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| New reason Perez Hilton is the Queen of Mean:
He Endorses Puppy Mills
Perez Hilton just gave us a new reason to dub him the "Queen of Mean": the infamous blogger posted "news" on his site today that he just bought a Goldendoodle. He brags about the "Grade A" pup, posting a video of him whining about the cuteness of it for minutes on end as it licks his blue hair. He says he found the pup breed by typing "small," "cute," and "smart" into Google. Too bad he didn't type in animal shelters, overpopulation, and puppies. Alas, he posts the link to an animal kennel that breeds "hybrid" dogs in southern California. Viewers of the blog post seem just as angry; a few of the comments look like this:
Yes, animal lovers like Ellen DeGeneres get persecuted for finding good homes for puppies from shelters, and this dickwad posts links to dog breeders. To be more accurate, there are about seven dogs and cats born every day for every one person born in the United States. Of those, only 1 in 5 puppies and kittens stay in their original home for his/her natural lifetime. According to The Humane Society of the US, the remaining 4 are either abandoned to the streets or end up in shelters. Purebreds account for about 30% of all animals in shelters, as we've mentioned before. About 55% of the dogs and puppies entering shelters are killed (National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy). From the proud owner of three rescued cats to Perez Hilton: I hope you sleep well. |
| News Roundup: Other News You Don't Want
to Miss
Health: New combination therapy knocks out HIV, but still must be taken for life Source: Science Daily |
| Review: I Love New York 2
is superficial, demoralizing trash  I really can't believe this chick has a show. I watched an episode last night - for journalistic purposes, of course - and was literally angry at what a sick, sad excuse for a show it is. It's just as bad as the Tila Tequila show (which I have blessedly never seen). Tiffany Pollard, aka "New York," (aka Tiffany Rothschild and Tiffany Patterson, as she goes by all of her parents' surnames) was supposedly engaged to Patrick "Tango" Hunter after I Love New York Season 1 for six months. Tango claims the engagement was real, but that he broke it off due to New York's disrespect towards his mother when she visited. After watching I Love New York on VH1, Tango said he realized New York was bashing him harder than the men in the other house were. The worst that he saw, he said, was when Tiffany and her mother - the evil "Sister Patterson" - were verbally insulting Tango's mother Paula behind her back, making fun of her age, weight, and personality. "This is not to say I don't love Tiffany. I love Tiffany," Tango said. "I ain't feelin' 'New York.' I'm done with New York. I proposed to Tiffany...but I got New York." New York's reply? "I should have f*cking chose you!" to Kamal "Chance" Givens, her runner-up. Last season was all about New York whoring around from man to man, all the while constantly reiterating the importance she places on material things. This season is no different. After a guy named Mathew was too geeky for her taste, she picked someone else instead of the real winner of her "challenge," and going off with the other guy, told the camera "I'mma pick who I wanna f*ck."
New York seems to think that the more makeup she puts on her eyes, the more she is worth: so as she stumbles through mispronouncing words, varies the men that visit her bedroom, and sashays around like an exuberant transvestite, New York is as out of it this season as she was throughout the Flavor of Love series. Her challenges to the men are about either how they can please her or how they can make her money. After all, she's in this for the celebrity, not to find love, that much is obvious. And God bless the child, because her mother, Sister Patterson, is one of the most corrupt, fame-whoring, superficial people I have ever witnessed. Among other crazy things, New York's mother is terrified that New York will gain weight, which is probably what inspired Tiffany's admitted battle with bulemia. "Voluptuous," Sister Patterson said on last night's show, "Is the new word for FAT." This was after a contestant held up a carboard cutout of New York and said if she had a clothing line, it would appeal to voluptuous women. Don't worry, New York, the only thing abnormally large on you is the silicone. And if you and your mother edumacated yourselves, you would know that voluptuous is synonmous with the word sensuous, not "fat." It comes from the Latin word voluptuosus, which means pleasurable. Sister Patterson says she can't believe New York has the "audacity" to leave a midget in the lineup of potential suitors. What a religious woman. But, hey, New York's got a new weave and new breasts, so she's worth it, right? Spare yourself bile in the throat, and skip this trash. |
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Bush Sends Emergency Funds Request to Congress for
Iraq War
President George W. Bush asked Congress yesterday for another $196.4 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for at least another year. We told you back in September that this was going to happen. Yesterday, Bush sent an emergency request to the U.S. Congress, asking for $45.9 billion to be expedited, which is in addition to the $150.5 billion in war spending included in the 2008 budget. Bush said the additional funding is for "basic needs, like bullets and body armor," and emergency funding for "critical national security needs." He said "members of Congress should consider the supplemental promptly." "Every member of Congress who wants to see both success in Iraq and our troops begin to come home should strongly support this bill," Bush said. Oh, okay, so funding the war longer will bring our troops home faster? "President Bush should not expect Congress to rubber-stamp his latest supplemental request -- we won't do that,'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said today on the chamber's floor. "In the coming weeks, we'll hold it up to the light of day and fight for a change in strategy and redeployment of troops that's long overdue.'' The latest request includes: *$1 billion for military construction projects, including improvements at airfields and other U.S. bases in Iraq. *$1 billion to expand the Iraqi security forces. *$1 billion to train National Guard units. The $189.3 billion Pentagon request for 2008 includes: *$77 billion for military operations and maintenance. *$30.5 billion for to protect U.S. forces from roadside bombs, snipers, and other threats. *$46.5 billion to repair and replace equipment that has been damaged or destroyed in combat or worn out in harsh conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan You can watch the video of the President asking Congres for the funds, and more of what he said on CNN here. P.S.: So far the war in Iraq has taken the lives of over 3,830 U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians. That we've accounted for. |
| Rosie O'Donnell Posts Video Blog about Bill Maher's
Audience Gone Wild More Rosie O'Donnell news, because we're addicted and can't stop ourselves. Right on the heels of our recent review of Celebrity Detox, where we said we wished Rosie would have written more in the book about her feelings about 9/11, she posts a video blog about it. Oh yeah, you know Ro is reading ConnieTalk. On a blog posted yesterday, our beloved Ro delved into more of her questions about the true events that occurred on September 11th, 2001. She talked about the audience members that were on Bill Maher that began screaming about Building 7 of the World Trade Center. "If you research Building Seven, you find out who was in the building, what was in the building, and how it came to be...that for the first time in recorded history, a building that was not hit by a plane, a building that was on fire - supposedly from falling debris - imploded, fell into its own footprint, and pulverized concrete into dust. First time in recorded history." "Why don't you look into the science of Building 7?" she asked. "But I don't think that screaming, you know, it as a heckler in the audience on a live show, is the way to get the information out there. But I understand the frustration of wanting it said." Here's the video clip of what Ro was talking about: the audience member yelling in the background, and then being escorted out by Maher. Unedited, and slightly thrilling:
Can you blame people? Everyone wants answers on so many things about the war on terror, what the administration is doing right now, that anger and misunderstanding is running amock. Maybe our leaders should start being honest with the world. |
| Heartbreak for Cleveland: Red Sox will go
to the World Series The fight for the American League Championship Series pennant ended last night, when the Cleveland Indians lost Game 7 against the Boston Red Sox. The final score, 11-2, was not indicative of the real head-to-head action of the game; the score was 3-2, with the Sox just one ahead, from the fifth inning until the bottom of the seventh.
Also, check out the three teams' active 25-man rosters: |
| Video Clips with Soul: GodTube is one of
the fastest growing sites One of the fastest-growing websites over the summer, according to ComScore's Media Matrix, was like YouTube only injected with a lot more soul. How cute is this little girl? Adorable little girl quoting the Psalms, wearing a little pink princess shirt....awwwww! Well this little girl's good memory, cheerful smile, and adorable recital has earned her semi-fame these past few months. With a video: not on Google, not on YouTube, not on AOL or MSN, but on GodTube. The video we're about to show has been viewed over 4 million times since it was posted on June 5th. GodTube.com claims that they have the most traffic of any Christian website on the internet, and are the world's largets broadcaster of Christian video. ABC News said this month: Chris
Wyatt, the company's founder and chief executive, says the site
attracts over 3 million unique visitors a month. The idea for Godtube was sparked two years ago,
when Wyatt read a Pew Internet survey saying that only 35% of
Christians would regularly attend church in 2025, compared with 70%
today. Wyatt, a former
television producer who had only recently begun to practice
Christianity seriously, spotted an opportunity. "If that kind of statistic had come up in any
commercial industry, it would have set off bells and whistles and
fireworks," he said. "A young generation of Christians is adopting
technology quickly, and they want streaming video." Um. That part I don't know if I like. He suddenly began practicing Christianity when he spotted the idea for streaming video faith? Well, whatever spreads peace, I guess. And really, this girl is adorable. Comments > > |
| News Roundup: Other News you
don't want to miss
Animals: Ninth baby echidna bred in Australia makes its debut Source: Australia's News Network Cause of the month: More Breast Cancer Patients Opt for Double Mastectomies Source: The Wall Street Journal Crime: New York Police Corruption Soars Source: The Raw Story U.S. News: Police Officer Attacked and Wounded Guarding Mayor Bloomberg Source: New York Times U.S. News: Southern California Wildfires Outnumbering Fire Departments Source: The Huffington Post
World News: Al Jazeera TV Airs Audio of Osama Bin Laden Urging Insurgent Groups Source: Reuters Canada |
AP Photographer Imprisoned Over a Year in Iraq  Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Eighteen months after he was imprisoned in Iraq by the U.S. Military, Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein is still sitting in a jail cell at Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, still waiting to be brought before a judge. Though he has never been formally charged with anything, U.S. authorities claim he represents "a security threat," with no explanation as to why.
"We want to rule of law to prevail," said Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley. "He either needs to be charged or released. Indefinite detention is not acceptable." U.S. authorities have attributed his arrest to his physical proximity with insurgents, who had given him permission to take photos of them. AP executives said an internal review of his work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents.' Could you imagine, what it might feel like, to be held in limbo for a year and a half? What are the reasons for delaying any of these detainees' trials for that long? It may be because there are too many: there are about 13,000 detainees in Iraq right now. I'm guessing they also weren't crazy about Bilal's last name. Pulitzer Prize Winners Al Diaz, David Leeson, Judy Walgren, Anja Niedringhaus, Alexander Zemlianichenko, Oded Balilty, Enric Marti, Lucian Perkins and Charles J. Hanley are among those who have voiced support of the petition. |
| Tito, nooooo: Ortiz joins cast of Celebrity
Apprentice
Bad news. You know that when we hold a grudge we hold one hard (okay, usually). And we are ticked at Donald Trump for his recent comments about do-gooders Angelina Jolie and George Clooney (sidestep: why does the term "do-gooders" have a negative connotation? I meant do-gooders in the generous & charitable way)...as well as all the hateful crap he's spewed about Rosie, and other people on his hit list. Therefore: Tito, noooooo! Tito Ortiz, along with Omarosa, Lenox Lewis, Gene Simmons, Stephen Baldwin, Carol Alt, Vinny Pastore, John Cena, and Marilu Henner, will be starring on the new cast of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice. Season 7 begins filming next week, October 22-26, and is expected to air in January of '08. And I will absolutely not watch it! The Celebrity candidates will be competing for the title of Trump's "Best Business Brain." According to Trump. Which, who cares what he thinks? I don't know why I like Tito Ortiz - I don't think he's attractive at all. But I've seen him in the UFC cage, and he can kick some major ass, so I sort of always just gave him props. He's talented. But wait, if he's going to be working with Trump, that increases the chances of Trump pissing him off - because, really, who doesn't The Donald piss off? - and then that be worth watching. You do not piss off Tito Ortiz. Okay, if that happened, I would watch it, but on YouTube only. By the way, is it just me, or are The Donald and Melania looking more and more alike as time goes on? Hmmm. |
| International Child Abuse Suspect from Interpol
Photo Caught
We posted this guy's
photo in our news roundup
on October 8th, when Interpol unswirled the suspect photo and asked the public's help in identifying him.
For years, authorities say this man has sexually abused children, with
the pictures circulating on the internet. Unable to identify
him, they finally turned to the public and released a snapshot of him. Police traced a call on Thursday night made by a 25-year-old Thailand man who they believe arranged some of the suspect's illegal sexual encounters with young Asian boys. It led police to 32-year-old Christopher Paul Neil, a Canadian schoolteacher staying at a rural house in Nakhon Rathcasima, a province in northeastern Thailand. Neil was charged Friday with taking a child under 15 without parental consent with intent to molest, punishable by up to 20 years in prison; illegal detention, punishable by up to three years; and sexual abuse of a child under 15, punishable by up to 10 years. Further investigations are still underway. Police say Neil surrendered peacefully and acknowledged he was the man that they were looking for, but Lt. Col. Manat Thongsimuang said Neil "denied all charges" when questioned on Friday. After seeing Neil's photograph on television Wednesday, three more Thai children contacted authorities and said Neil paid them 500-1,000 baht each ($16-32 U.S. dollars) to perform oral sex on him in 2003; they were ages 9,13 and 14 at the time of the alleged incidents. Neil had a teaching job in Thailand from 2002 until early 2004. Prior to that, he was a chaplain in B.C., Canada. Up until last week, he was a teacher in South Korea, counseling teenagers, until he abruptly bought a one-way ticket to Thailand, where he is now being held in jail. Guilty or innocent: I would so not want to be that guy right now. |
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Georgia in a State of Emergency Over Water Problems The Governor of Georgia, Sonny
Perdue has declared a water supply emergency in northern Georgia, with
the water resources dangerously low due to drought. Months
have gone by without a drop of rain. Yesterday, Gov. Perdue asked for President Bush's
help through an executive order, requesting temporary relief of
regulations that require the state to send 3.2 billion gallons of water
daily downstream to Alabama and Florida. He also asked Bush
to declare 85 counties as federal disaster areas. Strangely, the Army Corps of
Engineers sees things differently. Maj. Daren Payne, the Army Corps' deputy commander
for the Mobile, Alabama District, said that even if there were nine
months without rain, water supplies would still be adequate. Since the 1980's, the corps has
been releasing 5,000 feet of water per second from the dam between Lake
Lanier and the Chattahoochee River. (I can't even type that without humming that Alan
Jackson Chattahoochee song..."Way down yonder on
the chattahoochee...It gets hotter than a hoochie
coochie"...yes, I would suppose hotter-than-a-hoochie-coochie + drought
is not good.) They
send the water due to Florida's hydroelectric power needs, and concern
for endangered species in the river. The state of Georgia filed a motion Friday seeking
to require the Army Corps of Engineers to restrict the amount leaving
the lakes and northern Georgia reservoirs - the corps responded that
they need 120 days to review the water polices. "The actions of the Corps of Engineers and Fish and
Wildlife Service are not only irresponsible, I believe they're
downright dangerous and Georgia cannot stand for this negligence," says
Governor Perdue. Meanwhile,
the poor people of North Georgia are probably panicking! What will Bushy do about this
one? We shall see. |
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Atlantic Records stands behind rapper T.I., but
Judge puts off ruling Dang,
I wouldn't mind having Atlantic Records or Warner Music as a
friend. With friends like that, who needs an Uzi? Rapper T.I. is still in jail after
his arrest last
Saturday for machine gun
charges. CEO's of Warner Music (Lyor Cohen) and Atlantic
Records (Kevin Liles), and other record executives offered to post
bonds totaling $1.4 million, and T.I.'s defense attorneys offered to
have bail set at $2.2 million. But a U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman said he
hadn't heard enough, and won't rule until next week on the bail,
leaving T.I., 27, whose real name is Clifford Harris, to wait in jail
until Friday, October 26th, when Judge Baverman will decide whether or
not to grant it. Defense
attorneys for T.I. (whom I refuse to call Clifford) offered 24-hour
monitoring with drug exams during the bail period, but Baverman wasn't
ready to rule yet. Judge Baverman seemed impressed with T.I.,
though, and commended him for his charitable work. "On the whole," Baverman said,
"Mr. Harris has used his fame and fortune for good." He's "an
exceptionally gifted and talented musician," who "has reached out to
underprivileged communities with great generosity." "At the same time, on the same day
that's probably the most important in his career," the judge
continued, "he shows up armed to buy machine guns and
silencers. So I am
very concerned about that dichotomy, somebody who has so many gifts and
does so well, and then risks it all by showing up to a gun dealer." Machine guns and silencers scare
me. But still - innocent until proven guilty, yo!
It's just the bail hearing, not the trial - T.I. is pleading not guilty
to the weapons charges. According to a poll by The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 70% of you think T.I. should be
released on the $2 million cash bond plus any other conditions the
judge feels appropriate. CNN's Rusty
Dornin calls it the "most amazing" bond
hearing |
| Kate Bosworth's fur madness at Karl Lagerfeld's
Fendi Fashion Show
Ugh, can we please stop the fur madness?! Karl Lagerfield held a Fendi fashion show on the Great Wall of China Thursday night, and Kate Bosworth was in attendance (as well as Thandie Newton and others), wearing some sort of Cruella DeVille-ish fur coat. "It's just so exciting, I know. I feel like I'm - for the first time - like, I have my camera in my bag, and I'm taking pictures of the whole...of everything going on. It's so exciting!" Bosworth said. "I think only Mr. Lagerfeld could come up with such a master plan." I seriously can't figure out what that coat she's wearing is made out of. Bird? Yak? Sheepdog? It makes me so sad when young actors and singers wear fur...I can understand, maybe, how Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin sometimes do. They come from a generation where wearing fur was a status symbol, before people truly knew the atrocities that those animals go through. But Kate Bosworth? She's 24 years old! And is that reptile skin I see on the other chick's boots? Read about that! |
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Bilal Hussein, 35, was
captured on April 12, 2006. He was accused of being a threat
to security, but has not yet been permitted a public hearing, and
nothing has been filed against him. He is an Iraqi citizen
and native of Fallujah, where he was photographing events when he was
detained. He is a member of the A.P. team that won the
Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for its coverage of the Iraq War.
