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QUEEN ELIZABETH IS TOUCHED

Queen has been Elizabeth was touch by Michelle Obama some say that was breaking protocol. I say something else i just can’t say it.

Oh and anderson is cute and i heard he is gay.

GEORGE LOPEX TO GET HIS OWN TALK SHOW???

George lopez is set to get his own talk show on TBS. I hope he does well. He is very talented. Good Luck

LEANN RIMES HUSBAND IS A FAG!!! WELL THIS DAYS ISNT EVERYONE??

No wonder LeAnn Rimes allegedly cheated on husband Dean Sheremet with her co-star Eddie Cibrian. She’s been his beard all along!

No shocker there!!!!!!

Dean’s friends and family called into Michigan’s Mojo in the Morning show to confirm that the former backup dancer is gay!!!!

Duh!

Cousin Pebbles called into the morning talk show and matter-of-factly stated, “I mean, there were so many situations that happened when we were teenagers… He’s gay. He’s been gay since he was probably five.”

So were we!!!!

Adds the babbling cousin, “The family literally used to take bets on what age he would come out, and then all of the sudden he got married!”

After Pebbles outed her cousin, the calls came pouring in!

The word from a student of the former dance teacher turned backup dancer? “He’s definitely gay.”

And from a woman who used to work at a restaurant with Dean’s high school friends? “They called him “Dancer Dean”… [His friends] were surprised that he got married because they knew he was gay in high school the whole time.”

We told you so!!

How are LeAnn’s people going to spin this one???

CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING NATASHA’S DEATH

Natasha Richardson wasn’t admitted to the hospital until nearly four hours after her ski accident — three hours longer than initially reported, according to a new report.

And there’s more. A ski resort spokesperson said Natasha was laughing and walking around after the fall. But according to the New York Times, paramedics who arrived shortly after the fall say they did not see Natasha laughing. To the contrary, they saw her sitting on a stretcher. The paramedics were told to leave.

A resort spokesperson said Tuesday Richardson was taken to the hospital an hour after her fall, but ambulance records obtained by the Times reveal it was nearly three hours after the fall that the second ambulance was called.

And when the ambulance arrived at the hotel, paramedics spent more than half an hour in Richardson’s room before transporting her to the hospital. The upshot — she must have been in really bad shape when they arrived.

The medical examiner has concluded Richardson died of blunt impact to the head.

LATEST UPDATE:

The timeline of events following Natasha Richardson’s tragic accident have been pieced together, revealing “critical lapses in her care” that may have led to the actress’ death.

Richardson fell not long after 12:43 pm on Monday, which was when a member of the Mont Tremblant ski patrol was dispatched to the site of Natasha’s accident.

An ambulance arrived at 1:00 pm to the bottom of the ski slope and waited for Richardson to meet paramedics for treatment via toboggan.

Richardson reportedly “whisk[ed] by on the sled without stopping,” and the ski patrol informed the paramedics that Natasha had refused treatment and they were free to go.

Richardson made a stop at the Mont Tremblant clinic with her ski instructor, which may or may not have been staffed by a physician, and headed back to her suite at a nearby hotel.

Another ambulance was dispatched to the hotel at 3:00 pm after Richardson’s ski instructor called the hotel manager.

“The instructor called the general manager and said Richardson had a headache and she was not feeling well. The [general manager] went to see her said she was going to call an ambulance. Richardson said she didn’t need an ambulance or a doctor – and the GM insisted that an ambulance come and get her,” revealed Yves Coderre, director of the ambulance company that services Mont Tremblant.

When paramedics arrived to Richardson’s room, they saw “something that wasn’t right… [The paramedic] saw some signs indicating her condition was destabilizing. He called ahead to the hospital to let them know of her condition and he put the siren on,” said Coderre.

Richardson left Mont Tremblant for Centre Hospitalier Laurentain in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts at 3:47 pm where the actress’ condition was stabilized.

After being stabilized, Natasha was rushed to the trauma center of the Sacre-Coeur hospital in Montreal. Richardson did not arrive to the trauma center until 7:00 pm due to the 52 mile trek between the two hospitals.

The Sacre-Coeur hospital was unable to provide helicopter transportation to the late actress because Montreal is unequipped with helicopters for medical transport.

“Our system isn’t set up for traumas and doesn’t match what’s available in other Canadian cities, let alone in the States,” said Tarek Razek, the director of trauma services for the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal.

COULD MARIGUANA BE THE ANSWER???

Could marijuana be the answer to the economic misery facing California? Democratic State Assembly member Tom Ammiano thinks so. Ammiano introduced legislation last month that would legalize pot and allow the state to regulate and tax its sale — a move that could mean billions for the cash-strapped state. Pot is, after all, California’s biggest cash crop, responsible for $14 billion in annual sales, dwarfing the state’s second largest agricultural commodity — milk and cream — which brings in $7.3 billion annually, according to the most recent USDA statistics. The state’s tax collectors estimate the bill would bring in about $1.3 billion in much-needed revenue a year, offsetting some of the billions in service cuts and spending reductions outlined in the recently approved state budget.

“The state of California is in a very, very precipitous economic plight. It’s in the toilet,” says Ammiano. “It looks very, very bleak, with layoffs and foreclosures and schools closing or trying to operate four days a week. We have one of the highest rates of unemployment we’ve ever had. With any revenue ideas people say you have to think outside of the box, you have to be creative, and I feel that the issue of the decriminalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana fits that bill. It’s not new, the idea has been around, and the political will may in fact be there to make something happen.” (See pictures of stoner cinema.)

Ammiano may be right. A few days after he introduced the bill, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that states should be able to make their own rules on medical marijuana and that federal raids on pot dispensaries in California would cease. The move signaled a softening of the hard-line approach previous administrations have had to medicinal pot use. The nomination of Gil Kerlikowske as the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy may also signal a softer federal line on marijuana. If he is confirmed as the so-called Drug Czar, Kerlikowske will bring with him experience as police chief of Seattle, where he made it clear that going after people for posessing marijuana was not a priority of his force. (See a story about the grass-roots marijuana war in California.)

California was one of the first states in the nation to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. Currently, $200 million in medical marijuana sales are subject to sales tax. If passed, the Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act (AB 390) would give California control of pot in a manner similar to alcohol, while prohibiting its purchase to citizens under age 21. (The bill has been referred to the California State Assembly’s Public Safety and Health Committees; Ammiano says it could take up to a year before it comes to a vote for passage.) State revenues would be derived from a $50 per ounce levy on retail sales of marijuana and sales taxes. By adopting the law, California could become a model for other states. As Ammiano put it: “How California goes, the country goes.”

Despite the projected and much-needed revenue, opponents say legalizing pot will only add to social woes. “The last thing we need is yet another mind-altering substance to be legalized,” says John Lovell, lobbyist for the California Peace Officers’ Association. “We have enough problems with alcohol and abuse of pharmaceutical products: do we really need to add yet another mind-altering substance to the array?” Lovell says the easy availability of the drug will lead to a surge in its use, much like what happened when alcohol was allowed to be sold in venues other than liquor stores in some states.

Joel W. Hay, professor of Pharmaceutical Economics at USC, also foresees harm if the bill passes. “Marijuana is a drug that clouds people’s judgment. It affects their ability to concentrate and react and it certainly has impacts on third parties,” says Hay, who has written on the societal costs of drug abuse. “It’s one more drug that will add to the toll on society. All we have to do is look at the two legalized drugs, tobacco and alcohol, and look at the carnage that they’ve caused. [Marijuana] is a dangerous drug and it causes bad outcomes for both the people who use it and for the people who are in their way at work or other activities.” He adds: “There are probably some responsible people who can handle marijuana but there are lots of people who can’t, and it has an enormous negative impact on them, their family and loved ones.” (See pictures of Mexico’s drug wars.)

In response, retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James Gray, a longtime proponent of legalization, estimates that legalizing pot and thus ceasing to arrest, prosecute and imprison non-violent offenders could save the state an additional $1 billion a year. “We couldn’t make this drug any more available if we tried,” he says. “Not only do we have those problems, along with glamorizing it by making it illegal, but we also have the crime and corruption that go along with it.” He adds, “Unfortunately, every society in the history of mankind has had some form of mind-altering, sometimes addictive substances to use, to misuse, abuse or get addicted to. Get used to it. They’re here to stay. So, let’s try to reduce those harms and right now we couldn’t do it worse if we tried.”

MORE ON HOWARD K STERN KILLING ANNA NICOLE

Howard K. Stern has been named the “principal enabler” in Anna Nicole Smith‘s death!!!

California Attorney General Jerry Brown discussed the charges brought against the shitsy lawyer in a press conference held early Friday.

Remember the giant tubs of methadone found in Anna’s fridge after her death???

Brown has enough evidence to believe that Stern illegally administered prescription drugs to Anna “knowingly” and that he “repeatedly and excessively furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose.”

Stern as well as Anna’s former doctor, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, surrendered to police on all charges and were released on $20,000 bail Thursday night.

The two, along with Dr. Khristine Eroshevich have been charged with “prescribing drugs excessively to a known addict and using false and fictitious names all in violation of the law and all in furtherance of a conspiracy.”

The three will be arraigned on May 13th in Los Angeles.

BEETY WHITE STILL HAS HIT!!!

Legendary television actress Betty White was spotted leaving a doctor’s appointment in Beverly Hills on Tuesday and the 87-years-young funnywoman doesn’t look a day over 70!

White was repping all her faves in the animal kingdom, wearing a giraffe blouse paired with a handbag adorned with kittens.

COULD A CURE BE CLOSE???

New Vaginal Gel Stops AIDS Virus
Cosmetic Ingredient GML Protects Monkeys From AIDS Virus

A new kind of vaginal gel prevents sexual transmission of the AIDS virus in monkey studies.

The anti-HIV ingredient in the gel is glycerol monolaurate or GML. It’s already FDA approved as an ingredient in cosmetics and medicines.

“The results are very encouraging. They point to a novel avenue to prevent sexual transmission of HIV,” study researcher Ashley T. Haase, MD, head of the microbiology department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, said at a telephone news conference.

The surprise finding that GML can block HIV comes from basic research showing that the AIDS virus gains a foothold in the vagina by taking advantage of the body’s immune system. Immune responses to the virus draw T cells — the white blood cells HIV loves to infect — to the site of infection. Without T-cell recruitment, HIV loses its grip.

That’s where GML comes in. The antimicrobial agent affects immune responses and breaks the chain of events that let HIV spread through the body.

“We thought if we could modulate the immune response at the portal of HIV entry, we could block sexual transmission,” Haase said. “[Colleague] Patrick Schlievert’s work with GML showed that it had many properties that might block HIV expansion and systematic spread.”

Haase, Schlievert, and colleagues gave five rhesus macaque monkeys daily GML treatments before putting 200 infectious doses of deadly SIV — the monkey version of HIV — into their vaginas. Another four animals got a gel without GML.

The four animals not given GML got AIDS. Those treated with GML showed no sign of infection during the short-term study, although one of the five animals showed signs of infection several months later. But just as HIV drugs with different modes of action are more effective when mixed into a drug “cocktail,” Haase says GML could be mixed with different kinds of anti-HIV agents.

“GML could be part of a combined strategy with another vaginal microbicide, such as PRO 2000, with a different mechanism of action,” he suggests.
Ingredients of GML Anti-HIV Gel in Common Use

GML is found in breast milk, Schlievert says, and it is used in many cosmetics and in medicines taken orally or used on the skin. And recent studies show that GML kills many different kinds of germs — including vaginal yeast infections and several different sexually transmitted diseases, said Schlievert, professor of microbiology at the University of Minnesota.

“GML is presently being considered as an additive to tampons because of its ability to interfere with bacterial growth, including the bacteria that cause toxic shock syndrome,” Schlievert said at the news conference.

For vaginal use in the monkey studies — and with an eye toward future human use — GML was mixed with KY Warming Liquid, an over-the-counter product widely used as a personal lubricant.

“What was done was to combine two FDA-approved medical devices to create another approved device,” Schlievert said.

However, Schlievert said GML has not yet been tested for long-term human use.

And there’s a lot more work to do with monkeys before GML gel is ready for human tests. That will have to be done before human studies of GML gel for HIV prevention.

Haase, Schlievert, and colleagues report their findings in the March 4 online edition of the journal Nature.