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Whereas Moss has been slammed by animal rights activists for her penchant for wearing fur, it appears Doherty may be much worse an offender.</font></P> <P class="style1"><font size="2">The British Sun Newspaper has published a photograph of Pete Doherty holding a smoking crack pipe underneath his cat's nose. The cat allegedly passed out moments later from the drug fumes. Pete's cat Dinger has had five kittens, one whom is reportedly suffering withdrawal symptoms from an addiction to crack cocaine. The Sun quoted a friend of the musician as saying, &quot;Pete thinks it's hilarious to get [the cat] wasted. He even made a mini-crack pipe out of a bottle so it can get the maximum hit.&quot;</font></P> <P class="style1"><img src="http://www.connietalk.com/pete-doherty.jpg" width="540" height="405" /></P> <P class="style1"><font size="2">Doherty is known more for his drug arrests and court appearances than his music, though he's the lead singer and songwriter of the English band Babyshambles. He was recently dissed for such by Jon Bon Jovi, who told Glamour magazine, &quot;We're not familiar with anything other than his antics and the fact that he's always in trouble - I've never heard a single one of his songs.&quot; </font></P> <P class="style1"><font size="2">Kate Moss and Pete Doherty have been nicknamed &quot;Doperty&quot; by gossip queen Perez Hilton.</font></P> <P class="style1"><font size="2">Hopefully this incident will be investigated, and charges will be filed. Poor kitty!! </font></P> <P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/laborday123.html"><strong><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">Happy Labor Day...You're Going to Jail</font></strong></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0"> <br> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><I>Monday, September 3rd, 2007</I><BR /><BR />Well, today is Labor Day. I'm driving in the car yesterday and I hear this commercial on the radio: "(BOOM) Do you know what that is? That is the sound of the cell door being slammed on you after you get arrested and <I>booked</I> for DUI." Uh, okay. But I didn't do anything...? Fear-mongering tactics annoy me. It's one thing to keep the population safe, and entirely another to try and make the fear of law enforcement / government greater than the fear of God, for goodness sake. I picture children in the back seat of cars while their parents are talking - and as I always did, tuning out the parent-speak and listening to the radio - little saucer eyes widening at the sound of a cell door clanging. I think of parents driving their sons and daughters back to college, their hands tightening on the steering wheel as the commercial buffers the silence between them, and worrying about letting their child loose into the world.<BR /><BR /> I just think it's excessive. It's not that I don't want the state to enforce the law. I simply don't understand why they have to use fear so blatantly, pointedly. Nor am I an advocate of driving under the influence - I was in D.A.R.E. as a child, S.A.D.D. as a teenager, and have been a designated driver more times than I can count. But, in my humble opinion, the people who might disobey these laws probably wouldn't be swayed by the dumb commercials, and those who would never disobey them are the ones who get jittery.<BR /><BR /> For some reason I found myself thinking about it again today (that was yesterday, that I heard that in the car). I go to the all-powerful Google and try to find out who was sponsoring the radio commercials. I guess the Ohio State Patrol, so I go to their homepage. And instead of their homepage, I get an intro page...this:<BR /><BR /><CENTER><img src="http://www.connietalk.com/labordayoh.jpg" /></CENTER><BR />I don't know. Is this effective? Is it preventative? I still haven't found out who sponsored the commercials - hey, it's Labor Day. I'm on vacation.</font><br> <a href=""><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/larrycraig123.html"></a></P> </blockquote> </td><!-- Col 2 --> <td valign="top"> <center>&nbsp; <font face="Verdana"><img height="1" src="http://www.qksrv.net/image-2385661-10443027" width="1" border="0"><br></font><br> <br> <br><font face="Verdana" size="2"><a href="http://www.pimp-my-profile.com/partners/ref.php?in=1190" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">Customize your space online: MySpace layouts</font></a><br><br></center> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 900; google_ad_format = "120x600_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel = ""; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; //--> </script> <script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"> </script></td></tr></tbody></table> <BR /> <table width="802" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr> <!-- Row 1 --> <td><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><p><a href=""><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">Just how much do you know about the Senator Craig scandal?</font></a><font face="Verdana"><font color="#0000a0">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /><br /> </font><font size="2"><em>Saturday, September 1st, 2007<br /> <br /> </em><img height=276 alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/craig.jpg" width=500 border=0 /><br /> <br /> This is so strange.&nbsp; So, we've heard all over the place about the arrest of Conservative Republican Senator Larry Craig, and how he was involved in a homosexual bathroom scandal, and is now set to resign.&nbsp; But after reading dozens of articles, we still didn't find the scoop on how it went down - what really happened?&nbsp; Well, apparently, the entire sting/arrest was over a <em>foot tap</em>.<br /> <br /> Craig entered a Minneapolis airport restroom on June 11th, a bathroom that is known on gay websites as being one of the best spots for anonymous homosexual encounters.&nbsp; Sgt. Dave Karsnia was sitting in a bathroom stall, as part of a police sting set up to catch "cruisers" that were in the restroom for that purpose.&nbsp; According to Sgt. Karsnia, when Craig walked into the bathroom, he stared into Karsnia's stall through the crack in the door, so hard that Karsnia could see his blue eyes.&nbsp; Craig got into the adjoining stall, tapped his foot, brushed it against the officer's foot underneath the stall, and waved his hand under the stall divider three times, the police report says.&nbsp; In return, Karsnia waved his badge under the stall divider.&nbsp; Craig then exclaimed, "No!"<br /> <br /> Craig tells a different story.&nbsp;&nbsp;"Well, I go into the bathroom as I normally do - I sit down to go to the bathroom," he says to Karsnia in a post-arrest interview.&nbsp; "You said our feet bumped; I believe they did.&nbsp; Because I reached down and scooted over.&nbsp; And, um, the next thing I knew, under the bathroom divider comes a card that says 'Police.'&nbsp; Now, um, that's about as far as I can take it.&nbsp; I don't know of anything else, your foot came toward mine, mine came toward yours, was that natural?&nbsp; I don't know.&nbsp; Did we bump?&nbsp; Yes, I think we did.&nbsp; You said so - I don't disagree with that."<br /> <br /> "I am not gay," he continued.&nbsp; "I do not do these kinds of things...You're out to enforce the law.&nbsp; But you shouldn't be out to entrap people, either."<br /> <br /> "What about your hand?"&nbsp;Karsnia asks.<br /> <br /> "What about it?&nbsp; I reached down to my foot like this - there was a piece of paper on the floor, I picked it up.&nbsp; What about my hand?"<br /> <br /> "Well, you're not being truthful with me, I'm kind of disappointed, Senator."<br /> <br /> The officer then tells Senator Craig that he will not call the media, or that "type of crap," but that he needs Craig to be truthful with him.&nbsp; Start over, he asks him, and tell me what happened in the bathroom.<br /> <br /> "I stood beside the wall waiting for a stall to open," Craig says.&nbsp; "I got in the stall, sat down, I started to go to the bathroom.&nbsp; Did our feet come together?&nbsp; Apparently, they did bump.&nbsp; I don't dispute that...I'm a fairly wide guy.&nbsp; I had to spread my legs when I lower my pants so they won't slide.&nbsp; Did I slide them to close to yours?&nbsp; I looked down, <em>your</em> foot was close to <em>mine</em>."&nbsp; Karsnia asks him how many times his hand went under the divider.&nbsp; Craig says he doesn't recall - he reached down to pick up a piece of toilet paper that was on the ground.&nbsp; They then go on to dispute which hand the Senator used, his left or his right; they disagree on that fact.<br /> <br /> "I don't seek activity in bathrooms," Craig insists.&nbsp; "You saw something that didn't happen."<br /> <br /> This is direct from the transcript of the interview between Craig and Karsnia.&nbsp; In other words - when all of these articles are talking about the "gay sex scandal," all it really was?&nbsp; A tap of the foot, and a flash of the hand, that the Senator denies meant anything.&nbsp; How can someone be arrested&nbsp;for solicitation for tapping their foot and picking up a piece of toilet paper?&nbsp; To the average person, this seems ridiculous.&nbsp; However, the average person isn't necessarily educated in the goings-on of anonymous bathroom sexual encounters, and the foot-tap morse code to initiate contact.&nbsp; And it is evident that Senator Craig <em>did</em> know about this, because in the same interview, he said to the police officer:&nbsp; "<em>You</em> solicited <em>me</em>."<br /> <br /> And then, Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.&nbsp; He now says that he regrest only that he pleaded guilty, and implies that he might try to withdraw his plea.&nbsp; He vehemently insists he is not gay.&nbsp; There have been rumors circulating for about 25 years, though, that Craig is both gay and that he has sex with men in restrooms.<br /> <br /> I personally don't care whether or not he is guilty, and he probably is, but doesn't it make you wonder how many people out there are innocently tapping their foot and get busted?<br /> <br /> Senator Larry Craig announced today that he will resign from the Senate by the end of the month.<br /> <br /> "What is best for Idaho has always been the focus of my efforts, and it is no different today," he said, and added that his decision was made "with sadness and deep regret."<br /> <br /> "To pursue my legal options, as I continue to serve Idaho, would be an unwanted and unfair distraction of my job and for my Senate colleauges," he announced, with his wife Suzanne and his two children by his side.&nbsp; "The people of Idaho deserve a Senator who can devote 100% of his time and effort to the critical issues of our state and our nation."&nbsp; Craig is 62 and has been a legislator for 33 years.&nbsp; Ironically, he has been an opponent of expanding the rights of gay Americans, and has supported a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.<br /> <br /> </font></font></p> </font></font> <p align=center><font size="2" face="Verdana"> <object style="WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 350px; " > <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YBChWSpVCyQ" /> <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <embed style="WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 350px; " src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YBChWSpVCyQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" ></embed> </object> </font></p></td> <!-- Col 1 --> </tr> </table> <BR /> <table cellpadding="10" width="802" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"> <tr><!-- Row 1 --> <td><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/september123.html"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">Looking forward to September</font></a><font face="Verdana"><font color="#0000a0">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0"><br> </font><font size="2"><em>Friday, August 31st, 2007<br><br></em> <p align="center"><img height="380" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/fall.jpg" width="380" border="0"></p> <p><br>September is upon us, tomorrow.&nbsp; Didn't this summer fly by?&nbsp; It will be back to crisp leaves and apples and hopefully Indian Summer.&nbsp; So here are some September things to start off your month:<br><br>-September is National Food Safety Education Month.&nbsp; (In otherwords all of the fear-mongerers come out of semi-hiding and tell you about e-Coli and Mad Cow Disease.)<br><br>-This September will mark the sixth anniversary since the WTC attacks 9/11/01.<br><br>-<a href="http://www.connietalk.com/AmericanWorkers123.html" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">Labor Day</font></a>.<br><br>-September 17h is Citizenship and Constitution Day.<br><br>-September is National Preparedness month in the U.S.&nbsp; Where Homeland Security blows some smoke up our bums.<br><br>-National Coupon Month.<br><br>-Bush will likely be announcing <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/Whitehouse123.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">his request</font></a> for $50 billion more for the Iraq War.<br><br>-The 2007 NFL Season kicks off.<br><br>-Apparently it's some sort of <a href="http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/208796" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">goose season</font></a>.<br><br>-White House press secretary Tony Snow is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/washington/31cnd-snow.html?hp" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">leaving</font></a>.<br><br>-<a href="http://www.connietalk.com/kidnation123.html" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">Kid Nation</font></a> is set to air, and you best be signing the <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/kidnation123.html" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">petition</font></a>!<br><br>-Kids are back to school, which means school zones signs are flashing again.<br><br>-While the cost of oil drops, gas prices <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5TtajgUpSm7KY5jf-lCJGHBB-tA" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">will be rising</font></a>.&nbsp; Makes sense.<br><br>-<a href="http://www.easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Default.aspx?tabid=3414" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">Tomato</font></a> madness.<br><br>-Some dude in Pakistan is planting 100,000 <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C09%5C01%5Cstory_1-9-2007_pg13_3" target="_blank"><font color="#800080">trees</font></a>.<br><br>So there's your random September news ahead of time.<br><br><br><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/fridayent123.html"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0" size="3">Some Friday entertainment for you</font></a><font color="#0000a0" size="3">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0"><br></font><font face="Verdana" size="2"><em>Friday, August 31st, 2007</em><br><br>Relax...it's Friiiiiiiiiiday!<br><br><object style="WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 350px; "><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/95wgKdSJGDo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed style="WIDTH: 425px; 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Now we're wondering...why the F does a video of someone making an uneducated arse out of themself make it as news-you-can't-avoid around the world?<br><br>2.&nbsp; Why the F won't everyone leave Owen Wilson alone?<br><br>3.&nbsp; Why the F do we really care that Michael Vick </font><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/28/michael.vick/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">cancelled</font></a><font size="2"> a radio show appearance?&nbsp; Yet there are about 259 news articles on Google News' "Most Popular" page about it...<br><br>4.&nbsp; Hey, we love animals.&nbsp; But why the F would someone leave </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083001724.html" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">$12 million</font></a><font size="2"> to a dog?<br><br>5.&nbsp; Why the F do federal health officials care whether or not we're </font><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083002198.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=new" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" size="2">breast feeding</font></a><font size="2">?</font><br></td><!-- Col 1 --> <td><img height="283" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/whatthefriday.jpg" width="349" border="0"></td><!-- Col 2 --></tr></table></em></font></font><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/wtfriday123.html#comment"><font face="Verdana">What's your Why the F today?</font></a></font></td><!-- Col 1 --></tr></table><br> <table cellpadding="10" width="802" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"> <tr><!-- Row 1 --> <td><a href=""></a><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0"><a href=""><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/barnes123.html"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">Barnes and Noble Change their mind, will stock O.J.'s book</font></a><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/wtfriday123.html"></a></font><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/fridayent123.html"></a></A><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0"><br> </font><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><em>Friday, August 31st, 2007<br><br></em> <p align="center"><img height="497" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/OJ_If_I_Did_It.jpg" width="328" border="0"></p><br>Barnes &amp; Noble had previously said they would not stock copies of the O.J. Simpson Book, "If I Did It," in their stores, but yesterday told the Associated Press that they've changed their mind.&nbsp; They are both selling it online and stocking on shelves at a store near you.<br><br>Spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating says, "We've been monitoring the pre-orders and the customer requests and have concluded that enough customers have expressed interest in buying the book to warrant stocking it in our stores.&nbsp; We do not intend to promote the book, but we will stock it in our stores because customers are asking for it."]<br><br>Uh...isn't the press release in itself promoting it?<br><br>The book, "If I Did It," has been in the top 100 on Barnes &amp; Noble online, and has even topped the best-seller list.&nbsp; When news of the book first was released, people were outraged, but over the summer a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the rights to the profits from the book to Goldman's family, to go towards the $38 million wrongful death judgment against O.J.&nbsp; The book will be published on September 13 by Beaufort Books.<br><br>"If I Did It" is supposedly a hyphothetical account of what would have transpired, had O.J. committed the killings - he stil claims he didn't.&nbsp; He has maintained his innocence in the 1994 killings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, whose murders he was acquitted for in 1995, and has disowned the book.&nbsp; The book was written by a ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, who insists the book was based on discussions with Simpson.<br><br>"O.J. read the book, his book, several times.&nbsp; I made every change he asked for, and he signed off on it," Fenjves told Reuters this month.&nbsp; "The whole book, the whole idea for a book, originated with O.J. Simpson and a couple of his handlers."&nbsp; He spent weeks, he said, interviewing O.J. for the book in person and on the phone, and O.J. revised all drafts.<br><br>"And I told O.J., as I have told a dozen-plus other people I've ghost-written books for, 'Nobody sees this book until you're happy with it.'&nbsp; And that's exactly what happened."<br><br>The family of Nicole Brown still objects to its publishing.</font></font></td><!-- Col 1 --></tr></table><br> <table cellpadding="10" width="802" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"> <tr><!-- Row 1 --> <td><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/bushpoll123.html"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">New poll shows two-thirds of Americans give Bush negative marks on Iraq</font></a></A><font face="Verdana">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0"><br><font size="2"><em>Friday, August 31st, 2007<br><br> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr><!-- Row 1 --> <td><img height="304" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/bushheadscratch.bmp" width="380" border="0"></td><!-- Col 1 --> <td> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <p><font size="2">You're going to think we're extremely anti-Bush with all of the negative Bush news we've been putting up lately - well, we are, but we don't make up the facts!&nbsp; A <a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=802" target="_blank">new Harrison Interactive Poll</a> that surveyed 2,694 adults between August 7 and 13, 2007, showed that 67% of Americans believe Bush's job performance on handling Iraq is negative.&nbsp; Almost half, 48%, said that it was poor.&nbsp; Only 28% gave Bush positive marks on his handling of Iraq.&nbsp; Additionally, one in five say they don't trust Congress, nor the White House, if there is a disagreement.</font></p></blockquote></td><!-- Col 2 --></tr></table> </em></font></font><br></td><!-- Col 1 --></tr></table><br> <table cellpadding="10" width="802" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0"> <tr><!-- Row 1 --> <td><a href=""></a><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0"><a href=""><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/AmericanWorkers123.html"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">What will you be doing this Labor Day?</font></a><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/barnes123.html"></a></font><font face="Verdana" color="#0000a0">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0"><br> </font><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><em>Friday, August 31st, 2007<br></em></font></font><br><font face="Verdana" size="2">It's that time again:&nbsp; Monday is Labor Day.&nbsp; It has been celebrated on the first Monday of September in the U.S. since the 1880's - the holiday was created in 1882 by the Central Labor Union, to establish a day of rest for the "working man."&nbsp; It is a day to celebrate the strength, freedom, and leadership of the American worker.&nbsp; But what has the American worker become today?<br><br>As shown in the recent Top 25 Best and Worst Paying Jobs in America, it seems that those who arguably work the hardest - farm workers and laborers, dishwashers, maids, textile workers - get the least reimbursement.<br><br>Yesterday, I saw a commercial on television that made my jaw drop - I don't remember ever having seen a commercial that actually addressed this issue.&nbsp; Here it was:<br><br></font> <p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><embed style="WIDTH: 425px; HEIGHT: 350px" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_cNnK2M4OTs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></font></font></p> <p align="left"><br><br><font face="Verdana" size="2">So I mosy on over to AmericanWorker.org.&nbsp; They state that while 54 million working age Americans don't have a job, almost 28 million U.S. jobs are filled by foreign workers.&nbsp; And besides that,&nbsp;3.5 million American jobs have been outsourced to foreign countries over the last seven years.<br><br>The commercial was paid for by the Coalition for the Future American Worker (the CFAW), a collective group of professional traide organizations, population/environment organizations, and immigration reform groups.&nbsp; And believe it or not, CNN - who is often criticized for selectively reporting news due to advertiser relations - has Lou Dobbs reporting on the companies that are outsourcing American jobs.&nbsp; The list is enormous, and can be viewed </font><a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/content.html" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" color="#800080" size="2">here</font></a><font face="Verdana" size="2"> - with every company on there from our personal most-hated, AT&amp;T, to Time Warner (who I spent 47 minutes on the phone with yesterday, only to find out they sent me an old cable box and I have to return it myself to get a working one).<br><br>Lou Dobbs is on a rampage, in fact and it taking no prisoners:<br><br></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><embed style="WIDTH: 425px; 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