Sweet!!… Internet Voters Put "GI Jill" Into Semi-Finals of Miss America (Video!)

COOL….Internet voters lifted Miss Utah “GI Jill” into the semi-finals of the Miss America Contest.Jill Stevens was selected “America’s Choice,” based on voting via text messages from viewers of a reality show– and internet bloggers!Here’s the exciting video:The show is on live now on TLC (Saturday 7:00 PM CST)But, that quickly changed…BUMMER— Miss Utah “GI Jill” was eliminated in the next round.She got down and did push ups with the other contestants before leaving the stage.(AP Photo)The Salt Lake Tribune reported:Stevens, a marathon runner and the only contestant to choose a one-piece suit for what is billed as a the “fitness” portion of the competition, answered to her elimination by dropping to the stage for a set of push-ups, to the cheers of thousands in the audience, including scores of her fellow soldiers from the Utah National Guard.

Shatha Hassoun Cries For Iraqis & Unites a Country

Think about this…On an average day in Iraq “150,000” text messages are sent.On Friday night over “7,000,000” text messages were sent out from Iraq voting for Shada Hassoun in the Pan-Arab Star Academy competition.** That’s like one out of every four Iraqis sending a text message in one day!Sunnis and Shia alike came together to make Shada Hassoun and Iraq the winners for that one night anyway!

Zimbabwe Opposition Torture

Authorities arrested the youngest member of the Opposition in Zimbabwe in the night and putting him through a harrowing experience, while President Mugabe rubbed elbows with world dignitaries at Pope John Paul II’s funeral: The arrest of Nelson Chamisa, the 26-year-old MP for the Harare constituency of Kuwadzana, only became known when he managed to send out text messages on his mobile phone to friends in the domestic media.The messages suggested police and agents from the Central Intelligence Organisation, CIO, were torturing him.“I am in trouble,” Chamisa wrote in one.Nelson Chamisa Held by Authorities Chamisa was arrested on the afternoon of April 7 after being informed at a police roadblock that he was wanted in connection with a spate of anti-government demonstrations in central Harare on April 4.Chamisa’s lawyer, Alex Muchadehama, said his client handed himself in and was initially detained in a central Harare police station before being transferred and held overnight in police cells at Matapi, in the Mbare township on the outskirts of the city.