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In one TV commercial, two men, one with dark skin, the other with light skin; stand on a balcony overlooking a neighborhood. The dark skin guy turns to his friend and says in Hindi, "I am unlucky because of my face." His light skin friend replies, "Not because of your face, because of the color of your face."

Last night President Barack Obama makes speech in front of Congress outlining exactly the direction he would like so see the health care bill go. If you were watching the speech last night, you might be wondering who yelled out "you lie" during the speech where Obama addresses that illegal immigrants would not be receiving health care choice. It was Representative Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican. Joe Wilson has people in an uproar, and Ellen DeGeneres has fans excited about the up-and-coming American Idol season, where she has taken the place of host Paula Abdul. Let's see how Ellen will take on her new role, like Josmar Flores Pereira took over a plane in Mexico, by hijacking a jet on Wednesday, saying that 9/9/9 was significant to him; in reverse it says 666. Speaking of numbers, about 2,500 students at Washington State University have come down with possible cases of the Swine Flu. Looks like an extreme amount of students have caught the Swine Flu, like this Assemblyman who got caught on tape. Former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, California Republican, resigned Wednesday after a recording of him whispering about sexual exploits to a colleague were made public.

Indian lawmaker says that skin whitener product is racist. There are a series of advertisements that give off the impression that light skin is better than dark skin. While these commercials tell us how to make our skin lighter, Madoff is caught on tape giving advice to listeners on how to deal with investigators. Phone call included executive with firm involved in fraud investigation, Fairfield Greenwich Group. Speaking of the troubling financial industry, we finally have some news that might show good signs for our economy. The Labor Department reported Thursday the number of people filing for unemployment insurance fell by 26,000 people last week to a seasonally-adjusted 550,000.

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