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Grey’s Anatomy’s season six finale might be labeled as the show’s most intense finale so far. With a shooter on the loose in the hospital, viewers sat on the edge of their seats for two full hours waiting to see who would live and who would die.
Rima Fakih, 24 won the title as Miss USA on Sunday, making her the first Arab Miss USA. The news instantly broke on various news outlets and social media sites making this news the most popular of them all.
However before anyone could celebrate Fakih’s great achievement as we soon discovered she was a former stripper. Sounds like there might be a trend with the beauty contestants of the Miss Universe Organization.
The new Miss USA is a former stripper should not be a surprise to anyone especially if we look at past title holders of the Miss Universe organization, the former Miss USA Tara Connor and former Miss LasVegas Katie Reese. E Channel broke the news on Monday as they tweeted on Twitter.
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#Pakistan Facebook YouTube Ban -Twitpic posted by @ Pakblogger: "Islamic parties/organizations/groups united and on roads to get Facebook banned in Pakistan"
Pakistan blocked access to Facebook on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 following the highly controversial “Everybody draw Muhammad Day” Facebook group, and one day later YouTube is shut down as well.
The blanket ban on social media comes a day before the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, May 20, 2010, which is being celebrated today on Facebook.
Twitter is going abuzz with a multitude of opinions over the controversial debate between religion and freedom of speech.
Australian filmmaker, Justin Sisely will be starting bidding wars in Las Vegas to auction off young men and women’s virginity in a reality television show, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
The sex auction is being filmed for a documentary and the virgins will each be paid a sum of $20,000 plus 90 percent of the auction price, according to the Huffington Post.
Does humanity come this cheap these days? Twitterverse chimes in.
Hazel Soares,94, is a college graduate after many years of what she refers to as a “busy life.” Soares, believed to be the second oldest college graduate, received a degree in art history from Mills College in Oakland, California on Saturday.
On Thursday, Michelle Obama’s nude dress color instantly attracted controversy that surrounded white supremacy. Is it just bad press on First Lady Obama or should reporters research their fashion phrases?
Apparently the aggrerator blog site dimewars believed the Associate Press needed to rephrase their choice of words when it came to the nude dress color. They quoted one newspaper reporter in saying “Who’s flesh? Not hers.”
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The use of the word nude color and flesh tone provoked many fashionsta’s to feel that the description was racists and politically incorrect.
First Lady Obama who wore the controversial colored dress to a white house state dinner probably never realized that she would cause another fashion outrage with yet another garment she stylishly adorned.
Tweeters on twitter also questioned the use of the word nude and if the term was appropriate to describe the flesh of someone’s color.
This past week Rapper T.I. did his first Interview on CNN’s Larry King Live since being released from jail in December 2009. Many of T.I’s fans tuned into see if jail changed T.I. and what he has in store for the future.
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In 2009, T.I was sentenced to serve a year and a day in jail, this comes after officials discovered that he had given his body guard $12,000 to purchase illegal firearms. CNN reported that the rapper was not allowed to have firearms because of a 1998 felony convictions of drug possession.
This won’t be the first time we see rap artists go to jail and serve time, but do many learn lessons from the crime committed and the time served? In the last decade we have seen very popular rappers go to jail, Lil’Kim, Gucci Mane, Foxy Brown and Lil Wayne who was recently incarcerated for weapon possession.
Bombox which is an aggrerator site with rss feeds on hip-hop news and r&b news, also included T.I. on the list of 10 Rappers Jailed. The Larry King interview with the rapper gave many fans a surreal look into his life and some very emotional periods he faced.
Many fans tweeted about the rapper’s future as well commended him on how poised and intelligent he appeared as he interviewed with Larry King.
The Cubs finally end their four-game losing streak as they slid by the Florida Marlins 4-3 at Wrigley Field Wednesday afternoon. Even with the victory the Cubs are barely clinging to fourth place in the National League Central Division as the St. Louis Cardinals continue to pull away from the pack.
Birth Control Pill shared its 50th anniversary with Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 9, 2010.
The Pill that redefined family planning has over time developed into a miracle pill serving a multitude of functions, including treating acne, improving mood and skipping periods.
Ironically, the family planning Pill has also been blamed for eroding the institution of marriage, and in turn family.
As reported by the Telegraph, Raquel Welch, 69, who was voted as the “most desired female of the 1970s” by the readers of Playboy magazine recently accused the Pill for social anarchy and a decline in marriages.
The 2010 Chicago Cubs continue to be a mystery to all parties involved, the National League Central Division, their fans and the players themselves. With the six weeks of baseball in the books, the Cubs have endured more peaks and valleys than a celebrity marriage.
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