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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 1970′s.
He was a popular guest on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ and ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.’
Frye’s sister, Ruth Welch of Boynton Beach, Fla., said he was a genius born comic who wrote his own material and began to imitate the neighbors in Brooklyn, NY, where they grew up.

David Frye.

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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 inside the car.
After which, the said mother returned back home and she also shot her eldest daughter Calyx Powers Schenecker in the head while she was using a computer inside the room.
Mrs. Schenecker is the wife of Col. Parker Schenecker.
The suspect mother have announced – that she had been complaining about her children for a long time because she was being answered back.

Julie Powers Schenecker.

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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 teachers and students watching on TV to see Christa McAuliffe, a civilian high school teacher from New Hampshire, become NASA’s first Teacher in Space.
Former astronauts and the widow of Challenger STS-51L mission commander Francis ‘Dick’ Scobee will speak today (January 28) at a memorial service at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
That commemoration comes a day after the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 1 disaster, when three astronauts died in a fire that broke out inside their module during a ground test roughly a month before launch. And February 1 will be the eighth anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia accident, in which seven astronauts died when the shuttle broke up in the skies over Texas during the return from orbit.

Challenger Shuttle Disaster.

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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 all passengers to expect delays and to listen for station announcements.
Additionally, there are delays county-wie for Bee Line and Paratransit buses. Routes 10, 18, 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 64, 65, 66 (trips to the Dobbs Ferry Railroad Station), 70, 71, and all Shuttles are not currently operating.

Metro North.

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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 the Republican Party’s official response on Tuesday night.
The Minnesota Republican, who’s rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2012, said there was an ‘unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt’ during the President’s first two years in the White House.
Bachmann’s remarks echoed many of the GOP’s policy points – like reducing debt and repealing health care reform. But it also displayed some Tea Party hallmarks – like a debunked myth about the health care reform package, and a rather strange reference to Iwo Jima, complete with photos.
“These six young men raising the flag came to symbolize all of America coming together to beat back a totalitarian aggressor” – said Bachmann, who was armed with charts during speech. “Our current debt crisis we face today is different, but we still need all of us to pull together. But we can do this.”

Michele Bachmann.

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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 Choppers has two mortgages through GE Commercial Finance Business Property Corporation, one for $11 million and one for $1,5 million.
The foreclosure action claims that the Choppers missed mortgage payments of approximately $96.400 and $14.000 due on July 1.
Yikes!!! Why did they miss the payments?
According to the website we said above, The company stopped making mortgage payments in order to put pressure on the lender to modify the terms of the loans, according to Choppers’ lawyer Richard Mahon. Mahon said that when the headquarters was built in 2007, it was valued at about $12 million. Because of the economic downturn, the building is now worth between $7 million and $8 million, he estimated.

Orange County Chopper.

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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.
LaLanne was a fitness pioneer, opening the first of his many exercise studios in 1936. He focused on weight-training at a time when the idea of pumping iron was strictly taboo, especially for women.
“You have to understand that it was absolutely forbidden in those days for athletes to use weights. It just wasn’t done. We had athletes who used to sneak into the studio to work out” – he once said.
Athletic trainers believed bulking up would slow athletes down and women were supposed to look curvy and feminine, not athletic and toned.
“Back then, women weren’t supposed to use weights. I guess I was a pioneer” – LaLanne said.

Jack LaLanne.

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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 Fighting Championship card Saturday in order to earn a shot at the featherweight title – currently held by Jose Aldo, at UFC 129 in April.
Hominick came through with a dominant performance, pummeling George Roop and stopping him at 1:28 of the first round.
But two fights later, Guillard edged himself into lightweight title contention with arguably the best performance of his career, a first-round stoppage of the highly regarded Dunham.
Guillard knocked Dunham down with a big right hand behind a jab, then finished him with a series of knees while Dunham was helpless against the cage. Referee Mario Yamasaki jumped in to halt the carnage at 2:58 of the first.

Melvin Guillard.

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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 last night’s edition of his prime-time ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann,’ would be his last.
Sources said network brass basically paid the pontificating pundit to scram by working out an agreement in which he would give up his show and continue to be paid. The garrulous gasbag will likely also have to stay off the air at least until fall under the agreement.
Last night, the unemployed Uberdork – who was suspended from the network in November for making political contributions – bid his farewell to fans in a long-winded segment at the end of his show, touting his program as a progressive platform that he felt spoke truth to power.

Keith Olbermann.

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Patricia Krenwinkel, who joined Charles Manson’s clan in a string of grisly killings more than 40 years ago, was denied parole Thursday.
Krenwinkel (63) was convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder for her role in the Tate-LaBianca murders that terrorized Los Angeles in 1969.
Among the victims was actress Sharon Tate, who was married to director Roman Polanski. Tate was stabbed 16 times and hanged. She was seven months pregnant.
The parole hearing was held at the women’s state prison in Corona (where Krenwinkel is serving a life sentence). It was Krenwinkel’s 13th appearance before the Board of Parole Hearings.
She will be up for her next parole review in seven years (according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation).

Patricia Krenwinkel.

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