Rich LIttle Roasts Johnny Carson!!!
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King Curtis Iaukea, American professional wrestler, died after a long illness he was , 73
Curtis Piehau Iaukea, III was a professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional US promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s died after a long illness he was , 73. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he won the WWF Tag Team Championship. He was also later The Master of the Dungeon of Doom in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Under the name “Iau Kea” he appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze with Moe Howard declaring “That’s not a man! That’s a committee!”.
| (1938 – December 4, 2010) |
Biography
He was the grandson of Colonel Curtis Iaukea, a vice chamberlain and diplomat to the court of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliuokalani [1] and later Sheriff of Honolulu and son of a Honolulu Police Department Captain also named Curtis Iaukea. He attended Punahou School and the University of California Berkeley as an economics major where he lettered as a lineman until he dropped out. He played as a tackle for the BC Lions from 1958-1959.[2]
In the early mid sixties, 1963 – 1964, post football and before his pro wrestling debut with 50th State Wrestling, Curtis “the Bull” Iaukea briefly worked as a disc jockey for KUMU Radio station in Kaimuki under then station owner/manager John Wiser. Playing a “Classical Music” format, he provided the first OJT job internship cueing records and tapes as a station gopher/programing assistant for a young upcoming south-shore surfer Steve Gilbert, whom he paid out of his own pocket. As a result of necessitated chair replacement, KUMU DJ’s benefitted for years getting to use the extremely solid yet comfortable steel swivel DJ chair with lumbar support, a legacy of “Da Bull’s” near 300lb girth which simply demolished several prior replacement bar stool type chairs becoming a major expense of legendary proportion.
Professional wrestling career
In Australia, King Curtis was a part of the face tag team known as the People’s Army with Mark Lewin and Spiros Arion.
His first sojourns to Australia were in the 1964–1965 season, where he was a villain. He was teamed with Skull Murphy. King Curtis initially wrestled as Curtis Iaukea in his first run in Australia. The King Curtis tag was the one that stuck as he feuded against Mark Lewin. After becoming a fan favorite in time for the seventies, King Curtis feuded against Tiger Singh and various Japanese “brothers.” King Curtis was also a member of an alliance known as “The People’s Army.”
After retiring in the mid-1980s, he turned to managing. In ICW, knows as King Curtis, he managed Kevin Sullivan and Mark Lewin, taking on the gimmick of a crazed cult leader. His faction feuded with Joe Savoldi and Austin Idol. Curtis Iaukea re-appeared briefly in the WWF promotion as a manager and mouthpiece for Kamala and Sika. He also appeared briefly in WCW as ‘The Master’ of The Dungeon of Doom stable in the mid-90s.
Championships and accomplishments
- American Wrestling Alliance
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- NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Haru Sasaki
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- IWA World Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
- IWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Buddy Austin (1) and Mark Lewin (2)
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- WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) with Baron Mikel Scicluna
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Ken Lehman, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) died he was , 82
Kenneth Karl Lehman was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched for three different teams between the 1952 and 1961 seasons. Listed at 6′ 0″, 170 lb., he batted and threw left-handed died he was , 82.[1]
(June 10, 1928 – December 4, 2010)
Born in Seattle, Washington, Ken Lehman was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1946 out of Kirkland High School and entered on their farm system in 1947. He played four seasons, reaching the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League in 1950 before enlisting during Korean War.[2][3]
Following military discharge, Lehman made his major league debut with the Dodgers in 1952 and later pitched two scoreless innings in Game 2 of the 1952 World Series against the New York Yankees.[4]
After three successful years with the Montreal Royals of the International League, Lehman returned to the Dodgers for the entire 1956 season. He then was purchased by the Baltimore Orioles during the middle of the 1957 season and pitched for them through 1958.[1][2]
Lehman collected career numbers in 1957 while pitching for Baltimore, when he posted a 8-3 record with a 2.78 earned run average and six saves in 68 innings of work, appearing primarily as a left-handed specialist and spot starter.[1]
From 1959 to 1960 Lehman pitched for the Buffalo Bisons of the International League. He returned to the majors in 1961 season, appearing in 41 games with the Philadelphia Phillies.
After that, Lehman spent one more season in AAA with Buffalo and the Jacksonville Suns, retiring after 1962 with a 14-10 mark and a 3.91 ERA in five major league years. In eleven minor league seasons, he posted a 141-101 record with a 3.60 ERA in 340 games.[1][2]
Following his playing retirement, Lehman coached at the University of Washington from 1964 to 1971, retiring with a record of 96-177. He later worked in the Mount Baker School District for 31 years.[3]
Lehman died in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, at the age of 82.[5]
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Heather Stilwell, Canadian anti-abortion activist and politician, leader of the Christian Heritage Party (1993–1994), died from breast cancer. she was , 66
Heather Stilwell was a political activist and former school trustee in Surrey, British Columbia died from breast cancer. she was , 66. A staunch Roman Catholic, she was well-known for her opinions opposing homosexuality, abortion, and sex education.
She and her husband Bill were involved in the creation of the Christian Heritage Party in 1984 after a dozen or so people discussed the concept of such a party, which was registered with Elections Canada in June 1986.
(January 26,1944 – December 3, 2010)
From April 1993 to March 1994 she was the interim leader of the party and ran in the 1993 federal election in the riding of Surrey—White Rock—South Langley. One of the most contentious policies of the Christian Heritage Party Policy is Section 6.4.3. which states: “Concerning the welfare of this Nation’s citizens, we favour recriminalizing in the Criminal Code of Canada the murder of pre-born children, sexual deviancy, and pornography.” She entered the leadership race for the CHP at the 1994 convention, but withdrew and instead ran for the party presidency.
Heather Stilwell was also executive vice-president and leader of the socially conservative BC Family Coalition Party which later merged into the British Columbia Unity Party. Stilwell ran unsuccessfully in the 2001 provincial election, as a candidate in the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge.
She was former national board member and Western Regional Coordinator for the pro-life group Campaign Life, which strongly opposed what she referred to as “special rights for homosexuals“.
She was former President of the Alliance for Life, a national pro-life group based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and one-time President of the Surrey-Delta Pro-Life Association, the Pro-life Society of British Columbia, the Surrey-Delta Alliance For Life and the federal (Canadian) Alliance for Life. She was a member of the socially conservative lobby group REAL Women of Canada.[citation needed]
As co-founder of the publicly funded Surrey Traditional School in 1994, Stilwell played a key role in objecting to library books that offended her Christian beliefs. These books were temporarily banned as they dealt with topics such as Halloween, the Wicca religion and native-Indian spirituality. After pressure from the public, the school board allowed these books back into the library.[citation needed]
Stilwell went on to become a member and eventual chair of the Surrey School Board. She voted to ban sex education and condom machines in Surrey schools. In 1997 she also voted, along with the majority of the school board, that three books dealing with families where both parents were of the same sex not be included as optional learning resources. These books were requested by a kindergarten teacher to teach his pupils about diversity and tolerance.[citation needed]
A legal battle to overturn the decision to ban the three books went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the school board’s decision was overturned in 2002.[1][2][3][4]
The judgement in the case cited the need for families headed by same-sex couples to be respected. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin dismissed the board’s concerns that children would be confused or misled by classroom information about same-sex parents. She pointed out that the children of same-sex parents are rubbing shoulders with children from more traditional families and wrote: “Tolerance is always age-appropriate, children cannot learn unless they are exposed to views that differ from those they are taught at home.” The legal fees ended up costing Surrey taxpayers over $1,200,000.[5] Stilwell ran as an independent candidate for the School Board in the Surrey municipal election held Nov 19, 2005, and won re-election.[6]
In May 2007 Stilwell proposed a motion to ensure that if the film An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming, were used as a resource in the Surrey School District, other resources which give an opposing view would also be used. This motion was unanimously passed by other members of the Board of Education. An article on the CBC website has quoted her on An Inconvenient Truth: “I think there is climate change, there’s no question about that. Whether what Al Gore says about it is the truth, I have questions.”[7]
[edit] Death
In 2008, she resigned from the school board when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died from the cancer on December 4, 2010, aged 66.[5]
| Election | Division | Party | Votes | % | Place | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 federal | Surrey—White Rock—South Langley | CHP | 871 | 1.2% | 6/12 | Val Meredith Reform |
| Preceded by Charles Cavilla |
Christian Heritage Party of Canada leaders 1993-1994 |
Succeeded by Jean Blaquière |
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She Wanted Butt Shots like Nicki Minaj, Now She’s Dead
A 20-year-old British student is dead after flying to Philadelphia with friends to undergo a “must-have” butt injection procedure.
In Hackney, East London, where Claudia Aderotimi was born, butt injections are illegal. They’re illegal in the U.S. too, but authorities here have done nothing to stop the unlicensed, dangerous practice.
Claudia and her friends thought it would be a simple procedure. What could go wrong? The “clinic” was in the shadow of a big city hospital — the same hospital where she was eventually pronounced dead.
But Claudia knew something went wrong hours after the operation when she felt horrible pains in her chest. She was rushed a block away to the hospital, where she died at 1.32 a.m. on Tuesday.
The “clinic” where Claudia and her friends went chasing their dreams was inside a seedy Philadelphia motel room. The unlicensed street technician is still being sought by police who are certain she didn’t use sterile technique. They are also certain she didn’t use medical grade hydrogel or silicone, which are difficult to obtain outside of a hospital setting without a doctor’s order.
Claudia had aspirations of appearing in music videos, like her idols, the video vixens who advertise their talents on Twitter.com. Claudia thought that in order to qualify to appear in rap music videos today, she must have a butt as big as Nicki’s or Esther Baxter’s or Keyshia Dior’s.
All Claudia wanted was a few injections to fill out the curves that she already had, she told friends. She thought the butt shots would make her famous, heartbroken pals say.
Like most young black women today, Claudia’s self-worth and identity are defined by a big butt and breast implants. They don’t know any better because their idols don’t know any better. It’s a vicious cycle.
Now that the eyes of the world are on the U.S., maybe Congress will take some action to put a stop to this hydrogel epidemic that is killing our beautiful black women and turning them into deformed walking mannequins.
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The unspoken word
A Pastor had noticed that one of his church members had not been attending church for 3 weeks. The pastor called him and spoke with the gentleman several times to keep in touch, but every Sunday he expected to see him, the member did not show up.
The pastor decided to just pop in and see him one Saturday. When the pastor arrived the member invited him in they spoke briefly and they both sat in front of the fire place and watched the glow and felt the warmth of the fire. Several minutes passed as the pastor and the member sat never saying a word. The pastor walked to the fire place where a intense flame was flickering. The pastor grabbed a poker and he pulled a single amber of coal and set it aside from the other. The fire continued burning even after the single piece was pulled out… They both watched as the single piece of coal eventually burned out.
The pastor then grabbed the poker and moved the single coal back with the other pieces, and within a few minutes the coal had began to burn brightly again. The pastor sat for a few more minutes and said ” thanks for the visit, I got to go”.
When they made it to the door the member told the pastor “thanks for the unspoke word”, I will be at church tomorrow!
The Moral of the Story “sometimes you have to see it to believe it”!!!
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Peter Brett Cullen
Who is Peter Brett Cullen? The entertainment world knows him as Brett Cullen, is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures and television programs. Early in 2007, he was cast as the role of an estranged father to one of the American football players, Tim Riggins (played by actor Taylor Kitsch), in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights.
Life and career
Cullen was born August 26, 1956 as Peter Brett Cullen[1] in Houston, Texas, the son of Lucien Hugh Cullen, an oil industry executive, and Catherine Cullen.[2] He graduated from Madison High School in Houston in 1974.[3] Cullen graduated from the University of Houston, giving great credit to his highly acclaimed acting mentor and University of Houston professor, Cecil Pickett, who also mentored such Houston born actors as Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid, & Brent Spiner among others. Cullen and Dennis Quaid’s close friendship to this day dates back to the 1970’s and it is Cullen who introduced Dennis Quaid to his current wife, Kimberly Buffington at a dinner in Austin, Texas.
Cullen played Dan Fixx in the 1980s CBS drama Falcon Crest for two seasons (1986-1988) and Marshal Sam Cain in the ABC western series The Young Riders for one season (1989-1990). In 1980, he appeared as the second Gideon Chisholm in the last nine episodes of the CBS western miniseries The Chisholms. In the four earlier episodes, the Gideon Chisholm role was played by Brian Kerwin. Cullen was the lead actor as Ned Logan in the short-lived Legacy, which lasted for just one season (1998-1999). On the series The West Wing Cullen played Ray Sullivan, a fictional governor of West Virginia and the Republican nominee for Vice President.
His guest appearances on TV include: The Incredible Hulk, M*A*S*H, V, Matlock, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ally McBeal, Walker, Texas Ranger, Once and Again, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The Mountain, Monk, CSI: Miami, NCIS, Desperate Housewives, Pepper Dennis, Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Private Practice, Ugly Betty, and Friday Night Lights. In 2009, he had a recurring role in the ABC Family television series Make It or Break It.[4]
He has played two real-life astronauts, Jack Lousma in Apollo 13 (Brett is the CapCom at the time of the explosion; at that shift Lousma was the CapCom in real life) and David Scott in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon.
His most recent appearance was in the role of Barton Blaze in the movie Ghost Rider. Other movie credits include Wyatt Earp (with Kevin Costner), Gambler V: Playing for Keeps (with Kenny Rogers and Bruce Boxleitner), Something to Talk About (with Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid), The Replacements (with Gene Hackman), On Golden Pond (with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer), Nancy Drew, and Gridiron Gang. He also played Bob Cleary in the 1983 mini-series The Thorn Birds.
Cullen was recently cast in the up-coming femme comedy Monte Carlo alongside Selena Gomez, Andie MacDowell and Leighton Meester.
Cullen married Michelle Little (an actress); they have one daughter.
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