- It's Weedless Wednesday. A part of National Non Smoking Week. Already BC has the lowest smoking rate in the country. If you still smoke, I'd like to ask you "Why?" Seriously, why would you do something like that to yourself. Pretend this is a debate, convince me that smoking is fine and dandy. You can't do it. Quit already.
Does anyone have a list of signs of the Apocalypse?
Is Britney back dating her paparazzo, Heath Ledger burning in hell and a stock market crash on that list?
It’s all happening. Let’s go through them back to front.
STOCKS
The stock market is taking a HUGE header this morning. Unless you’re near retirement, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you’re at least 10 years away from retiring, don’t sweat it. Just treat everything as if it’s on sale. It’s a chance to dollar cost average.
I get caught up in micromanaging my retirement portfolio, especially the 6 shares of AAPL I bought back in September for $138. I thought I was a Mad Money Man in December when it 200 and analysts were forecasting 300 for a high. “w00t!” Today, the stock is trading at under $137.
What happened? America just woke up and realized George Bush has been writing war checks his country can’t cash for the past 8 years. It has nothing to do with the turtlenecked one, and everything to do with crazy paranoia. But I’ve got 25 years left of clock punching, so I will BUY, not SELL, and look forward to the future.
HEATH in HELL
I admit it. I do not like organized religion. It may work for you, that’s great, I think a sense of spirituality is an important thing to have, but the blind trust that many put into the doctrines of religion really bothers me. Especially when those who do wave the flag of their belief in bold faced hate against others. Angry, nasty hatred.
Christopher Hitchens has a great read, God is Not Great, it deconstructs most religions for contradictory beliefs, perpetual corruption and the solitary source of all that is wrong in the world. Religion is supposed to be the great unifying force of peace, yet it is under a mandate from ‘god’ that most wars are waged.
Heath Ledger died yesterday. Allegedly of an overdose of drugs. While I may not be a fan of those who abuse drugs - I am not going to issue a press release condemning him to hell because he starred in Brokeback Mountain.
The Westboro Baptist Church issued a press release today, filled with crap like this:
WBC will picket this pervert’s funeral, in religious protest and warning. Heath Ledger is now in Hell and will begin serving his eternal sentence there. [source]
Yes, this is a rogue organization that routinely pulls these stunts, but they do it with Biblical quotes, on the letterhead of a “Church.”
BRIT BRIT
Oh, and Britney is back dating her papi, Adnan Ghalib. They broke up, he “sold” his story to ET for a series of weeklong interviews, and now they’re already back together and tearing things up.
Last night they sideswiped a motorcycle.
The end is near friends, the horesemen cometh.
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Welcome to another beautiful day, here's what's up on air:
- Heath Ledger has died. You'll get one more chance to see him on screen, his role as The Joker in Batman: The Dark Knight for this summer has already been completed.
- Oh yeah, the Oscar nominations came down today. On my "gotta see it now" list: La Vie En Rose, Juno, There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.
Actor Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence in what authorities say is a possible drug-related death, the NYPD said. He was 28. [source]
Yes, I always get my drug overdose celebrity death news from the Wall Street Journal.
If you want a more celeb focussed approach, check out Pop Crunch.
It’s a tragic death that will be milked for the rest of the week on ET and happened in enough time to kick Britney off the cover of the weekend tabloids.
Facebook and blogs are covered with laments already. Personally, I think it’s Darwin at his finest.. drugs kill, mess with a bull and the horns will get you .. but that’s not my concern…
How did you find out about this news? Surfing on a website? Email alert? Facebook status update? Text message? Twitter? A friend told you? The radio?
Or will you read about it for the first time in a newspaper tomorrow.
This is a world where when news breaks, it breaks fast. I found out from a friend who just heard Sarah Bartok mention it on 95Crave. When I logged in to Twitter, it was all over the tweets.
So how did you find out? Did the internets win this war of breaking news, or did word of mouth get to you first?
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- It's also Black Monday as global stocks took a HUGE header. Sucks if you're near retirement, if you're young just look at is as all the stocks are on sale, and it's a chance to stock up! You know, like a BOGO event at Payless.
- Yes, it was a wild weekend in the TDot for CBC's Test the Nation. Team Blogger won it, and I've been blogging all about it.
- In the US, it's Martin Luther King Jr Day. It's not our holiday, but it's still a great chance to stop and reflect on the message.
- America seems to think they're over it, but the more they focus on race and gender, it proves they're really nowhere close, are they?
- Nicole Richiereally really wanted to be on the cover of People this week. Christina Aguilera was offered $1M by OK! Magazine for her son's pics… and said "No!"?
- CraveFX is hot, right out of the box! Already Shannon won $2500 with Nat and Drew this morning, and we're already up to $1500 for the next play at 5:15 this afternoon. Ever wonder what it's like to win big bucks on the radio? Check out this video.
- If you like it when your boys talk nerdy, check out the announcements made by Steve Jobs today at MacWorld.
- American Idol is back tonight. Christian Louboutin will be on Oprah on Friday.
- They've cancelled The World Series and Stanley Cup Playoffs, and unions can cancelGrey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives too.
- The Britney stuff gets crazier, crazier and crazier. I want to just leave it, but I can't - sorry.
- The Golden Globes were axed because of the Writers' Strike. However, the AVN Awards went out because pr0n has no writers! Lol. With no red carpet to critique, the bloggers took to critiquing the .. um .. "hardwood" of the AVN show.
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