Turkey, Russia and their respective allies have entered a war of words about the downing of a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border – raising tensions in a region struggling to cope with the ongoing Syrian conflict. The Russian Sukhoi Su-24 warplane was shot down for violating Turkish airspace on Tuesday morning, Turkish officials said, angering Russia#39;s President Vladimir Putin, who likened the incident to being “stabbed in the back”. The plane crashed in Syrian territory in Lata
Jim Bob Duggar has a message for all his fellow fathers out there, though said message may be targeted toward one struggling dad in particular. Is he sending a thinly-veiled message to Josh Duggar, his first-born son who is currently toiling away in a Christian sex rehab labor camp? No one knows with certainty. But when the patriarch pens an open letter on the family website, urging dads to become the “coach of your home”? It sure as crap reads like that’s his intended audience. Jim Bob begins by encouraging fathers to be “spiritual leaders” by sharing a very personal story of the time his wife, Michelle, suffered a miscarriage. Going through that while she was on birth control, he says, shaped their views on children (and clearly, they take those views seriously). “We had been rejecting His gifts,” Jim Bob wrote . “We prayed and asked God to forgive us and we gave Him this area of our lives.” “We said, ‘Lord, help us to love children the way that you love children,’ and Lord, we want to receive each one as a gift from you.'” Jim Bob says that in order to be a leader, it’s urgent that fathers ask forgiveness from Jesus, their significant other and children. He also suggested that dads remove all “books, magazines, television or Internet that have worldly or sensual content” from the home. View Slideshow: 11 Things BANNED in the Duggar Family To protect one’s family, this is crucial, he advises: “Replace them with good things, [such as] wholesome music, biographies of great Christians, good old-fashioned family fun and games.” This open letter comes just days after we learned that some members of the Duggar family have visiting and encouraging Josh in rehab . It’s not the first time we’ve heard the Duggars hate on worldly or sensual content , nor is it at all surprising that they would do just that. The timing is curious, though, amid conflicting reports regarding the state of Josh’s fractured marriage to the long-suffering Anna Duggar. Having admitted an online porn addiction and being “unfaithful” to Anna earlier this summer, Josh has been on thin ice to say the least. Still, he’s not giving up with out a fight, and some sources say he’s pushing Anna to have another baby to help save the marriage (really). Anna Duggar: Heartbroken Over Josh in New Special On the flip side, others speculate that Anna is finally leaving Josh after porn star Danica Dillon sued him for giving her rough-sex-induced PTSD. Meanwhile, Anna is breaking her silence. “It was heartbreaking to hear, what had happened,” an emotional Anna, 27, said in a promo for TLC’s Jill and Jessa: Counting On released Friday. At this point, it remains unclear exactly what Anna is planning, and even where Josh is. Rumors suggest he may have bailed on rehab months early. A plane carrying Jim Bob and two of his sons was spotted Friday at an airport in Rockford, Ill., near the facility where Josh is (or was) being treated. Insiders say the plane was on the ground for several hours, before taking back off to Springdale, Arkansas, where the Duggar family resides. The plot thickens. View Slideshow: 13 Reasons Why Anna Duggar Should Leave Josh NOW
Missy Elliott is being honored for her amazing music and influence within popular culture. Billboard is honoring the raptress with their Innovator’s Award at the…
Middle Schoolers Murder Woman, Take Joyride With Her Lifeless Body Two Missouri teens, age 13 and 14, allegedly attacked a woman while she was vacuuming her car, brutally stabbing her multiple times in the face, neck and hands until she died. The two middle-schoolers then took her car, going on a gruesome joyride with her lifeless body propped up in the front seat with her feet on the dashboard. According to NYDN , 43-year-old Tanya Chamberlain visited the local car wash on Nov. 1 to clean out the inside of her vehicle. There is no footage of the crime itself, however surveillance video shows the young boys exiting Quick Clean Car Wash, each wearing very distinctive hoodies. The teens are also seen getting into the vehicle, with Chamberlain in the front seat, at 1:57 a.m. — a full 40 minutes after she is first seen on camera vacuuming her car. According to documents obtained by KCTV5, police pulled over the vehicle about 20 minutes later for swerving in and out of lanes in what appeared to be a case of intoxicated driving. They boys pulled over and jumped out of the vehicle, running out of police sight after a brief foot chase. The two boys showed up for school the day after the murder, wearing the exact same sweatshirts seen on the surveillance footage that day. What a senseless crime and a crazy story! What would make these two young kids decide to kill someone just to ride around in her car for a few minutes — and how did they end up wearing the exact same outfits to school the next day?? One would think their shirts would be intensely blood-stained after a crime like that. The whole story is just tragic and strange… YouTube
From Apple to North to Spurgeon and many, many others compiled here, celebrities sure pick out some seriously hilarious names for their kids. Not all of them, obvi. But in Hollywood, there sure as heck are a disproportionate percentage of little kid names that are straight up ridic. Check out the 25 most absurd ones given by the most absurd people. 1. North West North West. The spawn of Kimye being named after a direction may be the dumbest thing in human history. At the same time, if she doesn’t grow up to have a signature fragrance called North by North West, this is not a planet we wanna be living on. 2. Kyd Yes, Kyd. David Duchovny mailed that one in worse than his alleged acting on Californication. 3. Kal-El Cage Nicolas Cage named one of his kids Kal-El, a fact not related to him being wasted out of his mind in this mug shot … although that could explain a lot of things. 4. Spurgeon Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald’s baby son Spurgeon is named after Charles Spurgeon, an influential Baptist preacher from the 19th Century. It also is the subject of an awesome page on Urban Dictionary, and will probably make lil’ Spurge glad he’s home schooled later in life. 5. Reign Aston Disick Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick went relatively conventional with their first two children Mason and Penelope. For the third, however, they opted for a name fit for a Lord: REIGN Aston Disick. If only his dad weren’t the deadbeat Lord of six different rehab centers. 6. Royalty Also going the regal route (and the unmarried one): Chris Brown has a baby with a model named Nia Amey. Her name is Royalty. Yes, #ROYALTY. View Slideshow
Despite uneven ratings and countless personnel changes over the years, E! network stalwart The Soup maintained a small but loyal following for an astonishing 21 seasons. Sadly, it was announced today that E! is pulling the plug on the low-budget reality show clip aggregator, and The Soup will ladle out its last serving of droll Kardashian-bashing on December 18. We imagine some of you are in mourning, and others in shock that the show was still on. It’s hard to overstate The Soup’s influence on other late night basic cable series, as TV personalities such as Daniel Tosh and Chris Hardwick (former host of the spinoff Web Soup) have admitted to borrowing the formats for their Comedy Central series straight from The Soup’s playbook. Despite the popularity of Millennial-friendly host Joel McHale (who co-starred on the critically-adored Community for much of his tenure on The Soup), the show’s ratings had been in steady decline, as the Internet began to offer countless options for reality-based snark. Beginning as Talk Soup in 1991, the show featured hosts Greg Kinnear, John Henson, Hal Sparks and Aisha Tyler before McHale began his 12-year run in 2004. “The Soup has delivered countless laughs and unforgettable episodes, and we are grateful to the talented team’s fearless wit and clever approach week after week,” said E! exec Jeff Olde in a statement. “Joel took the show to new heights for more than a decade, and his irreverent humor and unique brand of comedy as captured so perfectly on The Soup will be missed.” Here’s hoping Kim and Kanye make a cameo to laugh at themselves in the finale. Yeah, that’s probably not gonna happen… View Slideshow: 12 TV Shows That Should Be Canceled Like Now
The Internet Vs. Cris Carter Hall of Famer Cris Carter added another “L” to his slowly growing collection when he tried (and failed miserably) to explain dabbing “bapping” on national TV in a hilariously un-cool moment that sparked endless Twitter hilarity. Hit the flip for the must-see Cris Carter roasting.
