Britney Spears - Mother of the Year

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She looks like the chick from V for Vendetta.

she is no where near as hot as natalie portman. portman could pull off that look

[GoPackGo]

She looks like the chick from V for Vendetta.

she is no where near as hot as natalie portman. portman could pull off that look

Britney Spears used to be the hottest chick on the planet.

Natalie Portman is not hot. She was never near the level of hotness Britney was.

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britney only looks good to me after a whole team has worked on her for hours

in that pcture you gave, and in some videos she looks pretty good

but i have never seen a "real" picture of her, just being her, where she looks good

[the_idle_threat]

It's all a matter of taste .... and personally I'd like to taste both of 'em.

At the same time.

Although now that ol' Brit has gone completely over the deep end, I'm no longer interested in her. It's the bat-shit crazy ones that'll have you wake up one day in blinding pain and you look down and they just cut off your yarbles in your sleep. Same reason I've never cared for Angelina Jolie.

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i think jolie is worth taking that chance on, she's a 12

britney, since she turned 18, has only been around a 6 or 7 in my book (in everyday life looks). way too low to take that kind of risk. you have to be at least a 9 to chance it

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who would have thought a few months ago that k-fed would turn out to be the better parent?

[GBRulz]

K-Fed is just as much of a partier as she is. The only difference is that he doesn't have the media following him 24/7. In fact, during the marriage, it was portrayed as him always being out partying and she was home with their son. The guy left his preggo gf at the time to be with Britney. Not exactly what I call a better parent. But, she is def not a Mother of the Year, that's for sure. I just hope she can get it together and can start putting her priorities straight for her kids sake.

[K-town]

From The Superficial:

"US Magazine has an interview with Britney Spears' (former?) nanny and the source says that when Britney is alone with her kids, "she gets overwhelmed. She gets so frustrated when they cry, asking, 'How do I make it stop?' But she loves her kids." And if you've ever wanted to be Britney's nanny here are some of the job requirements.

Personal Over Professional
"Britney didn't ask me one thing about my child-care experience. She only wanted to know about my personal life."

Friend Wanted
"The agency that called me emphasized that Britney was looking for a nanny who was young and hip because they wanted her to interact with people her own age. Basically, Britney wanted a friend."

Comfort With Nudity A Plus
"Britney asked me and one of her nannies to come to her room to watch her try on outfits for a party one night - then she stripped down naked in front of us!"

Must Be Hands-On
"One nanny told me that Britney will hold her kids for 10 minutes and then say, 'I'm done now. You can take them.'"

Don't Be Too Good
"She doesn't like when Sean prefers the nanny, so she fires them and looks for a new one."

Man, that's good parenting. There's no doubt her kids' first words are gonna be "ma ma." Only it'll be directed towards a fire hydrant. Or a toaster. Or any other object or person that isn't actually their mother."

Considering the parenting skills of K-Fed and Britney, I think the kids would be better off being raised by wolves.

[the_idle_threat]

Considering the parenting skills of K-Fed and Britney, I think the kids would be better off being raised by wolves.

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[oregonpackfan]

With all the crazy behaviors of late she has displayed: partying late, going without panties, shaving her head, running in and out of rehab twice, Britney badly needs intervention by caring responsible adults.

She is a pathetic example of a child star who grew up without adequate adult guidance.

[GBRulz]

It looks like rehab stint #3 started today

Wonder what the Vegas odds are of her staying this time??

[MJZiggy]

She's just hiding until her hair grows out...

[Freak Out]

It looks like rehab stint #3 started today

Wonder what the Vegas odds are of her staying this time??

Rehab stint #3? WTF......I feel like Rip Van Winkle. Amazing how fast you can go from all American tease to drunken whore.

I think this fits right in........

Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 22, 2007; 2:48 PM

Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the hand-crafted tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans.

The multi-step spear-making practice, documented by researchers in Senegal who spent years gaining the chimpanzees' trust, adds credence to the idea that human forebears fashioned similar tools millions of years ago.

The landmark observation also supports the long-debated proposition that females -- the main makers and users of spears among the Senegalese chimps -- tend to be the innovators and creative problem solvers in primate culture.

Using their hands and teeth, the chimpanzees were repeatedly seen tearing the side branches off long straight sticks, peeling back the bark and sharpening one end, the researchers report in today's on-line issue of the journal Current Biology. Then, grasping the weapon in a "power grip," they jabbed into tree-branch hollows where bush babies -- small monkey-like mammals -- sleep during the day.

After stabbing their prey repeatedly, they removed the injured or dead animal and ate it.

"It was really alarming how forceful it was," said lead researcher Jill D. Pruetz of Iowa State University in Ames, adding that it reminded her of the murderous shower scene in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho." "It was kind of scary."

The new observations are "stunning," said Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California. "Really fashioning a weapon to get food -- I'd say that's a first for any non-human animal."

Scientists have documented tool use among chimpanzees for several decades, but the tools have been simple and used to extract food rather than to kill it.

Some chimpanzees slide thin sticks or leaf blades into termite mounds, for example, to fish for the tasty, crawling morsels. Others crumple leaves and use them like sponges to sop drinking water from tree hollows.

But while a few chimpanzees have been observed throwing rocks -- perhaps with the goal of knocking prey unconscious, but perhaps simply as expressions of excitement -- and a few others have been known to swing simple clubs, only people have been known to craft tools expressly to hunt prey.

Pruetz and coworker Paco Bertolani of the University of Cambridge made the observations near Kedougou in southeastern Senegal. Unlike other chimpanzee sites currently under study, which are forested, this site is mostly open savannah. That environment is very much like the one in which early humans evolved and is different enough from other sites to expect differences in chimpanzee behaviors.

Pruetz recalled the first time she saw a member of the 35-member troop trimming leaves and side-branches off a branch it had broken off a tree.

"I just knew right away that she was making a tool," Pruetz said, adding that she suspected -- with some horror -- what it was for, as well. But in that instance she was not able to follow the chimpanzee to see what she did with it.

Eventually the research duo documented 22 instances of spear-making and use, two-thirds of them involving females.

In a typical sequence, the animal first discovered a deep hollow suitable for bush babies, which are nocturnal and weigh about half a pound. Then the chimp would break off a nearby branch -- on average about two feet long, but up to twice that length -- trim it, sharpen it with its teeth, and poke it repeatedly into the hollow at a rate of about one or two jabs per second.

After every few jabs, the chimpanzee would sniff or lick the tip, as though testing to see if it had "caught" anything.

In only one of 22 observations did a chimp get a bush baby. But that is reasonably efficient, Pruetz said, compared to standard chimpanzee hunting practice, which involves chasing a monkey or other prey, grabbing it by the tail and then slamming its head against the ground.

In the successful bush baby case, the chimpanzee eventually jumped on the larger branch until it broke, exposing the limp bushbaby, which the chimp then extracted. Whether the animal was dead or alive at that point was unclear, but it did not move or make any sound.

Chimpanzee behavior is widely believed to offer a window on early human behavior, and many researchers have hoped that the animals -- which are humans' closest genetic cousins -- might reveal something about the earliest use of wooden tools.

Many suspect that wooden tools far predate the use of stone tools -- remnants of which have been found going back two-and-a-half million years. But because wood does not preserve well, the most ancient wooden spears ever found are only about 400,000 years old, leaving open the question of when they first came into use.

The discovery that some chimps today make wooden weapons supports the idea that early humans did too -- perhaps as much as 5 million years ago -- Stanford said.

Adrienne Zihlman, an anthropologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, said the work supports other evidence that female chimps are more likely to use tools than males, are more proficient tool users, and are crucial to passing that cultural knowledge to others.

"Females are the teachers," Zihlman said, noting that juvenile chimps in Senegal were repeatedly seen watching their mothers make and hunt with spears.

"They are efficient and innovative, they are problem solvers, they are curious," Zihlman said of females. And that makes sense, she said.

"They are pregnant or lactating or carrying a kid for most of their life," she said. "And they're supposed to be running around in the trees chasing prey?"

Frans B. M. de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University, said aggressive tool use is but the latest "uniquely human" behavior to be found to be less than unique.

"Such claims are getting old," he said. "With the present pace of discovery, they last a few decades at most."

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Wow. You guys are really slow. I guess it takes a crack head like Tyrone to figure out why someone would shave their head.

C'mon, people. THINK. Britney hasn't lost it...she is quite clever.

[MJZiggy]

Attention whore?