It's been awhile since I posted, but work has had me very busy. I just wanted to post something and get back in the game here! Some pretty amazing, beautiful birds, enjoy!
1. Himalayan Monal2. Formosan Magpie
3. Flamecrest
4. Golden Pheasant
5. Green Jay
6. Kingfisher
7. Lady Amherst's Pheasant
8. Bleeding Heart Pigeons
9. Nicobar Pigeon
10. Quetzal
11. Winson's Bird Of Paradise
12. Peacock
13. Sup, Polish Chicken
A Kentucky man is suing his doctor after the surgeon amputated the man's penis during a circumcision procedure to treat inflammation.
The doctor says he found cancer in the man's penis while performing the surgery and made the decision to amputate it because according to him, the cancer was life-threatening. Phillip Seaton is now taking the doctor to court, claiming that he should have been consulted before the doctor took action. This has been going on for over 2 years!
Yiiiikes!! Poor guy. He has to live the rest of his life without his peen!
Charlie Sheen
Definition: The name of whatever Sheen’s on.
Usage: "I am on a drug, it's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available because if you try it you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."
Winning
Definition: The end goal of Charlie Sheen’s life philosophy.
Usage: “The only thing I’m addicted to right now is winning,” “Just winning every second,” “Winning, anyone?” “Duh, winning!”
Pronunciation: Quoth Sheen, “It rhymes with winning.”
Bi-winning
Definition: Winning on the ultimate level.
Usage: I’m not bi-polar, “I’m bi-winning. I win here and I win there.”
Riding the mercury surfboard
Definition: Skillfully working one’s way into the headlines.
Usage: "It's been a tsunami of media and I've been riding it on a mercury surfboard." (See also: “winning.”)
Wearing a golden sombrero
Definition: Getting divorced four times in a row (kind of the opposite of a hat trick).
Usage: “I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer -- I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero."
Tiger blood
Definition: What runs through Sheen’s veins, making him all-powerful.
Usage: “AA was written for normal people. People that don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA,” “[I survived drug addiction] because I'm me. I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man.”
Sober Valley Lodge
Definition: The Beverly Hills home where Sheen claims he’s healed himself “with the power of my mind.”
Usage: “We couldn’t really call it rehab because we didn’t have a license to operate one, so it was a crisis management center that we labeled the Sober Valley Lodge. … Its primary client achieved radical success.”
The Wedge
Definition: Sheen’s nickname for himself, based on his preferred position between his two blonde 24-year-old girlfriends, a.k.a. "the goddesses."
Usage: “It’s a wedge. Boom. You form a wedge to make room for the guy carrying the ball.”
Boom
Definition: An exclamation used to signify the end of a mind-blowing statement.
Usage: “You have the right to kill me, but you do not have the right to judge me. Boom. That’s the whole movie. That’s life.” “[My ex-wife Denise Richards] shows up looking the way she does. … Wow! Everybody’s winning. Boom!” “White gold? Boom!” (Synonyms: Bang.)
Buh-bye
Definition: An exclamation used to signify the end of a conversation.
Usage: “That's how I roll. And if it's too gnarly for people, then buh-bye,” “Oh wait, can’t process it. Losers. Winning. Buh-bye.”
Charlie Sheen is on a Manic Mystery Tour! He hasn't shut up in weeks and I don't see any end in sight. With his show officially canceled for the season (there were 8 more episodes to tape) and any contractual obligation to keep his trap shut out the window, Charlie is opening up to ANYONE who will listen to his insanity.
Shortly after this his publicist quit too. Stan Rosenfield announced he was resigning as Charlie Sheen's publicist in an effort to save his own reputation, Charlie felt pissed about this betrayal. His words were "Pussy. He's not allowed to quit, so you’re fired."
The crazy just keeps coming too. Earlier today, it was learned that Charlie is planning on suing CBS, WB, and Executive Producer Lorre for $320 million for "mental anguish."
Now, Charlie has had lawyer Marty Singer send WB and CBS a letter demanding that Sheen be compensated approximately $16 million for this season's eight canceled episodes of Two and a Half Men.
Get a load of his interview on Good Morning America. Somebody is on the denial train and it's coming off the tracks!
Grant Storms, the former pastor who has led charges against the annual Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, has been arrested in Lafreniere Park by the Jefferson Parish sheriff's department on obscenity charges.
On the afternoon of Feb. 25, a mother unloading her children from a car to take them to a nearby playground alerted authorities to a man in a Ford Windstar van parked near the playground. The man, she told sheriffs' deputies, was masturbating. Storms told officers on the scene he wasn't masturbating, but instead attempting to urinate in a bottle in the van. This afternoon, he admitted concocting that story — "I was ashamed" — but did not admit to masturbating. "I'm confessing to having my hand in my pants," Storms said. "That's all I'm going to say," adding the truth "will come out in court."
Speaking in the parking lot of a motel on the I-10 Service Road in Metairie, where he had been staying since his arrest, Storms struggled for composure, at times breaking down in tears as he described the effect his arrest had on his wife and four children, the youngest of whom are nine and six years old. "I'll have to tell them, 'Daddy has a problem,'" he said, weeping.
Storms wanted to clear the record on one issue in particular: that he was parked in the vicinity of the Lafreniere playspot to watch children. "I am not a pedophile," he said. "I am not a child molester."
This is the same guy that filmed lewd acts at Southern Decadence in an effort to get cops to just shut it down completely.
So this is the latest entertainment shenanigans going on over there at the Vatican?
The usually stoic weekly Papal audience was treated to a rush of adrenaline when a troupe of really hot male acrobats stripped off their shirts for an impromptu performance at the Vatican. Strange, who invited them as this was not that long or really impressive. Just really more of a tease.
Dressed in white, the group of four walked across the stage toward Pope Benedict’s throne and surprised the audience by pulling off their shirts before hoisting each other into the air for some titillating balancing.
Clearly, the Pope loved it, he even got out of his chair at the end, although it looked like he wanted their shirts given back as to quiet the nuns. Did you check out those nuns going wild at the end? Too funny!
From what I've read, I would never waste my time watching this, Sarah Palin's Alaska, which features the Vice-Presidential candidate sashaying all over the state with various weapons, is a whole lot of thinly-veiled right wing bullshit, but with not even a fragment of self-awareness.
In reading about Sunday's episode which involved Palin hunting and killing wild Alaskan Caribou, because as she explains, they were running low on their reserves, and since in Alaska there's not one grocery store for - and we quote - "200 or 300 miles," the only option they have up there is to kill their own food!
Well, it seems acclaimed writer Aaron Sorkin didn't take too kindly to the aforementioned episode, and wrote the following SCATHING response entitled In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming!
Please enjoy! It's pretty much work of art!
"Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation."
You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go fuck ourselves now.
The snotty quote was posted by Sarah Palin on (like all the great frontier women who've come before her) her Facebook page to respond to the criticism she knew and hoped would be coming after she hunted, killed and carved up a Caribou during a segment of her truly awful reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, broadcast on The-Now-Hilariously-Titled Learning Channel.
I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather, and PETA is not ever going to put me on the cover of their brochure and for these reasons Palin thinks it's hypocritical of me to find what she did heart-stoppingly disgusting. I don't think it is, and here's why.
Like 95% of the people I know, I don't have a visceral (look it up) problem eating meat or wearing a belt. But like absolutely everybody I know, I don't relish the idea of torturing animals. I don't enjoy the fact that they're dead and I certainly don't want to volunteer to be the one to kill them and if I were picked to be the one to kill them in some kind of Lottery-from-Hell, I wouldn't do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart.
I'm able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don't watch snuff films and you make them. You weren't killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals. I can make the distinction between the two of us but I've tried and tried and for the life of me, I can't make a distinction between what you get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing. I'm able to make the distinction with no pangs of hypocrisy even though I get happy every time one of you faux-macho shitheads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face.
So I don't think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl. (I'm in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God's country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.)
And you didn't just do it for fun and you didn't just do it for money. That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain. You knew there'd be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully. What a uniter you'd be — bringing the right together with the far right.
(Let me be the first to say that I abused cocaine and was arrested for it in April 2001. I want to be the first to say it so that when Palin's Army of Arrogant Assholes, bereft of any reasonable rebuttal, write it all over the internet tomorrow they will at best be the second.)
I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.
The recent marriage of Katy Perry and Russell Brand got me thinking... no pre-nup is a wonderful way to start a marriage, but in this day and age of fair weather marriages of people in the limelight, that could be costly! When two high profile and wealthy people do wed, it seems a more practical and smart move to see the business side that it is also a "merger", not just a marriage.
When a marriage goes sour, the process of divorce becomes increasingly more complicated when the couple's net worth is in the stratosphere. The absence of an official prenuptial agreement, differences in international law and the circumstances surrounding of the breakup can result in large sums being paid out in the divorce settlement.
Although most settlements don't get finalized until well after the divorce takes place, there was speculation that the divorce between Tiger Woods and his wife could cost the world's No. 1 golfer up to $300 million , among the costliest in history. Other breakups that could enter the top rankings include Mel Gibson and Robyn Gibson, whose split has the potential to be the most expensive in Hollywood history, with speculation it could hit $500 million.
Read on to hear the movers and shakers who don't even make the headlines...
15. Kevin Costner and Cindy Silva
Settlement Amount: $80 million
After 16 years of marriage and three children, actor Kevin Costner and wife Cindy Silva decided to end their marriage in 1994. Although the situation was settled privately, Cindy received $80 million from Costner in the wake of the divorce.
14. Harrison Ford and Melissa Mathison
Settlement Amount: $85 million
Another costly divorce settlement was the 2004 breakup between actor Harrison Ford and Hollywood regular Melissa Mathison, who was also known for writing the script for Spielberg's E.T. After 18 years of marriage and two children, the couple decided to call it quits in 2004. Without a prenuptial agreement, Mathison was awarded a sum of approximately $85 million.
13. Madonna and Guy Ritchie
Settlement Amount: $76 - $92 Million
In December 2008, pop star Madonna and director Guy Ritchie broke up their marriage of 8 years. Madonna's representatives confirmed the settlement was between $76-$92 million. Although Ritchie was worth an estimated $45 million at the time and said he wasn't interested in a substantial portion of his ex-wife's wealth, the settlement surely wasn't bad news for the successful director.
12. (Tied) Sumner and Phyllis Redstone
Settlement Amount: $100 Million
In a marriage that lasted 52 years, Sumner Redstone, the majority owner and chairman of National Amusements, which owns CBS, Viacom and MTV Networks, went through divorce proceedings with his wife, Phyllis. As the marriage dated back to less-complicated legal and financial times (no prenuptial agreement was signed by either party) reports at the time speculated that Phyllis stood to receive between $1.5 - $2.5 billion.
Although the final amount was never officially made public, the Los Angeles Times reported that Phyllis received only $100 million, citing a source close to the family. Following the 1999 divorce, Redstone eventually remarried Paula Fortunato, another marriage that ended in divorce. This time, however, a prenuptial agreement awarded Ms. Fortunato $5 million, stipulating that she would receive $1 million for every year of marriage.
11. (Tied) Steven Speilberg and Amy Irving
Settlement Amount: $112 million
When they first met in 1984, Spielberg was well into his directing career and Amy Irving was an aspiring actress. Four years later, the couple ended their marriage in a $112 million settlement, which was half of Spielberg's net worth at the time. The couple actually did have a prenuptial agreement, but this was eventually thrown out in court, as it was written on a cocktail napkin and there were no legal witnesses. It turned out to be quite a costly mistake.
10. Greg Norman and Laura Andrassy
Settlement Amount: $103 million
After 25 years of marriage, Australian golfer Greg Norman split with his wife, Laura Andrassy, handing over $103 million in the divorce settlement. Norman left Andrassy in 2006 for Chris Evert, who was the #1 ranked women’s tennis player at one time, but this marriage dissolved after only 15 months.
9. Neil Diamond and Marica Murphey
Settlement Amount: $150 million
After 25 years of marriage, singer Neil Diamond and his then-wife Marcia split in 1996 after rumors of Neil's infidelity encouraged her to file for divorce. In the settlement, although the official numbers were never made public, Diamond has been quoted as saying that Marcia had received $150 million in the divorce.
8. Michael and Juanita Jordan
Settlement Amount: $168 million
Basketball legend Michael Jordan and his wife Juanita split up in 2006 after 17 years of marriage, and one year later came to a divorce settlement of $168 million. The couple considered divorce in January 2002, but reconciled their differences shortly thereafter. At the time, Jordan had been quoted as saying that he was willing to pay a premium to expedite the breakup proceedings.
7. Michael and Maya Polsky
Settlement Amount: $184 million
In 2003, Maya Polsky, wife of Michael Polsky, filed for divorce and wound up settling for $184 million. Polsky, the founder, president and CEO of Invenergy LLC had an estimated $368 million in cash and assets with his wife prior to the divorce, and she got half of it.
The couple, which married in 1975 in the Ukraine, moved to the US in 1976 with little assets and only $500 in cash. Polsky made his fortune by starting various energy companies, including SkyGen Energy (which he sold in 2000 for $450 million) and Invenergy, which is a Chicago-based wind energy company.
6. Roman and Irina Abramovich
Settlement Amount: $300 million
In what had the potential to be the most expensive divorce settlement of all-time, Roman Abramovich's divorce from Irina Abramovich only ended up costing the Russian billionaire $300 million. At the time (2007) Roman was listed by Forbes as the 16th richest man in the world, and it was speculated that Irina could be awarded up to half of her former husband's $18.7 billion. Instead, she was awarded less than 2 percent of his fortune.
Don't feel bad for her, however, as assets are reported to have included cash, mansions in Britain and Moscow, a yacht and a private plane. Reports from the time note that Irina could have gotten more from Roman, citing a 50/50 split of wealth under Russian law, but she had not explicitly tried to get a larger chunk of his holdings.
5. Robert and Sheila Johnson
Settlement Amount: $400 million
Robert Johnson, the co-founder of BET and America's first African-American billionaire, also has one of the biggest divorce settlements in history. After a marriage of over 30 years, the couple split up in 2000 and Sheila received an estimated $400 million in the settlement. Both have continued their business dealings, owning majority stakes in professional men's and women's basketball teams. In 2005, Sheila married William T. Newman Jr., the judge who presided over her original divorce case.
4. Craig and Wendy McCaw
Settlement Amount: $460 million
The Seattle-area businessman and founder of McCaw Cellular, Craig McCaw and his wife Wendy split up, in 1998, just a few years after selling the company to AT&T for between $11-$12 billion. The divorce settlement saw Wendy receive most of her $460 million settlement in Nextel stock, which eventually allowed her to purchase the Santa-Barbara News-Press from the New York Times. When the settlement was finalized, it put her on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans, but she soon dropped off after a short run.
3. Adnan and Soraya Khashoggi
Settlement Amount: $874 million
For almost two decades, Saudi billionaire entrepreneur and arms dealer Adnan Kasshoggi held the record for the most expensive divorce settlement in history. Although they filed for divorce in 1974, it took Soraya until 1979 to sue - for a sum of $2.54 billion - her ex-husband for the rights to cash in the wake of their breakup.
In 1982, the couple agreed to a settlement that landed British-born Soraya (originally Sandra Daly) $874 million. At one time, Adnan was estimated to be worth $4 billion, but lost his billionaire status in 2007, with no help from his costly divorce.
2. Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone
Settlement Amount: $1-1.2 billion (estimated)
The 2009 divorce between billionarie Bernie Ecclestone and his wife Slavica was initially thought to be the most expensive in history - in the range of $4 billion. But the final settlement is estimated by various reports to be in the range of $1 billion. The settlement has not been made public, but experts from across the globe believe the latter number is more realistic.
Since the settlement, Slavica, a former Armani model who stands nearly a foot taller than her ex-husband, has been buying some new toys with her wealth, now estimated to be £734 million ($1.2 billion) by the Times of London. Part of her recent shopping spree is a new $60 million private plane.
1. Rupert and Anna Murdoch
Settlement Amount: $1.7 billion
The most expensive divorce in the world to date is between Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his former wife, Anna Murdoch (now Anna Murdoch Mann). After a marriage of 32 years and three children together, the couple split up in 1999. Under the settlement, $1.7 billion of Rupert's fortune (which included $110 million in cash) went to Anna.
A mere 17 days after the divorce was finalized, Rupert wed Wendi Deng, 38 years his junior, while Anna married investor William Mann several months later.
Check out these amazing real life, scary pumpkins carved for your viewing pleasure! All of the awesome pumpkins were done by a man named Ray Villafane and he’s going to be on the “Food Network Challenge: Outrageous Pumpkins” soon.
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