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Simpson arrested, is in the slammer </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <p align="center"><img src="ojpic.jpg" width="504" height="261"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">O.J. Simpson was arrested today for suspected involvement in an armed robbery of sports memorabilia from a Las Vegas Hotel room on Thursday night. The sports memorabilia dears whom the goods were stolen from told police that two men with guns entered one of their rooms, and took photos and books signed by O.J., as well as Joe Montana items and one of their cell phones. What a weird robbery.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">O.J's version of the story is that acquaintances of his from a cocktail party because someone was interested in buying the suit he wore to trial in 1995.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">We don't know what to really make of this. Here's all the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/us/16cnd-simpson.html?ref=sports" target="_blank">odd details</a>. The only part of this story we really find surprising is the fact the O.J. Simpson is 60 years old. And that he was arrested without a struggle, instead of going zipping around in a white Bronco. Holy crap, did you know he's that old?</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/ojarrest123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/penguins123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Two gay penguins in Central Park Zoo have been together for 6 years </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <p align="center"><img src="chinstrappenguins.jpg" width="490" height="367"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">At the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, New York, two chinstrap penguins named Roy and Silo have been together for almost six years. The unusual thing is, they are both males. They refuse other females, and engage in courting behavior only with each other: vocalizing, wrapping their necks around each other, trying to mate, and even tried to nest a rock instead of an egg. Zookeeper Rob Gramzay felt bad for the guys, and eventually gave them a fertilized egg to hatch.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Roy and Silo cared for the egg until it did hatch, and a chick that the zoo haned &quot;Tango&quot; was born. The penguin couple raised her, feeding her from their own beaks.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Employees of the zoo have said that the female penguins reject mating opportunities with Roy and Silo as much as vice versa. The two penguins stick together like glue.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/penguins123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></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></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><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/greenspan123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Alan Greenspan: Yes, The Iraq War was about oil </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="greenspan.jpg" width="430" height="267"><BR><font face="Verdana" size="1">Alan Greenspan</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">I hate reporting on these kinds of things knowing full well that people disclose things like this because they want to sell more books. It's basically a free advertisement - just like the one with <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/rosie123.html" target="_blank">Rosie's new book</a> (although we're hooked into buying that one!). But it's worth saying that Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve (you know, that private bank that America is in $9 trillion dollars of national debt to), is coming out with a book - published today - where he calls The Iraq War &quot;largely about oil.&quot;</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows,&quot; he writes. &quot;That the Iraq War is largely about oil.&quot; The memoir, &quot;The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World,&quot; also attacks Bush for allowing the huge budget deficits to develop. Again, he's from that bank we owe all that money to. (Note: There's a national debt clock that ticks away <s>Bush's</s> our debt by the second <a href="http://zfacts.com/p/461.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/greenspan123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p></td> </tr></table> <BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr> <td><p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/moveon123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Moveon.org sets its sights on Bush </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></p> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">A week ago, the website MoveOn.org took out an ad in The New York Times, criticizing General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. &quot;Petraeus or Betray us?&quot; the ad said. It accused the general of being dishonest in his report on Iraq for political purposes, and said he &quot;will not admit what everyone knows: Iraq is mired in an unwinnable religious civil war.&quot; This week, they are raising funds to air a commercial that specifically bashes President Bush.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">MoveOn.org is a liberal advocacy group, but as everyone from athletes to celebrities to politicians have begun speaking out against the war, MoveOn.org has been getting a lot of support. The site, which has over 3 million members, has run campaigns on Medicare, voting machines, Darfur, and other causes. The commercial they are looking to run - short but totally worth watching - is here:</font></P> <P> <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YGj0Zen3fkc"> </param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YGj0Zen3fkc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed> </object> </P> <P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/moveon123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></P></td> </tr></table> <BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr> <td><p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/stickfreegum123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>U.K. Scientists invent new nonstick gum, claim it will make cleanup a whiz </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="gumspots.jpg" width="414" height="287"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">U.K. Scientists have invented a brand of chewing gum - called Revolymer - that is almost completely nonsticking. They say it's easier to clean up from sidewalks, shoes, and carpeting, and if it passes European health and safety tests, it could be on sale by next year.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;You always get a film of water around the gum and that is one of the reasons it is easy to remove,&quot; said Professor Terence Cosgrove of Revolymer, which is a spin-off company of Bristol University.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Hmm. We are all for making clean-up costs lower...but wasn't this gum already invented? It was called StickFree gum...but hopefully this is better than that stuff, because I remember it dissolving in my mouth after 20 minutes!</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/stickfreegum123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p></td> </tr></table><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td><P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/Sept15rally123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Antiwar protest in capitol brings 100,000 activists, 200 arrests </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Sun</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>6</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <P align="center"><img src="appablomartinezmonsivais.jpg" width="410" height="297"><BR> <font face="Verdana" size="1">AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monisvais</font></P> <P align="center"><img src="dieinrally.jpg" width="309" height="206"></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">An antiwar protest took place in Washington D.C., and we wish we would have been there! 100,000 people showed up for the rally, first gathering outside the White House and then marched on to the U.S. Capitol building. I knew people were going to get riled up, after Bush's recent <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/bush91307123.html" TARGET="_blank">speech</a> - a thinly veiled announcement that our troops will occupy Iraq for years to come.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">Demonstrators held the protest/march to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and to request the impeachment of President Bush. Two hundred of the protestors tried to climb over barricades outside the Capitol building, and were arrested. There was no struggle in the arrests, according to several accounts, and the protest was mostly peaceful. Several dozen of the protestors staged a &quot;die-in,&quot; where they lay on their backs in front of Congress to represent the rising death toll in the Middle East.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">The protestors lasted for blocks, walking along Pennsylvania Avenue and repeating, &quot;What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now.&quot; The gathering was organized by veterans, the <a href="http://answer.pephost.org/" target="_blank">ANSWER Coalition</a>, and other groups. Though the ANSWER Coalition had projected 10,000 protestors, the event gathered enormous momentum, and there was even a parallel protest going on at the Washington Monument a dozen blocks away, with about 1,000 people.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">The ANSWER Coalition actually stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. They staged the Sept. 15th protest on the 25th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre. Speakers at the rally included well-known antiwar activist (and mother of K.I.A. Casey Sheehan); Malik Rahim, a former Black Panther and a long-time prison activist; Ralph Nader; Ramsey Clark, an attorney an activist that used to work for the U.S. Department of Justice; and Etan Thomas, a Washington Wizards basketball player. No idea how he got thrown in the mix there. Well, okay, yeah we do, he's an athlete of the antiwar &quot;Jockocracy,&quot; but it sounded funny. </font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">Wow. 100,000 people standing up for our rights? We are in shock and awe! Protest is patriotic! Woo-hoo!</font></P> <P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/sept15rally123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></P></td> </tr></table><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td><P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/brolin123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>James Brolin ain't helping his cause</b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Satur</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>5</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <P align="center"><img src="brolinbarb.jpg" width="360" height="397"></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">In December of last year, James Brolin added himself to the list of celebs that are publicly doubting the real story behind 9/11. He encouraged fans to check out 9/11 truth websites, specifically <a href="http://www.911weknow.com" target="_blank">911weknow.com</a>, and talked about his suspicions on <em>The View</em>. But this week, his credibility took ten steps back when he got on New Haven's WPLR radio, and got DJs and listeners quite peeved.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">He was there for promoting his new flick &quot;The Hunting Party,&quot; but opened the interview with a tone that had nothing to do with the movie and everything to do with offending people to make a statement:</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Right, oh yeah, Happy 9/11!&quot; he told the DJ's, after they mentioned it was the anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy.</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;Well, that's kind of a weird thing to say,&quot; DJ Chazz said. &quot;We're right outside of New York, and I know people who lost family members, so...we don't say 'Happy 9/11' around here.&quot;</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">To that, Brolin replied, &quot;Celebrate the day, right?&quot;</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">Uh...what?</font></P> <P><font size="2" face="Verdana">He went on then about how tragic 9/11 was, to make up for his comment, but really, why would someone say that? It doesn't seem supportive of his cause. And the rest of the day was full of calls from angry listeners. So...yeah, we're not supportive of this dry offensive wit as a method of conveying skepticism. It's just...dumb.</font></P> <P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/brolin123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></P></td> </tr></table><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr> <td><p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/marryyourdaughter123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Relax...it's not real </b></font></a><span class="style5">&nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Satur</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>5</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></p> <p align="center"><img src="marryourdaughter.jpg" width="532" height="283"></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Some people were very teed off about a little site called <a href="http://marryourdaughter.org/index.php" target="_blank">MarryYourDaughter.org</a>. The guy that created the site made it look like girls 14 and up were being sold off for $20,000 - $100,000 by their parents, to potential husbands. The site got more than 20 million views in a matter of two weeks, and thousands of angry e-mails poured in. John Ordover, the site owner, finally went to The New York Times, and explained his real purpose.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">It's not real, he admitted. He said that people get angry so fast, they don't take the time to read the testimonials and question whether or not it's actually legit. The publicity stunt was born, he says, to draw attention to the inconsistencies in marriage laws between states. Some states allow children as young as 12 years old to get married, with the permission of a parent.&quot;</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">&quot;As far as I can tell,&quot; Ordover said, &quot;In every state but Oregon, parents can marry off their children.&quot; His <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/Table_Marriage.htm" target="_blank">Cornell University website</a> shows the differences and specifics of the different state laws on marriage. &quot;We were trying to get people a little stirred up about this,&quot; he continued.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Well, hey, this sounds like a good idea to me. I mean, it's bad, but it got people's attention, and it's so hard to get people interested in politics anymore unless it has to do with a morse-code foot tapping under a stall partition. Maybe we should make up some elaborate scheme about gambling to get y'all to check out the idiocy of <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/statelaws.html" target="_blank">state gambling laws</a>...hee hee.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Anyhow, we went to check out the crazy MarryYourDaughter site for some examples, but it's currently down. So either they're still getting more hits than they can handle, or someone put an end to this little publicity prank.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/marryyourdaughter123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p></td> </tr></table> <BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr> <td><p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/prunes123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Post Office evacuates over chopped prunes </b></font></a> <span class="style5"> &nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Satur</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>5</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></p> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><img src="ajc2.jpg" width="170" height="119"></td> <td><img src="ajc1.jpg" width="170" height="160"></td> <td><img src="prunes.jpg" width="190" height="129"></td> </tr> </table> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Good grief. Some jars filled with chopped prunes, a photo of President Bush, a few pamphlets from Homeland Security, and a Santa Clause toy with a &quot;New York&quot; necklace on was found at an Atlanta, Georgia post office yesterday morning, and caused the entire facility to shut down. The strange assortment of items was found by a military vet custodian, who thought it seemed suspicious. The U.S. Postal Service Police came in (I didn't even know they had those) and x-rayed the Santa doll, and tested the prune juice liquid in the mason jars.</font></p> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Better safe than sorry, or totally ridiculous? Hmm, hard to say.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/prunes123.html#comment" class="style2">Comments</a></p></td> </tr></table> <BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr> <td><p><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/angietatt123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Angelina Jolie's &quot;Know Your Rights&quot; Tattoo </b></font></a> <span class="style5"> &nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Satur</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>5</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></p> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><p align="center"><img src="angtattoo1.jpg" width="393" height="391"></p> </td> <td><img src="angtattoo2.jpg" width="477" height="361"></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Verdana" size="2"><p>You're interested in her acting, her relationships, her outfits, and her personality...why not her politics? Angelina Jolie has The Universal Declaration of Human Rights posted on one of her walls at home. It inspired her &quot;Know your rights&quot; tattoo, that she sports on the back of her neck.</p> <p>&quot;Human rights are the law,&quot; she has said. &quot;It's the law, and we haven't been treating it that way. Education, that's Article 26 [of the Declaration] - children's education. Everyone has the right to an education, a free education.&quot;</p> <p>Here are a few portions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. When it was accepted by the UN, they asked all member countries to display the text in schools, to be read and practiced, without any prejudice regarding the political status of the country:</p> <p>&quot;Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,</p> <p>Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,</p> <p>Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,</p> <p>Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,</p> <p>Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, </p> <p>Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, </p> <p>Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge.&quot;</p> <p>I don't remember reading this in school. I don't remember reading a lot of documents in school that should be widely taught and understood. Anyways, <a href="http://www.connietalk.com/knowyourrights.html" target="_blank">here is the full text</a> of the Declaration...it is interesting to read, and even uplifting...I do want to know, though, why letting me smoke in a restaurant doesn't apply to observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms. (You know I had to throw that in.)</p> <p><font face="Verdana" size="3"><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/angietatt123.html#comment"><B>Comments</B></a></font></p></font> </td> </tr></table><BR> <table width="802" border="0" cellpadding="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td><P><a href="http://www.connietalk.com/tyravbrit123.html"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="0000a0"><b>Tyra Banks yells at Britney Spears spoof</b></font></a> <span class="style5"> &nbsp;<img height="25" alt="" src="http://www.connietalk.com/monkeyhead.jpg" width="30" border="0" /> <br /> </span><font face="Verdana" size="2"><i>Fri</i><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>day, September 1</i></font></span></span><em>4</em><span class="style5"><span class="style1"><font size="2"><i>th, 200</i></font></span></span><em>7</em></font></P> <font face="Verdana" size="2"> <P>This is not real, but it is dang funny. It's also the most viewed vid on YouTube of the day. We love it! 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