According to an AOL poll, Jordin Sparks is WAY ahead of Blake Lewis in the race to be the next American Idol.

Who will win?
She’s 17, he’s 25. She doesn’t have formal training, he does. She loves ballads, he loves beatbox. Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis head into tonight’s ‘Idol’ finale in a race that many think is still wide open.

Jordin Sparks 71%
Blake Lewis 29%
Total Votes: 50,855

Of course the poll is of only the people who happen to be on AOL and who happen to care enough to vote. No scientific basis at all. Still - my bet is on Jordin.

Adeline,

I’m waiting for you to tell us who is going to win? What do you think?

hazel

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Paula Abdul broke her nose just before the American Idol season finale. She says she’s going to be at work tonight in spite of her broken nose.

Yahoo News

LOS ANGELES - Talk about bad timing.
Paula Abdul broke her nose this weekend — just days before the season finale of “American Idol” — when she fell while trying to avoid stepping on her Chihuahua.

Abdul was recovering from the mishap and planned to appear on Tuesday and Wednesday night’s shows, her publicist, David Brokaw, said Monday. (Two “Idol” contestants remain — Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks.)

“She’s a little sore, but is doing fine,” Brokaw said.

Abdul, 44, told syndicated entertainment TV show “Extra” that she tore cartilage in her nose and fractured a toe.

“I took a nasty fall … trying not to hurt my dog. I bruised myself on my arm … my chest, my waist all the way down to my hip. All from my little chubby Tulip,” she said.

The dog wasn’t hurt, Brokaw said.

This wasn’t Abdul’s first injury while judging the competition on the hit Fox network show.

She wore a sling in 2004 after surgery on her thumb, which was infected by a flesh-eating fungus following an unsanitary manicure at a Los Angeles nail salon. (She testified in California a year later, urging tougher safety standards for salons.)

“Being a professional dancer, I’m no stranger to pain, but this time the pain was so excruciating that even my hair touching my thumb caused me to scream,” Abdul has said of the yearlong ordeal.

She tripped over her dog? I’m glad the dog wasn’t hurt.

That’s a bizarre story, Hazel. It seems strange to me that a dancer would be so clumsy. I’ll be watching tonight. Maybe the painkillers will make her even more inarticulate than usual. Should make for an interesting show.
TTFN,
Adeline

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Holy Smokes!!!!!

TMZ is reporting that David Hasselhoff was awarded custody of his children after visitation had been taken away from him following that horrible video his daughter took of him falling down drunk.

The court hearing today was closed — secret. Hasselhoff went into court stripped of his right to visit with his children in the wake of the burger video. But we’re told the judge was stunned by the evidence presented by the court-appointed expert who performed psychological evaluations on the family.

We’re told the expert said Pamela Bach, Hasselhoff’s ex, was abusive to her kids — especially Hayley, the younger of the two. The expert also noted that Bach refused drug testing, among many other things.

If David Hasselhoff is the better of the two parents I feel SO SORRY for their kids!

Holy Sleaze, Batman!!!

Ciao
hazel

Hey Hazel - it’s kinda like the Britney Spears/Kevin Federline parenting thing. Who could ever have imagined that K-Fed would end up being the good parent. See ya! Adeline

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Hey Hazel - Guess what? I really hate to be a name-dropper - not, but I was eating dinner tonight and who should be in the same restaurant but Darrell Waltrip. It made me wonder about the whole topic of name-dropping. Does the fact that I had dinner tonight in the same retaurant as Darrell Waltrip really reflect anything about me? It wasn’t a fancy restaurant. As a matter of fact, it was a Cracker Barrell. You can’t get more everyday-ordinary-person than eating at the Cracker Barrell.

So do you think more of me now - seeing as how I had dinner in the same restaurant as Old D.W.?

TTFN,
Adeline

Adeline,

You could have just written that you had dinner with Darrell Waltrip and left it at that! No one would have known that you just happened to be at the same restaurant at the same time and that the restaurant was Cracker Barrell. But even at that, I don’t think it would have changed anyone’s opinion of you. Then again, maybe it would.

I really like Cracker Barrell

Till Later,
Hazel

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LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.

But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.

The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.

“Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos’ eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves,” said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.

“They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents.”

Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.

“If there aren’t enough females or they don’t hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males,” she said.

I had no idea there were gay flamingos. Why not, I guess. But I do wonder how the author of this article knows what the male flamingos were thinking when they ran other flamingos off their nests. Maybe they are just bullies? What happened to the chicks after they hatched their eggs?

Well, I do hope they will be good parents to the new little chick.

Ciao,
hazel

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Hiya Hazel - I don’t know - seems like the person who wrote about the gay pink flamingos might KNOW what he/she is talking about - from personal experience - know what I mean? What do you think? See ya! Adeline

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Hey Adeline ….

Can we say ‘Milli Vanilli’?

I found a video - she looks bored - enjoy

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Hazel, did you hear that Britney Spear’s track to which she was lip-synching during a recent concert - skipped FIVE times, causing the crowd to boo the mini-skirt clad star?  Isn’t that ridiculous?  Am I missing something, or could the concert-goers have bought a CD and saved the ticket money and traffic jams getting to a concert by simply listening to a recorded version of Britney.  They paid good money to hear her sing LIVE - and all she did was play a recording!  Talk about being an ungrateful parasite!  For someone making millions of dollars a year, the least she could do is sing a few songs at her concerts.  Pitiful!

If an artist can’t actually sing during a concert, they should reimburse the people who bought tickets.  The audience is being deceived and cheated!

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Adeline,

I DID hear about Jimmah Cartah saying that about President Bush. I think Jimmy is just trying his best to find SOMEONE to be a worse president than he was.

Bless his heart.

He’s been ‘the worst president in modern history’ for so long he must be just jumping at any chance he can get to call someone else worse.

He really doesn’t act very dignified or in a manner becoming to a former president. It’s actually kinda embarrassing.

Here’s what the Associated Press reported him saying:

“We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered,” he said. “But that’s been a radical departure from all previous administration policies.”

Over at Hot Air they are saying that Carter says his words have been misinterpreted!! I’m sure that it is just another misunderstanding like all the other democrats who get hung on their own petard.

The American Princess has a great rant that indicates that Carter has forgotten his own history in contributing to the problems in the Middle East.

Rhymes with Right says he’s the single least competent person to occupy the White House in his lifetime. He goes on to say some rather unflattering thing about the anti-semite peanut farmer.

The Potbelly Stove says it’s time for Jimmy Carter to go home and mind his own business.

Right Voices

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I’m Adeline.  Hazel and I couldn’t help but notice what a total mess the world is, and we’re here to bring some common sense to the discussion.

Hazel, did you notice that Jimmy Carter said that George W. Bush is the worst American president?  Is that not the pot calling the kettle black?  I’ll be back later to leave some links.  But really!  Jimmy Carter calling GW a bad president!  That’s hilarious!

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