MInTheGap

If it didn’t happen so often you could almost believe them.  It’s like a line from a movie:  Young starlet is discovered for some talent.  She is built up and is sold as a pure girl– a role model to look up to.  Then, there are pictures discovered showing that she’s not who she claimed to be, or (as in the case of Miss Cyrus) she has photos taken that show off a different image than the managed one…

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One of the biggest difficulties in living the Christian life is realizing that we still sin.  This is one of the biggest things that are thrown into the Christian’s face when they take a stand for truth– that the Christian is a hypocrite because he cannot live up to the standard that he proclaims.

Hence the comparison with Ms. Hilton.  Fortunately, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen her name in the news.  In fact, I believe that she’s been attempting to remake her image, and that is exactly my point.

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I’m sorry, but I just have to bring this topic up because of a line in the article that announced the impending arrival of a child by Britney’s younger sister:

“It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected,” [Jamie] said. “I was in complete and total shock and so was he.”

What I find amusing is that she was actively engaging in something that she knew got people pregnant, and yet she was somehow in complete and total shock.

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Yet another bit of celebrity news. Within the past few weeks, Christina Aguilera posed for the cover of Marie Claire showing her pregnant belly– and only wearing a jacket.

What I like about what she has to say is that she realizes that it’s a baby– just like we’ve said before.

“There are so many things that could go wrong — somebody could slip, somebody could fall, I could fall,” says Aguilera, who wore a heart monitor during performances. “There was no way … I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.”

She confirmed her pregnancy earlier this month in the U.K. edition of Glamour magazine.

Aguilera says she kept the baby news quiet for her fans’ sake.

“I didn’t want to make the audience uncomfortable, like, `Pregnant lady onstage! Is she going to be OK?’ But I had to announce it to my band and my dancers, because I wanted to make sure they had my back,” she says.

She adds: “Because I hadn’t said anything, people thought I was trying to keep it this big, bad secret, and that’s not the case at all. I just wasn’t commenting. I’m not being like, `Hey everybody, I’m pregnant!’ I’m not that girl.”

Interesting on how both the news organization and the expectant mother didn’t talk about a fetus– but a baby.

You know that these two have to think that it cannot get much worse when children think that you’re further down the naughty list than fictional characters that are known to be the bad guys:

A poll of American children released on Wednesday found that the two high-profile celebrities should top Santa’s naughty list.

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The two women beat out Swiper the Fox from the television show Dora the Explorer, the Grinch from the book “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” and Darth Vader from Star Wars among children 2-12.

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I have real pity for this girl. At one point in time a group of people believed that they could make a few dollars off her looks and personality, and that they did. But as happens to many children that are not fully grounded in real life and then are thrust into stardom, when reality came around she did not know how to cope.

I was in a job that took me into restaurant one day many years ago where I was talking with a district manager whose daughter got some kind of karaoke machine for her birthday. She turned to me and said, “She may not be able to sing that well, but you have to think she’s pretty, right?”

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Yahoo news reports that Keifer Sutherland (AKA Jack Bauer on the hit television show 24) has been sentenced to serve 48 days in prison for a DUI arrest.

Personally, I think that there should be a deal struck where Keifer could serve fewer days, but has to serve them at Guantanamo Bay– where we’re storing our captured Al Queda terrorists. I also think, as part of this, that they should be playing 24 episodes around the clock so that when he shows up the terrorists would recognize him and automatically confess.

Of course, if this were the show, the question would more likely be how long until the President comes in to pardon Jack for all his crimes. I don’t think Keifer will be as lucky.