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Friday, December 31, 2010
6 killed in rare New Year's Eve tornado outbreak - Los Angeles Times
 A woman sits on the foundation of a home where a cross made from debris was erected after a tornado tore through the small town of Cincinnati, Ark. The weather system was fueled by unusually warm air. (April L. Brown, AP / December 31, 2010) |
Associated Press
December 31, 2010, 5:15 p.m.
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Reporting from Little Rock, Ark. —
Tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.Three people were killed in the northwestern Arkansas hamlet of Cincinnati when a tornado touched down just before sunrise, and three others were killed when a storm spawned by the same weather system ripped up the Missouri countryside near Rolla. Several storms were also reported in the St. Louis area.
"It sucked me out of my house and carried me across the road and dropped me," Chris Sisemore of Cincinnati, Ark., said. "I was Superman for a while.... You're just free-floating through the air. Trees are knocking you and smacking you down."
Sisemore said he opened his eyes as he flew because he didn't believe he'd see 2011.
"I wanted to see the end coming," he said. "You're only going to see it one time and I thought that was it."
In Missouri, a 19-year-old woman and her 64-year-old grandmother were killed at a Lecoma farm where their family lived among three mobile homes and two frame houses, Dent County Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Nash said.
"We found debris from one of the trailers a mile away," Nash said.
In Arkansas, an elderly couple were killed in their home and a man was killed while milking cows, Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder said.
At Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, a storm damaged 20 homes in a neighborhood that houses officers.
And in Illinois, about two dozen homes were damaged in Petersburg, northwest of Springfield.
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Breaking: Robbers Take Hostages in Houston-Area Bank Standoff
PEARLAND, Texas (AP/Yahoo) – Authorities say two armed robbers are holding hostages at a bank in a suburb of Houston.
Pearland Police Lt. Onesmio Lopez says the assailants struck and injured the manager of the Chase Bank in Pearland just after entering the building Friday morning. Lopez says he doesn’t know how many hostages are inside the building and that police are negotiating with the robbers to try to end the standoff peacefully.
The Houston Chronicle reports that more than 50 police officers have surrounded the building and sealed off nearby streets.
Employees of stores near the bank told the newspaper they heard gunshots.
FBI spokeswoman Pat Villafranca says agents from the Texas City office are assisting police.
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Archeologists Unearth 400-year-old Tobacco Pipes in Jamestown
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who’s who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America’s first permanent English settlement.
The white clay pipes — actually, castoffs likely rejected during manufacturing — were crafted between 1608 and 1610 and bear the names of English politicians, social leaders, explorers, officers of the Virginia Company that financed the settlement and governors of the Virginia colony. Archeologists also found equipment used to make the pipes.
Researchers believe the pipes recovered from a well in James Fort were made to impress investors and the political elite with the financial viability of the settlement. They are likely the rejects that failed to survive the ceramic firing process in a kiln.
The find comprises more than 100 pipes or fragments. More than a dozen are stamped with diamond shapes and inscribed with the names or initials of luminaries including explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, who dispatched the colonists to the territory he named Virginia. He also is credited with popularizing tobacco in England and is said to have smoked a pipe just before being executed for treason in 1618.
Other names include Capt. Samuel Argall, a major Virginia Company investor and governor of Virginia; Sir Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral of England; and Earl of Southampton Henry Wriothesley, a Virginia Company official who was also William Shakespeare’s major patron.
“It really brings the people back into the picture,” said Bly Straube, senior archaeological curator for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. “We have a lot of artifacts that we can associate with types of people like gentleman or women or children, but to find things like the pipe that bears the name Sir Walter Raleigh, I mean, my goodness. … It just makes it very tangible and real.”
The discovery casts lights on the social, political and economic network behind the Jamestown venture that started in 1607, as well as the importance of tobacco to the settlement, said William Kelso, director of archaeological research and interpretation at Historic Jamestowne.
Smoking imported tobacco was very popular in Europe in the early 17th century.
After settlers arrived at Jamestown, tobacco quickly became the American colony’s chief export. Among the immigrants Capt. Francis Nelson brought to Jamestown in 1608 was Robert Cotton, a tobacco pipe maker who likely fashioned the pipes found in the well.
In 1614, the first shipment of Virginia tobacco was sold in London. Jamestown’s tobacco exports to Europe grew from 10 tons in 1619 to 750 tons in 1639.
“Tobacco, whose goodnesse mine own experience and triall induces me to be such, that no country under the Sunne, may, or doth affoord more pleasant, sweet and strong Tobacco, then I have tasted,” Ralph Hamor, a secretary of the colony, wrote in 1614. “I doubt not, (we) will make and returne such Tobacco this yeere, that even England shall acknowledge the goodnesse thereof.”
Tobacco’s popularity created a large demand for pipes that were typically made in London using white clay from Dorset, along England’s southern coast. Interested in the lucrative new industry, investors in the Virginia Company sought to add pipemaking to its trades and sought out adequate clay from the surrounding area.
Settlers, Kelso said, were under “tremendous pressure” to give investors the instant gratification they needed because “they put so much money into it,” and didn’t want to lose their lifeline to England. Colonists tried different trades such as silk making, glassmaking, lumber, sassafras and tar, with no financial success.
“The whole idea was to make money for investors and they enlisted all these specialists that would search Virginia for profitable resources that they could exploit,” Straube said. “Tobacco was the quickest and easiest and most successful.”
The survival of the pipes suggest that many more individualized pipes may have been made for investors and other powerful members of the 17th-century British establishment. Their discovery also may lead to new examination of thousands of other artifacts recovered at Jamestown for further context on colonists’ lives.
“Each new discovery has meaning beyond its own significance,” Straube said. “It can make us look at the past in a different way, and that’s kind of the exciting thing about these pipes.”
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Online:
Historic Jamestown: http://www.HistoricJamestowne.org
Preservation Virginia: http://www.preservationvirginia.org
The Hijacking of Conservatism by Big Government Progressives
Hey conservatives, are you there?
No I don’t mean you Republicans…I mean those of you who are lovers of liberty! I mean those of you who defend the Constitution, not just when it protects them but when it protects someone they don’t like. I know you’re out there. You may be a Libertarian or an independent, you may not be affiliated with any party at all. Ok you might be a Republican too, but I know you’re there.
Well listen up!
I am not exactly sure at what moment the theft of the word “conservative” actually occurred, but I know it has happened. Through the rapid expansion of the size and role of government over the last 100 years the progressives not only infiltrated the Democrats but they infiltrated the Republicans too. They took over words like “liberal” and “conservative.” In fact, if you go back far enough “liberal” used to mean “conservative” until they stole that word. Then all the people who loved freedom found a new home as conservatives, and the progressives came to steal that too.
You see, that is what they do. Progressives are wolves in whatever clothes they need to wear to fool everyone about what their actual agenda is. The reason they do this is because their real agenda is so antithetical to the mission statement of America that most Americans would marginalize the people who espouse these ideas if they knew who they were. Unfortunately, America’s awareness has been dulled by years of addiction to the graft of big government.
If we are not only to survive but thrive as a nation we must separate the progressives who hate freedom from the conservatives that love it. Only then will we know who’s who.
How do we do that? Well conservatives love the Constitution, so let’s start there.
The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of speech–not just the speech you like but the speech you don’t, as well. Ripping from the headlines, let’s look at the WikiLeaks saga. You may not like what Julian Assange is saying, but those who want to peg him as a terrorist who should be hunted down and jailed or even executed, as some have yelled, is no lover of freedom or the Constitution.
This guy is no terrorist; he is an activist. The only difference between him and a less controversial activist is that he threatens to expose the dirty laundry of many elements of power around the world–including our own government. Now, the people who are breaking the law to give him this information may be criminals… OR maybe they are just whistleblowers who, because they work for the government, are held to a different standard. Either way, WikiLeaks has broken no law of the United States.
The Fourth Amendment gives us protection from warrantless search or seizures. Again, how many people are yelling that they are conservatives and yet are telling you its okay if the government reads all your emails, listens to your phone calls, tracks your financial transactions, searches your private property? And government can do this without a warrant because we are at “war with terror”. They tell you if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. The thing you need to fear is them!
I fear that while protesting my needless full body scan and groping by the TSA, I will end up on the governments “no no” list where I will be distracted by an IRS audit as the Department of Homeland Security puts a GPS tracker on my car parked in my garage. These actions do not keep you safe, but they will keep you in line. Giving up your liberty for security is a false logic that is used over and over to medicate people into a coma of silence. To quote Ben Franklin “He who gives up his liberty for security deserves neither.”
The imposters call for free markets and small government, but they interfere at every turn. They support an out of control Federal Reserve system that undermines the entire idea of a free marketplace by having monopolistic control over the US monetary supply. The Fed can print unlimited amounts of money which they pass out to whatever the “preferred” special interests of the day are in total secrecy. These imposters expand bloated government programs like Genghis Kahn expanded the Mongolian Empire. Wasn’t it a “so called” conservative that gave us a multi billion dollar expansion in Medicare just a few years ago? Aren’t true conservatives for no debt and low taxes?
The reason we have big debts is because we have big government. It’s all too big! There isn’t an element of it that isn’t too big. If someone looks you in the face and tells you they are going to balance the budget and shrink the debt and it doesn’t include a wholesale, across the board cut-back in the size of government in every last area, they are no conservative. In addition, there’s not one single excuse to vote for ANY net tax increase, not for a conservative anyway. A progressive, they always need more, but not a conservative.
The point of listing out some of these things is to remind you of what the word “conservative” is supposed to embody. If people say or do things that don’t uphold a strict interpretation of the Constitution and the message of individual liberty, they are not a conservative, but rather an imposter. In the reverse, if they don’t uphold these conservative values then they don’t uphold the Constitution, and they don’t love liberty.
This is America, and people are allowed to have different opinions about what they think is best and freely espouse those opinions, but give me an honest socialist any day over a dishonest progressive. I’ll disagree with the socialist but give them respect; the progressive deserves no respect.
We must hold people accountable for doing what they say. That doesn’t mean you’re perfect or that you can’t ever change your mind, but it does mean you honor your words with your actions! You do what you say, and you say what you do. If politicians, leaders, and pundits don’t uphold the above I can’t tell you exactly what they are, but I can tell you they are no conservative.
Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus: Reconciliation Ahead?
It looks like Miley Cyrus might receive the best holiday gift of all: a loving family.
Witnesses spied the singer's parents at lunch together in Nashville on Wednesday, as sources tell Star Magazine Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus - who filed for divorce on October 26 - were smiling when they walked out of P.F. Chang's.
“Billy Ray and Tish have been spending a lot of time together because of the kids," an insider claims. "Just after the split, they were screaming mad at each other. But now they’ve mellowed and are reaching an understanding."
Without the final divorce papers signed - and with "Miley pushing them to reconsider," according to this source - might there be hope for this marriage after all? We'll keep you informed.
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
The THG Celebrity of the Year: Justin Bieber!
With 2010 about the conclude, it has been with much pride that THG has spent weeks unveiling its finalists for its prestigious, Fourth Annual Celebrity of the Year award.
These stars all gave us their best, their worst, their nude pics (sometimes) and their scandals (often).
Earlier this week, we had no choice but to honor the violent, woman-berating Mel Gibson at #2, and now we present the top celebrity of 2010: Justin Bieber!
Justin Bieber - U Smile (Live in Atlanta)
We could ramble on about Bieber's good looks, his sense of humor, his musical ability, his fun-loving, humble attitude. But the numbers in 2010 sum up everything that needs to be said about why this year belonged to the Biebs:
ONE: The ranking of Bieber among all human beings that were searched for on Google.
6,480,149: His number of Twitter followers.
424,585,480: As of this posting, the number of times "Baby" had been watched on YouTube.
90: The seconds it took for him to finish a Rubix Cube on live television.
THREE: American Music Awards earned, including Artist of the Year.
178 (Unofficial): Number of products that use Bieber's likeness, including trading cards, perfume and nail polish.
70: Interviews/concert clips in our Justin Bieber video section waiting to be watched right this very moment!
197,854 (Approximate): Number of hearts broken over the news that Justin may be dating Selena Gomez.
Countless: Squeals per second elicited by Bieber during every public appearance.
It's been an astounding year for this artist, as well as for THG in general. We are thankful to every single reader that has made our site a tiny part of your life and we hope to continue to serve your celebrity gossip needs in 2011 and beyond.
Happy new year!
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Troubled Teens Born in the Classroom
“I could never home-school. I would probably kill my kid by Wednesday, if I had to spend the entire day with him, every day!”
Typical fare for the teenager-parent relationship? Unfortunately, yes. But ironically, the individuals making these pronouncements are often the ideal candidates for home schooling. Possibly the worst thing frustrated parents can do is send their aloof, argumentative children away (to school.) In any other setting, dropping them off somewhere, for someone else to deal with, would be deemed giving up on the relationship. (This is the way children likely perceive the slight as well – they aren’t stupid, you know.)
If the parents cannot stand to spend time with their own child, how will he ever feel loved? But parents are so blinded by school’s beacon; they shield their eyes and shove the child into the wolves’ den. (It is no wonder he returns home behaving like a wild animal.)
What children learn in school
Parents wonder where their relationship with their teen went wrong. Answer: Their influence was all but eclipsed the moment the child crossed the school threshold. It’s that simple.
Each day a young child goes to school, he learns (way too early,) that his parents don’t know everything. School reinforces this point by teaching the little ones to instruct their parents. “Tell Mommy not to pack plastic sandwich bags in your lunch – that kills the dolphins!” Mommy kills dolphins!
He makes friends with other kids whose parents also slaughter innocent animals. He joins his peers, learns to challenge authority, then comes home and asserts himself. The parent thinks, “Well, that’s probably a good thing, because he is learning to be self-confident and capable.”
But a good parent has a sneaking suspicion that it isn’t quite right.
Troubled Teens
A few years later, still on the school treadmill, the youngster becomes a surly judgmental teen and the fights get too big to try to win anymore. The parent throws his hands up and sighs. “Teenagers!” It’s inevitable: the independence, the ego, his disdain for Mom’s outdated values and his resentment that Dad somehow has maintained control of the Wii remote or his access to the car.
The experts, school authorities, say they see this type of thing every day and advise the parents to weather the storm. Other parents agree: the teen years are the pits – but completely normal and acceptable. (Shrugs and chuckles!)
By “normal” they mean that most children go through this, but most children are enrolled in school.
By “acceptable” they mean it simply must be endured; it is unavoidable. Wrong.
“I’m too lazy to take on home schooling. It’s all I can do to keep up with their homework.” “I can’t teach my kids. What would I do when they got to algebra or calculus? I don’t remember any of that stuff.”
If first grade learning is too hard, by all means, start him in school now. But let’s not fool ourselves: homework is home school (just with more pressure, later in the day, when everyone’s tired, hungry and grouchy.)
Acquaintances of mine went to a home schooling convention early on in their children’s lives and met families with polite, loving teenagers. They quickly decided, “That’s how we want our kids to behave when they are that age.” Now they successfully home school their respectful and caring teens.
Academics?
On December 6th, President Obama addressed a report that US teens continue to sink in world education rankings, calling for another “Sputnik moment.” It took only 18 years to bring our space program up to par, but we were already running second in the race. According to the Programme for International Student Assessment, in a recent study of 65 countries, US education scored lower than fourteenth on the list, well behind Japan and South Korea.
Is a mediocre education worth risking the parent-child relationship? Not when home-schooled children typically out-perform their public school counterparts by 30-37 percentile points across the board. Socializing all day (for that is truly what school has become,) is apparently not the most sensible way to nurture or instruct a child.
With so little to recommend a public education, the decision to send a child to school must be a product of societal conditioning. Responsible parents owe it to themselves and their families to investigate home schooling options.
As distressing as they are, the parents’ mundane declarations in this article articulate tremendous loss: the death tolls of those parent-child relationships. They indicate great naïveté, and yes, selfishness. Tragically, these parents have speciously placed their hope and trust in an institutionalized “education” system that gradually but resoundingly destroys the very fabric of their family life and, consequently, the future role of family in our nation.
Staged Teen Mom Drama: Gary Shirley "Argues" About Clinton Yunker at Buffalo Wild Wings
Is MTV's Teen Mom making like The Hills and playing up the drama for the cameras? Even staging it altogether? This new clip would strongly suggest so.
Amber Portwood's ex, Gary Shirley, got into an "argument" at Buffalo Wild Wings in Anderson, Ind., and wouldn't you know it, the cameras were there.
As we reported yesterday, Amber broke up with Clinton Yunker, her latest boyfriend, this week. As he celebrated his single status, Gary walked in ...
Gary Shirley-Clinton Yunker Argument
The video above, in which Gary argues with Clint's brother, shows him inciting other people in the restaurant and threatening to make them "famous."
Gary seems to know exactly what's going on, making you wonder if the whole thing is a setup to make money - and what other scenes that applies to.
Amber Portwood has told police the violence was "real" and that her beatings of Gary were not encouraged by the network, but we're a bit suspect.
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Brooke Mueller and Dave Navarro: New Couple Alert!
Let's hope Charlie Sheen isn't reading this post. It might be enough to drive him to drink!
On Wednesday night, the actor's ex-wife didn't merely dine with Jane Addiction's frontman Dave Navarro, she was spotted swapping significant spit with the former Carmen Electra lover!
As first reported by TMZ, witnesses spotted Navarro and Brooke Mueller at Nobu. When the former went outside to smoke, he was soon joined by the latter - and a "full on make out" commenced, sources confirm.
The two came back inside, gathered their belongings and left together. We're guessing a full on more-than-make-out session followed from there.
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
The Obama’s Dance Company to Get Strict Government Oversight
There’s something curiously missing from this story on Chicago’s Mantu Dance Company. It may be the only time the company has made big news without a mention of Barack and Michelle Obama in years.
One can only imagine the headlines were it so closely linked to a Republican President.
Illinois officials are taking a closer look at a nonprofit dance company that was awarded a $4.5 million state grant in 2003 for a planned performing arts center on the South Side that has yet to begin construction.
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity spokeswoman Marcelyn Love, whose department hands out millions in grant money every year to arts and culture organizations, said the Muntu Dance Theater Co. of Chicago will be placed on “strict oversight” as they move forward with long-delayed plansto build an arts center at 47th Street and Greenwood Avenue in the city’s Kenwood neighborhood.
At issue is a 6 million dollar, if not more, vacant lot in Chicago.
A circular concrete barrier behind a tattered chain-link fence at the corner of 47th Street and Greenwood Avenue in the Kenwood neighborhood is all there is to show for once-ambitious plans to remake a struggling business corridor into a hub for African-American arts and culture.
Eight years ago, the nonprofit Muntu Dance Theatre secured more than $6 million in city and state grants, rights to the two-acre property for $1, and cash donations from the likes of ComEd and Boeing to build a $15 million performing arts center.
At the time, the project came with the blessings of local leaderswho hoped to not only turn around the fortunes of an area littered with liquor stores and boarded-up buildings, but help restore a piece of Bronzeville’s historic luster.
It’s interesting to note that Michelle Obama appears to now have enough time to plan school lunches for every child in America, yet, despite sitting on Mantu’s board for years didn’t seem to be able to find time to provide the least bit of oversight that may have prevented this problem. And that’s not all.
First Lady Michelle Obama served on Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago’s board prior to leaving the windy city.
Based upon financial disclosures in 2006, it was one of only four entities to which the Obamas gave money – five-thousand dollars to be exact. One has to wonder just how instrumental were the Obama’s in assisting the dance company in raising so much cash that seems to have been so poorly applied. That’s assuming it hasn’t simply disappeared, of course.
She even chaired their anniversary gala in 2007. But then, what’s $15 million dollars and a vacant lot in Chicago when one is busy tending the White House garden, or attempting to dictate what every American school child can, or can not eat? One can only imagine the play this story would have gotten had it been a Texas dance company linked so closely to George and Laura Bush.
Michelle Obama to chair Muntu Dance Theatre’s 35th anniversary gala
Why Camille Grammer Wants $50 Million
This just in: Kelsey and Camille Grammer won't be getting back together.
With the actor engaged to Kayte Walsh and the Real Housewife having lost so much respect for her ex, why haven't these two officially filed for divorce yet? Two words: money and revenge.
Is Camille Grammer America's Most Hated Housewife? Vote HERE!
The New York Post reports that Kelsey offered Camille about one-third of his fortune last week. But the latter didn't accept $30 million as a settlement because the amount did not include alimony or child support.
Oh, and because she wants to make her soon-to-be-ex suffer for his recent behavior.
According to California law, Camille is entitled to half of what Kelsey earned during the pair's marriage. This amounts to approximately $50 million. She's intent on collecting every penny, a friend says, because:
"She has accepted their marriage is over and that he wants to marry Kayte in January.. but what she can't accept is how he's parading around Kayte, who looks like the cat who swallowed the canary. Their public make-out sessions are really insensitive because of their kids."
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Witnessing the De-Klein
I know it’s MSNBC and everything, but I still had difficulty believing I actually witnessed this clip on Breitbart TV of a silly little man saying the Constitution is irrelevant and confusing because it’s, like, more than 100 years old.
That does seem to be the sort of thing only the very young might say. So long as they are also rather foolish.
So I did a quick search for ‘Ezra Klein graduated with degree in’, hoping against delicious hope he was some sort of classics major. Or something indicating this young feller had possibly been required to read other really, you know, old stuff like maybe the Gettysburg Address or the Bible or…oh, dear, did he just say what I think he said about the Koran? Maybe Burke (I kid). Marbury v. Madison. Or Robinson Crusoe (‘Friday’? What the hell kind of name is that? Oh. 1719. Nooo wuuunder.)
But his degree was in political science. So class assignments probably didn’t range far beyond reading the writings of 26 year-olds at the Washington Post, which he wanted to grow up to become when he was 26. And did!
Which I learned while so searching, when this post came up near the top. Watch Klein, then read this from a few months ago. You can almost imagine the author, today, saying “I almost wrote that he might say something remarkably stupid nicely proving beyond dispute and in one fell swoop my and the WaPo commenters’ point, like…well, this. But that seemed mean.”
Scott Disick Blows Up, Kourtney Kardashian Pleads with Paparaazzi
It takes a lot for us to side with Scott Disick. Seriously, the guy makes Jon Gosselin look like a non-douchebag.
But it's hard to find issue with the reality star's reaction in the video below. Confronted by paparazzi who get far too close to son Mason, Disick goes off at the Miami airport. Seriously, don't they know it costs at least $5,000 to videotape his son?!?
Scott Disick Versus the Paparazzi
Following this incident, Kourtney Kardashian took to her blog and tried to reason with all celebrity gossip reporters out there. She wrote:
“Paparazzi beware. Please don’t get too close to Mason. We don’t like it. Stay at a friendly distance, don’t ask dumb questions and we can all get along."
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Jon Gosselin Tries, Fails to Stop Kate Plus 8 Australian Adventure
Jon Gosselin really doesn't want his kids on TV anymore.
Some have questioned his motives, but he seems intent on living a normal life these days and for his eight offspring to experience the same thing.
That said, he went to court to stop Kate Gosselin from taking them to Australia, but was denied by a judge because the excursion is work related.
The same judge allowed Kate Gosselin to film her spin-off reality TV show, Kate Plus 8, on TLC in the first place, despite vehement objections by Jon.
“This was yet another slap in the face for Jon because he did not want the kids to go to Australia," a source close to Jon Gosselin told Radar Online.
“But the judge ruled that because it was for work it was okay. Jon had plans with the kids. Now he won't see them until they return in mid-January."
"He was scheduled to have them this weekend, but there was nothing he could do as the decision was taken out of his hands by the judge."
“Kate told Jon about the trip, and when he did not agree it was decided that the judge should intervene and the ruling went in her favor."
“He is trying to put a brave face on and has explained the situation to his own family and friends, but this is a big disappointment for him."
“But if nothing else, they all respect him for trying to stand up to Kate and for fighting for what he thinks is right for his kids as well.”
Fresh off goin' camping with Sarah Palin in Alaska, Kate flew to Australia with her eight kids, plus body guard Steve Nield, on Tuesday.
The Gosselin crew will also visit New Zealand, and during the excursion they will shoot tons of footage for future episodes of Kate Plus 8.
As for Jon's plans tonight?
“It is most likely that he will be staying in Pennsylvania to be with his girlfriend Ellen Ross plus family and friends as they ring in 2011."
Sounds normal at least.
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
John Mellencamp Splits from Wife of 18 Years
The marriage of rocker John Mellencamp and wife Elaine has come to an end.
A spokesman for the couple of nearly two decades says the two are "calling it a day," adding:
"John and Elaine Mellencamp are proud of their 20 years together and are very happy with their accomplishments both as parents and as a family."
John and Elaine have two sons. Both will remain in Indiana to raise the children, while it's safe to assume John's "Pink Houses" will remain in our heads forever. Thanks a lot, Ford!
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Is Cher Lloyd a Member of Roc Nation?
Is the next big name in music a member of Roc Nation?
Sources tell Great Britian's The Sun that Cher Lloyd has signed with Jay Z's record label. Says an insider of the X Factor finalist:
“There’s been a hell of a lot of interest in her. Will.i.am’s backing only intensified the battle to get her signature. After weighing up the pros and cons, it was thought that the team at Roc Nation would be best placed to turn her dreams of stardom into a reality.”
Cher Lloyd - Love the Way You Lie (Live)
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Spotted: Brangelina in ... Missouri!
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are always on the move. Their latest stop? Pitt's hometown of Springfield, Mo., where they spread good cheer ... and money.
Just days after celebrating Christmas in Namibia, the couple made a brief stopover at the St. John’s Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center in Springfield, Mo.
That's the place where Brad grew up.
"They called a little bit ahead, about an hour ahead, and requested to tour the pediatric center," hospital spokesperson Cora Scott said on Thursday.
"They stayed about 45 minutes. It was a very nice visit."
Pitt and Jolie, along with Pitt's brother and sister and their families, donated $1 million to St. John's Foundation for Community Health just last year.
They dedicated a pediatric cancer center to Pitt's mom.
"Jane Pitt is a gem in our community," Scott said. "She's a very wonderful woman who cares so very much about the well being of children."
During the brief visit Wednesday, the Hollywood A-list couple were accompanied by both of Brad Pitt's parents along with his brother Doug.
Pitt and Jolie didn't mention New Year's plans, but for now it seems that the couple and their kids are spending time with extended family.
No mention of their recent wedding either ... SHOCKING.
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
Ryan Phillippe to Reese Witherspoon: Congrats!
As recently as this spring, Ryan Phillippe said he was still sad over his divorce from Reese Witherspoon.
But the actor has taken the high, mature road when it comes to his ex-wife's recent engagement, telling The New York Daily News:
"I'm very happy for both Reese and Jim. I wish nothing but the best for the mother of my children."
Phillippe and Witherspoon have two children together.
They divorced in 2008 amidst rumors that he cheated on her with Abbie Cornish, with whom Ryan then carried on a relationship for many months. He's now single.
Source: The Hollywood Gossip
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Leading RNC Candidate’s Law Firm Supports Obamacare: Says It’s Constitutional
This ought to go over well with the conservative base…
If you thought the fact that RNC Chair candidate, Maria Cino, was an Obamacare lobbyist was outrageous wait until you hear the latest…
The leading candidate in the race – Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional!
Yes, you read that correctly.
Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.
Unbelievable.
The far left Think Progress website reported this today:
On January 14, 168 standing members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an election to select the next national chairman of the party. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is running for a second term against a number of challengers, including Saul Anuzis, Ann Wagner, Maria Cino, Gentry Collins, and Reince Priebus.
Priebus, the current state chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is positioning himself as the true conservative alternative to Steele…
Despite his heated anti-Obama attacks, Priebus makes a living at a law firm far more comfortable with the policies of President Obama. Priebus works as a partner at the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best and Friedrich LLP. Over the summer, the firm created a series of presentations to explain health reform to its clients and to pitch the firm’s services for employers looking to comply with new health reform regulations. In one presentation, John Barlament, a colleague to Priebus at the firm, said that a health reform repeal is not only unlikely, but that the lawsuits brought by Republican Party allies to declare the law unconstitutional probably have no merit. Referring to the controversy over the individual mandate, Barlament explained that the commerce clause of the constitution “gives Congress authority to act on his legislation.”
It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this.
Is this really the person who needs to be leading the RNC for the next two years?
Good Grief… Leading RNC Candidate’s Law Firm Supports Obamacare – Says It’s Constitutional
This ought to go over well with the conservative base…
If you thought the fact that RNC Chair candidate, Maria Cino, was an Obamacare lobbyist was outrageous wait until you hear the latest…
The leading candidate in the race – Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional!
Yes, you read that correctly.
Reince Priebus’s law firm supports Obamacare and says its constitutional.
Unbelievable.
Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is seen here with RNC Chairman Michael Steele. (News One)
The far left Think Progress website reported this today:
On January 14, 168 standing members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an election to select the next national chairman of the party. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is running for a second term against a number of challengers, including Saul Anuzis, Ann Wagner, Maria Cino, Gentry Collins, and Reince Priebus.
Priebus, the current state chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is positioning himself as the true conservative alternative to Steele…
Despite his heated anti-Obama attacks, Priebus makes a living at a law firm far more comfortable with the policies of President Obama. Priebus works as a partner at the Milwaukee law firm Michael Best and Friedrich LLP. Over the summer, the firm created a series of presentations to explain health reform to its clients and to pitch the firm’s services for employers looking to comply with new health reform regulations. In one presentation, John Barlament, a colleague to Priebus at the firm, said that a health reform repeal is not only unlikely, but that the lawsuits brought by Republican Party allies to declare the law unconstitutional probably have no merit. Referring to the controversy over the individual mandate, Barlament explained that the commerce clause of the constitution “gives Congress authority to act on his legislation.”
It will be interesting to hear what GOP Leader John Boehner, GOP Whip Eric Cantor and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have to say about this.
Is this really the person who needs to be leading the RNC for the next two years?
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