Ms. Cole announced that she had Hepatitis C in 2008 that she restated on “Larry King Live” in April 2009,

Cole said that she was diagnosed with hepatitis C in February 2008 and that she believes she became infected with hepatitis C from illicit drug use years earlier, though she didn’t know it. Cole is now sober.

While on the show, she stated that she was on kidney dialysis and the fans responded by offering to donate a kidney to her .

Before she finished telling King Tuesday night about her battles with drugs, illnesses and her search for a kidney, dozens of e-mails flooded the CNN studio.

They were all offers from people saying they would get tested to see whether their kidney could be donated.

King handed a thick stack of paper to Cole.

“These are all e-mails from dozens — dozens of people offering to be tested to see if they can match, who want to give you a kidney,” King said.

Cole stared at the papers for a moment.

“There are some great human beings out there. That’s all I can say,” Cole said.

You can watch the interview with Larry King below.

Natalie Cole may be able to leave the hospital next week as told to WebMD via email from her spokeswoman

At the time of the writing of this post, I have learned that Carole Cole, Natalie Cole’s sister died today, she was 64. So a bit of bitter and sweet days for Natalie Cole. Condolences to the Cole Family and wishing a speedy recovery to Natalie Cole.

“We think it’s wonderful,” said Jones, the sister of Bristol’s grandmother Sally Heath. “The baby is fine and Bristol is doing well. Everyone is excited.”

The baby’s father is an apprentice electrician and former Wasilla High School hockey player. He and Bristol have been dating for three years.

Bristol Palin is completing her high-school diploma through correspondence courses. Johnston is studying to become an electrician. He and Bristol plan to wed in 2009 and raise the child together.

Bristol Palin’s pregnancy became a topic of discussion during the 2008 Presidential election when her mother, Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin was selected by Republican Presidential Nominee, John McCain as his Vice-Presidential running mate. During the time of the campaign, Bristol was considered to be a pregnant teen and unmarried. These set of circumstances caused a hoopla within many of the conservative political camps.

It appears that finally the conspiracy to convict O.J. of any crime since his acquittal of the murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman has produced fruit. Ever since O.J. was acquitted in Los Angeles in 1995, the Goldman family and others who were unhappy with the “not guilty” verdict of the jury in Los Angeles, have relentlessly tried to have the man put away behind bars for so much as smiling in public.

Come on, since school age, whenever someone stole your property, you would try to find out where it was and go get it.

I am no fan O.J. Simpson. If I were him and knew that so many people were really out to get me, I would have calculated my every step on the daily. His decision to do what most of us would do if someone stole our stuff, take it back, was not smart. However, the O.J. SImpson verdict and sentencing today appears as a travesty of justice to me! When Las Vegas Judge Jackie Glass, indicated that her decision in the sentencing of O.J. Simpson was not influenced by the Los Angeles verdict in 1995, gave me pause.

In the midst of this excitement surrounding this electrifying voting year, days before the election, Democratic Presidential Nominee, Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham passed away. We express our sincerest condolences to Barack Obama and his family for their loss.

Barack Obama has managed to put together a remarkable campaign, enabling people to be an integral part of the democratic process on a state by state basis. He is offering America Change and the ability to Hope again after eight years of mounting National Debt, rising unemployment, home foreclosures, mounting medical bills and two wars. Barack Obama’s campaign indicates that if he is our next President, “We The People” can be in charge of our own destinies once again, and willing to work hard for the future of America to once again shine up on the hilltop!

No need to guess who I am voting for! Now getting ready to VOTE!

Despite the fact that JP Morgan Chase is one of the largest banks affected by the foreclosure crisis, holding 1.5 Trillion dollars in mortgage loans, will be implement their plan on loans held by the bank which is only about 20% and the other 80% of loans are held by investors whose loans they service and are currently not figured into this plan, yet. According to Charlie Scharf, CEO of Retail Financial Services at Chase,

While Chase has helped many families already, we feel it is our responsibility to provide additional help to homeowners during these challenging times. We will work with families who want to save their homes but are struggling to make their payments.

One of the program’s first priorities, is to eliminate the negative amortization loans it services most of came when they took over Washington Mutual Bank and EMC. This is a significant addition to its current foreclosure prevention program.

The type of loans targeted by the JP Morgan Chase plan are called “option adjustable rate mortgages” also known as option ARMs. The modifications that the bank plans to offer option ARM borrowers include affordable 30-year, fixed-rate loans, as well as a conversion for 10 years to an interest-only loan and principal deferment, in which a large portion of the debt is forgiven for a term of years or until the house is sold.

Chase’s plan is similar to that of Bank of America’s loan modification plan, in which the borrower will have to pay only about one-third of their income on a home mortgage.

Chase said it will review its entire portfolio to try to determine which of its customers are at risk and offer workouts to those borrowers before they get into trouble. It will streamline the process by using some kind of affordability standard (the bank declined to say how that will be done) to determine the best workouts it can offer customers to keep them in their homes.

Then it will contact the borrowers who will merely have to accept the offers to get more affordable mortgages.

Chase plans to meet the challenges head on by increasing staff, add 300 new counselors, for a total of 2,500 and opening 24 new regional counseling center for accessibility to their mortgage customers. Truly hope that this plan works for the many families facing foreclosure at the moment.

Now, after the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a re-write of Paulson’s TARP, to include more oversight , CEO compensation limits and more taxpayer protections. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was rejected by House Republicans by a margin of 2 to 1 in spite of the arduous work of both Democrats and Republicans on September 28, 2008. There were rumors that The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 would pass with bipartisan cooperation between the parties, long nights through out the weekend, and assurances that the American Taxpayer would be repaid. That very same day, the stock market plunged 777 points in one day for the largest point drop in U.S. Market History and causing a ripple effect in Financial Markets around the World!

Here we go again! The U.S. Senate is making suggestions and amendments to try and improve upon the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and pass it later on today! For example, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama has requested that increasing the amount of money insured by the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) at banks and other financial institutions, from it’s current rate of $100,000 to $250,000. This increase could allay some fears of depositors with over $100,000 in the banks that they could lose their hard earned money.  Republican Presidential Candidate, John McCain shares the thought that an FDIC increase would be benficial. So hold on, let’s see if the U.S. Senate will pass the bill, this time!

In his memoir, Scott McClellan says President George Bush used propaganda on the American public in order to justify going to war in Iraq. This is just one of many revelations that Scott is unleashing in his memoir, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception”. Scott is not just any regular government employee of the White House, he has worked with George Bush since Bush was a Texas Governor seeking the Presidency, so information in his book has a bit more credibility.

President Bush’s response to these steamy White House insider secrets, was that he was “surprised” and “disappointed” by the tone of the book when he was told about it, says current White House Press Secretary, Dana Perino.

The most interesting part of Scott McClellan’s memoir will be how Americans may have been deliberately misinformed about Iraq so that this war in Iraq is justified. War in Iraq is an especially hot topic in this 2008 Political Season for Barack Obama and John McCain as they seek the office of President of The United States. So get “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” below, and read it for yourself!

According to China, the latest facts and figures of the earthquake are as follows;

BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhua) — Following are the latest facts and figures about the massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12:

– The death toll from the quake rose to 68,109 nationwide as of Wednesday noon, while 364,552 people were injured and 19,851 people were missing.

– Rescuers saved and evacuated 724,794 people to safe places, including 6,541 survivors buried under the rubble, as of Tuesday midnight.

– Hospitals took in a total of 85,722 injured people, 55,514 of whom recovered and left as of Wednesday noon.

– Domestic and foreign donations had reached 34.79 billion yuan (5.04 billion U.S. dollars), up 2.07 billion yuan overnight. And 9.78 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.

– A total of 601,900 tents, one of the most urgently needed relief supplies, had been delivered to quake regions.

– A total of 3,866,100 quilts and 8,757,300 garments had been sent to these regions.

– The government has allocated 19.56 billion yuan (2.83 billion U.S. dollars) as of 2 p.m. Wednesday for quake relief efforts. The fund included 15.39 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.17 billion yuan from local budgets.

– Between Tuesday noon and Wednesday noon, five aftershocks measuring above 4 on the Richter scale had been monitored in Sichuan.

– International medical teams from Russia, Japan, Italy and Germany have treated 2,410 patients in quake areas since May 20.

We offer sympathy to the victims of this tragic catastrophe!

Surprisingly, Amy showed up voluntarily and on-time at Scotland Yard. While there, she was fingerprinted and swabbed for DNA. This is apparently pretty usual procedure for someone who’s interviewed by the police in London. The police wouldn’t identify Amy by name but confirmed “a 24-year-old had been arrested during an appointment at a police station in connection with an investigation into attempting to interfere with the course of justice.” Amy was released on bail and ordered to return in March 2008.

The witness tampering case stems from an assault charge filed on Winehouse’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil accused of assaulting a barman in London in June.

Amy, a multi Grammy Award Nominee, has canceled all of her tour dates and shows for the rest of the year.

Her publicist said that she canceled tour dates and appearances due to doctor’s orders, but Amy said later, that her husbands legal troubles is the reason.

I can’t give it my all onstage without my Blake,” she said at the time. “My husband is everything to me, and without him, it’s just not the same

Amy Winehouse song “Rehab” is one of the most popular songs of the year. I wonder, why, hum?

Now, Barry Bonds, the homerun King of baseball, pleads “not guilty” to an indictment of lying to Federal investigators and “obstruction of justice”, who were investigating his alleged use of “performance enhancing drugs”. Federal investigators for five years, have been investigating claims that Barry Bonds and other high profile athletes, used performance enhancing drugs in order to take their natural skills and abilities to whole new level.

Today in court, Barry stuck to his guns and plead not guilty and that he is innocent of these charges. Hooray! It would seem that Federal investigators should have more important priorities these days than athletes who are using their own bodies and talents to achieve their dreams!

Let’s look at his from another angle, like if I were given performance enhancing

drugs. It would not matter what “enhancer” you gave me, I would not be able to hit a ball out of the park, or a homerun for that matter, no matter how much “enhancer” they gave me. I could not even get out of the blocks with Marion Jones! This just seems like an old fashioned “witch hunt”, go figure.