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Do You Download Music?

Hello all,

I'm Courtney Souza and me and my group members, Katelyn Whitcher and Mandy Thomas, are doing a Broadcast News story for our class on the RIAA's action against Illegal music downloading.

If you are unaware-over 30 randomly chosen on campus students have been sent pre-lawsuits for illegally downloading music of the internet. The students can either choose to settle for about $3,000 or take the RIAA to court.

Do you have an opinion on this? Do you think it's unfair that these students were pinpointed? Do you download music and could careless about the RIAA? We want to know, we want your opinion.

If you could take a few minutes out of your day and talk to us about how you feel on this situation we would greatly appreciate it. You can make an impact.

E-Mail me if you are interested.

Thanks,

Courtney

Photos

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Broadcast Story

Easter at the White House

Check out the lovely pictures on the wonkette.com

http://wonkette.com/politics/funny-pictures/giant-talking-rabbits-haunt-white-house-250896.php

This article is why I love checking back and reading the Wonkette, they take such serious matters and make them into absolute jokes.

Well, besides the Shrek one...

Fantasy Update

Well well well...look who did well their first week in Fantasy Baseball

THE POLKA DOTS BABY!

I'm definitely not going to get cocky though because I still have no idea what I'm doing.

Heres my Stats:

Second place overall in the league- First in my Division

R- 29
HR- 5
RBI- 21
SB- 5
Avg batting- .2667

Pitching-
K- 23
W- 2
SV- 8 (yeaa boyysss)
ERA- 4.200
WHIP- 1.200 (whats this mean???)

Record for week-5-2-3

Podcasts

The first podcast I decided to listen to was "Drink 'til we're funny" with Justin Deena and Jon. The two men are gay and the woman is straight. They've been friends for about 10 years and met in college. These people are HILARIOUS very provocative-not afraid to say anything. The cast I listened to was titled "Short, Dark, and curlies" (Pubic Hair) and they start out talking about the website Hot or Not and how there is definitely an inflation rate because almost everyone is rated between 9 and 10 when most of they are definitely no higher than a 5. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes boring, sometimes outlandish, and sometimes annoying, but overall very amusing. In the cast Deena talks about going to a Scuba Show, which she said, was much like soft-core gay porn. There were men everywhere some chiseled some extremely fat and she wondered how they got into wetsuits. But even more there were cardboard cutouts all over of half naked men some even without suits (not tuxes) with only scuba gear on...

I'm not sure if I'm going to subscribe to it on Itunes or not, but I'll probably go back and check it out now and then


The second podcast I watched was also on iTunes and in the comedy section, but this one had video. "Happy Tree Friends" was the name and it was an explicit video of cute lil cartoon animals with an extremely high-pitched LALA voice. The first one I watched called "Eye Candy" I actually had to stop after 30 seconds of watching because it was literally Eye- Candy....the pink lil fuzzy creature was eating a lollipop and LA LA ing along when it trips over a log causing it to fall and having the lollipop protrude into the eye of the creature. I HATE eyes....the eye then flung out of the socket and the red vein wrapped around a near by tree. This is where I stopped it. lol

So instead I watched, which was titled "Staying Alive" was just as violent but didn't involve eyes so I was ok. lol Instead it started with two lil fuzzy creatures LALAing at a tea-party n eating cookies when a disco ball drops from the ceiling hitting one on the head. This disco fuzzy creature then appears while dancing and grabs the pink fuzzy creature and makes it dance, but it doesn't want to leading the disco guy to push it into the table and having the tea pot crack and get embedded into its head squirting blood in all directions. As the LALAs turn to AAHHHWAAHHWAHHs the disco man grabs the other but tosses it into an electric fence causing it to...well become electrocuted.

Since I am sitting on my laptop on the Pita Pit...I would assume anyone who walked by while this was playing would automatically think I'm a nutcase.


Also- This is definitely NOT Journalism