Friday, July 8, 2011

Casey Anthony and Jerry Springer

S ANGELES (AP) — Jerry Springer is caught in the Casey Anthony media frenzy and, he says, for no reason Springer dismissed a report that his TV show is offering $1 million to Anthony and her parents as "100 percent fabricated." The host of "The Jerry Springer Show" said Friday his syndicated program does not feature "known people" such as Anthony.

The 25-year-old woman was acquitted Tuesday of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008. The trial and verdict drew Caylee in 2008.

The trial and verdict drew heavy media coverage, and a scramble for the first interview with Anthony is expected; the first interview with Anthony is expected Anthony is scheduled for release from jail in Florida on July 17.

She was convicted of four misdemeanor counts of lying to law enforcement but received credit for time- served and good behavior.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Cherokee Beliefs

It was in Cherokee Spirituality that certain beings who came down from the skies formed the world, the moon and the stars. It was believed that the world was created at the time of the new moon of autumn, when the fruits of the earth were ripe. autumn, when the fruits of the earth were ripe. In the Cherokee religion the sun appears to have been the pricipal object of worship. The Cherokee's would pray to the sun to bring abundant crops and good health. The Cherokee Indians held a festival called the new Moon Festival in which they paid hnor to the moon. The moon was is considered to be important in religion and at every New Moon Festiva special honor is paid to the moon.

Part 2, coming soon..
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

'Wieners' just seem to attract explosure.

s a bad week to have Weiner as your last name Especially when you're showing off body parts Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., admitted to posting a lewd photo of himself on Twitter.

After Weiner confirmed the obscene body part was his, several rank-and-file Dems called for his head Locally, we have our own "Weinergate." Vince Weiner, an FDLE special agent supervisor, admitted he drove his state SUV in 2008 to a nude beach in Tampa.

He was working in the Fort Myers district at the time. Are the hot dogs kin?"This (other Weiner) must have spawned your memory,'' Weiner 46, said Thursday. "If my name was Smith, would you ask me the same question?'' With that, our Weiner, who isn't related to the congressman and transferred to Key West a year ago, said he needed to consult a mouthpiece to see if he could continue talking He was right about the New York Weiner. I received a doozy of a letter last July.

Some anonymous mail is better than others. What gave it credibility is the sender called a week earlier and said the missive was en route.

Concerned Citizen of Sarasota sent letters to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Internal Affairs, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and me It said she and her hubby frequent Caliente Tampa, a world-class, luxury, clothing-optional resort, according to its website, which boasts "a captivating blend of solitude, exhilaration and sizzle that is ideal for the seasoned naturist and first-time nudist alike.' The tipster followed up with telephone calls, yet wished to remain anonymous. The woman wrote of spotting a white Ford Expedition at Caliente on June 21, 2008.

Upon closer inspection, she noticed police lights, police radio and a toll responder attached to the inside of the windshield There was no agency name, so she though
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Ways to Help Animals

Five Ways to Help Animals Through Twitter for your friends.

If you're looking to make a big impact for animals today, look no further than your tweets!

Twitter's been used as a powerfu way to spread information, communicate with corporations, and even support revolutions, so why not use it to spread the word about animal rights?


Whether you're a Twitter novice or a master of hashtags, the five steps below will help you speak out for animals and stay in touch with PETA.

1.  Follow PETA on Twitter   for up-to-the-minute news on animal rights issues, ways to get nvolved in our campaigns, and a healthy sprinkling of celeb updates! Be sure to retweet your favorite PETA tweets to get your followers involved too. RT away!

2. Join the conversation by using hashtags creatively. Include tags like #vegan and #PETA when talking about animals, and don't be afraid to jump on trending topics  and turn them into an animal rights discussion! #loveallanimals #makeadifference

3. Share a twitpic! Get creative by tweeting a photo of the yummy #vegan (see, what I did there?) sandwich you just made, that faux-leather jacket you love, or your trusty feline pal napping on your keyboard.

4. Get your friends involved in the fight for animal rights by sharing links to PETA's urgent alerts and campaigns  and asking your followers to take action and retweet.
5. Show your love for animals by creating a custom Twitter background that features your favorite animal or a PETA campaign logo. Get creative and make something compelling, just make sure you have the rights to whatever image you use! There's so much that you can do and share on Twitter every day to keep yourself and your followers updated on the latest in animal rights, so get started today and don't forget to share your accomplishments with @PETA!
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Millions of Facebook's users are kids youger than 13

Almost million active Facebook users are fibbing about their age — they’re younger than thirteen – five million are under ten years of age. This population of kids are violating Facebook’s own policy, meant to avoid federal lawss that apply to websites with young members. Those regulations require users be thirteen or older. members. Those regulations require users be thirteen or older. LA Times
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Friday, April 29, 2011

My older brother's new dog. She's so cute!

This is a pic of my brother Corey and his gf Frances holding their new puppy! <3
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Terms that's insulting to animals.

*** original article from the Furry News Network***

Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist.

Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.

The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.

It is edited by the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of “God’s sentient creatures”.  In its first editorial, the journal – jointly published by Prof Linzey’s centre and the University of Illinois in the US – condemns the use of terms such as ”critters” and “beasts”. Read more at Telegraph.co.uk Markos Markos Sinister is a Furry Web Developer.

His Fursona is a Dark Gray Were Wolf with blue eyes, dark browish/black hair with a white pentacle in his chest fur. He is most often seen wearing Victorian style clothing such as a waistcoat, cravat, and frock coat often.

Also the gay community in trouble with Nature & Animal lovers for calling each other "bears" as a term refering to fat (sometimes not so good looking), mostly old (middle age) gay men.

Those with the animal totem/spirit of the bear feels insulted by gay men using the name of the animal.

Afro-Native American and animal rights activist Ruben Pandy explains- " I'm pissed at these guys in the Gay community for insulting animals. I interviewed half of these pricks myself, these guys claims they respect the animal and nature, yet they use the word "bear" not realizing how insulting it is. They're fakes. If they REALLY respected the REAL bears of the animal world they wouldn't DARE to use the name of the species in such vain. But I am worried, these people will pay for it all when the great white bear spirit and mother earth will deal with them all. I have nothing against gay or overweight people but my animal spirit guide/ totem and Mother Earth COMES FIRST, I don't respect anyone who disrespects animals and Mother Earth. Which is why I have NO respect for these men in the gay community."

-- Artic Wolf's article on the Furry News Network http://furrynewsnetwork.com/




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Monday, April 25, 2011

Avril and Britney Spears on tour together?

Summer is so close we can almost taste it and some of our favorite taste it and some of our favorite musical masters—including musical masters—including Britney musical masters—including Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne (pictured)—are gearing up to hit the road for headlining tours.


Britney fans should get their credit cards ready for the Ticketmaster stake out. The singer announced pre-sale today, with general tickets available May 7"Today's the day! Femme Fatale Tour presales have started...


Who's coming to see @NickiMinaj & I this coming to see @NickiMinaj & I this summer? http://bit.ly/gaEyPK - summer? http://bit.ly/gaEyPK -Britney." As for Avril, she was busy jet-setting half way around the world to kick off her Black Star tour.


"Take off.... On our way to Beijing China to kick off #TheBlackStar Tour," she tweeted.

Britney." As for Avril, she was busy Britney." As for Avril, she was busy jet-setting half way around the jet-setting half way around the world to kick off her Black Star tour.

"Take off.... On our way to Beijing China to kick off #TheBlackStar Tour," she tweeted. world to kick off her Black Star tour.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Charlie Sheen Booed Off Stage!

Charlie Sheen Booed Off Stage in Disastrous Debut Show

Us Magazine - April 3, 2011 3:31 AM PDT
Story photo: Charlie Sheen Booed Off Stage in Disastrous Debut ShowRiccardo S. Savi/Getty ImagesUs Magazine
Losing.

Charlie Sheen's much-hyped, sold out "My Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour began with a bust at Detroit's Fox Theater on Saturday.
PHOTOS: His craziest controversies of all time
According to multiple reports, the 45-year-old star provoked boos, audience walk-outs and demands for refunds during his rambling stage show. (The spectacle featured an appearance by his live-in "goddesses," a Q&A session about Sheen's wild life, film clips featuring his dad Martin Sheen and Johnny Depp, and a live rap by Simon Rexx.)
PHOTOS: Epic star meltdowns
One disappointed audience member bellowed, "You suck!"
Sheen's retort: "Already got your f***ing money, dude."
After less than an hour, Sheen cut the extravaganza short; he left the stage for good, and the house lights were turned on.
PHOTOS: Hollywood's biggest bad boys
"I want my money back!" audience member Linda Fugate told the Associated Press after walking out of the show. Fugate paid $150 for a pair of tickets. "I was hoping for something," she said. "I didn't think it would be this bad."
Added fellow fan Rodney Gagnon: "I expected him to at least entertainment a little bit. It was just a bunch of ranting."
PHOTOS: See Charlie and other stars' mugshots
Inspired by Sheen's ouster from Two and a Half Men following an epic battle with the show's creators and the studio, the 20-city tour is scheduled for the rest of April.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Forced to Give up a Kidney??

Chinese man wakes up - minus his kidney

Courtesy Hu Jie
Hu Jie seen in a photo taken in Guangzhou, China in May 2010, months before his kidney was removed.

BEIJING – Until recently 26-year-old Hu Jie led a life similar to millions of other young Chinese migrant workers. With little formal education, he worked as a welder in the manufacturing center of Panyu, a city in China’s southern province of Guangdong. He made $400 a month.

But last October Hu became addicted to poker, gambling with friends, and soon lost almost $3,000. Under pressure from his creditors to pay back the high-interest debt, Hu came up with an idea of how he could get money quickly: sell his kidney.
The initial process was fairly easy: He searched online, found dozens of middlemen in China’s shady “organ transplant business” and decided to contact one of them who seemed trustworthy.

Later that month he met with a middleman in eastern Shandong province, more than 1,000 miles away from his home. In a hotel Hu saw not only the middleman, but also a few other young men who also desperately needed cash and were ready to sell their kidneys. They were each offered $6,000 for one kidney.


Hu passed an initial medical exam and his information was soon posted online for buyers to match.
But then he suddenly became seized by terror at the thought of losing an organ. So he ran away – back to Guangdong.
Not so fast
In the following months the middleman continued to call him and scold him for running away. Pressured by the middlemen’s constant calls and his own thirst for cash, Hu made up his mind to go to Shanxi province to meet the prospective buyer, a patient suffering from kidney failure, as well as another middleman.

The second middleman turned out to be a young man who had just sold his kidney two months earlier. During the days they spent together Hu saw him constantly moaning in pain. Terrified by seeing the horrendous aftermath, Hu says he told the middlemen he didn’t want to go through with the surgery.
Courtesy Hu Jie
The scar left on Hu Jie's left abdomen after his kidney was removed.
But it was too late. His unwillingness and protests were to no avail; he was being watched constantly by the middlemen.  When he tried to leave the grungy local hospital in Linfen, Shanxi province where the kidney recipient was staying, some of the middlemen’s henchmen were at the hospital gates and forced him into an operating room on Jan. 6, 2011.
When Hu Jie woke up from the anesthesia, everyone was gone except for a nurse. Also missing was his left kidney. All that was left behind was a long scar on his left abdomen and $4,000 in his bank account. (The middlemen stiffed him and took the additional $2,000 he was initially offered for the kidney).
He later learned that the patient had paid $47,000 for the transplant. And when he tried to contact the middlemen again, he found their cell phones turned off.

“It was my fault too, why did I go?” Hu said in an interview with NBC News. “I was still working on that morning and I was forced to the surgery room in the afternoon. I regretted and cried but I was weak."


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Chris Brown has a Pissy Fit!

Chris Brown's attempted image makeover may have hit the wall. Or, more specifically, the window. TMZ reports the comeback-aiming singer "exploded in rage" after an appearance on Tuesday's "Good Morning America," and ended up shattering a window in his fury.



The apparent reason for his so-called "violent outburst": He was asked about his 2009 assault on ex-girlfriend Rihanna.

Chris reportedly returned to his dressing room after his interview with Robin Roberts and proceeded to have a massive hissy fit. His yelling was loud enough and angry enough that the hair and makeup staff grew concerned and summoned security.

"That wasn't cool, man! That wasn't cool," Brown fumed, according to the New York Post, with a source adding, "He was ballistic. He was really mad. He was screaming and very upset."
Brown, says TMZ, was "out of control," and proceeded to smash a window in his dressing room, purportedly with a chair, sending glass fragments onto the busy street below.
Security arrived to find the singer had stripped off his shirt and left the building in a huff, despite being scheduled for another performance (this one for the website).

On his way out, Chris apparently had a stare-down with a "GMA" producer, but other show staffers jumped in to ensure the situation didn't escalate.
During the interview, Brown was clearly uncomfortable with Roberts' questions about Rihanna, and he kept trying to move the conversation back to his just-released album, the magnanimously titled "F.A.M.E. (Forgiving All My Enemies)."

"The restraining order that Rihanna had against you has been relaxed," broached Roberts. "Have you all seen each other or been around each other?"
Brown, who remains on probation after pleading guilty to felony assault (and proudly tweeted the certificate he received for completing his court-ordered domestic violence class), didn't seem to understand why this should be a topic of conversation.
"I mean, not really, it's not really a big deal to me now as far as that situation," he warily replied. "I think I'm past that in my life. I think today's the album day."

But Roberts, who sources say got the go-ahead from Chris before the interview to tackle "a few questions" on the Rihanna subject, gently circled back to it a minute later by pointing out the incident "was very serious."
Brown, looking agitated, reiterated, "This album is what I want to talk about and not something that happened two years ago."

That something, you'll recall, left Rihanna's face looking like this, and reportedly involved Brown attempting to force Rihanna out of his car, smashing her head against the passenger side window and punching her in the eye while threatening to kill her.

GMA confirms that Chris "stormed off" the set, and says the window destruction wasn't discovered until after he and his entourage had left the studio.

In a statement, ABC News explained, "As always, we ask questions that are relevant and newsworthy, and that's what we did in this interview with Mr. Brown."

"I'm so over people bringing this past s--t up!!!" Brown fumed in a quickly deleted tweet following his "GMA" appearance. "Yet we praise Charlie Sheen and other celebs for there bulls--t."

(C) Copyright 2011. Original artical from http://TMZ.com/

The Cause of Knut's Death.

Berlin zoo: Brain problems led to Knut's death

Michael Sohn  /  AP
FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2010 file photo, polar bear Knut stands behind his 'birthday cake' to celebrate his 4th birthday in the Zoo of Berlin, Germany. The Berlin zoo says a test performed on celebrity polar bear Knut indicate that "significant changes" in the animal's brain led to his sudden death last weekend. The zoo said Tuesday March 22, 2011 that initial results from the necropsy examination performed by an institute in the German capital did not show changes to any other organs. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
The Associated Press
updated 1 hour 16 minutes ago 2011-03-22T17:05:51
Brain problems apparently caused the shockingly early death of Knut, Germany's four-year-old celebrity polar bear, the Berlin Zoo said Tuesday.

Initial findings from a necropsy performed Monday by an institute in the German capital showed "significant changes to the brain, which can be viewed as a reason for the polar bear's sudden death," the zoo said in a statement.

The zoo didn't elaborate on the changes to the animal's brain, and officials could not immediately be reached for further comment.

Pathologists found no changes to any other organs, the zoo said, adding that it will take several days to produce a final result. Further planned tests include bacteriological and histological, or tissue, examinations.
Knut died Saturday afternoon in front of visitors at the zoo, turning around several times and then falling into the water in his enclosure. Polar bears usually live 15 to 20 years in the wild and even longer in captivity.
Knut, who was born in December 2006 at the Berlin zoo, rose to celebrity status as an irresistibly cute, fluffy cub.

Knut was rejected by his mother at birth — along with his twin brother, who only survived a couple of days. He attracted attention when his main caregiver, Thomas Doerflein, camped out at the zoo to give the button-eyed cub his bottle every two hours.

The bear went on to appear on magazine covers, in a film and on mountains of merchandise.
Doerflein, the zookeeper who raised him, died in 2008 of a heart attack.
The zoo now wants to have Knut stuffed and put on display at Berlin's Museum of Natural History, the German news agency DAPD reported.

It quoted a zoo spokeswoman as saying that the decision was made because Knut was a much-loved animal and officials wanted to make him available to science.






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              ~ REST IN PEACE, KNUT ~

          May you shall rest in peace and will be hounoured and always remembered by all of brothers
          and sisters of your species of all bears and even other creatures. <3

Monday, March 21, 2011

R.I.P. Knut The Polar Bear

This news has torn a hole through the hearts of all of us in the Ursine community in the animal/ anthro/ furry world.

 

Knut, Berlin's beloved polar bear, dies in his compound

‘He was by himself in his compound, he was in the water, and then he was dead,’ official says



Visitors watch polar bear cub Knut in the Berlin zoo, March 24, 2007. Knut, the polar bear who became a global celebrity as a cute cub, died in at the Berlin zoo March 19, 2011 at the age of four. Knut, the first polar bear born at the zoo for more than 30 years, was rejected by his mother and fed instead by his keeper Thomas Doerflein. Thousands of visitors came to watch keeper and cub playing together, and Knut's fame soon spread around the world. The cause of death was unknown and he will undergo an autopsy. (Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters) Back to slideshow navigation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R.I.P. KNUT. YOU'LL BE SURELY MISSED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To all my fellow bears of the animal/ supernatural and furry world. As you're reading this, roar to the heavens in soloute, honour and respect of the great white bear cub. Let him know his brothers and sisters on Earth will always keep him and other fellow ursines who have passed away in our hearts for all eternally. <3

Friday, March 11, 2011

Earthquakes and Tsunami: Mother Earth's Revenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbvQP3AGlX8

"When praying for the people of Japan and all of these areas where the earthquakes and tsunami's have impacted; but also pray for all the ANIMALS (specially all of the bears) as they are our brothers and sisters as well. I feel our Mother Earth's pains and cries. She has had enough of what humans have done to her. Those whom neglacted her and abused her, are now receiving their karmas. It's how men abused women. Humanity abused Mother Earth. it's all the samething. The earth quakes in Haiti were just a warning and example of what's to come. I am speaking this message directly from the heart of mother earth as the words are arriving into my heart. Humans are the caused of why Mother Earth is doing this. Humanity has caused Gobel Warming, innocent animals going into extinct, why plants and trees are dying. Now, this... Mother Earth is sick of it, so has The Great Spirit (God). A long time our Native ancestors tride to warn them. Tried to warn those heartless humans that if nothing changed now. If you don't stop killing innocent animals for no cause or selfish greed. If you don't stop polluting Mother Earth. This will happen. Now, they wish they would've listen to ALL of us Native people. Elders or not. This is mother earth's way of fighting back and defending herself." -Ruben YoungBear Pandy

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Charlie Sheen- BLOGGER EXCLUSIVE!

Charlie Sheen Sues Studio, Show Creator for $100 Million

Us Magazine - March 10, 2011 6:48 PM PST
Story photo: Charlie Sheen Sues Studio, Show Creator for $100 MillionFrederick M. Brown/Getty ImagesUs Magazine
Charlie Sheen is still aiming to win...$100 million.
The unemployed actor, 45, is suing Warner Bros. Television and Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre for a whopping $100 million plus punitive damages, TMZ reports.
PHOTOS: Hollywood's biggest bad boys
Sheen, who made $1.2 million per episode of the CBS show, is demanding he be compensated for the 8 cancelled episodes from the current season -- and is also suing on behalf of the sitcom's crew.
PHOTOS: Charlie's craziest controversies
His attorney Marty Singer slams Lorre for making Sheen "the scapegoat" in the ongoing war over the seriest. "[Lorre] believes himself to be so wealthy and powerful that he can unilaterally decide to take money away from the dedicated cast and crew ...in order to serve his own ego and self-interest," reads Singer's introduction to the filing.
PHOTOS: Biggest Hollywood meltdowns
Singer alleges that Lorre decided to cancel this season's remaining episodes prior to Sheen's very public criticism of him. The suit also says that Warner Bros. fired Sheen when he was "sick," which violates State and federal law.
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Monday, March 7, 2011

Is it just me? Or, was Charlie Sheen was TRYING to get fired??

Anyone, or I myself is a genus when it comes to building a legacy in entertainment and media would obviously see that Charlie Sheen is doing and saying all of these wacky insane things, and is trying to get (and has successfuly been) fired from "2 and a Half Men" on purpose.

Obvious, Sheen knows what he's doing, and I have to say KUDOS to him! You build your legacy, you actually have more followers than me out of all people. Hell, even I had to follow you (my twitter is: @NativePrideBear ).


Check out the story article below:


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Get your Adonis DNA direct from the horse's mouth.

As if Charlie Sheen really needed another forum from which to trumpet his tiger blood insanity ... the manic actor introduced the world to his very own live webcast on Saturday night, creatively dubbed "Charlie's Korner."
Read: Where did Charlie Sheen's Kids Go?
In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit to you that I was unable to watch the entire clip (which folks with stronger stomachs can attempt below). The thing runs for nearly a full hour, and it's jam-packed with bizarre, unfunny rants about "winning."
There's only so many times you can blurt that out before you sound less like you're winning and more like you're just schizophrenic.
Read: Charlie Sheen Sets Twitter Record
Charlie himself, with his zeppelin-sized ego, thinly-veiled condescension and twitchy mannerisms, sounds like an exhausting person to be around. Combine that with a room full of people laughing at his inane jokes (including one of his "goddesses" and a sound guy with a penchant for fart noises) and you have the recipe for one really stale webcast.
In the end, the whole thing feels like a wannabe Howard Stern show.
Read: Charlie Sheen's Daughters Are Safe
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Two Weird Visions I Had...

One of the visions I had,
I was fighting with my insane dum ass uncle (who is so insane, he needs to be in the metal health clinic and why his own son doesn't want anything to do with him). In the vision, I seen myself pulled out my gun on him after he came charging at me, and told him if he didn't get the f*** out of there I was going to kill him.

I'm still pissed off after a month ago when he told me he would "slap the s*** out of me" in the car that time. Since then, I've been waiting for him to say something so I can poke him with something. >_<  He pissed me off that much. I let it go then, but next time he better watch it. He may not be so lucky.


Second vision I had,
This veteran soldier was found screaming on the ground. He somehow was slung and spinned from a tree branch, felled down, broken his legs, teeth out of his mouth, right ear was ripped apart from his head.
This really was a nasty scene. I don't know why I had this vision, but... hmmm... I don't know.

Weird visions I had, the first one I know the reason I had that one. Anyways, this is my blog. Bye.

More proof why I don't like or respect christians

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Ruben Pandy

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See? This is why Everyone who are Overweight should Lose Weight...

A 575-pound man who gained a measure of fame as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill —


a Phoenix-area restaurant that unabashedly touts its unhealthy, high-calorie menu — has died.
Friends of 29-year-old Blair River say he died Tuesday, possibly from contracting pneumonia after a bout with the flu.
Restaurant founder Jon Basso told The Arizona Republic that River was more than the larger-than-life caricature he portrayed in promoting the restaurant in Chandler, which includes huge hamburgers, milkshakes and fries cooked in lard on its menu.


Basso said River was a creative genius who had been planning to take part in the shooting of a promotional spot called, "Heart Attack Grill: The Musical."
"Cynical people might think this (River's death) is funny," Basso said. "But people who knew him are crying their eyes out. There is a lot of mourning going on around here. You couldn't have found a better person."
The 6-foot-8 River was an Arizona state high school heavyweight wrestling champion in 1999 and played football at Mesa Community College.




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