Billionaire Donald Trump gave $10,000 to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help pay off his campaign debts, a little more than a month after the governor guest-starred on Trump’s TV show “The Apprentice: Los Angeles.”

This is very very suspicious that Schwarzenegger is using his celebrity status to pay off campaign debts…  And not good practice for both Trump to give, and Arnold to accept. This has been pretty heavily reported, but I’ve thought about it and decided that it’s just bunk and people out to make Schwarzenegger look bad.

Let’s face the facts.   Schwarzenegger IS a celebrity - and many celebrities get paid to be a “GUEST” host for a show. It’s common practice.  Hell, you can hire Britney Spears to come to your house if you have enough money.  Now you might be saying that it’s wrong since Schwarzenegger is now a public official.  As long as he was still doing his job while he was “working” for Trump… it’s none of your business.  Period.

If he had a side job slinging hamburgers to pay the power bills (if you live in CA you get it), that wouldn’t bother a soul.
It would have been easier on both of them if Trump had just paid Arnold directly.

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For two weeks in a Row, annoying Amazing Race All Stars Charla and Mirna took first place. Unfortunately Terri and Ian were the last to arrive in this elimiation round and were sent home. The order of their finish:

Charla & Mirna arrived in first place, and they each won a sailing boat. 

Oslwald & Danny arrived in second place, Uchenna & Joyce arrived in third place (their thirty minute penalty from last week did not affect their order of finish),
 Dustin & Kandice arrived in fourth place, Eric & Danielle arrived in fifth place, and Joe & Bill arrived in sixth place.  Teri & Ian arrived in last place, and they were eliminated from the Amazing Race All Stars.

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NBC and Donald Trumps The Apprentice rounds out week 10 of what seems to be a 30 or 40 week endeavor. On The Apprentice, The Donalds Favorite Olympian was Angela Ruggiero was Fired.

Teams were assigned the task of selling Universal Studios Hollywood passes using a system called Adwalker.  Angela Ruggiero stepped up as project manager for Team Kinetic.  Team Arrow decided to create a station to draw people in to buy tickets.  On Team Kinetic, Nicole suggested using roller skates so they could move around and sell tickets.

Because both teams were selling passes in the same proximity, the task became very cut throat.  Team Arrow tried to steal away customers from Team Kinetic by giving away free bottles of waters and saying they had lower prices.  Team Kinetic earned $24,440.37, but Team Arrow earned $31,366.65 and won the task.  For their reward, Team Arrow received a helicopter ride around the city of Los Angeles.     

In the boardroom, Donald Trump grilled Angela on why they lost so badly.  Angela blamed Nicole for coming up with the idea to use roller skates.  Trump asked Nicole if she was in love with Tim.  Trump said Tim wasn’t very loyal because he didn’t fight to keep Nicole on his team.

When Trump asked the other members of Team Kinetic who they would fire, they all said Angela because she was project manager.  Trump was distraught over firing an Olympian and asked Angela to make a stronger case for herself.  Angela asked why her team mates didn’t catch that they were going the wrong way.  Trump said “Well, maybe they wanted to rely on their leader to lead them.  Angela, you’re killing me.  I can’t fire her, I can’t fire her, I can’t fire her.”  Angela replied “So I’ll take the blame on this one,” and Trump said “You have to.  Angela, you’re fired.” 

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