Obama Now Leads in Texas AND Ohio

Obama and Clinton neck and neck in Ohio, Texas

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama are running neck-and-neck in Ohio and Texas one day before their crucial Democratic presidential showdowns, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Monday.
Clinton, fighting to save her presidential bid after 11 straight wins by Obama, desperately needs victories in the big-state battles to keep her candidacy alive and face the Republican candidate in the November election.
Obama, an Illinois senator, has a slim advantage on Clinton in both states, although the leads are within the poll's margin of error of just under 4 percentage points.
Obama leads 47 percent to 44 percent in Texas, as Clinton gained 1 point overnight in the polling conducted by Zogby International. He leads 47 percent to 45 percent in Ohio, a turnaround from Clinton's 1-point advantage on Sunday.
Obama has wiped out big leads in the last two weeks in both states for Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady, but in the final days of the race neither candidate has managed dramatic shifts.
"There are no big movements, no great swings, these are just very tight races," pollster John Zogby said. "At least for now it doesn't look like either one of them is going to be winning in a blow-out."
Republican front-runner McCain, however, appears headed to easy victories in both states. He has big double-digit leads over his last major rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
McCain, an Arizona senator, is moving closer to clinching the Republican presidential nomination and has built an insurmountable lead in delegates, who will choose the nominee at the party's September convention.

Hugh Hefner Wants Olsen Twins Nude in Playboy

despite being born in the Paleozoic Era, gets ridden by a naked Holly Madison on a frequent basis would have standards.
Not the case, at least in regards to his famous magazine. Hugh Hefner reportedly wants naked Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen to pose for Playboy.
The 81-year-old men’s magazine mogul - who originally asked the twins to model for him when they turned 18 three years ago - but was turned down - hopes the girls will accept his invitation to appear in a June issue.
The Olsen Twins turn 22 on June 13.
A source said: “Hugh Hefner thinks the twins are every young man’s fantasy. But it may not be that easy getting them agree to pose for Playboy. They’re all about high-end fashion these days. They want to do Vogue.


NOTE TO HUGH: The Olsen Twins are moderately cute on their best days, sort of resemble trolls and dress like grandmothers. Hayden Panettiere, though …
NOTE TO FANS: Speaking of the Olsens, don’t forget to play this week’s new edition of our Caption Contest, featuring the gruesome twosome!
Hef also wants Lindsay Lohan to appear in Playboy and recreate the Marilyn Monroe naked swim from her movie Something’s Got to Give.
A new New York Magazine shoot featuring Lindsay Lohan nude paid homage to the sexual icon Monroe. The racy shoot proved so popular that the magazine’s website crashed under the massive volume of hits.
NOTE: We had a similar problem with that Vanessa Hudgens naked fiasco.
“Now we hear Lindsay is tempted to continue her nude homage to MM,” Liz Smith wrote in the New York Post earlier this week.
“Playboy’s Hugh Hefner has offered the young star the chance to re-create Marilyn’s nude swim from the unfinished film Something’s Got To Give.”
We can only hope, fans of Lindsay Lohan naked. We can only hope.

Osama patrols Colombian streets to ensure peace

On the streets of Bogota, Osama bin Laden, or at least his lookalike, has a new mission — to deter crime.
Fernando Aguirre patrols the streets of Santa Fe, one of Bogota's most dangerous neighbourhoods, dressed as the al-Qaeda leader and even claims to be his son.
Ever since September 11, 2001, Aguirre adopted the look of Osama bin Laden in the belief his presence on the mean streets of Bogota would help cut crime and bring order to an area rife with crime, prostitution and drug-dealing.

Yahoo has 'poison pill' ready against Microsoft

ahoo Inc has some defense at its disposal should Microsoft Corp's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid turn hostile, as the Internet company adopted a poison pill in 2001.
Poison pills are defense mechanisms companies put in place to fend off unwanted takeovers, typically working by giving shareholders the ability to buy stock at a bargain price in the event a predator buys a stake above a certain level.

French President Sarkozy marries Bruni: Mayor

President Nicolas Sarkozy married his girlfriend, former model Carla Bruni, on Saturday at the Elysee Palace, the Mayor who performed the ceremony said.''The bride wore white, she was ravishing, as usual,'' Francois Lebel, Mayor of Paris' eighth arrondissement, or neighbourhood, told Europe-1 radio.