1. With all the security measures we have at airports why are they allowing paps to just hang around and disrupt everythging?

Posted at 10:07AM on Oct 7th 2008 by ObamaURNot4Me

2. So there is no longer any one off limits. Why dont you try following here back to Iowa and pull that crap. We will run your stalking asses out of town

Posted at 10:21AM on Oct 7th 2008 by Prince Von A-Hole

3. So there is no longer any one off limits. Why dont you try following here back to Iowa and pull that crap. We will run your stalking arsses out of town

Posted at 10:22AM on Oct 7th 2008 by Prince Von A-Hole

4. What this really translate into is: If your not doing drugs, whoreing urself,and giving obnoxious your not famous by the standards of the photog...Ur doing good kiddo keep up the good work at this rate ur on ur way to living a great life- without the papwhores.

Posted at 10:31AM on Oct 7th 2008 by zoya

5. I dont understand why this girl is getting so much attention and Nastia is not!

Shawn had so much hype going into the Olympics and Nastia out performed her there.

Posted at 10:39AM on Oct 7th 2008 by Valeri Liukin

6. Pap whores asking stupid questions. You camera/video guys suck!

Posted at 11:12AM on Oct 7th 2008 by Pap Whores suck!

7. I gave up my admiration for her once she began preaching to me about who I should be voting for. No thanks, 15-minutes-up athlete.

Posted at 11:17AM on Oct 7th 2008 by Memememe

8. Nastia Luken got rooked

Posted at 11:28AM on Oct 7th 2008 by Screw the Olympics

9. Another reason I dont want a democrat in office ~
In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.

The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.

In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage companies have been pressing Fannie Mae to help them make more loans to so-called subprime borrowers. These borrowers whose incomes, credit ratings and savings are not good enough to qualify for conventional loans, can only get loans from finance companies that charge much higher interest rates -- anywhere from three to four percentage points higher than conventional loans.

''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''

Demographic information on these borrowers is sketchy. But at least one study indicates that 18 percent of the loans in the subprime market went to black borrowers, compared to 5 per cent of loans in the conventional loan market.

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

Under Fannie Mae's pilot program, consumers who qualify can secure a mortgage with an interest rate one percentage point above that of a conventional, 30-year fixed rate mortgage of less than $240,000 -- a rate that currently averages about 7.76 per cent. If the borrower makes his or her monthly payments on time for two years, the one percentage point premium is dropped.

Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, does not lend money directly to consumers. Instead, it purchases loans that banks make on what is called the secondary market. By expanding the type of loans that it will buy, Fannie Mae is hoping to spur banks to make more loans to people with less-than-stellar credit ratings.

Fannie Mae officials stress that the new mortgages will be extended to all potential borrowers who can qualify for a mortgage. But they add that the move is intended in part to increase the number of minority and low income home owners who tend to have worse credit ratings than non-Hispanic whites.

Home ownership has, in fact, exploded among minorities during the economic boom of the 1990's. The number of mortgages extended to Hispanic applicants jumped by 87.2 per cent from 1993 to 1998, according to Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. During that same period the number of African Americans who got mortgages to buy a home increased by 71.9 per cent and the number of Asian Americans by 46.3 per cent.

In contrast, the number of non-Hispanic whites who received loans for homes increased by 31.2 per cent.

Despite these gains, home ownership rates for minorities continue to lag behind non-Hispanic whites, in part because blacks and Hispanics in particular tend to have on average worse credit ratings.

In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed that by the year 2001, 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low and moderate-income borrowers. Last year, 44 percent of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from these groups.

The change in policy also comes at the same time that HUD is investigating allegations of racial discrimination in the automated underwriting systems used by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to determine the credit-worthiness of credit applicants.

Posted at 12:12PM on Oct 7th 2008 by OMG

10. Thank her lucky stars she is not considered a celeb. She can live a decent life and escape all the life damaging attention she would encounter in the celebrity limelight.

Posted at 1:32PM on Oct 7th 2008 by Diagnosis

11. OMG - SHUT UP!

Posted at 4:23PM on Oct 7th 2008 by dudeman

12. #10 OMG, did you just smoke something? This thread is about ShawnJohnson, what does it have to do with your conservative crap? Go Shawn!

Posted at 6:35PM on Oct 7th 2008 by Alicia Sacramone

13. Shawn is super cute, one of the best smiles ever! I really love her smile, and I think she is the best on Team USA. Her teammate Alicia Sacramone is the biggest disgrace for America! Go Shawn, we support you 100%!

Posted at 6:40PM on Oct 7th 2008 by Alicia S.

14. The above picture of Shawn isn't very flattering, she seems to be packing on a few pounds? Keep a camera eye on that for us. Thanks TMZ. We'll keep making-um stars, if you'll keep your part of the bargin, and keep making-them real.

Posted at 7:47PM on Oct 7th 2008 by dmt

15. My god TMZ...ur paps are f-ing stupid. They think they are reporters or something? They ask the most stupid questions in the world.Cant believe you have these idiots on ur payroll.

Posted at 8:51PM on Oct 7th 2008 by bosco