BP - SHAME ON YOU!

My thoughts on BP and well don't even get me started with the US Government. I mean come on don't tell me that we don't have the military power to just go over there and get things done. If we wanted to invade a country it would be done, if we wanted this oil leak to be plugged it would be done. And for Obama to be walking around like a bumbling idiot only proves what I've said since day one - he has no real experience. I also find it strange that while others were saying "drill baby drill" using our own resources others were opposed then turned around and then ALL of the sudden we have a problem like this. Call it a conspiracy theory but I think this is part of a bigger picture to keep the people of the US from exploring and using our own natural resources.

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Celebrities Die in Three's?

There's an old saying that celebrity deaths always come in threes (old, that is, if you're the kind of person who frequently reads or writes about celebrity mortality).

Sometimes it just seems to ring true. Back in June 2009, there was the funereal trio of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. When actress Brittany Murphy passed away in December of last year, followed swiftly by socialite Casey Johnson, the very morbid among us were trying to place a third. Some tabloids argued that though it happened several months later, Corey Haim's death by overdose fulfilled that triumvirate.

Going back another year -- to January 2008 -- Brad Renfro, Heath Ledger and Suzanne Pleshette all died within a week of each other.

This week, people are again talking about the "rule of three" in relation to the deaths of Dennis Hopper, Gary Coleman and and Rue McClanahan.

The rule of three can be traced back to Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper all died in a plane crash in an Iowa cornfield. The theory gained a place in creepy celebrity lore at the end of 1970 and the beginning of 1971, when iconic rockers Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison died in relatively close succession. That one really rattled people, as all three died at age 27.

Since then, the so-called rule of three has provided a tidy way for folks to try to make sense of celebrity deaths.

So, is the universe trying to tell us something when three people a lot of people happen to be familiar with pass away in close proximity to one another? Or, as human beings, do we try to rationalize the horror of death by imposing some kind of order on random tragedy?

"The concept of things happening in threes is deeply rooted in religious beliefs like Christianity, the Holy Trinity, the Three Wise Men, etc.," explains 'Cult of Celebrity' author Cooper Lawrence. "But the notion that bad things happen in threes is mostly superstition. Two deaths may happen and we add a random, close enough third to it. Or there are four, but we dismiss the third to keep to our 'deaths happen in threes' rule. The reason we do it is that once we have found the third we no longer have to wonder if it will be us. Finding a pattern to death helps us master our own mortality."

Bonnie Fuller, editor-in-chief of HollywoodLife.com, has a keen eye for celebrity trends, and she also debunks the myth of deaths happening in threes, but believes that the myth holds true for other celebrity occurrences -- like pregnancies and marriages.

"I do think it is people trying to make a pattern out of terrible events, and there can't really be a connection between people who have no relationship passing away," Fuller explains. "But there are occurrences that do become like these viral events, like celebrity marriages and vow renewals, engagements and pregnancies. But that is more about folks being inspired by someone and the idea catching on in Hollywood."

It's interesting that in numerology the number 3 represents the number of communication, because a trio of famous people passing away really does seem to stir up a lot of conversation. But despite the number being significant in numerology, celebrity numerologist Glynis McCants says that deaths happening in three is indeed an old wives' tale.

"It's just never true that they die in threes. There are always more or less, but people try to fit it into a three," McCants explains. "But because three is the number of communication, it gets people talking and by talking people feel like they are able to control death. We like to believe, if it is three, we can handle it. It makes people feel safe, but unfortunately the rule just isn't true."

Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook CEO Loses it When Questioned on Privacy

Earth to Mark Zuckerberg, YES you and your company need to reevaluate your current privacy options in Facebook.
It used to be that you could freely give access or restrict access to particular parts of your profiles. I, for one, liked
the ability to allow certain people to see some parts of my profile (say my friends) while others perhaps not. It's my profile
and hence it should be my prerogative but not if you ask the people at Facebook.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's performance at the AllThingsDigital D8 conference Wednesday night will not be remembered as one of his finer moments. The 26-year-old social networking wunderkind delivered a tense, rambling, and utterly awkward performance during his featured interview, according to witnesses and press accounts.

Zuckerberg became flustered almost immediately after veteran tech reporters Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher pressed him on Facebook's privacy issues. "There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all information open," Zuckerberg said, according to coverage in The New York Times. "That's completely false."

The young CEO doggedly refused to answer straight questions, instead returning to hazy talking points, before losing it all together.

See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/c9NqQF

Was she to Hot for Citibank?

Was this a case of an employee being to hot for the bank or was the bank clearly discriminating against her?
Don't hate her cause she's beautiful!

Lorenzana says that this is the first time her looks have gotten her fired. Her professional efforts have received rave reviews, awards and citations from companies like the Municipal Credit Union, Metropolitan Hospital in Queens and Bank of America.

But the Citibank branch in Manhattan's Chrysler Building was different, she says. She believed that she was hired, during the height of the financial crisis, for her competency, but then one of her female colleagues let it slip that the branch had a reputation for hiring attractive females, and they knew she'd get the job the second she walked in.



Apparently, it is possible to be too sexy for your job. Debrahlee Lorenzana claims she was fired by her bosses at Citibank because they told her she was too good-looking and drew too much attention. She says other female employees got away with far more provocative clothing -- it's just the way she fills hers out.

"They were showing their cleavage, they were wearing mini skirts, and I wasn't doing any of that," she says. She claims was given a list of inappropriate clothing items that she was not to wear. It included things like turtlenecks, pencil skirts, fitted suits and 3-inch heels: "basically what every woman in New York wears to go to work," she says. But on her, her superiors allegedly said it was "too distracting."

Elizabeth Dwoskin of New York's Village Voice describes her this way: "At five-foot-six and 125 pounds, with soft eyes and flawless bronze skin... a head-turning beauty." (See more photos of Debrahlee.)

Alas, the issue of sexual discrimination will never be settled by a judge and jury. As a condition of her employment, Lorenzana signed a mandatory-arbitration clause, so an arbitrator will have to settle the suit.

In the meantime, Lorezana is gainfully employed at another bank, albeit at a lower salary. "I am working in the industry, still in banking, wearing the same clothes that I wore at Citibank and no problem," she says.