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Saddam Hussein Dead

CNN is reporting that Saddam Hussein is Dead. He was hanged at 9:55 pm, daybreak in Iraq. he’d been lead to the gallows as early as 9:30 pm est and reporters were milling about waiting for word as to whether he’d been hung. Word came down at 10:06 pm Friday evening.

The dictator is dead.

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UPDATE:

At approximately 4:10 a.m. December 30th, CNN began airing video tape acquired from Iraq TV of a portion of Saddams hanging.

He was led to the gallows wearing a dark coat, perhaps a suit coat. He was shackled and handcuffed as he shuffled forward awkwardly. He looked calm and resigned to his fate. He was offered a head covering by the gallows men but he refused to wear it. Instead one of the men placed the head covering around Husseins neck somewhat like a scarf, perhaps to protect his skin. A noose was then placed around his neck and tightened. The video froze with Saddam looking straight ahead as he stood on the gallows waiting for the bottom to drop out and be hanged.

I almost needed plastic surgery as a child

by Tricia

When I was just a child of 5 years of age I was in a bad car accident. The accident happened on a rainy summer night. This was back in the days when you didn’t have to wear you seat belt in the back of the car – even though my parent always did make us wear seat belts, for some reason I wasn’t wearing mine that fateful evening. Perhaps because I was sleeping in the backseat, maybe I’d asked my dad for permission to take it off when I laid down. I don’t remember now, but I know that if I’d had it on I wouldn’t have been injured.

We were on our way up to the cottage. I was traveling with my father and one of my older brothers. I don’t know why my mom and sister weren’t with us because that was unusual, but they weren’t.

We were driving through a small town and my brother was driving. As I said earlier I was asleep in the backseat of the car. The bridge was narrow and there was only two lanes- one each way. A man, who turned out to be drunk, began driving his car in the wrong lane straight towards our car. My brother couldn’t move over to the opposite lane because of oncoming traffic. All he could do was slow down for the impact.

I must have rolled off the seat and hit my head hard on something. I awoke to the sound of my brother and father yelling. They might have been arguing because I think my brother wanted to get out of the car and beat up the other driver. All that stopped when I sat up and they saw the blood running down my face.

A really nice couple happened to stop to make sure that we were all ok. I don’t know if we’d pulled the cars off the bridge or not … because if we hadn’t I don’t think traffic could have got past us- but someone this car reached us. The lady approached and she saw that I was injured. She offered for her and her family to take me to the hospital while my dad and brother waited for the police and a tow truck.

Now these days no parent would just hand off their young child to strangers, and even then I’m sure my father hesitated but the couple had, oh I don’t know at least three other children in the car and I’m sure that made them look trustable, and in the end they did end up to be very trustworthy as they did take me to the hospital.

My father and brother met me at the hospital and they were there in time to watch and help me get through getting my first ever stitches. I had a huge gash at the top right of my forehead.

Now, being so young at the time of the accident I don’t know exactly how my parents settled with the insurance company regarding the damaged car. I do remember that the car was totaled. The old car had been a Dodge and I think we moved on to Toyota’s for a while after the accident.

I do know that my parents worked with a Car Accident Lawyer to secure some funds in case I needed plastic surgery to repair the scar on my forehead. We got a good sum of money with barely any hassle if I remember correctly. I’m sure the case wasn’t too hard to fight. The other drive was drunk and I was injured. I’m just lucky it wasn’t worse.

The money that had been secured by the lawyer was placed into an account in my name. I never did use it for plastic surgery because, luckily, the scar is right at my hairline and it healed very nicely. Instead I used the money to pay part of my way through college. Nice! I’m sure that if my parents hadn’t have fought for some extra money for my injury that nothing other than money for the damaged car would have been forthcoming. What an irony it would have been had they not and then I ended up having a horrible scar? I’m glad that they did- the money that the lawyer helped them get helped me become a nurse, so the money helped me help others.

This weeks celebrity birthdays

by Tricia

Who’s having a Birthday this week? December 17th – 23rd

It must be a busy week for these stars what with having birthdays and all of the various holiday celebrations that they are likely attending- just as we are at this time of year. I actually don’t think I’d want to have a birthday at this time in December. Perhaps early December but not near the end of the month.

Do any of you share a birthday with one of the celebrities listed below? Which one? If you do share a birthday with one of the stars, do you think your personality is similar to theirs- from what you know of them anyway?

Leave me a comment and tell me about it.

Dec. 17:

“Penthouse” publisher Bob Guccione is 76.
Actor George Lindsey (“The Andy Griffith Show,” “Mayberry R.F.D.”) is 71.
Singer-actor Tommy Steele is 70
Keyboardist-singer Art Neville of the Neville Brothers is 69.
Actor Bernard Hill is 62. Actor Ernie Hudson (“Ghostbusters”) is 61.
Actor-comedian Eugene Levy is 60. Drummer Jim Bonfanti of The Raspberries is 58.
Singer Paul Rodgers is 57.
Singer Wanda Hutchinson of The Emotions is 55.
Country singer Sharon White of The Whites is 53.
Actor Barry Livingston (“My Three Sons”) is 53.
Actor Bill Pullman is 53. Director-producer Peter Farrelly (“There’s Something About Mary,” “Dumb and Dumber”) is 50.
Bassist Mike Mills of R.E.M. is 48.
Singer Sarah Dallin of Bananarama is 45.
DJ Homicide of Sugar Ray is 36.
Actor Sean Patrick Thomas (“The District”) is 36.
Actor Giovanni Ribisi is 32. Actress Milla Jovovich (“Zoolander,” “The Fifth Element”) is 31.

Dec. 18:

Actor Roger Smith is 74.
Blues guitarist Lonnie Brooks is 73.
Guitarist Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones is 63.
Director Steven Spielberg is 60.
Movie critic Leonard Maltin is 56.
Guitarist Elliot Easton of The Cars is 53.
Actor Ray Liotta is 51.
Actor Brad Pitt is 43.
Country singer Tracy Byrd is 40.
Actress Rachel Griffiths (“Brothers and Sisters,” “Six Feet Under”) is 38.
Country singer Cowboy Troy is 36.
Rapper DMX is 36.
DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit is 34.
Actress Katie Holmes (“Dawson’s Creek”) is 28.
Singer Christina Aguilera is 26.

Dec. 19:

Singer-songwriter Charlie Ryan is 91.
Country singer Little Jimmy Dickens is 86.
Actress Cicely Tyson is 73.
Singer Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire is 65.
Actor Tim Reid is 62.
Singer Alvin Lee of Ten Years After is 62.
Musician John McEuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is 61.
Actress Elaine Joyce is 61.
Country singer Janie Fricke is 59.
Actor Mike Lookinland (“The Brady Bunch”) is 46.
Actress Jennifer Beals is 43.
Actor Robert McNaughton is 40.
Actress Kristy Swanson is 37.
Actress Alyssa Milano is 34.
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal (“Brokeback Mountain,” “October Sky”) is 26.
Actress Marla Sokoloff (“The Practice”) is 26.
Rapper Lady Sovereign is 21.

Dec. 20:

Comedian Charlie Callas is 79.
Actor John Hillerman (“Magnum P.I.”) is 74.
Drummer Peter Criss (Kiss) is 61.
Musician Alan Parsons is 57.
Actress Jenny Agutter is 54.
Actor Michael Badalucco (“The Practice”) is 52.
Actress Blanche Baker (“Shakedown,” “Holocaust”) is 50.
Singer Billy Bragg is 49.
Singer-bassist Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE) is 49.
Country singer Kris Tyler is 42.
Singer Chris Robinson of Black Crowes is 40.
Actor Jonah Hill (“Accepted”) is 23.
Singer JoJo is 16.

Dec. 21:

Country singer Freddie Hart is 80.
Actor Ed Nelson (“Peyton Place”) is 78.
Talk show host Phil Donahue is 71.
Actress Jane Fonda is 69.
Singer Carla Thomas is 64.
Guitarist Albert Lee is 63.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson is 58.
Singer Betty Wright is 53.
Actress Jane Kaczmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”) is 51.
Country singer Lee Roy Parnell is 50.
Entertainer Jim Rose of The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow is 50.
Actor-comedian Ray Romano (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) is 49.
Country singer Christy Forester of the Forester Sisters is 44.
Drummer Murph of Dinosaur Jr. is 42.
Guitarist Gabrielle Glaser (Luscious Jackson) is 41.
Actor-comedian Andy Dick (“Less Than Perfect,” “Newsradio”) is 41.
Actor Kiefer Sutherland is 40.
Actress Karri Turner (“JAG”) is 40.
Actress Khrystyne Haje (“Head of the Class”) is 38.
Country singer Brad Warren of The Warren Brothers is 38.
Actress Julie Delpy is 37.
Singer-guitarist Brett Scallions (Fuel) is 35.
Singer Lukas Rossi of Rock Star Supernova (“Rock Star: Supernova”) is 30.

Dec. 22:

Actor Hector Elizondo is 70.
TV anchor Diane Sawyer is 61.
Guitarist Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick is 60.
Singer Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees is 57.
Actress BernNadette Stanis (“Good Times”) is 53.
Rapper Luther Campbell is 46.
Country guitarist Chuck Mead of BR549 is 46.
Actor Ralph Fiennes is 44.
Actress Lauralee Bell (“The Young and the Restless”) is 38.
Actress Heather Donahue (“The Blair Witch Project”) is 32.
Actor Chris Carmack (“The O.C.”) is 26.

Dec. 23:

Actor Frederic Forrest (“Lonesome Dove”) is 70.
Actor James Stacy (“Lancer”) is 70.
Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) is 66.
Drummer Ron Bushy of Iron Butterfly is 65.
Actor-comedian Harry Shearer (“The Simpsons”) is 63.
Actress Susan Lucci (“All My Children”) is 60.
Guitarist Dave Murray of Iron Maiden is 50.
Singer Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam is 42.
Actor Corey Haim is 35.

Simon Cowell Upset with Aiken

by Tricia

Simon Cowell has slammed American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken saying that he doesn’t think that Clay should have complained about the pressures of stardom.

After Clay Aiken fessed up and confessed that he’d been prescribed Paxil for his anxiety.

Last month, Clay insisted he has no problems stepping up on stage and performing in front of thousands, but he suffers panic attacks in more intimate settings.

But Cowell says, “Oh, give me a break. Let me have a choice – I’m going to work in a coal mine for 14 hours a day or I’m going to be runner-up on American Idol. Give me a break, idiot. He’s not working for a living – he’s being famous. No one put a gun to his head. Clay, whatever he may have said, would not swap what he’s got now for what he had three years ago.”

Saddam Hussein Dead

I almost needed plastic surgery as a child

This weeks celebrity birthdays

Simon Cowell Upset with Aiken

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