How many times have you heard about people (usually a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend) who make money while shopping online? I know we’ve all heard of those who make lots of money for doing what they normally do and we worry about it being a scam. After hearing about Ebates, I dismissed it as another one of those scam sites but they’ve been around so long now and lots of people I actually know are using them AND getting paid. So, I decided to take a chance and try them out.

I am a HUGE online shopper. When I found out that I could be earning money just by shopping at some of my favorite stores (sadly not from Amazon), I joined Ebates. Now, I haven’t made any purchases but they have 1000s of stores and I already shop at tons of them. I only wish we would have taken Ebates seriously when I first heard about them. Don’t miss out!

If you haven’t joined, sign up now and we’ll each get a $5 bonus when you make your first purchase! How awesome is that!

Perhaps as a sign of what is to come from Kristin Cavallari now that her show “The Hills” is over, she appears to have exposed herself in this upshorts picture.

Kristin Cavallari, who has long been trying to make it as an “actress” in Hollywood, may have just come to an important realization. She has no talent and she is only moderately attractive, the only way she is going to make it in the entertainment industry is by gratuitous amounts of nudity.

At YourCelebSource we cover entertainment news. We normally cover Celebrity news, award show coverage, and movie reviews but we are going to step aside from that for the first time today and talk about a massive problem in the US.

What problem would this be? A simple unemployment extension to help those that are out of work due to the worse economic crisis of my generation.

The 2010 unemployment extension is needed, and unemployment extension discussions are likely to continue at least for a few days. A lone Republican senator wants to try to figure out a way to pass an extension as a standalone measure. This comes after the measure to pass the American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 was thwarted 57-42 on the Senate floor.

Not one single republican voted for the measure, angering many constituents in the 50 states.  However, Olympia Snowe, a Republican Senator, sent a message to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggesting a standalone measure vote.

Snowe is quoted as saying “Separating the unemployment insurance provisions [from numerous other provisions in the bill] and passing it as emergency legislation acknowledges the urgency of helping those who continue to look for work.”

The majority leader isn’t taking too kindly to the suggestion, instead urging the Senator to help end a stalemate that has lasted for two months in the Senate.

The partisan lines are part of the reason why the benefits extension haven’t been passed. The Democrats wanted to fund the Tax Extenders bill using various tax hikes. Among them were hikes on taxes to oil companies, certain S-Corporations, and investment fund managers.  What wasn’t funded with tax hikes would have been deficit spending.

Republicans didn’t want to hear anything about deficit spending, preferring to pay for the entire bill using unused stimulus funds. Democrats don’t want to use stimulus funding to pay for the bill.

While finger pointing and needless bickering is taking place in Washington, those on main street are suffering.  Those who are currently in the middle of one of the four tiers of emergency unemployment benefits will be without benefits once they exhaust their current tier.

Does it really matter if the measure is passed as a standalone measure or not?  Senators need to put their partisan politics as usual aside and take action (for once) and help the millions of Americans in need of a lifeline.

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Edit at 3:34am PST Robert Byrd has died at the age of 92.  He died at about 3am and has voted for an unemployment extension. We now need to gain one more vote in order to pass unemployment legislation.

I would have to say my favorite commercial was Google Parisian Love where they managed to show off their powerful search engine in a simple, yet effective way.

Some of my other favorites were NCIS / NCIS LA, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Snickers, and of course, the E-trade baby commercials. Although, my favorite E-trade baby commercial is the girlfriend one. “Milk-a-what?” I’m glad I didn’t have food or drink in my mouth because I would have spit it out laughing so hard.

Newton’s law of commercials states that for every great commercial there is an equally horrible commercial. And the Super Bowl had it’s fair share of bad, dumb or just plain “What the?” commercials, too. I’d have to say that some of the Doritos commercials, Boost Mobile shuffle, Jack in the Box, and all of the Go Daddy commercials top my list. Although, I can’t blame Doritos directly since the commercials were part of their Crash The Super Bowl promotion.

What were you’re favorite ads? Least favorite?

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Jay Leno snagged mostly negative reviews with his entry into prime time as he stuck to familiar ground — just 90 minutes earlier.

Monday’s premiere of “The Jay Leno Show,” which transports the longtime “Tonight Show” host to 10 p.m. EDT weekdays on NBC, was slammed as a “cut-rate, snooze-inducing, rehashed bore” by Robert Bianco of USA Today. And that was even with the presence of Leno’s much-buzzed-about guest Kanye West.

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Patrick Swayze, who went from Broadway dancer to Hollywood star in box-office hits like “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” died on Monday, he was 57.

Swayze, whose spokesman announced in March 2008 that the actor had pancreatic cancer, died at home with his family at his side, ABC News reported, citing his spokeswoman Annett Wolf.