News 2-19-10

DENNIS BLAR, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE WILL BE AT KANSAS STATE On MONDAY. BLAIR WILL BE SPEAKING IN MCCAIN AUDITORIUM AT 1:30.


ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY BY PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE, YOUNG AMERICANS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 29 ARE LESS RELGIOUS THAN THEIR PARENTS AND GRANPARENTS WERE AT THEIR AGE. GREG SMITH, SENIOR RESEARCHER AT THE PEW FORUM SAID THAT YOUNG PEOPLE ARE PRACTICING FAITH WITHOUT BELONGING TO A RELGIOUS ORGANIZATION. THE STUDY ALSO FOUND THAT AMERICANS TEND TO BECOME MORE RELGIOUS AS THEY AGE AND EXPECTS THE SAME TO OCCUR FOR THESE YOUNG PEOPLE.


WHILE PEOPLE CAN BE KICKED OFF OF PLANES FOR A MULTITUDE OF REASONS, ONE MAN ON A JAZZ AIR FLIGHT FOUND ANOTHER ONE. THE MAN WAS KICKED OFF THE JAZZ AIR FLIGHT FOR BEING TOO SMELLY. ONE PASSENGER DESCRIBED THE MAN’S SMELL AS BRUTAL. MANON STUART, JAZZ AIR SPOKESWOMAN CONFIRMED THE PASSENGER WAS DEPLANED BUT ONLY PROVIDED PRIVACY ISSUES AS AN ANSWER. STUART WOULD GO ON TO SAY THAT SAFETY AND COMFORT ARE THE TOP PRIORITIES OF THE AIRLINE AND ANY SITUATION THAT COMPRIMISES THOSE PRIORITIES WILL BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. JAZZ AIR DOES NOT HAVE ANY SPECIFIC POLICY REGARDING BODY ODOR


IN CHICAGO, INFOMERCIAL STAR AND PITCHMAN KEVIN TRUDEAU ENTERED THE COURT THURSDAY IN A PAIR OF BLUEJEANS, IN A SIGN THAT TRUDEAU EXPECTED TO BE JAILED AFTER TRUDEAU URGED HIS FOLLOWERS TO EMAIL JUDGE GETTELMAN, WHICH RESULTED IN THE JUDGE’S BLACKBERRY BEING DIASBLED AND TRUDEAU BEING HELD IN CONTEMPT. TRUDEAU HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO THIRTY DAYS OF CUSTODY BUT TRUDEAU’S LAWYERS IN A LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO KEEP THEIR CLIENT FREE, APPEALED THE DECISION, WHICH HAS BEEN GRANTED. THIS NOT TRUDEAU’S FIRST RUN-IN WITH GETTELMAN. GETTELMAN FOUND TRUDEAU IN CONTEMPT LAST YEAR AFTER THE JUDGE FOUND TRUDEAU TO HAVE USED DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING AS HE MARKETED A HEATLH BOOK.


SINGER CHRIS BROWN SAT SILENTLY IN A LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT ROOM ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON. BROWN RECEIVED A GLOWING PROBATION REPORT. BROWN WAS SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS OF LABOR, ORIENTED SERVICE AFTER BROWN ASSAULTED HIS GIRLFRIEND, RIHANNA. THE JUDGE REWARDED BROWN’S WORK BY GRANTING HIM THE RIGHT TO TRAVEL OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE JUDGE, SAID SHE WOULD LIKE TO SEE BROWN DO ACTUAL PHYSICAL LABOR INSTEAD OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ADDED THE SINGER WILL BE OVER HALF WAY THERE TO COMPLETING HIS SENTENCE ON MAY 11, 2010, THE NEXT MEETING BETWEEN BROWN AND THE JUDGE.


ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY, GAINED AN ANBUNDANCE OF FOLLOWERS IN JUST 30 SHORT HOURS AFTER JOINING TWITTER, THE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK. GIBBS, EXCITED AT THE AMOUNT OF FOLLOWERS, TWEETED WATCH OUT KIM KARDASHIAN. GIBBS IS STILL A COUPLE MILLION FOLLOWERS SHORT OF MS. KARDASHIAN WHO HAS OVER 3 MILLION FOLLOWERS. SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS LIKE TWITTER AND FACEBOOK WERE BLOCKED FROM WHITE HOUSE COMPUTERS DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. BECAUSE OF THAT, THE WHITE HOUSE DID NOT ESTABLISH A PRESENCE ON THOSE SITES UNTIL MAY 2009.