Miley For President (Of Croatia or North Korea)

Invasion of teen privacy alert! Invasionof teen privacy alert! Embattled teen pop sensation Miley Cyrus has turned her back on controversy to appear in an innocent new Got Milk ad. The 15 year old Hannah Montana star hit the headlines at the beginning of May after posing provocatively for a photo shoot for a Vanity Fair magazine shoot and the photos were leaked online. Topless and wrapped in a satin sheet, Cyrus became a target of family groups who felt she was too young to make such a sexy statement. But her latest photo, for America's Body By Milk ad campaign, is anything but controversial. The wholesome star sports a milk moustache while posing in her dressing room, wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a white vest. Who really knows if she's 15 anyway? She could be Puerto Rican, scientologist, baby seal clubbing, DUI machine, communist and an NRA member. Does any of that go against family groups?

Ye Olde Yahoo Blues

Microsoft Corp. is once again trying to team up with Yahoo Inc. to challenge Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., although at this point the renewed talks haven't escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo. There of course can be no assurance that any transaction will result from these discussions," the statement said.
Yahoo had no immediate comment Sunday. Microsoft emphasized that it hasn't resurrected a $47.5 billion takeover bid that its chief executive, Steve Ballmer, withdrew May 3 after Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, acting on behalf of Yahoo's board demanded an additional $5.5 billion, but Microsoft left open the possibility that it might dangle another buyout offer of Yahoo, depending on how the discussions progress between the two companies and their respective shareholders. The shareholders say yes, but Yahoo economic strategists say no.
Is it right for Microsoft to bully other companies into their web of economic takeover? No, but who will stop them? Ronald Mcdonald? Maybe, just maybe.

A China Bloodbath

A fresh tremor in southwestern China killed three people on Sunday, injured 1,000 others and sent thousands of people already traumatised by last week's massive earthquake fleeing their homes into the streets. The tremor, the strongest aftershock since the May 12 earthquake, hit Jiangyou city in Sichuan, Xinhua state news agency said, on the eve of three days of national mourning for the dead that now stands officially at 32,500. More than six days after the main quake of 7.9 magnitude rattled Sichuan province, authorities are worried by the aftershocks and the build up of water in blocked rivers and have tried to stop people from entering the affected area. China says it expects the final death toll to exceed 50,000. About 4.8 million people have lost their homes. Should China not close the city? Why would a country want to endanger their citizens? Isn't the illegal occupation of Tibet enough for this Imperialistic government of wanna be "big business" men?

Album Sales Suck???? Who's To Blame??????????????????

Cd sales are down big time. Does anyone care? The artists care and they want their money. They're losing money and they're not happy about only having one gold encrusted swimming pool instead of two. The reason for no CD money? Album sales are no longer the yardstick that bands uses. While hip-hop and pop artists ranging from Jay-Z to Britney Spears have long used recordings to sell every thing from perfume to liquor, rockers are only just starting to think of album sales as a component rather than the sum of the commercial equation. Spoon have been actively licensing their music for use in films, television shows and a Jaguar commercial, making money, gaining exposure and moving up from clubs to 3,000 seat venues.
Album sales are down 25 percent since 2000, leading to widespread predictions of the record business' demise. But smart artists and managers are finding new ways to reach fans and make money. "For some bands we represent, there's more licensing income than record sales," says Carol Sue Baker, whose Ocean Park Music Group has been connecting independent artists with music supervisors for movies, TV and advertising agencies since the early 1990s.
Is there a solution or is the entity known as a CD dead as freedom fries? Artists complaining won't help, so maybe they should just play live and enjoy the ticket sales