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She’s ugly, has fake tits and looks like an older version of his daughter and younger version of his wife, making Hulk feel like he’s living the good life he could only dream of back when he was growing up wrestling alligators at Busch Gardens..before he was the Hulkster….

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Gene Simmons Sex Tape?

February 20th, 2008

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A sex video allegedly featuring Gene Simmons was released Tuesday at GenesSecret.com. The site’s video still show a man who appears to be Simmons - bassist for the rock band KISS and star of the reality TV show “Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels” - having sex with a woman identified as an Austrian babe named “Elsa,” a spokesmodel for Frank’s Energy Drink. Simmons reportedly endorses the drink.
Source: AVN

Well I got this email from the people at AVN that there is an alleged Gene Simmons sex tape out there but since I’m not attracted to Gene, I’m not really looking forward to seeing this. However, I know some of you ladies out there find him to be a sexy beast so for only $29.95 all you’re Gene Simmons’ sexual fantasies can be fulfilled. That is if it’s real!

From GeneSimmons.com

Hi everyone,

You may have heard or seen garbage that has sprung up from my past.
Rest assured the proper legal team is looking at all ramifications and options.
And us?  Shannon, Nick and Soph are happy and healthy.
All is well.
And thank you all for the kind words of support.

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Eddie Murphy got married??

December 30th, 2007

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Tranny lover Eddie Murphy might marry Tracey Edmonds this weekend in the South Pacific. South Pacific you say? Cue the band! "Bali Haaaaaaiiiiii maaay caalll youuuu….any night….any day….in your heart….you’ll hear it caaaaallll you…come away…come away…" Ok, I’m done. Planet Gossip’s Marc Malkin claims guests were expected to arrive in Tahiti (so it’s not Bali) yesterday.

Tracey already said the wedding will be before the end of the year and someplace far…far…away. Yeah far away in her imagination, because I’ll be surprised if Eddie goes through with it.

This would be the second marriage for both. The couple have 8 children between them. Tracey and Eddie split for a quick second a while ago, but she took him back. Eddie also has been in the new for knocking up Scary Spice and then refusing to believe the baby was his.

Don’t do it Tracey! You’ll only look like a foolio when Eddie gets with another tranny! Save yourself before it’s too late. Wash him away! Cue the band! "I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair! I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair! And send him on his way!!!!" Fuck, I’m a major homo.

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LOS ANGELES — Kiefer Sutherland was sentenced Wednesday to 48 days in jail for racking up a second drunken-driving arrest in three years and immediately reported to a city lockup.

The star of the Fox TV drama "24" was being processed at the Glendale city jail, said Officer John Balian.

Sutherland, 40, who pleaded no contest in October to driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08, appeared in court with his attorney and politely answered the judge’s questions, said Assistant City Attorney Dan Jeffries.

His request to serve his time at the Glendale city jail was granted and he was ordered to complete the sentence by March 30, Jeffries said.

"Kiefer made the decision to surrender to custody immediately," his attorney, Blair Berk, told The Associated Press.

He could have waited as late as Feb. 12.

The actor was already on probation for a 2004 drunken-driving arrest when he was stopped by police as he left a Hollywood industry party at the trendy Area nightclub on Sept. 25. Authorities said he failed a field sobriety test after being pulled over for making an illegal U-turn.

Sutherland had also pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor DUI charge in 2004. He was sentenced in that case to five years’ probation, 50 hours of community service and ordered to attend an alcohol treatment program. Authorities said he fulfilled the community service and alcohol treatment obligations.

He was also convicted of alcohol-related reckless driving in 1993, according to the city attorney’s office.

"I’m very disappointed in myself for the poor judgment I exhibited recently, and I’m deeply sorry for the disappointment and distress this has caused my family, friends and co-workers," Sutherland said in a statement issued after he entered his plea in the latest case.

Sutherland, who plays dashing federal counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer on "24," won an Emmy for best actor last year.

Under the terms of his plea, he also must serve five years of probation, pay a $510 fine, enroll in an 18-month alcohol-education class and attend weekly alcohol-therapy sessions for six months, Jeffries said.

He could have been sentenced to as much as a year and a half in jail if convicted.

Sutherland will serve his sentence at Glendale city jail, but under a county jail inmate program because of overcrowding, Jeffries said. He must serve all 48 days.

The Glendale jail is a minimum security facility with 48 cells, each of them measuring 10 feet by 8 feet. They come equipped with two beds, a toilet, washbasin and water fountain, but Sutherland won’t be sharing his cell with anyone.

"Anyone here for a long period of time will get their own cell," Balian said.

The actor is classified as an "inmate worker" and will be required to perform duties in the laundry room and help prepare food for inmates in the kitchen area.

"He’ll be working here for 48 days," Balian said.

Sutherland will also have access to an outdoor area and be allowed two visitors per day.

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Will Smith digs Scientology

November 26th, 2007

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Tom Cruise’s long-time friends Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett have reportedly turned to the dark side. And by “dark side” I mean “aliens and haunted volcanoes and shit.” According to Us Weekly

Smith, 39, who was raised Baptist… tells Men’s Vogue, “I’ve studied Buddhism and Hinduism, and I’ve studied Scientology through Tom [Cruise]. Ninety-eight percent of the principles [in Scientology] are identical to the principles of the Bible. . . . I don’t think that because the word someone uses for spirit is ‘thetan’ that the definition becomes any different.”

A source tells Us Weekly that “wife Jada [is even] more gung-ho about Scientology than Will.”

There have long been rumors that Will and Jada are closet gays. Don’t even get me started on John Travolta being a huge queer. And Tom Cruise is the reigning king of fagocity. So I should assume that the Church of Scientology is three mimosas and a pair of butt-less chaps away from being the freakin’ ILGA. Two guesses as to where they stick those e-meters of theirs. The pooper. I’d bet they have double-headed e-meters for the lesbos, so nobody feels left out. Jesus, I don’t even want to know what they’re doing with those Affinity-Reality-Communication Triangles. Perverts.

Yeeeah… Jada’s definitely not gay.

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Hulkamania divorce

November 26th, 2007

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Linda Marie Bollea filed for divorce from husband Hulk Hogan last Friday after nearly 24 years of marriage. People Magazine reports

A Times reporter reportedly broke the news to Hogan on Friday night. He thanked the reporter for the “great information” then called back five minutes later to say, “I’m kind of shocked. You caught me off-guard. My wife has been in California for about three weeks. … Holy smokes. Wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me. … I just pulled over to the side of the road for five minutes to find out what was going on here.”

As if finding out on live radio from a complete stranger that your wife is leaving you isn’t bad enough, having the divorce papers Double-Ax Handled to your chest by a man in neon lycra intent on finishing you off with an Arabian Crab Clutch and a Guillotine Legdrop to your face is much, much worse.

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Tom Cruise BOMBS!!

November 13th, 2007

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Lions for Lambs, Tom Cruise’s new movie about the Iraq war, has bombed at the box office, earning only $6.7 million on it’s opening weekend. The movie, which stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, is the first release of United Artists, a film studio which is run by Cruise and his producing partner, Paula Wagner. Us Magazine reports:

Tom Cruise’s latest flick got stung at the box office. Literally. His war-on-terror thriller ranked No. 4 with a tepid $6.7 million, getting beat by the Jerry Seinfeld toon Bee Movie, which netted $26 million."

You have to try really hard to fuck up a movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, but if anybody could do it, it’s Tom Cruise. His fanatical allegiance to Scientology and his idiotic ramblings in interviews have completely ruined his movie career, and whatever power he had in Hollywood is now pretty much gone. In five years, you’d have a better chance to strike box office gold with a horse named "Tom Cruise" than with the actual Tom Cruise.

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YES!! Sopranos Season Six is out

September 19th, 2007

The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 2

Finally!!

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Protestor Tasered

September 18th, 2007

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From AJC.COM

A university student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.

Andrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail before his release from jail Tuesday morning on his own recognizance. He had no comment when he left. His attorney, Robert Griscti, did not return messages seeking comment.

Videos of the Monday night incident, posted on several Web sites and played repeatedly on television news, show University of Florida police officers pulling Meyer away from the microphone after he asks Kerry about impeaching President Bush and whether he and Bush were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University.

University spokesman Steve Orlando said Meyer was asked to leave the microphone after his allotted time was up. Meyer can be seen refusing to walk away and getting upset that the microphone was cut off.

As two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., can be heard saying, "That’s all right, let me answer his question."

Audience members applaud, and Meyer struggles for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room. Meyer screams for help and tries to break away from officers with his arms flailing at them, then is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting.

As Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student’s "very important question," Meyer yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don’t Tase me, bro," just before he is shocked by the Taser. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?"

Meyer was arrested on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records, but the State Attorney’s Office had yet to make the formal charging decision. Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.

University President J. Bernard Machen issued a statement Tuesday saying he requested the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the arrest. Officials said it would determine whether the officers used an appropriate level of force.

Machen called the situation "regretful" in an afternoon news conference and said two officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the probe.

"We’re absolutely committed to having a safe environment for our faculty and our students so that a free exchange of ideas can occur," Machen said.

Kerry said Tuesday he regretted that a healthy discussion was interrupted and that he never had a dialogue end that way in 37 years of public appearances. He also said he hoped neither the student nor police were injured.

"Whatever happened, the police had a reason, had made their decision that there was something they needed to do. Then it’s a law enforcement issue, not mine," he told The Associated Press in Washington.

Meyer has his own Web site and it contains several "comedy" videos that he appears in. In one, he stands in a street with a sign that says "Harry Dies" after the latest Harry Potter book was released. In another, he acts like a drunk while trying to pick up a woman in a bar.

The site also has what is called a "disorganized diatribe" attributed to Meyer that criticizes the Iraq war, the news media for not covering the conflict enough and the American public for paying too much attention to celebrity news.

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Sooo no one realized that when he first was being escourted off by the cops, a LOT of people clapped for that? Could it mean that he was unwanted there in the
first place? Just maybe… and it’s called creating a public disturbance…. he was being a jerk.

Just a point Kerry had no issue with answering his question. He says several times in the video that he will answer the question. At one point he says "If we
could all just calm down I’ll answer his question."

What’s worse the pigs who tased him or the dummies who applauded? Are you guys aware that during the last presidential election both parties has "FREE SPEECH
ZONES" >: People in this country better start waking up to what’s going on. This country belongs to WE THE PEOPLE not to people like Kerry and Bush.

someone tell me when his rights were read… kause i did not hear anyone read him his rights…
and that taser, he was on the ground with 5 kops on him, no need for a taser… totaly unnessisary.

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Iron Man Trailer!

September 10th, 2007

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View the official trailer here.

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Although many have reported that Criss Angel and Britney Spears are dating, sources close to the illusionist say that he is just a "press whore" and is only hanging out with Britney to get more famous. Page Six reports:

Angel - who just signed a 10-year deal with the Luxor in Las Vegas that will net him almost $10 million a year - was "ecstatic" when his manager, Jeff Kwatinetz, asked him to meet with Spears, who was interested in using illusion in her VMA performance this Sunday. The two "hooked up the night they met" and Angel has been "using her to get press ever since," we’re told. A Vegas spy said, "He doesn’t even really talk to her when they go out. This weekend at [club] LAX, they weren’t seated at the same table, but when the paparazzi were around he jumped in all the pictures. . . . The paparazzi all have his number."

I totally understand, man. You have to get your face out there. And what better way to do that than to be in pictures with Britney Spears. They’ve been seen together about seven times now, so it looks like it’s working. At last count, that puts him right behind her kids but with a slight lead over the guy at the drive-thru window at Taco Bell.

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Since i’m a bit old, I have no clue who Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron are but they are the stars from the movie High School Musical. Here they are hanging out at the beach and both looking pretty cute in their bikinis. Now I don’t know who is who but the topless chick seriously needs a new pair of boobs. 8-)


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Some posters for back to school

September 2nd, 2007

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From the DailyMail


Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp’s mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia".




Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can start procreating for the motherland.


With its relentlessly upbeat tone, bizarre ideas and tight control, it sounds like a weird indoctrination session for a phoney religious cult.

But this organisation - known as "Nashi", meaning "Ours" - is youth movement run by Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin that has become a central part of Russian political life.


Nashi’s annual camp, 200 miles outside Moscow, is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks of lectures and physical fitness.

Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on sale.


Bizarrely, young women are encouraged to hand in thongs and other skimpy underwear - supposedly a cause of sterility - and given more wholesome and substantial undergarments.

Twenty-five couples marry at the start of the camp’s first week and ten more at the start of the second. These mass weddings, the ultimate expression of devotion to the motherland, are legal and conducted by a civil official.

Attempting to raise Russia’s dismally low birthrate even by eccentric-seeming means might be understandable. Certainly, the country’s demographic outlook is dire. The hard-drinking, hardsmoking and disease-ridden population is set to plunge by a million a year in the next decade.

But the real aim of the youth camp - and the 100,000-strong movement behind it - is not to improve Russia’s demographic profile, but to attack democracy.

Under Mr Putin, Russia is sliding into fascism, with state control of the economy, media, politics and society becoming increasingly heavy-handed. And Nashi, along with other similar youth movements, such as ’Young Guard’, and ’Young Russia’, is in the forefront of the charge.

At the start, it was all too easy to mock. I attended an early event run by its predecessor, ’Walking together’, in the heart of Moscow in 2000. A motley collection of youngsters were collecting ’unpatriotic’ works of fiction for destruction.

It was sinister in theory, recalling the Nazis’ book-burning in the 1930s, but it was laughable in practice. There was no sign of ordinary members of the public handing in books (the copies piled on the pavement had been brought by the organisers).

Once the television cameras had left, the event organisers admitted that they were not really volunteers, but being paid by "sponsors". The idea that Russia’s anarchic, apathetic youth would ever be attracted into a disciplined mass movement in support of their president - what critics called a "Putinjugend", recalling the "Hitlerjugend" (German for "Hitler Youth") - seemed fanciful.

How wrong we were. Life for young people in Russia without connections is a mixture of inadequate and corrupt education, and a choice of boring dead-end jobs. Like the Hitler Youth and the Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers, Nashi and its allied movements offer not just excitement, friendship and a sense of purpose - but a leg up in life, too.

Nashi’s senior officials - known, in an eerie echo of the Soviet era, as "Commissars" - get free places at top universities. Thereafter, they can expect good jobs in politics or business - which in Russia nowadays, under the Kremlin’s crony capitalism, are increasingly the same thing.

Nashi and similar outfits are the Kremlin’s first line of defence against its greatest fear: real democracy. Like the sheep chanting "Four legs good, two legs bad" in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, they can intimidate through noise and numbers.

Nashi supporters drown out protests by Russia’s feeble and divided democratic opposition and use violence to drive them off the streets.

The group’s leaders insist that the only connection to officialdom is loyalty to the president. If so, they seem remarkably well-informed.

In July 2006, the British ambassador, Sir Anthony Brenton, infuriated the Kremlin by attending an opposition meeting. For months afterwards, he was noisily harassed by groups of Nashi supporters demanding that he "apologise". With uncanny accuracy, the hooligans knew his movements in advance - a sign of official tip-offs.

Even when Nashi flagrantly breaks the law, the authorities do not intervene. After Estonia enraged Russia by moving a Sovietera war memorial in April, Nashi led the blockade of Estonia’s Moscow embassy. It daubed the building with graffiti, blasted it with Stalinera military music, ripped down the Estonian flag and attacked a visiting ambassador’s car. The Moscow police, who normally stamp ruthlessly on public protest, stood by.

Nashi fits perfectly into the Kremlin’s newly-minted ideology of "Sovereign democracy". This is not the mind-numbing jargon of Marxism-Leninism, but a lightweight collection of cliches and slogans promoting Russia’s supposed unique political and spiritual culture.

It is strongly reminiscent of the Tsarist era slogan: "Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality".

The similarities to both the Soviet and Tsarist eras are striking. Communist ideologues once spent much of their time explaining why their party deserved its monopoly of power, even though the promised utopia seemed indefinitely delayed.

Today, the Kremlin’s ideology chief Vladislav Surkov is trying to explain why questioning the crooks and spooks who run Russia is not just mistaken, but treacherous.

Yet, by comparison with other outfits, Nashi looks relatively civilised. Its racism and prejudice is implied, but not trumpeted. Other pro-Kremlin youth groups are hounding gays and foreigners off the streets of Moscow. Mestnye [The Locals] recently distributed leaflets urging Muscovites to boycott non-Russian cab drivers.

These showed a young blonde Russian refusing a ride from a swarthy, beetle-browed taxi driver, under the slogan: "We’re not going the same way."

Such unofficial xenophobia matches the official stance. On April 1, a decree explicitly backed by Mr Putin banned foreigners from trading in Russia’s retail markets. By some estimates, 12m people are working illegally in Russia.

Those who hoped that Russia’s first post-totalitarian generation would be liberal, have been dissapointed. Although explicit support for extremist and racist groups is in the low single figures, support for racist sentiments is mushrooming.

Slogans such as "Russia for the Russians" now attract the support of half of the population. Echoing Kremlin propaganda, Nashi denounced Estonians as "fascist", for daring to say that they find Nazi and Soviet memorials equally repugnant. But, in truth, it is in Russia that fascism is all too evident.

The Kremlin sees no role for a democratic opposition, denouncing its leaders as stooges and traitors. Sadly, most Russians agree: a recent poll showed that a majority believed that opposition parties should not be allowed to take power.

Just as the Nazis in 1930s rewrote Germany’s history, the Putin Kremlin is rewriting Russia’s. It has rehaabilitated Stalin, the greatest massmurderer of the 20th century. And it is demonising Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically-elected president. That he destroyed totalitarianism is ignored. Instead, he is denounced for his "weak" pro-Western policies.

While distorting its own history, the Kremlin denounces other countries. Mr Putin was quick to blame Britain’s "colonial mentality" for our government’s request that Russia try to find a legal means of extraditing Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.

Yet the truth is that Britain, like most Western countries, flagellates itself for the crimes of the past. Indeed, British schoolchildren rarely learn anything positive about their country’s empire. And, if Mr Putin has his way, Russian pupils will learn nothing bad about the Soviet empire, which was far bloodier, more brutal - and more recent.

A new guide for history teachers - explicitly endorsed by Mr Putin - brushes off Stalin’s crimes. It describes him as "the most successful leader of the USSR". But it skates over the colossal human cost - 25m people were shot and starved in the cause of communism.

"Political repression was used to mobilise not only rank-and-file citizens but also the ruling elite," it says. In other words, Stalin wanted to make the country strong, so he may have been a bit harsh at times. At any time since the collapse of Soviet totalitarianism in the late 1980s, that would have seemed a nauseating whitewash. Now, it is treated as bald historical fact.

If Stalin made mistakes, so what? Lots of people make mistakes.

"Problematic pages in our history exist," Mr Putin said last week. But: "we have less than some countries. And ours are not as terrible as those of some others." He compared the Great Terror of 1937, when 700,000 people were murdered in a purge by Stalin’s secret police, to the atom bomb on Hiroshima.

The comparison is preposterous. A strong argument can be made that by ending the war quickly, the atom bombs saved countless lives.

Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry Truman-may have failed to realise that nuclear weapons would one day endanger humanity’s survival. But, unlike Stalin, they were not genocidal maniacs.

As the new cold war deepens, Mr Putin echoes, consciously or unconsciously, the favourite weapon of Soviet propagandists in the last one.

Asked about Afghanistan, they would cite Vietnam. Castigated for the plight of Soviet Jews, they would complain with treacly sincerity about discrimination against American blacks. Every blot on the Soviet record was matched by something, real or imagined, that the West had done.

But the contrasts even then were absurd. When the American administration blundered into Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of people protested in the heart of Washington. When eight extraordinarily brave Soviet dissidents tried to demonstrate in Red Square against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, in 1968, they were instantly arrested and spent many years in labour camps.

For the east European countries with first-hand experience of Stalinist terror, the Kremlin’s rewriting of history could hardly be more scary. Not only does Russia see no reason to apologise for their suffering under Kremlin rule, it now sees the collapse of communism not as a time of liberation, but as an era of pitiable weakness.

Russia barely commemorates even the damage it did to itself, let alone the appalling suffering inflicted on other people. Nashi is both a symptom of the way Russia is going - and a means of entrenching the drift to fascism.

Terrifyingly, the revived Soviet view of history is now widely held in Russia. A poll this week of Russian teenagers showed that a majority believe that Stalin did more good things than bad.

If tens of thousands of uniformed German youngsters were marching across Germany in support of an authoritarian Fuhrer, baiting foreigners and praising Hitler, alarm bells would be jangling all across Europe. So why aren’t they ringing about Nashi?

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Courtney is a workaholic.

July 29th, 2007

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Courteney Cox, who worked with her actor husband David Arquette on US TV series ’Dirt’, struggles to leave work behind when she gets home.


Courteney said: "Yes, I do bring things home. It’s time to catch up, because when you have been working together, you don’t really have time to talk about what happened.


"At dinner, there is a lot of catching up to do, even though we have seen each other most of the day. It’s weird."


While the 43-year-old admits she is very different to David, Courteney insists their contrasting personalities make the show more interesting.


She explained: "David and I are very different, and have different creative choices and different creative views.


"He is really left of centre - it’s amazing what he comes up with. I’m good with emotions and psychology of people. He is good with other creative aspects - like thinking up Don’s hallucinations. Don is a paparazzo who is schizophrenic."

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