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3:57 PM PT -- Lisa's manager, Roger Widynowski, tells TMZ ... "She is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley. She adored that boy. He was the love of her life." Lisa Marie Presley's son and Elvis Presley's grandson, Benjamin Keough, has died of an apparent suicide ... TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us Ben appears to have died Sunday in Calabasas from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Not much is known about him other than the fact that he's got a super-famous family....

The Feb. 17 two-hour prime-time event [on NBC] -- a tribute to the rock icon's legendary 1968 Comeback Special -- will be hosted by Blake Shelton and feature performances from Kelsea Ballerini, Ed Sheeran, Dierks Bentley, Alessia Cara, John Legend, Little Big Town, Jennifer Lopez, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Pistol Annies, Darius Rucker, Yolanda Adams, Mac Davis, John Fogerty, Josh Groban, Adam Lambert, Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.  The tribute...will recreate the 1968 special and feature rare footage and interviews with wife Priscilla Presley, as well as a special appearance from daughter Lisa Marie Presley...

<p>LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — A farewell to the King turned somber when Jack Nicklaus, his voice cracking as a large tear formed in his left eye, urged the elite and the everyman to remember how Arnold Palmer touched their lives and "please don't forget why."</p>

To the frantic manager of a Coon Rapids Burger King Friday night, the choice was to act fast or face disaster. A caller who said he was a fire department official said there was a gas leak in the building and that unless the windows were smashed, a gas buildup in the building would cause an explosion. So the manager and Burger King employees evacuated the restaurant and started smashing ground floor windows. Every single one. Problem was, it was a hoax. The caller was no firefighter. There was no gas.

The Strangest of Kings! A Homily for the Feast of Christ the King By: Msgr. Charles PopeThe reading today on this Feast of Christ the King evokes three images of Christ as King. All of them are to some extent paradoxical, for they emphasize things about a king that we don’t usually think of in relation to a king. They also tell us that we have already met King Jesus, even if we didn’t know it. Let’s look at these three images of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of all Creation.I. Caring King - The first reading, from Ezekiel...

Fallin Not In Oklahoma To Welcome President Obama Gov. Fallin's office says her absence this week isn't about politics but timing. Governor Mary Fallin did not greet President Obama when he arrived in Oklahoma Wednesday night. The Governor has made it no secret she's not a big fan of President Obama especially when it comes to his energy policies and the Keystone pipeline. But her office says her absence this week isn't about politics but timing. According to the Governor's press secretary, their office found out about the President's visit on Friday afternoon from the media. The Governor and her...

After hearing evidence with neither President Barack Obama nor his lawyers in attendance, a state administrative law judge on Thursday did not issue a ruling as to whether Obama can be allowed on the state ballot in November. Lawyers for area residents mounting "birther" challenges told Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi that Obama should be found in contempt of court for not appearing when under subpoena to do so. But Malihi did not indicate he would recommend that and cut off one lawyer when he criticized Obama for not attending the hearing. "It shows not just a contempt for this...

Remembering the 'King,' 34 Years Later : Elvis Presley (1935 - 1967) On Aug. 16, 1977 the music world was shocked when the King of Rock 'n Roll died at the young age of 42. It was a moment that brought the entertainment world to a standstill, when the actor, musician and singer died at his Graceland mansion. By then, Elvis had appeared in 33 films, won a Grammy Lifetime Achievment Award (at just 36 years old!) and had served his country in the U.S. Army. 34 years later after his sudden death, fans are still flocking to his Graceland...

Panama City Beach -- A cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant. Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one bikini-clad woman, later identified as Kimesia Smith of Montgomery, Ala., jumped up on the counter and threw a charity coin jug at employees, and 3 of Smith's friends also began throwing napkins, utensils, and trays throughout the location. The woman in the bikini, who became concerned about the whereabouts of her two children after Panama City Beach Police placed her...

Happy Birthday Elvis, we miss you still!

Time for the annual celebration of The King, Arnold Palmer and everything he has given to and continues to give to the greatest game ever played.With only 2 weeks to go to The Masters, this is Tiger Woods' tuneup for Augusta. Of course Woods heads a world-class field along with the very best in golf, including, Phil Mickleson, Jim Furyk, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, Anthony Kim, Padraig Harrington, Geoff Ogilvy and last week's winner, Retief Goosen.

Just got finished from shift with 28yrs of caring for King Vanity who is a medically fragile quadroplegic. We came home from Medical Center and have been working full board to keep him going. Doc suggested we take him back to the Med Center for hospice arrangements. I have been his careprovider for all his life and he has asked me to stop making him get up and go like he used to do and let him rest. His lungs and digestive sytem are shutting down due to lifelong brain stem damage. Our Priest will be here tommarrow to give...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1716609/posts?page=1 Kim Duk-Hong: Interview with a North Korean Defector (Bush "Knows how to treat Kim Jong Il") PBS ^ | March 5, 2003 | Frontline Posted on 10/09/2006 9:37:23 PM CDT by Arec Barrwin Kim Duk-Hong: Interview with a North Korean Defector Kim Duk Hong is one of the highest ranking officials to defect from North Korea. He escaped from North Korea in 1997, first to Beijing and then to Seoul, along with Hwang Jang Yop, the architect of the North Korea regime's ideology known as "Juche," meaning "self reliance." Kim was Hwang's assistant for many years. He is officially...

Gee surprise surprise the Democrats get Kimmy to pull a nuke test to keep this story out of the headlines. :-) Budget Deficit Drops to $250 Billion AP ^ | October 6, 2006 | ANDREW TAYLOR Posted on 10/06/2006 12:19:40 PM CDT by West Coast Conservative The federal budget estimate for the fiscal year just completed dropped to $250 billion, congressional estimators said Friday, as the economy continues to fuel impressive tax revenues. The Congressional Budget Office's latest estimate is $10 billion below CBO predictions issued in August and well below a July White House prediction of $296 billion. The...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1710704/posts?page=1 Myth Busting on NSA Surveillance Posted on 09/29/2006 11:26:08 AM CDT by bobsunshine I guess we need to inform the country about some of the realities of the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) and what is possible and not possible to resolve all the concerns for privacy protections. I say this because the house just passed a good bill on the NSA TSP. This topic is especially important in light of some leftwing prosecutorial abuse against a Rep Candidate for AG in NY who has had her phone monitored for discussing ways to catch her cheating husband publicized -...

So it is starting to look more and more like Bob Woodward, in his following of Kitty Kelly's footsteps, also decided to simply made up large portion of his current book. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/1/151 303.shtml?s=lh Andy Card Denies Woodward Claim Ronald Kessler Monday, Oct. 2, 2006 Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. "Andy" Card Jr. has denied Bob Woodward's claim that he and first lady Laura Bush tried to get Donald Rumsfeld fired as defense secretary. Card told NewsMax that the assertion in Woodward's book "State of Denial" that he thought Rumsfeld should have been the one to leave the...

http://icasualties.org/oif/ http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Forces Listening to all the Media hysteria over Bob Woodward's latest attempt to be the new Kitty Kelly, one is struck by just how wrong the Drive By Media is on every aspect of the Iraq War. Here is the raw data on Iraq. Seems Bob Woodward latest work is simply a regurgitation of every falsehood, half truth and exaggeration present by the Junk Media on Iraq since 2003. In a vain attempt to falsely validate preconceived notions, Mr Woodward demonstrated how the Left has managed to be wrong on every aspect of the Iraq War. Mr Woodward's...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1709588/posts?page=1 House passes detainee bill Republicans pushed a bill supported by President George W. Bush to set rules for interrogating and trying terrorism suspects through the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday and Senate Republicans were expected to follow within a day. The House passed the bill 253-168 largely along party lines, dismissing warnings from Democrats that courts would strike down the plan for failing to meet judicial standards. Republicans who control both chambers want to send the bill to Bush by the weekend, when lawmakers head out to campaign for November elections that will determine control of Congress. The...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708787/posts Declassified Key Judgements from the April 2006 NIE Director of National Intellegence ^ | 09-26-06 | DNI NOTE: The link is receiving many hits and is only available intermittently. This conversion from PDF to HTML is courtesy of PRND21 in #11. AM Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate .Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States. dated April 2006 Key Judgments United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of al-Qa’ida and disrupted its operations; however, we judge that al-Qa’ida will continue to pose the greatest threat to the Homeland and US interests abroad by...

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