Archive for July, 2008
Why Miss USA Fell
As we mentioned last night, Miss USA 2008 was the 2nd in a row to do a butt-plant on stage during Miss Universe. [Video Here]
Now Crystle Stewart has some advice for her successor:
“I would tell her to put grips on the bottom of her shoes and wear a short dress, not a long gown.”
As for [...]
Just Call McCain “The Underdog”
My friends, My dear friends- John McCain has some “straight talk” during which the 71 year-old former POW declares himself the underdog of the race for the White House.
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The Hope Gap
In an interview with CNN’s Becky Anderson, Queen Rania discussed the existing “hope gap” in the region’s most troubled countries while reminding her audience of the vast potential existing in the region.
“[Palestinian and Iraqi] kids are just concentrating on their mere survival,” she said, “In Palestine probably the kid won’t be able to make [...]
PM’s Say The Darnest Things
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko believes that the Single Center party doesn’t have the right to exist in Ukraine.
During a conference of the All-Ukrainian Youth Organization Batkivshchyna Moloda the PMadonna said:
“A party built on betrayal and cynicism can’t survive competition. And that’s why I think that the SC party doesn’t have the right to exist today [...]
Happy Bastille Day France
HOLIDAY!
Today’s French national holiday commemorates the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
Cities throughout France will hold military parades in the morning and fireworks in the evening on today (July 14). The largest parade in the capital includes a flyover by air force jets. French communities worldwide will [...]
Wake-Up Wisdom
“I pray for the health of Nazis every day. But only for those I can bring to justice.” -Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Wiesenthal Center.
“Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.” -Benazir Bhutto
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and [...]
Miss Venezuela is Miss Universe 2008
Do Latinas rock or what?
4 out of the Top 5 were Latin but only one was Miss Universe: Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza.
Gorgeous no doubt and yeah they should just cut the question part out because it doesn’t count much. Miss Dominican Republic answered the best by far but Miss Venezuela was obviously still up their [...]
Dalai Lama Comes To Town
His Holiness the Dalai Lama appeared at a sold-out event today at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania to lecture on “Generating a Good Heart.”
The Dalai Lama shared his three main commitments with the crowd saying:
“Number one commitment is emotional human value, the thing that supports our survival and happiness. These things I consider value. Number two, as a believer, [...]
Miss USA Falls AGAIN And Gets Back Up
JINX!
For the second year in a row Miss USA has fallen in the Miss Universe competition. Oh F’n well this is Miss Universe NOT Miss Perfect.
Miss USA 2008, Crystle Stewart, just tripped on her train and took a tumble after being announced in the top ten. Last year’s Rachel Smith also fell during the evening gown walk. I think we [...]
Sarkozy Starts His Own Club Med
Apparently the world needs more unions.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a 43-nation Union for the Mediterranean on Sunday to help countries -as the French P puts it- ”learn to love each other.” Sarkozy says:
“Everyone will have to make an effort, as the Europeans did, to put an end to the deadly spiral of war and violence, that, [...]
