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  • Tila Tequila Kicked Off Celebrity Big Brother Over Hitler and Nazi Holocaust Comments, Apologizes

    08/30/2015 12:22:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 28 replies
    E Online ^ | Sat., Aug. 29, 2015 | CORINNE HELLER
    Tila Tequila has been kicked of the U.K. series Celebrity Big Brother season 16 over comments she made about the Holocaust and late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler more than a year ago and is now apologizing for her remarks. The 33-year-old reality star and glamour model, whose real name is Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen, had in December 2013 penned a blog post titled "Why I Sympathize With Hitler Part 1: True History Unveiled," in which she called the deceased dictator a "good man" and "man of compassion." After she was cast on Celebrity Big Brother, the U.K.-based group Campaign Against...
  • (Flashback): Sweet deal for Donald Trumps gold course (backs of taxpayers)

    08/30/2015 11:45:24 AM PDT · by GeronL · 256 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | May 29, 2014 | Juan Gonzalez
    In 2012, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave Donald Trump control of a $236 million public golf course at Ferry Point and threw in a slew of giveaways that include a low revenue-sharing plan with the city and free water. No other city golf course enjoys these perks. ... How many ways do you spell sweetheart deal? Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg apparently wasn’t satisfied with simply handing Donald Trump control over one of the most expensive public golf courses ever built in this country – the new $236 million, 18-hole Parks Department course scheduled to open next spring at Ferry Point Park...
  • Donald Trump: ‘I Go Out Of My Way To Use The Word Christmas’

    08/21/2015 10:54:41 AM PDT · by Blue Turtle · 126 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | Alex Pappas
    “There’s an assault on anything having to do with Christianity,” Trump said on Yellowhammer Radio with Cliff Sims on Friday. “They don’t want to use the word Christmas anymore at department stores.”