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Green Dating – Are You An Ecosexual? Heather Buchanan Friday, July 13, 2007 The “green” buzzword has infiltrated our consciousness in terms of what we eat and how we recycle and when we drive to the store or walk. Now it’s even entered the equation of “Your carbon-footprint-free place or mine?” The question is: Are you an ecosexual? The concept of green dating used to be restricted to SWM seeks SWF to share life in yurt with long walks in protest rallies and vegan restaurants. But even if you don’t throw around words in personal ads like “family oriented pagan...

Ft. Lauderdale Had Hottest Groundhog Day On Record; Miami Tied The Current Record (CBS4) MIAMI -- You knew South Florida was hot, but as the rest of the nation suffers in the grip of winter, Punxatawney Phil’s prediction of an early spring Friday notwithstanding, South Florida set records Friday for summer-like weather, tying the record temperature in Miami and breaking it in Ft. Lauderdale. As if it’s not enough for the rest of the nation that Miami has the attention of the world with this weekend’s Super Bowl, the area has also seemed to score the nation’s best weather....

Mon 4 Sep 2006 Malodour on the dancefloor NIGHTSPOTS are being forced to pump out perfume because the new smoking ban is failing to disguise body odours. Air fresheners and scented oils are being deployed in a bid to banish smells caused by sweaty revellers. Licensed trade chiefs say venues are turning some people away because of poor hygiene, which was covered up before by the smell of cigarette smoke. Kay Bennett, of Edinburgh city centre nightclub Cabaret Voltaire, said: "If you walk into a club with a few hundred people dancing, you notice a smell. It's a combination of...

But we Americans seem to have short memories. What else could explain the fact that we, generally speaking, so-often lambaste the French, calling them “cowards” for not allying themselves fully with us in every instance? We constantly throw in their faces the fact that we came to their rescue in World Wars I and II. And we’ve all heard the jokes: “Surplus French military rifles for sale. Never fired. Dropped once.”

When I called the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute, whose chairwoman gives speeches on topics with titles like "The Failures of Feminism", and told the gatekeeper there that I wanted to do an interview with Ann Coulter solely about the Grateful Dead, there was a small pause. Then she recovered and politely told me to send her an e-mail, which she would forward to Ann. That, I expected, would be the end of it.When I got home that night, and saw an e-mail in my box from Ann Coulter, I thought "how polite of her to send a rejection letter...

Why the anti-war movement is political poison LUIZA CH. SAVAGE Not so long ago, to question the Iraq war in America was to offer up one's patriotism for vivisection on cable TV talk shows. Public opinion was rallied around the flag, the President, and the 2003 invasion. But with the number of American troops killed in Iraq approaching 2,000, a majority of Americans have begun telling pollsters that they don't think their country will win the war. Nearly two-thirds say some or all of the U.S. troops should be withdrawn. A slight majority of Americans want to cut spending on...

Here is the detailed lists of protests from the moonbats...... --------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON, DC 11 AM at Lafayette Park near the White House dc@worldcantwait.org RESIST OR DIE! NO SCHOOL NOV 2! Organize your campus. Get in touch: youth_students@worldcantwait.org LOCAL EVENTS ARIZONA TUCSON: 12 PM, Intersection of Church and Congress (downtown, by the Convention Center) twcwtucson@hotmail.com CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: Berkeley@worldcantwait.org LOS ANGELES: 12 PM, Actions along Wilshire Blvd from Downtown to Santa Monica; 5:00 PM, rally at the Westwood Federal Building (Wilshire & Westwood Blvds.) worldcantwait_la@yahoo.com, 213-926-5717 SACRAMENTO: 5 PM, Cesar Chavez Park (Downtown) carofkings@hotmail.com SAN DIEGO: sandiego@worldcantwait.org, 619-868-0819 SAN...

FINALLY it’s official. The French DO smell. After generations of jibes about hygiene over the Channel, a study yesterday revealed nine out of ten French people do NOT wash regularly. That means that out of a population of 60.5million, more than 54million risk being whiffy. Shockingly, 2.5million NEVER shower or bath while 1.8million NEVER brush their teeth. The French do spend between 48 and 56 minutes in the bathroom each day — but much of that is applying cosmetics. Nine out of ten French women and half of the men regularly apply perfume and cosmetics. A third spend time in...

Special ReportUtopia Banished After seven years of rising unemployment, economic stagnation, and general malaise, French socialists' war against self-determinism ended in defeat last week when France's parliament rescinded a law that made it a crime to work more than 35 hours a week. Essentially a lunatic scheme to create wealth sans labor, the law instituted a de facto lowest-common-denominator egalitarian society by shackling anyone with motivation to a sinking raft of bureaucrats and the lazy. In a sort of fiscal policy version of the Maginot Line, French socialists had argued that legally limiting the number of work hours would force...

Family Files Lawsuit ELYRIA, Ohio -- A school district was sued by parents who say their son's fourth-grade teacher made the boy spray himself with Lysol in front of classmates because of body odor. SURVEY How should teachers handle students with body odors? Send letter home. Call parents. Talk to student. Take necessary measures. Mind their own business. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in against the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake district in suburban Cleveland. It asks for $50,000 in damages for public humiliation and subsequent harassment by classmates. The boy still suffers emotional distress over the incident, according to his attorney, Michael...

Posing hand on hip in a cutaway dress, Drew Barrymore has an announcement to make.She has joined the growing number of celebrities who have stopped shaving under their arms - and don't care who knows it. The 29-year- old Charlie's Angels star made her fashion statement at a New York catwalk event featuring designer Marc Jacobs. With his penchant for dressing models in combat boots and army-style jackets, Jacobs is famed for his grunge-inspired look - and Drew certainly fitted in. One of those attending the event at the Lexington Avenue Armory observed: 'She looked absolutely stunning but all people...

Here are some post-election comments from Michael F. Moore: THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when...

Dear Friends, If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact.

New York (CNSNews.com) - As 50,000 Republicans head to their national convention in New York in late August, a coalition of anti-war and anti-GOP activists are planning to throw a welcome party of sorts -- that is, if they can get the permits they need to demonstrate. A number of groups, led by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), are planning demonstrations. But the largest protest appears to be the one organized by UFPJ, which would begin as a march through the streets of Manhattan, move alongside the convention's home in Madison Square Garden, and end with a massive rally...

Just happened to have the TV on to The View. Starr Jones says that the timing of Uday & Qusay's death is suspicious. She said that the Hussein boys' death might have happened days ago and the administration held on to the news so as to release yesterday to stop the "freefall" Bush's poll numbers are taking. This must be the new DNC talking point.