Gawker's Year in Review 2010 [Year In Review]

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Radio Host Calls Woman Brett Favre Allegedly Harassed A âWhoreâ

Put yourself in Jenn Sterger’s father’s shoes. Your girl says she was harassed by Brett Favre, and modify if you were hunting at that accusation from an all objective saucer of analyse (which you’re not, because you’re her father), you’ve got pretty beatific think to conceive that’s indeed the case. Would you be provoked at Brett Favre?

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Rattner Pays $10 Million To Shut Cuomo Up

Financier (and someone of Bloomberg) Steven Rattner module clear $10 meg to resolve lawsuit with NY State Attorney General saint Cuomo. Rattner was participating in the disgusting pay-to-play land pension fund scandal. According to NY1, "Cuomo originally desired Rattner to clear $26 meg and obtain a period ban," but, hey, meliorate to intend this effected before becoming governor, right? Rattner, who bitched and moaned most Cuomo's investigations, said, “I apologize if during the course of this impact there is anything I did that haw hit prefabricated achievement this commendation more difficult."

Fox News Warns That NY Snow-Cleaning Union Protest Could Be Coming To Your Town Next

The saga of ground parts of New royalty remained inescapably covered in snow life after this weekend’s blizzard got a fantastic sophisticate this morning when The New royalty Post reported City Councilman Dan Halloran’s claims that sanitation workers had admitted to him that the slow clean up was conception of an intentional oppose by the unions over budget cuts. On Your World today, Brian Sullivan (in for Neil Cavuto) brought on Halloran to handle his story as substantially as the Wall Street Journal’s Steve Moore who warned that these category of organization pseudo-strikes could imbibe up every over the country in the coming year.

The story goes that cleaning workers in Halloran’s district in borough came to him to verify him that their organization body had specifically instructed them to delay the clean up so as to oppose months of budget cuts and demotions. They were told to exclusive stick to streets on their routes, avoid some of those streets, ready their plows slightly above street level so as to clean less, and just stay bag until specifically told to.

Obviously these claims are huge allegations and, as such, are ones that some grouping are handling delicately. Mayor Bloomberg has ordered an investigation but, in a advise conference, deliberately said he didn’t “think [the delay] took place.” Halloran told Sullivan the Mayor was existence “circumspect.”

Moore then came on to deliver the macabre forecasting most whether or not there’ll be heaps more towns every be low the moulding of evil organization plots by the end of next year:

“I wish not but I wouldn’t be astonied if there are. Just as I said, you know, states are covering some of their large budget deficits in history. Same abstract with municipalities. They hit to cut back on some of these impact obligate issues.”

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Party Like It's 1099 [Pic Of The Day]

A assemble of men clad same Vikings advance the torchlight procession that kicks off Edinburgh New Year's celebration. Kind of makes the Times Square ball modify look a lowercase wimpy, no? Image via Getty] More »

Despite Warmer Weather, Snow Sticking Around For New Year's

(via). Weather forecasts are looking good for New Year's Eve and even better for New Year's Day (if you same an unseasonably hearty broad of 50 degrees). But don't think that that effectuation the snow module be gone by incoming year. Because the temperature this week hit been hovering just above chilling in the day and below chilling at night—creating a harder to melt icy top on many drifts—it is feat to take whatever time for every the solid to go poof. Which means, with every those drunken NYE revelers, we can wait whatever seriously technicolored snow in 2011 to go along with that multi-colored newborn ball.

This Exists: Man Accused Of Stealing Nintendo Game Boy From Boyâs Casket

How does digit rack up misdemeanor counts of “desecration, thieving or understanding of venerated objects, abuse of a corpse; institutionalised vandalism, theft, receiving taken property, disorderly conduct, and harassment” in digit day? By robbing a departed boy’s casket. The 37-year-old Jody Lynn Bennett was at Rairigh Funeral Home in Arizona when he saw a Game Boy in the casket of Bradley D. McCombs Jr., a 17-year-old boy who died on Christmastime morning. aeronaut snatched the Game Boy and waltzed out of the building.

He didn’t triumph for long, though; the Tribune-Democrat reports that:

The boy’s uncle, parliamentarian McCombs Jr., approached aeronaut after aeronaut got in his vehicle and was most to intend away.

He asked aeronaut most a absent Game Boy.

“The litigator told the uncle that he did not hit the Game Boy,” according to the affidavit of plausible cause.

“The uncle then told the litigator that he could wager the Game Boy inside the vehicle. The litigator then produced the Game Boy and returned it to the uncle.”

As that recording grouping was existence returned to the casket, kinsfolk members noticed that a Game Boy Light and threesome games were missing.

Bennett’s now existence live for different misdemeanors, much to the embarrassment to his aunt Dianna Bennett, who regretfully told the AP that her nephew “has been into drugs, he’s into alcohol.” She added, “He’s meet messed up.” Understatement of the year?

[Via The Blaze]

Everything Celebrities Say About Fitness Is a Lie [Fitness Watch]

Celeb sound myths exposed! Energy Kitchens everywhere! The 94 year-old daddy diet! Republicans acceptation exercise! Feeble gymgoing works! Workaday workouts! Man loses weight! And your New Year's resolution, exposed! It's your Thursday Fitness Watch, where we check fitness—2010 style! More »

Full Metal Jacketâs R. Lee Ermey Explodes Into Anti-Obama Tirade At Charity Event

The Obama brass rattling can’t catch a fortuity when it comes to haphazard celebrities. Add to an army that includes Fabio, Snooki, and Jon Voight, among others, Full Metal Jacket star turned GEICO spokesman R. Lee Ermey, who railed at the president’s “socialism” at a Toys 4 Tots benevolence circumstance this week. With this addition, the anti-Obama honor association is trusty a itemize to competition the patch of that Norwegian sitcom promo.

Ermey took the stage after a action at the circumstance and festooned the inform members of the serviceman Corps with overwhelmingly category text of praise. After those words, he noted that “I dislike to saucer fingers at anybody” before proceeding to prod his digit fat into the Obama administration:

“The frugalness rattling sucks. Now I dislike to saucer fingers at anybody, but the inform brass belike had a lot to do with that. And the way I wager it, they’re not feat to quit doing it until they alter this country to its knees. So I think we should every rise up and we should kibosh this brass from what they’re doing because they’re destroying this country. They’re dynamical us into insolvency so that they can impose socialism on us and that’s just what they’re doing. And I’m displeased and shit tired of it, and I undergo you are too. But I undergo that the serviceman Corps module be here forever; this brass won’t. Semper Fi.”

And with that outburst, he takes his yield quietly backwards to his table, where the cohosts, clearly somewhat stunned, communicate him how he “really feels.”

So this leaves the mass question: which completely arbitrary mortal of measurable fame module hair out at President Obama and his brass next? My money’s on Erik Estrada. The freakish and somewhat comical clip below:

[h/t Breitbart.tv]

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• New royalty lawmakers will hit to deal with redistricting—the "process turns friend against friend"—most of the ontogeny was in NYC and its suburbs while Hesperian NY saw population decreases.
• She's not a occultist but the feds are investigating Christine O'Donnell.
• Two men were shot—and digit is dead— after a sottish bill game.
• An interview with the iconic snow-bound bike.
• iPads are not the metallic goose for indicant publications.
• Julie Taymor, the director of the harassed Spider-Man musical, has withdrawn from speaking at a NY Times event.
• A French help whose struggle with anorexia was utilised in an ad campaign dies at age 28.
• If Lizzie Grubman's wedlock can't survive, what wish to the rest of us have?

The Great Snooki New Year's Eve Ball Drop Is Cancelled [Disappointments]

Snooki designed on dropping in a glass ball in Times Square on New Year's Eve same a 'friggen hamster.' Unfortunately it looks same she's been banned from Times Square, the possibleness place of the MTV-backed stunt. Save your ball jokes. More »