Celebrities Gone Bust- 5 Celebrity Bankruptcies

Toni Braxton (Bankrupt in 1993 and again in 2010)

After her album Secrets went platinum with No. 1 hits “You’re Makin’ MeHigh” and “Un-Break My Heart,” Braxton shortly declared bankruptcy thanks to free-spending ways beyond her success. Apparently NOT learning her lesson— by 2010, the R&B singer was bust a second time. 

Stan Lee (Bankrupt in 2001)

Despite the massive success of comic book heroes like Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk and The X-Men, Stan Lee was a dot-com disaster. His web-based comic book venture of the era, the eponymous Stan Lee Media, quickly burned through its capital like so many other firms inflated by the tech bubble. Adding insult to injury was that Lee’s partner, Peter Paul, was accused of securities fraud, too.

Mike Tyson (Bankrupt in 2003)

After legal troubles relating to sexual assault charges, the former boxing champ was bankrupted by lawyer fees — and lavish spending on cars, mansions and Bengal tigers. This was before facial tattoos and ear biting, but no less embarrassing

Donald Trump (Business bankruptcies in 2004 and 2009)

Not to split hairs ( no pun intended) over the fact that he personally hasn't gone bust; but the fact remains that Trump’s Atlantic City hotel and resort company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice this decade to reorganize debts related to construction still speaks a great deal.

Stephen Baldwin (Bankrupt in 2009)

Stephen Baldwin, youngest in the famous acting family, never quite made the same amount of money as his brothers; but that didn't stop his free-spending ways. Baldwin and his wife filed bankruptcy in New York in early 2009 and suffered foreclosure. At the time, he owed more than $2.3 million — and his New York property was valued at only $1.1 million. Talk about underwater mortgages …

selected from 10 Most Embarrassing Celebrity Bankruptcies of All Time.

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‘Dumb Ways to Die’ Australian safety clip goes viral

Check out this Melbourne Metro Train online video featuring cartoon creatures killing themselves in a variety of ways as part of an Australian transport safety campaign. It has gone viral with almost 12 million YouTube views in a week !

It has been shared widely on social media since being uploaded to YouTube seven days ago and the clip and jingle have been especially popular in Asian countries.It features colorful  round cartoon characters dying in improbable circumstances ranging from poking a stick at a grizzly bear to using “private parts as piranha bait”, and selling both kidneys on the Internet.

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Of course it's a Picture Frame Shop....

Of course it's a Picture Frame Shop....

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Leninade

from awkwardnames.com

Leninade (Russian: Ленинад) is a soda based on lemonade made by Real Soda In Real Bottles, Ltd. The name is a portmanteau of "Lenin" and "lemonade." The slogans on the bottle make fun of old Soviet propaganda slogans.In addition, the soda is colored bright red.

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Chris Christie "Scolds" Reporter on Twinkies question.

This bit is a hilarious piece of US politics and the expression of freedom of speech by the media. It shows you at the same time why Chris Christie (New Jersey governor) is that popular as he is cool and confident to have fun at his own expense-

Asked by a New Jersey reporter on his "Twinkies" opinion:

 “This is a setup, man, I know it! You people are the worst! This is a setup! I am not answering questions on Twinkies!”- Chris Christie

The New Jersey governor has been prodded and poked  about his weight on late night comedy shows for a while now, and when he heard a reporter ask him about snack food, Christie had some fun at the reporter’s expense. Christie’s entire reaction is just amazement mixed with amusement as he quips that he’s “on Saturday Night Live enough” and shouldn't even be saying the word “Twinkies” at the podium.

Watch Christie lay some cream-filled smack down below:

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REAL Faces of Hollywood Stars without makeup- you be the judge..

Kathy Griffin

Tyra Banks

Katie Holmes

Rihanna

Sharon Osbourne

Faith Hill

Kloe Kardashian

Lisa Kudrow

Sofia Vergara

ALL selected from a nydailynews.com posting


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Photo taken at the right time: Michele Obama's 'Fro

Photo Taken at the Right Time: Michele Obama's 'Fro

Hillary to Obama- Keep the Seat Warm for 2016

Hillary to Obama- Keep the Seat Warm for 2016

OBAMA RE ELECTION and RETWEET VICTORY: victory tweet becomes most retweeted ever!

US president tweets 'four more years' with picture of himself hugging Michelle

Barack Obama's photo posted on his Twitter account. Photograph: Obama campaign

Barack Obama has celebrated winning another term as US president by tweeting a photograph of himself hugging his wife, Michelle – which almost immediately became the most popular tweet of all time.

Obama brought his sophisticated social media campaign to an emotional climax, proclaiming his victory on Twitter and Facebook just as TV networks were breaking the news.The tweet, captioned "Four more years", was his most re-tweeted — 472,000 shares in three hours and marked as a favourite by more than 70,000— according to Twitter’s politics account @gov. It was also the most popular ever, topping a message from singer Justin Bieber, website BuzzFeed said.

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Four more years. pic.twitter.com/bAJE6Vom

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Michigan man dies at the poll, revived—makes sure he voted

Odd news from  Yahoo! News: Michigan man dies, is revived, at poll—and makes sure he voted By Lylah M. Alphonse.

FINAL VOTE

Even a near-death experience couldn't keep one elderly voter away from the polls during early voting in Southfield Township in Michigan.  "I was filling out the form as were an elderly couple sitting at a nearby table," Ty Houston, 48, a registered home-care nurse, told The Detroit News on Tuesday. "His wife, who was helping him fill out the ballot..........screamed for help and I went over to see what I could do."

Houston responded immediately, moving the victim to the floor and assessing the situation. "He was dead," Houston said. "He had no heartbeat and he wasn't breathing." He started performing CPR and a few minutes later the man started breathing again. He had a tracheotomy tube in his throat, but could speak."He knew his name and his wife's name," Houston said.

But the victim's first question after his near-death experience took everyone by surprise. "Did I vote?" he asked astonished onlookers.The man's wife tried to reassure him that it wasn't important, but Houston says the man responded that only two things were important: "That I love you and that I finished what I came here to do—vote."

They checked. He had.

EMS arrived on the scene and took the couple to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, The Detroit News reported. Though the county clerk, Sharon Tischler, confirmed the event, neither she nor Houston knew the name of the victim or his wife. Houston said that he's just glad he decided to vote when he did. "It was God's divine word that I be there," he said. "Originally, I was just going skip the ballot and just go to lunch that day."

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Strange US Election Polling Stations- 2012 US Presidential Race

This is a collection of  pictures of very unusual Polling places for the on going 2012 US Presidential Elections. US polling stations have been found in casinos, shopping centres, a pet store, beauty salons and and even home garages! By force of circumstance on the East Coast, the devastation caused by hurricane Sandy forced authorities to find alternative safe locations for people to vote.

Below is a selection from US Presidential Elections: America’s Weird Polling Stations [PHOTOS]By Umberto Bacchi and  Laundrettes, temples and a garage: America's strangest polling stations:

In Chicago, Illinois, voters cast their ballots in a laundrette (AFP/ Robyn Beck)

Urbanimal Pet Store polling place in Chicago

at the Krishna Temple in Salt Lake City  (AFP/ Robyn Beck)

at Pressure Billiards hall during the US presidential election in Chicago

David Smith oversaw matters in his father Vincent’s front room in South Carolina, whose
house has been used as a polling station for decades, and in the front room for the last 30 years

at Sam's Auto Sales in Chicago

at the Bay Head Fire Company in Bay Head, New Jersey

Gordies Foundation Barber School at Sam's Auto Sales   in Chicago

at temple in the Mission District in San Francisco

at Delias Beauty Salon  in Chicago

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Mitt Romney's ODD Orbit- Crazy, Stupid and Bizarre Quotes from Mitt

1.  “I was born and raised here. I love the state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like — I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. Something very special here. The Great Lakes but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars. I don’t know — I mean, I grew up totally in love with cars…. I love cars. I love American cars.”

 —Mitt Romney, campaigning in Michigan (February 2012)

Watch the video. The transcript doesn’t do it justice.

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2. ''Who let the dogs out? Who, who.''

—Mitt Romney, during an awkward photo op with a group of African Americans kids at a Martin Luther King Day parade (January 2008)

3. ''Can you see that one of those chocolate, um, uh, chocolate goodies finds its way to our ride?''

—Mitt Romney, struggling to identify a doughnut while visiting an Iowa restaurant, June 8, 2012.

Watch Mitt Romney struggle to identify a chocolate doughnut:

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4. 'I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.''

—Mitt Romney, making fun of fans wearing plastic ponchos during a visit to the site of the Daytona 500 Nascar race in Florida, Feb. 26, 2012

5. Mitt Romney in 2002: ''I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose.''

Mitt Romney in 2007: ''Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position. And I get tired of people that are holier-than-thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have.''

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6. ''When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no -- and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem.''

—Mitt Romney, suggesting it would be a good idea to crack a window in a pressurized cabin at 35,000 feet with 500-mile-an-hour winds (Beverly Hills fundraiser, Sept. 22, 2012)

7. ''We've always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.''

—Mitt Romney, offering advice to students, citing a friend who borrowed $20,000 from his parents to start and business and suggesting anyone in the audience could do the same (Otterbein University in Ohio, April 27, 2012)

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8. ''I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff. But don't forget nothing is really free. ''

—Mitt Romney, reacting to getting booed at his speech during the annual NAACP Convention after he pledged to repeal Obamacare, July 11, 2012.

9. ''When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.''

—Mitt Romney, when asked about failing to mention the troops in his nomination speech at the Republican National Convention, Fox News interview, Sept. 7, 2012

10. ''We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.''

—Mitt Romney, who has two Harvard degrees (April 5, 2012)

from ivygateblog.com

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Amazing Anniversary Coincidence: Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech AND Obama's bin Laden death announcement.

Talk about an amazing anniversary coincidence from toptenz.net:  

May 1, 2003- Mission Accomplished?

May 1, 2003-George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and gave a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Visible in the background was a banner stating “Mission Accomplished.” 

The Iraq War began on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by the United States under President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair. Two months after the war started, on May 1, 2003 following the speech, the image above became internationally recognized. Bush was criticized for suggesting the war was over, when in fact it was just beginning.

The controversy surrounding the speech and the banner made video clips and pictures of the speech famous. As criticism mounted, the White House released a statement saying that they didn't mean to imply the Iraq War was over. Pentagon said the banner referred to the aircraft carrier’s 10-month deployment and not the war itself. The banner and picture have come to symbolize the irony of the President giving a victory speech only a few weeks after the beginning of a relatively long war. 

May 1, 2011- Mission Accomplished!

May 1, 2011, exactly eight years after the speech, President Barack Obama announced
that U.S. Navy SEALs had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. 

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Superstorm Sandy breakout star- the sign language lady!

The sign language lady- one of the storm's biggest breakout stars!

Watch Lydia Callis in action ,  the sign-language interpreter who appeared at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's side whenever he made a public statement. Bloomberg's live storm updates were translated by Callis who underlined the drama with extremely committed facial expressions that became an immediate Twitter hit. Her mesmerizing display inspired gifs and her own Tumblr.

She's the mayor's official sign language interpreter, translating live on air as he delivers the latest news on Hurricane Sandy. Unlike Bloomberg's own stilted Spanish, Callis's signing is both lightning-fast and emotive, her animated face lighting up and contorting happily as she goes, not unlike a guitarist during a blistering solo. Callis already has quite the online fan club 

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