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Bumpshack Stories From  May 2006

May 31, 2006

 
Wolverine of X-Men: The Final Stand

Top Weekend Movies
May 26-29, 2006

  1. X-Men: The Last Stand- $122.8 million
  2. The Da Vinci Code- $42.4 million
  3. Over the Hedge- $35.3 million
  4. Mission Impossible III- $8.9 million
  5. Poseidon- $7.1 million

Jennifer Aniston appears nude in her new film The Break Up.  posted 2:13pm by jholmes

Baseball living legend Roger Clemens is returning to his hometown Houston Astros for the remainder of the 2006 baseball season.  posted 2:10pm by jholmes

My Fair Brady: Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry have tied the knot. 

The couple exchanged vows in front of 250 friends and family during a traditional ceremony at the Christ Episcopal Church in Curry's hometown of Joliet, Ill.  

In a romance made in reality-TV heaven, Curry, 23, who won the first season of America's Next Top Model, met Knight, 48, who played Peter Brady on the '70s hit The Brady Bunch, when they filmed the fourth season of VH1's The Surreal Life" in 2004.   posted 2:34am by jholmes

Bon Jovi thinks The Rolling Stones are a disgrace.  posted 2:24am by jholmes

The Phoenix Suns topped the Dallas Mavericks in a blowout win to even their best of seven game series at two games apiece.  posted 2:16am by jholmes

5,800 people have died from the Indonesian earthquake that shook the region on Saturday.  The earthquake was registered at a 6.2.  posted 2:01am by jholmes

The beautiful Halle Berry is in a 12-step relationship program.

“I’m in a relationship 12-step program,” she told me last week at the movie’s post-Cannes late-night party at a nightclub in the Hotel 314.   posted 1:45am by jholmes

A missing boy in Colorado, who went missing on a family camping trip, has been found after vanishing for four days in the Mountains.  posted 1:40am by jholmes


May 30, 2006

A British woman is fighting her baby's due date of 06/06/06. 

Melissa Parker, 30, said as a fan of "The Omen," a movie about a demonic child, she's genuinely concerned about the numerology involved, The Sun reported Tuesday.

"I'm terrified the birth will go wrong or the child will have evil in him or her," Parker said. "Even worse my beautiful baby could be the devil himself -- the anti-Christ."   posted 3:45pm by jholmes

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The D.C. sniper has been found guilty of six slayings in the Washington area.  Sentencing for John Allen Muhammad is already serving a life sentence for three killings in the Virginia.

According to Malvo, Muhammad planned two phases of attacks -- six shootings a day for a month, followed by a wave of bombings of schools, school buses and children's hospitals.

Malvo said that when he asked Muhammad why, the older man replied: "For the sheer terror of it -- the worst thing you can do to people is aim at their children."

Muhammad hoped to extort $10 million from authorities and use the money to set up a school in Canada to teach homeless children how to use guns and explosives and use violence to shut down other cities, Malvo said.   posted 2:12pm by jholmes

The DOW closed today down more than 180 points.  posted 2:07pm by jholmes

The Bumpshack Message Board is heating up once again.  posted 2:06pm by jholmes

A car bomb in Iraq killed 46 civilians today.  posted 2:04pm by jholmes

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are the parents of a baby daughter by the name of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.  The proud couple also donated $315,000 dollars to the country of Namibia where the child was born.  posted 1:22pm by jholmes

I am back from a four day river get-away.  I was able to get in some boating, Seadooing, tubing, relaxing and family time.  It was nice to be away from phones, internet, and people.  I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.  posted 1:14pm by jholmes


May 26, 2006

The Detroit Pistons beat the Miami Heat 92-88 last night in game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals.  Game 3 is Saturday night in Miami.  posted 2:53am by jholmes

666 Just a number or a number to be terrified of? Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board about 06/06/06. 

The number 666 is used to refer to the Beast — the Antichrist — in the Bible's Book of Revelations:

"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."

When former President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy retired to their last home in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles in 1989, they forced officials to change their address from 666 to 668 St. Cloud Road, Livio said.   posted 2:43am by jholmes

The Senate has passed a sweeping immigration bill.  The bill still faces hurdles from the House and President before it could become a law.  posted 2:22am by jholmes

President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair talked last night about the setbacks in Iraq and the promises that are to come in the Middle East with a democratic Iraq and Afghanistan. 

"Despite setbacks and missteps, I strongly believe we did and are doing the right thing," Bush said Thursday evening in a White House news conference with Blair. "Not everything has turned out the way we hoped."

For his part, Blair said he left a meeting this week with Iraq's new prime minister "thinking the challenge is still immense, but I also came away thinking more certain than ever that we should rise to it."  

In unusually introspective comments, Bush said he regretted his cowboy rhetoric after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks such as his "wanted dead or alive" description of Osama bin Laden and his taunting "bring 'em on" challenge to Iraqi insurgents.

posted 2:19am by jholmes


May 25, 2006

 
Taylor Hicks

Taylor Hicks is the new winner of American Idol.  Hicks beat out Katherine McPhee.  More than 63 million votes were cast.  Right call?  Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board.   posted 2:55am by jholmes

Chicks Piss Off Again:  The View hosts are furious after being dissed by the Dixie Chicks.

Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines' "new motto is, 'What would Bruce Springsteen do?' " says Robison. "Not that we're of that caliber, but would Bruce Springsteen do 'The View'?"

"It's one thing to diss the Bush administration, it's treason to diss 'The View'!" said Behar.   posted 2:48am by jholmes

Can you see Florida governor Jeb Bush as the new commissioner of the NFL?  posted 2:47am by jholmes

CBS and Howard Stern have settled their lawsuit.  posted 2:45am by jholmes


May 24, 2006

The Rolling Stones are postponing 15 tour dates due to Keith Richards condition.  Rumors abound that Richards suffered some brain damage after his fall from a tree last month.  posted 7:55am by jholmes

A huge fire in Turkey has engulfed the major airport in Istanbul. 

He said the fire was believed to have been caused by the miswiring of electrical systems in a cargo area of the airport, and may have caused secondary explosions causing the fire to quickly spread.   posted 7:51am by jholmes

The Miami Heat beat the Detroit Pistons 91-86 in Game One of the Eastern Conference NBA Finals last night.  Phoenix and Dallas play in Game one of the Western Conference Finals tonight.  posted 7:46am by jholmes

Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood were the big winners last night at the ACM awards show in Las Vegas.

Keith Urban was top male vocalist for a second year and Sara Evans, up against Underwood, Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson and Lee Ann Womack, captured her first ACM award, for top female vocalist.

The three-hour show was as much about music as awards, however, and Trace Adkins provided one of the evening's musical highlights. Dressed all in black — from his cowboy hat to his leather suit — Adkins added a Las Vegas touch to the program as he performed his song "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" while surrounded by shimmying showgirls.   posted 7:42am by jholmes

Iran is test firing long range missiles.  The missiles could be used to help deliver a nuclear bomb.  posted 7:36am by jholmes

A new American Idol will be named tonight.  Will it be Taylor or Katherine?  Former American Idol Carrie Underwood cleaned up at the Academy of Country Music award show last night in Las Vegas.  Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board.  posted 7:34am by jholmes


May 23, 2006

 

Top Weekend Movies
May 19-21, 2006

  1. The Da Vinci Code- $77.1 million
  2. Over the Hedge- $38.5 million
  3. Mission Impossible III- $11.3 million
  4. Poseidon- $9.21 million
  5. RV- $5.0 million

Charles Gibson, of Good Morning America, has been named to be the sole news anchor of ABC World News Tonight.  posted 10:11am by jholmes

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Willie Nelson is wanting to tour with the Rolling Stones.  If you ever get the chance to see Willie in concert, you must go.  Amazing American talent.  posted 2:14am by jholmes

Personal data of 26.5 million U.S. veterans has been stolen.

The information involved mainly those veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975, said VA Secretary Jim Nicholson. Data of veterans discharged before 1975 who submitted claims to the agency may have been included.

"It's highly probable that they do not know what they have," he said in a briefing with reporters. "We have decided that we must exercise an abundance of caution and make sure our veterans are aware of this incident."   posted 2:00am by jholmes

Experts say to be prepared for 4-6 major hurricanes this year.  More Katrina News.  posted 1:20am by jholmes


Madonna on Cross

Madonna is upsetting Christians around the world by opening her new concert singing a song while hanging on a huge mirror cross.  posted 12:13am by jholmes


May 22, 2006


Axl Rose v. Tommy Hilfiger

Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger got into a scuffle together at a club over the weekend.

Tommy Hilfiger really showed his "Appetite for Destruction" yesterday when he pummeled Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose in a dispute over a VIP table at Rosario Dawson's birthday party, sources said.

As the punch-up escalated, Hilfiger introduced Rose to some "November Pain" with a blow to the cheek. Club guards quickly tried to separate the men.

Yesterday, club owner Noel Ashman pointed the finger at Hilfiger: "Axl was a gentleman and had the good sense not to retaliate, as he would have done some serious damage to Hilfiger."  

When Rose took the stage a few minutes later to perform the song "You're Crazy," he dedicated it "to my good friend Tommy Hilfiger."   posted 1:21am by jholmes

Oliver Stone premiered the first twenty-six minutes of his upcoming film World Trade Center at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend. 

If you thought "United 93" was disturbing, it turns out the Paul Greengrass film was just the appetizer. Oliver Stone unveiled the main course last night in Cannes with a tantalizing sample of his "World Trade Center."

Unlike "United 93," this film has, if not a happy ending, an upbeat one. The two men lived to tell their tale and be reunited with their families. But their stories of survival are used by Stone so he can also convey the brutality and loss of that horrible day. Stone shows, for example, the two towers imploding and collapsing from within. It's an unimaginable horror.   posted 1:10am by jholmes

Gas prices are down 1.5 cents on average across the country.  posted 12:57am by jholmes

U.S. Representative William Jefferson, from the politically corrupt state of Louisiana,  has been caught on video accepting a $100,000 bribe. 

Plus there's this: "$90,000 found in congressman's freezer . . . The money was divided among various frozen food containers, according to the heavily redacted affidavit."

Some readers may recall that Jefferson also used the National Guard to secure his home in New Orleans during the Katrina aftermath. Another triumph for Louisiana politics! However, the bribery story puts a new spin on this bit from the story about Jefferson's urgent visit to his home amid the flood: "Finally, according to the source, Jefferson emerged with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck." Hmm.    posted 12:00am by jholmes


May 21, 2006

Shooting in Louisiana church leaves five dead.  posted 7:31pm by jholmes 


Cardinals Slugger: Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his league leading 22nd home run today against the lowly Kansas City Royals.  posted 7:24pm by jholmes

Barbaro's vet says the horses injuries from the Preakness horce race on Saturday are 'catastrophic'. 

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was in surgery Sunday fighting for his life a day after breaking his right rear leg in three places at the Preakness, and the colt's surgeon said he's never worked on so many catastrophic injuries to one horse.   posted 7:19pm by jholmes

The Democratic National Committee worked to defeat incumbent New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who eventually won the mayoral race.  posted 7:18pm by jholmes


May 19, 2006

Poor Preston:  Britney Spears stumbles and almost drops Sean Preston once again on New York City street.

The baby-bobbling bungle began at about 6 p.m., as the "Not That Innocent" pop tart left the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Central Park South, holding her kid, Sean Preston, and what witnesses said was a tumbler of water and ice

Despite the tumble, Britney managed not to spill a drop of her drink. Then she muttered to fotogs in her Louisiana accent, "This is why I need a gun."

The near-drop is the latest motherhood woe for Britney, who dangerously drove with Sean Preston in her lap and strapped him into his car seat facing the wrong way, as The Post reported . He also fell from a broken high chair.   posted 6:50am by jholmes

The FDA is endorsing a cervical cancer vaccine.  Cervical cancer is #2 cancer killer in women.  posted 12:40am by jholmes


Jimmy Hoffa

Hunt for Hoffa:  The FBI is hunting and digging in Michigan searching for the remains of former Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa.  The FBI says it is the best lead they have had on where Hoffa's body might be that they have had in years.

No trace of Hoffa has ever been found, and no one has ever been charged in the case. But investigators have long suspected that he was killed by the mob to keep him from reclaiming the Teamsters presidency after he got out of prison for corruption.

Hoffa was last seen on a night he was scheduled to have dinner at a restaurant about 20 miles from the farm. He was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and a Detroit Mafia captain, both now dead.

Over the years, Hoffa's disappearance spawned endless theories — that he was entombed in concrete at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands; that he was ground up and thrown to the fishes in a Florida swamp; that he was obliterated in a mob-owned fat-rendering plant that has since burned down.   posted 12:39am by jholmes

Jennifer Garner almost burned down her home recently when she was cooking, got distracted, and forgot about it.

A few minutes later, the burning fat set the house fire alarm off, and chaos ensued. She explains, "It's (the alarm) saying, 'Fire, please leave the building. Fire, please leave the building.' Ben's upset. So he rips the thing out of the wall... Sorry, to the people we are renting from! We will fix it. Next thing, here they (firefighters) come. Hatchets, hats, full gear. We hear pound, pound, pound, pound, pound on the door. There were like eight firemen and I said, 'Well, I can fix you dinner. But it's probably gonna be burned.'"   posted 12:32am by jholmes

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sold rights to upcoming baby photos with the proceeds going to charity.  posted 12:27am by jholmes

Donald Trump is fighting hard to have a street renamed after himself in Rancho Palo Verdes, California.  posted 12:19am by jholmes

Today in 1536, Ann Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, was beheaded for adultery. 

Anne displayed great bravery at her trial and the spectators spread word of her courage. Popular suspicion against Henry and his mistress Jane Seymour was widespread and there was gossip attacking their behaviour. Anne was accused of adultery, incest, and high treason. One eyewitness reported that she gave "such wise and discreet answers". Although Anne was not popular by any means, her trial was so unfair that even the citizens protested. Even so, the King demanded her head and she was condemned to death.

Anne then knelt down and was blindfolded with a linen handkerchief. The skilled swordsman took off her head with a quick clean sweep of his blade. Eye-witnesses claimed that, when her head was shown to the spectators, her eyes were open and she appeared to be attempting to speak. She was buried later that day in the nearby Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula.   posted 12:09am by jholmes

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Joey Chestnut is the new U.S. Hot Dog Eating Champion.  Chestnut downed 50 hot dogs and buns in just ten minutes.

"I was hoping to do 40," said Chestnut, the champion in pork ribs (5.5 pounds in 12 minutes), waffles (18.5 in 10 minutes) and jalapeno poppers (118 in 10 minutes). "I did 48 at home, but it's always harder to do it in front of a crowd."

Chestnut estimates he has won $50,000 in cash and prizes in a year on the circuit, including a car and ring after prevailing in the Wing Bowl. In the event, which took place in Philadelphia, he ate 173 buffalo wings in 30 minutes.   posted 12:04am by jholmes


May 18, 2006

 
Happily Engaged

Nicole Kidman has finally confirmed that she is indeed engaged to country rocker Keith Urban.  Both Urban and Kidman hail from Australia. 
Keith Urban Concert Photos

Keith Urban CD's
Nicole Kidman DVD's

President Bush and U.S. to try peace talks with North Korea regarding nuclear weapons.  posted 1:50am by jholmes

Bill Clinton has signed a new book deal.  Financial terms have not yet been released.  Clinton received a $12 million dollar advance on his first book, My Life.  posted 1:46am by jholmes


Bye Bye Elliot!

American Idol is down to two finalists after Elliot Yamin was eliminated by viewers.

Nearly four years since its debut, "Idol" continues to rule the ratings. It has attracted 25 million to 33 million viewers each telecast this season.

Seacrest said on Wednesday's program that viewers called in 50 million votes.   posted 1:44am by jholmes

Today in 1980 Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 people and causing billions of dollars in damage.  posted 1:36am by jholmes

More college sports hazing photos on BadJocks.com   posted 1:33am by jholmes


May 17, 2006

David Blaine, the 'bubble boy', has announced his next stunt: Living in the wild with wild beasts.  I guess he did suffer brain damage trying to hold his breath under the water.

He tells the New York Post, "I'm planning to live harmoniously among wild beasts. And I'd like to do it alone in the jungle."   posted 1:59am by jholmes

Parents arrested after alleged raping of ONE day old baby.  posted 1:22am by jholmes

Britney Spears says she has given up the Kabbalah religion and that her baby is her new religion.

The star was introduced to the faith often described as "Jewish mysticism" in 2003 by Madonna. Spears, who has not posted a message on her website in over a year, left the brief note, "I no longer study Kaballah (sic), my baby is my religion" on May 12.   posted 12:55am by jholmes

AutoVantage auto club ranks the cities with the rudest and most courteous drivers:

Cities with Most Rude Drivers

  1. Miami, Florida

  2. Phoenix, Arizona

  3. New York City, New York

  4. Los Angeles, California

  5. Boston, Massachusetts

Cities with Most Courteous Drivers

  1. Minneapolis, Minnesota

  2. Nashville, Tennessee

  3. St. Louis, Missouri

  4. Seattle, Washington

  5. Atlanta, Georgia


I am sure this hits a little to close to home for Cruise and Travolta, but it sure is funny to the rest of us.  Can Southpark get Tom to come out of the closet?

The Da Vinci Code opened up at the Cannes Film Festival to less-than-stellar reviews.

"It's a movie about whether the greatest story ever told is true or not, and it's not the greatest movie ever screened, is it?" said Baz Bamigboye, a film columnist for London's Daily Mail. "As a thriller, well," he continued, shrugging.

"Maybe the next day I'll forget about it," said Igor Soukmanov of Unistar Radio in Belarus. "But today for two hours it was good entertainment. ... As a Hollywood movie, it's a very nice picture."

"I kept thinking of the Energizer Bunny, because it kept going and going and going, and not in a good way," said James Rocchi, a film critic for CBS 5 television in San Francisco and the online outlet Cinematical. "Ron Howard makes handsome films. He doesn't make bad ones, but he doesn't make great ones."

One especially melodramatic line uttered by Hanks drew prolonged laughter and some catcalls, and the audience continued to titter for much of the film's remainder.

"I didn't like it very much. I thought it was almost as bad as the book. Tom Hanks was a zombie, thank goodness for Ian McKellen. It was overplayed, there was too much music and it was much too grandiose," said Peter Brunette, critic for the US daily The Boston Globe.

"It was really disappointing. The dialogue was cheesy. The acting wasn't too bad, but the film is not as good as the book," added Lina Hamchaoui, from British radio IRN.    posted 12:32am by jholmes

A look at some all-time NBA statistical records and which of them could be broken and by who.  Since we are all bored to death with the Barry Bonds home run chase.

  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 38,387 points

  • Wilt Chamberlain's 23,924 rebounds

  • John Stockton's 15,806 assists

  • Hakeem Olajuwon's 3,830 blocked shots

  • Reggie Miller's 2,560 three-pointers made

         posted 12:28am by jholmes

Gunfire broke out at a Waffle House in North Carolina after whites and hispanics got into it over immigration in the U.S.  For those of us who have frequented the Waffle House over the years, we know this is not that much out of the ordinary.  I have a few good Waffle House stories myself. I know many of you do as well.  posted 12:24am by jholmes

A California home is on the market for $75 million dollars.  posted 12:22am by jholmes


May 16, 2006


Hazing involving the girls soccer team at Northwestern.

BAD JOCKS: BadJocks.com reports hazing incident at Northwestern involving women's soccer team.  This is creating quite a stir in the media and on campus.  Congrats to Bob Reno for breaking the story.  posted 3:02pm by jholmes


Top Movie for Second Straight Weekend.

Top Weekend Movies
May 12-14, 2006

  1. Mission Impossible III- $25.0 million
  2. Poseidon- $22.1 million
  3. RV- $9.9 million
  4. Just My Luck- $5.7 million
  5. An American Haunting- $3.5 million

You can now find God on your cell phone and Blackberry as many ministers are using technology to spread the word.  posted 1:08am by jholmes

Want to bet on the sex of Britney Spears' new baby?  Entertainment betting online is catching on with millions. 

"Novelty bets are becoming a significant and surprising revenue generator," said Greg Sindall, a senior analyst at SportsInteraction.com, a sports, casino and current event betting site.   posted 12:30am by jholmes

I truly love and enjoy the TV show HOUSE M.D. but it can be a bit predictable at times as seen in the MAD TV video spoof below.

 
Mad TV spoof of HOUSE M.D.

The season ending finale of Grey's Anatomy was tonight and the episode seemed to focus on self reflection of the main characters.  (Link has spoiler material if not viewed yet.)   Discuss on the Bumpshack Message Board.  posted 12:14am by jholmes

Why do we buy dumb souvenirs?  posted 12:11am by jholmes 


New Front Man for FUEL?

Alternative rock band FUEL has offered their lead singing job to Chris Daughtry of American Idol.  Daughtry was voted off the music reality show last week.  posted 12:07am by jholmes

President Bush said last night that the 'catch and release' of illegal aliens will end.  He has also called for 6,000 National Guard troops along the border of Mexico to back up the Border Control. 

"People who meet these conditions should be able to apply for citizenship, but approval would not be automatic, and they would have to wait in line behind those who played by the rules and followed the law," Bush said.

"This initial commitment of Guard members would last for a period of one year. After that, the number of Guard forces will be reduced as new Border Patrol agents and new technologies come online," Bush said.   posted 12:03am by jholmes

Today in 1866 Root Beer was prepared commercially for the very first time.  posted 12:00am by jholmes


May 15, 2006

 
Joan Rivers doubts Tom's Love

Gossip queen Joan Rivers recently slammed Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at an Australian awards show. 

Rivers said, "Did you hear Tom Cruise just had a baby? He was there when it was born... He should have been there when it was conceived!" Last October, Rivers accused Holmes of being untalented and claimed her engagement to Cruise was the best thing she had ever done.

Rivers said, "Each woman has done very well by him - Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz. So this one, Katie Holmes , who doesn't seem to have much talent, is probably the luckiest of all. I saw her in Batman Begins and, let's just say, she better hang on to Tom for a while!"   posted 1:12am by jholmes

More Tom-Kat Craziness
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Attended the Suns-Clippers NBA Playoff game tonight. Phoenix played a pretty bad game but stayed close.  The Clippers won the game 114-107 to tie the series at two games a piece.  Game five will be in Phoenix.  posted 12:22am by jholmes

Today in 1928 Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their movie debut in the cartoon Plane Crazy.  posted 12:10am by jholmes

Inappropriate 

Pamela Anderson at her son's tee-ball game.

Alligators in Florida are being blamed for two more deaths.  posted 12:07am by jholmes

President Bush is calling on thousands of National Guard troops to be deployed along the Mexico border to back up U.S. Border Patrol. 

"Mexican President Vicente Fox reached out to President Bush this morning to relay his concerns about consideration of a plan by the United States to deploy National Guard forces to the border region. President Bush made clear that the United States considers Mexico a friend and that what is being considered is not a militarization of the border, but support of Border Patrol capabilities, on a temporary basis, by National Guard personnel," Tamburri said.   posted 12:03am by jholmes

 


May 14, 2006   Happy Mother's Day

 
Clinton and Bush at Tulane's Commencement Ceremonies

Former Presidents Bush and Clinton helped Tulane University in New Orleans celebrate its 'Miracle Commencement' on Saturday.  posted 2:49am by jholmes

Today is Mother's Day in the United States and many other countries.  posted 2:42am by jholmes

Metallica front man James Hetfield describes his numerous drug battles.  posted 2:14am by jholmes

Hunters in Florida have killed a deadly gator that was on a human spree.  posted 2:08am by jholmes

Add yourself to HeadShotPixels.com

Lightning struck Senator Ted Kennedy's plane this weekend.  All power was lost, but no one was hurt or injured.  posted 2:05am by jholmes

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Johnny Depp wants to quit smoking because of his kids.  posted 1:41am by jholmes


May 13, 2006

 
Brad Pitt and Jennifer

Brad's Ex's:  Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow are set to co-star in an upcoming movie.

Shooting has been tentatively scheduled to take place in 2008, as the two screen beauties are currently busy with other commitments.   posted 1:45am by jholmes

A German company has dumped Paris Hilton as an endorser for partying too much.  posted 1:52am by jholmes

Quote of the Day:

"After what I experienced with The Passion, I frankly don't give a flying f*** about much of what those critics think." Film star/director Mel Gibson does his own thing.

Legendary singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder is 56 today.  I thought this guy was in his 50's when I was a kid.  posted 1:38am by jholmes

American Chris Gatlin set the record in the 100-meter dash yesterday.  Gatlin set the new world record at 9.77 seconds.  posted 1:34am by jholmes

Universals Music has been fined $12 million dollars for pushing Lindsey Lohan on the public. 

But Universal — home of many overnight stars including several rappers who’ve come and gone — would be the place for this. The company has had enormous success, but at the same time encountered lawsuits from middle-men distributors claiming inflated sales numbers — double dipping at the cash register, so to speak.

Many of the acts are those you’ve never heard of. But others are illustrative of how Universal (which includes Island/Def Jam, Motown, Interscope and other labels) tried to force bad music down our throats.

Spitzer’s office includes one very illuminating e-mail from a Universal promotion man: “Guys: We need to get confirmation on what we are doing with the station. Use these promotion [sic] to leverage airplay and rotations.”

But Lohan is no singer, and no one, not even her movie fans, wanted her albums or to hear her on the radio.

Nevertheless, the record company persisted. A series of e-mails in June 2005 shows what was happening — a manipulation of MTV’s “Total Request Live” show that airs every afternoon and can seriously affect a new record’s fortunes.   posted 1:30am by jholmes

Poll shows Johnny Depp is best at signing autographs for fans.  The worst is actress Cameron Diaz.  posted 1:27am by jholmes

The world's largest cruise ship was christened in New York City yesterday.

Freedom of the Seas, which arrived this week in New York Harbor from Southampton, Britain, is 237 feet tall and 1,112 feet long with 15 passenger decks.

Built by Norwegian shipbuilder Aker Yards ASA, the ship cost $800 million and can carry more than 4,000 passengers. The world's previous largest ship, the Queen Mary 2, can carry about 3,000 people and is 151,400 gross registered tons. The Titanic's gross registered tonnage was 46,329.

A three-level dining room seats 2,140. There are more than 2,000 deck chairs and an ice-skating rink. The fitness center measures 9,700 square feet and includes a boxing ring. The spa provides luxuries from teeth whitening to massages and a 13th-floor deck offers a rock climbing wall and a big wave pool with simulated surfing.   posted 1:21am by jholmes


May 12, 2006

Deciphering between fact and fiction within The Da Vinci Code.  posted 10:57am by jholmes


Alien Devil

Tom Cruise banned Katie's parents from seeing their first grandchild until he was back from promoting MI:III overseas so he could monitor the initial visit between the new mother and her parents according to sources close to the situation.

Forget whatever it was Tom Cruise told Diane Sawyer about his relationship with Katie Holmes' parents.

The truth is, Katie's parents, Martin and Kathleen Holmes, didn’t get to see baby Suri up close and personal until the day of the "Mission: Impossible 3" premiere in Los Angeles. That would have been May 4. Suri was born in the late afternoon on April 17.

You do the math, fans. That's two and a half weeks. The Holmeses were specifically not invited until Tom was back home in Los Angeles after his worldwide promotional tours and could monitor the baby’s first visit with her maternal grandparents. Tom’s mother, Mary Jo Mapother-South was there for the delivery. So were Tom’s sisters. But, as widely reported, the Holmeses were at their vacation home in Florida when they got the news that their daughter had given birth to their first grandchild.

“They are heartbroken,” says the source who filled me in on this, and this person knows what they’re talking about. But no one who’s interviewed Cruise for "MI:3" has dared asked these questions. Instead, they’ve let Cruise refer to Katie as “Kate” and do all the talking for her. The Holmeses are scared to speak out, say friends, for fear that they will be cut off even more from Katie and Suri.   posted 1:33am by jholmes

Boycott Mission Impossible III to show your displeasure with Mr. Cruise.

More Cruise Craziness

Chris Daughtry, who was voted off of American Idol last night, could end up as the new front man for the rock group FUEL.  posted 1:19am by jholmes

70 dead penguins have been found on the beaches in Argentina recently. 

 
March of the Penguins

Bumpshack Movie Review:  March of the Penguins

I watched the March of the Penguins documentary tonight.  It was very educational, saddening, and humorous.  Check it out if you get a chance. posted 12:52am by jholmes

A grizzly-polar bear hybrid has been found in Canada.  posted 12:49am by jholmes

Surprising: Liberal actor Matt Damon is in Africa and is praising George Bush's AIDS initiative funding against the disease that has stricken continent.

He tells the New York Daily News, "The work that's being done and the people that I met who are on the front lines there, I just came away feeling like we're going to beat this. You walk into these clinics; you're surrounded by people who are alive and well because of the president's plan and because of this money."   posted 12:40am by jholmes

Workers in California recently rescued 227 animals from a home that reeked of urine and death.

The final tally included 98 guinea pigs, 84 cats, 27 dogs, 14 rabbits, 3 potbellied pigs and 1 bird, Code Compliance Supervisor Tony Genovesi said Wednesday.   posted 12:35am by jholmes

More than 50 million Americans claim to have a disability according to the census bureau.  posted 12:34am by jholmes

Congress is looking into clamping down on MySpace and Facebook.  The hope of the bill is to clamp down on online predators that lurk and lure from public libraries and schools.

According to the bill, it "prohibits access to commercial social networking Web sites or chat rooms through which minors" can access obscene or indecent material, be subject to unlawful sexual advances or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from adults, or access harmful information.

The bill terms a social-network Web site as one that allows users to create Web pages or profiles about themselves as well as offers communications including a forum, chat room, e-mail or instant messenger, while a chat room is termed a site that allows multiple users to communicate in real time via text.

"Sites like MySpace and Facebook have opened the door to a new online community of social networks between friends, students and colleagues," Fitzpatrick said. "However, this new technology has become a feeding ground for child predators that use these sites as just another way to do our children harm."

Specifically, it would require schools and libraries to implement security systems to prevent students from being exposed to obscene and objectionable material, according to Fitzpatrick.   posted 12:29am by jholmes

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May 11, 2006

 
'No Thanks Brad'

It appears that Angelina Jolie might have turned down Brad Pitt's marriage proposal:

A source revealed to Grazia magazine: "Brad has literally got down on his knees to beg Angelina to change her mind but she laughs pulls him to his feet, kisses him and says, 'Let's not ruin something so perfect'."   posted 1:16pm by jholmes

PROMO MOM: Tom continues to drag a tired Katie Holmes around in a desperate attempt to drum up support for the fledging Mission Impossible III. 

"Mission: Impossible 3" had a bad Tuesday, falling $300,000 more at the box office from Monday’s $3.5 million. That means it’s off 80 percent or so since Sunday.

Are people just waiting, or have they really turned on their old pal, Tom Cruise? It didn’t help that he dragged Katie Holmes up to Seattle for a promo appearance three weeks after she gave birth.

Reports were that she looked tired — and rightly so. Mothers don’t usually leave their babies after three weeks. How peculiar this whole saga continues to be.

Now, Cruise is on the cover of Good Housekeeping — an obvious bid to the female audience —and sounds quite manic in Kate Coyne’s story.   posted 10:24am by jholmes  

More Cruise Craziness

Top 20 Scariest Films of All-Time.  posted 2:49am by jholmes

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been ordered to pay $19,000 dollars a month in child support.   posted 2:00am by jholmes


Paris and Pamela out on the town

Pamela 'Plastic' Anderson and Paris 'Fill in the _____' Hilton were recently out for a night on the town together.  That is truly like watching a car wreck waiting to happen.  posted 1:53am by jholmes

Bumpshack Movie Review:  Crash  

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a $70 billion dollar tax cut over the next five years for the middle class.  The approval is seen as a big victory for George Bush and the Republican party. 

The bill providing tax cuts worth $70 billion over five years passed by a 244-185 vote. The Senate was expected to clear the bill for Bush's signature Thursday.

The legislation provides a two-year extension of the reduced 15 percent tax rate for capital gains and dividends, currently set to expire at the end of 2008.

It also would extend, for this year, recent changes to the alternative minimum tax — originally aimed at making sure the wealthy pay at least some taxes — to prevent it from hitting more upper middle-income families.   posted 1:12am by jholmes

The Greek Orthodox church is slamming and banning The Da Vinci Code.  When a group or church calls for a boycott that usually sells a good hundred thousand extra tickets.  posted 1:08am by jholmes

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Today in 1949 Siam was officially renamed Thailand.  posted 1:05am by jholmes

Companies find impossible mission in dealing with Cruise and movie tie-in's. 

With Cruise both starring in and producing the Paramount Pictures release, he had an unusual amount of control over promotional decisions that are usually left more solidly in the hands of studios.   posted 1:00am by jholmes

More Cruise Craziness


May 10, 2006

 
Not your typical Boy-Bander

Mike Tyson is trying to make a record with the boy band Westlife.  Tyson seems desperate to make this happen. 

Close pal and Irish boxing star Joe Egan says, "He loves their music so much he wants to be part of it. He's not a Pavarotti or Domingo - but neither are the members of Westlife. Mike's asked me to make contact with Louis Walsh to set the wheels in motion. He'd be happy just to sing on the chorus of a track, but he could always replace Brian McFadden."   posted 10:14am by jholmes

Wikipedia Article of the Day:  Narnia

Paramount executives are panicing over the very dismal early ticket sales from Mission Impossible III. 

You've got to feel for these people though. Since Monday morning, every department at Paramount has been called on for immediate cost cutting, I'm told. "Budget meetings are going on everywhere," says a source. "Everyone's being asked what they can do, and there's talk of layoffs again."   posted 1:07am by jholmes

More Cruise Craziness


Britney has 'done it again'

Britney Spears announced on David Letterman Tuesday night that she is indeed pregnant with child #2. 

"Don't worry Dave, it's not yours," the pop princess quipped.   posted 12:43am by jholmes

Children in Singapore have been banned from watching The Da Vinci Code.  posted 12:39am by jholmes

Oral and anal sex are continuing to increase among teenagers. 

She explained that "a few national surveys conducted recently have suggested that oral sex may be a behavior that teenagers are increasingly participating in. For example, in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, most teenagers reported having oral sex and many had not had intercourse."

There may be a general feeling out there that oral sex is safer than intercourse, Erbelding said, and it probably is for some diseases.

However, Erbelding emphasized that oral and anal sex may result in the transmission of STDs that will not be detected in urine tests. "A urine test is not going to pick up gonorrhea or Chlamydia that might have been acquired through rectal or oral sex, with gonorrhea being the more significant infection for oral sex."   posted 12:37am by jholmes


May 9, 2006

Top Weekend Movies
May 5-7, 2006

  1. Mission Impossible III- $47.7 million
  2. RV- $11.0 million
  3. An American Haunting- $5.7 million
  4. Stick It- $5.5 million
  5. Flight 93- $5.3 million

Winnie the Pooh is 80 years old.  posted 12:19am by jholmes

Sports' Biggest Villians.  posted 12:17am by jholmes

Tom Cruise has nixed a topless scene of Katie Holmes from the movie Thank You For Smoking.

A source said: "Tom wasn't too pleased when he found out about Katie. She flashed quite a lot of flesh and he didn't think it was appropriate because of their Scientology beliefs. Katie was happy to go along with it."

The brunette's raunchy sex scene with Aaron Eckhart was included in the first screening on the film at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada last year, however, it had been mysteriously deleted when the film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this year.   posted 12:15am by jholmes

More Tom-Kat Craziness

Notable Quotes of the Week:

"They don't age, they don't sag ... Mine point in a perfectly good direction ... It doesn't mean they're great or anybody else would like them. It just means I like them." Teri Hatcher loves her nipples.

"What woman hasn't wanted to be Mick (Jagger)? If you can't be with him you want to be him." Sheryl Crow confesses her love for the Rolling Stones frontman.

"I'm not good at playing a character different from me. I'm always the nice guy, the boyfriend, easy on the eyes. That's all I do." Former Sex & The City star John Corbett is honest about his acting limitations.

"He likes blueberries and she loves her daddy." Julia Roberts on her twins Hazel and Phinneas' early loves.

The New Orleans Hornets' Chris Paul will be named the NBA's Rookie of the Year today.  posted 12:00am by jholmes


May 8, 2006

The last Titanic survivor has died at the age of 99.

Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers — including a fraternal twin — when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.   posted 1:23am by jholmes

Big Daddy Adam Sadler is the proud father of a new baby girl.  posted 1:20am by jholmes

Wikipedia Article of the Day: Toaster

Today is V-E day in Europe also known as Victory in Europe day.

Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was May 8, 1945, the date when the Allies during the Second World War formally celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.   posted 12:25am by jholmes


Keith Richards (before the fall not after)

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was near death after falling out of a tree recently and had brain surgery that hopefully will fix the ailing rocker. 

The New Zealand Herald reported that Richards underwent brain surgery to relieve a subdural haematoma or blood clot on the brain. The operation normally involves drilling a hole through the skull to drain the clot.   posted 12:11am by jholmes

Tori Spelling, with the ink still drying on her divorce papers, got married this weekend to Dylan McDermott on a private island in Fiji.  posted 12:08am by jholmes

Michael Jackson is furious with GQ magazine for a photo spoof they have in the current issue of the men's magazine. 

In one photo, a Jackson look-alike sits in a darkened movie theater amid a row of children. Another photo shows him standing in the desert draped in a black cloak and headscarf, with his trademark glittery white glove.   posted 12:05am by jholmes


May 7, 2006

Steve Nash was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player today for the second year in a row.  Only nine players in the history of the league have won the award in consecutive years.  Nash easily beat out Lebron James and former teammate Dirk Nowitzki.  posted 2:59pm by jholmes

MVP VOTING

Player, Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total Pts
Steve Nash, Phoenix 57 32 20 8 6 924
LeBron James, Cleveland 16 41 33 23 7 688
Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas 14 22 25 36 17 544
Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers 22 11 18 22 30 483
Chauncey Billups, Detroit 15 13 22 18 25 430