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I’m Not Racist Because I Disagree With Obama(0) Brain dead D-list actress Angie Harmon is flexing her political muscles in a recent interview. Since Angie’s stellar career is filled with bombs like Baywatch Nights, Renegade, and gems like Agent Cody Banks, we are going to assume she’s just as wrong about Obama and she is about her slim career choices. There is nothing wrong with someone not liking Obama, I am just sick of hearing some people claim that they are racists for NOT liking him. The most shocking thing about Obama’s win is how little race has had anything to do with his current position. The only people who are making this racism claim are the white republicans who keep mentioning it everytime someone calls them on a comment. It’s weird, but starting to get common. Angie Harmon is officially a douche sack.
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Michelle Obama(1) Looking spectacular in a bright orange/tangerine dress. |
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Michelle Obama takes the world stage(0) President John F. Kennedy once quipped that he was merely “the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris.”
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Buyer Beware the Brassage? The Truth About ‘Healthy’ Underwear(0) Attention women: What if you could detoxify your breasts and get rid of cellulite by wearing a special bra and panties? Some clothing manufacturers are suggesting that their products can do just that.
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Blogging Your Way Into a Job(0) by Tara Weiss, Forbes.com
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Madonna trying to adopt Malawian child(0) BLANTYRE, Malawi – Madonna is planning to adopt a second child from Malawi, officials said Thursday, but questions have already been raised over whether the newly divorced pop star will face obstacles because of her single mom status. An official at the Malawi welfare department said the pop star had filed adoption papers in the southern African country. Another person in Malawi close to the case said Madonna would be there this weekend and a court could hear her adoption case as soon as Monday. A U.S. government official confirmed that an adoption bid by Madonna , an American, was under way. They all spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject. Madonna spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg in New York would not comment. Years ago, the singer was accused of using her celebrity status to circumvent Malawian adoptions laws when she adopted her son David allegations she denies. That adoption became final in 2008. Now there are concerns that rules again will be broken for the newly divorced Madonna as Malawi also does not approve adoptions for single or divorced parents. However, the Malawi welfare official said each case is considered on its merit. Malawian law is fuzzy on foreign adoptions. Regulations stipulate only that prospective parents undergo an 18- to 24-month assessment period in Malawi, a rule already bent when Madonna was allowed to take David to London. Madonna met David in October 2006 at a Malawian orphanage. His mother had died and his father was unable to care for him. She and her then-husband, British filmmaker Guy Ritchie , took David to their London home but it took two years for the adoption to become official. The adoption was a trying process for the singer, who said the criticism hurt. Some children’s advocacy groups accused her of breaking up a family. They claimed the child, who is now 3, should have remained in Malawi and the star should have instead offered to support his father. Rumors that Madonna wanted to adopt a girl from Malawi have been circulating for some time. But the first official hint came from the star herself last week. In an interview in Malawi’s leading daily The Nation, the singer said she was considering another adoption but would only do it if she had “the support of the Malawian people and government.” Before David’s adoption was finalized in May last year, a Malawi welfare official paid the family two home visits and wrote in a report that Madonna was a “perfect mum.” If the adoption goes through, the 50-year-old singer would become a single mother of four. She also has an 8-year-old son, Rocco, with Ritchie and a 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from a previous relationship. Malawi is among the poorest countries in the world. Just over 14 percent of the country’s 12 million people are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and an estimated 1 million children have been orphaned. In an interview last year, Madonna said she planned to visit Malawi this month with all of her children, but it is unclear whether Madonna ‘s children will accompany her on this trip. She last visited Malawi a year ago, when she brought David and Lourdes with her. The star and her entourage spent their time visiting projects for street children and orphanages, and opening a new day care center funded by her charity. |
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Woman sentenced for DUI three times in three days(0) A Washington woman visiting Wisconsin last year was arrested for drunken driving three times in three days, including twice in and around Kohler-Andrae State Park, according to court records released Wednesday. Jo A. Trilling, of Spokane, Wash., who was sentenced on the final two cases last week, was arrested in each case after driving off the road and getting her car stuck. She was arrested March 11, 12 and 13 of 2008, racking up a total of 30 days in jail and more than $3,000 in fines. According to authorities: Trilling was first arrested about 2 p.m. March 11, 2008, when a Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department deputy noticed her trying to drive out of a ditch near the Kohler-Andrae entrance. The deputy noticed Trilling wore only one shoe and smelled of intoxicants. A later blood test revealed a blood-alcohol level of 0.21, more than 2½ times the legal limit. Exactly 24 hours later, the Kohler-Andrae park superintendent spotted Trilling’s car stuck in the snow in a campground that was closed for the winter. He told Trilling she would have had to drive through a muddy side lane and maintenance gate to get to that point, and she said she did not remember that.
Trilling told an officer she had “four or six cups of wine,” adding, “I am still finishing up the box of wine in my car from yesterday.” A box of Black Fox wine and a partial cup of wine were found in the car. Trilling was arrested and again served the mandatory 12 hours in jail before being released without bond, officials said. She then headed for Cottage Grove, in Dane County, where she was arrested after a citizen reported she was “all over the road,” according to a police report. A partial bottle of wine was found in the car. Trilling had a blood alcohol-level of 0.16. The Cottage Grove case was concluded first and therefore listed in court records as the first offense. Trilling was fined $730 for that offense, $906 for the March 11 arrest in Sheboygan and $1,221 for the March 12 arrest in Sheboygan. Trilling was also fined $372 for an ordinance violation of resisting or obstructing an officer during the March 12 arrest. |
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Ceo’s discuss bonuses with Obama(0) WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will talk about regulatory reform, risks to the financial system and executive bonuses when he meets top bankers on Friday, the White House said on Thursday. “Wall Street and Main Street, all of us, are in the same boat together,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. He said Obama would receive an update from top bank chief executives “on precisely what they’re seeing” in the troubled financial sector. The Obama administration is ramping up efforts to reach out to the financial community to ensure its participation in government plans to stabilize the financial system. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is scheduled to meet Thursday evening with the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents the largest financial services firms.Geithner unveiled on Monday more details on the government’splan to cleanse banks’ balance sheets of up to $1 trillion in distressed assets, most of them tied to mortgages. Earlier on Thursday, Treasury released its plans for A growing number of financial firms that have received aid from the $700 billion TARP have said they plan to repay the |
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Fargo ‘sandbagging like crazy’(0) Fargo, ND is fighting perhaps the worst flood in 500 years. This video was shot on the front lines of the sandbagging efforts March 23 in South Fargo in the Oak Creek neighborhood. Many of the people in this video attend colleges and universities in the Fargo area. Most schools were closed today to allow students to assist with the flood fighting efforts. Sandbagging and dike building will continue 24 hours a day until the river crests sometime on Friday. Forecasts currently have the river getting very close to the top of the permanent flood control measures in the city of Fargo. This is a clip of the footage Dirk Monson, Daren Seney and Jessie Monson shot in south Fargo on March 23rd while fighting the flood. The clip was picked up by CNN, who did a phone interview with Dirk on March 24th. |
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Fresh fears for EU treaty as Czech government falls(0) PRAGUE (AFP) – The fall of the Czech Republic’s centre-right government cast new doubts Wednesday on the future of the EU’s Lisbon reform treaty and overshadowed the country’s EU presidency. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek rushed back to Prague from the European parliament after seeking to reassure EU members his political battle would have “no impact” on the Czech Republic’s six month leadership of the bloc. But there are also questions however about an accord with the United States to station part of a missile defence shield in the Czech Republic. Topolanek’s coalition, comprising his right-wing Civic Democrats (ODS), the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and the Greens, narrowly lost a no-confidence vote in parliament late Tuesday. Four rebel MPs voted with the opposition Social Democrats and Communists. Topolanek will officially resign to President Vaclav Klaus, his political rival, after a cabinet meeting on Thursday, the prime minister’s spokesman said. But it was not known whether immediate elections would be called in a bid to end uncertainty which leaves fallout across Europe and adds to instability in the region after Hungary’s prime minister announced last Saturday that he would resign. “We have a case where the Social Democrats are obstructing the Czech Republic. It’s a problem seen many times in the course of this presidency. But don’t be concerned, the situation will have no impact on the (EU) presidency,” Topolanek told the European parliament in Strasbourg. He immediately left for Prague, leaving behind Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra, who admitted in a speech that the crisis “complicates” ratification of the EU’s reforming Lisbon Treaty. European governments fear that snap elections may only harden Czech attitudes against to the treaty. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he was “worried” by the collapse of the Topolanek government which he said had “damaged” the EU presidency. “What has happened in Czech Republic again hurts any certainty that we will get the Lisbon treaty,” Kouchner added in Paris. Ireland and the Czech Republic are the final two countries still to ratify the Lisbon Treaty which aims to reform EU institutions. The Czech lower house has ratified the treaty, but there is uncertainty over a Senate vote due next month. “It is not going to be easy,” said Vondra. Ireland’s voters rejected the treaty in a referendum but will be asked to vote again this year. The Czech newspaper Lidovne Noviny said “the failure of the Libson Treaty is very likely” after the government collapse. The Czech constitution is vague on the political options and observers are divided on whether Topolanek can remain in power until the end of the EU presidency on June 30. All agree however that the real winner is the eurosceptic president, Klaus, who will have the final say on who forms the next government. “He can do what he wants, the constitution does not tie his hands,” said poltical analyst Bohumil Dolezal of Charles University. “We all know his positions on Europe,” Kouchner said of Klaus. Klaus himself played down the event. “The fall of the government is not something unknown or catastrophic in a constitutional system that works,” he said. The shock collapse also cast doubt over the anti-missile shield accord with the United States. Faced with growing public hostility, the Czech-US accord was recently withdrawn from a parliamentary vote over government fears of a defeat. The US administration’s fresh policy of dialogue with Russia and Iran has also fuelled doubts over the future of the antimissile programme. |
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