Thursday night’s “So You Think You Can Dance” results show opened with the top six dancing to “Send In The Clowns,” but the song proved to be most meaningful to 29-year-old ballerina Melissa Sandvig and contemporary dancer Ade Obayomi, who the ones eliminated from the competition by the end of the tense hour.
Here’s where I [...]
The federal government has put the Cash for Clunkers (a.k.a. C.A.R.S. program) on hold. Supposedly, they’ve run out of money. The MSM is all abuzz with talk of extending the program, allocating more funds and the bummer of a congressional recess (no action ’til after Labor Day). But there’s talk that the number of clunkers [...]
The Cash For Clunkers Program initiated by Congress this year is a great step in rebooting the auto industry and maybe even our economy. However, after spending 96 million dollars in less than a week buying back “clunkers” the government might be reluctant in continuing this program.
Originally, the Cash For Clunkers program was allotted $1 [...]
A CNN Poll of Polls out Thursday indicates that 54 percent of Americans approve of President Obama.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — It’s late July, a time for hot and humid weather in the nation’s capital. But when it comes to President Barack Obama’s approval rating, an average of the most recent national surveys indicates a cooling trend.
According [...]
(People.com)They didn’t think it could happen to them, but The Bachelorette’s Jillian Harris and Chicago computer software consultant Ed Swiderski have now become “the people we used to make fun of that are engaged and want to get married and are in love,” Harris says.
More than ten million people witnessed Swiderski’s seaside proposal to Harris [...]
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HAVE been in many mothers’ groups – Mommy and Me, Gymboree, Second-Time Moms – and each time, within three minutes, the conversation invariably comes around to the topic of how often mommy feels compelled to put out. Everyone wants to be reassured that no one else is having sex either. These are women who, [...]
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Michael Jackson’s ex-wife and the mother of his two oldest children, Debbie Rowe, has agreed not to challenge the singer’s mother for custody of the children, according to a joint statement from lawyers for Rowe and Katherine Jackson. The agreement does not involve any financial payments to Rowe [...]
The design of “Oculus” was inspired by the jaw and eye-socket bone structure of large oceanic creatures.
LONDON, England (CNN) — A spectacular superyacht has been designed by an internationally renowned urban planning architect in a very unusual shape. Seventy-six meter long “Oculus,” which is designed for 12 guests, looks like a large sea creature, with [...]
What beer should be served at the Obama-Gates-Crowley get together?
(CNN) — The upcoming White House meeting with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and the Cambridge police officer who arrested him earlier this month appears to have touched off a fresh debate all on its own: what kind of beer should be served?
Earlier this week the White [...]
Wu Baiwei, 79, competes at the “Happy Girl” singing competition. [Photo: hsw.cn]
By Ma Lie
She is at least three times older than many of her competitors.
She was not even sure what she was competing for when she first stepped onto the stage.
But once she opened her mouth, judges and audiences were blown away.
Meet 79-year-old Wu Baiwei, [...]
