Sunday night Nina Davuluri, Miss New York, was crowned the winner the 2014 Miss America Pageant. She is the first contestant of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America.
When her win was announced, Twitter immediately exploded with hateful tweets, with people calling her Arab.
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" took Comedy Central to task over the barrage of gay jokes directed at James Franco during its roast of the Academy Award-nominated actor earlier this month. (WARNING: contains graphic language)
Joining Rubin were comedian Erin Foley and producer Jayar Jackson, both of whom were critical of the event.
"This was just was another example of what happens in comedy clubs across the country -- it's just stupid straight dudes making stupid gay jokes," Foley said. "They don't know James Franco ... honestly, it's absolutely ridiculous."
Jackson minced even fewer words, noting, "Call it a written sh*t talk night rather than a roast."
For his part, Franco doesn't seem to mind the gay speculation. Last week, he told The Daily Beast: "I don’t even care if people think I’m gay, so it was like, 'Awesome!' I mean, I wish I was. … I wish I was gay."
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The Affordable Care Act is more unpopular than ever, with those who disapprove divided over whether the law should be reformed or scrapped, according to a Pew Research/USA Today poll released Monday.
Forty-two percent of Americans approved of the law, while 53 percent disapproved. That's the highest rate of disapproval that Pew has found since the law's passage in 2010. Attitudes among the uninsured were somewhat more positive, with 49 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving.
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, also released Monday, found similar opposition, with 44 percent of Americans calling the health care law a bad idea and 31 percent calling it a good idea. NBC posted a range of respondents' explanations for their opinions, from fears about "death panels" and rising costs, to happiness that preexisting conditions are covered and young adults can be covered by their parents' insurance.
HuffPost Pollster's average of all available public polls puts disapproval of Obamacare at about 53 percent.
In the Pew survey, those who disapproved of the health care law split on what lawmakers should do next: 27 percent of all respondents said lawmakers should try to make Obamacare work as well as possible, and 23 percent said they seek to make it fail.
"This strategic question is a particular point of conflict within the Republican Party," the Pew report says. Republicans as a whole were just slightly more likely to want the law to fail than to want it improved, while 64 percent of tea party Republicans wanted the law to fail.
Americans were almost evenly split on which party they trusted more to handle health care. Forty percent said they believe the Republican Party would do a better job dealing with health care, while 39 percent preferred the Democrats. It's the first time a Pew poll has found the GOP ahead on health care since at least 1990. While the size of Democrats' edge has varied widely in the past, a December 2012 poll put them 10 points ahead of Republicans on the issue.
More than three years after the Affordable Care Act was passed, 34 percent still said they didn't have a good understanding of how the law affects them. Just 51 percent knew that a health insurance exchange will be available in their state. Awareness of the exchanges was significantly higher in states that chose to run their own exchanges or partner with the federal government than in states where the exchanges will be run by the federal government.
The NBC/WSJ poll similarly found that only 30 percent said they understand the health care law "very well" or "pretty well."
"As it turns out, that 30 percent has more positive opinions about the health-care law (42 percent good idea, 45 percent bad idea), versus the 34 percent who don't understand it very well (17 percent good idea, 44 percent bad idea)," NBC's Mark Murray wrote.
The Pew/USA Today poll surveyed 1,504 adults between Sept. 4 and Sept. 8, while the NBC/WSJ poll surveyed 1,000 adults between Sept. 5 and Sept. 8. Both used live telephone interviews.
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Residents were shocked when they saw hundreds of ice balls falling on Brooklyn – on a very warm September day.
Residents were very concerned. They wanted to know where the balls came from and what it meant. Some thought it had to do with Climate Change, others thought it had something to do with President Obama’s threat to bomb Syria.
WWN has learned that the ice balls were purposely dropped on Brooklyn by aliens from Planet Gootan.
Dr. John Malley, the Director of the U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials has told WWN that he has examined the ice balls and can positively identify them as ice balls from Gootan spaceships.
“We have seen this many times before. The Gootans drop ice balls on communities- as a warning,” Dr. Malley said. ”Residents have nothing to fear. If the Gootans were making a serious threat they would have dropped much larger ice balls, and they would have caused much greater destruction.”
But what are the Gootans giving a warning about?
“They are just reminding us that they are here and that they will attack when they want. But the United Nations and world leaders have been preparing for their attack for thirty years. We are ready. There is nothing to fear.”
Several older men who were playing chess outside were hit by the ice balls and had to be taken to the hospital. Luckily no one else was hurt.
Dr. Malley predicts that more ice balls will fall this week and then “the Gootans will go silent for a while.”
Khloe Kardashian ended her four year marriage to Lamar Odom.
It’s another Kardashian divorce. Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom are splitting up. Khloe wasdetermined to “save” her husband and get him help for his alleged crack and cocaine addiction, but it didn’t work. Lamar reportedly chose crack over Khloe.
Kris Jenner has taken charge of the situation and is filing the paperwork herself. Khloe is reportedly “too emotional” and can’t see things clearly. ”She didn’t even have time to put on make-up before the “crying scene” for her E! show,” says a source close to the Kardashian.
Kris Jenner had an emergency two-hour meeting with a team of ten lawyers, working hard to cut Odom out of the family. ”They want to do a Humphries on her,” says a source, referring to Kim’s failed marriage to Kris Humphries.
The couple on their wedding day:
Rumors of Odom’s cheating with two different women during basketball season and his alleged cocaine use have shattered the couple’s four-year marriage. They wed just nine days after meeting in September 2009.
“Kris wants Khloe to get her prenup money, plus the penalty for cheating,” our source says. “Kim, Kourtney and Kris want her to crush Lamar. You can’t live with a drug addict and we don’t want him getting any of our money. No way!”
Wow… it’s gonna be another great season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. They always come up with a new plot twist!
The Zeppelin is flying again. And President Obama is going to be the first passenger!
Zeppelins were once considered the future of air transport – but after the horror of the Hindenburg disaster, they disappeared from the skies for more than 75 years.
And now… they’re back.
A pioneering aviation firm hopes to bring back the airships in a bid to revolutionize the global market in transporting freight.
The Aeroscraft is built using innovative technology which allows it to control its flight better than previous airships, so it should avoid the problems experienced by the first generation of zeppelins.
President Obama has ordered a Zeppelin for his own personal use. ”The President things the zeppelin is ‘cool’ and wants to use it as much as possible. He thinks American will love to see him having fun in the airship,” said a White House insider.
It requires only a third as much fuel as an airplane carrying cargo, and it can take off and land anywhere even without a formal airstrip – including on water – making it well suited to war zones and disaster areas.
So, it’s a great way to combat Climate Change.
Vice President Joe Biden commented on the zeppelin, “I want one!”
The aircraft has been designed thanks to a $3million grant from the U.S. government.
The Zeppelin was designed by Worldwide Aeros Corp., who predict that it will change the way that goods are moved around the world by providing a mode of transport which is cheaper than planes but faster than ships.
Even though its 115mph average speed is much slower than a jet airplane at 500mph-plus, the overall travel time could be lower because it can travel directly from where goods are produced to where they are needed.
