it that we just do not think? While the Chinese , knowingly and intentionally, export inferior products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the Bush Administration for perceived errors. Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended. Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?
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Did You Know She's A Vegetarian?
2008-05-20 04:54:00
One is a singer, one's an actress, and one's a porn star (turned-actress). But these three ladies all have one major thing in common: they're vegetarians! Yup - Leona Lewis has a "Bleeding Love" for animals; Hayden Panettiere eats meat-free; and Jenna Jameson is a vegan. Of course, they're not the only leading ladies on this list (far from it), and PETA has compiled a list of Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities - men and women - of 2008.

Men Who Stare At Goats
2008-05-20 04:53:00
That's the title of one of George Clooney's upcoming films. No, really, it's not a joke. The movie will be based on Jon Ronson's non-fiction book.
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Ludacris And Tommy Lee On The Battleground
2008-05-20 04:52:00
Tommy Lee and Ludacris are teaming up to build bamboo homes from construction kits. The company that supplies the kits is Bamboo Technologies. They're saying that their homes can be anything from a 120 sq ft bungalow to a 3,000 sq ft two story Bamboo Mansion.
More About: Tommy Lee , Tommy

May 15th News Roundup, Stuff You Don't Want To Miss
2008-05-15 22:15:00
A much needed nature break...baby goslings, geese, and a deer with yours truly and background music by Natalie Merchant; Michael Moore filming a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11; GreenLivingOnline says hand sanitizers can be dangerous for children and soap and water is still the best method; Charles Barkley faces gambling debts and possible criminal charges; Senate defies President George W. Bush and passes farm bill; Republican candidate Ron Paul was on news radio talking about a possible Ron Paul Revolution at the GOP Convention; all this and more in our May 15th News Roundup !
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John McCain Being EcoFriendly, Do You Buy It?
2008-05-15 22:13:00
Unswayed by the leaps in converts to the Democratic Party this year, and also by the million or so voters just tacked on for Ron Paul, Senator John McCain's campaign is stepping it up a notch and embracing green stuff. Not to be outdone by climate change references in the Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama campaigns, McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis announced new Eco Friendly Clothes this week.
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