Archive for January 29th, 2006

Frist on Meet the Press

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Sen. Bill Frist was on Meet the Press today. The transcript is here and Crooks and Liars has the video) but Arianna says Russert led him to the edge of the water but stopped short of making him drink his lies. She was hoping for a full Oprah-style turnaround.

Frist told Meet the Press on an earlier occasion his HCA stock was in a blind trust and he didn’t know he owned it. Today there was this exchange:

RUSSERT: You told CNBC, “It should be understood I put this into a blind trust. So far as I know I own no HCA stock. …It’s a blind trust. Totally blind. I have no control.” That’s not accurate.

FRIST: You know, I could have been more precise in my words.

According to Bloomberg News today,

RUMBLE POLL: Rate the Royal Rumble PPV on a 0-10 scale

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Rate the WWE Royal Rumble PPV on a 0-10 scale. To vote or see results of voting so far, click here: …

With trip to Super Bowl, Seattle’s Strong has seen it all

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Winning. Losing. Playing in the AFC West, the NFC West, the Pro Bowl, and now — at long last — the Super Bowl. Mack Strong has an array of experiences to share with his younger Seattle teammates, Clark Judge says.

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Torch VIP Members, click on the red button above to access Torch columnist Jason Powell and Torch editor Wade Keller discussing the just-completed WWE Royal Rumble PPV…

List of Screen Actors Guild Award Winners (AP)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Rachel Weisz arrives on the red carpet at the 12th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 29, 2006. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniAP - A complete list of winners of the 12th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:


Withheld Evidence and Poor Investigation Lead to Wrongful Conviction

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

by TChris

A homeless man leans against a pickup truck, smoking a Camel. Inside the truck, police find a Camel pack that’s full of methamphetamine. The homeless man has $300 in his pocket. The man must be a drug dealer, right?

A jury said yes, but the judge who presided over Paul Magnan’s trial isn’t so sure.

A judge threw out the conviction — which had been Magnan’s third strike — earlier this month, finding that Magnan’s attorney ignored his innocent explanation for the money: His mother had wired him several hundred dollars a week before his arrest, so he could fly to visit her.

Prosecutors neglected to dislcose “that the woman sitting in the pickup truck, talking with Magnan at the time of his arrest, was someone police suspected in a separate incident of selling methamphetamine.” Confronted by the Mercury News, the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office said it was dismissing the meth case, while defending its decision to hide evidence from Magnan.

Temple Says ‘Mom’ Was Among Her Best Roles (AP)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Malcolm David Kelly, center, and the rest of the cast accept the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series for their work in 'Lost,' at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - LOS ANGELES — You've heard it before: It's an honor just to be nominated.


GTA: San Andreas dumbest moment 2005

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

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/>In Business 2.0’s "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" of 2005, the
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sex scandal takes the 15th spot on the list. The "Hot Coffee Mod" left
in the game by developers allowed access to sexually explicit content within the game and was discovered by a Dutch
programmer back in June of 2005. From the article: "Already marked ‘Mature’ for ‘blood and gore, intense violence,
strong language, stong sexual content, and use of drugs,’ the game gets rerated ‘Adults Only,’ causing Target and
Wal-mart to pull it from stores. Take-Two’s quarterly revenues fall $40 million short of projections."
/>[Business 2.0 January/February 2006 issue]

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Munich Terrorist ‘Regrets Nothing’

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

AP - A former Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla who was one of the masterminds of the 1972 terrorist attack on the Munich Olympics in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed said he "regrets nothing" about the incident. [Yahoo News]

Witherspoon, ‘Crash’ Win Top SAG Honors (AP)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

'Brokeback Mountain' cast members Heath Ledger, nominated for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role and girlfriend, Michelle Williams, nominated for a female actor in a supporting role arrive for the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)AP - The cowboy love story "Brokeback Mountain" continued its drive toward a clean sweep of major Hollywood honors as it entered Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards as the clear favorite.


Martial Arts De-Motivation Posters

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

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The Bullshido "Forum Bullies" have taken on both the Martial Arts and motivational posters in our most recent Pics of Disaster feature.

You can view all of them here. Don’t forget to add…

Woodruff Found Passion for News in China (AP)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

This 2001 file photo of Bob Woodruff supplied by ABC shows him in a studio at ABC news headquarters in New York.  Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday, Jan. 29 in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.  Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq. They were embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and traveling with an Iraqi mechanized vehicle.   (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco, FILE)AP - Bob Woodruff had a comfortable career in corporate law ahead of him when he took a year away to teach in China. It was 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square uprising, and amid the chaos, Woodruff discovered his passion for journalism.