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If you haven't seen this, you may be the only one, because Chris Crocker - the new famous kid who went on YouTube to cry over Britney Spears and got over 2 million hits in 48 hours - is the talk of the town.Methinks part of his ginormous view count was due to the fact that Viacom pulled all of the clips of Brit's performance at the VMA's, and instead viewers were left to tagged videos that were similar - like this one. And then Perez Hilton, ABC, TMZ, everyone picked up on this vid and found it totally post-worthy. Chris Crocker - which is not his real name - has been on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, the &quot;Today&quot; show, and has been discussed on the &quot;The View.&quot; Crocker's YouTube homepage has a makeup-faced, voodoo doll-looking cartoon up on a cross, and says &quot;Chris Crocker - The New Christ.&quot; We thought this was sad <em>before</em> he went on Howard Stern and said, &quot;Who can think of 9/11 at a time like this? Britney, she's a national treasure!&quot; No, dude, you did not just say that. I know that you did not just say that. You are <em>sad</em>.We don't like him we don't like him we don't like him!</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana"><B><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/crocker123.html#comment">Comments</a></B></font></P> <P><span class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/googlemoon123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Google offers $30 million for a robot to land on the moon</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span><em>3</em><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span><i>7</i></font></span></P> <p align="center"><img src="googlemoon.jpg" width="375" height="305"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Alright, now you <em>know</em> that Google owns the world, when they are sponsoring a private moon landing for $30 million bucks.The search engine giant is offering the prize to any private firm that can land a robot on the moon, and complete a series of tasks such as shooting video and roaming for specific distances. Extra moolah will be given for snapshots of old equipment that's been left beind on the moon.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The deadline for the contest is 2012. Google said in a statement that the contest was created to encourage research into low-cost robotic exploration in space.</font></p> <p><span class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeypigeon123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>A monkey falls in love with a pigeon</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span><em>3</em><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span><i>7</i></font></span></p> <p align="center"><img src="monkeypigeon.jpg" width="450" height="300"></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">Does it <em>get</em> any cuter than this?</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The macque monkey above - just 12 weeks old - was rescued from Neilingding Island (in Goangdong Province, China). He was abandoned by his mother, and although he was treated at an animal hospital and his physical health was restored, he was a little down in the dumps...until he met another patient. A white pigeon, who is now his new best buddy.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">The pigeon and the monkey are inseparable, staff at the animal hospital say. </font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeypigeon123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p> <P><BR /> </P> </blockquote> </td><!-- Col 2 --> <td valign="top"> <center>&nbsp; <p><font face="Verdana"><img height="1" src="http://www.qksrv.net/image-2385661-10443027" width="1" border="0"><br> </font></p></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><BR><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> <div align="center"> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR> <BR> <div align="center"><table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/rosie123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Rosie O'Donnell talks about the dangers of celebrity</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span><em>3</em><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span><i>7</i></font></p> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><div align="center"><span class="style5"><img src="rosieod.jpg" width="244" height="327"></span></div></td> <td><span class="style5"><img src="celebdetox.jpg" width="240" height="240"></span></td> </tr> </table> <p class="style5"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Rosie O'Donnell's memoir, &quot;Celebrity Detox,&quot; is coming out on October 2nd, and is said to be full of revelations about her childhood, being a celebrity, Barbara Walters, and Donald Trump (whom she calls a &quot;gelatinous slug&quot; in the book). In her memoir, Rosie addresses the change in humanity when a person rises from normal to &quot;celeb&quot; status.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;There's a shift that happens in the head that very few celebrities will ever really speak about,&quot; she writes. &quot;One begins to believe in the specialness, and a dangerous sense of entitlement takes over. When celebrity addiction starts, you become impatient with, and even angry at necessary obstacles. You think you could run a red light or two. And then you do.&quot;</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">We are sooooo buying this book. We don't always agree with her, but Rosie - who has openly talked about her skepticism about 9/11, and the state of the media today - is one who always speaks her mind! And we wanna hear it!</font></p> <p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="3"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/rosie123.html#comment">Comments</a></font></strong></p></td> </tr> </table> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/nofly123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Scary...are you on the government's "No Fly" list?</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span><em>3</em><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span><i>7</i></font></p> <p align="center" class="style5"><img src="securitypig.jpg" width="475" height="360"></p> <p class="style5"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Yikes! An excerpt from a new book reveals how thousands of Americans are routinely harrassed and detained at airports, despite being nothing like the &quot;terrorist profile.&quot; Are you on <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/62407/" target="_blank">the list</a>?</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="3"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/nofly123.html"><strong>Comments</strong></a></font></p></td> </tr> </table> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/twosoldiers123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Two soldiers that wrote a NY Times Editorial on the Iraq War died in Baghdad Monday</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span><em>3</em><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span><i>7</i></font></p> <p align="center" class="style5"><img src="ap_gray_mora_070913_ms.jpg" width="413" height="310"></p> <p class="style5"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Two of the seven soldiers who wrote a controversial editorial for the New York Times on the lack of progress in Iraq, died Monday in Baghdad, when the five-ton cargo truck they were riding in was overturned. Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, and Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, were co-authors of the August 19th piece, a portion of which we are posting in remembrance:</font><strong><font size="2" face="Verdana"><u>&quot;The War As We Saw It&quot;</u></font></strong></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">&quot;Viewed from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day...</font><font face="Verdana" size="2">&quot;Four years into our occupation, we have failed on every promise, while we have substituted Baath Party tyranny with a tyranny of Islamist, militia and criminal violence. When the primary preoccupation of average Iraqis is when and how they are likely to be killed, we can hardly feel smug as we hand out care packages. As an Iraqi man told us a few days ago with deep resignation, "We need security, not free food."</font><font face="Verdana" size="2">In the end, we need to recognize that our presence may have released Iraqis from the grip of a tyrant, but that it has also robbed them of their self-respect. They will soon realize that the best way to regain dignity is to call us what we are--an army of occupation--and force our withdrawal.</font><font face="Verdana" size="2">Until that happens, it would be prudent for us to increasingly let Iraqis take center stage in all matters, to come up with a nuanced policy in which we assist them from the margins but let them resolve their differences as they see fit. This suggestion is not meant to be defeatist, but rather to highlight our pursuit of incompatible policies to absurd ends without recognizing the incongruities.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">We need not talk about our morale. As committed soldiers, we will see this mission through.&quot;</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/troopcut123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Bush to give address tonight about troop cut</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span><em>3</em><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 2007</i></font></span></font></p> <p align="center" class="style5"><img src="bushspeaking.jpg" width="445" height="324"></p> <p class="style5"><font size="2" face="Verdana">President Bush will be giving a televised address tonight at 9:00 p.m., and is supposed to announce a plan to cut 30,000 troops by 2008. Uh, 30,000? By the middle of next year? That would mean there will still be 130,000 U.S. troops left in Iraq by the middle of next year? That doesn't sound like such good news to me.</font></p> <p class="style5"><font size="2" face="Verdana">An anonymous White House official said the 30,000 troop drawdown is to be completed in July 2008, and can start as early as this month.</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/farrell123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Colin Farrell takes a homeless man on a shopping spree </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Thur</i><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span></font></span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><em>3</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 2007</i></font></span></span></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="cassandrasdream.jpg" width="428" height="276"><font size="1" face="Verdana">Colin Farrell (above, right) in <em>Cassandra's Dream </em></font> </p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Our heart goes all mush when a celebrity does something for the good of mankind - and this one is pretty remarkable. Four years ago, a radio D.J. in Toronto offered $2,000 for anyone who could bring Colin Farrell into the station for an interview. Colin Farrell grabbed a homeless man, simply known as &quot;Stress,&quot; and brought him into the station to receive the two grand. This Tuesday, Farrell was back in Toronto to promote his new flick, Woody Allen's London drama <em>Cassandra's Dream</em>, which premiered Tuesday night at the Toronto Film Festival. Colin was on his way out of the InterContinental Hotel on Bloor St., when he saw Stress, and recognized him.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Jump in,&quot; Farrell said to him, as he got into his chauffered Audi.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">Farrell then took the homeless man shopping. &quot;Get him anything he wants,&quot; he said.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">Stress got $2100 worth of clothes, including a $500 Arc'teryx coat, a North Face down sleeping bag, and a rolling backpack full of socks, boots, and underwear. But Farrell wasn't done yet.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Where's the nearest bank machine?&quot; he asked the store manager at Europe Beyond Travel Outfitters, where the shopping spree took place. Farrell went to an ATM, and came back with &quot;a wad of $20's&quot; for Stress. He then proceeded to <em>pay a year's rent</em> on a room for Stress on Bloor St. The Toronto Sun estimated the total bill to be around $10 grand.</font><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/farrell123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a><img src="http://www.connietalk.com/difference.jpg" width="293" height="31"></p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="2">To find out how you can help the homeless, visit the <a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/" target="_blank">National Coalition for the Homeless</a>.</font></p></td> </tr> </table> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p><span class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/JaRule123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Ja Rule is angry, speaks out about music and television</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Wedne</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span></span><i>2</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 2007</i></font></span></span></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.connietalk.com/jarule.jpg" width="349" height="433"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Ja Rule is mad. The U.S. Congressional hearing is coming up on September 25th and will be focused on the &quot;stereotypes and degradation&quot; of blacks and women in the entertainment industry, specifically hip-hop - where they will be considering disallowing the use of the words &quot;bitch&quot; and &quot;hoe.&quot;</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">In a new interview with <em>Complex</em> Magazine, Ja said:</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;They got my man Doug Morris [of Universal Music Group] under fire and sh*t, they got him going down to speak to Congress about hip-hop lyrics, are you f*cking serious? There's a f*cking black kid right now about to get 25 years for having a fight with some white kids over hanging the nooses over the white tree, let's get to that. Let's get into sh*t like that, because that's what's tearing up America, not me calling a woman a bitch or a hoe on my rap songs.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;And if it is, then we need to go step to Paramount, and f*cking MGM, and all of these other motherf*ckers that's making all of these movies, and we need to go step to MTV and Viacom, and let's talk about all these f*cking shows that they have on MTV that is promoting homosexuality, that my kids can't watch...dating shows that's showing two guys or two girls in mid-afternoon. Let's talk about sh*t like that! If that's not f*cking up America, I don't know what is.</font><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;There's a lot of issues we can address besides hip-hop, but they want to put everything on us like we're the problem...When everyone wants to point the finger, and ask why there's so much corruption, they only need to look in the mirror. It starts with themselves.&quot;</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/jarule123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> <BR><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5552416911413941"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2007-09-13: Between Articles google_ad_channel = "4218799347"; google_color_border = "FF6FCF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "9D1961"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF6FCF"; google_ui_features = "rc:6"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td><p><span class="style5"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/janet123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident still in court over FCC fine</b></font></a>&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Wedne</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>sday, September 1</i></font></span></span><i>2</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 2007</i></font></span></span></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="janet_jackson.jpg" width="409" height="373"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">I frankly can't believe we're still talking about this, but the Janet Jackson Super Bowl &quot;flash&quot; is still tying up the courts, where the FCC is attempting to impose a $550,000 fine with their &quot;zero tolerance&quot; policy. CBS is all atwitter - the future of censorship is at stake, they say.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">You can read about the court battle details <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091100868.html">here</a>. Seriously, I couldn't even see anything, and I watched it live with everyone else. Should it be this big of a deal?? She had some <a href="http://www.morethings.com/log/janet_jackson_superbowl_titty.jpg" target="_blank">little metal star thing</a> covering it, anyways!</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/page_1b.html"><font face="Verdana" size="6"><strong>Next&nbsp;&gt;&gt;</strong></font></a></p> <!-- SiteSearch Google --> <p align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#ffffff" size="1">All images &amp; content Copyright 2007 ConnieTalk.com</font><br><br><!--Begin Splat Banner Exchange code --> <center><iframe align=top width=468 height=60 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no src="http://www.splatbanner.com/view.php?uid=180&cat=11"><ilayer align=top width=468 height=60 src="http://www.splatbanner.com/view.php?uid=180&cat=11"></ILAYER> </iframe> <br> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Put your banner here for Free!</font> <a href="http://www.splatbanner.com"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Join Banner Exchange.</font></a><br></center> <!--End Splat Banner Exchange code --><br><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/"><img height="68" alt="'What can I do?' - SiCKO" src="http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/_images/buttons/sicko_support_banner.gif" width="460" border="0"></a><br><br></font></p> <table bordercolor="#ffffff" height="197" width="367" align="center" bgcolor="#000000" border="1"> <tr><!-- Row 1 --> <td> <p align="center"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font size="2"><font face="Verdana"><font color="#ffffff">Proud blogger member of:<br></font><br><!-- Begin BlogToplist voting code --></font></font><a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=17053" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><img alt="Top Blogs" src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" border="0"></font></a><font color="#000000" size="3">&nbsp;&nbsp; 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