March 31, 2006

MySpace.com has removed over 200,000 questionable profiles to help calm safety concerns from critics of the social networking site.  posted 11:03am by jholmes

Rachel Hunter and Rod Stewart's divorce is about to be finalized after a seven year legal battle.  posted 12:58am by jholmes

Cathy Young takes another look at unfair parental rights for fathers.

One of the men profiled in the article, 23-year-old Arizona resident Jeremiah Clayton Jones, learned that his former fiancée—who had ended their relationship—was pregnant and seeking to put up the baby for adoption in Florida, where they had met while attending college. An adoption agency called Jones to ask for his consent to the adoption. He refused, fully intending to raise the baby himself. But Jones did not know that in order to exercise his parental rights, he had to register with the state registry for unmarried fathers. Because he missed the deadline, he lost all his rights and has never seen his child, now 18 months old.

Today, partly as a result of several legal controversies in which unmarried fathers successfully contested adoptions, the majority of states have "putative father registries" by means of which a man can assert his paternity. But the purpose of these registries often seems to be less to protect the rights of the father than to protect the rights of everyone else: the mother who wants to give up the baby, the adoption agency, and the adoptive parents. Some would say that they also protect the rights of the child. But that depends on whether you believe that a child is better off being adopted than being raised by the biological father.   posted 12:55am by jholmes

Insiders are reporting that Tony Blair will announce his resignation sometime before Christmas.  posted 12:49am by jholmes

A strong earthquake has shaken Iran and killed dozens in small villages.  posted 12:47am by jholmes

Today in 1889 the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France was inaugurated.  ET was designed and named after Gustave Eiffel.  And that concludes the list of things that France has contributed to the world.  posted 12:44am by jholmes

Today is Cesar Chavez day.  posted 12:40am by jholmes

The NBA's Tight(s) Issue 

Kobe and his hose.

The NBA plans to ban players from wearing tights/panty hose under their uniforms next year.  posted 12:23am by jholmes

List of NBA players to wear tights this year:

• Ray Allen, Seattle
• Andrew Bogut, Milwaukee
• Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers
• Vince Carter, New Jersey
• Eddy Curry, New York
• Samuel Dalembert, Philadelphia
• Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
• LeBron James, Cleveland
• Toni Kukoc, Milwaukee
• Rashad McCants, Minnesota
• Michael Redd, Milwaukee
• Joe Smith, Milwaukee
• Jerry Stackhouse, Dallas
• Nick Van Exel, San Antonio
• Dwyane Wade, Miami
• Chris Webber, Philadelphia
• Bonzi Wells, Sacramento
• Jason Williams, Miami
• Mo Williams, Milwaukee

March 30, 2006

Who hired who?

Unsettling kiss between Teri Hatcher and Ryan Seacrest as they pretend not to notice the cameraman they hired.  posted 1:05am by jholmes

Three 6 Mafia is working with Paris Hilton on her upcoming album.  Dr. Seuss couldn't write this stuff. 

"We ran into her at a William Morris Agency party and she said she liked our song 'Stay Fly' and asked could we work with her," said Jordan "Juicy J" Houston, a member of the Memphis hip-hop group.

The trio will be back in Memphis to receive a key to the city Saturday, deemed Three 6 Mafia Day.   posted 1:03am by jholmes

English husband dies during Shania Twain sex game.  posted 12:55am by jholmes

 
Does anyone know if they served hot wings instead of pretzels?

Hooters Airline has lost its silicone and is calling it quits after three years in the air.  posted 12:47am by jholmes

Las Vegas now has ambulances for the obese.  posted 12:45am by jholmes

A law professor at the University of Memphis is banning laptops in his classroom.  posted 12:44am by jholmes

Major League Baseball is opening a steroids probe on Barry Bonds and the 'Steroids Era.'  posted 12:42am by jholmes

March 29, 2006

Sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth to Sean Preston
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A New York artist is creating a stir with his pro-life Britney Spears sculpture (see above).

The life-size pop princess is naked and pregnant, crouching face-down on a bare-toothed bear rug as the baby's head appears on the opposite end.

His aim, said the son of a mother who gave birth to him when she was 17, was to stir up debate about a difficult topic that "is greater than the issues presented by either pro-life and pro-choice advocates."   posted 12:44am by jholmes

White House chief of staff Andy Card has resigned.  Joshua Bolten has been tapped to replace him.  posted 12:39am by jholmes

Whitney Houston is finally about cracked out.  Will she really get help this time? I guess its her prerogative.  posted 12:36am by jholmes

It appears that Taradise is back in effect for boozer/party girl supreme Tara Reid.  posted 12:28am by jholmes 

Sexpert Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone is promoting oral sex to teenagers as an alternative to sexual intercourse.  Her purpose is to steer kids away from disease and HIV.  Hasn't anyone informed Ms. Stone of the STD's that can be transgressed through oral appetizers?  posted 12:24am by jholmes

Bill Clinton is backing compulsory AIDS testing of developing countries with crippling populations of the deadly disease. I agree with him that this makes perfect sense.

The former president, whose Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative is helping to provide cheaper AIDS tests and drugs, said making people aware of their HIV status was the only way to make them change their sexual behavior.

"If 90 percent don't even know (they have the disease) how can you ever reduce the number of sufferers?" Clinton told reporters in London on Tuesday.

He said that in countries with low levels of infection, compulsory testing would be a waste of money. But once the level of infection rises to 5 percent, "you're in trouble" and that is when testing becomes invaluable to reduce the spread of the disease.   posted 12:18am by jholmes

New political party takes over in Israel.  posted 12:11am by jholmes

Top 50 Minor League baseball players.  posted 12:09am by jholmes

March 28, 2006

The Indiana Hoosiers have hired Oklahoma Sooners coach Kelvin Sampson to replace Mike Davis.  posted 1:31pm by jholmes

 
Katie Holmes has an impressive challenge before her.

Tom Cruise has had poster placards delivered and posted all over his mansion to remind Katie Holmes to remain silent during  her upcoming child birth.

The couple — following the Scientology tradition of a silent birth — had the posters delivered to their Beverly Hills mansion.

One reads: “Be silent and make all physical movements slow and understandable.”

Dawson’s Creek actress Katie, 26, must “keep mum” and will not even be allowed painkillers when she has the couple’s first child due any day.

Followers believe it is traumatic for babies to hear their mother scream or groan when giving birth. They think it can cause “psychic” damage, which takes years of therapy to overcome.

The doctrine stresses newborns cannot be poked or prodded for medical tests or spoken to for seven days.  More Cruise Craziness.   posted 11:16am by jholmes

The Sexiest Woman in the World according to FHM

Scarlett Johanson tops FHM magazine's list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World. 

Angelina Jolie is No. 2 on the list, followed by Jessica Alba, Jessica Simpson, Keira Knightley, Halle Berry, Jenny McCarthy, Maria Sharapova, Carmen Electra and Teri Hatcher.   posted 1:06am by jholmes

That 70's Show actor Wilmer Vanderrama spoke on The Howard Stern Show yesterday about taking Mandy Moore's virginity and sex with Lindsey Lohan and Ashlee Simpson.  posted 1:04am by jholmes

The Muslim-Christian convert in Afghanistan, who was facing the death penalty for his switch of religions, has been freed. 

Rahman, 41, was arrested last month after police discovered him with a Bible. He was put on trial last week for converting 16 years ago while he was a medical aid worker for an international Christian group helping Afghan refugees in Pakistan. He had faced the death penalty under Afghanistan's Islamic laws.

The case set off an outcry in the United States and other nations that helped oust the hard-line Taliban regime in late 2001 and provide aid and military support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai. President Bush and others insisted Afghanistan protect personal beliefs.

Hours earlier, hundreds of clerics, students and others chanting "Death to Christians!" marched through the northern Afghan Mazar-i-Sharif to protest the court's decision Sunday to dismiss the case.   posted 1:00am by jholmes

Sean Penn has an Ann Coulter torture doll, while Penn just tortures the rest of us.  posted 12:54am by jholmes

Quote of the Day:

"To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?" - Gandhi

Stacey Keibler WWE cat fight video.  And also a SK photo gallery.  posted 12:51am by jholmes

Today is Teachers Day in the Czech Republic.  posted 12:50am by jholmes

Yankees pitcher Randy Johnson, who makes $16 million dollars a year, is nickel and diming a woman he had a love child with sixteen years ago.

The All-Star athlete, 42, last month filed a court petition--a copy of which you'll find below--seeking a rebate for $750-a-month day care payments he has provided over the past eight years to the mother of the pair's 16-year-old daughter.

Asked if Johnson, whom she lived with early in his Major League career, has ever acknowledged their daughter, Roszell replied, "Nope. Nothing. Never." She added that she broke up with Johnson midway through her pregnancy and that the girl was the star's "dark little secret."  

He contends that Roszell owes him the money, in part, because she failied to provide quarterly accountings for her day care expenditures.   posted 12:47am by jholmes

March 27, 2006

 
The LSU Tigers are heading to the Final Four in Indy.

The Final Four is set.  LSU, UCLA, George Mason, and Florida will be heading to Indianapolis to play for the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. 

Weekend Results
UCLA 50 - Memphis 45 , Both teams played like a kindergarten Nerf Hoops Team.  UCLA's guards will have to step up to counter LSU's dominant inside game.
LSU 70 - Texas 60 , LSU is the hot, hot, hot.  They will need to eliminate stupid turnovers in Indy to win it all.
George Mason 86 - UConn 84 , Who is not pulling for GM at this point?  I guess Billy Packer might shut up regarding the committee's selections next year.
Florida 75 - Villanova 62, Noah is the most versatile player left in the tournament.  Donavan led teams usually falter in the tournament, but these guys just win.   posted 12:38am by jholmes

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IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, the 4th richest man in the world, always flies economy class and drives a fifteen-year-old car.  posted 12:35am by jholmes

Today in 1794, the United States Navy was established.  posted 12:33am by jholmes

Members of the Duke lacrosse team are being tested in regard to a gang rape involving several team members. 

A dancer who reported that she was raped by members of the Duke University lacrosse team said she thought she would be dancing for five men at a bachelor party, but she and another woman were surrounded by dozens.

Men shouted racial slurs at the women, both black, she said in an interview with The News & Observer of Raleigh.

"We started to cry," she said. "We were so scared."   posted 12:16am by jholmes

President Bush says to enforce the existing laws on illegal immigrants.  Thousands of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans protested across the country in massive demonstrations over the weekend. 

"America is a nation of immigrants, and we're also a nation of laws," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

"When illegal immigrants know they will be caught and sent home, they will be less likely to break the rules, and our immigration system will be more orderly and secure."

"As we debate the immigration issue, we must remember there are hardworking individuals, doing jobs that Americans will not do, who are contributing to the economic vitality of our country," said Bush.   posted 12:09am by jholmes

Slain preacher's wife apologizes for killing her husband.  posted 12:02am by jholmes

March 26, 2006

 
Buck Owens

Country music legend Buck Owens died yesterday at the age of 76.  Owens was a popular host of the country variety show Hee Haw.  The Rhinestone Cowboy had a number of country hits including "Act Naturally", "Together Again", "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line", and "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail".

"I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time," he said in 1992.

An indefatigable performer, Owens played a red, white and blue guitar with fireball fervor. He and the Buckaroos wore flashy rhinestone suits in an era when flash was as important to country music as fiddles.

In addition to music, Owens had a highly visible TV career as co-host of "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1986. With guitarist Roy Clark, he led viewers through a potpourri of country music and hayseed humor.   posted 12:04am by jholmes

Today is Independence Day in Bangladesh.  posted 12:01am by jholmes

March 25, 2006

Anemic day for the Memphis Tigers.  posted 10:25pm by jholmes

LSU played horrible at times and made many mistakes, but held on to beat Texas in overtime.  The LSU Tigers are heading to the Final Four.  LSU won 70-60.  posted 4:04pm by jholmes

NCAA BBall Today: Go Tigers! and Geaux Tigers!

 
Britney Spears and Kevin Spenderline
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Britney and Spenderline are in Vegas celebrating his 28th birthday.  posted 12:57am by jholmes

Six people in a 'Wet T-Shirt' contest were arrested in Panama City Beach on Tuesday night.  posted 12:45am by jholmes

Saddam Hussein had pre-war intelligence on U.S. military plans that was sent to him by the Russians.  posted 12:32am by jholmes

Tom Cruise is jumping up and down on furniture again.......this time it's a chair.  More Cruise Craziness.   posted 12:24am by jholmes

'Perfect' wife of slain Tennessee pastor admits to the murder. 

But police were still looking for a motive. "Our concern at this point is why the crime took place," Rickman told The Associated Press. "There have been no specific accusations made by Mrs. Winkler."  

When Matthew Winkler failed to show up for a midweek service at the Fourth Street Church of Christ, congregants went looking for him. They went to the church parsonage and entered when no one answered, police said.

Congregants found Winkler dead in the bedroom. He had been shot in the back, but there were no signs of a struggle, police said.   posted 12:11am by jholmes

"Sharon found guilty of sucking the gold off of her Oscar"

Submitted Quote from Bumpshack reader Wendy March

Bumpshack Music: Check out Luke Laird's beautiful songwriting and music on MySpace.  posted 12:00am by jholmes

March 24, 2006

 
Paula Abdul in her Wacko Jacko days.

Paula Abdul is close to getting fired by American Idol producers due to her erratic behavior on the highly ranked reality talent show.  The aforementioned Jackson is reportedly back in the United States.  posted 1:10am by jholmes 

 
I did this in high school once, but never in a court room like Phil Spector.
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Mystery over slain Tennessee pastor.  Matthew Winkler was found dead in his pastoral office and initially his wife and children were missing.  They  have since been found on the Gulf Coast.

Winkler's body was found Wednesday night. His wife and three young daughters were found Thursday in southern Alabama after a daylong search.

Late Thursday, authorities said they considered Mary Winkler, 32, a suspect. She and the couple's daughters were alone in the family's van when a police officer spotted it parked along a road in Orange Beach, Alabama, about 400 miles south of Selmer.  posted 12:25am by jholmes

 
Jessica Alba Needs a Challenge

Jessica Alba wants to be challenged in future movie roles and not just be the sexy vixen that she is.  posted 12:22am by jholmes

Oh Kelly!  R. Kelly's brother makes DVD accusing the R&B singer of more allegations of sex with underage girls.  posted 12:18am by jholmes

Dick Cheney's advance team informs hotels to have the room temperature set at 68 degrees and all TV's turned to Fox News.  posted 12:16am by jholmes

Aruba's lead investigator strongly believes Natalee  Holloway was not murdered, but that her death was probably caused by alcohol and drugs.

The chief investigator tells Roberts that he has credible witnesses who say the young woman had drugs in her possession. Dompig also says police have witnesses who claim Holloway was drinking “excessively” on the day she disappeared.

Chief investigator Dompig goes on to say, “We do not have proof that [Natalee] used drugs, but that [witnesses] saw her with drugs in her possession.”

Deputy Chief Dompig says he now believes that Natalee Holloway was not murdered. “We feel strongly that she probably went into shock or something happened to her system with all the alcohol -- maybe on top of that, other drugs, which either she took or they gave her -- and that she…just collapsed.”

The deputy chief believes that after Holloway’s death there was a panicked cover-up. Dompig says the investigation has entered a “critical last phase.”   posted 12:15am by jholmes

Drudge has received an email where ABC producer John Green states that President Bush makes him want to puke.

"If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke," Green complained.   posted 12:07am by jholmes

Today is World Tuberculosis Day.  Robert Koch, on this same day, in 1882 discovered the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.  posted 12:04am by jholmes

Barry Bonds is going to sue the authors of book that details his rampant steroid use.  posted 12:01am by jholmes

March 23, 2006

 
Bye! Bye!

Big Baby tops Cry Baby....Reddick goes down in defeat after horrid performance.  LSU won 62-54.  Reddick was 3-18 shooting.  Morrison and Gonzaga cry out as well, losing in a shocking finish to UCLA.  posted 6:29pm by jholmes

OH MY! Referees protect Sheldon Williams by giving foul to another player to prevent him fouling out....Unbelievable!  posted 6:08am by jholmes

LSU has outplayed Duke so far in this game.  posted 5:30pm by jholmes

I am watching the LSU-Duke NCAA tourney game.  CBS, ESPN, and whoever else should not allow  Duke alum Jay Bilas to broadcast Duke games.  He is the most biased commentator on TV in my opinion.  He whines too, like every other current or former Duke player from the Coach K era.  posted 4:33pm by jholmes

Scary Instinct: Sharon Stone
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Gold lipstick? What the heck is Sharon Stone trying to do? Scare us all? More photos if you dare.  posted 1:54am by jholmes 

Cindy Crawford at 40

Cindy Crawford just turned 40 and has had two kids, but as you can see above on the cover of Vanity Fair, she is as hot as ever.  Discuss Cindy on the Bumpshack Message Board.  posted 1:49am by jholmes

Chef, voiced by Isaac Hayes, is set to die in the opening episode of the cartoon's tenth season.  posted 1:44am by jholmes

A D.J. in Missouri has been fired for using a racial slur against Condoleezza Rice on the air.  posted 1:41am by jholmes

Jessica Simpson appears to have the best cleavage in Hollywood according to a new poll.  posted 1:29am by jholmes

Twelve American tourists were killed when a tour bus they were riding in crashed into a valley.  posted 1:27am by jholmes 

According to the new book, Game of Shadows, Gary Sheffield of the Yankees was taking testosterone and human growth hormones.

Sheffield has admitted that he used a cream two years ago but said he did not know it contained illegal steroids. The authors, however, say Bonds' trainer, Greg Anderson, put Sheffield on injectable testosterone and a human growth hormone in 2002, and later sold him designer steroids known as the "cream" and the "clear."   posted 1:19am by jholmes

Wikipedia Article of the Day: Wink Martindale  

Today is Republic Day in Pakistan.   posted 1:14am by jholmes

Bob Huggins has accepted the Kansas State coaching job according to reports.  Huggins was the men's coach at Cincinnati before resigning due to legal problems.  More at BumpSports.  posted 1:12am by jholmes

March 22, 2006

Alfonso Soriano has agreed to play left field for the Washington Nationals.  Soriano had been defiant in his stance to keep playing second base.  A position where he has led the Major Leagues in errors the past five years, having almost double as many errors as the guy second on that list.  posted 10:24am by jholmes 

Adam Vinatieri has officially run to the rival Indianapolis Colts

Peyton has a shot at the Super Bowl finally.  Adam Vinatieri, the most clutch kicker in NFL history, has bolted the New England Patriots to sign with the Indianapolis Colts.  posted 12:44am by jholmes

Will Tom Cruise's image problems hurt in the promotion of Mission Impossible III? 

Add all of this to the last year of Cruise-iana: his jumping around on Oprah’s couch, the fight with Matt Lauer over the history of psychiatry, the fact that Holmes — in signing with Cruise "personal" notes to new Scientology inductees — appears to have been in some way co-opted by Cruise.

The stories are pervasive, and not just in the supermarket tabloids. Michael Jackson can tell you that when you’re a punch line on a sitcom, the party is over.

Last fall, on one of those ABC comedies, one of the characters zinged by another by referring to Cruise as "scary." OK, that’s scary, if you’re about to release a $200 million movie.   posted 12:37am by jholmes

The five most spoiled professional athletes:

1. Terrell Owens

2. Barry Bonds

3. Alfonso Soriano

4. Ron Artest

5. Stephon Marbury

Microsoft is delaying the launch of Windows Vista.  posted 12:27am by jholmes

The United States is petitioning Afghanistan for mercy for a man who converted from Islam to Christianity.  He is on trial for converting to Christianity and could face the death penalty.

The Afghan constitution, which is based on Sharia, or Islamic law, says that apostates can receive the death penalty

"They want to sentence me to death, and I accept it," Rahman told reporters last week, "but I am not a deserter and not an infidel."

"We have underscored also to Foreign Minister Abdullah that we believe that tolerance and freedom of worship are important elements of any democracy," U.S. State Department spokesman Scott McCormack told reporters Tuesday. "We urge the Afghan government to conduct any legal proceedings in a transparent and fair manner."   posted 12:24am by jholmes

K-Fed has cut all his hair off, but he is still in need of someone to dress him.  posted 12:21am by jholmes

Mike Tyson has apologized for his violent past.  Mike appears happy to just be alive these days.  I am hoping the second half of Tyson's life is peaceful for him. 

"I'm just enjoying my life and I don't want to offend anyone."

"I'm sorry if my past actions have offended anyone but I'm not that person any more." He added: "I'm just Mike and I am happy to be around."

"I'm not much of a boxing man any more. I am just existing in this world and trying to put boxing behind me."

"But I am a human being and a person so if I can help anyone, then I love to."   posted 12:19am by jholmes

Keanu Reeves has a new girlfriend.  posted 12:16am by jholmes

Star Jones has finally admitted to having plastic surgery.  posted 12:14am by jholmes

Bobby Brown is back with New Edition.  posted 12:12am by jholmes

 
Debra Lafave

Charges have been dropped against Debra Lafave.  Lafave, a teacher, was accussed of having sex with a 14-year-old student.  Photos of a sexy Debra Lafave. 

Prosecutors and defense attorneys had urged the judge to accept the deal for the sake of the boy involved. A psychiatrist who examined the teenager told the judge at a previous hearing that the boy suffered extreme anxiety from the media coverage of the case and does not want to testify.   posted 12:10am by jholmes

A new study says that poor mental tests from senior citizens can be attributed to daytime television and talk shows. 

Older women who say talk shows and soap operas are their favorite TV programs tend to score more poorly on tests of memory, attention and other cognitive skills, researchers reported Monday.   posted 12:04am by jholmes

March 21, 2006

Hugo Weaving in V is for Vendetta

Top Weekend Movies
March 17-19, 2006

 
Japan celebrates winning the World Baseball Classic over Cuba.

Japan beat Cuba 10-4 to win the inaugural World Baseball Classic last night.  posted 12:22am by jholmes

Condolences to Nix regarding his Tide and Hogs early dismissal from the NCAA tourney.  posted 12:21am by jholmes

Plane crash in the tourist town of Branson, Missouri killed four people yesterday.  posted 12:19am by jholmes

Today the Napoleonic code became the law of France in 1804.  The Code is still the basis of the law and used in Louisiana.  Bad law school memories.  posted

Today is World Poetry Day.  posted 12:17am by jholmes

 
6 legs or 4 legs and 2 kickstands?

A lamb in Belgium was recently born with six legs.  posted 12:15am by jholmes

A Nebraska teen was recently jailed for 30 days for having a disorderly home.  posted 12:12am by jholmes

Natalie Portman says she was horrified to be a sex symbol at the age of 12.  Portman played a young Lolita in the 1994 film Leon. 

"In hindsight, I'm really proud of that film, though at the time it was unnerving to find myself being suddenly looked upon as a sexual object when I was only 12."   posted 12:10am by jholmes

March 20, 2006

At least Kid Rock is very honest with himself.

"I'M not stupid. I know I'm not getting girls off my good looks. When I'd sold 50,000 records, I was [having sex with] fat chicks in Virginia. I look in the mirror when I brush my teeth, I know what I look like" - Kid Rock in Blender

Every death in war is a great loss and tragedy, but as you can tell by the chart, the Iraqi war, has been one of the most successful wars ever in the history of the United States, as far as solider fatalities is concerned. Linked article has several other Iraqi war myths that have been debunked. 

I can not fathom the Civil War and what the country must have gone through during the 1860's.  All 562,130 of those deaths (see chart above) were Americans.  One must also remember that the United States was a good bit smaller in population during the Civil War.  The 1860 census listed the population of the USA at 33 million people.  The estimated number of Americans as of 2005 is 296 million people.  Doing the math that would equate to 5,040,000 dead Americans if the Civil War happened now.  The percentage of Americans that died during the Civil War was astronomical.  posted 2:39am by jholmes

Actor Robert Blake has been working as a ranch hand since being acquitted by a jury last year of killing his wife.  posted 1:17am by jholmes

Demi Moore will join Kevin Costner in starring in the psychological thriller Mr. Brooks. 

The story follows a man (Costner) with a murderous alter ego (Hurt). Moore will play a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.   posted 1:12am by jholmes

Pitt-Jolie wedding rumors are still just rumors.  posted 1:09am by jholmes

March 19, 2006

Some quotes from the Cowboys press conference announcing the signing of controversial wide receiver Terrell Owens.

"I'm a star among stars now," a smiling Owens said.

"I'm going to put those things behind me," Owens said. "They can only make a man stronger, wiser. For me, that's what it's done. I'll be a better teammate, a better person, a better man in life. I'm looking forward to this opportunity. I couldn't be more excited to be here."

"Jerry, I know what's expected of me. I won't let you down."   posted 12:24am by jholmes

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is preparing an investigative probe into allegations of Barry Bonds' steroid use.  posted 12:12am by jholmes

Calabasas, California is now smoke free. 

The ban, perhaps the most comprehensive smoking ban in the United States, prohibits smoking in all public places at times when other people can be exposed to secondhand smoke. Businesses can apply to create a designated smoking area far away from non-smokers starting in April.

The "Comprehensive Secondhand Smoke Control Ordinance" includes indoor and outdoor businesses, hotels, parks, sidewalks, restaurants and bars where people can be reasonably expected to congregate or meet, according to an announcement from the city of Calabasas.   posted 12:10am by jholmes

Josh Hartnett fires off at Lindsey Lohan, after Lohan got caught scrawling on a bathroom stall about his girlfriend Scarlett Johansson. 

“What scares me with pop culture is . . . looking at my younger brother and sister and their friends, seeing my little sister’s friends looking, like, to Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton - I just don’t think that’s anything to strive for. I don’t think those girls are too happy. And it’s like, the culture is so focused on a more self-oriented . . . luck-based mentality. It’s just like, get what’s good for you. It’s a herd mentality that I think is really about making money.”   posted 12:07am by jholmes

Communism at its finest.  Chinese parents no longer can give their new baby an exotic name.  They must chose the name from a database provided by the Ministry of Public Security.  posted 12:06am by jholmes

Two more women have died after using the abortion pill RU-486.  posted 12:04am by jholmes

March 18, 2006

Movie Review: Failure to Launch   by jholmes.

It appears Terrell Owens is going to sign with the Dallas Cowboys.  Some teams seem to never learn.  posted 10:35am by jholmes

The Japanese are creating robots to take care of their elderly.  posted 9:19am by jholmes

Angelina Jolie tops list of lesbians dream girl.  Here is the complete list.

Adriana Lima, a Victoria's Secret model, appears to be the worlds sexiest virgin. 

"Sex is for after marriage. [Men] have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me."    posted 9:04am by jholmes

Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro appear to be having marriage trouble.  What do you expect when you mix a Playmate with a rocker?  I think the success rate of this pairing is about as high as a Kevin Federline's IQ.  posted 9:02am by jholmes

Beautiful women are selling their eggs for $50,000-$100,000 to couples and women trying to create smart, beautiful children.  posted 8:59am by jholmes

As other countries tighten their rules, America’s loosely regulated market is becoming the world centre for egg donation. The Government’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has tracked a 40 per cent surge in the use of donor eggs, from 10,389 in 2000 to 14,323 in 2003, the latest year for which figures are available. Stem-cell research, still in its infancy, could add to demand for donor eggs.

Selling organs is illegal in America. But human eggs, like sperm, are not covered by the law. Nevertheless, fertility clinics insist that payments to donors are intended to compensate their time and effort rather than purchase the egg.

Donors have to undergo three weeks of hormone injections culminating in a short surgical procedure to remove about 15 eggs from their ovaries. The women who do so can suffer bleeding, allergic reactions or “hyperstimulation”, causing painful swelling. The long-term effects are unknown.

A small advertisement posted in campus newspapers at Ivy League universities in 1999 offered $50,000 for the egg of a woman with top test scores who was at least 5ft 10in tall. More recently, a full-page advertisement in Stanford University’s student newspaper promised $100,000 to a Caucasian woman under 30 “with proven college-level athletic ability”   posted 9:00am by jholmes

Today in 1922 Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience.  posted 8:56am by jholmes

50,000 people gathered in Serbia-Montenegro for the burial of former dictator Slobodan Milosevic.  Milosevic died of a heart attack last weekend in prison.  The ousted dictator was being tried for crimes of killing thousands of his own people.  posted 8:54am by jholmes

Maybe the Kansas Jayhawks should try being the #14 seed in future NCAA tournaments.  Kansas was upset again yesterday by a #14.  posted 8:51am by jholmes

March 17, 2006  Happy St. Patrick's

Who was St. Patrick? I have to admit I had no clue before researching the green saint.

Although he came from a Christian family, he was not particularly religious before his capture. However, Patrick's enslavement markedly strengthened his faith. It was at this time he learned the native Celtic language and the customs of the druids, as his master was a druidic high priest. He escaped at the age of twenty-two, as legend has it, under the direction of an angel, and spent twelve years in a monastery in Auxerre, where he adopted the name Patrick (Patricius, in Old Irish spelled Pádraig). One night he heard voices begging him to return to Ireland, and he thus, by now in his thirties, became one of the first Christian missionaries in Ireland, being preceded by Palladius (died c.457/461).   posted 1:01am by jholmes

Shaquille O'Neal and wife, Shaunie Nelson, are expecting a baby girl.  The child will be their fourth together. 

To celebrate the upcoming addition to their family, the couple threw an extravagant baby shower for 150 guests at their home in Miami Beach last Saturday, where they gave out Babies R Us Wendy Bellissimo diaper bags as party favors.

Also available for guests, including O'Neal's teammates and pal Star Jones, were manicures, pedicures, massages and knitting lessons. In addition, party-planner Mindy Weiss set up tables for people to play blackjack, craps and poker.   posted 12:56am by jholmes

Michael Jackson has paid the back wages due his employees at Neverland.  He then laid them all off.  In actuality, Janet probably paid the back wages.  Jackson still owes several hundred dollars in fines to the state of California.  Wacko also faces several law suits.  Jackson insiders claim the former pop star will never return to the United States.  posted 12:37am by jholmes

Ozzy and Sharon must have one heck of a plastic surgeon.  Props to Kelly as well for cleaning up nicely.  posted 12:35am by jholmes

 
Kelly, Oz, and Sharon

Barefoot Britney stepped on a hypodermic needle in Hawaii yesterday and had to be rushed to the hospital.  I guess you can take the girl out of Louisiana, but not the Louisiana out of the girl.  posted 12:26am by jholmes

Tori Spelling is making wedding plans, as the groom-to-be has tattooed his love for her on his arm once again. Here is a photo of the scary Tori image on Dean McDermott's left bicep and a link to the one on his wrist.  posted 12:24am by jholmes

Actress Liv Tyler is fed up with Hollywood mothers claiming they had no problems shedding their post-baby weight.

“It’s so hard to lose your baby weight! Everyone makes it look like it just drops off and everyone in magazines is so skinny three weeks later and says ‘Oh, I’m just running around after my kid’; it’s total bulls**t! “I don’t know one woman who woke up three weeks later and was a rail.”

Roe v. Wade For Men.  I had brought this idea up with some friends over the past few years, which makes me very curious to see how this case turns out.  It is a very complex issue.  I have always found it amusing that the woman has all the power in deciding if a man will or will not be a father.  However, if the man gets a woman pregnant he can not force her to have the baby.  Why is the man not afforded that same opportunity?  The woman can decide if she wants to have the child which in turn determines if the man is going to be responsible for child support for the next 18 years. 

What is Roe v. Wade For Men?

It's about a lawsuit arguing men should have the right to reject the responsibilities of fatherhood -- including getting out of paying child support. A national men's rights group backing the suit argues a woman gets to decide if she wants to have a child, give it up for adoption, or have an abortion, while the man has no control.

In the lawsuit, Matt Dubay, a 25-year-old from Saginaw, Michigan, is suing his ex-girlfriend, 20-year-old Lauren Wells. They had a baby girl who is now eight months old. Dubay says he told Wells up front he did not want to be a father. And he doesn't feel he should have to pay $560 per month in child support.  

"During the time we were seeing each other, I made it very clear to her that I was not ready to be a father, and she made it very clear to me that she was incapable of becoming pregnant because of a condition," Dubay told me.  

Dubay told me that he feels he was shut out. "She was given the right to have an abortion, keep the child, put the child up for adoption, and whatever she chooses, I have to go along with....Under our laws, our constitution, that doesn't seem right to me."   More details on the case.

HYPO: Male and female engage in intercourse. Male is pro-life. Female gets pregnant.  Male wants to have baby.  Female aborts baby.  Male had no choice in this. Although if she decides to have baby, then he is on the hook for 18 years of child support.  Would it be better if the woman had to pay the male that same amount per month of child support money if she aborted the child he wanted her to have?  Just food for thought.

I believe this man just might be trying to stir the pot which will eventually lead to the big hot button issue of abortion.  If abortion was illegal then all the problems regarding this case fail to exist. She would have the child either way and the father would be on the hook to support that child regardless.

A woman can take a child away from a father, but the father can not do the same, much less fail to support the child financially. 

What are a fathers rights? To simply write a check every month?  What if woman is lying to him about birth control or her ability to get pregnant?  Can sex not be for recreating, but procreation purposes only? 

The law does not look favorably upon men as fathers when it comes to custody or child support. 

Very complicated issues. There is no precise way to cut the issue with a knife.  I would love to hear others opinions.  I will post all sides of responses I receive unless requested not to.  posted 12:05am by jholmes

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March 16, 2006

According to Harrison Ford the Indiana Jones 4 script is ready.  Indy at 65?

"Steven Spielberg and I now have a script in hand that we both like. I believe that we can start with the filming soon," Ford was quoted as saying in an interview with Fit for Fun, a German lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

By the time Indy 4 does get rolling--this year or next--Ford will have turned 64 and will probably be 65 by the time Paramount releases the movie in theaters.   posted 12:53am by jholmes

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Remind me again why white trash princess Britney Spears has a baby?  The following occurred at a fancy restaurant in Los Angeles.

One [witness] said: "It was disgusting. Someone else has got to eat at that table. Yuck." The restaurant manager is quoted in Britain's News of the World newspaper as saying: "It's Britney Spears. What can we do?"

Photos of Jolie-Pitts from Nice airport. All four of the international gang.  posted 12:50am by jholmes

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might already be married.  They possibly were married eight months ago on a Scientologist boat at sea.

Cruise and Holmes, who met a few months earlier, are said to have exchanged rings emblazoned with triangular Scientology symbols during a Caribbean cruise aboard the sect’s ship the Freewinds. (They supposedly wear their rings only at church functions.) Holmes, who once claimed she would remain virginal until her wedding day, wore white, says the tab. After the ceremony, the couple walked across a tiny bridge — a Scientology symbol for the journey to “total freedom,” sources claim. Scientologists John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are said to have been on the ship, where guests also celebrated Cruise’s 43rd birthday. Holmes’ Catholic family was not present, but is due to attend their “official” wedding later this year.   posted 12:45am by jholmes

Cruise-Holmes Craziness blog

Stocks yesterday reached their highest point since May of 2001, but the media seems to not be talking about it at all.  posted 12:42am by jholmes

Britney Spears seems to have a new voodoo doll.  Is it for Timberlake, Diaz, or her own Spenderline?  Each day she is a step closer to being Michael Jackson. 

Michael Jackson will pay back wages to his workers at his Neverland ranch according to a Fox News report.

Once the wages have been paid, The California State Department of Industrial Relations says, all fines and penalties will also be due.

My sources say that it was Jackson's sister Janet Jackson who came up with the money at the last minute. Jackson himself has not communicated with any of his employees or the State on this matter.   posted 12:27am by jholmes

Happy Birthday Sara!

March 15, 2006

Top Weekend Movies
March 10-12, 2006

Movie Review: Transamerica   by jholmes. 

Movie Review: Proof   by jholmes

Movie Review: War of the Worlds  by jholmes

Send me your movie reviews. Just send your name, the name of the movie and # of stars out of 5 to Bumpshack@gmail.com and I will post them here.  If you send me a review I will post it on here for all to see. I know Josh Watson is a movie freak, so I expect to hear from him.  If you want to just send me a rating of the movie then that is fine as well.  posted 1:11am by jholmes

Today is the Ides of March.  In 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the back by Brutus, Marcus Junius and several Roman senators.

The date is famous because Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC. Because of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar and its line “Beware the Ides of March”, the Ides of March has had a sense of doom. But in Roman times the Ides of March was simply the normal way of saying March 15th.  posted 1:07am by jholmes

Former Mets and Yankees pitcher Dwight Gooden has been arrested again. This time for cocaine use.  Darryl Strawberry, you are up. It's your turn again.  posted 1:05am by jholmes

Top ten angriest athletes.  posted 1:03am by jholmes

Video clip of Stacey Keibler teasing on WWE.  And another video clip of Stacey.  posted 1:00am by jholmes

Kate Moss has a new toy.  The crack model recently purchased a $350 gold plated vibrator according to Page Six.  posted 12:52am by jholmes

Nicollette Sheridan is engaged to Michael Bolton.  posted 12:44am by jholmes

Today the rumor is that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will marry this summer on a boat on Lake Como in Italy.  Again just the rumor de jour.  Lake Como or Lago de Como as we called it is a beautiful lake/river in between Italy and the Swiss Alps.  While living in Milan, we would take the train to Como, then take the ferry to the other side of the massive lake. We would then spend the day on the sand shore catching rays and the high dive attempting to forget about the rough week of work that had passed.  Photos and description of Lake Como via Wikipedia.  posted 12:41am by jholmes

Fun Fact: Paris Hilton never graduated from high school.  She later passed her GED. Of course GED might stand for Getting Ecstasy Drugs.  But who am I to say?  posted 12:36am by jholmes

Where did the other half of Kelly Osbourne disappear to?  posted 12:33am by jholmes

March 14, 2006

 
Keith and Nicole thoroughly enjoying the paparazzi
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Tom Cruise is not allowing Katie Holmes to promote her new film, Thank You for Smoking.  She won't have a career in the near future if she doesn't escape the Cruise control.

Thanks to Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes won't be doing any publicity for her new film "Thank You for Smoking." She skipped the press junket screenings, passed on last night's swell premiere at the Museum of Modern Art and has already said ‘no' to the Los Angeles premiere later this week.

You could argue that Tom is severely wrecking Katie's career at this point by keeping her away from promotion for a hit film, but it's old news. Her career is on its way to becoming a footnote.   posted 1:14am by jholmes

Britney Spears has put K-Spenderline on a budget according to Page Six.  posted 1:01am by jholmes

Actor Michael Douglas' take on the Angelina Jolie - Brad Pitt adopt-a-kid-a-day marathon from the new GQ:

“I don’t know about Brad Pitt,” says Douglas, “leaving that beautiful woman [Jennifer Aniston] to go hold orphans for Angelina [Jolie]. I mean how long is that going to last?”

Secrets about the remaining 12 finalists on American Idol.  posted 12:44am by jholmes

Sex is 'groovy' according to Hilton wannabe known as Lindsey Lohan.  posted 12:42am by jholmes

More photos of the new supremely hot Tomb Raider seductress.  posted 12:39am by jholmes

Issac Hayes, who lends his voice to the character 'Chef', has quit the controversial cartoon South Park.  Hayes seems to all of a sudden be offended by the constant bashing of religion on the show.  Never mind the fact that Hayes is a Scientologist.  I would come to believe that he would be accustomed to having his alien faith bashed by now.

"In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews," Stone said in a statement issued by the Comedy Central network.

"He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."

In an episode last fall, one of the gang, Stan, scores so high on a Scientology test that church followers think he is the next L. Ron Hubbard, the late science-fiction writer who founded the religion. Hayes did not take part in that episode.   posted 12:13am by jholmes

Today in 1794, Eli Whitney changed the world by patenting the cotton gin.

Whitney is credited with creating the first and the only cotton gin in 1793, a mechanical device which removed the seeds from cotton, a process which until that time had been extremely labor-intensive.   posted 12:10am by jholmes

The Baltimore Ravens have re-signed their coke dealing running back, Jamal Lewis.  posted 12:05am by jholmes

The Orlando Magic got a steal in the trade acquiring Darko Milicic.  Since being traded and getting some playing minutes he has started to blossom.  He is averaging 7.2 points and 4.8 rebounds since the trade while shooting 59% from the field. Donnie Darko had 5 blocks in the game last night against the Indiana Pacers.  posted 12:01am by jholmes

The NCAA brackets are set. The #1 seeds are Memphis, Duke, Connecticut, and Villanova.  Printable Bracket.  Join the Bumpshack Yahoo Bracket Challenge.  Join group ID# 52145 and the password is mtsu
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March 13, 2006

PP-PMC and I are off to the slopes for some snowboarding. I will be back tonight. Drop me an email Bumpshack@gmail.com if you have any news or need me.  posted 11:33am by jholmes

Like good music? Then you will love fellow original Bumpshacker and good friend Luke Laird.  posted 10:01am by jholmes

Tom Cruise reportedly has asked Nicole Kidman to postpone her marriage to rocker Keith Urban until Tom's brainwashed Katie delivers their alien baby.  I am glad to see Cruise has lost the ego.  posted 12:18am by jholmes

The NCAA brackets are set. The #1 seeds are Memphis, Duke, Connecticut, and Villanova.  Printable Bracket.  Join the Bumpshack Yahoo Bracket Challenge.  Join group ID# 52145 and password is mtsu Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board.  posted 4:58pm by jholmes

Too FUNNY not to quote:

“SOMEONE’S gotta tell this chick that sometimes when you go to a foreign country, it’s OK just to bring home a T-shirt” - Bill Maher on Angelina Jolie adopting children from Cambodia and Ethiopia.

Today in 1781 Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.  posted 12:11am by jholmes

It appears Paris got some new plastic last week.  Word here in Hollywood is that she is still awaiting a match for a new brain.  posted 12:09am by jholmes

Did George Clooney bed and dump Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher?  It appears that is the reason for recent revelation of having been molested by her uncle as a child.  posted 12:06am by jholmes

President Bush roasted vice president Dick Cheney at the annual Gridiron Club political press roast this weekend.

Bush pointed out that the vice president's full name is Richard B. Cheney.

"B. stands for bulls eye," Bush said to laughter from the hundreds of reporters and officials from the administration and Congress. The press, Bush joked, blew the matter way out of proportion: "Good Lord, you'd thought he shot somebody or something."

Bush said that while pundits speculate about whether Cheney or White House political adviser Karl Rove run the government, it's another person who actually pulls the strings. Cheney, Bush said, tells him what to do but Cheney's wife, Lynne, tells the vice president what to do.

"Lynne, I think you're doing a heck of a job. Although I have to say you dropped the ball big time on that Dubai deal," he said, in a joke about the controversial ports deal.   posted 12:06am by jholmes

A Chronicles of Narnia sequel is set to hit theaters in 2007.  The first movie in the series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was a mega success last year.  Prince Caspian is the title of the upcoming movie.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" will be based on the third installment of C.S. Lewis' seven-book "Narnia" series, Disney spokesman Ash Curtis said Friday.   posted 12:02am by jholmes

The NCAA brackets are set. The #1 seeds are Memphis, Duke, Connecticut, and Villanova.  Printable Bracket.  Join the Bumpshack Yahoo Bracket Challenge.  Join group ID# 52145 and password is mtsu Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board.  posted 4:58pm by jholmes

March 12, 2006

The NCAA brackets are set. The #1 seeds are Memphis, Duke, Connecticut, and Villanova.  Printable Bracket.  Join the Bumpshack Yahoo Bracket Challenge.  Join group ID# 52145 and password is mtsu Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board.  posted 4:58pm by jholmes

Paris Hilton and Herpes? Say it ain't so.  This is more surprising than reading that Barry Bonds used 47 varieties of steroids.  posted 1:13am by jholmes

What happened to Avril Lavigne?  She is hot now. No more dark, depressed, slit my wrists because he doesn't like me appearance.  posted 1:09am by jholmes

Funny Must See Video:  The Trunk Monkey.  Watch the whole thing. Each bit gets funnier and funnier.  posted 1:07am by jholmes

Nine die in Tennessee house fire.  posted 12:57am by jholmes

Minor league baseball stadium offers 1,000 calorie Krispy Kreme hamburger.  posted 12:53am by jholmes

March 11, 2006

NSFW:  I can't tell you much about the Pussycat Dolls, but these photos speak more than volumes about the Dolls.  View at your own risk.  posted 12:49pm by jholmes

Britney pulls out of photo shoot because Kevin didn't pull out?  posted 12:27pm by jholmes

The top 10 worst Saturday Night Live cast members of all-time.  posted 12:22pm by jholmes

Paris Hilton banned from future Elton John Oscar parties for failure to make compulsory donation to his AIDS foundation. 

“When it was suggested to her that she donate the money, Paris just said, ‘Don’t you know who I am?’ and waltzed right in. Isn’t she supposed to be wealthy? Everyone else paid. She won’t be asked back.”   posted 12:16pm by jholmes

Slobodan Milosevic found dead in his prison cell.  posted 11:53am by jholmes

Osama bin Laden's niece, no joke!
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Janet Jackson has bailed brother Michael out financially once again.  Janet is trying to catch up on Michaels mortgage payments at Neverland and also pay off the overdue salaries of his employees who at the ranch who have not been paid in over three months.

Poor Janet: she should know that no matter what guarantees are given, Michael Jackson never repays a loan. He considers all such agreements "gifts" and his signature on loan papers, as demonstrated in the past, is meaningless.

Sadly, none of her brothers or other family members has made a living doing anything except living off Janet or Michael all these years. And now Michael, without the Prince of Bahrain to help him, is out of luck. It all falls on Janet, an actual pop superstar who is readying an album for fall release.   posted 12:15am by jholmes

Lifting weights for an hour for twice a week, can help women attack tummy fat that naturally hangs around with aging.

The study focused on intra-abdominal fat, the deep fat that wraps itself around organs and is the most unhealthy because it's linked with heart disease.

`It's the apple-shaped person I'm most worried about,'' said Stevens, who was not involved in the study. ``The more central the fat, the more it's laid down in the arteries.''

Women who did the weight-training for two years had only a 7 percent increase in intra-abdominal fat, compared to a 21 percent increase in the group given exercise advice.

The strength-training group also decreased body fat percentage by almost 4 percent, while the group just given advice remained the same.   posted 12:10am by jholmes

The body of a U.S. hostage has been found in Iraq.  Tom Fox was a Christian peace activist.  posted 12:06am by jholmes

Today is the two year anniversary of the terrorist train bombings that took place in Madrid, Spain.  posted 12:04am by jholmes

Producer of Academy award winning movie Crash claims she is flat broke.  posted 12:01am by jholmes

March 10, 2006

 Top Weekend Movies
March 3-5, 2006

The state of Tennessee is pushing for a constitutional amendment to remove a woman's right to an abortion.  posted 12:33am by jholmes

The number of billionaires in the world rose to 791 in the past year. I regret to inform you that I was not one of those, yet.  posted 12:22am by jholmes

Dubai firm abandons U.S. ports deal.  I saw both sides of this issue, but I tended to side with allowing the Dubai company to run the ports.  I don't think you can discriminate, especially with a country that has been tied very close to us in the fight against terror, and when they have a proven track record of safety guarding ports.  With that said, it doesn't hurt my feelings it did not work out.  posted 12:16am by jholmes

Michael Jackson has been ordered by Californian authorities to shut down his Neverland ranch.  The order comes due to the fact that Jackson has not paid his employees that work at the ranch in months.  He also cut off their health benefits. 

He said that Jackson could reopen the ranch if he obtains workers compensation insurance but may face legal action by the state if he fails to pay the back wages.

Jackson on Thursday was fined $69,000, or $1,000 per employee, for allowing his insurance to lapse. Earlier this week, authorities cited him for violating state labor law by failing to pay at least 30 employees since December of 2005. A letter for that citation imposes a $100,000 fine and demands that he make good on $306,000 in unpaid wages.   posted 12:00am by jholmes

I have reported this for several weeks via Roger Friedman's column.  In Roger's column today it appears it is only going to get worse for the King of Pop(ping uppers & downers).

Jackson's arrival in Encino signals a total break with Prince Abdullah of Bahrain who was underwriting the singer's extravagant lifestyle since last year. At the same time, Jackson faces imminent foreclosure on $270 million of loans guaranteed by his 50% ownership in Sony/ATV Music Publishing, a.k.a the Beatles catalog.

March 9, 2006

More Paris photos from this evening I spent with her.

Be prepared, Paris Hilton's album will be released very soon.  No word on a Federline-Hilton tour yet. 

You will notice that Paris, always cognizant of history, includes a cover of a No. 1 hit by Rod Stewart, a longtime Warner artist, with “Do You Think I’m Sexy?” She will not win a Grammy or be nominated for one. Believe me, that is all beside the point.   posted 11:46am by jholmes

Farmer/Skinny Dipping Joke

An elderly man in Florida had owned a large
farm for several years. He had a large pond in the
back, fixed up nice; picnic tables, horseshoe
courts, and some apple and peach trees. The pond was
properly shaped and fixed up for swimming when it was
built. One evening the old farmer decided to go
down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a
while, and look it over.

He grabbed a five gallon bucket to bring back some
fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting
and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it
was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond.
He made the women aware of his presence and they all
went to the deep end.

One of the women shouted to him, "We're not coming out
until you leave!"

The old man frowned, "I didn't come down here to watch
you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond
 naked." Holding the bucket up he said, "I'm here to
feed the alligator."

Moral: Old men can still think fast.

The sales of cigarettes have reached a 55 year low.  posted 10:34am by jholmes

A Florida woman is suing Walgreens for putting insulting messages on her prescription medicine. 

Typed in a field reserved for patient information and dated March 17, 2005, was "CrAzY!!" In another field, dated Sept. 30, 2004, it read: "She's really a psycho!!! Do not say her name too loud, never mention her meds by names & try to talk to her when ... " The information continued onto another page but was not attached.   posted 1:39am by jholmes

The #1 way to make your wife happy and other conclusions from a recent study.  posted 1:37am by jholmes

Three college students have been arrested in the Alabama church arsons.  The college kids allegedly set fire to nine rural Alabama churches last month as a joke, then as a diversion.  posted 1:34am by  jholmes

Habits that destroy men.  posted 1:33am by jholmes

March 8, 2006

A new animal resembling a furry lobster has been found.  posted 1:27am by jholmes

A look at the top 10 most secret societies in the world.  posted 1:17am by jholmes

Teri Hatcher talks about being molested by her uncle when she was a child. She testified against her uncle to help lock him up three years ago.

Stone, who was married to Hatcher's mother's sister when she was a girl, pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation in December 2002 and was sentenced to 14 years in prison after Hatcher agreed to testify against him.

"That's a victim thing; you ask yourself, 'Am I just crazy? Did I make all this up?' Somehow it might be easier to accept that you're crazy and you made it all up than to admit that it happened, and how awful it was," she said.   posted 1:14am by jholmes

Stephon Marbury continues to be a loser wherever he plays, however the team he leaves vastly improves upon his departure.

Marbury, who did not practice yesterday due to a sore left shoulder but is expected to play tonight against the Pacers in Indianapolis, has had a history of problems with coaches. Brown's history is that he can be tough to play for but that in the end he gets results. His record - one NBA title, three Finals appearances, Hall of Fame membership - speaks for itself. Marbury, meanwhile, has never gotten out of the first round while every team he has played for has flourished once he has left.

The Knicks? During Friday's last-second loss to Chicago, Marbury argued with officials rather than running back to guard Ben Gordon, who hit the go-ahead three-pointer.   posted 12:34am by jholmes

March 7, 2006

Bachelor Breakup: Sarah and Travis are no more.  The former couple cited the rule banning their being together until the show aired as the reason for the breakup.  My sources tell me they didn't even obey that part of the contract.  I heard before the show ended that Travis and Sarah were seen together several times working out together.  I guess Travis will have to find a new woman to give a ring on a string to.  posted 12:45am by jholmes

New bombshell book reveals massive doping by Barry Bonds. 

Depending on the substance, Bonds used the drugs in virtually every conceivable form: injecting himself with a syringe or being injected by his trainer, Greg Anderson, swallowing pills, placing drops of liquid under his tongue, and, in the case of BALCO's notorious testosterone-based cream, applying it topically.

According to the book, Bonds gulped as many as 20 pills at a time and was so deeply reliant on his regimen that he ordered Anderson to start "cycles" -- a prescribed period of steroid use lasting about three weeks -- even when he was not due to begin one. Steroid users typically stop usage for a week or two periodically to allow the body to continue to produce natural testosterone; otherwise, such production diminishes or ceases with the continued introduction of synthetic forms of the muscle-building hormone.

Bonds called for the re-starting of cycles when he felt his energy and power start to drop. If Anderson told Bonds he was not due for another cycle, the authors write, Bonds would tell him, "F--- off, I'll do it myself.''  posted 11:16am by jholmes

Christopher Reeve's widow had died. Dana Reeve was 44 years old. She was diagnosed with lung cancer last fall.  posted 10:16am by jholmes

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the federal government can without money from schools that do not allow military recruiters onto their campuses.  posted 12:18am by jholmes

Runaway Bride bobble head dolls a big  hit, as a give away promotion, at local hockey game in the real 'Runaway Bride's' hometown.  posted 12:15am by jholmes

There are many theories popping up as to why Crash won Best Picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. 

"They bent over backward to say this is not a gay love story,'' Coyote said. "In fact, it was a gay love story, and it was a story about the cost of being in the closet, and that's a really political and powerful issue. In trying to market to a wide audience, they deprived the film of its radical edge. So a lot of people who might have gone to see it didn't go because they just thought it was a romance movie -- and a lot of those people would not have gone to a heterosexual romance movie.''    posted 12:14am by jholmes

Madonna's daughter recently asked her if she was gay according to the pop star. Her daughter, Lourdes, had seen the kiss with Britney Spears and was mused to her mother's sexuality.  posted 12:08am by jholmes

Kirby Puckett passed away yesterday at the age of 45.  Puckett, the short, barrel chested outfielder, led the Minnesota Twins to two World Series titles and was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 2001 on the first ballot.  posted 12:04am by jholmes

March 6, 2006

Does anyone else agree that Jay Bilas of ESPN is the biggest Duke 'homer' on TV?  Agree? Disagree? Send me your thoughts

South Dakota has signed a new law into place that will ban nearly all abortions. 

The bill would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless the procedure was necessary to save the woman's life. It would make no exception for cases of rape or incest.   posted 11:34am by jholmes

Crash Wins
 

Limp Brokeback!  Crash surprises many with Best Picture award. Crash beat out favorite Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich.

"Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.

The other best-picture nominees emerged either out of Hollywood studios or their art-house affiliates. But "Crash" was a true Oscar rarity, shot outside the system on a tiny $6.5 million budget, then acquired by independent distributor Lionsgate at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered.   posted 12:32am by jholmes

Complete list of winners

Best and Worst of Oscar night

Michael Jackson is not the biological father of his children, and his child, Blanket, was magically created for him.

What we’ve never been able to tell you completely though is where Jackson’s third child, nicknamed Blanket, comes from. Sources confirm that his mother was selected from a book of egg donors supplied by Jackson’s physician. Jackson flipped through the book and selected the woman he thought was most appealing. Unlike wife Debbie Rowe, the anonymous woman is said to have been dark haired and Latina-looking, a la Penelope Cruz or Salma Hayek. Once she was chosen, a sperm donor was used to fertilize the egg.

In other words, Blanket was literally “created” for Jackson. You’d think the pop star would have taken more care than to dangle the baby out of a window considering how much effort was involved in inventing him.   posted 12:01am by jholmes

Jermaine Jackson is ready to dish dirt on his brother Michael. In an excerpt for a book his publicist is shopping, Jermaine, says he doubts his brothers innocence regarding the child molestation charges from last year.

The former lead singer of the Jackson 5 confesses he’s “not certain” his kid brother is innocent of molesting children, but pledged to help Jackson beat the 2005 child molestation case against him because, “Michael couldn’t survive one day in prison . . . He’d commit suicide.”

Jermaine attests that Jackson has lied to the public about everything from his ever-paling skin tone to the paternity of his two oldest children.

“My brother purchased children,” Jermaine claims in his tome teaser, drafted by scribe Stacy Brown, who co-authored “Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask,” with the 47-year-old disgraced star’s former publicist, Bob Jones. “It is like a sanctioned black market.”

He asserts that Rowe, the mother of Prince Michael I, 9, and Paris, 7, was paid “several million dollars” to carry the artificially inseminated babies and argues that Jackson only married her to gain the approval of his Muslim friends, who do not approve of out-of-wedlock pregnancies.   posted 12:00am by jholmes

March 5, 2006

President Bush is in Pakistan reaffirming the United States ties with the Pakistani president in the fight against terror.  posted 1:04am by jholmes

Want to lose weight?  Then quit the sodas. 

One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid. The nation's single biggest "food" is soda, and nutrition experts have long demonized it.

In reports to be published in science journals this week, two groups of researchers hope to add evidence to the theory that soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity, but actually cause it. Not that these drinks are the only cause — genetics, exercise and other factors are involved — but that they are one cause, perhaps the leading cause.   posted 12:22am by jholmes

Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish, may give boost to behavior, mood and personality according to studies.

"A number of previous studies have linked lower levels of omega-3 to clinically significant conditions such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, substance abuse and attention-deficit disorder," Sarah Conklin, a postdoctoral scholar with the psychiatry department's Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Program, said in prepared statement.   posted 12:12am by jholmes

The Army is opening a criminal investigation into the death of former football star Pat Tillman, who died in Afghanistan due to friendly fire in 2004.  posted 12:10am by jholmes

The freshman of North Carolina led the Tar Heels to the upset of the Duke Blue Devils on their senior night.  UNC was led by freshman Tyler Hansbrough.  More sports @ BumpSports.  posted 12:04am by jholmes

March 4, 2006

Hawaii has received 23 inches of rain in the past three days.  A state of emergency has been declared due to several mudslides.  posted 12:45am by jholmes

Study shows that 75% of high school dropouts regret dropping out.  80% now realize a high school diploma is important for being successful in life.

Statistics show they are right. A high school dropout on average earns $9,200 less a year than a high school graduate, and about $1 million less over a lifetime than a college graduate.   posted 12:39am by jholmes

Stock Market:  Heard of the Cramer effect?  posted 12:35am by jholmes

The Japanese are starting to make gasoline from cow dung.  That explains The Beverly Hillbillies.  It was not true oil. Just that ole' Bessy's droppings.

Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted .042 ounces of gasoline from every 3.5 ounces of cow dung by applying high pressure and heat.

About 551,155 tons of cattle dung are produced each year in Japan, he said.   posted 12:27am by jholmes

Former California lawmaker gets 8 years in prison for bribery.  posted 12:23am by jholmes

March 3, 2006

Sexy Stuff magazine photo shoot of Stacey Keibler.  posted 1:06am by jholmes

A newly revealed video shows Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco saying the New Orleans levees were intact.

"We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said shortly after noon on Aug. 29 — the day the storm hit the Gulf coast.

"We heard a report unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee," she said on a video of the day's disaster briefing that was obtained Thursday night by The Associated Press. "I think we have not breached the levee at this time."   posted 1:00am by jholmes

More Katrina News

Dream Weaver:  British glam rocker Gary Glitter has been sentenced to three years in prison by a Vietnamese court for obscene acts with two Vietnamese underage girls.  posted 12:54am by jholmes

The U.S. Senate approved a renewal of the Patriot Act on Thursday.  posted 12:48am by jholmes

March 2, 2006

Jessica Alba is suing Playboy magazine for putting her on the cover without her permission and implying she poses nude within the pages of the classic men's mag.  posted 1:21am by jholmes

Saddam admitted at his trial in Iraq yesterday that he ordered the executions of 148 Shiites in the 1980's.

The prosecution has argued that the crackdown went far beyond the actual attackers, presenting documents that show entire families were arrested, tortured and held for years, including women and children as young as 3 months old.

The 148 people eventually sentenced to death in the case included at least 10 juveniles, one as young as 11, according to the documents. The death sentences came after what the prosecution called an "imaginary trial" before Saddam's Revolutionary Court.   posted 1:16am by jholmes

India and the United States have agreed to a historic nuclear pact on nuke energy.

In the short span of seven years, the nuclear issue -- once the single largest irritant in Indo-U.S. relations -- is now the centerpiece of what both countries describe as a ``strategic partnership.'

It will allow the United States to provide expertise and fuel to India's burgeoning nuclear industry. In return, India would open up its civilian nuclear projects to inspection by international inspectors.   posted 1:12am by jholmes

March 1, 2006

A guy's perfect woman would do all these things......  posted 2:19am by jholmes

12 things you didn't know you didn't know, and probably could care less about.  posted 2:09am by jholmes

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes showed poor funeral manners recently at a funeral in Australia.  Cruise and Holmes were groping each other during the service.

The Daily News reports that the two were engaged in yet another inappropriate display of public groping in the middle of the service, which took place at the Sydney Opera House. All of which caused Arizona Republic reporter Suzanne Condie Lambert to wonder, "Can suspiciously fake love get any creepier?"    posted 2:02am by jholmes

More TomKat Craziness

Thanks Bode!  Ratings from the Winter Olympic games were down 37% from the Winter games back in 2002.  posted 1:58am by jholmes

Anna Nicole Smith is getting her day in court. Again! This time in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.  I am hoping Anna gets her money.  posted 1:55am by jholmes

President Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan this morning to show his thanks to the troops and support to the fledging Afghani government.  It is the first time a U.S. President has ever visited the country.  posted 1:52am by jholmes

 
"All Natural Woman?"
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The Supreme Court announced in a decision yesterday that federal abortion and extortion laws can't be used against abortion protestors.  posted 1:46am by jholmes

High School autistic basketball star is getting calls from Hollywood after his amazing moment on the hardwood.

In his team's final home game of the season, McElwain entered with four minutes to go. It was his first and only appearance for the Athena varsity team in this Rochester suburb. The 5-foot-6 manager hit six 3-point shots and a 2-pointer and was carried off the court on his teammates' shoulders.

His triumph was captured on a student video that made the rounds of the television networks. The school was besieged with calls and e-mails from parents of children who have autism, a little-understood developmental disorder.

Considered too small to make the junior varsity, McElwain signed on as manager, then took up the same role with the varsity to stay near the sport he loves. Amazed at his dedication, coach Jim Johnson had him suit up for the home finale. There was no guarantee he would play — Athena was battling for a division title — but he got in when the Trojans opened a large lead.

"It was like a big old bucket and I was just hitting them like they were free throws," McElwain said. "I just felt relaxed."   posted 1:43am by jholmes

February 28, 2006

 
Barry Bonds in drag as Paula Abdul at Giants spring training.
 

Vince Young reportedly scored a 6 on the Wonderlic test at the NFL combine.  The Wonderlic is a 50 question test.  The score, if accurate, would be one of the lowest ever.  Matt Leinart scored a 35 on the test. 

Some sample questions from the test.  posted 10:48am by jholmes

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World War II fighter Ace Robert L. Scott has passed away.  Scott also wrote the best selling book, "God is My Co-Pilot."

The Georgia-born Scott rose to nationwide prominence during World War II as a fighter ace in the China-Burma-India theater, then with his best-selling 1943 book, made into a 1945 movie starring Dennis Morgan as Scott.

Scott, who retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general, won three Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Silver Stars and five Air Medals before he was called home to travel the country giving speeches for the war effort.

In the years just after the war, Scott was one of the proponents of making the Air Force into a separate service.   posted 1:04am by jholmes

The ten best inventors of all-time.  posted 1:01am by jholmes

Master P and his brother are set to face charges for possessing semi-automatic weapons in their car while in Los Angeles. 

University of California at Los Angeles police spotted the weapons during a traffic stop. Prosecutors said the officers found a semiautomatic handgun under the seat of Master P, who was the passenger, and a revolver under the seat of his brother, who was driving.   posted 12:26am by jholmes

A man in Arizona has registered a BAC (blood alcohol level) of .345 percent blood alcohol level. Cops were called by his five year old daughter after he passed out.  posted 12:17am by jholmes

Pets in China now have treadmills to try to work off that extra weight.  posted 12:14am by jholmes

Punk rocker Pink mocks and makes fun of Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton in her new video for the song "Stupid Girl."  posted 12:11am by jholmes

February 27, 2006

The price of a gallon of gas has dropped 6 cents per gallon over the past two weeks. 

Self-serve regular averaged $2.24 a gallon nationwide. Mid-grade cost $2.34 a gallon while the price for premium was $2.44.

Gas prices are 33 cents higher than they were a year ago, Lundberg said Sunday.   posted 12:45am by jholmes

Drew Lachey, the younger brother of Nick Lachey, won the Dancing with the Stars competition.  Lachey beat out Stacy Keibler and NFL great Jerry Rice.

"Woooooooooooooo!" yelped Lachey, who gratefully accepted the mirrorball trophy (which he had earlier acknowledged was "ugly").   posted 12:26am by jholmes

Matt Kenseth won NASCAR's 500 mile race yesterday in Fontana, California.  Jimmy Johnson, the Daytona 500 winner, finished second.  More sports @ BumpSports  posted 12:10am by jholmes 

American skier Bode Miller holding up one more finger than medals he won.
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Five terror suspects have been killed in Egypt.  posted 12:08am by jholmes

February 26, 2006

Germany has topped the United States in the 2006 Winter Olympics.  Germany finished with 29 medals to the United States' 25.  The USA ended up with 9 gold, 9 silver, and 7 bronze medals.  posted 1:37am by jholmes

Authorities in Wisconsin are looking for $26,000 worth of beer that was stolen from a Miller beer truck.

The missing product, valued at $25,788, included
-384 24-packs of Miller Genuine Draft cans
-560 18-packs of MGD 12-ounce bottles

Sunni and Shiite leaders in Iraq have reached an agreement to end the violence and attacks in Iraq.  posted 1:19am by jholmes

Actor Don Knotts
1924-2006

Barney Fife is dead. Don Knotts died Friday night at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Knotts made million of Americans laugh as the bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show.  The show ran from 1960-1968.  Knotts then went on to be the gregarious landlord on Three's Company.  Don Knotts was 81.  posted 1:07am by jholmes

Prolific actor Darren McGavin also passed away this weekend.  McGavin starred in the films: The Christmas Story and The Natural among others.  McGavin was 83.  posted 1:07am by jholmes

A fifth grade teacher in South Carolina has been accused of having sex with her 11 year-old student. She is being held on $100,000 bond.  posted 1:04am by jholmes

February 25, 2006

Sheryl Crow announced yesterday on her website that she is recovering from breast cancer surgery.  She will now begin precautionary radiation treatments. 

"I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year," Crow says on the site, adding the cancer was detected early.

Everyday in February must seem like a winding road to Crow. The cancer announcement comes exactly three weeks after she made public her split from Lance Armstrong.   posted 1:50am by jholmes

A new study shows that those that drink green tea lessen their chance of mental decline as they grow older.  Green tea has also been shown to be a great at preventing certain types of cancer.  I have slowly been integrating it into my diet.  They make some great green teas that are peach flavored.  It can be served hot or cold.  I prefer an Arizona cold green tea, but Tazo and Yogi are two of the better hot green tea brands.  posted 1:44am by jholmes

Psycho Path wins award for the nation's wildest, weirdest,  wackiest street name. 

Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names.

In first place was Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich., followed by Heather Highlands, Pa.'s, Divorce Court in second and Tennessee's Farfrompoopen Road in third. Eisenstein said all the roads were verified, although some are private and hard to find.

The complete top 10 list included:

10. Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, Texas

9. The intersection of Count and Basie in Richmond, Va.

8. Shades of Death Road in Warren County, N.J.

7. Unexpected Road in Buena, N.J.

6. Bucket of Blood Street in Holbrook, Ariz.

5. The intersection of Clinton and Fidelity in Houston

4. The intersection of Lonesome and Hardup in Albany, Ga.

3. Farfrompoopen Road in Tennessee (the only road up to Constipation Ridge)

2. Divorce Court in Heather Highlands, Pa.

1. Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich.

posted 1:41am by jholmes

South Dakota government officials are close to signing a bill that would ban abortion.  posted 1:34am by jholmes