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Ricky Gervais will do anything for attention

Let's be honest, what is Ricky Gervais doing with his life at the moment? Probably a whole lot of nothing. So when Ricky decided to chip in with his voice on a PETA commercial (read it here) we have to ask why he did this. Was it because he honestly believes in the values of what PETA stands for or is he doing this just as a tool to try to revive some resemblance to a career? Unless someone knows Ricky personally and can speak up, it is probably on the side of doing it just for media.

I can imagine the phone call already

Agent: Ricky, wake up, it's 1pm already I have some work for you.
Ricky: How much do I get paid?
Agent: No money involved just pure PR material you gotta volunteer for PETA. If you do you'll get some much needed publicity and maybe someone will hire you. Pink and Stella McCartney are in it.
Ricky: I can't do that, last week I walked into McDonald's wearing a fur coat and ordered 3 big macs
Agent: You are doing it and that is final. Also stay away from that Pink bitch, I don't need her feeding you that scientology crap.

So does anyone have any quotes from Ricky on this. Is he genuinly a good guy that has an interest in PETA. At least even if it was for the wrong reasons he is at least doing the right thing.

Is fashion bad for your health?

Just this week I read a few articles about all things fashion related that could be bad for your health. First I saw an article in thestar.com that talked about how recent tests of popular lipstick brands are showing significant amounts of lead. Hardly the type of thing anybody wants to read about or find in lipstick.

So first thing is first, you can find numerous articles of lipstick found in lead and you can read that here as well. For an industry that is literally worth billions it is shocking that female politicians don't demand that these billion dollar makeup corporations live up to higher standards and not charge the most for their product while producing it for the least amount of money.

There there is the lead found in vinyl bags and fake leather. It is noted that there have been some lawsuits as a result of these lead traces for Target and Macy's. It seems consumers are stuck with choices that they are not even sure if they know which ones they are making.

What is worse is that younger girls are picking up on these fashion trends and girls under 10 are starting to wear more make up and care way too much about fashion these days. It is sad knowing that unless fashion and makeup business get regulated these girls are going to be the ones stuck with the problems of lead contamination. Lead is surprisingly everywhere but it doesn't need to be that way.

  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3722013

 

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Ashton Kutcher in new two and a half men

Thank God Charlie Sheen is finally history. That guy thought he was hot stuff and not expendable and look what happens. He criticizes the people that are responsible for not only giving him something to do in his career at this age but also giving him a massive paycheck and making him a mega star. Well people will now remember Charlie Sheen not for being super rich and having the #1 hit show but rather his downword spiral. All of this apparantly comes from his addiction to cocaine.

Enter Ashton Kutcher, former that 70s show star has done a few other movies, nothing overly blockbuster but the guy can act and has a big following of his own already. He takes over Charlie Sheen's role as the womanizer. This should be not only an easy task for Kutcher but people like the show for it's humor and it is well written. Kutcher only has to show up, collect his paycheck and he will have the potential to leapfrog over Sheen, talk about WINNING!

The show seems set for a fall launch to continue off and hopefully that means no more re-runs and the cash flow to Charlie Sheen will be cut off for good. Now what is this guy going to do next, more tours for the worst live show in the world? Talk about LOSING!

Osama bin Laden supposedly killed

It seems the world is becoming a sicker more morbid place as we now celebrate the death of people. Sure Osama (not Obama) bin Laden is one of the most wanted terrorists who claimed many lives in the past decade or 2. Well the world news is reporting that he is dead but there does not seem to be any proof of this which is the very unusual part about this. So if there is no conclusive proof or evidence then what on earth is truly happening here?

Why can't the public get to see the gruesome images? It is bad enough we see hideous images on television as it is such as Whitney Houston.

check out Barack Obama's speech about the death of Bin Laden. I wonder how many more news reporters are goign to mix up Osama with Obama.