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Taylor always seems to get dissed around VMA time! Last year Kanye West said Beyonce deserved her Best Female Video star award instead, and now Chris is calling her “horrible”!
It’s that time of year again when all the haters come out of hibernation to attack our favorite country cutie, Taylor Swift. At the 2009 MTV VMAs, Kanye West stormed the stage as Tay was accepting the award for Best Female Video and now, one year later,  Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson is dissing the country music superstar!

“I find it embarrassing that adults are like, ‘Taylor Swift is very talented.’ She’s not,” the 46-year-old rocker snipes to Nylon Guys magazine, adding, “She might be cute, but she’s horrible.”

Chris continues to attack the 20-year-old singer further, saying she’s not true talent, but is simply around to make money for the music industry.  “They have stylists who dress them, they make records with producers who play a chord into the computer and it all comes out the same…When you have computers doing it all for you…there’s no individuality,” he says. “Singing isn’t always about being on key; it’s about emotionality.”

Sounds like someone is being attacked by a big green monster to us!  It’s okay to be jealous Chris, just keep your thoughts to yourself…or you might just lose the last few remaining fans you have!

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Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is clarifying -- but not backing down from -- comments she made questioning the timing and composition of the aid package Congress passed five years ago for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In a statement to the Huffington Post, Angle's spokesman, Jarrod Agen stressed that Angle had not, in fact, argued that, "Katrina victims should not receive aid." Rather "unlike Harry Reid, Sharron would want to know where tax dollars are going and who is spending it before voting in favor of any spending bill," Agen said.

The clarification comes after Angle has absorbed more than a few blows for offering what appeared to be an argument against the expedited passage of a $62 billion aid package for Katrina victims back in 2005.

"I think government needs to live within its means," Angle said during an interview with conservative radio station KLAV shortly after the hurricane hit five years ago. "I would like to go and join my voice with Mike Pence and others, who when the $62 billion came out to be spent on Katrina relief, he said wait a minute, I'm voting no, and the reason is because I want to know where it's going, what it's going to be spent on, and who's going to be spending it. So I'd like to join my voice there."

Angle's remarks were unearthed by Democratic opponents shortly before the five-year anniversary of the hurricane's landfall. And they earned the Nevada Republican some sharp rebukes among officials from the Gulf region.

"It really makes you pause for a second and wonder whether you are dealing with somebody that's rational and thoughtful and can somehow balance principle with the need for compassion," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.

Asked about that segment, Agen insisted that Landrieu had misconstrued Angle's words and broader point.

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NEW YORK — OMG, it's like one of those freaky Mayan calendar things or something.

But, yes, it's true: Thursday Sept. 2, 2010, is being celebrated as "90210 Day." It's the one day this century that the date will line up perfectly with the famous California zip code.

For fans of the 1990s teen drama "Beverly Hills, 90210," this is an occasion for celebration in nostalgia for a show widely regarded as cheesy, but nevertheless beloved.

"Beverly Hills, 90210," aired from 1990-2000 and followed a group of teenagers in wealthy SoCal families. Its main characters – Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley), Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty) and Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) – became enmeshed in increasingly outlandish soap opera plots.

The event Thursday isn't inspiring any parades, but the CW network has altered its schedule. It changed things around to make sure an episode of the current incarnation of the show, simply "90210," will air.

A group on Facebook formed last year is calling it "International Beverly Hills 90210 Day." Celebrations have been organized in places such as the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, which will screen old episodes. The town of Beverly Hills, itself, is throwing a party hosted by Larry King.

Sports and pop culture writer Bill Simmons, known as "the Sportsguy" on ESPN.com where he writes, is hosting a podcast devoted to "Beverly Hills, 90210." Last week in his podcast, "The B.S. Report," Simmons announced that he will hold a special Thursday and give out "90210 Awards" such as "biggest plot stretch ever."

"We're diving so deep into this," he said. "It's almost like we're performing surgery on the show."

The columnist did, though, say that after the Thursday podcast he would retire references to the show in his writing – which are frequent.

"The show premiered 20 years ago; it's heyday was 15 years ago. I don't want to be that guy who's referencing things that happened 38 years ago," Simmons said.

"Much like when (Michael) Jordan walked away from basketball and Jim Brown walked away from football, I'm walking away from `90210.'"

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The Coffee Party, a progressive response to the conservative Tea Party movement, is in the midst of wrapping up the early registration phase for its upcoming National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

The event, scheduled to take place on September 24 through the 26 at the Galt House Conference Center in Louisville, is billed as a chance "to reset the national dialogue so that we can address the challenges that we face as fellow Americans instead of partisans in a spectator sport."

According to the schedule, the convention will focus on a variety of workshops revolving around a few different themes, such as Coffee Party "strategy," "Candid Talk about Issues," "Voter Participation," and "Good Government."

Speakers include openly-gay discharged army veteran Lt. Dan Choi, author Frances Moore Lappé and Republican strategist Mark McKinnon, among others.

Coffee Party founder Annabel Park gave her take on the current political landscape to Louisville's WHAS11 in August, and explained why she thought her movement was necessary.

"Democracy should feel like a collaboration, not a football game with two teams," Park told WHAS. "So, it's important that we can leave our ideology at the door and really dig into the problems and problem solve and work together."

According to a Facebook post Monday, early registration for the convention ends Tuesday, August 31 at 9pm EST.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at a small gathering in San Francisco Friday that the stimulus has worked in staving off deep economic depression, but that it's hard to campaign convincingly on scenarios you have prevented. Now she's working to remind voters of what might have been.

"Economists from right to left have said if we had not passed the recovery package and other accompanying initiatives taken by the federal government, we would have 8.5 million more people unemployed and the unemployment rate would be 14.5 percent," Pelosi told her hometown audience.

Those numbers on employment come from a prominent report by economists Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder.

In a paper discussing their findings, Zandi and Blinder wrote that "without the Wall Street bailout, the bank stress tests, the emergency lending and asset purchases by the Federal Reserve, and the Obama administration's fiscal stimulus program, the nation's gross domestic product would be about 6.5 percent lower this year. In addition, there would be about 8.5 million fewer jobs, on top of the more than 8 million already lost; and the economy would be experiencing deflation, instead of low inflation..."

Cue a Monday article in USA Today reporting that top economists agree that "the stimulus worked in staving off a rerun of the 1930s." Pelosi's press office immediately sent out a "Fact Sheet" touting the journalistic findings.

"It's no surprise that the administration would proclaim its own policies a success," read an excerpt from the article cited by Pelosi's office. "But its verdict is backed by economists at Goldman Sachs, IHS Global Insight, JPMorgan Chase and Macroeconomic Advisers, who say the stimulus boosted gross domestic product by 2.1 percent to 2.7 percent."

Pelosi's ramped up efforts to show how bad the economy might have been without the stimulus come after a Friday speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in which he said Americans would like the Obama administration to take more responsibility for the dire state of the economy.

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It was back on April 5, right around the afternoon shift change, when methane gas or coal dust or both suddenly ignited in the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, sending a massive fireball shooting down its low-ceilinged passageways.

Twenty-nine miners working in several different sections of the mine were killed instantly, making it the deadliest mining disaster in 40 years.

The conflagration was so intense that federal officials investigating its cause had to wait two months before the risk of fire and the levels of methane in the air were low enough that they could start looking for clues underground.

Today, Upper Big Branch remains closed to everyone but those investigators, who are still only partway through their methodical examination.

Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration director Joseph A. Main went down into the mine a few weeks ago and all around him, he said, were signs of "a pretty violent explosion."

"You have ventilation controls that are destroyed -- your block walls are blown out -- you have residue from the heat and fire," he said in an interview with the Huffington Post. The floors are littered with debris and damaged equipment. There was, Main said, "a vast area that was affected."

MSHA's operating theory appears to be that something Massey did to the mine's ventilation system let methane and possibly dust build up to explosive levels.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A prominent Democratic lawyer is asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether Republican congressional candidate Stephen Fincher omitted debts and assets in financial disclosures maintained by the U.S. House.

The Fincher campaign dismissed the allegations brought by Covington attorney J. Houston Gordon, a former state Democratic Party chairman, as a political stunt on behalf of Roy Herron, the Democratic nominee in the open 8th District race in northwestern Tennessee.

"Stephen Fincher filled out all required disclosure forms honestly and in good faith," Paul Ciaramitaro, Fincher's deputy campaign manager, said in an e-mail. "Roy Herron's camp is using one of his political hatchet-men to gin up a sideshow."

Fincher in the disclosure statements said his only assets were about $60,000 in farm income last year and another $124,000 through May of this year. That led Gordon to question how Fincher could round up $250,000 to lend his campaign in the closing weeks of the tumultuous GOP primary.

"Mr. Fincher indicated that he and his spouse have no liquid assets of any kind no checking accounts, no savings accounts, no money market accounts, no stocks, no bonds," Gordon said in a letter sent this week to the U.S. attorney in Memphis.

"It seems somewhat improbable that Mr. Fincher can loan his campaign a quarter million dollars in July 2010 without having any money in any bank account," he said.

Warren Nunn, chairman of the Gates Banking and Trust Co., said his bank was the source of the loan to Fincher, a longtime customer.

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs will honor the late broadcaster Harry Caray next month by rededicating his statue outside Wrigley Field.

The team said Thursday that a pregame ceremony is also planned for Sept. 1. Caray's wife, Dutchie Caray, and Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts are expected to be at the rededication.

Caray's statue will be rededicated at Sheffield and Waveland avenues. It previously was outside the field at Sheffield Avenue and Addison Street, where a new statue of Cubs outfielder Billy Williams will be placed.

Team officials say Dutchie Caray will throw a ceremonial first pitch before the game against Pittsburgh. She'll wear a No. 23 Caray jersey.

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NEW YORK — A Muslim cab driver whose face and throat were slashed in a suspected hate crime attack appeared with Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday as city officials sought to ease tensions in the debate over a plan to put a mosque near the site of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Meanwhile, investigators sought to unravel contradictions in the life of the suspect, a baby-faced college student who had traveled to Afghanistan with a group that seeks to promote interfaith understanding.

The Bangladeshi driver, Ahmed H. Sharif, said the proposed mosque and Islamic center north of the World Trade Center site did not come up in his conversation with the passenger accused of using a folding knife to slash his neck and face after asking whether he's a Muslim.

"Of course it was for my religion. He attacked me after he knew I was a Muslim," Sharif said at a news conference at City Hall.

Bloomberg said it is impossible to know the motive of the attack. But he made a pointed connection to the debate about the planned Islamic center, which has ignited intense emotions worldwide.

"This should never have happened and hopefully won't happen again," Bloomberg said. "Hopefully, people will understand that we can have a discourse. That's what the First Amendment is all about. That's what America is all about."

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said authorities did not believe the cabbie's attack signified any trend in anti-Muslim crimes.

"We see it as an isolated incident," he said.

Passenger Michael Enright, of Brewster, N.Y., remained jailed without bail on charges of attempted murder and assault as hate crimes and weapons possession.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Impact from the Alaska plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others earlier this month dislodged an emergency locator beacon from its mounting bracket, federal investigators said.

The antenna cable also was found separated from the beacon, according to a preliminary report released late Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The report on the Aug. 9 crash also said the plane left a corporate-owned lodge at around 2:30 p.m., and the wreckage was spotted on a remote southwest Alaska mountainside at about 8:05 p.m. It said the crash occurred at around 2:45 p.m.

Investigators had previously said they believed the plane left the lodge between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., and that it was found sometime between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., based on preliminary information they'd received.

Four people, including former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe, were injured in the crash.

The report does not give a cause for the crash, and sheds no new light on weather conditions encountered by the pilot, who didn't file a flight plan and was relying on visual flight rules for what was supposed to have been a relatively short flight to a fishing camp.

Authorities have said that no transmitter signal was detected during an aerial search.

But state medical examiner Dr. Katherine Raven has said the injuries sustained by those who perished were "severe and fatal," and that a quicker response from rescuers probably wouldn't have made a difference.

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