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You know sometimes I think the FDA is really on the ball and other times I have to wonder if they’ve got their heads stuck up you-know-where. This is one of the former.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter last month that said Redux was illegally marketing the drink as a street drug alternative and a dietary supplement. May 4 was the deadline for the company to respond.

This seems a bit extreme to me. While granted, I don’t care much for the name I can’t help but feel that the FDA was being just a tad paranoid with this stance. Taking statements like “Speed in a Can,” “Liquid Cocaine” and “Cocaine — Instant Rush” from the official website and claiming that the manufacturers were deliberately trying to sell the product as an alternative drug seems ludicrous. For me, I understood those comments as being descriptive slang. How many times have you heard someone offer you something as a pick-me-up as “liquid speed” or “should be illegal”? It’s hardly cause to wave a red flag at.

“Of course, we intended for Cocaine energy drink to be a legal alternative the same way that celibacy is an alternative to premarital sex,” Ivey said. “It’s not the same thing and no one thinks it is. Our product doesn’t have any cocaine in it. No one thinks that it does. We think it is most likely legal in the United States to ship our product.”

Apparently when it comes to working with the FDA sir you have to check your sense of humor at the door. Your consumers got the difference and even those, like myself, who just heard of the product caught the joke as well. The stuffy-suits apparently missed the memo.

You know after all this fuss from the FDA now I want to go out and buy this drink.

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Finally a judge that will dish out the proper punishments to celebrities and none of this wishy-washy namby pamby baloney of giving them a slap on the wrist either.

A judge sentenced Paris Hilton to 45 days in county jail Friday for violating her probation, putting the brakes on the hotel heiress’ famous high life.

Hilton, who parlayed her name and relentless partying into worldwide notoriety, must go to jail on June 5 and she will not be allowed any work release, furloughs, use of an alternative jail or electronic monitoring in lieu of jail, Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer ruled after a hearing.

I am ecstatic to see justice served for once. She got off so easy by getting probation and she couldn’t even be grateful enough for that. In my opinion she is just getting exactly what she deserves. Best yet is the fact that she will serve out her jail time and she will not be allowed furloughs or electronic monitoring. She committed the crime and she will do the time. I’m loving this. She’s still getting some special treatment obviously. They likely won’t leave her unsupervised with other inmates and she might even get solitary confinement, but still the thought that she’s going to be doing time pleases me immensely. It’s always a good day when you see celebrities getting their just deserts like the rest of us “peons” would get.

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Well would you take a look at this, for once our beauty queens are actually doing some of importance rather than sitting around smiling and blowing kisses to the crowd:

Lauren Nelson, 20, of Lawton, Okla., worked with police in Suffolk County to target would-be Internet sexual predators, taped for an episode of the TV show “America’s Most Wanted.”

She posed as a teenager and lured men into chatting online and meeting her at a home, where police and crews were waiting. Eleven men were arrested in the sting.

It’s great that Miss America helped play a role in this sting operation, but any female officer would have worked just as well. Talk about a publicity stunt.

JustSayHi.com is an online dating site that appears to be making waves in the dating site scene. From what I have seen this site offers the same features that other sites have to offer but with a slightly easier to navigate interface. Unlike most sites however you do not need to be looking solely for romance, looking for friends is completely acceptable and encouraged as well. I find the name, Just Say Hi, to be far more inviting than cliche and tacky names like True, Singles, ect.

The true bonus of this site however is that unlike it’s contemporaries JustSayHi.com is completely free. No credit card is required to register what so ever.

This is refreshing and beneficial because you don’t have the added pressure of “getting your money’s worth” when searching for people. However it can be considered as a disadvantage as well. It took me less than a minute to create an account and to be honest I was rather shocked at the ease of it. Now don’t get me wrong, I love convenience, but I felt as though anybody could truly sign up with inaccurate information and that there were no guarantees that what you see is what you get. While this is true at all online sites, I felt the percentile was upped a bit a JustSayHi since the lack of a credit card requirement would allow just about anyone admittance.

If you’re looking to jump into the online dating scene you may want to give JustSayHi a try, just exercise a bit of caution is all that I recommend, otherwise the service is top notch.