He's Back

Conan O'Brien is making his come back. He will be getting his new show on TBS starting in November this fall. He will be taking the place of Lopez Tonight at 11 p.m., Monday through Thursday, which will move George Lopez back to midnight. The reason he is unable to come on sooner is because NBS agreement bars him from televison until September.

I' very glad that O'Brien has his show back. I won't be watching it a lot just because I'm not a huge fan.

health care for all!!!!

This pass Sunday, history was once again made. President Obama's health care was passed. This means that 31 uninsured Americans are now covered under this health care plan. The grand total being that about 94% of all Americans now have health care. This not only insures Americans for health care but it will also help inform them about their physicians ownership of things such as medical equipment and medicine. Another great benefit to this health care is that is allows students to stay on their parents heath coverage until they are 27.

Over all I fell like this change is going to do nothing but help us.

Telephone

Last Thursday, the Lady Gaga music video Telephone was finally released. However, soon after the video was aired, rumors arose that MTV was banning the video from being played on their station. These rumors have been squashed and are said to be false. According to Amy Doyle, an MTV Executive Vice President of Music and Talent, MTV did not ban the video. In fact she said that Friday, March 12th, the video was available to be viewed online at 12:30, and was then played on MTV at 9:30 that morning.
These rumors are said to have stemmed from a portion of CNN the Sunday after the video was released when Fredricka Whitfield and Jacqui Jeras discussed it.
I'm not sure why MTV would ever ban a music video by Lady Gaga. Yes she can very suggestive and have explicit lyrics but so are plenty other artiest that MTV features. I watched the premiere of this video on E!, and I would definitely say that it has strong content, but nothing worth banning over. Especially with MTV's standards.

What About Farrah?

During the 2010 Oscars, there was a memoriam of stars that we lost during the past year, however Farrah Fawcett was one that had been left out. She was in movies such as Cannonball Run and Logan's run. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science was asked why she was left out this was their reply, "I would not say that it was an oversight. No matter how carefully and how conscientiously people address who is included, there are people who just simply can't be."I would not say that it was an oversight. No matter how carefully and conscientiously people address who is included, there are people who just simply can't be."

After reading this, I have lost respect of the Academy. Farrah Fawcett has been in so many amazing movies that it is hard to believe that she was simply forgotten about. And to blame it on the fact that they can't fit everyone in is just a lame excuse. They need to admit they messed up and not just come up with some lame excuse to make them look better.

You've got mail

The US postal service is considering cutting back deliveries of mail to only 5 days instead of 6. They would not be making any deliveries on Saturdays only Monday through Friday. This is because they have seen a drop in income. The postal service runs solely off of revenue and is not government funded. However they did just borrow $10 billion from the US treasury. The postal service has 36,500 retail branches; this is more then Starbucks, Walgreen, McDonald, and Wal-Mart combined.

This is definitely saying something about our priorities. Celebrities are making millions of dollars but we might have to cut back the number of days we get our mail. This doesn't seem right.

iPad

Well Apple has done it again. Always trying to one up Microsoft and this time I think they might have done it. Apple has just released the iPad which is basically like giant iPhone, minus a few features. The iPad is half an inch thick, weighs 1.5 pounds, and has a touch screen of 9.7 inches. It comes in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes. I have am iPhone which only 8GB, the old one I know, and its still isn't full. But the iPad will run off of iTunes and also be able to download all of the same apps as the iPhone.
It is almost time for me to get a new computer and was thinking about getting this instead, the only thing is it doesn't have a Word which is something i use a lot for school.

ice luge accident

Friday February 12th, Nodar Kumaritashvili was practicing before his event which was ice lugging. He lost control at 90mph and flew off the track and crashed which killed him on impact. The video was being aired live and continued to play through out the day. This cause much controversy in the media. Some people feel that it is unethical for the video to be aired on TV because it shows such graphic material and could be disturbing to some people as well as disrespectful to the family. I can see this from both sides of the story. The video is graphic because it does show someone dieing and could be disturbing to others but at the same time death is natural occurring thing. The video doesn't show him being murder in a gruesome manner. If they are going to air it on TV there should at least have a warning before stating that it there is graphic material in the video.