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The ex-wife of Stone Cold Steve Austin appeared on Hannity & Colmes Thursday night – in the wake of the Benoit tragedy – and she leveled some serious allegations against Vince McMahon and the WWE.
From Impact Wrestling:
The FOX News show Hannity & Colmes devoted a lot of time to the Chris Benoit story tonight.
- Debra Marshall, the ex-wife of Steve Austin, appeared on the show and really continued to paint a horrific picture of Steve Austin as a steroid user and wife beater.
- She said that she has seen Austin do steroids.
- She said that wrestling is a very hush-hush business and that everyone in WWE knew that Austin was beating her but nobody stepped in because Austin was the company’s top star.
- She said she knows that steroids had a lot to do with Austin’s attacks on her.
- She said that WWE basically forced her to not say anything about Austin abusing her because, again, Austin was their top star.
- She said that WWE is trying to downplay the connection between Benoit and steroids because they are good at deflecting heat off themselves. She recounted an incident where she believes that Austin attacked her during a steroid rage, saying he pounded her and that his eyes looked like they would bug out of his head. She called the incident the most horrifying thing she has ever seen. She said that when she finally was able to call the cops, Austin ripped out the phone lines, unplugged the garage door opener, and basically tried to lock her in the house.
- Superstar Billy Graham appeared on the show and said that Vince McMahon and WWE are not responsible for this tragedy, comparing it to whether the San Francisco Giants would be responsible if Barry Bonds killed somebody. He said that these are grown men and they have to be accountable for themselves. He also downplayed roid rage, saying he has been using steroids since 1967.
- An in-staff analysis stated that Vince McMahon got himself into trouble by issuing a press release downplaying the role of steroids in this tragedy before anybody was even blaming steroids. The analysis wondered why WWE would be so defensive in the first place. The analysis also said that when you hogtie your wife and strangle her to death, that is rage.
- They briefly discussed the mysterious Wikipedia post situation.
- Debra said that Billy Graham has not been on the receiving end of steroid rage. She said that Austin to this day doesn’t even think he did anything to her. After being pushed a bit, Graham admitted that his wife has been on the receiving end of his rage from steroids and other drugs, but said that Benoit tested negative for steroids. Debra said he tested negative back in April and could have been on them now.
Prince has created a shit storm of controversy by partnering up with the Mail On Sunday to give away copies of his new album, Planet Earth, to anyone who picks up the newspaper this weekend.
Record stores are livid!
Republican Presidential candidate, Mitt Romeny, is the dumbest slut I think I’ve ever read about. This dumb bitch told a story about how he would strap his dog to the top of their car for family trips.
Mitt would be the family’s Irish Setter, Seamus Romney, in a dog carrier above the car. Mitt told a story that on a 12-hour trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983, Mitt’s son noticed that brown liquid was dripping onto the windshield, Yes, poor Seamus had gone diarrhea in his carrier. Mitt said he pulled the car over, sprayed down Seamus, the car and the carrier and continued on like nothing.
PETA of course is pissed. They said, “If you wouldn’t strap your child to the roof of your car, you have no business doing that to the family dog!”
Mitt laughed it off and said, “He scrambled up there every time we went on trips. He got it all by himself and enjoyed it.”
Did Renee Zellweger recently visit “Hostel”, because the chick looks like her face was pulled apart with fish hooks.
LONDON, England (CNN) — The United Kingdom raised its terrorism threat level to critical, the highest level possible, Saturday after a vehicle plowed into the terminal building at Scotland’s busiest airport and burst into flames.
Images from Glasgow airport showed the SUV-type vehicle ablaze next to the terminal building.
Police at the highest levels are assuming the fiery incident in Glasgow was a terrorist attack, CNN has learned.Authorities assume the incident is linked to the discovery Friday in London of two explosives-filled cars. They could not yet say whether the same people were involved or whether the Glasgow incident was the work of copycats.
Police and witnesses in Glasgow described an SUV-style vehicle in flames being driven at full speed toward the building.
Two people were arrested at the scene, police said.
It was not immediately clear whether there were any injuries, although unconfirmed witness reports described a man on fire at the scene. 
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Witness Jackie Kennedy said a man got out of the car, went to the back and pulled out a can of fuel, which he poured on himself and ignited.
“The guy was in flames and seemed to be enjoying himself,” Kennedy said.
Images showed black smoke and flames rising from the vehicle just outside the building.
CNN has learned that officials are considering raising the national threat level to its highest level, critical. It currently stands at severe.
Witnesses said the car crashed into security barriers protecting an entrance to the airport’s international arrivals terminal.
Jim Manson said he saw a car “with a couple of guys in it trying to push their way into the airport terminal building.”
The vehicle “suddenly caught fire” as one of the two — himself on fire — tried to open up the back of the car, Manson told British television.
There was then a mini-explosion and the front of the terminal appeared to catch fire.
“Everyone just ran,” Manson said. “We’re absolutely terrified, you can imagine. The first thing on all our minds was: Is there an accident? Is there a terrorist attack?”
A witness told Sky News that a man had fled from the car as it struck the building and been immediately wrestled to the ground by police.
“The jeep is completely on fire and it exploded not long after. It exploded at the entrance to the terminal,” witness Stephen Clarkson told the BBC.
“It may have been an explosion of petrol in the tank because it was not a massive explosion.”
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Airport authorities said the airport, Scotland’s busiest, had been evacuated and all flights suspended.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown led a meeting of top intelligence officers, police and senior officials in COBRA, the government’s crisis committee, his office said.
After the meeting, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said authorities were “doing all we can to protect the public.”
“The police are clear that the most important contribution that the public can make is to carry on reporting anything suspicious and to be vigilant, and I’d ask them to do that,” said Smith, the government’s top law-and-order official. “But I must stress that we mustn’t let the threat of terror stop us from getting on with our lives.”
In London police were examining two cars filled with fuel, gas canisters and nails and studying CCTV footage for clues about the identities of those behind a suspected terrorist plot that could have killed hundreds.
Officers have a “crystal clear” CCTV image of a man “staggering” from the first car after parking it outside a West End nightclub, ABC News in the United States reported. Scotland Yard refused to comment.
New Prime Minister Gordon Brown went to Scotland Yard on Saturday morning for an update on the investigation from senior police.
A Downing Street spokesman told the Press Association: “It was a private meeting. Mr. Brown was briefed on the current security situation and thanked frontline staff.”
Meanwhile, police increased patrols across the British capital in the hunt for what they said was a man seen running from one of the cars in the early hours of Friday.
British officials said hundreds of people could have been killed if the devices in the cars had been set off.
The first car was discovered parked near Piccadilly Circus; the second was found about an hour later, less than a kilometer away near Trafalgar Square.
Scotland Yard authorities said they believed the two incidents were connected.
London police said the second car — containing fuel, gas canisters and nails — was “clearly linked” to the first explosives-packed car found outside a nightclub on Haymarket.
A “considerable” amount of fuel and gas canisters, along with a “substantial quantity of nails,” was found in the blue Mercedes-Benz 280E, said Peter Clarke, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner.
He said the second device, like the first, was “potentially viable” but was rendered safe by police explosives officers.
“These vehicles are clearly linked,” he said.
The first car was discovered about 1:30 a.m. when an ambulance crew called to treat an ill person noticed what appeared to be smoke inside the car and notified authorities.
The car was parked in front of the Tiger Tiger club on Haymarket, and the discovery prompted the closing of several streets until the vehicle was hauled off nine hours later.
“In the car, they found significant quantities of petrol together with a number of gas cylinders,” Clarke said. He could not immediately say how much fuel was there.
“I can tell you it was in several large containers,” Clarke said. “There were also a large number of nails in the vehicle.”
He said explosives officers manually disabled “a potential means of detonation for the gas and the fuel in the vehicle,” which preserved crucial forensic evidence for investigators. 
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Clarke said it was too early to determine if the smoke the ambulance crew saw was an indication that the car bomb had been activated but failed to explode.
A cell phone was found as part of the device in the silver car, according to security sources with knowledge of the investigation, although it was not immediately known what role the phone may have played in the device. The sources said the device was apparently set up to be remotely detonated.
Metropolitan Police Counterterrorism Command officers are reviewing closed-circuit security camera video to see if they can determine who parked the car there, Clarke said.
Witness Daniel Weir said he was walking home from work when he noticed police had cordoned off the area around the nightclub and a nearby vehicle.
He snapped several photos, including one that showed a canister labeled “patio gas.”
A second Mercedes was given a parking ticket on Cockspur Street at about 2:30 a.m. Friday (0130 GMT), Clarke said.
At about 3:30 a.m., Clarke said, the vehicle was taken to an underground car park at Hyde Park. Security sources earlier told CNN that workers who towed it thought the car smelled of petrol, and became suspicious because of the reports that petrol was among the explosive materials found in the first vehicle.
He called the discovery of the second bomb “troubling,” but urged the public to remain vigilant and report suspicious behavior to authorities.
Previous plots
London has a long history of bomb attacks and alerts during decades of violence mounted by Northern Irish guerrilla groups. Lone attackers also have previously targeted the city’s gay and immigrant communities.
Friday’s incident came days before the second anniversary of July 7, 2005, when four Islamic extremist suicide bombers killed 52 people on London’s transport system in the deadliest strike on the city since World War II.
While Clarke would not speculate that Tiger Tiger was the target, he said “some features of what’s happened resonate with previous plots.”
“In one previous case we heard talk about nightclubs potentially becoming targets. … We, of course, saw reference to vehicles being filled with gas or fuel in order to create an explosion,” he said.
There had been no intelligence warning of an attack, he said.
“It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life,” Clarke said. “The vehicle was parked in one of the busiest parts of central London in the early hours of Friday morning when many, many people were leaving nightclubs and other places after the evening hours.”
British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: “We’re currently facing the most serious and sustained threat to our security from international terrorism.”
The bombs were found just two days after Brown took office, and one day after he appointed members of his Cabinet.
“For Gordon Brown, it is a rude awakening to the realities you take on as prime minister,” CNN’s European political editor Robin Oakley said.
Brown, whose predecessor, Tony Blair, stoked anger among Islamic militants with his support for the Iraq war, said Britain faced “a serious and continuous threat” and the public “need to be alert” at all times.
This is unheard of!
Michael Moore scored a pretty deal for his new documentary, Sicko.
The director will make 50% of Sicko‘ gross profits!!!!
If this movie makes as much as or close to his last movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, then Moore is going to be making tens of millions of dollars.
SICK!
“It’s a really interesting irony for me,” Moore says of his expected financial windfall. “What it should do to me is remind me every single day that I have an even greater responsibility to do good with the success that I have been blessed with. I need to make sure that I am able to make the next film with the money that I have made on this film. The money allows me to never have to give in, never compromise. Nothing can ever be held over my head in the sense of, ‘If you don’t do this, we won’t give you your money!’ ‘Oh, wow, I guess I’ll be in really bad shape, won’t I?’ That’s an enormous bit of freedom that I have — to stay completely true to the things I believe in. But I have an even greater responsibility because I have been blessed with that great success. I challenge myself with that, constantly.”
Congrats, brother.
You earned it! Enjoy it well!
The recently engaged Tyrese has announced that his next tour, creepily named the “Shirts Off Tour,” will be for ladies only. Apparently the actor/model/singer has told media outlets that he and fellow tour mates Ginuwine and Tank are “putting a ban on all dudes from coming to the show.” Hmmm. Does that include yourself, smartypants?
Maybe he doesn’t come out and say it, but one could assume from this ban that Tyrese and friends don’t want their gay male fans to come see them perform. Tyrese has allegedly made homophobic remarks at a concert before, so it appears fishy. It also seems completely ridiculous to ban anyone from a concert, especially when they are fans who are there to support you. So fine, Tyrese, have fun performing for three ladies with your shirt off. Next time, try getting with the rest of the world. It’s 2007. Enrique Iglesias is serenading dudes at his show! AfterElton is right – take a tip from the Latin crooner and “consider a fan a fan.”
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There once was a military man with honor and dignity. This man loved his country and put years of his life into service. He was called the “good soldier”.
This good soldier was loved and respected by all and his integrity was beyond question.
It would be really easy to say this good soldier was corrupted by dark forces and they made him say this and made him vouch for that.
That would be easy. The truth is that this soldier lost his way. He forgot that his loyalty was to the United States of America and not to presidents who come and go.
He forgot that ultimately being a good soldier means saying no and leaving in a timely manner. he didnt understand that it was less honorable to stay and complain to reporters than to leave and let time vindicate him. He got seduced by Washington and the desire to “change things from the inside”.
There are over 3,000 Americans who have died partly because of this man. His legacy will be that of shame and disgrace. In the final months of the Bush administration, men like him and Tony Blair are scrambling to reinvent their legacies. Scrambling to change the negative images people worldwide have of them.
This man was a soldier. Like John McCain, we expected him to know better and we were proven wrong.
I feel for this man. His example proves that life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. The latter part of his life will forever be spent explaining and trying to convince people that “he didnt know it would be that bad”.
Powell needs to go away. He played high stakes poker with his integrity as his chips.
He lost.
Kudos to Isaiah Washinton for execising his freedom of speech.
If he’s trying to gain any sympathy or make himself look good, then he’s failing miserably, though.
The actor with homophobic tendencies is profiled in the new issue of Newsweek, in an article entitled “Diary of an Angry Black Man.”
He drops some bombs, and unfortunately they blow up IN HIS FACE!
The fired Grey’s Anatomy star tells the magazine:
“Patrick [Dempsey] and I had a philosophical disagreement that got out of hand and that I regret a great deal. I said a lot of negative things that were never reported, but there was one word that caught everyone’s attention, particularly someone who wasn’t even in the room with us. It was a fight between two men that shouldn’t have happened. But someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. I see that now, but I didn’t then.”
“I apologized and showed my remorse for what I said and for the pain I caused anyone. If a black man can’t get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand.”
“I thought them sending me meant they actually wanted me to succeed and come out on the other end. There is no rehab for homophobia—that was just some crap being put out by the network. I went into an executive counseling program which many people in this industry know about and go to. They knew what the program was but chose to call it what they wanted to fit their agenda. And more importantly, I volunteered for it because I wanted to understand my fight with Patrick and how it got out of hand like that. I wanted to know what I could do to avoid it happening again.”
“Growing up in the South, I wasn’t exposed to as many different lifestyles and personalities as I could have been. And that’s always a problem, because the more you’re exposed, clearly the more you know and understand. My mother had several cross-dressing friends who she sometimes referred to with names I’d never use, but she didn’t know any better. There was no hate, just lack of awareness.”
“Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn’t speak like I’d just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime. I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that ’some people’ were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I’m a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn’t go around saying ‘Yessah, massa sir’ and ‘No sir, massa’ to everyone? It’s nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family.’’
“My mistake was believing that I would get the support from my network and all of my cast mates across the board. My mistake was believing I could correct a wrong with honesty and sincerity. My mistake was thinking black people get second chances. I was wrong on all fronts.”
