Archive for January, 2011
The 2011 Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on Sunday – January 30 – at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. ‘The King’s Speech’ came out as the big winner of the night with two awards. The film picked up Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Performance by a Male […]
January 31st, 2011 | Posted in Celebrities | Comments Off
According to the AP, funnyman David Frye has died at the age of 77 on Monday (January 24th, 2011) in Las Vegas. He died of a cardiac arrest at his home. He was a comic and did impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and other political figures propelled to popularity in the 1960′s and […]
January 30th, 2011 | Posted in Celebrities | Comments Off
Tampa, Florida. Today, a mother who shot and killed her own two children is already imprisoned in Florida. According to police spokesperson Laura McElroy – Julie Powers Schenecker shot her son Beau Powers Schenecker inside the car, while she drove him going to his soccer practice. The son was answering back to his mother while […]
January 29th, 2011 | Posted in Tragedy | Comments Off
In the span of a week, NASA is observing its three darkest moments in spaceflight. Including today’s 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Seven astronauts died January 28, 1986, when Challenger was destroyed just after liftoff. It was NASA’s first in-flight calamity, and it dealt an especially severe blow to the millions of […]
January 28th, 2011 | Posted in Tragedy | Comments Off
After some reported delays earlier this morning, ‘Metro North Railroad’s Hudson’ and ‘Harlem Lines’ will be operating on a Saturday schedule on Thursday, Janyary 27. Those needing the new ‘New Haven Line’ are out of luck for the time being as service is currently suspended because of heavy snowall in the area. The MTA warns […]
January 27th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Insisting the Tea Party is a ‘force for good’ Rep. Michele Bachmann blasted health care reform, called for deep budget cuts and blamed President Obama for failing to find solutions to help the struggling economy. The response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, was on behalf of the tea party movement, and followed […]
January 26th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Seems it is true! The internet is buzzing about the OCC foreclosure… and seems it is true! According to surroundedme.com, the lender who had financed the Orange County Choppers’ new headquarters located in Newburgh has filed a foreclosure action against the builder of custom motorcycles.. Why? They apparently missed July 2010 mortgage payments. Orange County […]
January 25th, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Fitness icon Jack LaLanne, a man who pushed Americans to pump iron, eat better and lose weight for more than 70 years, has died. He was 96. The so-called ‘godfather of fitness’ died of respiratory failure from pneumonia in his Morro Bay, Calif. home Sunday afternoon, his longtime agent Rick Hersh told The Associated Press. […]
January 24th, 2011 | Posted in Celebrities | Comments Off
On a night when Mark Hominick punched his way to a title shot, Melvin Guillard made sure he wasn’t overlooked by putting on a scintillating performance against Evan Dunham on Saturday at UFC Fight for the Troops 2 at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Hominick needed to defeat George Roop on the nationally televised Ultimate […]
January 23rd, 2011 | Posted in Sports | Comments Off
Broadcast blowhard Keith Olbermann’s countdown has finally come to an end. The liberal lip of MSNBC was unceremoniously dumped by the peacock network last night in a major shakeup that set tongues wagging across the broadcast world. Olbermann, in the middle of a four-year $30 million contract reportedly set to last until 2012, announced that […]
January 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Politics | Comments Off