This weekend, the newlywed couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi hosted a gala event for the “Yes on Prop 2″ campaign to help raise support and money. California Proposition 2 will be on the November ballot and, if enough voters vote “yes,” will require bigger cages for farm animals and will help stop farm animal abuse. (An animation on the Prop is above.) When I saw this on the news I thought to myself “Shouldn’t they be putting the ‘No on Prop 8′ campaign at the top of their priority list? I mean, they are a newlywed same-sex couple, who can lose their right to be married if Prop 8 passes.” Their event raised about $1 million dollars this weekend, and certainly put this prop in the spotlight all over the media.
How come Ellen and Portia haven’t put in a lot of time to raise awareness about how discriminating Prop 8 really is. Don’t they want to stay married, and not be a “civil union?” Even Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg have donated time and money to the “No on Prop 8″ campaign! I’m hoping that Ellen and Portia will soon plan an event to raise money for the “No on Prop 8″ campaign.
My little sister, 10, came home from school this Friday really excited. She said that all her friends at school were talking about this cool thing called “Club Penguin,” where you get to choose a penguin and play games, dress it up, and just have fun. Now she wants to be part of the crowd and wanted to join as soon as possible. I told her and my dad to wait just a second before whipping out that credit card.
I first heard of Club Penguin on the news when Disney acquired the site, and later I learned that my friend’s little sister is on it, too. All I was aware of was that Club Penguin was a great, safe online environment for kids. So great, in fact, that Disney has already spent $350 million on acquiring it, and is planning to spend another $350 million if “specific targets are met by 2009.” [source] I have been doing some research on the site, not because I want to spoil the fun and burst my sister’s bubble, but becuase I just really want to check this thing out and see if it really is safe, what with all of those sexual predators online and whatnot (I watch Dateline NBC too much).
As I was watching the first presidential debate, the first forty or so minutes were mostly about the economy and their policies on spending and taxes. But towards the end, the senators started to focus on the topic of the debate, foreign policy. McCain seemed to hesitate on some questions, while Obama started off the debate really strong with a five-point plan on how to solve this economic crisis. I noticed how confident Obama was and how he calmly corrected McCain, becuase he really needed some correcting since he spun things in Obama’s record and policies. They both had strong points on how they would handle Russia, Iran, and even North Korea.
In my honest opinion, I thought that the debate was a draw, moslty becuase no one candidate had an extremely powerful point. This was their time to shine, but their performances were lackluster.
This interview was horrible, not because of Katie Couric’s questions, but becuase of Sarah Palin’s answers.
How come she has done only a couple of one-on-one interviews with reporters? (Well, it’s obvious the GOP is afraid of her answers, and they should be, becuase, well… you did watch the video above, right?) Democratic VP Joe Biden, on the other hand, has done several one-on-one interviews and has answered numerous questions from reporters at rallies, meetings, etc.
I’m right outside my class waiting for my professor to show up, and I was bored so I went to CNN.com and read about how John McCain will be suspending his campaign to return to Washington and help with the financial crisis. John McCain would also like for Obama to join him in suspending the campaign, and how Obama has asked the organizers of this Friday’s debate to maybe think about postponing it until further notice. :/
UPDATE: John McCain says that he wants this week’s debate postponed, while Barack Obama says that the debate must go on and that they can handle both situations.
The press conference held today by the three men that had found the Bigfoot in Georgia was attended and watched by many. (You can watch the press conference here.) But some of the major news groups and actual Bigfoot believers were skeptical, calling the trio liars, and calling the whole thing a big hoax.
The supposed frozen body was actually a popular Halloween costume stuffed in cooler with some extra animal parts for added effect.
The group of men who “found” the body aren’t even Bigfoot hunters or anything, they’re really just some con artists trying to get the media’s attention while they get book deals, tv spots, etc.
There is some controversy surrounding He Kexin and her age.
The Huffington Post has a great article and great PROOF that Chinese Olympic gold-medal gymnast He Kexin is underage, and thus should be stripped of her gold medal! They have dated articles and documents that prove that He Kexin is 14 and not 16, the minimum age requirement for the gymanstics competition. Read the article, look at the documents, and come up with your own conclusion but I think that she is underage — she even looks 14!
With John Edwards admitting to having an extramarital affair, and his constant dismissal of that “tabloid trash,” (which turned out to be TRUE) will the endorsement hurt Obama? If you remember, much after dropping out of the race Edwards told his supporters at a rally that he endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president, and now this story all over the news, will people — and by people I mean John McCain’s campaign — take this and spin it around into something negative? McCain’s camp has already turned Obama’s so-called “celebrity status” into something negative and even going as far as comparing him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears! Hopefully, both John Edwards and Barack Obama will keep their chins up high and ignore all of the mud-slinging that McCain seems to be always doing.
We’ve all heard of the beheading that occurred in a Canadian Greyhound bus, right? Well, Greyhound was running an advertising campaign in Canada about bus travel, and how safe it is. The ad campaign’s tagline was “There’s a reason you’ve never heard of ‘bus rage.’” How ironic is that?
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