NIRVANA RUNNING FOR OFFICE…?

Now he wants to be a politician….why am I not surprised. He looks like a trainwreck btw. Nirvana’s former bassist is running for clerk of a rural county to protest Washington state’s method of letting candidates name their own party affiliation.

Krist Novoselic (noh-voh-SEL’-ik) is running for clerk of Wahkiakum (wah-KAI’-ah-kum) County in western Washington.

Novoselic is head of his local chapter of the Grange, a civic organization. His election paperwork declares that he’s running under the “Grange Party” banner, even though the Grange isn’t a political party.

Novoselic tells The Daily World newspaper that he’s protesting the state’s system that lets candidates say what party they prefer when running for office. He says that’s confusing for voters and lets candidates appropriate the names of private associations.

MICHIGAN’S NO WORKER LEFT BEHIND PROGRAM

Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind program provides up to two years of free tuition toward school or training for careers in certain high-demand fields. The program has put 68,785 people into training since its 2007 launch, according to Andy Levin, deputy director of the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth.

“No Worker Left Behind is going like gangbusters, and the pace of putting people into training is accelerating, but we don’t have enough money to train everybody who wants to be trained,” Levin told the Huffington Post.

There were 6,769 people on the program’s waiting list in April, mostly concentrated in the suburbs of Detroit, according to Levin. On Tuesday he requested over $58 million in federal stimulus money to fund the program, which he said ought to become a national model.

The program ties in money from multiple federal and state funding sources and provides uniform eligibility requirements and benefits for all Michiganders. Levin said job training is a necessity for unemployed blue-collar workers.

OCTO-MOM HAS SOME REGRETS…WOW, REALLY?!

Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman says she didn’t tell her sperm donor she was having more children after the first six, and fears his resentment for the betrayal.

In a video shot in a fondue restaurant and posted to the RadarOnline Web site Thursday, Suleman says she used frozen fertilized embryos left over from her first conceptions to become pregnant with eight additional children. The donor didn’t know she had the leftover embryos, she said.

“I went behind his back and used them all,” she says. “He didn’t want me to. I feel so much guilt for that.”

The videographer, identified by Radar as Suleman’s best friend, says at one point that the sperm donor has a wife and family. But Suleman warns her away from giving away too much about the man, adding that “he’d lose everything he’s created in his own life” if his identity was revealed.

Suleman says her older children are increasingly curious about who their biological father is. She refuses to identify him, saying she wants to protect his privacy, but also wants him “to somehow, privately, secretly know (the children) in a controlled manner.”

Dipping cheesecake into melted chocolate, Suleman confesses in the video to making some mistakes.

“I screwed myself. I screwed up my life, I screwed up my kids’ lives,” she says. “I have to put on this strong facade and I have to pretend like I don’t regret it.”

Suleman gave birth to the world’s longest-surviving set of octuplets on Jan. 26.

IN OTHER SPORTS NEWS…

• NHL THE PITTSBURGH PENGUINS EVEN THE STANLEY CUP FINALS SERIES AT 2 GAMES A PIECE. THEY’LL PLAY THE DETROIT RED WINGS IN DETROIT FOR GAME 5 ON SATURDAY.
• BIG UNIT RANDY JOHNSON BECAME THE 24TH PLAYER IN MLB HISTORY TO PITCH HIS 300TH WIN TODAY IN HIS GAME AGAINST THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS. THIS IS A HISTORICAL MOMENT, AND WE MAY NEVER SEE ANOTHER 300 GAME WINNER IN OUR LIFETIME.

LAKERS POST-GAME RECAP: GAME 1 NBA FINALS

1. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY DISAPPOINTMENT AT DISNEY FOR MICKEY AND MINNIE MOUSE NOT SHOWING UP TO THE GAME. THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED. DISNEY PUBLICITY….CALL ME. EMAIL ME. WE NEED TO CHAT.
2. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY DISGUST AT STAN VAN GUNDY FOR THINKING THAT GETTING A HAIR CUT AND USING VOLUMIZING MOUSSE WOULD HELP HIS TEAM BEAT THE LAKERS. THUG OF THE WEEK!
3. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY FEAR OF THE KOBE BRYANT UNDERBITE. WHEN THAT BOTTOM JAW STARTS TO JUT OUT, YOU KNOW IT’S OVER FOR YOU. HE’S ON FIRE. JUST RIDE THE STORM, ORLANDO, JUST RIDE THE STORM. YOU’RE USED TO IT WITH ALL THOSE HURRICANES YOU DEAL WITH. IT’S VERY SIMILAR. IT HITS YOU WITHOUT MUCH NOTICE, AND YOU’RE LEFT PICKING UP THE PIECES WONDERING HOW IT ALL HAPPENED.
4. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY SINCERE GRATITUDE TO LUKE WALTON FOR HONESTLY BEING A DIFFERENCE MAKER TONIGHT. THE GAME WAS NECK AND NECK AND LUKE HONESTLY TURNED IT UP A NOTCH FOR THE LAKERS 9P WOW. NUF SAID.
5. LAMAR – THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TWO “AND 1′S” TONIGHT…THEY WERE SPECTACULAR B/C THEY SHOWED TOUGHNESS & DEDICATION ON YOUR PART, WHICH IS RARE (UNLESS YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT LAMAR’S STOMACH TOUGHNESS & DEDICATION TO TWIZZLERS)
6. LAKER BIGS: PAU – YOU DEFENDED DWIGHT HOWARD SO WELL, TAKING THE CHARGE AND COMBINING WITH BYNUM FOR SOME TOUGH PAINT WORK DOWN LOW – 56 POINTS IN THE PAINT WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE! AND YOU SLAM DUNKED IN TRAFFIC, WHICH I CAN HONESTLY SAY I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE FROM YOU. BE AGRESSIVE, B-E AGRESSIVE UH! AND BYNUM WAS VERY CLOSE TO THAT DOUBLE-DOUBLE WE’RE ALL LOOKING FOR 9P-9R
7. JOSH POWELL – YOUR NAME ISN’T SPOKEN AROUND L.A. TOO MUCH BRO, BUT MAD PROPS ON SINKIN’ THAT THREE-BALL WITH LITERALLY :01 SECOND LEFT….THAT WAS SERIOUSLY THE ICING ON THE CAKE FOR ME FOR REALS.
8. BIG D FROM THE LAKERS – 12 POINTS FOR DWIGHT HOWARD…THAT AIN’T NO SUPERMAN PERFORMANCE TO ME. FLY BACK TO METROPOLIS D-MAN.
9. MOST POINTS BY A MAGIC TEAM MEMBER WAS 14…EEK. ON THE OTHER HAND….KOBE 40P-8R-8A
10. POST-GAME INTERVIEWS WITH KOBE REALLY SHOWED THE LAKERS ATTITUDE…IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL THE BOYS ARE RIDING THE LAKERS FLOAT IN THE PARADE. JUST FORGET ABOUT THE WIN AND MOVE ON AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED. (BUT SHHH, IT DID HAPPEN, AND IT WAS PRETTY!)

RECOVERED DEBRIS NOT FROM FLIGHT 447

We may be farther than we thought from knowing what happened to Air France Flight 447: The debris recovered off the Northern coast of Brazil did not come from the plane, French officials say. The search team had discovered cargo pallets in the water, but there were no wooden pallets aboard the flight, so the objects couldn’t have been from the jet crash. The only physical evidence, according to some experts, is a large spot of gasoline on the Atlantic—which could mean that the plane disintegrated mid-air. But France’s accident investigation agency has stressed “extreme prudence” when speculating about Flight 447, explaining that it’s still most important to recover the black box before jumping to conclusions.

Meanwhile, for every plane crash, there’s a story about someone who missed the flight. These folks missed the ill-fated Air France flight due to a reservation screwup, overbooking, and a cabbie whose passion for soccer delayed a passenger until he missed the flight. I’d say they should play the lottery, but they already won one.

The 39-year-old Slovenian sailor and father of two was spared because his cab driver was in a hurry to see a soccer match.

With time to spare at the airport, Aplinc, who was supposed to take Flight 447, learned there was no seat on the plane with enough legroom for him to stretch out his bum knee. But since he’d arrived early, he was able to board an earlier 4 p.m. Air France flight, which did have a roomy seat.

Gustavo Ciriaco was scheduled to be on that 4 p.m. flight. But he arrived late at the check-in and was told airline agents could not find his seat and the gate was about to close.

The 39-year-old Brazilian choreographer and dancer was on his way to Europe for two weeks of rehearsals for his next ballet, and had a connecting flight to catch in Paris.

Ciriaco pleaded to be let him on the plane, and finally the airline discovered the seating error and relented.

If the reservation mix-up hadn’t been resolved, “I would have tried to take the following flight because I would have arrived in Paris with enough time to catch my connection,” Ciriaco said.

The next flight? Air France 447.

Talkarazzi

Oh, Lindsay Lohan. Whatever will we do with you?
One minute she resembles the smidgen of normal we once knew her as and the next she looks all crazy again!
La Loca spent Thursday evening in Londontown, first dining at the Zuma restaurant with friends and then finishing off the night by partying at the Cuckoo Club.

Lance Armstrong announced the birth of his fourth child via Twitter on Thursday.
He Tweeted: “Wassup, world? My name is Max Armstrong and I just arrived. My Mommy is healthy and so am I!”
He added that the baby boy “weighed in at 7 lbs. 5 oz and is 20 inches long.”

According to MSNBC: “He is such a diva. Rude to everyone – from fans right down to the lighting folks,” says a source who interacted with him on his recent publicity tour.
Sounds like somebody’s gettin’ a little too big for their britches!!
Staff at the New York tour stop have even said that A-list celebs they’ve dealt with in the past have been “infinitely more polite” than Glambert.
An anonymous music producer pitched in his two cents: “No one sells that many records these days to be able to get away with that kind of behavior. To be a success you need literally everyone in your corner.”

She hasn’t had a hit record in years, but somehow the blonde “country singer” purchased a speedboat for boyfriend Tony Romo’s 29th birthday.
The price tag? Just a mere $100,000!
The boat is a custom 25-foot Malibu Wakesetter.
Are we sure she didn’t get the boat for free or lease it?
According to an inside source, “Jessica knows that Tony has always wanted a boat.” Adding that she’s “hoping that her birthday gift will lead to marriage, and by this time next year she’ll be walking down the aisle with him.”