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  • Some pointers for Palin

    05/19/2009 9:13:08 AM PDT · by outpostinmass2 · 47 replies · 1,612+ views
    HEY, Sarah P., big congratulations on the memoir deal! I am so excited that you're joining our booky-wooky club! I know this is new for you, this book-writing thing, so do you mind some suggestions - just a few pointers? First, the story thing. You might not like that word "story," what with how it sounds like news story and might make you think about nasty interviews and so on, but I know you can get all creative about it. Important to remember: Your story is just what you want to tell - no more. You get to control every...
  • Loan sharks hire women

    03/27/2009 7:10:34 AM PDT · by posterchild · 18 replies · 699+ views
    Singapore Straits Times ^ | March 27, 2009
    MALAYSIAN loan sharks have a new weapon in their growing struggle to get borrowers to repay debts: beautiful women. 'They go to your office or house and sit there' to shame you into paying, said Michael Chong, 60, who has worked for two decades as a mediator between the illegal lenders and their debtors. 'If it's your house, they will wait outside and make lots of noise, and you cannot wallop the girl.' That's in addition to the traditional incentives such as putting debtors in a cage, splashing their houses in red paint or breaking their limbs, said Mr Chong,...
  • Man calls police to report moose on roof

    03/12/2009 9:49:27 AM PDT · by SmithL · 34 replies · 1,042+ views
    Minot, N.D. (AP) -- It may have looked like Christmas outside, but Ward Nostdahl says it wasn't reindeer he heard clomping on his roof. Nostdahl called police to report a moose on the roof of his hillside home northwest of Minot. . . .
  • Hayden Panettierre lashes out at media: You make my life miserable!

    03/10/2009 1:26:06 PM PDT · by Perdogg · 43 replies · 1,490+ views
    LA Times ^ | Posted by ESNEAD on March 9, 2009
    Hayden Panettiere (a.k.a. the new Julia Roberts) turned vicious with reporters on a red carpet in Hawaii over the weekend. Look out, folks. Now that she's no longer with Milo Ventimiglia, Hayden can let her witch flag fly and not pretend to be mature and sweet anymore. Not that we were fooled. Or maybe she was just having a very bad day. In Hawaii. On a free trip. According to Us Magazine, the 19-year-old "Heroes" hottie was "testy" when she walked the red carpet at a charity fundraiser benefiting the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation on Sunday in Honolulu.