Obama: iPad is the Most Useless ‘Distraction’ Known To Man
So yesterday I met up with an old friend who brought along her Louis Vuitton messenger bag to our lunch date. Inside the bag was her brand new iPad.
She happily told me she wasn’t following the crowd because she had resisted the initial onslaught of overhyped iPad ads for at least a month before she finally gave in after reading on my blog that her favorite singer Monica had an iPad. She said she loves it.
Me, on the other hand, I still have no use for an iPad. I already have a MacBook Pro (which I’m typing this post on) and a HTC smart phone, which I hate, but it serves my purposes when I want to browse the Internet while out & about.
I simply can’t see myself dragging that monster iPad out of a bag just to check the sports scores — unless I just want the people around me to see that I have an iPad — and I am not that vain.
US president Barack Obama probably feels the same way. He doesn’t own an iPad either.
Obama told the graduating class of Hampton University today (April 9) that the iPad is just another useless invention that will only lead them to distraction as they try to find work in a dismal job market.
Last week Apple CEO Steve Jobs bragged that his iPad sold over 1 million units. With over 300 million people in the US, I am not impressed.
Besides, that figure doesn’t include all the replacement iPads exchanged by clumsy owners who dropped and broke their first units.
FanMAIL: Bobby Brown Proposes To His Girlfriend
From loyal reader Dana L:
Bobby Brown was in Jacksonville, Florida performing with Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill when he called his lady and baby out on the stage, he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. He said this time he will work harder on this one than he did on the last one. This happened Friday Night, May 7th.
Photo: Splash News Online
Famous Failures
If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived. Happy Mother’s Day! Please show this video to your children.
1st Anniversary of Dulce Shoe Boutique Hosted By Evelyn Lozada
One year ago this week, Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada opened her first high end shoe boutique called Dulce Shoe Boutique in Miami’s posh Coral Gables area.
The boutique was a runaway success, due in large part to Dulce’s affordable prices and sexy, unique styles that aren’t normally available outside of Paris.
Evelyn is a big fan of the blog and modestly offered me an exclusive interview. But quiet as it’s kept — I’m kinda shy, even on the phone. But my blogger friend Lashonda has no such compulsions about interviews.
She recently scored an exclusive interview with Basketball Wives cast member Suzie Ketcham (pictured above, left), who says the NBA will drop the hammer on any ‘real’ NBA wife who entertains ideas about joining the show’s cast.
SK: The NBA hates it. I know that the Miami Heat has put restrictions on the players and their wives: they are not allowed to do it. The wives are not allowed to be apart of the show at ALL. And I personally think that the entire NBA may put restrictions on any wife, girlfriend or player from being apart of the show. You know obviously, if the players are not allowed to do it, then they are NOT going to allow their women to do it. Read More…
Celebs Out & About
Singer Toni Braxton was spotted leaving the Ritz Carlton hotel today in Berlin, Germany. She was heading to her soundcheck for the Duft Show 2010. Doesn’t she look stunning for 41?!
There’s a new media slut in town and her name is Dez. You might know her from the many paparazzi pictures of her strolling with her BFF Amber Rose (has anyone seen her lately?) Anyway, Dez is always passing herself off as Amber’s “sister” to hide the fact that she and Amber are more than just friends.
The two allegedly met when they both stripped for loose change in a Philly gentlemen’s club in their hungrier days. Nowadays they both find that acting as undercover beards for high profile men is a much more lucrative gig than swinging from poles.
Celeb Style
Pseudo-singer Ciara was spotted out & about in Beverly Hills today. She was having a bad hair day so she covered her weave with a black beanie to match her black jersey/dress thingy and her Jeep (in the background).
Major Corporations Consider Dropping Health Care Coverage
The death knell tolls for health care in America.
For decades, full time workers have depended on health insurance provided by their employers to cover their family’s health care needs.
Then along came Barack Obama and the Democrats who decided that changing history was more important than simply shoring up the financially strapped Medicare and Medicaid system, and changing the rules to allow more Americans to apply.
Now that the health care bill has passed, 4 major corporations (AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar and Deere) plan to drop health coverage altogether for their employees — and pay a penalty to the government instead.
This action will instantly terminate insurance coverage for millions of Americans who will be forced to negotiate with ruthless insurance companies on their own.
From Hot Air:
Internal documents recently reviewed by Fortune, originally requested by Congress, show what the bill’s critics predicted, and what its champions dreaded: many large companies are examining a course that was heretofore unthinkable, dumping the health care coverage they provide to their workers in exchange for paying penalty fees to the government. [link]
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