Britney Gets Nekkid

My eyes haven't stopped rolling since I saw this article.

Britney Spears Poses Nude for Cover

I thought she wanted photographers to back off... her ego must have taken a HUGE hit after the Matt Lauer fiasco. At least this time she let someone do her make-up.

ROCK ON Natalie Maines!!

Alright, so I'm sure everyone remembers a certain comment a certain Dixie Chick made a few years ago in England -- that whole ashamed of George Bush thing. And ok, Natalie really should have spoken her mind at home rather than in some other country, but she didn't say anything that 70+% of the country isn't thinking. Besides, as Americans its our right and responsibility to question our government, so really, Nat and the girls were just doing their duty.

ANYWAY, fast forward to today. I break the cellophane on the new Chicks CD and pop it in the stereo for jam time with my boy and after two really lovely ballads a song called "Not Ready to Make Nice" comes on. Now, I've heard the chorus all over TV and in Target, etc. But its really the second verse you should pay attention to:

I know you said
Can't you you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kinda like it
I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets I don't mind sayin'
It's a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Sayin' that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down....

And you know what? I agree with her -- don't back down Natalie!

If you think she makes a good point, too, call your local pop and country radio stations and request this song. Everyone was keen to hear what the Dixie Chicks had to say 3 years ago, they should hear what the Chicks have to say now.

2,475

There have been 2,699 coalition deaths, 2,475 Americans, two Australians, 113 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, three Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 30 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, two Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of June 5, 2006, according to a CNN count. (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. At least 18,254 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan and examine U.S. war casualties dating back to the Revolutionary War.