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This no-talent woman like Gaga will sink to any despicable level to gain attention and she can't sing enough to to wipe the dust off Whitney Houston's booths. This is one forgettable bitch. http://www.rap-up.com/2012/02/12/nicki-minaj-rolls-with-the-pope-to-the-grammys/

HE designers Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs, known professionally as Cushnie et Ochs, have been critical darlings ever since starting their business in 2009, just a few years out of college. They have been prominently featured in WWD and Vogue, have won prestigious honors, like the Ecco Domani Foundation Award, and were one of 10 finalists for last year’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. But even with that acclaim, they were still having trouble getting some prominent retailers to buy their clothes or even grant them a showing. Then Michelle Obama was photographed in one of their designs: a forest-green crepe...

Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" won record and song of the year. Rolling in the Deep" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Adele for her second studio album, 21. The song was written by Paul Epworth and Adele, who described it as a "dark blues-y gospel disco tune. It is considered to be a crossover hit, the biggest in the United States from the past 25 years, gaining airplay from many different radio formats. It was first released on 29 November 2010 as the lead single of the album. The lyrics describe the emotions of a scorned lover.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (02/12/12) Monday: 9/8 -- Alcatraz -- Fox Wednesday: 10/9 -- The Prophets of SciFi -- Science Channel Friday: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox

Sarah Palin blasted the political establishment Sunday, saying many elected lawmakers, Republicans included, haven't done enough to cut government and spending. But asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace who specifically she considers part of this elite class of her party, mentioning specifically House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, she demurred. "I consider anyone part of the establishment, those who today are fighting to keep the status quo," Palin said. "Those who are allowing government to grow , who are allowing the president that plastic credit card that’s increasing debt and they are not engaging in...

Themba the hyena and student Shandor Larenty are working to sweeten this predator’s less-than-savoury image.Recent pictures of teenager Shandor Larenty cuddling, kissing and bathing a young hyena at the Johannesburg Lion Park have amused and delighted online readers of the Mail and Sun. Hyenas are often regarded as brutal scavengers, and have an incredibly powerful jaw which can easily chomp bones. But Shandor has grown up around some of South Africa’s most dangerous predators, working with his father, lion handler Alex. And he has a special relationship with Themba, one of the park’s hyenas, who is so used to him...

Sasha Gradiva brought out the big guns (literally!) when she arrived at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The Russian-born singer, who is an emerging star on dance-pop scene, hit the red carpet with an interesting ensemble. Complete with a Terminator-esque arm sleeve, Sasha had guns pointed in every direction. Her competitors better watch out! She paired the accessories were paired with a curve-hugging pink dress and pumps. What do you think about her “gun show”? Sound off in the comments and stay tuned for more Grammy Awards coverage.

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Global warming: Been there, done that. Forward-looking folks are adjusting their fretting machinery now to something called Cycle 25. Button up your overcoats. Ice is on the way. Global warming, which was mostly a scam invented by researchers looking for government grants, is over. The great warming phenomenon, which was supposed to have sent polar bears to vacation in Miami Beach by now, ended in 1997. Britain’s Met Office, which tracks weather and makes forecasts, and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the source of much global warming research (some of it faked, some of it not), agree,...

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stole the show at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference where she delivered the event’s keynote speech Saturday. After slamming the President, shutting up some protesters, and saying that the drawn out Republican primary promotes competition and a better nominee, the former Alaska governor took a few questions as she headed for the door following the rousing remarks. When asked by Anneke Green of the Washington Times if she thought a surging Sen. Santorum was a threat to front-runner Mitt Romney; “Palin answered that she wouldn‘t consider him a threat but was still ’a...

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A city in ruins: Stunning photo taken from kite that captures devastation from 1906 earthquake in San Francisco This rarely seen image of the city of San Fransisco lying in ruins after the devastating earthquake of 1906 was captured by an ingenious photographer using a camera attached kites. The panoramic shot, which is of outstanding quality considering the basic equipment available, shows the full scale of the disaster which claimed the lives of over 3,000, injured 225,000 and caused $400,000,000 worth of property damage. Commercial photographer George Lawrence, who used home-made large format cameras, was well known at the time...

I think the announcers for this years Pebble Beach Pro-Am are angling to be Tigers next love interest.

Whitney Houston might have passed away Saturday, but it’s clear her fans will always love the legendary singer. Not surprisingly, news of her death catapulted some of her greatest hits to the top of the music charts today. On iTunes, Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” is currently the No. 1 download, while “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is finding a place in the top 10.

Two days before her death, Whitney Houston gave what would be her final performance at a Hollywood nightclub, surrounded by friends and family. The 48-year-old music legend was at the "Kelly Price & Friends Unplugged: For The Love Of R&B Grammy Party" at Tru Hollywood nightclub on Thursday, February 9. Kelly Price called Houston up on stage and the pair sang a duet of "Yes, Jesus Loves Me" before Houston blew kisses to the crowd and walked off stage. "I invited a bunch of friends, Whitney Houston among them. ... All of my friends came out. They performed. They performed...

Run for your lives! CCTV captures moment drinker with a CHAINSAW storms into pub and attacks customers Drinkers were forced to flee for their lives when a drug-fuelled maniac burst into their pub and lunged at them with a chainsaw just minutes after he was thrown out for smoking. Dean Dinnen, 24, charged into The Endyke pub in Hull, armed with the petrol-driven chainsaw to exact revenge on a fellow customer who forced him to put out his cigarette. As he marched up to the door of the pub with the chainsaw running he turned and jabbed it towards passer-by...

Three-quarters of Georgia’s likely GOP primary voters are evangelical Christians and half are “very conservative” -- and they heavily favor Newt Gingrich, according to a Mason-Dixon Poll conducted for the Georgia Newspaper Partnership, of which the Ledger-Enquirer is a member. In addition to evangelical Christians and very conservative voters, Gingrich especially appeals to rural voters, residents of north Georgia, those with less than a college education and those with incomes below $50,000. Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2012/02/12/1929776/georgia-presidential-primary-poll.html#storylink=cpy

Meet the Winners of THE Simpsons “ULTIMATE FAN MARATHON CHALLENGE”! Jeremiah Franco (L) from Los Angeles, CA and Carin Shreve (R) from Acampo, CA They broke the Guinness World Record For the longest continuous television viewing! It Only Took Them 86 Hours and 37 Minutes!!

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With so many brands of dog food on the supermarket shelves it can often be difficult to know which one to buy for your beloved pet. But the difficult choice may not rest solely on the shoulders of dog owners anymore. That's because one dog food company is bidding to attract man's best friend to its product and not man, with the UK's first ever advert made especially for dogs.Barking mad: Dogs are drawn to the high pitch sounds in the UK's first ever advert made especially for dogsThe barking-mad one-minute clip hopes to get the tails wagging, when it...

When is it okay to kill a zombie? The Walking Dead returns tomorrow night in the wake of a moral dilemma: Should zombies be killed on sight, or quarantined as sick humans? We look at some of the issues surrounding zombie murder, and want to hear what you think about the ethics of killing these infection-spreading cannibals. We open at the beginning of the zombie pandemic. There are rumblings of an infection on the news, of people who have turned suddenly violent and spreading disease through their bites. You look out the window and see a bloody-mouthed being shuffling in...

Help if you can. A retired USAF friend took this photo this earlier this morning from Gulfport, MS (at the Armed Forces Retirement Home) and has been trying to find more info. He has called many sources, but has been unable to confirm a launch or ??? If you also saw it, please post anything you may know so I can give him an answer.

Bin Laden Zombie Film Coming This Summer A Utah production company announced today that it has shot a movie based on the premise that Osama bin Laden rises from his watery grave and leads an army of zombie terrorists in a violent jihad of the undead. In the feature-length film, "Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead," a NATO Special Forces unit races to defeat zombie bin Laden and his flesh-seeking militia, while also stopping the infection from spreading to even more terrorist corpses. According to the film's executive producer, Kynan Griffin, the script was written before the real al Qaeda...

Let's be honest Romney's speech and conservative creditials were weaker than the other GOP presidential candidates. So how does he end up winning the CPAC straw poll?

Explanation: The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The brightest three stars on the far left are indeed the famous three stars that make up the belt of Orion. Just below Alnitak, the lowest of the three belt stars, is the Flame Nebula, glowing with excited hydrogen gas and immersed in filaments of dark brown dust. Below the frame center and just to the right of Alnitak...

Review: Netflix and Hulu's new scripted originals Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming. The shows amount to a milestone in Internet television, an early sign of the leveling between broadcasting and streaming. Programming options between TV and the Web are increasingly separated by little more than the "video source" button on your remote. But the most salient thing about the new offerings from Netflix and Hulu are just how "TV" they are. Earlier this week, Netflix released all eight episodes of "Lilyhammer," a fish-out-of-water drama starring Steve Van...

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Ten-year-old delivers new sister in family car on the way to hospitalWhile most 10-year-olds are out playing or doing other normal 10-year-old things, Stephanie Zamora was delivering a baby. Stephanie, a fifth-grader at Arlington's South Davis Elementary School, helped deliver her new sister on the way to the hospital. On Tuesday morning, her mother, Sandra Zamora, realized she was about to go into labor. Stephanie and her parents jumped in the car and headed to the hospital. But the baby wasn't waiting. Her mother, who was in the backseat, remembers telling Stephanie, "Help me, please." "I didn't know what to...

On Tuesday, a high school student walked into the Nation Centre with her parents. The student in Form Two at Chogoria Girls in Meru County was still in her school uniform: a maroon skirt, white blouse, maroon pullover and white socks in black shoes. But in addition to this, Tabitha Wangui, 17, wore a white headscarf, the reason she claimed she wasn't at school then. According to her father Gabriel Macharia, the student was told to go home and bring her parents because she refused -- then supposedly incited her colleagues -- never to remove the headscarf. Coming from the...

Residents of the southern Tunisian towns of Tataouine and Matmata, small desert cities that furnished the setting for Star Wars movies, woke up to an unusual sight today: snow. The snow started to fall overnight from Sunday to Monday, leaving a thin layer that was enough to transform the landscape from an arid desert to a glistening-white tundra. The Sahara desert, particularly the region of Remada and the neighboring area of El Borma in the governorate of Tataouine, also saw snow falling near the oil fields of El Borma. Oil fields workers were thrilled at the sight of snow, a...

The announcements flowed out of Rick Santorum’s Senate office: a $3.5 million federal grant to Piasecki Aircraft to help it test a new helicopter propeller technology; another $3.5 million to JLG Industries to bolster its bid to build all-terrain forklifts for the military; $1.4 million to Medico Industries to upgrade equipment for its munitions work. [snip]

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DENVER — The college student accused of "glitter bombing" Mitt Romney after the Colorado caucuses has been fired from his unpaid internship with state Senate Democrats.

Whitney Houston performing the Star Spangled Banner for the troops,live at her 1991 "Welcome Home Heroes" concert in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

At a protest "Occupying CPAC" in Washington DC, a protester admits that it would be legitimate to abort a baby because it was gay, all for the woman's "Right to Choose".

What Was Whitney Houston's Best Song? By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper Singing superstar Whitney Houston has died at age 48, her publicist reported Saturday. Few details on the cause or circumstances of the singer's death were immediately available, though her life was troubled by drug use. Whatever the facts of her death, fans are left with memories of some of the most stunning and powerful songs ever recorded by a female artist. Here are some of the songs we will remember Houston by. "Didn't We Almost Have It All?"

Singer Whitney Houston died Saturday in Beverly Hills, according to law enforcement sources. Authorities are trying to determine a cause of death. [Updated at 5:46 p.m.: She was found in the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where emergency medical personnel were called sometime Saturday, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because the investigation is ongoing.] Houston, 48, was in the Los Angeles area for a musical tribute to music executive Clive Davis and had performed and spoken to reporters earlier in the week.

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.

One of the sad things about our country, for my money, is that our big shots, our movers and shakers, have become too passive. We especially see this in education. Our community leaders (in business, politics, the military, or whatever) should stand up to the Education Establishment and shout: “You are doing a lousy job! Millions of kids can’t even read.” But these “leaders” don’t seem to have a word to say. I can’t figure out whether our big shots have been intimidated by professors of education. That’s pathetic. Or our whole society has gotten old and lazy? That’s scary....

Explanation: Lighting the night last Tuesday, February's Full Moon is sometimes called the Snow Moon. But the Moon was not quite full in this mosaicked skyscape recorded on February 2 south of Budapest, Hungary, and there was no snow either. Still, thin clouds of ice crystals hung in the cold, wintry sky creating this gorgeous lunar halo. Refraction of moonlight by the six-sided crystals produce the slightly colored halo with its characteristic radius of 22 degrees. Just below the Moon is bright star Aldebaran. Also well within the halo at the right is the Pleiades star cluster. At the lower...

Explanation: This sharp Hubble Space Telescope view looks deep into NGC 6752. Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Over 10 billion years old, NGC 6752 holds over 100 thousand stars in a sphere about 100 light-years in diameter, but the Hubble image frame spans the central 10 or so light-years and resolves stars near the dense cluster core. In fact the frame includes some of the cluster's blue straggler stars, stars which appear to be too young and massive to exist in a cluster whose...

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I'll be there tomorrow! I post this on the off chance that some other Freeper(s) will also be there and want to get together. I'm not exactly sure what I will find but this was, at least at one time, among the most beautiful man-made places on earth. Link to Previous Post about Hialeah Photo-essay here ML/NJ

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the government should require a church or religious organization to provide contraceptives for women even if it violates their deeply held beliefs. Fifty percent (50%) disagree and oppose such a requirement that runs contrary to strong beliefs, while 10% more are undecided. [...] Sixty-five percent (65%) of Catholic voters oppose this requirement, as do 62% of Evangelical Christians, and 50% of other Protestants. Most non-Christians (56%) support the Obama Administration ruling.

A guide to how NASCAR fans can earn money while enjoying their sport. NASCAR venues offer easy ways to earn money which the author took advantage of for two full seasons and parts of several more. Detailed examples based on the author's own experiences are given on how fans can earn at least several hundred up to a couple of thousand dollars at each NASCAR race. A bonus section is included that will reveal the "Ground Zero" for all wholesalers where the prices are rock bottom. Even if the reader has no interest in NASCAR this wholesale information can...

Skeptics are winning: “The carbon market is dead” The collapse of the Man-Made Myth continues apace. You may not read headlines as such (at least not in major dailies) but all the signs are there.People who we never would have imagined speaking against the Big Scare Campaign are now doing so. Key glaciers are not melting and corals are happy. Governments won’t tell you it’s over, but they are behaving that way (the Australian one excepted, due to an election fluke that gave the Greens the balance of power). The Catholic Herald headlined it: Is the ‘anthropogenic global warming’ consensus...

Sarah Charles’ life stopped when Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake two years ago. She was possessed by fear and anguish thinking about her son who was in Port-au-Prince at the time of the earthquake. “I was going crazy not knowing where my son was,” said Charles of Hallandale. Her anxiety grew as time passed without news about her son. But there was something that helped Charles cope with her anguish – Voodoo. “The [Voodoo] ceremonies brought all my spiritual brothers and sisters together and helped us share our pain, making it less severe,” said Charles, 40, who was...

In the first installment of this two part series, we examine the factors that are influencing how individuals, major corporations, and other countries, are rethinking the most basic, yet vital resource all, water. In part two, we take a detailed look at an increasingly popular alternative to the municipal water system, Rainwater Harvesting. Part two further explores the pros and cons, basic components, and key factors to consider in designing a rain water harvesting system...

Memorial Regional Hospital has a party for its oldest volunteer, Dorrie Aber NoyekDorrie Aber Noyek briskly maneuvers the halls of Memorial Regional Hospital picking up and delivering mail. There are no signs of slowing down – not even on this, her 105th birthday. “Volunteering has been important to me as long as I can remember. I feel I want to give back," she said. "I think I’m very fortunate, very lucky, very blessed." She has never driven. Walking is her preferred mode of transportation. “From when I was quite young, all my life in England, anyway, we never had a...

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