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Sandra Bullock Finalizes Divorce From Jesse James

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Papers were filed in Texas formally ending the five-year marriage. By Jocelyn Vena Jesse James and Sandra Bullock Photo: Jordan Strauss/ WireImage After her split from Jesse James earlier this year, Sandra Bullock has finalized her divorce from her husband of nearly five years. According to UsMagazine.com , the pair filed sealed papers last week in Texas to finalize their divorce. The papers were filed in Travis County Court in Austin, where Bullock currently lives and where James reportedly plans to move to be near his ex-wife, who is close with his three children from previous relationships. TMZ reports that in original documents filed on April 23, Bullock claimed that her marriage to James “has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities.” She can now continue adopting her son, Louis, as a single parent. The news comes hot on the heels of several high-profile appearances by Bullock. She appeared at Spike’s Guys Choice Awards , the MTV Movie Awards and just last week at the star-studded Nashville Rising benefit show. Back in April when Bullock sat down with People to talk about her split from James, she said that she was now focused on raising her son and that her relationship with her future ex-husband is “a different one. A bittersweet one. One of new understanding. One of support for his recovery. One that changed my life.” Though she is adopting Louis as a single parent, she said she hopes that he can still have a great dad like she’s seen James be to his own three kids. “I really don’t know how our paths will intersect in the future,” she said. Related Photos The Evolution Of: Sandra Bullock

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Sandra Bullock/Jesse James Divorce Final

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Filed under: Jesse James , Sandra Bullock , Celebrity Justice TMZ has learned Sandra Bullock ‘s divorce from Jesse James is now a done deal. Sources tell TMZ both Sandra and Jesse signed the final documents last week. Sealed documents have filed with the clerk’s office in Travis County, Texas

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Man arrested for taking picture of cop in his own home

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A Texas man has sued his local police department, saying he was arrested for taking a picture of a police officer when the officer entered his home without permission. According to the lawsuit (PDF), Sgt. Justin Alderete of the Sealy, Texas, police department arrived at the home of Francisco Olvera in October, 2009, apparently responding to a noise complaint. Olvera had been playing music on his computer speakers while working outside on his patio. The sergeant asked Olvera for identification. When Olvera went inside his home to grab his ID, Sgt. Alderete followed him inside. Believing the officer didn't have a right to enter his home without permission, Olvera picked up his cellphone and took a photo of the officer. At that point, the lawsuit states, Alderete accused Olvera of “illegal photography” and arrested him. Olvera was charged with “loud music” and “public intoxication” — the officer had seen a beer can on the kitchen table, the lawsuit asserts. In January, Olvera was acquitted of all charges. e lawsuit names Alderete, Sealy Police Chief John Tollett, and the city of Sealy. It alleges that Olvera was the victim of “unlawful search and seizure,” “unlawful arrest” and “malicious prosecution.” The lawsuit further alleges that Alderete made a racist remark against Olvera during booking. “Do you know what I tell Mexicans when they get loud?” the lawsuit alleges Alderete asked. “No chinges con migo pinche culero.” (“Don't be f**king with me,” another officer translated,) Olvera's lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for his legal costs in the criminal trial; for “emotional distress” and punitive damages “as allowed by law.” added by: im1mjrpain

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Democracy, Yecch: Does NPR Really Want to Slam the ‘Tyranny of Constituency’?

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit mocked the curious turn of phrase National Public Radio Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving used on his Watching Washington blog to defend a recent NPR survey showing dire straits for the Democrats in the fall. Beneath the surface, the NPR poll was all about the tyranny of constituency , the down and dirty of serving the folks back home. House districts (and states’ legislative districts) tend to be intricately drawn demarcations of the folks back home… That’s why the NPR survey, done by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and Republican counterpart Glen Bolger, focused on the 60 Democratic districts likeliest to be lost to Republicans this fall. The NPR survey also included ten marginal GOP districts that Obama won in 2008. What they found in these 70 districts was that respondents favored Republicans over Democrats, 49 to 41, and President Obama drew 40 percent approval and 54 percent disapproval. No wonder NPR-loving liberals were unhappy. Elving’s “tyranny” phrase was a reflection on Joe Barton’s apology to BP:   The NPR poll shows why individual House members wind up being more loyal to their own jigsaw piece of the national puzzle than to the national puzzle itself. Only their own micro-constituency can vote for them (or against them). And at the same time, the pressure on an individual member from a dominant industry or other interest within the district can be irresistible. That’s why Barton, the Texas Republican, thinks not only about suburban Dallas-Fort Worth voters but also about the oil and gas industry, which made him the No. 1 recipient of its campaign fund contributions in the House.  His wider message sounded more Gergenesque: that the “tyranny” of constituency prevents compromise, just as partisan gerrymandering has made elections less competitive and more ideologically polarized.  But the “tyranny” that most offends conservatives is that NPR can take our tax dollars and please their “constituency” of congressional liberals with an aggressive anti-conservative bias (right down to the website’s cartoons ).

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Creationists Lose Again

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

http://scottklarr.com/media/atheism/creationistPosterFull.png Some good news from Texas! Yeehaw! The Institute for Creation Research — one of the biggest nonsense-peddlers in the 6000 year history of the world — was handed a nice defeat this week. That link to the National Center for Science Education (the good guys) has all the info you need, but to summarize: the ICR moved from California to Texas. In the previous state, for reasons beyond understanding, they were able to grant Master’s degrees in their graduate school. But Texas didn’t recognize their accreditation, so they filed to get it approved. Not so surprisingly, scientists and educators rose in protest, and in 2008 the Texas Higher Education Coordination Board — the organization that grants accreditation — denied the ICR. The creationists appealed. In the meantime, they also tried to extend their ability to grant degrees temporarily while the lawsuit continued. What happened this week is that the extension as denied. And I mean denied. Check out what the court said: It appears that although the Court has twice required Plaintiff [the ICR] to re-plead and set forth a short and plain statement of the relief requested, Plaintiff is entirely unable to file a complaint which is not overly verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering, and full of irrelevant information. That’s not surprising, as that’s the only kind of information the ICR is capable of producing. Not to mention wrong. See the Related Posts links below for lots more on the ICR’s recent follies. As far as I can tell, this defeat means that the ICR is still seeking accreditation, but until and unless it does, it cannot grant degrees in Texas. added by: mindcruzer

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Why Is the Democratic-Media Complex Hiding this Photo?

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Texas Democrat Kesha Rogers campaigned for for Congress with Obama-Hitler signs. The signs even have the tag- “Paid For By Kesha Rogers for Congress” – on the bottom. But, the state-run media won’t run this photo. They won’t publish this photo because it doesn’t fit their narrative. Remember last year when the Democratic-Media Complex reported that the tea party protesters were waving Obama-Hitler signs? What the media purposely omitted from their stories was the fact that the protesters waving these astroturfed Obama-Hitler signs were radical left-wing extremists. They were radical activists from the LaRouche organization. But, this didn’t fit the state-run media’s narrative that tea party activists were radicals and racists so they omitted this from their reports. Earlier this year, the corrupt media and prominent democrats continued to smear tea party activists by reporting that the conservative protesters on Capitol Hill harassed Black Caucus members, called them the n-word, and spit at these Dems as they paraded though the tea party crowd on their way to ram nationalized health care through Congress. This was a lie. It never happened, as video later revealed. However, the corrupt national media never retracted their story nor did they apologize despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that proved their racist accusations were a complete fiction. That’s why the media won’t show this photo of Democrat Kesha Rogers. It doesn’t fit their narrative. Kesha won her primary last week. This Texas Democrat wants to impeach Obama and “take our troops out of the war zone and put them into space.” This makes about as much sense as the Obama-Pelosi “spend your way to wealth” plan, only not as dangerous. Don’t look for the media to give this Texas loon much attention in the months ahead. http://beforeitsnews.com/news/84/614/Why_Is_the_Democratic-Media_Complex_Hiding_… added by: TomTucker

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Rush Limbaugh Bashes GOP for not standing behind Barton

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

(CNN) – Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh is taking aim at Republican leaders for rushing to demand Texas Rep. Joe Barton retract his controversial apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward during last week's congressional hearing. On his radio show Monday, Limbaugh suggested the GOP leadership likely agrees with Barton's sentiments, but are driven by recent national polls which suggest the majority of Americans support President Barack Obama's push for BP to set aside $20 billion for future liability claims. “It was a shakedown pure and simple,” said Limbaugh, echoing the words for which Barton later apologized. “And somebody had the audacity to call it what it was and now everybody's running for the hills.” “All you have to do is look at the polling,” Limbaugh continued. “We're talking about Republicans inside the beltway. All you have to do is look at the polling data and media coverage and find out what they are going to do.” Barton, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, quickly faced fire from both the right and the left after apologizing to Hayward during the BP chairman's appearance before his committee Thursday. Hours later – amid threats he would lose his leadership post – Barton retracted the comments. “Let's just slither away under the rock here,” Limbaugh said, mocking the Republicans' approach to Barton. “We'll let Joe Barton get eaten by the Democrat lizards on this to protect ourselves. This is politics and this is the reason why true believers have such a problem with politics. It's just that simple and no more complicated than that.” added by: TimALoftis

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The Jerseyfication of Reality TV

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

With “Jerseylicious,” “Jersey Couture,” “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” and “Jersey Shore” all on TV, the “armpit of America” is now a fertile womb of reality television talent. infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania . added by: Conor_Knighton

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Business as usual? BP Deepwater Horizon partner Anadarko to pay out $45 million dividend

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Who cares about a l'il ole disaster, pardner?? Not James Hackett, CEO of Anadarko Petroleum of Texas, BP's second major partner in the ill-fated Macondo oil well that is currently spewing thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico with no end in sight. Undaunted by BP's decision to forego its scheduled $7.8 billion payout to that company's shareholders, Anadarko intends to “share the wealth” despite the tragic losses and devastation being incurred by Gulf coast residents and wildlife. Oh yes, Mr. Hackett also sits on the board of Halliburton, the company that poured the cement for the doomed rig hours before the April 20th explosion. http://looncanada.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/loon-extra-co-owner-of-deepwater-hori… added by: foolforacigarette

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Texas Legislators, Still Hustlin’: Houston To The Big 12?

Posted on June 17, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Texan politicians of various stripes are legendary for their ability to shape the landscape of college football. (The most notorious example of this is then-governor Ann Richards’ lobbying for the inclusion of Baylor in the Big 12.) It should come as no real surprise, then, that a large-ish group of legislators isn’t through turning the conference this way and that, and their desires are fixed on Houston : State Reps. Garnet Coleman and Bill Callegari, both from the Houston area, co-wrote a letter Thursday asking Big 12 officials to consider adding the university to the conference. “UH is the third largest university in Texas, and is on track to rank among the top research universities in this state,” the letter says. “Despite UH’s local and statewide prominence, the university does not belong to a strong BCS conference such as the Big 12. The Cougars, the city of Houston, and the state of Texas deserve better.” It’s frankly not a bad idea. Houston’s a sizable TV market (though likely already saturated thanks to the sprawling reach of the Texas alumni base), and their football team, ranked first in the nation in total, passing, and scoring offense in 2009, would do the popular conception of defense-free Big 12 football proud. The move would also be a step towards healing a semantic rift. Texans are a pragmatic people, and the thought of them continuing to field a 10-team conference named “12” just doesn’t sit well. (Leave the imaginary numbers for those fancy lads up north.)

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