Holy shit, it doesn’t get crazier than this, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama are distant cousins. That’s right folks these two opposites are related to each other.
So says the vice president’s wife, Lynne Cheney, who said she discovered that her husband of 43 years is eighth cousins with the [...]
Gerald R. Ford 1913 – 2006
Former President Gerald R. Ford has passed away at the age of 93. Wife Betty Ford release the following statement:
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was [...]
Before YouTube sold to Google for $1.6 billion, there was the first video on the site by co-founder Jawed Karim.
Today marks the 5th anniversary of September 11, the day when terrorist attacked the United States and bought down the Twin Towers.
$365 Million Powerball Winners© AP Photo/Bill Wolf
Clockwise from top left: Robert Stewart, Alain Maboussou, Dung Tran, Eric Zornes, David Gehle, Michael Terpstra, Quang Dao and Chasity Rutjens.
I bet they all retired from working at the ConAgra meat processing plant. It would suck to be the one working there and didn’t join in on the lottery [...]
Mega Millions
The Mega Millions lottery is at $145 million for tonight’s drawing. If that’s not enough money for you, you can try your luck in the Powerball lottery.
Powerball
The multi-state lottery Powerball set a new record with a prize of $365 million for the Saturday drawing with a cash option of $177.3 million. So after taxes [...]
Isabelle Dinoire© Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
The world’s first partial face transplant took place in France. The total time to perform the surgery was 15 hours, using tissues, muscles, arteries and veins from a woman who has committed suicide.
Isabelle Dinoire had been disfigured by her dog when she was passed out from taking medicines to calm [...]
Bill Gates, U2 rocker Bono, and Melinda Gates, Persons of the Year.
The world richest man Bill Gates along with wife Melinda Gates and rocker Bono are named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year.” These dynamic trio were chosen base on being the people most effective at finding ways to eliminate eradicate such distresses as HIV [...]
Stanley “Tookie” Williams
The plea for clemency has been denied by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stanley “Tookie” Williams is scheduled to be given a lethal injection shortly after midnight local time at San Quentin State Prison in California.
Stanley was a co-founder of the deadly street gang call Crips and was convicted of murdering four people [...]
Rap moguls Irving and Christopher Lorenzo are found not guilty of laundering money for the notorious crack kingpin Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff. The Lorenzo brothers were accused of laundering over $1 million in drug money for Kenneth in exchange for serving as the Lorenzos’ protector and enforcer.
After the not guilty verdict was announced the crowd erupted [...]
The master of The Apprentice Donald Trump wants to sell you some alcohol. The sultan of self promotion wants to sell yet another drink, so the next time your at a club your be able to get drunk with the Trump Vodka and sober up with the Trump Ice.
Next up is a whole line of [...]
The life size statue of Bruce Lee that was unveiled Saturday in Mostar, Bosnia has been vandalized.
The next morning after the unveiling, the Bruce Lee statue was missing the nunchuk’s chain and one of its handles.
One of the park’s keeper name Veljo Dojcinovic may have witness the incident:
I heard a loud bang but I was [...]
Bruce Lee in Hong Kong
In two days and in two different cities legendary martial art star Bruce Lee will be immortalized in the form of a statue. The first statue was erected in Mostar, Bosnia on Saturday and the one in Hong Kong was unveiled on Sunday.
Bruce Lee in Mostar
[Shanghai Daily and BBC]
The UN ambassador of goodwill Angelina Jolie urge the world to speed up the assistance to earthquake torn Pakistan before the deathly winter cold hits. Jolie makes an appealed to the donor nations to quickly make good on the pledges they make earlier in the week.
The pledges need to materialize soon.
Because from what I’m understanding, [...]
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