The News About The Deadly Poison Ricin Found In Las Vegas Motel Room

A suspicious that preliminary showed to be the deadly poison, ricin was found in a Las Vegas motel room. In proper doses, ricin can be used for cancer treatment and is used in cancer research, but an amount the size of a grain of salt can be deadly.

The man who brought the substance to the manager told police he found it in a suite and it did not belong to him. Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing. Three police officers who had been exposed were also taken to hospitals. It takes between six and eight hours for someone exposed to ricin to show signs of contamination.

The Las Vegas police along with Homeland Security officials and the FBI are investigating the incident, but say they don’t believe it is related to terrorism.

There has been no mention of who could have brought the ricin to the motel and makes me wonder why someone would be carrying it around since it is so toxic. I guess we’ll find out more after all the tests are done.

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The News About Hulk Hogan’s Affair With Daughter’s Friend

As we all know, Hulk Hogan’s wife, Linda filed for divorce last November after 25 years of marriage to the wrestling great. It had seemed the reality show, “Hogan knows Best”, might have had a toll on the marriage, but news has now surfaced of an affair that may have been the cause of the breakup.

It seems that the Hulkster had an affair with a friend of his daughter Brooke. 33-year-old Christiane Plante told The National Enquirer that she had an affair with Hulk Hogan about a year after working with Brooke on her 2006 album. Plante said the couple was already having problems with their marriage at the time and that Linda had already left Hulk. She claims the affair started while she was consoling Hulk Hogan through his problems.

Understandably Brooke is very upset about this and wrote a s scathing post on her Myspace blog, which was later removed.

Hulk Hogan is a big star in the wrestling world and I’m sure he will remain so even through this scandal. It’s to bad he may no longer be a big star in his family’s eyes.

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The News About Michael Jackson Selling Neverland

It looks like Michael Jackson may have to sale his Neverland ranch unless he pays the $24.5 million owed before March 19 when Neverland will be foreclosed and sold. Michael has actually spent very little time at Neverland since he was acquitted of sexually molesting a young boy and plying him with alcohol June of 2005.

Neverland, which Michael Jackson had dressed, up with a private zoo, an amusement park and statues of Peter Pan characters was ordered shuttered and Michael Jackson fined for failing to pay his employees or maintain proper insurance. The zoo animals were also removed.

I would think that Michael has the money to pay the nearly $25 million he owes for Neverland, but I don’t he really cares at this point.

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The News About Floyd Mayweather’s $20 Million Wrestling Match

Floyd Mayweather Jr., consider the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world has that he can not only box, but he can also dance by appearing on the hit ABC show "Dancing With the Stars" and now it seems he wants to show off his wrestling skills.

Mayweather will take on wrestling star Big Show, who is almost 400 pounds heavier and almost a foot and half taller. The match will take place March 30th during WWE's "WrestleMania XXIV" at Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Fla.

At $20 million I would wrestle Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Big Show. This will not only be a good payday for Floyd Mayweather Jr., but he says it will also be fun for him. This is all part of Floyd’s manager, Leonard Ellerbee’s plan to expand Mayweather's fan base.

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The News About Jimmy Kimmel F*cking Ben Affleck

With all the news sites and lots of blogs talking about the Oscars, there’s a hot story out there that’s getting very little coverage. Apparently after finding out that his girlfriend Sarah Silverman was f*cking Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel hooked up with Ben Affleck.

Okay, not really. Jimmy and Ben did hook up to make a comedic music video in answer to Sarah’s and Matt’s comedic music video “I’m F*cking Matt Damon”. However, Jimmy Kimmel did manage to round up a star studded cast for his video including Don Cheadle, Ashlee Simpson, Robin Williams, Cameron Diaz, Huey Lewis, Christina Applegate, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Benji and Joel Madden, Lance Bass, Josh Groban and Harrison Ford who blows the new couple a kiss. Even Brad Pitt shows up in the video as a FedEx deliveryman who brings a cake of congratulations to the couple.

Don’t worry fans Jimmy and Sarah are still a couple, the videos are just for laughs. Here is the Jimmy Kimmel, Ben Affleck video.



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The News About Jennifer Lopez Having Twins

Well, the big day is finally here for Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony. The couple gave birth to twins today. The twins are, in order of their birth, a girl and a boy. The girl weighed in at 5 pounds and 7 ounces and the boy weighed in at 6 pounds.

These are the first children for Jennifer Lopez, but the fourth and fifth for Marc who has three other children from two previous relationships. Marc and Jennifer married in a quiet ceremony on June 5, 2004 after rekindling their romance. They had briefly dated in the 1990's.

Get this, People Magazine is reportedly paying a $6 million for the first photos of the twins. Marc and Jennifer, get ready for an army of paparazzi.

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The News About Anthony Anderson Replacing Jesse L. Martin On Law And Order

K-Ville, the Fox TV drama starring Anthony Anderson as a tough New Orleans cop is ending it’s one season run despite its good ratings. Jesse L. Martin is leaving the hit NBC show Law and Order ending his nine-year run on the show. What does these two events have to do with each other? Well, Anthony Anderson is finalizing negotiations to replace Martin.

Anderson will not take over the Jesse L. Martin character, Ed Green, but will play a whole new detective. Martin was signed to do 13 more episodes of Law and Order, but the writer’s strike forced a change in those plans. He will instead shoot one more episode in which he will be written out of the show.

Martin will be staring in a movie about Marvin Gaye Titled “Sexual Healing”. The movie is set to start shooting in April or May.

Anthony Anderson, who has recently taken a departure from his comedic sidekick roles in movies, has been playing more serious roles in shows Like K-Ville, The Shield, and Law and Order SVU. It’ll be interesting see what kind of character he gets in Law and Order.

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The News About The Gene Simmons Sex Tape

I’m not a Kiss fan, but I am a big Gene Simmons fan. I started like Gene Simmons when he started playing bad guys in movies back in the 80s. He made a great bad guy with that look of his.

Well, apparently Gene is in a different kind of movie now. A sex tape has surfaced of Gene Simmons having sex with a sexy young Austrian model, named Elsa. Elsa is one of the Frank's Energy Drink girls and Gene Simmons is their spokesman. However I don’t think having sex with one of their models was part of the deal Frank's Energy Drink had with Gene.

It makes you wonder how this is going to affect Gene’s relationship Shannon Tweed who he has been dating for over 20 years. The couple even has two children, Nicholas, 19, and Sophie, 15. I’m sure Gene will emerge from this unskaved, he’s a rock star after and isn’t this the kind of thing that rock stars are expected to do.

If you watched “The Celebrity Apprentice”, or Gene Simmons’ reality show you got a taste of Gene’s personality. I hated to see him get fired from “The Celebrity Apprentice”, but it was Gene Simmons being Gene Simmons. Much like the sex tape.

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The News About Castro’s Resignation

Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba as it’s President for almost 50 years, announced Tuesday that he will not aspire to nor accept the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief of Cuba.

The 81-year-old Cuban ruler has seen 10 U.S. Presidents come and go all of which have tried and failed to end his rule. The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 under President Kennedy was the most famous and most ambiguous. It brought us to the brink of a nuclear war.

Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul who is 76 years old is expected to succeed him as President of Cuba. The U.S. had hoped to see a transition of Cuba from a communist country to a democratic one, but it doesn’t look like that will happen.

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The News About The Beef Recall

The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the largest beef recall ever in the United States Sunday. They recalled 143 million pounds, which is 65,000 tons of beef. That’s a lot of hamburgers.

The USDA says this is a "Class 2 recall, which means there is a low risk of getting sick from the meat. The recall was due to the plant violating rules that prohibit the slaughter of "downer" cattle, which are cattle that are unable to walk.

The recall will affect beef products dating to February 1, 2006, that came from Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., which is based in Chino, California. They supply meat to the federal school lunch program and to some major fast-food chains.

Operations were suspended at Westland/Hallmark after a video was undercover showing workers abusing "downer" animals that were apparently too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse.

I like beef products and hope that this isn’t going to hurt my beef consumption. One more thing, isn’t slaughtering the animals period kind of abusing them?

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The News About Jane Fonda Using The “C” Word

Apparently NBC had to make apologies after Jane Fonda’s appearance on the Today Show where she said the “C” word. In a discussion with the playwright Eve Ensler about her play “The Vagina Monologues”, Jane Fonda told how she was asked to do a monologue called “Cunt”. Jane just kept talking as if she had said nothing wrong and you know what? I don’t think she did. Since the “Today Show “ is live they were unable to bleep the word when it aired on the East Coast, it was muted in other time zones but

All the stories I have seen on this have not even used the word, they just say the “C” word. Well, I just used it and I’m not going to apologize for it. Give me a break. There are much worse words said on TV everyday. Every one is so focused on the word Cunt, but what about the word Vagina? Okay, Vagina is a clinical term, but wouldn’t some people be offended by that?

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The News About Valentine’s Day

Today is the day that no guy that has a special lady in his life should forget. Not if he knows what’s good for him. Valentine’s Day is the day for lovers and it’s a very special day to women. So fellas let your woman know that you are thinking about her and that you remembered this special day.

You don’t really have to do any big, just something to let her know she’s on your mind. Send her an ecard, there are loads of free ecard sites on the Internet. Here are just a few.

123 Greetings

Care 2 e-cards

Hallmark E-Cards

USA Greetings

Amercan Greetings

So go ahead and send that lady a Valentine’s Greeting card. And ladies you can send the guys one too.

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The News About Yoko Ono Suing Lennon

Yoko Ono is suing a little-known singer-songwriter named Lennon Murphy for naming her band “Lennon”. Murphy was named after John Lennon and Lennon Murphy is her legal, childbirth name.

Murphy claims that in the year 2000 she asked Yoko about using the name Lennon on the bands debut CD on the Arista Records label and said Yoko and her lawyer had no problem with it. Although Arista later dropped “Lennon” due to poor record sales, the band still performs and records independently.

The lawsuit comes just two days before the statute of limitations ran out to file the complaint. The suit cites that there is a likelihood of confusion in the marketplace and would cause a dilution of John Lennon’s surname.

The two questions I have are, doesn’t this girl have a right to her own name and what is Yoko’s real purpose for bringing this lawsuit eight years after being asked permission to us the Lennon name? I mean Lennon Murphy should be able to use her name as she pleases and I think Yoko is using this to once again get into the public eye. I mean come on how much harm can this band cause? Have you ever hard of the band “Lennon”?

On a final note, Julian Lennon, John's son gives Ms Murphy his support.

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The News About Project Lifeline

Six of the top US Banks are banding together to help homeowners in an effort they are calling Project Lifeline. Job losses and the credit crunch has made it hard for homeowners to keep up with their mortgages forcing them into a foreclosure situation.

Project Lifeline will help homeowners to get more affordable deals that will delay foreclosures and improve their payment situation. The banks behind Project Lifeline are Bank of America, Citigroup, Countrywide, JP Morgan, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo. The six banks are also a part of a plan called “Hope Now” which is also designed to help homeowners by having major lenders agree to voluntarily freeze low-cost teaser rates on some subprime adjustable-rate mortgages for five extra years.

It’s good to see banks trying to help people and being part of the solution instead of being part of the problem.

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The News About The Grammy Awards

Well, the Grammy Awards aired last night and boy was it a big one. Amy Winehouse and Kanye West turned out to be the biggest winners of the night. Winehouse took home five awards and Kanye took home four.

I would say that what made the night was the performance of Tina Turner and Beyonce doing “Proud Mary”. Tina Turner, who still looks great at 68 showed that she still has some of that energy that made her the star that she remains to be.

I must say that I’m a big Prince fan so anytime I get to see him perform it’s a good time for me and I was glad to see him perform last night. It was also great to see the reunion of The Time and their performance with Rihanna. I can’t wait to hear the new CD they have coming out.

A final note, Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama also won a Grammy last night for Best Spoken Word Album. That goes well with his primary wins this weekend.

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The News About Shooting Rampage In Missouri

Six people were killed yesterday when Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton stormed into a city council meeting in Kirkwood, Missouri and started shooting after yelling, "Shoot the mayor!" Thornton had already shot and killed two officers on his into the council chamber.

Thornton was said to have frequently disrupted city council meetings by making strange noises and making derogatory comments towards the director of public works, the city attorney and the mayor. In 2006 Thornton sued the city of Kirkwood after he was arrested twice for disorderly conduct at two council meetings. He lost the suit and was later convicted.

Thornton's brother, Gerald, told KMOV-TV in St. Louis "The only way that I can put it in a context that you might understand is that my brother went to war tonight with the people that were of the government that was putting torment and strife into his life."

Thornton was killed when police finally opened fire on him.

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The News About The Family Ties Reunion

I was a big fan of “Family Ties” when it was on TV, Alex P. Keaton keep me rolling week after week. Today on the “Today Show” the cast and the producer of “Family Ties” reunited. It was great to see these people together again and learn how well they all got along together and still do.

Missing from the reunion was Brian Bonsall who played the little brother that joined the show later and the guy who played Skippy, Alex’s goofy friend. I can't seem to think of his name right now. But it was great seeing the main core cast and it made me smile.

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The News About Super Tuesday

Well, the biggest primary of the season has ended and although there was a decisive winner for the Republicans the Democratic race is still on the line. John McCain was the definite winner of the Republican race and this would usually mean he would get the Republican nomination, but the win wasn’t big enough for him to clinch the nomination.

On the Democratic side the race came down to Clinton and Obama as expected. Clinton won the states that had the most delegates, but Obama won the smaller and mid-sized states giving him 14 states to Clinton’s 8.

With no decisive nominee for either party on Super Tuesday, the biggest primary ever in the US, the candidates look ahead to next week’s primaries in Maryland and Virginia.

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The News About Fat Tuesday

You may know that today is “Super Tuesday”. All of the Presidential candidates are gearing up to get delegates from California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Missouri and Georgia. These are the biggest prizes of the primary season.

But what I didn’t know and have never heard of is that this is also “Fat Tuesday”, a day to splurge on your diets and eat, eat, eat.

This is a Christian tradition, a day to use up all of the fat, oils and sweets from your house in preparation for Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent. During Lent, Christians traditionally give up sweet or fancy foods to recognize the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

So for those who celebrate it, Happy Fat Tuesday, enjoy your food and don’t forget to vote if you live where the primaries are being held.

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The News About The Super Bowl

Well, I guess by now everybody knows that the Giants won the Super Bowl. It wasn’t an easy win though, it was very close with a score Of Giants 17 and The Patriots 14. As I write this, a parade for the Giants should be going on.

What is always more interesting to me than the game is the ads. Sponsors for the Super Bowl always go all out to come up with some memorable commercials. And the cost per commercial for the Super bowl is astonishing.

Of all the ads that bid for our attention during the Super Bowl, I have to give my nod to the Victoria's Secret ad as the one I liked best. Come on, I’m a guy of course I like Victoria's Secret's ad the best.

Anyway congrats to the Giants and good game.

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