North Korea Nukes

North Korea Nukes, House Homeland Security Committee member Peter King said Sunday that the recent provocative, warmongering rhetoric out of North Korea is no “empty threat.”

He qualified that by explaining he does not fear the North launching a successful attack on the U.S. mainland, but is concerned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “is trying to establish himself … trying to be the tough guy,” and may “box himself in” and need to display some level of military might.

“My concern would be that he may feel to save face he has to launch some sort of attack on South Korea, or some base in the Pacific,” King, R-New York, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

North Korea has ratcheted up its rhetoric in recent weeks, declaring the armistice keeping the peace between it and the South to be null, distributing a photo with a “plan for the strategic forces to target mainland U.S.,” and on Saturday announcing it was entering a “state of war” with its neighbor.

Despite that and posts on the country’s state-run news agency blaring headlines such as “Nuclear War to Be Conducted on Korean Peninsula,” a U.S. official said late Friday, “We have no indications at this point that it’s anything more than warmongering rhetoric.”

“It’s sort of like an organized crime family running a territory,” King said. “He’s brutal, his father is brutal, his grandfather was brutal.”

Body Of Pilot Found

Body Of Pilot Found, Police on Saturday recovered the body of a student pilot who was not wearing a seat belt during a training flight and tumbled from his small two-seater plane when it went into a nose dive over rural Tennessee.

Reuters reported that the body was found in a tree-line not far from a roadway.

The victim, who has not been identified, fell 2,500 feet to his death during the flight on Friday, WRCB-TV reported.

“The people inside the plane were not wearing seat belts,” Bradley County interim fire chief Troy Spence told WRCB-TV. “So when they lost control of the plane, in an attempt to regain control of the plane, the passenger was ejected.”

Spence said the instructor apparently had some kind of malfunction with the Zodiac 601 “and had a rapid descent.”

East Brainerd, Tenn.

Lowell Sterchi, who works at Collegedale Municipal Airport, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that the student was being trained by an instructor in the small plane when the canopy came off.

The instructor, who also was not identified, managed to land the plane at the airport while emergency crews scoured the countryside around East Brainerd, Tenn., about eight miles away looking for the victim. East Brainerd is in the Chattanooga area.

Kate Gosselin Dancing Weight Loss

Kate Gosselin Dancing Weight Loss, Dancing With the Stars gets Kate Gosselin, as reported at UsMagazine.com. The star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 and the mother of eight will join the show that premieres on March 22, 2010.
Kate Gosselin on Dancing With the Stars is a good attention grabber for Kate

Jon and Kate Gosselin became famous when they starred on TLC’s reality TV show Jon & Kate Plus 8. Eventually, there were problems in the Gosselin marriage and the two divorced in 2009. Today, Kate has put her focus on trying to create a new life for herself. Her fist step was in appearing with long hair extensions on the cover of People Magazine. “I’m starting over!” Kate declared. While some admired the new look, others saw it as silly. However, appearing on Dancing With the Stars may be Kate’s best move yet in her quest to forge a new life. Dancing With the Stars is one of the most popular reality TV shows, as reported at Reality Blurred. Becoming a contestant brings Kate attention, and if she wins, she’ll get even more attention.

Competing on Dancing With the Stars will put Kate in the best shape of her life

Women who have appeared on Dancing With the Stars have remarked on how hard it is and on how competing on the show helped them get fit. For example, Kelly Osbourne, who recently competed on Dancing With the Stars, worked out six hours a day with her trainer to compete on Dancing With the Stars, as reported at That’s Fit. The result was a significant amount of weight loss and muscle development.

Although Kate Gosselin is a mother of eight, her new hair extensions reveal that she still considers herself a sexy woman with a lot of opportunities ahead. The hard work required for Dancing With the Stars will put her in the best shape of her life and could get her more magazine covers.

Kate Gosselin appears on Dancing With the Stars while Jon fades into the woodwork

There was a time with Jon Gosselin was gaining attention with new women on his arm and clothing by Ed Hardy. However, the tables appear to be turned on the couple. Kate Gosselin is a mother to eight but has managed to stay in the spotlight while Jon, who lost popularity after the show, fades away.

Steve Wozniak After Dwts

Steve Wozniak After Dwts, Steve Wozniak has apparently had a change of heart in regards to his Dancing with the Stars conspiracy theory.
The billionaire Apple Computer co-founder has retracted and apologized for a Monday night email to his Facebook support group in which he accused Dancing with the Stars’ producers of potentially manipulating home viewer voting results to attract more viewers.

“We know how easy it is to espouse a lot of ideas and build conspiracy theory. No conspiracy theory can be proven wrong, so there are always plenty of die-hard followers,” Wozniak wrote in a Tuesday night posting to his Facebook group. “I have been around the Internet conspiracy theory forums for too long.”

“Yesterday I wrote my suspicions of the secret Dancing with the Stars audience vote tabulations. I wrote that the producers were liars, simply because I truly believed in that possibility, not because I had a shred of evidence,” Wozniak said in the message, which he wrote just before Dancing with the Stars’ Tuesday night results show began.

“I hurt a lot of honest people. Today, a storm kicked up over my allegations. I started my apologies but it has to go further than that.”

In his since-removed Monday night posting, Wozniak — who offered no specific details to support his allegations — seemed to be of the belief that although he had finished dead last in the judges’ scoring for his first two Dancing with the Stars performances, his home viewer support was strong that the only way he could possibly end up in last night’s bottom two was if the show’s producers manipulated the voting results.

“The producers play games to get viewers and don’t disclose the numbers,” Wozniak wrote in his Monday posting, according to CNet’s news.com. “If they disclosed the numbers, it would be less of a game, but still suspect. If tomorrow, they claim I’m in the bottom 2 dance teams, including viewer votes, I believe that it’s an outright lie.”

Wozniak also apparently felt that he was so popular with home viewers that his participation in last night’s “Dance Off” — the first in Dancing with the Stars’ history — would be a huge boom for the broadcast’s ratings.

“I’m sure they want me in this dance-off to get higher Tuesday ratings, and they have preplanned it so that I win,” he wrote, according to news.com.

However Wozniak forsaw one potential monkey wrench in the producers’ plan: the foot fracture he recently suffered.

“If my leg acts up tomorrow, they will either have to announce another pair as being the lowest or send me home, and I don’t think they will give me up,” he added.

Wozniak went on to write that he had even repeatedly voiced his belief that producer manipulation was the only way he could end up in the Tuesday night “Dance Off” — which he partner Karina Smirnoff did end up participating in against singer Belinda Carlisle and her partner Jonathan Roberts — during interview segments he had recorded on Monday.

“I called it fake about 20 times today on camera, each time in the same sentence as whatever comment they wanted about doing a dance-off tomorrow,” he wrote, according to news.com. “That way, they couldn’t edit it easily to say what they wanted. They kept trying to get me to say what I’d do if I was in the dance-off without using the word fake.”

In addition, Wozniak warned viewers that what they might see in his Tuesday night video package might not be entirely accurate.

“They will have some small video tomorrow of me saying things that I strongly told them I don’t believe,” he wrote, according to news.com. “They will also shoot me in a one-hour rehearsal tomorrow with my partner, but I’ll keep calling the idea of my being in the bottom 2, after audience participation, a lie.”

Wozniak and Smirnoff subsequently survived the “Dance Off” and Carlisle and Roberts were the first eighth-season couple eliminated from the competition.

In his apology and retraction, Wozniak wrote that he spoke with “top people” at Dancing with the Stars — the “ones responsible for counting audience votes and keeping them honest” — and was told there were no shenanigans taking place.

“[They] told me all the specific details of where their numbers came from. More than that, they explained how they can catch onto various forms of manipulation of the system by exactly the methods I had thought out in my head that would work,” he explained.

“I was offered an opportunity to see the equipment they use also. You can tell when things are extremely on the level. You can also see why the exact totals cannot be released. That would make it harder to detect fraud. One main way that they detect fraud is when the phone-in votes and text votes and Internet votes don’t follow each other, percentage-wise. There are other things they look for as well that IT experts would detect as signals of something wrong.”

In addition, Wozniak wrote he felt “so horrible inside” about the way his accusations made Dancing with the Stars executive producer Conrad Green feel.

“[Green] told me how horribly what I had said injured the show and himself,” wrote Wozniak. “You can tell when someone is speaking in a way that they can’t possibly be a liar or trying to deceive you the least bit. Conrad and the other producers are not liars. They are extremely honest people in my mind. And nobody could get me to write this if I didn’t believe it myself. In this case they are certainly more honorable and honest than myself.”

Wozniak concluded by explaining his conspiracy theory on the fact that “emotions wind up getting very high on a show like this.”

“I was around some swarming emotions yesterday. Now I feel like a heel who stuck his shoe in his mouth, no puns intended. I have done it before and been on the other end of it as well, and it’s not nice either way,” he wrote.

“My last hope is that you can see inside of me and know that I am telling the truth from the bottom of my heart, and forgive the loudmouth emotional notes I wrote earlier. I’m on to have fun with the show now, and you may see me dance in minutes.”

David Alan Grier Dwts Weight Loss

David Alan Grier Dwts Weight Loss, Forget The Biggest Loser, Dancing with the Stars is apparently the place to go to drop those unsightly pounds quickly.

Just ask eighth-season contestant David Allan Grier, who entered the show not expecting to drop much weight at all.

“I’ve actually lost 26 pounds,” the 53-year-old actor told Us magazine following last night’s performance show. “The first day I came in, I was like, ‘I’m not going to lose weight – we’re waltzing!'”

However, Grier said the show’s intense daily dance practices with professional partner Kym Johnson — which include “three hours of aerobics” and “using your core” — have combined with strict a diet of egg whites, fruit, yogurt to result in the weight-loss.

Johnson added that Grier’s initial thoughts about not losing weight while dancing were anything but true.

“You’re burning a lot more calories because you’re actually moving your whole body, as opposed to doing just weights,” she told Us.

As for Grier’s future on the show — he and Johnson scored a 22 for their Lindy Hop on the live performance show — the comedian joked that viewers needed to keep him around a little bit longer, if only so he could accomplish a personal goal of his.

“I have to stay in to lose four more pounds,” he told Us, “and then you can kick me off.”

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