RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL WILL HOST THE 2016 OLYMPICS :D
:D :D :D :D :DThis is going to be waaaaay more fun than Chicago would have been. I’m excited :D
‘I lied about tattoo blunder because my father was furious’
A teenage girl who claimed 56 stars were tattooed on her face as she slept when she’d only asked for three has admitted she was awake the whole time - and lied because her father was ‘furious’.
caro:
This is a major story that should be getting more attention than it is. I’ve been watching the Today Show for an hour now and nothing has been said about it. I know Today is not America’s #1 source for breaking news, but such a story involving two innocents put in the middle of a political standoff should carry the morning’s headline and discussion- not national BFF day, the $232 million lottery winner, or Susan Boyle’s breakdown. I’m disappointed.
I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.
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Barack Obama in Cairo (via NYT) (via caro) |
Heidi and Spencer have followed through on their threat — they have quit the NBC reality show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!”
The eldest son, Jong Nam, 38, was considered the favorite to succeed his father until he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport in 2001. He reportedly told Japanese officials he wanted to visit Tokyo’s Disney resort.
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| — | N. Korea’s Kim taps 26-year-old son as successor (via mikehudack) (via caro) |
aja:
Millvina Dean, believed to be the last survivor of the Titanic, has died at 97, her friends confirmed Sunday.
Dean was just an infant when the RMS Titanic — publicized as “practically unsinkable” and the largest passenger steamship at the time — struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, during its maiden voyage from Southampton in southern England to New York. The ship sank less than three hours later, killing more than 1,500 people.
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” Sotomayor said in that speech, describing how life experience can inform judicial opinions.
On Wednesday, Gingrich tweeted: “Imagine a judicial nominee said ‘my experience as a white man makes me better than a latina woman.’ new racism is no better than old racism.”
A major United States military post is shutting down for three days following a rash of suicides, the post announced.
Fort Campbell, home of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, is holding a three-day “suicide stand-down training event” starting Wednesday — the second one it has held this year, a post spokeswoman told CNN.
