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Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are All Loved Up

Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler are all loved up and can’t keep their hands off each other! We so saw this one coming! Jen and Gerry look terrific as a couple! Ok, truth is this is just for the promo..

many more gorgeous Jen and Gerry pics after the jump… 
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Women

Coolest Idea: Underwater Engagement Photos

I came across the coolest, most original engagement photos and save the dates.  I have never seen anything like this before, and would never of thought of it, but it is pretty kick ass.
From Kelty, Jeff and Stacey are dear friends that I’ve known since childhood and (being the crazy iron man triathletes they are) [...]

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Jake Ghyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams a Couple in 3…2…

Jake Ghyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams will be a couple in 3…2…1. Jakeis suddenly single after splitting with Reese Witherspoon. Rachel is single after her recent split, so, you KNOW what is coming. the two hotties were together at the Oscars as presenters and seemed to get along very well.
 
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Politics

In praise of Scott Brown (again)

By Michael J.W. StickingsFirst, just a couple of weeks ago, it was for voting with the Democrats to move a jobs bill forward, now it’s for announcing he’ll vote to end a Republican filibuster on an unemployment benefits and tax credits bill. It’s for c…

Women

Same-Sex Couples Can Now Tie The Knot In Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C. has just joined New Hampshire, Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont and Connecticut as jurisdictions that allow same sex marriage in the United States. According to CNN:

A lesbian couple together for more than a decade smiled through tears Tuesday as they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the District of Columbia, on the first day such unions are legal in the nation’s capital. Sinjoyla Townsend and Angelisa Young said they had waited years to marry. They were first in line last week to apply for a marriage license at Washington’s marriage bureau.

“You are my friend, my partner, my love,” Young, 47, told Townsend, 41. “I will love you today, tomorrow and forever.” After the wedding, those present cheered as the two women embraced and cried. They have been together for 12 years and have children, according to biographical information released by the Human Rights Campaign and D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality.

The new law survived a Supreme Court challenge. The measure went into effect last week, but couples had to hold off until Tuesday because of the district’s three-day waiting period. “We’re very excited,” Townsend said last week. She and Young were among

Media

Madonna And Gerard Butler Hook Up

Are Madonna and Gerard Butler the next under-the-radar Hollywood couple? Probably not, but there’s a chance the two got a little handsy at an Oscars afterparty in Los Angeles. Spies for Hollywoodlife.com claim they couldn’t keep their paws off each other but, alas, the two left separately.

more Madonna and Gerard after the hop…
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Women

She Don’t Wanna Man… She Just Wanna Dance

One of my favorite things to do while out having a couple drinks is people watching.  Most of the time the people are so drunk that they have no idea anyone is watching and/or laughing.  This was great, having the camera set up across the bar from these two women dancing it up…

Another funny thing [...]

Politics

19 Senators Who Ought to Be Jobless

Lamar Alexander, John Barasso, Bob Bennett, Jim Bunning, Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, Jim DeMint, John Ensign, Mike Enzi, Judd Gregg, Orrin Hatch, Mike Johanns, Mitch McConnell, James Risch, Jeff Sessions and John Thune. Those are the guys who decided Tuesday night that Americans limping along on meager unemployment benefits apparently are, in the word chosen by Nevada Rep. Dean Heller, “hobos.” They all voted against extending those benefits.

If you’re drawing such benefits in Tennessee, Kentucky, Wyoming, Utah or Idaho, you have both of your Senators to thank for telling you to get off the dole and get a job ya lazy bum. Yep. Who would want to work instead of enjoying all that these magnificent government checks will buy? It’s such a cush life on the $275 weekly maximum you can draw from unemployment coffers if you live in Tennessee, where the jobless rate is 10.9%. If it’s you, your spouse and a couple of kids in the family, those benefits will put you $8,000 below the federal poverty line.

That is, if you were lucky enough before being laid off to work in a job covered by unemployment insurance in the first place. Only 38% of out-of-work Americans have that option. But whether you’re covered by benefits or are one of the less fortunate 62%, the above 19 members of the Party of No Way, No How have a couple of words for you: Tough shit. Like Jim Bunning riding the Senators-only elevator, they all just keep giving out-of-work Americans the finger. Those exact same 19 Senators plus 19 of their Republican colleagues also voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act a year ago. And most of them were on board to oppose the teensy job-creation bill that passed the Senate last month.

Bums with comfy jobs and Cadillac health coverage, their snouts buried to the ears in the public trough, all of them saying no, no, no to the record 6.3 million who have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer. And yet they dare to show their faces in public.


Politics

Election Results: Texans Head To The Polls

Republican Primary Results, Texas Governor’s Race, 2% of Precincts + Early Votes Reporting

Rick Perry–221,748 (51%)
Kay Bailey Hutchison–133,635 (31%)
Debra Medina–76,308 (18%)

A lot of the votes cast in this race were early votes, so it might be hard to move these numbers much as the night wears on. The big story in this one will be whether or not incumbent Governor Rick Perry can close the deal tonight and avoid a runoff election. Even though Perry would be heavily favored to score a runoff win against Hutchison, that would entail another month on focusing on someone other than the certain Democratic nominee, former Houston Mayor Bill White.

Perry was no doubt saved by the implosion of teabagger candidate Debra Medina, who had shot from the low single digits to over 20% in some polling, only to plateau after getting caught going 9/11 truther on the Glenn Beck Show.

Downballot, the battle for sanity on the state Board of Education is fully engaged, with several tight races involving uber-conservative GOP incumbents being challenged by more sober conservative voices within the GOP. One race, in the 9th district of the state Board, is a 50/50 contest at last check, pitting incumbent Republican Don McElroy against comparably moderate challenger Thomas Ratliff. Some of McElroy’s crusades on the board have been quite remarkable, enough so that Dallas Morning News Education writer William McKenzie called it the “second most” important race in Texas tonight.

Democratic Primary Results, Texas Governor’s Race, 2% of Precincts + Early Votes Reporting

Bill White–127,744 (76%)
Farouk Shami–19,582 (12%)
Felix Alvarado–8097 (4%)

It was common knowledge that Bill White was going to be the Democratic nominee for Governor. By any objective standard, however, his stomping defeat of hair care magnate Farouk Shami is pretty darned impressive. Shami had dropped more than a little cash on this race, and is still getting blasted by a better than six-to-one margin.

Downballot, there are a couple of interesting races to keep an eye on. In the high-profile two-man primary for agriculture commissioner, ‘06 nominee (and onetime gubernatorial aspirant) Hank Gilbert has the early 54-46 edge over ‘06 Independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman. In the competitive primary for Lt. Governor, Linda Chavez-Thompson has opened up an early 51-37 advantage over former D.A. Ronnie Earle.

One interesting note that is germaine to both parties: much of the talk has been about how angry voters are at “the mess in Washington”. Tonight’s primary in Texas makes clear voter anger is not limited to federal elected officials: a number of incumbent state Representatives, on both sides of the aisle, are either trailing or barely leading as of a few minutes ago.


World

ACORN Video Not Criminal: Brooklyn DA (VIDEO)

NEW YORK (Associated Press) – ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s O…

Media

The Weekly Gossip Roundup: February 21-27, 2010

Our Weekly Gossip Roundup where we recap the craziness in the celebrity world, entertainment news and gossip. Some of this week’s highlights include Bachelor couple Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney got married! Simon Cowell is officially engaged to Mezhgan Hussainy!

 
The controversial Bachelor couple Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney got married on Saturday! Malaney had on [...]

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“Bachelor” Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney got Married! (Wedding Photos)

Bachelor couple Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney got married on Saturday! The nuptials will be televised on the March 8 ABC special The Bachelor: Jason and Molly’s Wedding as reports by People magazine

many more pictures of the wedding after the jump..
Mesnick, 33, and Malaney, 25, exchanged vows in an outdoor ceremony in front of 300 guests at the Terranea [...]

Women

Seth Green Is Engaged… Really?

Dr. Evil’s son is engaged.  I only think of Seth Green from Can’t Hardly Wait and Austin Powers as Dr. Evil’s son.  Also when I watch Family Guy I laugh thinking that Chris Griffin is played by Seth Green.  A big fat blonde loser played by a ginger is just funny to me.  Green is [...]

Women

India Willing To Relax Adoption Laws To Assist Stateless German Twins Born to Indian Surrogate

Finally, some positive news for the German couple whose twins have been denied citizenship in both India and Germany:

The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it is willing to waive some of the restrictions in adopting children born through surrogacy to help a German couple adopt their twin sons born to an Indian surrogate mother in 2008. A bench of Justice A.K. Ganguly and Justice R.M. Lodha then asked the government to file an affidavit stating its intention to waive the stipulations to help German national Jan Balaaz and his wife. The twins have been in India since their birth due to immigration problems.

Appearing for Balaaz and his wife, advocate Kamini Jaiswal told the bench that Germany treats childbirth through surrogacy as illegal and has “flatly said that it will not do anything” to help the couple. Jaiswal said her client’s parents, who are natives of Serbia, have initiated some steps for adoption of the twins born to a woman in Gujarat.

At this, a government counsel apprised the court about its willingness to relax its adoption norms for children born through surrogacy.

“The Central Adoption Resource Agency is willing to waive its restrictions on surrogate children,”

World

Apple Store Wedding: Couple Says ‘iDo’ In Apple-Themed Ceremony (VIDEO)

This past Valentine’s day, a couple said ‘iDo!’ at New York’s Fifth Avenue Apple store during what may be the first Apple-themed wedding ever.

The ceremony was officiated by a celebrant dressed as Steve Jobs, who read the couple their vows fr…

World

Wall Street Journal’s Boulder Article: The Facts

First, it’s not that Stephanie Simon, who wrote the WSJ article, is wrong. If there’s one thing that city leaders have learned over the last couple of years, it seems to be this: Even armed with good information (replacing this light bulb will…

Media

Avril Lavigne And Brody Jenner Hot New Couple

Avril Lavigne and Brody Jenner are a hot new couple. Brody and Avril, according to sources, have been hooking up on the downlow for a few weeks now. Well, well. She doesn’t waste anytime. Has the ink hasn’t even dried on her divorce papers yet?

more Avril after the hop…
According to Eonline.com the unlikely couple (seriously [...]

World

Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo Set Olympic Record In Short Program

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo are sure to remember this Valentine’s Day.

The Chinese married couple broke their own world record with a mesmerizing performance to open pairs competition at the Winter Olympics on…

World

Jamie Sorcher: The Virtual Valentine’s Day

We have technology to help keep the long-distance spark alive. From smartphones to online video calling, a special Valentine’s Day can be no further than a click away.

World

Mavericks Surf Contest: Waves Sweep Away Spectators (PHOTOS)

(AP) HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Two huge waves swept away spectators watching a Northern California surfing contest Saturday morning, causing broken bones and other injuries to people standing on a seawall.

Thirteen people were injured, wi…

Legal

Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Year Finals

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Semifinal voting for Legal Eagle Couple of the Year is over, and we’re frankly stunned by the couples you picked to move on to the finals.

In Pool One, two Harvard Law grads — the number-three seed — beat two sets of Yale Law grads, one with twin Supreme Court clerkships.

In Pool Two, you were so charmed by the Kennedy mystique that you picked the Kennedy GULC student over a White House associate counsel and a couple with five Harvard degrees.

Finally, in Pool Three, the lowest seed — a Mayer Brown associate and his med-student bride — trounced both Donald Trump’s smokin’-hot daughter and a Stanford Law valedictorian who clerked for Antonin Scalia.

These aren’t the three couples we’d have picked. But they’re our readers’ clear favorites, and we’ll of course respect the results. Now, it’s time to determine which one of the final three will earn the year’s biggest legal wedding honor: ATL’s Legal Eagle Couple of the Year.

See which three couples made it out of the semifinals, and cast your vote for Couple of the Year, after the jump.

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#3: Tracy Zuckerman and Ryan Van Grack were our April winners. He went to Duke; she went to Cornell. They met at HLS (from which Ryan graduated magna).

Tracy works for a non-profit, and Ryan’s an associate at DC Biglaw powerhouse Williams & Connolly. Bonus: Ninth Circuit Judge Michael Daly Hawkins was a co-officiant at their wedding (Ryan’s a former Hawkins clerk).

Townsend-McKean-1.JPGMaeve Townsend and David McKean — “Maevid” to their friends — were our March Couple of the Month. Maeve graduated from BC and is working on degrees in law and foreign service at Georgetown. Dave went to Berkeley and has a JD from American.

Maeve has a tattoo, spent time in the Peace Corps, and wore sneakers to her wedding. She’s also one of many grandchildren of the late Robert F. Kennedy.

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Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. August, met as undergraduates at Cornell. Caroline’s a medical student at the University of Illinois. LaRue has a JD from Columbia and is an associate at Mayer Brown in Chicago.

Check back next week for the announcement of your Legal Eagle Couple of the Year!




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