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Madonna Compares McCain to Hitler, Obama to Gandhi Photo of Noel Sheppard. By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) August 24, 2008 - 11:00 ET In case you missed it with the Olympics going on, Russia invading Georgia, and the campaign for president in full swing, pop star Madonna started her much-awaited tour in Wales Saturday. Amidst the requisite autoerotic writhing and gyrating, Madonna managed to bash John McCain -- actually equating him to Adolf Hitler and Robert Mugabe! -- while comparing Barack Obama to Mahatma Gandhi. I kid you not. As reported by the Associated Press Saturday (emphasis added, photo...

CARDIFF, Wales (AP) - Even at 50, the queen of pop just can't stop courting controversy. As Madonna kicked off her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president. Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe - and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama. The...

LONDON: It should come as no surprise that the queen of pop is again courting controversy. The first show of Madonna's world tour made a foray into U.S. politics with a none-too-subtle dig at U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain Saturday night. Images of destruction and global warming flashed on to a screen during a video interlude. Those were followed by pictures of Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian ruler Robert Mugabe — and McCain. A later sequence showed slain Beatle John Lennon, climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's democratic rival, Barack Obama.

Rielle Hunter, a 42-year-old who recently gave birth to a girl who Edwards says is not his, has long been said to be the inspiration for Alison Poole, the "cocaine-addled, sexually voracious" 20-year-old lead character in "My Life Story," Jay McInerney's novel of 1980s excess and degradation.

Pop icon Madonna is using kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star Alex Rodriguez into believing they are "soulmates," the ballplayer's estranged wife is telling friends. Cynthia Rodriguez, who has bolted to rocker Lenny Kravitz's Paris pad to avoid the limelight, is blaming the Material Girl for breaking up her five-year marriage, a close friend told the Daily News. The 34-year-old stunner has revealed to close confidants that she discovered a note her husband wrote professing his true feelings to Madonna. "I believe he was having an affair with Madonna," she told a friend, who spoke anonymously for fear of angering A-Rod....

"Actress Sarah Jessica Parker holds a bottle of her perfume "Lovely" during a presentation in Paris."

A high school science teacher in Florida has been booted from class, a decision she claims administrators made not based on poor job performance but on her moonlighting gig as a bikini mate aboard a local charter fishing boat.

By now, most McCain haters will have already skipped down to the comments section to post their expletives and tell me how it’s a free country and they have a 1st Amendment right, etc. to yammer on and on about how bad McCain sucks, totally missing the point of my post, again. But I’m here to tell you, in this free country, that in my opinion, you should SHUT YOUR STINKIN TRAP! To all you ingrates, rageaholics, and self-absorbed punks, WE KNOW YOU HATE MCCAIN. You can give yourself a rest now and stop posting on every single thread the...

You remember when bonnie lass "Kristen," the girl who brought down a governor, was profiled this morning in the New York Times? They reported her age at 22, which seems about right. She's a lovely young thing, and, well, when you're paying you might as well buy the ripest fruit. (Oh God, ew, we hate ourselves for coming up with that metaphor.) But we've done some sleuthing, and we've discovered that two separate public identification records reveal that the only Ashley Youmans (the real name of "Kristen," a.k.a Ashley Alexandra Dupré) from the Jersey Shore (or anywhere in New Jersey)...

Americans are more likely to find Bigfoot than to discover Sen. Hillary Clinton's real position on Social Security. Why? Bigfoot left more clues. Sen. Clinton has risen as high as she has in the polls by figuring out how many sides an issue has, and taking them. And although everyone has known for years that she operates this way, it was not until last week, the night before Halloween, that her triangulation came back to haunt her. Because that's how long it took for her opponents to start aggressively calling her on it. In earlier debates, Clinton has gotten away...

Miss USA gives Mexicans lesson in graciousness By Herald wire services Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Miss USA Rachel Smith gets up after falling during the Miss Universe pageant. (AP photo) MEXICO CITY - When Miss USA took the stage, there was nary a caballero in the crowd. The Mexican audience booed and hooted Rachel Smith repeatedly during the weekend’s Miss Universe competition. The music was too loud to tell how they reacted when the gringa took a tumble on stage. Smith was encountering what other Americans have before her. Mexican rudeness toward all things American. In 2004 and 2005, Mexican...

Paris Hilton's delicate state of mind is keeping her out of the courtroom ... for now. According to a declaration filed by Dr. Charles Sophy, a psychiatrist who has seen Paris "off and on" over the last six months, Hilton is "not capable of any meaningful participation" in a civil trial brought against her by diamond heiress Zeta Graff. In a $10 million lawsuit filed in 2005, Graff claims that Hilton spread "vicious lies" about her that were printed in the New York Post. Paris' shrink claims that Hilton is "emotionally distraught and traumatized" from the May 4 hearing where...

Over the weekend, I logged onto one of my favorite websites, Go Fug Yourself, to get their take on the most important celebutante-related gossip of the weekend: Paris Hilton being sentenced to 45 days in jail. Sure enough, their top post began with the following: "Karma is a bitch. And so is Paris Hilton." Oh, Paris. We all love to hate you. Every article about you is usually run with a caveat about how you're famous for nothing, how you're an example of everything that's wrong with America today, and how if we just stopped paying attention, you'd slink away...

Funny video of Hillary getting beat up by Britney Spears and her bunch of Hollywood skank friends. Hillary VS Britney

The quotation marks in the title of this DUFU edition are intentional. Although loony Edwards blogger, Amanda Marcotte, apparently "quit" the campaign, it is more likely that she was fired AGAIN. Again? But...but didn't John Edwards show backbone by standing by her when her extreme anti-Catholic postings came to light? That was the OFFICIAL story. What I have been hearing is that, according to Salon.Com, the Edwards campaign (meaning the Breck Girl or his wife) FIRED Marcotte only to rehire her back when there was such a large backlash among the nutroots. Of course, Edwards could not risk losing...

Blogger quits Edwards campaign in light of conservative criticismOne of the chief campaign bloggers for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards quit Monday after conservative critics raised questions about her history of provocative online messages. Amanda Marcotte posted on her personal blog, Pandagon, that the criticism "was creating a situation where I felt that every time I coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign." Marcotte said she resigned from her position Monday, and that her resignation was accepted by the campaign. Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for the Edwards campaign, confirmed that Marcotte was "no longer working for the campaign." She declined...

Friends who know me weren't surprised to learn that my Zionist boyfriend and I broke up last summer shortly after Israel began dropping bombs on Lebanese children. But the friends who really knew me were surprised to learn that I had even dated a Zionist to begin with. In my defense, I thought he was just Jewish when it all began - a progressive one who was white but had tendencies for black supremacy. Politically, we aligned well, so I figured that he'd automatically agree with my stance on Israel-Palestine. (If you don't already know: It's Israel's fault more than...

Various terms of Hilton's sentence include not driving with any measurable amount of alcohol in her system and not refusing alcohol tests. The alcohol program involves attending a dozen classes.

The Sixties generation thought everything should be free. But only a few decades later the hippies were selling water at rock festivals for $5 a bottle. But for me the price of “free love” was even higher. I sacrificed what should have been the best years of my life for the black lie of free love. All the sex I ever had — and I had more than my fair share — far from bringing me the lasting relationship I sought, only made marriage a more distant prospect... And I am not alone. Count me among the dissatisfied daughters of...

Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from Kid Rock after less than four months of marriage, the actress' publicist has confirmed. Anderson's representative said the former "Baywatch" star filed for divorce last week, but would not comment on the reason or any particulars of the divorce. The split was first reported by People magazine. A publicist for Kid Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, did not immediately return messages left on Monday. "Yes, it's true," Anderson wrote in a brief statement on her website. "Unfortunately impossible." The relationship between Anderson, 39, and Ritchie, 35, has been a turbulent one...

Nancy Pelosi stands to make life much tougher for President Bush if the Nov. 7 elections net her a powerful job that puts her just two steps behind him. The 66-year-old California liberal stands to become the first woman to lead the House of Representatives if she and fellow Democrats win control of the chamber from Bush's Republicans. She vows to ensure Congress acts as an equal to the most powerful man in the world. Often ignored or even mocked by Bush during his six years as president, Pelosi, now the House Democratic minority leader, told Reuters in an interview:...

Madonna pays a few bob for new blonde look 20.09.06 Add your view Madonna tries out a radical new hairstyle. From strawberry blonde and permed, to Gothic black and straight, there are not many hairstyles that Madonna hasn't tried. Now, with a dramatic new platinum blonde bob, the 48-year-old singer has undergone yet another reinvention. While the shade is reminiscent of her 1990s Material Girl heyday, the blunt-edge cut is different to anything she has ever previously had, Costing a cool £750, it is, however, a little more pricey than the average cut n' blow-dry. "Madonna wanted to do something...

Katie Couric's "Evening News" fell to third place Monday night, just six nights after she stormed into first in her debut week at CBS. Couric's debut as anchor of CBS' "Evening News" brought in well over 13 million total viewers last week. While her audience dwindled from there, she finished the week with a comfortable 3 million-viewer lead over NBC's "Nightly News" and ABC's "World News." But on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Couric resumed a ratings position only slightly better than the one Bob Schieffer left her with. Her 7.49 million total viewers were slightly behind...

Hatin’ on Hillary: N.H. Dems lambaste Clinton By Brett Arends Boston Herald Business Columnist Monday, August 7, 2006 - Updated: 02:56 AM EST MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it. “Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.” No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified...

VATICAN CITY, Vatican City (UPI) -- Vatican officials have suggested Madonna -- the U.S. pop singer, that is -- should be excommunicated for re-enacting the crucifixion in her new stage show. Madonna is scheduled to bring her Confessions Tour to Rome this Sunday, complete with the scene in which she wears a crown of thorns and appears to be hung on a cross, The Telegraph reports.

Madonna has invited Pope Benedict XVI to be the guest of honor at her Rome, Italy, Confessions concert on Sunday, which features the mock crucifixion of the singer. Religious leaders in Italy and The Vatican have united to publicly denounce the singer's controversial stage act, in which she is 'crucified' on a diamante-studded cross, while wearing a crown of thorns. Ersilio Cardinal Tonino, speaking on behalf of The Pope, said yesterday, "This concert is a blasphemous challenge to the faith and a profanation of the cross. She should be ex-communicated. To crucify herself during the concert in the city of...

Madonna's Concert Crucifixion Draws Ire ROME (AP) - Madonna's plans to stage a mock crucifixion during a Sunday concert in Rome have drawn fire from religious leaders, who have condemned the stunt as "an act of open hostility" toward the Roman Catholic Church. During the concerts of her "Confessions" world tour, the American diva appears crucified on a mirrored cross while wearing a crown of thorns. The prospect of the scene being repeated at the concert in Rome's Olympic stadium, some 2 miles from the Vatican, prompted Catholic officials to denounce the act as a publicity stunt in bad taste....

'Ally McBeal' Star to Play Conservative Pundit in New TV Series By E&P Staff Published: July 24, 2006 11:55 AM ET NEW YORK ABC reportedly has huge hopes for a new series to air this fall called "Brothers & Sisters," which will follow the hit "Desperate Housewives" on the schedule. Calista Flockhart, best known as Ally McBeal, plays a conservative radio host turned TV pundit. Others in the high-powered cast include Patricia Wettig, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin and Sally Field. Flockhart recently explained, "I really want to go back to work. It just seemed like the perfect time and the...

WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his mother remarried, he took the family surname, Clinton. Clinton was a good student. He enjoyed playing the saxophone and even considered a professional musical career. While in high school, a fortuitous meeting with President John Kennedy led him to choose a life of public service.

Comedienne Sandra Bernhard appeared on the show and, amidst a discussion about Laura Bush, characterized the First Lady, with her typical acidity as "heavily medicated." Co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck, a vocally ardent Republican, took acute exception and tried to defend Mrs. Bush's work on childhood education, whereupon Bernhard called Hasselbeck "honey" – and then the sparks really flew. It was all a bit too much for Joy Behar to bear, apparently.

AUSTIN — Until they found the topless photos, Austin High School officials considered Tamara Hoover a model art teacher with a knack for helping students find their creative streaks. Now, she's fighting for her job. The photos, which were posted on Flickr.com by her partner, depict Hoover in the shower, lifting weights, getting dressed, in bed and doing other routine activities. Her abrupt dismissal highlights a new concern for employees: Your boss has Internet access, too. "People don't realize when they put their entire diary out there, they're giving very private information to the public," said Kate Brooks, director of...

Christina Aguilera topless? Not today...   May 30, 2006 Christina Aguilera has decided not to pose topless for a magazine because her husband has told her not to. According to reports, the singer had been considering a lucrative offer to bare her boobs for a photo shoot to prove she has not had a breast enlargement. However, Christina's husband, music executive Jordan Bratman, has now stopped her from going through with her plans because he doesn't want the world to see her assets. A source said: "Christina was thinking of doing something radical to end all the speculation but...

Former Warren County teacher, Pamela Rogers is back in jail after making further contact with the teenager she’s been forbidden to talk to. Rogers served several months in jail for having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student. Police told the Southern Standard newspaper that Rogers contacted her teenage victim just hours after her most recent court appearance and then later sent the boy a pornographic video of herself. The paper reports that Rogers is being held without bond. Right now Rogers has seven years of probation, but if she is found guilty of the latest violations that deal could...

Sharon Stone never fails to grab a headline when she wants to. In the latest attempt to get her name in the news to promote her upcoming film Basic Instinct 2. The actress proclaims that teenagers should practice more oral sex. A report from the United Kingdon says that the 48-year old actress believes that teenagers should be prepared to engage in oral sex, if it saves from them the dangers of an overly aggressive individual that is pushing them to engage in intercourse. She explains, "I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl...

Fellow Americans, there comes a time every mans life when we must give up ourselves before we are worthy to recieve. There comes a time in this war on terror when in order to protect liberty, we have to give it up in the mean time for safty. That's right folks. Today, Americans have forsaken the creator for the creation and have decided that they would value our "civil liberties" than protecting western civilization and rich white people from the tender mercies of radical Islamic terrorists. Selfish liberals insist and whine that Bush has no right to spy on Americans...

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After reading all of the crap that people have been saying regarding Adult Private Social Clubs, I felt that I had to post an article and give my opinion. I am sick and tired of all the religous groups that are saying that there are drugs, prostitution, minors, non-consenting people, and just immoral people at these clubs! First of all, who do these people think they are to decide what is morally right or wrong for me? I believe that I have a good set of morals. I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen, I work full time and...

AP - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago NEW YORK - Move over Mr. Blackwell, PETA has issued its own "worst-dressed" list -- based on fur, not style. Paris Hilton was named the year's worst-dressed celebrity by the animal rights group Thursday. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals cites the hotel heiress/reality TV star for wearing fur coats. Hilton is followed on the 2005 worst-dressed list by her friend Kimberly Stewart ("she and best bud Paris are so clueless about animals" writes PETA), Lisa Gastineau, Victoria Gotti and Tara Reid.

It's been a tough year for Paris Hilton: her TV show and her marriage were canceled. Now, a magazine names her "worst celebrity dog owner." Slideshow: Paris Hilton Photo GallerySlideshow: Best & Worst Celeb Dog Owners Hilton, a 24-year-old hotel heiress, was voted the world's worst celebrity dog owner by the readers of two celebrity dog magazines. "First (Paris) loses Tinkerbell, then she ditches her for a cuter dog, then replaces that dog with a ferret, then a kinkajou monkey and then, I gather, a goat," said Leslie Padgett, the editor of The New York Dog and The Hollywood Dog...

According to The Superficial website, Palthrow was quoted by a UK website as saying the folllowing: "American actress Gwyneth Paltrow has praised Londoners for their resilience after the British capital's transport network was attacked by suicide bombers on 7 July (05). The Shakespeare in Love beauty, who lives in London with her rock star husband Chris Martin and daughter Apple, admits she is amazed by the locals' courage in the face of adversity. She says, "I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America....

DECEMBER 5--Lawyers for Jennifer Aniston have warned publications that they will face an invasion of privacy lawsuit if they print topless photos of the actress taken recently while she was apparently sunbathing at her Los Angeles home. In a blistering letter sent to celebrity magazines, attorney John Lavely wrote that the publication of photographs "showing [Aniston] topless or in the act of taking off or putting on her top" would expose those titles to "substantial monetary damages." In his letter, Lavely wrote that the topless photos were taken by paparazzo Peter Brandt, who allegedly used a "powerful telephoto lens" from...

November 28, 2005 8:01 a.m. EST William J Brown - All Headline News Staff (BANG) Paris Hilton reportedly broke down and sobbed after animal authorities took away her pet monkey. The sexy socialite is said to have been devastated after Los Angeles officials ordered her to hand over the primate - named Baby Luv - because it's classified as an illegal pet. The blonde heiress, who bought the monkey during a trip to Las Vegas last summer, allegedly refused to part with her hairy friend so authorities went to her home to confiscate the animal. An insider is quoted in...

John Edwards, the former Democratic nominee for vice president, has made a courageous admission: "I was wrong," he said, and made "a mistake" in voting for the war in Iraq when he was a senator from North Carolina. Edwards wrote his mea culpa in an op-ed article for The Washington Post on Nov. 13. Now, let's hear it from those other Democrats and, possibly, brave Republicans who are willing to admit that they, too, had been misled into war. That may be asking too much of members of the Democratic Leadership Council, who often toss in their political lot with...

MADONNA has urged US citizens to turn against President GEORGE W BUSH over his failure to provide adequate aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in August (05). The HUNG UP singer was "devastated" when MICHAEL MOORE's documentary FAHRENHEIT 9/11 didn't stop Bush winning the 2004 election and insists America must now realise his incompetence. She says, "I was just frigging devastated, It was a real sad day. I don't get how people can have all these facts and still turn away from them. "9/11 was too ambiguous. You couldn't prove how the government was somehow in on the deal....

Baby Luv is the name of the 'beast' that did something that Nicole Ritchie would have definitely preferred to do: has attacked Paris Hilton. Problem is monkey Baby Luv is her pet, not her enemy. But still, it bit Paris and clawed her face. The event occurred while the two were gone shopping for lingerie. As girls do. Maybe the monkey was jealous on the things Paris was buying, or perhaps the socialite didn't want to shop for Baby Luv some bikinis as well. The reasons for the attack are shrouded in mystery.

By Heidi Fleiss as told to Nadya Labi TEN YEARS AGO, I WAS ARRESTED AT MY HOME IN BEVERLY HILLS for pandering, which the dictionary defines as acting as "a go-between in sexual intrigue." In other words, I was a madam. After a jury convicted me of three counts of pandering, the verdicts were thrown out, but the government didn't give up. It made me the Al Capone of prostitution. I spent three years in a federal penitentiary in Dublin, Calif., for conspiracy, tax evasion, and money laundering. But it was the sex that got me in trouble. When I...

NEW YORK -- Nicole Richie wouldn't say no if she went back in time and had a second chance to try heroin. Richie told Jane magazine that given a second chance, she "probably would" try heroin again because that's her personality. After going to rehab, Richie is fine now and is planning her wedding to Adam Goldstein. The former "Simple Life" star said she wants five kids: three girls and twin boys. Meanwhile, it happens to just about every daughter. At some point, your dad says something about you that makes you wonder if he even knows you. Nicole Richie...

<p>I just found this site and I'm chomping at the bit. There are these folks, you might have heard of them, that are fiscally conservative, believe in "little government" and individual rights. Call 'em Libertarians, Jefferson Republicans, bleah bleah bleah. They also believe...oh, shudder!....that govt. should NOT be in the biz of regulating morality...Don't tread on me...Do what you want; just don't hurt anyone else's chance of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...All that antiquated jazz...leave foreign folks be..etc. etc..</p>

First her fiance, now her TV show--it's been a rough patch for Paris Hilton. Just two weeks after the celebutante confirmed the end of her engagement to Paris Latsis, Fox has announced that it has deep-sixed the show that made her famous, The Simple Life. In a statement Wednesday, the network blamed a stacked schedule as the reason for the cancellation. "At Fox we have a unique midseason situation," the network said. "In January we have to accommodate 2 1/2 hours of new programming with 24 and American Idol. We also have completed episodes of both scripted and unscripted series...