Wednesday, March 14, 2007

March 14th 2007

Immigration
During his visit to Mexico, President Bush ensured Mexican president Vicente Calderon he’ll work hard on a comprehensive immigration reform. Bush said for now, he’ll need more or less 20 000 Mexicans, depending how much money congress agrees to give him.

During his visit to Mexico, President Bush ensured Mexican president Vicente Calderon he’ll work hard on a comprehensive immigration reform that will provide Latinos with jobs in the U.S. All of a sudden Attorney General Alberto Gonzales felt a little better.

Immigrant rights activists from Los Angeles say they plan a boycott on May 1st in which many immigrants passed on work and school to protest for unfair immigration proposals. They believe this idea will have much more support among Americans that the last massive marches because Americans would rather not go to work than walk.

Immoral
In a written statement, Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not apologize for voicing his belief that homosexual acts are "immoral. In the same statement he welcomed to the pentagon 2 new members just promoted: General Isaac Washington and General Tim Hardaway.


YouTube
Viacom is suing YouTube for $1 billion. The media conglomerate said that if the video sharing service doesn’t pay, Viacom will flood YouTube with videos of CBS News with Katie Couric.

Obesity
Obese men are 42% less likely to kill themselves than other men. Apparently it is hard to shoot yourself when you are holding donuts in each hand.

Market
The market experienced a second big drop yesterday. Experts, who said the first plunge was just normal, said that now they will have to pay close attention to future market activities because the market is not a “One Hit Wonder” anymore.

According to experts, the market dropped sharply yesterday because new foreclosures surged to a record high as borrowers had trouble keeping up with their monthly payments. If we add now that some of them lost money in the market I guess this is going to be a never ending cycle.