The band Silversun Pickups wants Mitt Romney to stop using their 2009 single “Panic Switch” at events and political campaigns, firing off a cease and desist letter to make sure he does immediately.

Brian Aubert, the band’s frontman says Romney has been using their single without asking for permission… not that he would’ve received it if he asked for permission.

“We don’t like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don’t like the Romney campaign. We’re nice, approachable people.” Aubert also notes that the candidate’s illegal use of the song is ironic, because “he is inadvertently playing a song that describes his whole campaign.”

In the letter, the band notes that in 2008, GOP nominee John McCain was sued by Jackson Browne for using his hit song “Running on Empty” without permission. That was just one of many such examples, so many in fact that the GOP promised to “respect and uphold the rights of artists and to obtain permissions.”

Read More »

A young man in Chester South Carolina, was recently arrested and charged for attempted murder and attempted sexual touching. The 20-year-old man who has been identified as Samuel Dye was arrested and accused of attempting to rape his 61-year-old grandmother.

According to the British Daily Mail on August 9, Dye complained to his Grandmother that he had no girlfriend and told her he was going to ‘get some’. The 20-yr-old then exposed himself by pulling down his trousers and then attempted to rape his grandmother before beating her with a hammer.

The screams of the elderly woman was heard by Dye’s father who caught him in the act and he pulled his son off, until the Police arrived on the scene. The grandmother told Chester, South Carolina law enforcement officers that Dye arrived at her home carrying a hammer and talking about not having a girlfriend, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Read More »

A shooting took place at the A&M University in Texas yesterday which lefted three people dead as well as the alleged killer, an unidentified man in his 30s.

One of the men that died was identified as 41-year old Brian Bachmann, a constable in Brazos County, Scott McCollum, assistant chief with the College Station police department confirms.

The incident took place a few blocks from the school campus and according to officials four others were injured during the shootout which included three law enforcement officers. It was reported that none of those injuries are considered life threatening.

Read More »

A woman in China went to her local hospital after she was complaining of an itchy ear. The woman, referred to only as Ms. Lee, arrived at China’s Changsha Central Hospital of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery on Aug. 8, RedHat reported. She complained of an itchy ear to the doctor and hoping the physician could treat her for the itchy ear.

When Dr. Liu Sheng looked inside the woman’s ear, he found a spider living in her ear canal, apparently the insect crawled into Ms. Lee’s ear while she slept. The doctor and his colleagues decided to flush the spider out of the woman’s ear canal with a saline solution.

The doctors was concerned that they needed to remove the spider before the go deeper into her canal, so instead of attempting to take the live spider out they decided to kill and flush it out with Saline solution. Ms. Lee is now doing great and no more ear itch, this is the perfect example as to why you need to keep your home insect free.

On August 7, Joan Rivers stopped by a Costco store in Burbank, California and while at the retail store someone might have pissed off the 79-year-old comedian-actress or she just arrived at the location angry.

Pissed off is exactly what she was, but not because she couldn’t get toilet paper in bulk, but because the retail chain refuses to sell copies of her book, ”I Hate Everyone … Starting With Me,” on grounds that the jacket displays a few curse words.

The make the situation more intense, Rivers handcuffed herself to a shopping cart and shouted from a bullhorn inside the store. During her ranting and raving, she compared the company policy of censorship to “Nazi Germany” and she also repeated herself after the police escorted her away as well as she was speaking with KTLA News.

Read More »

Flo Rida has been ordered to pay $400,000 to organizers of an Australian music festival after he overslept and missed his timeslot on a concert which took place in Newcastle, New South Wales, last October.

The rapper was booked to appear on the Fat As Butter event in Newcastle, last October, but according to the promoters of the event, the rapper cancelled at the last minute because he slept in. A district court in the state has ordered that the promoters pay back the promoters the money that they paid him.

The payment is to cover Mothership Music’s costs for air fares, accommodation, hospitality and legal fees, as well as damages to their reputation due to his failure to show. Neither Flo Rida or his representative appeared in court and it has been reported that the legal documents were served via Facebook.

Read More »