Iron Maiden’s latest – ‘Final Frontier’ lands Top spot on U.K charts (4th time ‘Eddie’ ranks #1)

~Eddie Lives~

THR:

…”The Final Frontier” is Iron Maiden’s fourth U.K. No. 1 album, a sequence that began in 1982 with “The Number of the Beast.” The band also hit the top with “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” in 1988 and “Fear of the Dark” four years later. The new set, the band’s 15th studio album, follows 2006′s “A Matter of Life and Death,” which debuted at No. 4….

August 23, 2010. Tags: , , , . Entertainment, Heavy Metal, Music, Popular Culture. Leave a comment.

Update – Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Say I Do ~

Update courtesy of ITN-

THR says it’s official!

“True Blood” stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were married Saturday night in Malibu.

Us Weekly
reports that the actors exchanged vows in a tent on a private residence across the street from the beach.

Paquin, 28, and Moyer, 40, began dating a few months after they began working on their HBO series….

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 26: In this handout from SeaWorld San Diego, "True Blood" costars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer hold a two-month-old Magellanic penguin chick at SeaWorld San Diego's Penguin Encounter July 26, 2009 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Bob Couey-SeaWorld via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Stephen Moyer;Anna Paquin

August 21, 2010. Tags: , , , . Celebrities, Charlaine Harris, Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Popular Culture, Supernatural, Suspense, True Blood, Urban Fantasy. 1 comment.

The Vampire Diaries S2 Extended Promo 2 -awesome

Katherine! Damon! Elena! Katherine and Damon!

Courtesy of theCW

August 20, 2010. Tags: , , , , . Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Popular Culture, Supernatural, Suspense, Urban Fantasy. 1 comment.

True Blood 3.10 ‘I Smell a Rat’ Sneak Peeks

(more…)

August 19, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , . Charlaine Harris, Entertainment, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Popular Culture, Supernatural, Suspense, True Blood, Urban Fantasy. Leave a comment.

‘You’re going the wrong way!’ ~ Weekly Jobless Claims rise to 500,000

Update: Philly Fed PLUNGES! ZeroHedge:

Philly Fed Plunges To -7.7 on Expectations Of 7.0, Previous 5.1

More on that HUGE Philly Fed Miss from CalculatedRIsk

Indexes for new orders and shipments also suggest a slowing this month; the new orders index fell slightly, to ‐7.1, while the shipments index turned negative, declining to ‐4.5. Indicating weakness, indexes for both delivery times and unfilled orders remained negative this month.

The percentage of firms reporting a decline in employment (23 percent) was higher than the percentage (20 percent) reporting an increase. More concerning was the significant drop in the average employee workweek index from 1.7 in July to ‐17.1 in August….

Most of we peeps outside the Beltway expected this (that’s us in the c ar screaming at John Candy aka Obama, Summers and Geithner) . Here it is. Delta going the wrong way. Rising weekly jobless claims continue, now hitting that 500,000 marker…and AGAIN note the revisions for the prior month-higher…

CNBC:

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 500,000 in the week ended August 14, the highest since mid-November, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast claims slipping to 476,000 from the previously reported 484,000 the prior week, which was revised up to 488,000 in Thursday’s report…..

August 19, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , . Economy, Finance, Obama Administration, Politics, Popular Culture, Taxes, Unemployment Statistics, Wall St. 1 comment.

Personal Bankruptcy soars to 5 yr high ~ Nevada continues to be hardest hit – feel the ‘Hope’ yet?

The American people are eagerly awaiting their chance to vote against this destructive, divisive agenda coming out of D.C. November cannot come soon enough. Hold On, voters are comin’, we will pull each other out of this morass the Obama Democrats have created. Please make sure EVERYONE you know is coming out to vote.

ZeroHedge:

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reports that personal bankruptcy filings for the year ended June 30, 2010 surged to a five year high, hitting 1.57 million, a 20% increase from the prior year. Furthermore, in the period between April and June, there were 422,061 bankruptcy filings, a 9% increase from the 388,148 in the previous quarter, and up 11% from 381,073 a year earlier. As Reuters highlights, quarterly filings surpassed 400,000 for the first time since a record 667,431 bankruptcies were begun in the fourth quarter of 2005, when Congress overhauled federal bankruptcy laws and made it harder for people and businesses to file…

Nevada continues to be hardest hit in foreclosures and bankruptcies as well as unemployment, Harry Reid is killing his state on a Trifecta of issues with his ass backward economic ‘policies’,,,

If you are in Nevada, please take a look at Sharron Angle for Senate. I had initially backed Sue Lowden and donated to her campaign, but Sharron was the people’s choice and now any dillys I have for NV are going to Sharron who GETS IT. We need people who GET US, and GET AMERICA. Who GET free markets and fiscal responsibility. Please vote for Sharron Angle to turn NV around!

...Indicatively, Nevada had the highest rate of filings on a per capita basis in the last year, with 11.74 per 1,000 people)….

Obama is on my TV, again, this time BAMBOOZLING folks in Ohio and whining about how companies have plenty of money to hire and fully fund pensions. Good grief, the pension bailout is coming….Hold On America, we voters are comin’!!

August 18, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , . Economy, Finance, Foreclosures, Housing, Obama Administration, Politics, Popular Culture, Taxes, Unemployment Statistics. Leave a comment.

Twofer Tuesday: Babs and Donna Summers / Enough is Enough / Macarthur Park

Someone left the SOUFFLE out in the rain! Obama is Epic Fail. enough is enough when even BABS is skipping the fundraisers you appear at…

August 17, 2010. Tags: , , . Celebrities, Entertainment, Music, Obama Administration, Popular Culture. Leave a comment.

Guilty 1 count- False Statements; Unleash the Blago ~ Verdict coming in

Blago GUILTY on ONLY 1 count (False Statements), deadlocked on 23 other counts, Shep Smith saying guilty on corruption in office…, ahh clarification, only 1 count which breaks into 2 acts, still only guilty on 1 count

Ace has the flaming Blago skull up as we await the verdict on the 2-3 counts the jury agreed on…Frankly I want Blago to walk, he didn’t do anything Obama didn’t do IMO, he just didn’t have ‘friends’ in high places snd he ran his mouth too much…shxt it’s practically a requirement in Chicago Politics the ole’ quid pro quo…

here’s hopin’ Blago gets off, it would be worth it just to see O and Shep Smith get pixxed….

August 17, 2010. Tags: , , , . Celebrities, Obama Administration, Politics, Popular Culture. Leave a comment.

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