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Wiretapping: As if You Needed Another
Reason to Hate AT&T
This one's a doozy:
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Dutch Health Minister Wants to Promote Cannabis
Medicine
Lots of marijuana news lately. The Dutch Government said yesterday that they are looking to promote the development of medical marijuana and cannabis-based meds, as well as extend the plant's availability in pharmacies. Cannabis is already available by prescription in the Netherlands, of course. "Medicinal cannabis must become a regular registered medicine," said Health Minister Ab Klink in yesterday's statement. The Dutch Govt. regulates the growing of special types of cannabis in labs that supply pharmacies. "This development track will take years, but it can yield scientific evidence and give insight into the balance between safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis."
"By making medical marijuana available as a raw material for five years, I want to give this track a serious chance." Canada approved a cannabis-based medicine to treat MS patients in 2005. In the Netherlands, though, even if they have a doctor's prescription, many patients just buy it at a third of the price in "coffee shops," where marijuana is technically illegal but allowed in small amounts to anyone at all. Yet the Netherlands' Trimbos Institute for Mental Health and Addiction says that after 30 years of the Dutch's "tolerance" policy, usage rates are in the middle of international norms. France, Britain, and the U.S., they say, use more marijuana that they do. Those laws are really working, aren't they? |
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Hollywood Writers on
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Founder of The Weather Channel Says Manmade Global
Warming is a Hoax
John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, wrote an article yesterday for the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, in which he called the theory of man causing global warming a "scam." "It is the greatest scam in history," he wrote. "I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global warming; it is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an allusion of rapid global warming. "I say this knowing you probably won't believe me, a mere TV weatherman, challenging a Nobel Prize, Academy Award and Emmy Award winning former Vice President of the United States...I have read dozens of scientific papers. I have talked with numerous scientists. I have studied. I have thought about it. I know I am correct." I am further from being Right Wing that most anyone you'll meet, I think. But I myself have read the research and struggled with whether or not manmade global warming is indeed a "hoax." For a while, I flat out said it was. Other scientists have attributed global warming to the natural variations in the Earth's orbit around the sun. There are many, many theories out there. But the way I see it now - the steps we've been taking today to "go green" and to reduce the amount of carbon emissions in the atmosphere, can only do good, not harm. As a child, I remember all of the talk in school about how we should try not to purchase aerosol cans for our hairspray (God knows that was an issue in the 80's!), because we should try and do all we can to stop the hole in the ozone layer from getting bigger. That, plus being taught about recycling, not littering, and preserving plant life, gave my peers and I a feeling that we could make a real difference in the world. It gave us something to work on, to be proud of, to be concerned about, in an intellectual way. Even if the scientists and governments that have adapted the theory that atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations from man are the true cause of global warming - why would anyone try to refute it? Look at all of the people that have made real efforts to change their energy consumption since this became such a widely-discussed issue. What ever happened to "better safe than sorry?" Comments > > |
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News
Roundup: Other News You Don't Want to
Miss Celebrity: Now the size of a house, J. Lo finally confirms her pregnancy Source: MTV News Warning: Turn the volume down because there are some crazy screaming fans in this!
Crime: Sleeping man tasered in his own home Source: Reason.com Entertainment: Two gangster films shed light on 70's drug world in New York Source: VOA News Environment: State of California sues the EPA over emissions Source: LA Times Strike: Union orders Hollywood writers to turn over their scripts Source: Reuters Rumor: Bill Clinton said to be offering diplomatic services in Hollywood strike Source: PastDeadline.com U.S. News: Governor of parched Georgia is praying for rain Source: MSNBC |
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This
Will Make Your Jaw Drop, I Promise
Tyra Banks devotes an entire hour to discussing the vagina. She brings "Dr. Debbie" to the show, who has a prop: and the prop is a pillow of a vagina, with a pink satin inner lining. I am not kidding you. I was laughing so hard when I saw this - the woman is holding it like a hand puppet, and I keep thinking she's about to make it start talking. "I'm so happy that you have this," Tyra says of the pillow. "It makes it cute, and sweet, and not scary. It's like a stuffed animal." And still, even in this episode, Tyra can't go without mentioning her mother. Or maybe especially in this episode. I think this is good though, for young women to watch - I'm especially pleased that it was allowed to air. Tyra is never afraid to go there, girl! |
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Animal
Lovers Corner: Australian Zoo rears Five Male White Lion
Cubs
Mogo Zoo on the NSW southern coast of Australia, is the first zoo in the world to have a lion give birth to five male white lion cubs. The cubs holed up with parent lions Tim and Snow since their birth on Febuary 7th - until this week. Mogo Zoo owner Shelley Padey announced the litter of cubs on November 7th, after wanting to keep the little "gangsters" (as the zoo calls them) a secret until they were a little older. "We didn't release it because we wanted to make sure everything went well with the pride," Padey said. "They're little gangsters...they work as a little troop. They're real little characters - it's beyond words how lucky I am." The Mogo Zoo specializes in endangered species. White lions have a lifespan of just up to 15 years in the wild, but live up to 24 years in captivity. |
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Rudy's
Push to Save America I cannot believe my father sent me this e-mail. It's entitled, "Rudy's Push to Save America."
Photo from officespam.chattablogs.com. It ain't even close to being over, Rudy...there may end up a longer line in front of you than that! |
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Awww...Brad wants to marry
Angelina
"We've both been married before," he continued. "So [a big wedding] is not so much an issue in our lives." Which leads us to believe that Angelina Jolie is the one who is uncertain about tying the knot. Ange has been married twice before (to Jonny Lee Miller, and Billy Bob Thornton). "The focus is the kids," Angelina has said from the start of their relationship. "And we are obviously extremely committed to the children as parents together. So that kind of says it for us, and to have a cermony on top of it is nothing." Brad himself has also said in the past, in Esquire magazine, that he and Angelina wouldn't marry until "everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able." Looks like he's having a change of heart! |
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Nick
Hogan's mug shot, bail
So, as we told you, Nick Bollea aka Hogan was arrested and booked (finally) by the cops yesterday for criminal charges related to the August 26th crash. Bollea, 17, will be charged as an adult. The charges include reckless driving involving serious injury (a third-degree felony carrying a penalty of no more than a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail), using a motor vehicle in commission of a felony, being under age 21 and operating a vehicle while having a breath-alcohol level of .02 percent or higher (it was .055), and illegal window tint. He was released to his parents after posting $10,000 bail yesterday. $10,000? That's less than the worth of the car he totalled! I don't have much faith in this judge already. "Because Nick is still a juvenile and has no prior criminal record, we are disappointed that he is being charged as an adult offender," said the Bollea family's lawyer. "However, we are confident that the evidence will demonstrate that this was an accident." Um - the evidence already shows he was negligent and irresponsible, whether it was an accident or not. And he sure as hell is a repeat offender when it comes to traffic laws and illegal streetracing. Keep it here for the latest. |
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Rosie
O'Donnell Loses MSNBC Primetime Deal
Poor Rosie! And we were so excited about it. Rosie O'Donnell was in talks with MSNBC to star in a primetime deal that would've had her in the 9 p.m. time slot, right after Keith Olbermann, and competing with CNN's Larry King, as reported by the New York Times on Monday. However, Rosie was dropping hints at book signings for Celebrity Detox, and on Sunday told fans in Miami that she would soon be competing against "the guy with the suspenders and the long, long face" - Larry King. And then on Tuesday, she told the audience at a stand-up show at the New York Comedy Festival, "We're filming for an unidentified TV station, which I was told I was not allowed to mention. You don't tell me what I'm not allowed to say, because then I can't help but say it!" "They told me not to mention this possible show," she continued. "And they are men in business suits. Nothing is scarier than men in business suits screaming at you over the phone." The comments she made about the upcoming show caused MSNBC to tuck tail and run. So, yesterday, she posted the following on her official blog:
She posted a video blog today, and said, "You heard the big whole MSNBC thing, listen - it's alright. You gotta believe what happens is supposed to happen. We were in the bottom of the ninth inning - we were almost there, the game was almost over, and, uh, no, it's okay, 'cause I'm not quite sure that a pundit would have been the best thing for me. "But who knows? I was willing to maybe, maybe try it, but, just as well. But hey, Keith Olbermann? The best new show on TV. If you're only gonna watch one, watch that guy. Important stuff he's saying, every night. "Bravo, Keith Olbermann." Waaaaah. Who needs TV? Her video blogs are popular enough...be yourself, Ro! Comments > > |
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