International Bikini Day

Hope you're not sick of birthdays, what with America's big bash yesterday. Today the bikini turns 66, having been ushered into the world by French designer Louis R'earden on July 5th,1946.

So to the bikini we say: happy birthday, old friend! Or foe really -- because has there ever been a garment we so love to hate and hate to love? We wrestle with its dark powers in poorly-lit dressing rooms and let it haunt us it as we sweat on the elliptical.

And yet the bikini has had some glorious moments that we can't help but adore, from Halle Berry's killer orange suit in "Die Another Day" to Carrie Fisher's geek-chic ensemble in "Return of the Jedi." Teen boys will never forget Phoebe Cates emerging from the swimming pool in "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," nor will little girls ever let go of Ariel in "The Little Mermaid."

So in honor of the swimsuit's big day, here's a look back at the most memorable bikini moments ever. Enjoy as every woman looks exceptionally Hot and Attractive.

                  CELEBRITIES IN HOT BIKINIS

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Was Yasser Arafat Poisoned? Palestinian Officials Not Rushing Into Autopsy

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Digging up Yasser Arafat's bones may offer the best shot at learning if the legendary Palestinian leader was poisoned, as many of his old comrades-in-arms claim, but Palestinian officials signaled Thursday they're not rushing into an autopsy.

Arafat's 2004 death remains shrouded in mystery, and this week's findings by Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics – that belongings linked to Arafat contained an elevated level of a radioactive agent – have revived speculation about foul play.

However, the institute said more tests are needed, prompting Arafat's widow Suha to demand that her husband's remains, buried under a glass-and-stone mausoleum in his former West Bank compound, be exhumed.

Arafat's successor, President Mahmoud Abbas, has agreed to an autopsy in principle, but it seems a final decision will take time.

Abbas aide Nimr Hamad said Thursday that a team of experts would first be sent to Europe to learn more from the Swiss institute and from the French military hospital where Arafat died on Nov. 11, 2004.

Another possible hurdle is consent by Arafat's close relatives, particularly his nephew Nasser al-Kidwa, a former Palestinian envoy to the United Nations and – as head of the Yasser Arafat Foundation – the custodian of his uncle's memory.

Earlier this week, al-Kidwa seemed cool to the idea of an autopsy, telling the Arab satellite TV station al-Jazeera that he believes the findings by the Swiss institute are sufficient proof of his long-standing claim that Arafat was poisoned. Al-Kidwa has not been reachable for comment since then. Abbas has said he'll only order an autopsy if the family is on board, but did not define whom he meant.

A full-blown investigation could lead to uncomfortable questions for the Palestinian leadership. Fingers have been pointed at Israel, but if an autopsy were to reveal that Arafat was indeed poisoned, the probe would also have to look at Palestinians who had access to him.

In the last three years of his life, Arafat was confined by Israel to his walled compound in the city of Ramallah, the Muqata. The Palestinian leader was seen by Israel and the U.S. as an obstacle to peace efforts and a sponsor of attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis.

Israel has emphatically denied a role in Arafat's death. "Israel did not kill him, I say that with certainty," Dov Weisglas, a high-powered aide to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told Israel TV on Thursday. Weisglas said that by that time, Arafat had already been marginalized. Israel had many chances over the years to assassinate Arafat, but decided not to, Weisglas added.

In the fall of 2004, after the 75-year-old Arafat fell violently ill at his compound, Weisglas was among those negotiating with Palestinian officials over the terms of the besieged leader's departure for medical treatment abroad.

"The man was very, very sick," Weisglas said of Arafat. He said one of the Palestinian interlocutors warned him at the time that if Arafat died in his compound, "just like for 2,000 years you had to prove you didn't crucify Jesus, then for another 2,000 years you will have to prove you didn't kill Arafat."

The former Sharon aide also suggested Arafat may have been killed by a medical mistake at the French military hospital. "What happened in France is they gave him a partial blood infusion, he recovered, then they gave him a full blood transfusion," Weisglas said. "That was probably a medical mistake, and he went into shock and never recovered."

Senior French military doctor Denis Gutierrez said Thursday that he cannot comment on such claims because of French medical privacy laws. He said any information about a blood transfusion would be in the medical report that was submitted to Arafat's family.

At the time, French doctors said Arafat died of a massive stroke. According to French medical records, he had suffered inflammation, jaundice and a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC.

But the records were inconclusive about what brought about the DIC, which has numerous possible causes, including infections and liver disease. Outside experts who reviewed the available records on behalf of The Associated Press were also unable to pinpoint the underlying cause.

The Arafat-linked belongings tested by the Swiss institute were provided by his widow, who is estranged from most of the Palestinian leadership and has lived outside the Palestinian territories since before her husband's death. Mrs. Arafat has not explained why she waited this long to have the tests done, but was cooperating with Al-Jazeera, which first broadcast the findings on Tuesday.

The Swiss institute detected elevated traces of the radioactive substance polonium-210 – extremely lethal in small doses – on Arafat's belongings, including a toothbrush, a fur hat and underwear. Polonium's most famous victim is KGB agent-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 after losing all his hair and turning blue – symptoms not displayed by Arafat.

Derek Hill, a radiological science expert at University College London, has said despite the natural decay of the substance after eight years, an autopsy should be able to tell "with a pretty high confidence" whether Arafat had polonium in his body when he died.

Exhuming remains, particularly of a revered leader like Arafat, could potentially offend the sensibilities of ordinary Palestinians, though the top Muslim cleric in the Palestinian territories has said religion would not stand in the way of an autopsy.

At the same time, the circle of those seeking a thorough investigation widened, with Tunisia asking the Arab League to hold a ministerial meeting to discuss the circumstances of Arafat's death.

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO official, said Abbas assured her he would cooperate with any investigation.

"We want to know. We want closure," she said. "This was not an ordinary man."

Joining the chorus Thursday was Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Gaza Strip government run by Arafat's rival, the Islamic militant Hamas.

"We support the extraction of the body of the late President Arafat for re-examination in order to discover the elements who facilitated the assassination," he told an audience in Gaza.

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Money Doesn't Make you Nice:Science Reports

The Rich are more likely to:

a) Cut off other drivers.
b) Be disinterested in the welfare of others.
c) Cheat on a test to get ahead.
d) Give more to charities.
e) All of the above.

Science has shown that having much money generally leads to all kinds of not so awesome outcomes: shorter life expectancy, higher stress, poorer health and a lack of social mobility. Increasingly, however, the rich are being put under the microscope.

Growing income inequality is providing research fodder for psychologists, economists and others who study what effect money--and socio-economic class--has on a person's behavior.

Overall, research shows that having a lot of money is not necessarily a benefit, at least when it comes to embodying characteristics that lead to inner peace like empathy, honestyand compassion. In fact it's quite the opposite: Money can make you mean, according to this week's cover story in New York magazine.

New York's story follows on a run of coverage looking at the differences between the way rich and poor people think. Last fall, a key study on wealth and empathy at the university of California-Berkeley showed that while the rich have less compassion for others, it isn't because they have faulty hard-wiring. It's because they lack an education from the School of Hard Knocks.

"It's not that the upper classes are coldhearted," Jennifer Stellar, a social psychologist at University of California, Berkeley said in the study's press release last fall. "They may just not be as adept at recognizing the cues and signals of suffering because they haven’t had to deal with as many obstacles in their lives.

But that still doesn't really explain other experiments in which the upper class displayed a propensity for entitled behaviour, like breaking driving rules and cheating. In another study, Paul Piff, a psychologist who studies how money affects behavior, also at the UC Berkeley, showed that drivers of high-end, luxury cars were more likely to cut off other vehicles and even pedestrians trying to cross a sidewalk.

"The rich are more likely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people," Piff told New York magazine. "It makes them more likely to exhibit characteristic that we would stereotypically associate, with, ay, assholes."

Of course, not all rich people are jerks. And some critics of this emerging field say that the studies are motivated by left-leaning ideologies. In fact, some the richest people in the country--such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates--have been the biggest benefactors to charities and foundations that accomplish key humanitarian works.

It's still helpful to remember that the United States is still one of the richest countries in the world on a per capita basis--so quibbling over whether a Mercedes SL driver or a Honda Civic driver follows the traffic laws better seems like a luxury problem in and of itself.

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The Waldo Canyon Fire-Most Destructive Wildfire in State History

The Waldo Canyon Fire burning near Colorado Springs may be 90 percent contained, but it has left a scar on the state that will be viewable for years to come.

On July 4th, NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) snapped this breathtaking shot of the Waldo Canyon Fire burn scar in Pike's National Forest.

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According to NASA Earth Observatory the bright red, which includes both visible and infrared light in the false-color image, represents unburned forest and vegetation. The light brown areas indicate areas where some burning took place and the dark brown areas indicate areas severely burned.

The Waldo Canyon Fire burning since June 23rd is already the most destructive wildfire in state history. The fire forced the evacuation of at least 32,000 residents, has consumed 18,274 acres, destroyed nearly 350 homes and killed at least two people.

The toll for the damaged homes alone has reached $110 million, according to The Denver Post, and the total cost to fight the fire reached $14.5 million on Thursday. President Obama, who declared that the Colorado wildfires are a "major disaster," pledged federal aid to the state..

Days of record heat, high winds and unseasonable dryness produced a surge of fires burning throughout Colorado, providing devastating growth conditions. As many asten major fires were burning aroud the state in late June, all part of the worst wildfire season ina decade.

LOOK at satellite image of burn scar, via NASA Earth Observatory:

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Heat Wave: St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis And Chicago Near Record High Temperatures

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The temperatures in Casimir Brandon's basement bedroom grew so stifling that the exhausted Madison man began riding city buses in the morning, from one end of the line to the other, so he could grab a few hours of air-conditioned sleep.

Brandon is among those searching for any kind of relief as oppressive heat slams the middle of the country with record temperatures that aren't going away after the sun goes down. So when the city of Madison transformed a vacant convention center into a 24-hour cooling center, Brandon jumped at the chance to sleep in comfort.

"I had a cot there, but I gave it up to a lady who had a kid," said Brandon, 56. "But it's OK. I just lined up six chairs and slept like a baby. I was just so tired from the previous two days that it wasn't a problem at all."

St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago and several other Midwest cities already have set record highs this week or are on the verge of doing so. And with even low temperatures setting heat records, residents are left searching for any relief.

In the McDonough Homes public housing project in St. Paul, Minn., Chue Yang, his wife, their 8-year-old son and 11- and 12-year-old daughters have taken refuge in the children's bedroom, which has the only air conditioner in their townhome.

"We don't want to cook because it's too hot, so we stay in the bedroom," Yang, 38, said Thursday, as he rested in the air-conditioned lobby at the McDonough Recreation Center. "That's all. We don't have anything to do."

The National Weather Service issued excessive-heat warnings Thursday for all of Illinois and Indiana, as well as parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. Forecasts called for daytime temperatures from the mid- to high 90s into the low 100s.

St. Louis hit a record high of 105 on Wednesday and a record low of 83. In Wisconsin, the coolest Milwaukee and Madison got was 81 in the early morning, beating previous low records by 2 and 4 degrees respectively. Temperatures didn't fall below 79 in Chicago, 78 in Grand Rapids, Mich., and 75 in Indianapolis.

"When a day starts out that warm it doesn't take as much time to reach high temperatures in the low 100s," said Marcia Cronce, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "You know it'll be a warm day when you start out at 80 degrees."

Many cities have tried to help by opening cooling centers and extending the hours for their public pools. Compounding the high heat in Michigan was damage wrought by storms. More than 300,000 homes and businesses across the state were without power Thursday.

In St. Louis, where three deaths have been blamed on the heat, officials have called about 4,000 residents, many of them elderly or disabled. For those who didn't answer their phones, officials went out in person to check on them. Dozens of cooling centers have been set up, a charity is providing air conditioners, and a utility-assistance program will help about 1,500 households get caught up on their electric bills.

"It's really about saving lives. That's really what all of these activities are directed at, to keep people safe and free from harm," said St. Louis Human Services Director Bill Siedhoff, who visited some of the homes with Mayor Francis Slay.

In Chicago, the Shedd Aquarium lost power Thursday as temperatures soared to 103 degrees, a record for July 5. Officials said emergency generators immediately kicked in and the outage never threatened any of animals, but several hundred visitors were sent back out into the heat.

Some parents and grandparents in northern Indiana brought children to play on a splash pad at a park in Mishawaka.

"It beats staying in the house," Linda Maciejewski of South Bend said as she sat in the shade, watching her 7-year-old granddaughter. "There's a nice breeze off the river, then we're getting some mist off the contraptions here."

Some people, particularly in the upper Midwest, said they don't normally need air conditioning in their homes and are trying to get by without buying one.

Doug Steinke and his family in St. Paul, Minn., have been maximizing their time in places with air conditioning, including the local community center, the library and his wife's office. They have been eating uncooked fruits and vegetables and dining out when they can.

"We're a little crankier than normal," the 50-year-old stay-at-home dad said as his children, ages 3, 7 and 8, splashed in swimming lessons.

For others, getting relief has meant stepping away from work. John Rohlfing, 38, a construction worker in North Aurora, Ill., started working on a new house Thursday at 6 a.m., but he had to quit by 11 a.m. when temperatures hit 99 degrees.

"It's very dangerous in this heat, no questions about it," he said. "And when I start to feel bad I just stop."

The heat has also taken a toll on agriculture.

Dean Hines, the owner of Hines Ranch Inc. in the western Wisconsin town of Ellsworth, said he found one of his 80 dairy cows dead Thursday, an apparent victim of the heat. He said he was worried about the rest of his herd, in terms of death toll, reproductive consequences and milk production.

"We're using fans and misters to keep them cool," he said. "It's been terrible. When it doesn't cool down at night, the poor animals don't have a chance to cool down."

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Mother Wants Her 14 yr old To Have a Breast Implant

Bras, braces, makeup are all rites of passage for many teen girls. But if you're a member of the Marshall family, so are boob jobs.

Britney Marshall, a 14 year old from Nottinghamshire,England, is the youngest girl of the Marshall family and the only one without breast implants. Her mother Chantal Marshall,told the Sun, "Britney is going through a funny phase at the moment and saying she doesn’t want to get her boobs done."

And Marshall really wishes she would, telling the Sun:

"At the moment she doesn’t really have what I would say are boobs -- but I’d like her to follow in her sisters’ footsteps... I really love the fake look of my girls and I know Britney will go that way when she’s a bit older."

Chantal and her four other daughters collectively own £50,000 worth of fake breasts, with sizes ranging from 32DD (21-year-old Ripley) to 34HH (27-year-old Terri). But Britney's au naturel... for now. The "brainy" one of the family, Britney told the Sun, "Maybe I’ll decide to get them too and start saving in a few years. But for now I want to focus on my school work."

That crazy girl. For what it's worth, it seems Britney's brothers provide an alternative perspective on the matter. According to the Daily Mail, Chantal Marshall admitted, "Some of my sons think we’re crazy... They keep telling Britney she should be different."

The desire for breast implants isn't a new or surprising phenomenon, particularly in England. Last summer, a poll of 8000 American and British women found that 35 percent of American women "loved their boobs" while only 20 percent of U.K. respondents felt the same way. But a mom encouraging her uninterested daughter to get breast implants? We've got to imagine (and hope?) that's a rarer occurrence.

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Natural Cure For Stretch Marks

Stretch marks are fine white to silvery lines on the skin that may develop on the abdomen, thighs, gluteal region and knees. They may also appear because of sudden gain in weight or after weight loss. Rapid growth during puberty may also lead to the development of stretch marks. Stretch marks are very common in pregnancy. These marks may make it difficult for you to be proud of the body that you have.

While there are a number of topical creams and ointments for stretch marks, these do not work sometimes and may even cause skin irritation. Thankfully, there are a number of all-natural remedies for stretch marks, and here are some of them.

 So Girls follow the following regime and fade your stretch marks..

1. Exercise A good workout can be the best remedy for stretch marks. Toning of the muscles allows the skin to firm up, which can cause the stretch marks to fade.

2. Healthy Foods Add more proteins, and vitamin C- and E-rich foods to your diet. These foods promote the growth of new tissues and the healing of damaged tissues in the skin. Foods rich in zinc, such as nuts and seeds, help prevent the development of stretch marks. Vitamin K-rich foods, like dairy products, liver, green leafy vegetables and tomatoes, promote rapid healing of stretch marks.

3. Aloe Vera Massage the fleshy pulp of aloe vera on the stretch marks to tone and firm up the skin. The enzymes present in aloe vera promote the removal of damaged tissues while keeping healthy skin hydrated.

4. Lavender Oil- Lavender oil is the most recommended home remedy in the treatment of stretch marks. When applied three times a day to the affected area, lavender oil induces the growth of new skin tissues to make the stretch marks gradually fade away.

5. Apricot Scrub A good apricot scrub acts by exfoliating dead and damaged skin tissues found in stretch marks. It also helps tone and firm up the skin, leading to the disappearance of the stretch lines.

6. Aromatic Oils- Aromatic oils, such as chamomile, avocado, sweet almond and jojoba, promote the healing of stretch marks and toning of the skin. These oils are best used in combination with lavender, and can even help to prevent the reoccurrence of stretch marks.

7. Cocoa Butter- Cocoa butter is best used to prevent stretch marks during pregnancy. Early application firms and tones up the skin, while keeping it adequately hydrated. Enzymes in cocoa butter also help reduce damage to skin tissue.
            Stretch marks can always disappear if you follow the above..So Take care and be proud of being a woman.

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Sell Marijuana Legally??

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Uruguay's president has made it clear that his plan for legalizing marijuana in the South American nation does not mean he favors legalizing any other illicit drugs.

President Jose Mujica said in an interview Thursday with Colombia's RCN radio network that he does not yet know when his government will present Uruguay's Congress with the legislative proposal. Mujica's party dominates Congress.

He says the plan is for the government to sell marijuana at a cheap and reasonable price then monitor what each consumer uses. The idea is to take drug profits out of the hands of criminals.

Mujica says that while drug addiction is a medical problem, drug trafficking is an unwinnable police problem.

Uruguay would be the world's first nation to sell marijuana directly.

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Happy Birthday Dalai Lama

Festivities for the Dalai Lama's 77th birthday on July 6th are about to begin.

The exiled Tibetan government in Dharamsala, India has organized two rounds of celebrations according to Hill Post.

Morning events will be held at the main Tibetan Temple, and evening observance will be held at the Institute of Tibetan Performing Art (TIPA). Along with prayers for the Dalai Lama's life and health, there will be performances by Tibetan monks, nuns, and artists with a focus on local participation by the community rather than a flashy international affair,Hindustan Times reports.

"This time we are aiming for more participation from the people of the state (Himachal Pradesh)," said Tashi Phunstok, head of the Organizing Committee arranged by the Central Tibetan Administration. "We are grateful to them for supporting us all this time. We have also invited the state chief minister and district administration officials on the occasion, but confirmation has not yet come."

A live webcast of the celebrations at Dharamsala will be available from the main temple broadcast in both Tibetan and English.

Observances are happening around the world. Tibetan Buddhist Rime Institute in Belgrave, Australia will be celebrating the Dalai Lama's birthday,reports Knox Weekly , by opening its doors to the public and allowing others to see how the monks pray.

"It's for the community to come and celebrate with us. You don't need to do anything - you can just come and watch if you like," said Julie O'Donnell, the Institute's Public officer. "I think a lot of people are looking to find a bit more meaning in their lives. They are embracing alternative ways to do this and Buddhism is one of those ways."

The Institute's festivities will include dinner on Friday evening, lunch and prayers on Saturday afternoon as well as screenings of various films about the Dalai Lama and his life's work.

However, not everyone is celebrating.

According to the Associated press, exiled Tibetans in Nepal were banned from observing His Holiness' birthday, and were blocked by police from entering the school where a birthday party was to be held. The reason being that Tibetan ceremonies and observances can lead to anti-Chinese protests.

Nepal's chief government administrator from the Katmandu district, Laxmi Prasad Dhakal, warned that any public displays that led to anti-Chinese rallies would not be tolerated; but authorities did say they would allow exiled Tibetans to celebrate privately without anti-Chinese rhetoric or displays.

The Dalai Lama has lived in the Dharamsala in India since his exile from Tibet when Chinese forces took over the country in 1959. Born in 1935, the spiritual leader is recognized by Tibetans as the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Stephanie Miller Thanks Obama For Health Care, Discusses Sister's Struggle With Cancer

President Barack Obama received a hug from a sobbing woman while working the rope after a campaign event in Sandusky, Ohio, on Thursday. Stephanie Miller, whose 37-year-old sister, Kelly Hines, died of colon cancer four years ago, got a chance to personally thank the president for passing the health care law that the Supreme Court upheld last week.

Soon to start a job as a corrections officer at a state prison in Ohio, Miller suddenly found herself in the national press, after a White House pool reporter spotted and wrote about her encounter with the president. The Huffington Post contacted Miller who shared her full story.

Miller recounted her brief exchange with the president, in which Obama told her he was sorry to hear about her sister's death, and that he would keep Hines in his thoughts.

"He said he would keep on fighting for us -- and that our fight is not over," Miller told HuffPost.

Miller said her sister was uninsured when she was diagnosed with colon cancer. Hines, a single mother working to support two young sons, applied for Medicaid but was told she did not meet the program's financial requirements. Hines soon began a new job where she was given employer-sponsored health care coverage, but as a new employee she needed to be present in the workplace, which ultimately interfered with her cancer treatment.

Hines clocked anywhere from 40 to 80 hours a week, despite her weakening condition. "She worked until she couldn't anymore so that she could provide for her kids," said Miller.

Following a 15-month struggle, Hines succumbed to the disease -- leaving behind her sons, 10 and 15, at the time.

According to Miller, the Affordable Care Act could have saved her sister's life. A working mother of three, Miller told HuffPost neither she nor her two younger daughters, ages 22 and 20, have health insurance. Her new employer will not provide coverage until she completes a one-year probationary period. Meanwhile, Miller said her medical bills are "racking up."

Miller now eagerly awaits the day when her insurance will kick in so that her daughters can stay on her health care plan until the age of 26, thanks to a provision under the president's health care law and last week's Supreme Court ruling.

Asked how she reacted to the news that the Affordable Care Act would be upheld, an emotional Miller recalled a roller coaster of emotions.

"Oh my God, I blew up my Facebook page congratulating President Obama [and] thanking him," she said. "It was a historic day for our country."

"We needed that desperately," Miller continued. "I know what it's like to watch somebody that you love die from a disease that had they been able to have health care [coverage], they could still be here. Nobody should ever have to go through that. Her sons should not have to suffer without their mother."

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Tea Party Favourite Flips During CNN Interview

Things got intense on Thursday afternoon when Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) appeared on CNN and was pressed on recent remarks he made suggesting his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth, a double-amputee veteran who served in Iraq, isn't a "true hero."

When asked by network anchor Ashleigh Banfield if he would characterize his choice of words as a "slip up," the Tea Party-backed congressman said, "No, Ashleigh, this wasn't a slip-up. I don't regret anything I said. Understand me. Every man and woman who's worn the uniform is a hero in my book." He added, "I've said that thousands of times. I've called Tammy Duckworth a hero hundreds of times."

The exchange took a rocky turn when Banfield challenged Walsh on the root of the controversy, which the Republican congressman argued was "manufactured" by Duckworth's campaign.

"Ashleigh, Ashleigh, Ashleigh," Walsh said in attempt to hold his ground during the segment. Over the course of the interview, the GOP lawmaker tried to regain control of his line of messaging by saying Banfield's name more than 90 times.

One day earlier on "The Situation Room," Walsh sought to do damage control  on the heels of sparking backlash with his initial remarks.

"She is a hero and that demands our respect, but it doesn't demand our vote," he said of Duckworth. Walsh went on to suggest, however, that "all she does" is "talk about her service."

"Voters in this district want to have an inkling of where she stands on the issues and she never ever gets directly in front of people," he asserted. "I salute her service, but my god, the voters want to know if she has any thought on the issues."

Duckworth regarded Walsh's remarks about her military service as "irresponsible" during an appearance on MSNBC earlier this week.

The Democratic congressional candidate said, "He's trying to muddy the waters." She added, "He's just trying to shift the focus away from the fact that he's done nothing for the people of the district. He's irresponsible in his words and he's irresponsible in his actions."

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