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We finally have an answer to the million dollar question: how much was Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren's prenup worth? And the answer is...drum-roll please...$300 million dollars! According to sources at Us Weekly, Tiger and Elin signed a $300 million dollar prenuptial agreement when they got married back in 2004.

I know that my attention might be distracted a bit. The main cause of traffic accidents

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A day care driver is accused of running a red light and having no driver's license after a morning rollover accident that sent more than a dozen children to the hospital, Grand Prairie police said. The Tahoe driver, Aracel Torres, 30, of Grand Prairie, and two young passengers, ages 2 and 4, were transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Torres also did not have a license and will likely face traffic charges, police said.

Rod Blagojevich (is) the former Illinois governor who tried to sell Obama's seat in congress. When Obama was asked by the press if he had ever met Governor Blagojevich, Obama replied, "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game."

An attack by a Chinese online game provider meant to cripple the servers of its rivals ballooned to cause an Internet outage in much of the country in May, according to police. -The main culprit in the case, a 23-year-old cotton factory worker surnamed Bing, had bought a set of "private servers" and offered online games and advertising services on them, the statement said. Private servers are usually used to run emulated versions of popular online games like World of Warcraft. Their operators are often unlicensed by the game designers but make money on subscription fees or advertising. Bing made...

"Spider-Man" and "Evil Dead" trilogy director Sam Raimi is set to enter the world of "Warcraft." Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures announced Tuesday that Raimi will be at the helm of a live-action movie based on the blockbuster PC game franchise. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. "At its core, Warcraft is a fantastic, action-packed story," said Raimi. "I am thrilled to work with such a dynamite production team to bring this project to the big screen." "Warcraft" debuted in 1994 and quickly developed a loyal following around the globe. It has since expanded to include several bestselling,...

Here is a video interview with the CEO of Activision Blizzard Inc., Robert Kotick, whose company owns such huge names in the video game industry as Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft. He discusses how the economy is impacting the video game industry. He says video games are actually doing very well since it is a relatively cheap form of entertainment. . . . . . (Watch Video)

BIG NEWS!! Dear John Ziegler/Media Malpractice Mailing List Members I can now officially announce that I will be returning to daily talk radio next week on June the 8th. I will be heard weekdays on 1260 AM in Los Angeles and 540 AM in Orange County/San Diego from 11 am- 1 pm. The show will also be streamed live and available to be heard at any time after that at... Listen Live Here! 1260 AM. More info in this OC Register Article! Also, we have two more Media Malpractice screenings this week in the Nashville and Boston areas. For more...

The consequences of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon would be "calamitous"

The Don’t Look Back (Ne Te Retourne Pas) premiere at Cannes brought together on the red carpet, two of the most beautiful woman on the planet. Monica Bellucci and Sophie Marceau arrived at the premiere, both wearing red. Together, the Ladies in Red had the fashion cognoscenti ooohing in reverence.

SPEND $500 on two magnums of Veuve Clicquot Champagne at Bagatelle on West 13th Street in the meatpacking district, and the bottles are delivered to your table with lighted sparklers stuck in their corks. Spend $2,500 on a jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot and some magnums of Dom Pérignon, and the lights dim, the D.J. cues up the theme from “Superman,” and a waiter is hoisted onto the shoulders of his fellow servers. With a tablecloth knotted around his neck as a makeshift cape and his arms outstretched, he carries one of the blazing bottles of bubbly to your table. As...

110-110 End of the 5th Overtime.

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Click here for the new kick-*** trailer for Star Trek! Must have Quicktime. Available in HD.

Just Wow. For those that were listening, it was one of the most facinating exchanges between a listener and Rush Limbaugh. Rush was speaking to an out-of-work grandmother who loves Pittsburg, and used to live there when Rush was working at a local radio station. She said that she couldn't afford the trip up, and was nearly indigent, and Rush is going to get her and her son a hotel room, a ride from their home in FL to Tampa for the Super Bowl.

Last week, President-elect Obama appointed Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, and Susan Crawford, who teaches communications and Internet law at the University of Michigan, to co-chair his FCC transition team. In preparation for his incoming administration, the two, both seasoned Net Neutrality advocates, will be tasked with providing information on U.S. government Internet and telecom policies, along with advising on budgetary and personnel matters. This is clearly good news for Net advocates, and as it happens, it could also be good news for online gamers. The Wharton professor is a hardcore World of...

I've had a political dream for a while now that I think all of us WoW players can agree on: someday, I hope, we will have a President in the White House that plays videogames. We're not quite there yet, but we're closer -- apparently, Obama's FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player, and has played in two different endgame guilds, including Joi Ito's famous We Know guild. This is a guy who knows all about the communities that these MMOs create, and just how awesome it is to run through Karazhan, or grind PvP for a Merciless Gladiator weapon......

Iraqi legislators said Sunday that parliament had voted to lift the immunity of a Sunni Arab lawmaker who visited Israel. The parliament has also banned Mithal al-Alusi from traveling outside Iraq or attending parliamentary sessions, they said. Sunday's punishment was confirmed by Osama al-Nujeif, a Sunni Arab lawmaker, and Haider al-Ibadi, a Shi'ite lawmaker. The two men said Alusi's trip was illegal and a humiliation for Iraqis who see Israel as a historical enemy. Without parliamentary immunity, Alusi could be subject to prosecution. Alusi, chairman of Iraq's Democratic Party, Mithal al-Alusi, surprisingly arrived at a conference on terror in Herzliya...

I suddenly noticed that the next big expansion to the popular "World of Warcraft" online game, "Wrath of the Lich King", comes out on November 3rd. That's one day before the election. Anyone think basement-dwelling liberals will be too busy with the new game to go out and vote? Hey, I can dream...

Can I add any comments to this? No. I’m too speechless after having just seen this… I’m just stunned.

Andrea Mitchell might be a doyenne of the liberal media, but she has her reporter's pride and principles, both of which have been trampled by the way the Obama campaign has managed the media during the candidate's current trip to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mitchell let loose on this evening's Hardball, speaking of "fake interviews" and indicating we don't know the truth of the trip because we don't know what was edited out of the video that's been released. Before Mitchell made her displeasure known, Roger Simon of Politico, Chris Matthews's other guest, depicted the images coming out of the war...

Just breaking - Abu Hamza has lost his appeal and now can be deported to the USA. How do you intend to welcome him....? Ideas please.

This heart-in-mouth clip of a Lufthansa passenger plane attempting a landing in Hamburg in gale-force winds surfaced this morning. Coming after the Heathrow crash landing in January, it makes for terrifying viewing. After fighting to keep the wings level in the approach, the pilot managed to touch the wheels down before another gust tilted the aircraft around 30 degrees, causing one wing to hit the runway. Fearing the plane would crash if he continued with the landing, the pilot took off immediately. A Lufthansa spokesman praised the pilot: "He was braced for a difficult landing and quickly brought the situation...

This website is dedicated to telling the totally true story of John Ziegler's experience at KFI in Los Angeles. John realizes that the creation of this website probably ends any chance that he will ever again hit the highest levels of talk radio and may very well end his talk radio career totally. But he is at peace with that potential consequence because he feels there are certain truths that are worth the risk to tell, especially when you are really the only person in the world in a position to do so. This website is devoted to one of...

The film will be shown in Los Angeles on Nov. 28. I hope some of you in Upland-Claremont-Chino-San Bernardino area can join me for this one.

Interesting article about the awareness of vegetative patients. We are not able to post the New Yorker's content, but check out the link. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/15/071015fa_fact_groopman?printable=true

A plague carried around the world by travellers, pets and curious teenagers may show that experts have not taken everything into account when planning for an outbreak of disease, researchers have said. Luckily, the world involved is an internet game. The outbreak of "Corrupted Blood" indicates that specialists trying to predict what the next pandemic will look like might make use of a real-world laboratory - the culture of online gamers. "It really looked quite a bit like a real disease," Nina Fefferman of Princeton University, who worked on the report with her then-student Eric Lofgren, said in a telephone...

WASHINGTON - Can technology identify someone thinking about committing a terrorist attack? The Department of Homeland Security is exploring that possibility. Last month, it queried researchers about designing a system that would detect deceptive behavior by flagging physiological and behavioral cues such as heartbeat, respiration and facial expression, using thermal imaging, infrared cameras and audio and eye-tracking, among other techniques. A related program, Project Hostile Intent, is exploring the use of involuntary facial and speech signals captured on video to identify people "involved in possible malicious or deceitful acts" - before they ever commit the crime.

Until the 1850s Allsopp’s Brewery was most notable for brewing some of the first India Pale Ales for export to the colonies. However, Samuel Allsopp was approached about a different recipe; Sir Edward Belcher was about to led an arctic expedition (1852) to search for the lost explorer Sir John Franklin. The Expedition needed a brew that withstand arctic and sub arctic temperatures, and provide a degree of sustenance and nutritious value. “Captain Belcher reported that Allsopp's Arctic Ale proved to be "a valuable antiscorbutic", helping fight off scurvy, the bane of all sea voyages in those days.” He added...

PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist opponent Segolene Royal said on Friday that France risks violence and brutality if her opponent right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy wins Sunday's presidential election. On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls showed Sarkozy enjoyed a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France. "Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice," Royal told RTL radio. It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won)," she said. Pressed...

Check it out "Ring of Fire" Vaginal Birth After Cesarean support group meets at 6:30 p.

Baby comes as shock The mother didn't know she was pregnant until she had carried the fetus to full term. By SCOTT MARTINDALE THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ORANGE – April Branum went to her local emergency room Monday night complaining of stomach pain and emerged with the biggest shock of her life. She was pregnant with a full-term fetus. Doctors, who discovered the baby when they took X-rays of her abdominal area, immediately sent Branum to UCI Medical Center in Orange for prenatal testing. The fetus's lungs were fully developed, the heartbeat was strong, and no defects were detected. The...

There was someone in the gallery during President George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech that he would not dare publicly recognize. Even though he knew she was there, I’m confident he never even bothered to look up at Gallery 5, Row B, Seat 9, because sitting in that seat was Monica Ramos, the wife of imprisoned former Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos. She was the invited guest of Republican California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.

Raptors leaving Langley for first time  Mechanics and pilots of the 27th Fighter Squadron, expected to deploy soon for Okinawa, Japan, discuss one of their F-22 Raptors, the Air Force’s stealthy new fighters, with media from the U.S. and Japan. DAVE BOWMAN/DAILY PRESS By LOUIS HANSEN, The Virginian-Pilot © February 1, 2007 | Last updated 10:42 PM Jan. 31 HAMPTON - The Air Force's F-22 Raptor finally will be leaving its nest. Airmen from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base are making their final preparations this week for a three- to four-month deployment to Kadena Air Base...

Player population in North America now exceeds 2 million, while Europe and China pass the 1.5 million player and 3.5 million player marks, respectively IRVINE, Calif. – January 11, 2007 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft®, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is now played by more than 8 million gamers around the world. World of Warcraft has also achieved new regional subscriber milestones, with more than 2 million players in North America, more than 1.5 million players in Europe, and more than 3.5 million players in China. "We're ecstatic that the World...

NEW YORK — A quick-thinking commuter saved a teenager who fell on the subway tracks by pushing him down into a furrow between the rails, allowing an approaching train to pass right over them, police said. An 18-year-old man had some kind of medical problem Tuesday and fell onto the tracks, which are a few feet below platform level, police said. Wesley Autrey saw him fall, jumped down onto the tracks after him and rolled with him into the rut between the rails as a southbound train was coming in.- snip-

Personally, I love the fact that I live in America at this time of great challenge, where our future is being written as we speak and modern communications has allowed us to peer into every corner of the world. However, when the Time Machine is invented, I plan to visit some historical places and events, and absorb some other periods of awesome historical significance. 5. 500 BC Greece - to see the golden era of the most influential ancient culture on western thought. 4. 970 BC Israel - to meet King Solomon, son of David, one of the most fascinating...

Greetings from FRee Iraq! The Gold Star parents visiting Iraq will be on Free Republic later today to discuss our trip here. Please post questions and comments on this thread for the families.This will be the first group interview from Iraq by the Gold Star families. For some reason, the MSM hasn't shown any interest in this historic trip :-) So once again, FReepers will scoop the MSM.I can't give a time certain, but my best guess is the families should be on this thread in six or seven hours from now (evening in Iraq.)

US politicians could soon be rubbing shoulders with orcs and night elves in World of Warcraft. The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the US Congress has announced it is investigating the amount of commerce taking place in virtual game worlds. The investigation is unlikely to mean that in-game trading will start to be taxed. Many popular virtual worlds such as Eve Online and Second Life revolve around trade of one sort or another. Cash call In a statement announcing the investigation, the Committee said its probe was prompted by the "dramatic increase in the popularity of online gaming". It said...

On October 4, at 10PM Eastern/Pacific, find out what happens when four young Colorado boys go online in World of Warcraft and... oh my God, was that Cartman as a dwarf? ("I'm not a dwarf! I'm big-boned!"). Oh, yes. The residents of South Park are as addicted to World of Warcraft as you guys are. Our four favorite boys - Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny - and even the adults, racing to their own PCs to log on and do glorious battle against each other in the Season 10 premiere... er, although we're thinking Chef (if he were a WoW...

Document CMPT-2004-001810-T.pdf was posted in its English translation on the Pentagon/ FMSO website. It contains top secret letters dated March 2003 few days before the start of the Iraq war. The top secret letters were order to Hide and Conceal Equipments and Devices Underground in Hidden Shelters and especially the weapons and devices that are not currently in operations but can be used in the future. What are these weapons that are ordered to be hidden and are not currently in operation but can be used in the future? Most probably these are either finalized form of WMD or precursors...

Wow! Wow Wow Wow!!!!!!!! Frampton just blew me to SMITHEREENS with that cover of Blackhole Sun! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

American Hispanics Rally Behind Border Patrol Officers Facing Prison for Protecting their Communities Washington, D.C.--(HISPANIC PR WIRE)--August 24, 2006--Rampant lawlessness along the U.S.-Mexico border is of great concern to all Americans, but for the people who live in communities along the border, it is a daily threat to their safety and security. For these largely American Hispanic communities, the Border Patrol amounts to an overstressed and outmanned line of protection for communities under siege. In fact, these communities are so overwhelmed by illegal immigrants and the crime that comes with them, that Arizona and New Mexico have been forced to...

Press converence at White House on CNN. LOL. All the news chick could say was, "Wow!"

52 REASONS NOT TO MOW 37 WAYS TO HELP TREES Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and many other films,made his first film at age 8.. an anti mowing film which showed the nature of mowers' attacks on lawns. Art Buchwald: People shouldn't be judged by the length of their grass. In 2003 through now, the world has seen floods, famine, fire, mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by the unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are nature's weather stabilizers. We need trillions of trees.. new...

See for example this thread first. I'll keep today's poem quite terse Lebanon, Israel are no worse And to my delight Not a burqa in sight Cause I'm talking 'bout Miss Universe!

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Michelle as you haven't seen her before -- jumping rope, on a trampoline and dancing in barefeet. Get you M&M eye-candy fix here today.

As I was leaving the House chambers for the weekend our Democrat Speaker of the House announced that the coming Monday would be the final day of this year’s General Assembly. He went on to state that there were still numerous resolutions on the calendar which we would need to be addressed prior to the summer adjournment. Interestingly, he specifically mentioned that one of the resolutions we would be hearing was being carried by the House Majority Leader Alice Madden (D), honoring the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. As a strong pro-life legislator I was disgusted...