From Dogs and Cats to a Pet Deer

The Butera's in Canal Fulton, Ohio make headlines with none other than their pet DEER. These creatures that are mostly viewed as hunting trophies and roadside hazards have now made their way into domestication. Just a few months old, the baby deer was brought to Melanie Butera, who is a vet, because the baby fawn was suffering from sever eyesight problems and extreme malnutrition. She decided it fitting to bring the deer home with her and personally nurse it back to health. However, her plan of temporarily nursing the deer was thwarted when she and her family fell in love with the deer and the deer fell in love with them. Once the deer was fully healthy again they just could not part from each other. Now the deer lives with them just as any cat, dog, or any other household pet would. I present you with Dilly.

Times Get Crazy In Time Square

On Thursday at Time Square in New York, holiday craze got to a couple of street peddlers. A policeman noticed two street peddlers trying to sell Cd's to anyone and everyone they could. While in ordinary circumstances this would be a very easy situation to handle, the peddler's became aggressive in their sales tactics almost forcing people passing by to buy unwanted items. The police approached the men to try and diffuse the situation, that's when one of the men pulled a gun and fired on the policeman. He missed shattering the windows of the stores behind. The police returned fired hitting the suspect, who was later pronounced dead at the hospital. A business card was found at the scene for a gun dealer that had been dropped by the suspect, on the back of the card was a note that said "I feel sorry for a cop who thinks I'm getting into his paddy wagon." Luckily no one else was injured, this shows that you never can be too careful around the holiday times.

Christmas Comes Early For Survivor

The winner of Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn received great news from his doctor's in Manhattan on Tuesday. After over a year of struggling and fighting Hodgkin's Disease, that he was diagnosed with since last April, and PET Scan that was taken revealed that as of now there are no cancer cells in his body. Hodgkin's disease which is now called Hodgkin's Lymphoma is a type of cancer originated from one's white blood cells, called lymphocytes, and then spreading to other groups of the lympnodes. After this last round of radiation treatments, Zohn is finally free of all the cancer cells his is diagnosis last April, however his battle is far from over. His cancer has proven to be very likely to come back, after a few weeks of chemotherapy in the summer, Zohn's cancer came back. Now, he plans to go on with stem cell transplant, hoping that this will finally put an end to his battle. He plans to begin the operation within the next two weeks.

The Bashing Continues

Everyone knows about the Kanye West upstaging of Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMA's in September. Every since, he has gotten bashed over and over and over for it. Yes, while his actions were rude and idiotic, enough is enough for me. FAIL Blog, a blog that tallies prospective failures of the year based on various epic failure moments, has named West as the King of Fail for 2009. Many other other candidates including John Gosselin, Glen Beck, Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag, and Lindsay Lohan all made it on the list. However, it was Kanye's actions against poor little Taylor Swift that put him on top. While I don't support Kanye's actions in any way shape or form, I am a little tired of hearing about it.

A Time For Giving?

At TD Bank in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania a bank was robbed by none other than Santa himself! A bank robber decided to disguise himself as Jolly Ole' Saint Nick and robbed the bank at gunpoint. Talking about a time for giving. Times get rough for everyone, however tarnishing the name of the big man himself is just not cool. The robber somehow seemed to allude the cops on foot? Investigators are looking over the footage and searching the city for the masked robber. Talk about being a Grinch at Christmas.

Money Isn't Everything...

The CBS series The Amazing Race recently crowned its new champs, Meghan Rickey and Cheyne Whitney both from San Diego. The pair traveled through 8 countries and over 25,000 miles in only 21 days. This was the 15th season of the show, and the cash out for first prize is 1 million dollars. At first they were speechless, as anyone would be if they had just won 1 million dollars; but once they were able to gather their words, they placed the cash prize second to the experience that they gained from the game. Now I can see how fighting, long sleepless nights, and many uncomfortable and confusing situations can be more important that a million bucks... wait no I can't. All joking aside the experience of traveling the country with a friend can be quite more rewarding than any amount of money, well maybe not any...

Surprise Surprise...

This just in, the UNC Women's Soccer team crowned National Champs. The Tarheels played undefeated and untied Standford in the championships at College Station, Texas. The third minute goal by forward, Jessica McDonald gave the Tarheels the 1-0 lead and ultimately the win. This win not only gave UNC the national championship and the bragging rights but also their 21st championship in women's soccer. Senior
Casey Nogueira was named the MVP in offense for the tournament and fellow senior Whitney Engen was named MVP in defense for the tournament. The UNC women's soccer team has created a dynasty out of their outstanding soccer play and has always set the standard for other soccer teams to follow.

Victoria Secret Angel to Helicopter Pilot

After eight weeks of pregnancy Gisele Bundchen has finally put her pursuit of getting her piloting license on hold, until after the baby is born. Bundchen has already passed the written part of the exam and only had the flying part left to complete. However, with the baby's best interests in mind, she put her test on hold. She will have to go through the intense study sessions again, which she says that she will start sometime in June and she plans on taking her test around this time next year. Gisele Bundchen was famous for once being a Victoria Secret Angel and gave all that up to marry New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

Matches Set For FIFA 2010

Yesterday, Friday, December 5th, the pairings for group stages were chosen. Teams from around the world representing their country were essentially put into a hat and drawn at random. The group stages consist of 8 groups with 4 teams in each of those groups. While no country is ever an easy country to beat with the World Cup at stake, the United States got a much easier draw than years before. With the World Cup only happening every 4 years, the stakes are extremely high. The way the group stages work are pretty simple. Each team plays the teams in their group and they get a certain amount of points whether they win or tie. At the end of the group stages, the top two teams from each group make it into the single elimination bracket. In years before the United States have been stuck with powerhouses such as Italy and Ghana. This year they literally had the luck of the draw getting put into a group with England, Algeria, and Slovenia. The games begin in late June in the 2010 host country South Africa.

One of the Elites

To take a break from all the celebrity news, I decided to talk about a couple of local stories. UNC senior soccer player Kristi Eveland received the Elite 88 award Thursday at college station in Texas. For those of you who have never heard of the Elite 88 award, it is an award connecting academics to athletics, it takes the highest GPA of all of the soccer players from the final fours teams, and likewise with all other sports. The player with the highest GPA is selected to receive the award. Kristi Eveland is a senior enrolled in the Kenan-Flagler School of Business Administration with a GPA of 3.96 and a four year starter on the women's soccer team. Eveland is certainly deserving of the award, and has been an important factor in the UNC soccer team's success. They will play for the national championship once again tomorrow against undefeated Stanford.

Time For A Change

Everyone knows that the White House around Christmas time is the epitome of holiday decoration. The halls are literally decked in holly and there are a ridiculous amount of Christmas trees. However, this year the Obama's decided to implement their plan for change to the house decoration, with the First Lady being the main supporter of the idea. In this time of economic turmoil, Michelle Obama saw it a waste to spend so much money and time on the over the top decorations this year. Instead she decided to recycle the older decorations once used by previous administrations and sent them to over 60 community groups across the country; they let them decorate the ornaments with something that symbolizes their towns and sent them back to the White House. These ornaments were put up throughout the house and on the Christmas tree that they put up. I personally think that saving time and money and not putting up as many decorations as previous years is very smart and sets a good example for many others to follow.

Angelina Speaks Her Mind

While many celebrities support Barack Obama's new policies and his new bills, there are still some that don't. Angelina Jolie is one of these non supporters. She has no problem expressing her extreme dislike for Obama and the ideas that he brings to the tables. "She's into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise." Now what is a socialism you may ask? Socialism is any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. While you may or may not agree with Jolie's statements, that's what she believes. Even her husband Brad Pitt disagrees with her, he is a huge fan of president Obama and even went to the 2008 election party in Chicago, obviously without his lovely wife. Angelina doesn't consider herself a republican, however she thinks the president is all smoke and mirrors.

Slacking Secret Service

With every entrance covered, the security was decked out to the T at President Obama's first date dinner, which was held for the Indian prime minister, on Tuesday November 24th. However this intense security was no problem for Tareq and Michaele Salahi, a socialite couple from Virginia. The two were never actually invited to the party, but somehow managed to slip past dozens of Secret Service equipped with guests lists, multiple metal detectors, White House staff, and Marine guards to make it in. In the party they seemed to fit in a mingle with some of the most important and most regarded world leaders. They were even able to get pictures with some of these people without raising any kind of suspicions. Once the dinner started the couple was no where to be found, probably because the seats were prearranged and since they weren't actually invited to the party, they wouldn't have had seats. The couple will most likely go down in history as being some of the best party crasher ever.

American Music Award Mistake?

If any of you watched this years American Music Awards you would have undoubtedly seen American Idol finalist Adam Lambert perform his new song. This performance has undergone much scrutiny ever since. During the "unique" performance Adam Lambert managed to trip, kiss his pianist, and a few other unmentionables. Sources believe that Lambert became big headed when he was featured in People's Sexiest Men Alive issue and that it may have inspired his over the top performance. Afterwards Lambert was interviewed many times and when asked about his performance he said "I don't know, maybe it went to my head and that's why I did the performance the way I did." It was also reported that Lambert said "If the people didn't like what they were watching then they could change the channel to something else." I must say that's some way to gain fan support there Lambert.

Runaway Blues

We all had that feeling of defiance when we were younger to run away from our troubles and our family and never come back. Well one 13-year old kid In New York took this notion and literally ran with it. Haunted by a mishap in his Brooklyn middle school and threatened with consequences by his mother, 13-year old Francisco Hernandez Jr. decided to live the life of freedom on the New York subway. Hernandez had been diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome in which individuals experience difficulties with social interaction. With only 10 dollars and a subway pass Hernandez lived off water and junk food from subway stands for 11 days. Police and the Mexican consulate searched the city for days and the boy was finally found at the Coney Island station. Reports say that the boy was very skinny and very dirty which is expected for almost two weeks in the subways of New York, but otherwise he was in healthy condition.

Tiger In The Hospital

Around 2:30 a.m. on November 27 golf champion Tiger Woods crashed his car into a fire hydrant and a tree just feet from his house in Islesworth, Florida. This bizarre accident is under extreme speculation from media because it was reported that alcohol was not a factor in the accident. Elin Nordegren, Woods' wife, busted in through the back windshield using two golf clubs to pull Tiger out of the car. When the police arrived they found Tiger laying on the ground just outside of the car with lacerations on his lower and upper lips with blood in his mouth and he was lapsing in and out of consciousness. The police tape is to go under further review to make sure that nothing seems too out of the ordinary. The reason that the accident seems somewhat suspicious is because it came only weeks after the National Enquirer alleged that he had been seeing another woman; however all of these allegations have been denied. Despite his injuries, Tiger is still set to host the Cevron World Challenge on Thursday and appear in a press conference Tuesday.

Swift Dishes It Out

On a recent episode of SNL, Taylor Swift was chosen to host the show and perform afterwards. To kick the show off, she decided to open up with a quick little song about the topics that she was not going to cover throughout the show. These topics included the vast majority of her song subjects, guys that cheat on her or guys she's obsessed with. Next in the order of discussion was her ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas. She critiqued Joe for breaking their relationship off over the telephone and then went on to say that she is doing just fine without him. This lead her to talk about her newer attraction "The Werewolf from Twilight". The final, and most anticipated topic was the VMA incident with Kayne West. Taylor Swift pretty much got back at all the people who got her; however she did it in a much more discrete and classier way. SNL classified this show as one of the best shows since Tina Fey and Will Ferrell walked the stage. Check it out.

Oops!... She Did It Again

Britney Spears traveled way down under Friday for a concert in Perth, in Western Australia. Fans were angry right from the start because it is reported that Brittney opened up with a very general welcome. "What's up Australia? How you feeling tonight? It's so good to be here tonight. Your country is beautiful." Fans were disappointed at the lack of respect she had for the town in her welcome. The disappointment didn't end here; she then went on to lip sing through the entirety of her concert. Disgusted fans paid upwards of 1400 American dollars to watch their idol, the one and only Britney Spears perform live in front of them. Some were even so disgusted with her performance that they left after the first couple songs, outraged. While there will always be those few fans that will love Britney no matter what; there are now fans that will never go to her show again. In lieu of the lip singing fiasco, Australian politicians have now mandated that performers must disclose whether or not concerts will be live or lip sung. All this trouble because of Britney, lip sung or live... it's her prerogative.

STALKER

American Idol talk show host Ryan Seacrest, recently put in a restraining order against alleged stalker Chidi Uzomah. Uzomah was arrested on suspicion of stalking the idolized American Idol host. He remains in police custody with bail posted at $150,000. Uzomah is no one timer to the stalking business, apparently he's somewhat of a pro at it. He was already on probation for stalking the star earlier, which ended in Uzomah attacking Seacrest's bodyguard in the process. On Friday, it is reported that Uzomah entered E! offices armed with a knife, in search of Seacrest. Thankfully, Seacrest wasn't found because he was out of the building. Once Uzomah was caught, the police were notified and he was arrested by the LAPD. Obviously there's just something about that Seacrest smile that just attracts all the stalkers.

Taylor Swift Hits The Deck!

Ellen Degeneres has always been known for her crazy personality and much crazier antics. As a celebration for Halloween, she decided to add to her bag of tricks by scaring her guests that appeared on her show. One of these guests just happened to be Taylor Swift. Ellen moved Taylor into a special dressing room set up with hidden cameras and Ellen herself. Ellen told her to check out a picture in the bathroom of herself and Taylor, once Taylor walked into the bathroom Ellen screamed like a prehistoric velaciraptor scaring Taylor straight to the floor. One thing that Taylor didn't have on her side was the extra 6 inches that were added by her wonderful heels. Anyway Ellen won that battle and was successful in her Halloween prank.

No More Tweeting!

It's no surprise that every celebrity has become a part of the Internet phenomenon know as Twitter. Celebs connect with their fans by posting their daily events on the website allowing the public to know what the celebrities are doing at every minute of the day. This type of openness has become a privacy issue with a few studio executives. Studio's such as Dreamworks and Livid Studio have banned their celebrity stars from tweeting while on set or during the process of shooting their films. Cameron Diaz and Mike Meyers have been denied use of the website by Dreamworks during the production of another Shrek film. Producers have actually included this in part of their contract, requiring celebs to sign a no Tweeting clause; this includes a certain time period that the celebrities are not even allowed on the website. A few movie leaks and spoilers have come form the website during other movie productions causing this type extreme action.

Why Wayne... Why!

Rapper Lil' Wayne is facing charges of drug and weapon possession. An unregistered .40 caliber handgun was found in one of Lil' Wayne's tour buses in July 2007. He pleaded guilty in his recent courtroom appearance and with the plea bargain he may have to face up to a year in jail. The charges don't end here. He was also charged with felony drug and weapon possession in Arizona when a weapon and drugs were again found on his tour bus. Traces of marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy were all found. Lil' Wayne is undoubtedly one of the greatest rappers out there, but this does not set a good example for anyone to follow.

What They Don't Show On The Hills

Stephanie Pratt gets arrested for a DUI on Saturday night. Sister in law, Heidi Montag, was having a birthday party at a local night club that evening. After diner, some dancing, and some drinking Pratt was feeling the symptoms of tiredness. Being the party pooper that she is, she decided it was time to head(drive) home, probably not a good idea after drinking. The cops saw her drive by, looking very suspicious, and pulled her over. After taking a breathalyzer she was arrested for a misdemeanor DUI and taken to Van Nuys jail around 3:45 am. Released the next morning at 10:00 am, she decided to announce that she didn't want to continue her action on MTV show The Hills. The Hills is a dog eat dog world, especially when intoxicated.

Did Falcon spread his wings and fly?

It had been thought that a six year old boy, Falcon, was aboard a homemade helium balloon that lifted off the ground early Thursday morning in Fort Collins, Colorado. The family had been working on the balloon and on Thursday, Falcon got yelled at for climbing inside one of the compartments of the balloon. Apparently Falcon got scared and disappeared. Upon the launch of the balloon, the boy was nowhere to be found; it was thought that he was still inside the compartment in the balloon. His father, Richard Heene, freaked out. He called in the army, air force, national guard, police... all the stops. People that had seen the balloon said that they saw something fall from the balloon and believed that it might have been the boy. The police tracked the path of the balloon to the crash site, and the boy was no where to be found. Surprise surprise. The search continued for days and the search came up empty. When the search was about to be given up, the kid showed his face. He had been hiding in a cardboard box in the families attic. The whole act was thought to be a publicity stunt to gain attention to the families name. It didn't work. Looks like not all Falcon's fly.

Don't forget the lyrics...

At the Pepsi 500 NASCAR event in Fontana, California on Sunday, October 11th Jesse McCartney was to sing the Star Spangled Banner. He started out nervously enough with a cracking voice, and obviously let his nerves get the best of him, because he skipped over an entire part of the song. Yes, McCartney forgot to sing part of what is perhaps one of the most revered songs in the nation. Everyone hears this song at every sporting event ever played, before the game is allowed to start. This song, originally a poem written by Francis Scott Key, was made the national anthem by Congress in 1931, to unite the Americas by one song. Apparently McCartney felt the pressure of singing if front of thousands of people, since no one usually shows up to his concerts, and folded like the bad poker hand that he is.

David Letterman Scandal

Late night talk show host, David Letterman was recently hit with a sex scandal case by none other than his former assistant, Stephanie Birkitt. Sources report that the two were very "close", which can mean lots of things these days. She said that he was very generous to the employees and that he was very nice. Birkitt's former boyfriend, Robert Halderman, took pages from her diary and various other items that would have "ruined" Letterman's reputation and gave him to them and threatened to release the items to the public if Letterman didn't pay him a few million dollars, that must be the going rate for blackmailing today. It's not quite sure whether the allegations are true or not but Letterman definitely has his work cut out for her.

John and Kate Mistake

Everyone knows the once idolized celebrity couple John and Kate Gosselin from the t.v. show "John and Kate plus 8". Well apparently the entire world was devastated when the couple split up, when in reality anyone would've seen it coming. With the whip crackin' Kate and sneaky ole' John, anyone that actually paid attention the the interaction between the two wouldn't be surprised. After the divorce, John had a new, younger woman in the blink of an eye. The divorce process has been a pretty nasty one and John, being the ingenious gentleman that he is, recently decided to wipe their entire joint bank account bone dry. John was interviewed on Larry King and when asked how much money was made from their t.v. show, he reported $500,000. He left Kate with $1000 dollars in the account, it is unknown how much was in there before but does it really matter? Leaving his ex-wife and 8 kids with 1000 dollars, yep he is defiantly a keeper. Good one John!

Darwinism Controversy

Kirk Cameron, a well known actor, specifically for the ABC hit television show Growing Pains, recently spoke out about his religious beliefs and his conflicting issues with the idea of Darwinism, or evolutionism, being taught throughout colleges. It is true that Darwinism is being taught and has been taught in any biology class or anthropology class for years. And adversely religious practices are being banned from public schools everywhere. Cameron takes all this into consideration when he expresses his dilemma concerning this issue. He relates his statement to the considerable rise in those who believe in atheism and those who believe in Christianity. "Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species. We have a situation in our country where young people are entering college with a belief in God and exiting with that faith being stripped and shredded. What we want to do is have students make an informed, educated decision before they chuck their faith." His statements really fired up many academic boards and those who do believe in evolution because he publicly critiqued their beliefs. Cameron along with Ray Comfort devised a plan to get their theory out by handing out free copies of their book on a college campus specifically targeting college freshmen.

I tried to include the video where Kirk Cameron talks about his theory but I couldn't get it to work so here is the link, it's very interesting so check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM0oBuhTLRI

And if anyone can tell me how to upload a video that would be great.

What Not To Bring To A Nightclub

From the Superbowl to the Slammer, Plaxico Burress receives a two-year sentence for criminal possession of a handgun. Burress became well know for his famous game winning touchdown in the 2008 Superbowl XLII which led the New York Giants to a 17-14 win over the New England Patriots. On November 28, 2008 Burress decided to go to a nightclub with a pistol tucked into his waistband; it's obviously the new dance craze. It is reported that the pistol began sliding down his leg, and in reaching for the gun he pulled the trigger... The bullet hit him in the thigh causing a minor flesh wound, nothing too serious. Maybe he was feeling threatened that night or maybe he was just trying to put a new edge on the "Stankey Legg"; either way carrying an unregistered, concealed weapon is still illegal. He was sentenced on September 22, 2009 and received his two year prison sentence followed by two years of supervised release. Not knowing what to expect in prison, as if prison is some surprising, new, mysterious place, Burress felt the need to hire a prison consultant to tell him what to expect and how best to spend his time in the clink. Burress will be eligible to play in the NFL again after his sentence has been served. And maybe the next time he goes dancing he'll leave the pistol at home.

Serena's Meltdown

Few will ever forget the latest US Open tantrum thrown by none other than Serena Williams herself. Her opponent Kim Clijsters put up a very tough and unexpected fight that Williams just could not beat. Clijsters won the first set 6-4 and was up 6-5 in the second set, which is when it all started. Williams was serving to stay in the match at 30-30, her first serve was clearly out which gave Clijsters a look at a second serve. The second serve landed in, but then two deadly words came from one of the linesman's mouth, "FOOT FAULT!" You could see the fury building, knowing that she had just given Clijsters a match point. Then she snapped and literally the beast was unleashed. She walked over to the linesmen and said something that caused her to lose another point, which happened to be the match point. Clijsters had won, advancing her to the finals. It's unclear what was said but it is thought that she told the linesmen "I WOULD KILL YOU!" Serena obviously strongly denied the accusations, however her plea didn't matter, she still lost. Now I don't know if you've ever seen the monster known as Serena Williams. At 5"9', with thigh muscles the size of bowling balls, and guns barely legal in the United States, she dominates any competition on the court, except when she foot faults. That poor little linesmen stood no chance at the end of Williams' raquet.