Beyonce and L’oreal are getting a lot of flack for their new hair color ad. Many media sources are reporting that L’oreal crossed the line in their new ad campaign by lightening Beyonce’s skin color and changing the texture of her hair to look more like a white woman.
I must say… I agree. [...]
The picture on the left is the Beyonce we know and love. The picture on the right is a new advertisement for L'Oreal. Obviously she's been whitened in more ways than one. The ad is being criticized for trying to make the gifted black singer look like a white person, a problem that has plagued modern culture for decades. Some people see these cosmetic changes as simply modern, others feel that
Bangladesh coach Jamie Siddons acknowledges his team's 5-0 drubbing at the hands of Pakistan was not unexpected but insists the Tigers can take positives from the one-day international series whitewash. The tourists were competitive in only two of the five matches, losing the last ODI in Karachi by 150 runs. They also lost Sunday's one-off Twenty20 match by a margin of 102 runs. "Realistically I came here thinking we might lose 5-0," Siddons admitted in Pakistani daily The News. "You guys might think that is negative thinking but I think it is realistic. I know where we stand, where we are and where we need to be.
Troubled UK bank, Northern Rock, tanked 20% on the open today amid fears of a whitewash deal to take over the bank. Traders will be watching any further announcements closely to enter a trade if the company look to clarify the statement.
15th October
As of writing troubled Northern Rock was falling like the proverbial stone, down 23% on news that the bank are in preliminary talks with bidders. The problem however, is that it appears potential bidders are talking about buying the bank under the 'whitewash provisions' of the UK takeover rules.
Under the Panel of Takeovers and Merger rules any bidder who gains over 30% of the
IS all that ails the US health-care system that it's not run by a communist dictatorship? That has long been a premise of apologists for Fidel Castro who extol the virtues of medical care on his totalitarian island nation.
Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is reviving this Cold War relic of an argument in his new movie on health care, Sicko, which premieres in a few weeks and favourably compares the Cuban health care system with the US one. Moore ostentatiously took a few sick 9/11 workers to Cuba for care. "If they can do this," Moore told Time magazine, referring to the Cubans, "we (Americans) can do it."
All that the Cuban Government has done, however, is run a decades-long propaganda campaign to convince credulous or dishonest people that its health-care system is worth emulating.
These people believe - or pretend to believe for ideological reasons - that a dictatorship can crush a country's economy and spirit, yet still deliver exemplary medical care.
Cuban health c
Irrelevant song quote of the day:She can build a boatand she can make it floatshe can play my guitar note by noteshe likes to stick her tongue right down my throat...she's my baby..."She's My Baby", performed by The Traveling WilburysI'm trying to get in the groove of writing every day like I was before, but to be honest, it isn't easy. Really...it's not.I mean, you can only write so much about your monthly cycle, the cats get boring once in a while, and I've already established the fact that I'm not getting married.So what else is there?Well, let's start with Three Word Wednesday and see where it takes us...Today's words are:BackgroundSwingsAgainstWell, hmmm...it seems to me I'm just as stuck as I was before. Oh well...that's life.OK...DD/Skippy/whatever I nickname him and I talk about a great many things when we hang out together. One thing that stymies him (and myself when I really think about it)? Why I'm working as an admin when I have a college degree. He's just
Taxpayer Ripoff Damage Control Spin Mode Begins...The status report issued by Department Of Economic Development shows a total of 30,732 jobs were “pledged” in the applications submitted by the companies; however, only 14,285 of those jobs were actually included in contracts established with the companies as of June 30, 2006.Read Audit...Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, said the audit is misleading."We're not giving fair credit to the Values Fund," said Dotzler, who heads the budget subcommittee that oversees economic development spending.The state auditor's job figures "are more of a political document and split hairs" over what the fund has accomplished.Read Article...Note: Senator Bill Dotzler (D) is politcking to become the next Iowa Workforce Development Agency Director.Give TaxpayersTheir Money Back! Scandal Economic Development Iowa
