Rocky Bronze Action Figure

Jacks Pacific maker of the Rocky action figures recently distributed 1,000 Bronze Rocky through local charities in Philidelphia September 7 2006. ( http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=PR&symbol=JAKK.O&storyID=259044+07-Sep-2006+BW&type=qcna)People who were fortuante enought get one have auctioning them on e-bay. So if you really want one you can buy them on e-bay. This figure is beautful, a must have for any serious collector.

Entire Line of Rocky Balboa Action Figures from Jacks Pacific!

Series 1 – Available in October 2006
Rocky I in training gear
Rocky I in street gear
Rocky I from his first fight
Rocky I from his first fight (battle damage)
Apollo Creed from his first fight
Apollo Creed from his first fight (battle damage)
Adrian
Micky in red corner gear
Spider Rico (this is the first person Rocky fought)
Paulie
Side of Meat

Series 2 – Available in January 2007
Rocky II in training gear (vs. Apollo Creed)
Rocky II in fight gear (vs. Apollo Creed)
Rocky II in fight gear (battle damage)
Apollo Creed in fight gear
Duke who is Apollo’s trainer
Lou Fillipo, the referee
Micky in yellow corner gear
Gazzo the bookie/loan shark
Brent Musberger
Rocky VI in fight fear (vs. Mason Dixon)
Roberto Duran

Series 3 – Available March 2007
Rocky III in training gear
Rocky III from his loss to clubber (battle damage)
Clubber Lang
Rocky III in his fight gear (from victory of Clubber)
Clubber Lang in street gear
Joe Frazier (Rocky I Packaging)
Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan)
Pauly in corner gear
Jimmy Lennon

Series 4 – Available May 2007
Rocky IV from Drago fight
Apollo Creed from Drago fight
Drago (vs. Apollo Creed)
Drago (vs. Rocky)
Rocky IV in training gear
Drago in training gear
Adrian from Rocky IV
Frank Stallone (Rocky packaging)
Joe Frazier (Rocky I packaging)
Thunderlips (Hulk Hogan)
Brigette Neilsen

Series 5 & 6 – Available June 2007
Rocky V in street fight gear
Rocky VI in fight gear
Tommy Gunn
George Washington Duke
Mason Dixon
Michael Buffer
Jim Lampley
Larry Merchant
Mike Tyson

http://www.actionfigs.com/index.php?categoryid=34&p2_articleid=567

Man of the Year

This movie looks good. Would you go see it?

http://www.manoftheyearmovie.net/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/manoftheyear/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0483726/

Sylvester Stallone to Star in Predator 3?

Stallone vs. Predator?
Casting rumor of the day.

September 26, 2006 – The online rumor mill was abuzz this morning with word that Sylvester Stallone might be in the running to star in 20th Century Fox’s long-planned Predator 3, taking over from his Planet Hollywood partner Arnold Schwarzeneggar, who starred in the first installment.
The sequel would reportedly happen after the now-filming Alien vs. Predator 2. Citing a scooper, IESB.net quotes the source as claiming: “Stallone might be being coaxed to do battle with the new Predator. Guess they’re thinking someone who can equal Arnie’s statue? Not that he’d be playing the same character. I’d say that the plan is solely on FOX’s end, and not Sly’s end – who seems to have enough ‘franchises‘ on the go.”Stallone’s reps at Boulevard Management advised IGN that they never heard of the project, and sources close to the studio also denied the report.IESB.net also claims that the storyline of AvP2 will owe more to James Cameron’s Aliens than it will to the first AvP.

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/735/735478p1.html

Fox News Sunday Most Watched Show Since 2003

Due to the Clintones dispute with Wallace, Fox News Sunday “drew its best ratings in nearly three years,” the AP says.“The Sunday talk show had its best ratings since the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003, according to Nielsen Media Research’s measurement of the top media markets. It even out-rated the morning’s dominant show, Meet the Press, although the NBC show was displaced from its usual time slot by golf.”

Bill Clinton Blames Others For 911 Chris Wallace a…

Bill Clinton Blames Others For 911

Chris Wallace asks legitamte questions to former President Bill Clinton and all former President Bill Clinton can do is act rude and intimidating.

On Tape, Clinton Admits Passing Up bin Laden Capture; Lewinsky Played Role

On Tape, Clinton Admits Passing Up bin Laden Capture; Lewinsky Played Role

TRANSCRIPT: Ex-President Clinton’s Remarks on Osama bin Laden Delivered to the Long Island Association’s Annual Luncheon Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, NY Feb. 15, 2002
Question from LIA President Matthew Crosson:
CROSSON: In hindsight, would you have handled the issue of terrorism, and al-Qaeda specifically, in a different way during your administration?
CLINTON: Well, it’s interesting now, you know, that I would be asked that question because, at the time, a lot of people thought I was too obsessed with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
And when I bombed his training camp and tried to kill him and his high command in 1998 after the African embassy bombings, some people criticized me for doing it. We just barely missed him by a couple of hours.
I think whoever told us he was going to be there told somebody who told him that our missiles might be there. I think we were ratted out.
We also bombed a chemical facility in Sudan where we were criticized, even in this country, for overreaching. But in the trial in New York City of the al-Qaeda people who bombed the African embassy, they testified in the trial that the Sudanese facility was, in fact, a part of their attempt to stockpile chemical weapons.
So we tried to be quite aggressive with them. We got – uh – well, Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan.
And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again.
They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, ’cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.
We then put a lot of sanctions on the Afghan government and – but they inter-married, Mullah Omar and bin Laden. So that essentially the Taliban didn’t care what we did to them.
Now, if you look back – in the hindsight of history, everybody’s got 20/20 vision – the real issue is should we have attacked the al-Qaeda network in 1999 or in 2000 in Afghanistan.
Here’s the problem. Before September 11 we would have had no support for it – no allied support and no basing rights. So we actually trained to do this. I actually trained people to do this. We trained people.
But in order to do it, we would have had to take them in on attack helicopters 900 miles from the nearest boat – maybe illegally violating the airspace of people if they wouldn’t give us approval. And we would have had to do a refueling stop.
And we would have had to make the decision in advance that’s the reverse of what President Bush made – and I agreed with what he did. They basically decided – this may be frustrating to you now that we don’t have bin Laden. But the president had to decide after Sept. 11, which am I going to do first? Just go after bin Laden or get rid of the Taliban?
He decided to get rid of the Taliban. I personally agree with that decision, even though it may or may not have delayed the capture of bin Laden. Why?
Because, first of all the Taliban was the most reactionary government on earth and there was an inherent value in getting rid of them.
Secondly, they supported terrorism and we’d send a good signal to governments that if you support terrorism and they attack us in America, we will hold you responsible.
Thirdly, it enabled our soldiers and Marines and others to operate more safely in-country as they look for bin Laden and the other senior leadership, because if we’d have had to have gone in there to just sort of clean out one area, try to establish a base camp and operate.
So for all those reasons the military recommended against it. There was a high probability that it wouldn’t succeed.
Now I had one other option. I could have bombed or sent more missiles in. As far as we knew he never went back to his training camp. So the only place bin Laden ever went that we knew was occasionally he went to Khandahar where he always spent the night in a compound that had 200 women and children.
So I could have, on any given night, ordered an attack that I knew would kill 200 women and children that had less than a 50 percent chance of getting him.
Now, after he murdered 3,100 of our people and others who came to our country seeking their livelihood you may say, “Well, Mr. President, you should have killed those 200 women and children.”
But at the time we didn’t think he had the capacity to do that. And no one thought that I should do that. Although I take full responsibility for it. You need to know that those are the two options I had. And there was less than a 50/50 chance that the intelligence was right that on this particular night he was in Afghanistan.
Now, we did do a lot of things. We tried to get the Pakistanis to go get him. They could have done it and they wouldn’t. They changed governments at the time from Mr. Sharif to President Musharraf. And we tried to get others to do it. We had a standing contract between the CIA and some groups in Afghanistan authorizing them and paying them if they should be successful in arresting and/or killing him.
So I tried hard to – I always thought this guy was a big problem. And apparently the options I had were the options that the President and Vice President Cheney and Secretary Powell and all the people that were involved in the Gulf War thought that they had, too, during the first eight months that they were there – until Sept. 11 changed everything.
But I did the best I could with it and I do not believe, based on what options were available to me, that I could have done much more than I did. Obviously, I wish I’d been successful. I tried a lot of different ways to get bin Laden ’cause I always thought he was a very dangerous man. He’s smart, he’s bold and committed.
But I think it’s very important that the Bush administration do what they’re doing to keep the soldiers over there to keep chasing him. But I know – like I said – I know it might be frustrating to you. But it’s still better for bin Laden to worry every day more about whether he’s going to see the sun come up in the morning than whether he’s going to drop a bomb, another bomb somewhere in the U.S. or in Europe or on some other innocent civilians. (END OF TRANSCRIPT)

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Listen to former President Bill Clinton admit he could have capured Osama bin Laden!
http://www.newsmax.com/audio/BILLVH.mp3

Exclusive Picture from Miss Italy 2006 with Sylvester Stallone as the Chair of the Event

Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone at a press conference at the Miss Italia (Miss Italy) 2006 beauty contest in Salsomaggiore, Italy, Friday, Sept. 22, 2006. Stallone will preside the jury of the beauty contest. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Sylvester to chair Miss Italy jury

(ANSA) – Salsomaggiore, September 22 – Mediterranean women are the best, according to Rocky star Sylvester ‘Sly’ Stallone, back in Italy to chair the Miss Italy final Friday .”I like the classical, dark, Mediterranean type, but not just for their beauty – for their strength,” said the 60-year-old Hollywood star, who is completing his sixth Rocky feature .”Women should nurture men, make them grow. Cold beauty remains on the surface,” said Stallone, who was married for two years to Scandinavian beauty Brigitte Nielsen .Sly, who has been accompanied to this Tuscan spa town by his blonde third wife Jennifer Flavin, a former model he met 15 years ago, said man’s first priority should be a happy marriage .”There are two main rules: first, the husband shouldn’t speak too much, and second, he should realise that a happy wife means a happy life”. Stallone, who broke into Hollywood with his first Rocky film in the ’70s and followed that series with his equally successful Rambo franchise, is proud of his Italian roots and a self-professed connoisseur of art .A keen amateur painter, he has been quoted as citing Leonardo da Vinci as his personal hero .Friday night will be the first time Sly has chaired a glamour-contest jury but he assured fans that age hasn’t withered his passion for beauty .”The last thing that ages in a man is the heart,” he said .Asked if he had seen any of the Miss Italy contests, he said “I watched last year’s on TV and it was beautiful” .”Then, of course, there was some guy called Bruce in it,” he quipped, referring to long-time friend and fellow action hero Bruce Willis, who was chairman of the judges in 2005 .Stallone said he was still in shape and worked out three times a week .Perhaps in reference to his hopes of making a comeback after a decade on the Hollywood sidelines, he said: “What counts isn’t how hard you punch but how well you take a punch. “Life always has a few new punches to throw at you”.

http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-09-22_1226456.html

Top 20 Colleges in the World

Newsweek ranks the World’s Top 100 Global Universities

Here are the top 20:

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Yale University
4. California Institute of Technology
5. University of California at Berkeley
6. University of Cambridge
7. Massachusetts Institute Technology
8. Oxford University
9. University of California at San Francisco 1
0. Columbia University
11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
12. University of California at Los Angeles
13. University of Pennsylvania
14. Duke University
15. Princeton Universitty
16. Tokyo University
17. Imperial College London
18. University of Toronto
19. Cornell Univers
20. University of Chicago

Ranking Methodology:”We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes).”

For the entire list please visit this link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3037881/site/newsweek/