Miscellaneous News

Heather Mills really is greedy.
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Miscellaneous.

Every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be diving down and pecking you.

There are other birds that are notorious for diving down during this time of year. All you can do is try to shoo them off.
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Heather Mills, nicknamed "Mucca" by the British tabloids, didn't waste any time finding another guy, this one being close to her age (only five years younger).

He is impoverished and she is rich, thanks to her ex-husband's largesse. I'll leave any commentary out.
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Yes, it is AP, but it has a video about the so-called "pregnancy pact" made by a bunch of girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts, that's reached worldwide notoriety:

Miscellaneous News.

The WSWS notes the cyclone disaster worsens in Burma.
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Dolly Parton has paid tribute to gospel singer and friend Dottie Rambo, who was killed in a bus crash yesterday in Missouri.

Consider how well known Rambo is, I am surprised there is no obituary from the New York Times yet. They did one of Vestal Goodman a few years ago.

More from the Tennessean is here.
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A judge decreed the McCartney marriage over, but fans of the former Beatle knew it was over from Day One.
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So is Tony Rezko a crook or was he framed, as closing arguments were made in his trial today.

Miscellaneous.

Heather Mills should have kept her mouth shut.
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Miscellaneous.

Paul McCartney finally gained his freedom.

One thing about him I always liked was he has insisted his children attend public schools (called "state schools" in Britain). He felt it was important his kids were treated no differently than other children.

Video is here.
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Today New York gets a new governor.

Let's hope there are no further scandals.
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Rapper Tupac Shakur was probably right in identifying those who attacked him and left him for dead in 1994, a couple of years before he was murdered.

Edit: Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy, categorically denies the report.
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Former ABBA drummer Ola Brunkert has died in a freak accident at his home in Spain. He was 61.

Details:

Police believe Brunkert hit his head on a window and shattered the glass which cut him. A post-mortem is taking place.

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The musician was found by a neighbour late on Sunday in a pool of blood.

He had managed to wrap a towel around his neck before leaving the house to summon help before collapsing in the garden.

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A baby suffers from a rare disease, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, which causes the body to age far quicker, and children invariably die of it.

It occurs once in 8 million births. Only about 100 cases have been identified in medical history.
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Miscellaneous.

Somebody should remind Heather Mills the saying about a person acting as his or her own lawyer.
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Miscellaneous.

How nice it is the dogs can go to Michigan from Iraq.

More pictures can be found here.
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Is the Hollywood writers strike near an end?
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Darren Mack will be an old man before he gets out of prison.
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Supposedly Heather cheated on Paul while they were married.
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As the World Turns.

You wonder what in the goddamned hell was the matter with Paul McCartney to have made such a goddamned fool out of himself for marrying Heather Mills.

God.

As the World Turns.

A fugitive on the lam for 27 years was finally tracked down and caught.
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Dan Rather stands up for himself regarding CBS's treatment during the Killian memos flap:

Q: The documents were authentic?

Rather: "The documents were a part of the story. But the story was about what is known, and questions unanswered, about President Bush's service, and what we reported was true. This lawsuit is directed at Viacom, CBS, its ownership and its management. It has two parts: a contract with me that they broke, and the second part has to deal with fraud and how they handled the story. Basically, (it's) the undue influence of the corporatization and the politicization of news coverage, some of which I didn't know was happening at the time. Some goes back to our breaking the story of Abu Ghraib."

Q: But were the National Guard documents authentic?

Rather: "I believe they are authentic. I believed it at the time, I believe it now."

Q: So all the people who have pointed out, for example, that the particular font on the documents didn't even exist back then, they are wrong?

Rather: "I'm glad you asked about that because, unfortunately, there has been a lot written and said about it, saying they were bogus, they were forgeries, none of which has stood up. But I do want to come back to the documents being just part of the story. The core of the story -- what a journalist tries to do -- is get the truth, or as close to the truth as possible. We did that. Our story was true."

Anybody who was a typist back then knows the original source documents (CBS had faxed and copied versions) were genuine and probably typed by Killian himself.
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Darren Mack has hired a new lawyer to help him try to get off.
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Chelsy and Harry might not be over yet.
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No comment about this whatsoever.
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As the World Turns.

Workers once again got sold down the river.
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Is a one-time prominent atheist being exploited by the evangelicals?
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This has to be one of the dumbest articles I have ever read.

Who the hell made you god?
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Prince Charles had somebody unsavory sponge off of him.
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Heather shot off her mouth a bit too much, so now Paul wants full custody of their daughter.
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Oh, brother, talk about an anticlimatic article and interview.
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As the World Turns.

When Judge Weller was shot in his office in June 2006, he knew right off the bat who did it.
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Although she's been crucified by the media, Heather Mills has refused to compare herself to Jesus Christ; instead, she likens her predicament to the late Diana.
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A prominent real estate agent with popular music connections was found murdered:

A woman who helped pioneer the punk music scene, influenced the careers of Madonna and the Ramones and went on to become known as a real estate agent to the stars was found bludgeoned to death Tuesday night in her apartment at 965 Fifth Avenue, the police said yesterday.

The victim, Linda S. Stein, 62, was found shortly before 10:30 p.m. by her daughter Mandy and a friend, who called 911. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

I am sure there will be more about this case.
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Washoe, the chimpanzee who knew sign language, has died at the age of 42.
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As the World Turns II.

The McCartney divorce could get very, very ugly.
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Orion the cat somehow survived a house fire.
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A bald eagle found shot unfortunately had to be euthanized.
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As the World Turns.

Northwest tire magnate Les Schwab, 89, has died. He had been in poor health in recent months.

He bought a dilapidated tire store in 1952 and ended up with a chain of over 400 stores throughout the West generating over a billion a year in sales.

Schwab was the personification of Prineville, Oregon.
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Have Paul and Heather arrived at a truce?
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As the World Turns.

Perhaps Bill Gates ought to get his own house in order before pontificating about how American high schools ought to be fixed.
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Is a settlement in the works for Paul and Heather?
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Religious right leaders are afraid the evangelical movement they overtook in the 1980s
is straying too far from the hot button issues which have served them so well in the past.

In other words, many evangelicals are too liberal for the likes of Dobson and other religious fascists.
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As the World Turns.

Three mountain climbers stranded on Mount Hood are alive. They also have a dog with them.

Edit: All were rescued this afternoon, including the dog.
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China has some competition in the female infanticide/abortion contest as India is apparently engaging in mass eugenics.

But it's "freedom of choice" regardless of the sexism and demographic catastrophe sex-selection entails.
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Heather Mills is no longer considered a cash cow, so PETA has severed its ties to her.
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Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte, 65, will be honored at the 16th annual Sports Legends Awards which benefits spinal chord research.

Since he was paralyzed in a racing accident in 1978, he has lived in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Ron Franklin, whose sensational rise and fall as jockey of Spectacular Bid has been chronicled on this blog, seeks to have his license reinstated by the Maryland Racing Commission.

I don't know why he bothers at this point. He is 46, way past his prime.
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