WILL SMITH PLAYS GOLF IN HAWAII

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Actor WILL SMITH seen playing golf in Hawaii on Thanksgiving Day.

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WHAT TO EXPECT FROM NEW SECRETARY OF STATE: HILLARY CLINTON

// November 30th, 2008 // 17 Comments » // Hott Look@Politics

a political fighter, she definitely is

The incoming secretary of State will deal with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, in efforts to turn around the war

President-elect BARACK OBAMA plans to nominate Sen. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.

By John Charles Reedburg

Obama has definitely made a right choice in choosing Hillary.

She’ll bring global star power, a long-standing commitment to improving the status of women and children around the world and muscular promises of military action when U.S. interests are crossed.

The question for HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, slated to be named secretary of State on Monday by President-elect BARACK OBAMA, is whether she can forge the sort of close relationship with a former rival that is crucial to giving the nation’s top diplomat the credibility to get things done.

“What matters most are two things,” says James Lindsay, director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas-Austin. “One, the secretary of State has to have the president’s ear. Two, the president has to have the secretary of State’s back.”

Obama is choosing for his most prestigious Cabinet post an independent-minded policymaker whose world view has been shaped by eight years as a globe-trotting first lady and eight years as a senator with time on the Armed Services Committee. She combines a focus on “soft” issues such as maternal health with rhetoric more hawkish than Obama’s on containing Iran’s nuclear program and protecting Israel.

She will be taking the lead on a crushing set of global challenges, including repercussions from last week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, which threaten a conflagration on the nuclear-armed subcontinent.

In collaboration with other administration officials, the incoming secretary of State will deal with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, efforts to turn around the war in Afghanistan, nuclear programs in such rogue nations as North Korea and Iran, the challenge from a resurgent Russia and growing concerns about global climate change.

Obama’s pick is non-traditional on several fronts. Not since James Garfield appointed James Blaine to head the State Department in 1881 has a president chosen a major political rival for the job. What’s more, Clinton’s grounding in women’s rights contrasts with her predecessors, most of whom had pursued careers in academia, the military or law steeped in U.S. relations with major world powers.

The Obama transition office said Sunday that he would unveil his national security team today. Two Democratic sources with firsthand knowledge of the decision confirmed Clinton would be among those named. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on the record.

Clinton is “a tough pragmatist who understands it’s a dangerous world out there, who understands it can be necessary at times to use force and at other times to be able to back your diplomacy with the threat of force,” says Martin Indyk, a former assistant secretary of State and ambassador to Israel who is close to Clinton.
“On the other hand, she has shown a very deep commitment to the causes of human rights, women’s rights in particular, and the pursuit of peace and resolution of conflict.”

When Clinton decided to run for the Senate in 2000, she launched her campaign with a “listening tour” to hear from New York voters. When she began her presidential campaign in 2007, she announced a similar “listening tour” through states with early primaries and caucuses.

As they competed for the Democratic nomination, Clinton portrayed Obama as naive in his approach to rogue leaders around the world.
Obama, meanwhile, questioned her judgment in voting to authorize the Iraq war and cast her as unnecessarily bellicose toward Iran. He and his top aides — including Susan Rice, set to be named United Nations ambassador — mocked the idea that Clinton’s work as first lady amounted to substantive experience.

Now, associates of both describe their differences on foreign policy as overblown in the heat of battle. They say Clinton’s public campaigning for Obama during the general election and their private conversations in the four weeks since he won have helped mend fences and begin a budding partnership. Obama strategist David Axelrod now calls Clinton “able, tough, brilliant.”

Even so, no appointment Obama has considered has generated as much chatter as the choice of the New York senator.
Some leaders of anti-war groups are dismayed that Obama, whose national ambitions were launched by his opposition to the invasion of Iraq, would give such a key role to someone who supported it.

“One of the ways in which he separated himself from Hillary Clinton during the primary season was to remind people that early on he was opposed to the war in Iraq, was opposed to her position, which was always quite supportive of war,” says Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of anti-war groups.
She calls the prospective nomination of Clinton “quite disappointing” but says the “real question” will be the policies Obama himself sets.

Then there are the potential complications of choosing the spouse of a former president who continues to pursue his own initiatives on AIDS and other issues around the world. Will foreign leaders assume Bill Clinton speaks for the White House? And what happens if he disagrees with a step the president and secretary of State decide to take?

The former president has agreed to take steps to minimize conflicts or the appearance of them, including submitting future speaking engagements and business dealings to the State Department or White House for approval. Under the arrangement, first reported by The New York Times Sunday, Clinton will release the names of more than 200,000 donors to his foundation.

The former president could prove to be an asset for the new administration. In an interview in October with Joe Klein of Time magazine, Obama said he had talked with Bill Clinton about the possibility of serving as a special envoy to ease tensions between India and Pakistan — a task that takes on special importance now.

Bill Clinton has been “foursquare” in favor of his wife’s appointment, says Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of State who has been a friend since they were Rhodes Scholars together. “I know his initial reaction to the idea was, ‘She’d be great; (Obama’s) smart to offer it.’ …
“She obviously had to make some pretty basic decisions” whether to accept the job, Talbott says. “It’s a major career change.”
She has made those before.

Clinton was a Little Rock lawyer and activist on children’s issues when her husband was governor of Arkansas. After he was elected president in 1992, she headed the task force charged with his signature domestic initiative, on health care.

The proposal she helped draft failed spectacularly, never coming to a vote on Capitol Hill and contributing to devastating Democratic setbacks in the congressional elections in 1994. Hillary Clinton, a political lightning rod in the United States, became increasingly engaged in global travels and programs.

“She was very interested in a combination of things that led her to get more active on foreign issues,” recalls Madeleine Albright, who was U.N. ambassador in President Clinton’s first term and secretary of State in his second. She and Hillary Clinton regularly met for lunch in Albright’s private dining room at the State Department.
“She could see what her voice meant when she got involved in a particular issue,” Albright says. “There were specific areas she got interested in — human rights and women’s issues and international health issues — and then more and more that gave her the capability of understanding developments in those countries.”

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DAVID BECKHAM’s OUT TO LUNCH

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DAVID BECKHAM along with his 2 sons BROOKLYN and ROMEO are seen leaving the Four Seasons Hotel and heading over to the Plaza Hotel for lunch.

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LINDSAY LOHAN AROUND AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS

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Actress LINDSAY LOHAN out shopping in Beverly Hills. Lindsay stopped by XIV Karats LTD, Chanel and then finished it off by grabbing some pizza at the Mulberry Street Pizzeria. Lindsay also shows off her “Lohan Mustache.”

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BEHIND THE SCENES: FAMOUS “AIN’T NO USE” VIDEO SHOOT

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By John Charles Reedburg

An unique treat!

Here’s a behind the scenes look at FAMOUS’ new video “Ain’t No Use” off of his new “I Rap Now” EP.

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WORLD TALLEST CAKE

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By John Charles Reedburg

Too bad it’s not a sock-it-to-me cake.

An INDONESIAN BAKER hopes to take the title of the world’s tallest cake with a Christmassy confection in Jakarta. Indonesia is a mostly Muslim country. But that hasn’t stopped Indonesian baker Nila Sari from creating what she hopes will be a Guinness World Record-breaking edible Christmas tree which is intended to herald the festive season and year-end shopping binge in Jakarta.

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FORMER PORN STAR TURNS TEACHER’s AIDE

// November 30th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Hott Topics

By John Charles Reedburg

Damn.

I wish I was still a kid.

I’d definitely enroll in her class. Anytime. LOL!

CRYSTAL GUNNS – who’s real name is LOUISA C. TUCK – works with children at D’Ippolito Elementary School in Vineland, NJ. She helps on the playground and in the cafeteria. She also works at the local YMCA where some parents there called her ‘an excellent role model.’

Five years ago, she was starring in porn films and some in the community in which she works are not super happy about her past. The president of the area’s Board of Education says the “Crystal Gunns Porn” connection is enough to fire Louisa Tuck. But the district’s Superintendent is on her side — suggesting that the district has been “advised against taking action,” because they have no legal grounds to terminate an employee based solely on previous employment — even porn star employment. The parents in the community are also split — some want her fired and others take no issue with her porn star past.

And that porn star past? It’s been 5 years since she has done porn. Crystal Gunns, and her obvious assets, appeared in at least three adult-themed movies: ‘Busty Dildo Lovers #5′ in 2003, ‘Score Brabusters’ in 2002, and ‘Busty Dildo Lovers #2′, also in 2002. She also still appears to maintain an adult Web site at crystalgunns[dot]com. The front page features a login prompt for paying members. Nonetheless, finding photos or videos of her pornographic endeavors is easily enough accomplished with a simple google search however those results will be NSFW so take note!

Crystal Gunns, aka Louisa Tuck, really takes issue with the whole scuttlebutt saying that many current role models had questionable pasts.

“If this is about morality, our president-elect has admitted to doing crack, and he’s our president. Does that make him a bad person? Bill Clinton smoked pot. Does that make him a bad person?” she asks.

And the school district that employs Ms. Tuck indicates it will “continue to look into the situation and determine options.”

So what do you think? There is no indication whatsoever that she has been inappropriate with the children. Would you care if Louisa Tuck was an aide at your child’s school?

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NAOMI AND BEAU ON BEACH DATE

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Supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL and her billionaire boyfriend VLADIMIR DORONIN seen relaxing on the beach in Miami…until a fan informs them that they are being photographed and Vladimir goes over and beats a photographer.

By John Charles Reedburg

Wow-sers! Naomi has nerves.

NAOMI CAMPBELL strips down to her underwear on the beach in Miami while on beach date with her beau VLADIMIR DORONIN.

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SNOOP DOG TALKS ABOUT SPIDER-LOC AND SUGE KNIGHT BEEF

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By John Charles Reedburg

Doggy Dog gets raw and real.

Young rappers need to respect this west coast elite.

I love Snoop. He’s a genuine dude.

DJ WHOO KID interviews SNOOP DOGG. As Snoop talks about 50 Cent, OBAMA, T-PAIN, SUGE KNIGHT, his beef with SPIDER LOC. Snoop says that if it wasn’t for 50 Cent. He would’ve knock Spider-Loc’s wig off.

Snoop also sums up Suge Knight’s knock out as mere bully having his day. Says Knight wasn’t a bully in the early days of Deathrow.

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THE WEST AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE OF FASHION AND TEXTILES FASHION SHOW

// November 30th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Hott Fashion

MODELS showcase designs by KIMMYE WONG on the catwalk during The West Australia Institute of Fashion and Textiles, the annual WA Institute of Fashion and Textiles fashion show, at The Astral at Burswood Convention Center on November 26, 2008 in Perth, Australia.

Models showcase designs by EMMA BATTEN on the catwalk during The West Australia Institute of Fashion and Textiles, the annual WA Institute of Fashion and Textiles fashion show, at The Astral at Burswood Convention Center on November 26, 2008 in Perth, Australia.

Models showcase designs by EBONY HARDING on the catwalk during The West Australia Institute of Fashion and Textiles, the annual WA Institute of Fashion and Textiles fashion show, at The Astral at Burswood Convention Center on November 26, 2008 in Perth, Australia.

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