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The new season of Celebrity Apprentice is off the hook, and Donald Trump is making sure no lawsuits come out of it. Last week, Actress Lisa Rinna was fired, and she didn’t take it well. Rinna felt she was being attacked by Star Jones and Dionne Warwick. She accused the ladies of having attitudes and conspiring to get rid of her. After she was fired from the show, she took to her twitter account mocking Jones and comparing her to Halloween monsters. She also reportedly sent Jones nasty emails. Jones then contacted the NBC legal department, who had to make Rinna stop. Singer Dionne Warwick is showing a different side of herself on the show. Warwick surprised a lot of people with her forceful demeanor. A lot of her fans expressed outrage at her behavior. Dionne is no joke, and you don’t want to mess with her! But, she is going to have to be careful. She is known as a legendary entertainer, and her behavior on the show could cost her longtime fans.
In other Apprentice news, what’s going to happen to Richard Hatch? The former Survivor winner is part of the Apprentice cast and he is back in jail for failing to pay taxes. Will he be at the season finale?
You knew the list was gonna leak today, sooner or later.
ABC is set to reveal the cast for its forthcoming “Dancing With the Stars” tonight at the end of “The Bachelor.” TMZ, however, is not waiting around.
The website says it has confirmed 6 of the 11 celebrities who will appear on the show – among them Wendy Williams, who had been rumored to be part of the cast; and rapper Lil’ Romeo, who was booked for the show several years ago but injured his leg and was replaced by his father, Master P.
Below is the list of confirmed celebs and their partners, according to TMZ:
Wendy Williams & Tony Dovolani
Lil’ Romeo & Chelsie Hightower
Chris Jericho & Cheryl Burke
Kendra Wilkinson & Louis van Amstel
Kirstie Alley & Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Disney star Chelsea Kane & Mark Ballas
Some people are so committed to their passions they will do anything to spread the….word. The owner of a sex toy store she’s willing to let people put their differences aside, dip into her merchandise and get a little freaky.
The Pleasures sex toy store in Huntsville, Ala., was put on the map when they opened the first sex toy store drive-thru. Now the owner, Sherri Williams, is serious about making love not war. She’s willing to exchange her merchandise, up to the value of the gun, with folks who want to get rid of the guns and make a treaty with their neigbhbor.
Her program starts today and she’s going to dedicate some of the funds to other charities.
The ancient Chinese New Year tradition of decorating your doorway with Door Guardians and Spring Couplets to ward off evil spirits, has just received new inspiration from a prominent artist dissident. And while it’s struck a sensitive nerve in the Chinese regime, Chinese netizens are delighted with it.
With the Chinese New Year approaching, people in China have been turning to the Internet to purchase traditional Door Guardians and Spring Couplet scrolls, or to get ideas for making their own.
This tradition of hanging Door Guardians and Spring Couplet scrolls on their front doors to keep evil spirits away dates back thousands of years. This year, Door Guardians designed by outspoken dissident and artist, Ai Weiwei, have become a very popular New Year charm for scaring the evil. Chinese Internet censors quickly removed Ai’s blog. But despite their fast action, Ai’s Door Guardians are well on their way to doors all over China.
Old Tradition
The earliest mentioning of Door Guardians can be found in the 2,200 year-old Chinese mythological text “Classic of Mountains and Seas” or “Shan Hai Jing,” in Chinese. The Door Guardians were two ghost hunters who lived in an enormous peach tree on a mountain in the East Sea. They were very adapt in catching evil ghosts and feeding them to tigers.
The legends of the ghost hunters quickly spread, and people started hanging peach wood with the ghost hunters’ names written on it over their front doors, to protect their homes and families from evil spirits. Thus the ghost hunters became the Door Guardians. Later, the peach wood was replaced by paper scrolls with pictures of the Door Guardians and a pair of rhyming New Year blessings, called couplets.
New Meaning
The Door Guardians and couplets designed by artist Ai Weiwei give this old tradition a modern twist that has made them an instant hit with many Chinese netizens.
One of his couplets says: “Eliminate Cruelty and Evil, We Want Fairness–Diminish Ghosts and Demons, We Want Righteousness.”
Another one, freely translated, says: “Kill the Ghosts and Demons, Let Peace be Our Measures–Escape Police and Special-Forces, Here Come National Treasures.”
“National Treasures” refers to new slang terms invented by Internet users aimed at tricking the regime’s censorship software and breaking through the Internet blockade.
The “river crab,” or “He Xie,” is another phrase, and it’s pronunciation is the same as the Chinese word for “harmonious,” which the regime frequently uses such as in “harmonious society” to justify cracking down on any kind of human rights demonstrations.
When designing his Spring Couplets, along with depictions of the Door Guardians, Ai blends illustrations of the grass mud horse and river crab. There may also be a brick hidden somewhere in Ai’s New Year blessings to denote a “fierce battle of words” among Internet users and bloggers, and even an @ sign. All these strange looking characters have a special symbolic significance. They all express an extreme dissatisfaction with the regime’s despotic rule.
Many netizens are delighted with Ai’s Door Guardians and regard them as the perfect vehicle to vent their discontent during the New Year’s festivities. Others are concerned about the consequences if they posted these Guardians on their doors.
One blogger said, “Perhaps the legend is true, the Door Guardians can really make evil shiver.”
Another said, “How to put these couplets up is a problem. You have to worry about how your neighbors will look at you and about the possibility that those women working for the Neighborhood Committee might want to have a talk with you.”
Sunday’s show we will be discussing the institution of marriage. It seem to have become an
obsolete value in America. Is it the cost of marriage, the cost of divorce? Is it the prenup?
Why are more folks living together, than a formal commitment?
These and more questions and hopefully answers on Sunday’s show. Please call in and join
the discussion, we are very interesting in what America thinks about the institution of marriage
and where it is headed in 2011.
www.blogtalkradio.com/Lennis or show title – “Talk 2 ME”
6-7pm only 1 hr. PST time, 646-727-2914.
Thanks to all for your participation, in this hot topic!
Sunday’s show we will be discussing the institution of marriage. It seem to have become an
obsolete value in America. Is it the cost of marriage, the cost of divorce? Is it the prenup?
Why are more folks living together, than a formal commitment?
These and more questions and hopefully answers on Sunday’s show. Please call in and join
the discussion, we are very interesting in what America thinks about the institution of marriage
and where it is headed in 2011.
www.blogtalkradio.com/Lennis or show title – “Talk 2 ME”
6-7pm only 1 hr. PST time, 646-727-2914.
Thanks to all for your participation, in this hot topic!
Tune in to tonight’s show – “Predictions for 2011″ at 6:00pm to 7:00pm PST,
www.blogtalkradio.com/Lennis. Phone number 646.727.2914
A London judge has denied bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who told a London court he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations.
Judge Howard Riddle told Assange that he had “substantial grounds” to believe the 39-year-old Australian wouldn’t turn up for subsequent proceedings. He then put Assange into UK custody ahead of an extradition hearing.
Assange faces allegations of sex crimes in Sweden. He denies the accusations.
The WikiLeaks founder told a London court on Tuesday he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, setting up what could be a drawn-out legal battle.
‘When a blind man leads a blind man, they both end up falling in the ditch’ (Matthew ) (15:14TM)
Your development, and in some cases your healing, can only take place when you walk with the right people!
Remember the story of the scorpion that asked a frog to carry him across the river because he could not swim? How do I know you will not sting me? the frog asked. If I do, we’ll both drown, he replied. So the scorpion hopped on. Half way across the river the scorpion stung him. As they were drowning the frog said, ‘You promised you wouldn’t. Why did you sting me? The scorpion replied, I cannot help it, it’s my nature to sting.
Learn to recognize toxic relationships and walk away from them before they take you down with them. A toxic relationship is like a body part with gangrene; if you do not amputate, the infection will spread. Unless you have the courage to cut off what will not heal, you will end up losing much more.
You cannot partner successfully with someone who does not share your goals. When you feel passionately about something but they do not, it is like trying to dance the fox trot with someone who only wants to waltz. You picked the wrong dance partner. Do not get tied up with someone who does not share your God-given purpose.
Some issues can be corrected through teaching and leadership, but you cannot teach somebody to care. And if they do not care, they will infect your environment, ruin your productivity and break your rhythm with constant complaints.
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After reading the article regarding Toxic Relationships below I decided to share as I believe that a lot of us have been and some of us still are in these kinds of relationships, but thank God most of us had enough sense to get out of them and if you are still in one – Run for your very life! LOL