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Roundup: Other News You Don't Want to Miss Cannabis: Yes, it has it's own news category now. Two municipalities and one town passed pro-marijuana measures on election day Source: TIME U.S. News: Oh no you di-in't! Karl Rove gets bitter about bloggers Source: Think Progress Crime: OMG. Crazy dentist's roadrage caught on tape. Source: WCBStv World News: The number of attacks on students, teachers for political reasons increasing Source: Seattle PI Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Law & Order: O.J. Simpson co-defendant takes a stand against him Source: CNN Entertainment: American Idol Season 5 : Where are they now? Source: EsmereldaSays Environment: Ten easy green bargains for your lifestyle Source: GreensDealsDaily.com Politics: Hillary criticized Bush admin. for 'suspicious' 9/11 actions Source: Jones Report U.S. News: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Normal Mailer dies at 84 Source: MSNBC U.S. News: Oil spill spreads in San Francisco bay Source: NY Times War: U.S. troops killed in Afghan ambush. Again, why are we in Iraq? Source: BBC News World News: Oil prices cause global shift in wealth Source: Washington Post World News: Seven countries consider abandoning U.S. dollar Source: PrisonPlanet.com |
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Roundup: Other News You Don't Want to
Miss Amazing: One of Britain's strongest men pulls bus with his ears Source: U.K. Daily Telegraph Law & Order: Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch won't be taken after all Source: LaLate.com Entertainment: Only the coolest free internet music tool ever Source: Musicovery.com Entertainment: American Idol Season 6: Where are they now? Source: EsmereldaSays Politics: House to debate Iraq troop withdrawals Source: Reuters U.S. News: Camera survives through the CA wildfire Source: NewScientist.com World News: Cleanup begins over the typhoon that never was Source: The U.K. Daily Mail World News: US & Israel appoint committees to strategize against Iran Source: Raw Story |
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The
People's Choice Awards Nominees Online
What can't you do on the internet these days, besides vote for the President of the U.S.? Well, at least you can nominate your favorite peeps in general, as The People's Choice Awards 2008 will be accepting your votes online. The awards show, which - crap - is on CBS (whom we still boycott over Kid Nation), will air Tuesday, January 8th, 2008. The nominees have already been announced: Jamie Foxx, The Rock, and Joaquin Phoenix are competing for the Favorite Leading Man in 2007. Jessica Alba and Johnny Depp each got two noms - she for Leading Lady and Female Action star, and he for Male Movie Star and Male Action Star. The Bourne Identity movie got nominations for Favorite Movie (competing against Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Transformers), Favorite Action Movie (up against 300, and Transformers), and Favorite Threequel (versus Pirates of the Caribbean 3 again, and Spider-Man 3). All of the nominations can be found on BuzzSugar. I would vote for anything over Spiderman 3 - which I refuse to watch because they shut down half the city of Cleveland to film that thing, and then made it look like NYC and only gave us a tiny little shoutout in like 3 mm print at the end of the film. I am such a boycotter. Oh yeah, so go vote. You have 25 more days to do it in. Wouldn't it be awesome if Kanye West won awards, after getting dissed at the MTV VMA's? This time the people get to choose - nah, nah, nah-nah-nah! |
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Rosie
O'Donnell Will Have Her Own Internet Show
Instead
Yaaaaay! Rosie O'Donnell is taking our advice after her recent fallout with MSNBC over a primetime show deal - she posted a "talkie blog" (her term for a video blog) on her site today, and said: "So, I'm going to figure out a way to do a show here, in my blogville. Because I really think it's the next way, anway. Who the hell wants to work for a company with three letters that are just gonna get mad if you tell people what you're doing? "I don't know - it's just - listen. I'm too old. When you're young, you know, you'll do those things. Like, 'Yes, I won't tell anyone, lock me in the NBC vault!' I don't know, it's alright. I really do think everything happens for a reason, so we'll see what's gonna come of this." LOVE Rosie! Screw the 3-letter mass media channels - we're tired of getting the half-story. We're tuning in, Ro, just give us the time and the place! Of course, it'll be on her official blog , and we'll keep ya updated. Another beautiful Ro quote from the video: "I can say this about FOX - that is all they do [broadcast only one point fo view], on every single program they have. "You know when I was a kid in junior high, we were taught that in Communist Russia - because it wasn't terrorism back then in '75, it was Communism...they only had two TV stations. One that was the state-owned, the Russian television station, Channel 1. And the other one was Channel 2, that said, 'You'd better be watching Chanel 1.' "It always stuck with me. I think about it every time I watch FOX News now - and I try not to watch it, because frankly - same reason I don't like to eat junk food. Not good for you, in any capacity." Exactly! Speaking of FOX! The reason why Rosie O'Donnell gets slammed so much in the media is because she always speaks the truth, and voices her real opinion. Well, I like the truth. She also speaks in the vid of her support for the impeachment movement for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's war crimes. Comments > > |
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Televangelist Pat Robertson Endorses Rudy
Giuliani
Despite Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice stance when it comes to abortion, televangelist Pat Robertson has decided to endorse the Republican presidential candidate. In the November 7th press conference where Pat Robertson announced his endorsement, none of the reporters asked Giuliani to comment on previous controversial statements of Robertson in the past. Pat Robertson has said that "the abortionists," "the feminists," and the American Civil Liberties Union "helped this [the attacks of 9/11/2001] to happen." MediaMatters has a very in-depth article on things that Robertson has said in the past that completely contradict Giuliani's principles and campaign. "I am very, very honored by this endorsement," Giuliani said in the press release. "Pat Robertson is a very well-known leader, person of great, well-deserved reputation...understands, I think, to a very large extent what America is all about, and has very well articulated what are the overriding issues of our time." Of course, money is money, an endorsement is an endorsement, and votes are votes. And if Robertson is campaigning for Giuliani - well, maybe Brack Obama should accept that endorsement from Brad Pitt, after all. Comments > > |
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Enrique
Iglesias Gets Cupfuls of Fan Appreciation
Enrique Iglesias is on an international tour for his new Insomniac album, and last night at Wembley Arena in London, England he got cupfuls of fan love, as a fan threw her quite large strapless bra onto the stage. This photo is priceless. I was never an Enrique Iglesias fan, but I really like his new music video, which I saw the shooting for on America's Next Top Model (guilty pleasure, shut up) - part of the girls' challenge from Tyra was to be featured in Enrique's video for "Tired of Being Sorry." I really like the song - it's one of those that is hella hard to get out of your head! Here is the music video:
If you watched that episode of ANTM, as I did, don't you notice that all of the scenes with Tyra's girls seem to have been cut out in the final version? Except the one chick's hand on the chain for a split second?
Sidenote: I was kind of ticked at Tyra after that episode. I have a love/hate relationship with Tyra Banks. At times, she seems like she's trying to promote a healthy body image for women, but then she eliminates the contestant Sarah for losing weight during the competition, saying Sarah is now too thin to be a plus-size model but too heavy to be a regular model. So...you either have to be a little chunky, or 90 pounds, huh? Isn't that what Tyra complains about in the modeling industry? Start a trend, then, damn! It's your show! |
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FOX
News: Promoting Decency or Exploiting
Women? FOX News has a history chock-full of conservative bias. But are they also sending you a hidden message? Bill O'Reilly loves to lecture about the decline of morals in America, but thanks to the News Hounds, now you can see a little bit about what Bill O'Reilly and FOX really do to promote healthy, traditional, family values:
You see? The truth is out there, Scully. We just need the News Hounds (and ConnieTalk, of course) to find it... Comments > > |
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For
Sale: David Bowie Vintage Mugshot
You've seen all of the big celebrity's mugshots...or have you? A Rochester man has come forward with an unseen vintage David Bowie mugshot from the rocker's 1976 Rochester arrest for felony marijuana. How stupid - marijuana shouldn't be a felony unless you use it to build some sort of bomb. And even then, people might like it. Regardless, the Rochester man when to The Smoking Gun, and gave them this little preview of the mugshot he possesses. David Bowie was 29 years old during the March 1976 arrest, and was looking totally fashionable, I might add. According to SG, he was held in the Monroe County Jail for a few hours and then released, but this shot wasn't taken until three days later at his City Court arraignment. If you're interested in buying the "rock and roll memorabilia," you can get the contact info for the dude who's peddling it here. Hopefully, though, David Bowie will buy it bacK and give the money to charity...or a politician who supports legalization (wink). |
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Editorial: Climate Models Under-Appreciate
Ecosystem Collapse
Life has evolved ecosystems to regulate the carbon in the air. For a long time scientists dismissed this possibility because they thought evolution precluded cooperative behavior. It is now widely recognized that ecosystems have evolved to maintain the chemical composition of the air, to make the climate more hospitable to life. Humans are burning massive amounts of fossil fuel and flooding the air with carbon. the carbon dioxide level in the air is expected to double, raising the air temperature about 3C in the medium term, and about 6C in the long term. Unfortunately, the ecosystems will be quickly destroyed by a temperature rise of more than 0.4 C/decade. With no ecosystems, nature loses the means to regulate the composition of the air, and thereby the climate. Climate models assume that the temperature will rise and fall smoothly with changes in carbon level in the air, because ecosystem collapse is not being taken into consideration. "There is no linear predictability in terms of how ecosystems respond. The pheomena of collapse is one that we have under-appreciated, partly because of the feed-back mechanisms that we are still trying to understand." (Achim Steiner, head of the UN Envirnoment Programme, Oct. 2007).
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Interesting Video: Why Hollywood Writers Are On
Strike
An informative video of why the Hollywood writers are on strike, called "Why We Fight." It explains why so many Hollywood writers and even actors are picketing and on strike right now. Yesterday, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said that he has assumed a behind the scenes role in helping bring an end to the screenwriters; strike. "I'm talking to the parties that are involved because I think it's very important that we settle that as quickly as possible, because it has a tremendous economic impact on our state," he said at a Sacramento news conference yesterday. Bloggers have also been buzzing with rumors that former U.S. President Bill Clinton has also offered his mediation. The Writers Guild of America has been on strike with major film and TV studios since Monday, after negotiations failed on a new contract for its 12,000 scrennwriters. It is the first break in Hollywood labor peace in almost 20 years. Now production halts have caused hundreds of crew members, hairstylists, makeup artists, camera operators, carpeneters, and more to be suddenly out of work, which is causing a ripple throughout the local California economy. When Hollywood is going on strike, you know the economy is declining. Research those Presidential candidates, dammit! We need an economic revolution, stat!
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One in
Four Homeless People are Veterans The Associated Press released a statistic that shocked some people on Wednesday: one in four of every homeless person in the United States is a veteran. 11 percent of the general adult population. And more and more studies are showing that the number of homeless veterans is increasing, as our soldiers continue to come back from (and return to and come back from) Iraq and Afghanistan. The VA estimates that at least 1,500 of their vets are from the current wars. Why? Many of them have diagnosable mental illnesses like PTSD but go untreated. Many of them get into debt while in the service. They suffer the stress of being apart from their spouses and/or families. Until I started talking to homeless people, I would have found this info to be a shock as well. I was shocked when one of the first homeless men on the streets of Cleveland told me that he was a veteran. That was earlier this year - his name is Percy, he's in the video:
My jaw dropped - I couldn't believe someone that had served our country wouldn't be cared for. But it's true. And he wasn't the only one I met.
2) The National Alliance to End Homelessness has lots of info, ways to take action, data and research, news, and media. 3) When you weigh the presidential candidates in the next election, be sure before going to the polls that they take a supportive stance on the issues you believe to be important! |
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