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Plunging necklines blamed for plunging sales by female M&S shareholders Last updated at 19:42pm on 09.07.08  Plunging necklines have been blamed for plunging sales as Marks & Spencer chiefs today came under fire from lady shareholders.Executives faced complaints from some that its fashions are too young, offering too much cleavage for its loyal older customers.Investors have been getting worried because the value of M&S shares has slumped in recent days after the iconic high street chain revealed a fall in sales.And today at the company's AGM at London's Royal Festival Hall, shareholders lined up to offer a diagnosis of...

BEVERLY HILLS -- A female songwriter says she was thrown out of the ladies room at the exclusive Beverly Hills Hotel because she was dressed like a man. A tearful Tanya White says she was "shocked and humiliated" when she was forced to leave the woman's bathroom and escorted off the hotel's premises, even though a friend confirmed to hotel security she was, in fact, a woman. The incident happened on September 23, 2007 when White was at the hotel for a birthday party for friend and actress LisaRaye McCoy. 'I felt under attack. What began as beautiful night ended...

Second Amendment Sisters, Texas chapter, will be holding another Ladies Learn to Shoot Day in the Austin area on May 31. All interested women freepers are invited to join us for a day of fun and learning.You must call the toll free number on the flyer to get on the list of attendees:TX Shoot Flyer

Why motherhood is the greatest job of all22:13pm 29th February 2008 Motherhood is denigrated as never before. Yet here, in a tribute to Mums everywhere, the Mail's Allison Pearson says it's still the most joyous (and important) job in the world. Situation vacant: challenging managerial position in busy small organisation. Would suit flexible, energetic female who doesn't need any sleep. Shifts last 24 hours a day. Boss comes on holiday with you. You will be expected to be a teacher, a cook, a nurse, a chauffeur, a health and safety adviser, a cleaner, a management consultant and an agony aunt. Must...

I thought you might enjoy this story that just aired on http://www.RidleyReport.com http://youtube.com/watch?v=YrA6OXPeLRo Two-day-old "Females for Freedom" group brightens the roads of south-central New Hampshire. All these gals are, I think, members of Operation Live Free or Die...

BOOK REVIEW CONFEDERATE HEROINES Author: Thomas P. Lowry Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (2006) IT IS NOT fitting to let March go by without acknowledging the International Month of Women's History with at least one book review of a book on a related topic. Although it may seem that I did indeed let March slip away because the Gregorian calendar says it is April 1, really - according to the Julian calendar - it is still March. Since Women's Studies became a discipline in which one can receive a university degree, we have discovered the many unacknowledged contributions women have...

Laddies need ladies: apply Western Isles By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent Last Updated: 1:35am GMT 08/02/2007 A remote chain of islands issued an urgent appeal for women yesterday. A study in the Western Isles revealed that more women than men were escaping to the mainland. Research found that the number of child-bearing women there could fall by almost 25 per cent over the next 12 years. It also revealed that more than 70 per cent of those moving to the islands were male. More than 26,000 people live on the principal islands of Lewis, Harris, Benbecula, North Uist, South Uist...

Happy 3rd Anniversary Dragonflies' Lair and Poets Our Poets bentfeather fatima Hope and Glory Knitting A Conundrum Lady Jag Liberty Belt NicknamedBob Reaper Freeper Scubie Nuc starbase Texas Songwriter WayzataJohnn We the poets of the Lair, thank all who support us. We hope to be here a long time, singing our songs riding the stars, writing our own visions, and best of all, loving all who continue to lurk and visit here over the years. We write of love, we write of war, we write of sorrow, we write of Knights and Kingdoms from before, we write of drawing...

When 18-year-old Sara Garbarz walks into a shooting range, she often gets mistaken for a spectator. When she begins to load her 12-gauge shotgun, she is sometimes taunted by men who don't expect to see a woman with a firearm.

My Dragon Fly and Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in...

My Dragon Fly and Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in...

Quiet revolution for Saudi shops begins in ladies' underwear By Anton La Guardia in Jeddah (Filed: 29/04/2006) It is hailed as a major step forward for women's emancipation in Saudi Arabia: in the coming weeks they will enjoy the right to buy lingerie from female shop assistants. This may be a far cry from bra-burning feminism but in Saudi Arabia the notion of buying one's brassiere from a woman is nothing short of revolutionary. A new decree requiring shop owners to hire female staff to sell undergarments illustrates the cautious liberalisation the kingdom is undergoing - and how far it...

My Dragon Fly and Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in...

My Dragon Fly and Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in...

My Dragon Fly and Me If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly! By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guide we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and me... And we would wing past our lovers silent in...

January 8, 2006 -- The Big Apple's "potty parity" law will be put into action for the first time. Wolfgang's Steakhouse, a 200-seat eatery at 407 Greenwich St., will be the first new establishment to open and be forced to comply with the new legislation. The result is that the eatery will have four stalls in the ladies room and two stalls and three urinals for the men. The law, designed to solve the age-old problem of overcrowded ladies' facilities, covers new or renovated public spaces, including stadiums, theaters, dance halls, convention centers and drinking establishments. It says that for...

  A writer's life: P J O'Rourke (Filed: 20/12/2005) The author and essayist tells Christopher Bray he'd rather clean the fridge than write.  "America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are." Who wrote this? That's right. It's P J O'Rourke, letting another poor booby tire himself out by bouncing pompously around the ring until such time as our man deems it fitting to deliver one of his knockout, two-syllable blows. No big words for...

Hormone levels predict attractiveness of women   Gaia Vince   These are the computer-generated composite face of the 10 women with highest and lowest levels of oestrogen - which do you find more attractive? Answers at the end of the story (Image: Miriam Law Smith) Feminine beauty, the subject of philosophical and artistic musings for millennia, can be predicted by something as basic as hormones – in women, but not men. Researchers at the University of St Andrews in Fife, UK, have found that women’s facial attractiveness is directly related to their oestrogen levels.Miriam Law Smith and colleagues photographed...

Paula CreramerGet ready. This totally darling 18 year old has just pulled out a victory on the LPGA Tour. She drained a fifteen foot putt on the 18th hole to win.This girl is lovely......... and the second youngest player to ever win an event on the LPGA Tour.

International Women's Day Special    #590 - International Women's Day Special - Arab TV Channels Debate Wife-Beating in Islam and the Arab World (Compilation) 00:12:59    #589 - International Women's Day Special - Arab TV Channels Debate the Status of Women in the Arab World (Compilation) 00:09:03    #588 - Wife-Beating Debated on Lebanese TV Channels Heya TV - 12/30/2004 - 00:04:42    #587 - Saudi Cleric Sleiman Al-Odeh Explains Why He Supports Jihad in Iraq Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - 3/2/2005 - 00:02:32

Wishing all the ladies on FR a Very Happy Valentine’s Day! May it be as sweet and innocent as this little angel,May your day and all the days to comebe filled with the same awe, wonderment and simple joys as her face shows. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY LADIES! SandRat

The erosion of the gender gap in this election starkly illustrates Alan Brinkley’s insights regarding how issues of class and values pose challenges for progressives and the Democratic Party. In the last two presidential elections, the Democratic candidate won among women fairly decisively, by 16 points (Bill Clinton) and 11 points (Al Gore), respectively. In contrast, John Kerry won women voters by a mere 3 points, 51 percent to 48 percent. Kerry’s trouble with women is clearly rooted in the decline of support among white, blue-collar women for Democratic candidates, a trend that reached its low point to date in...

Have just finished reading the numerous replies -- some of them truly heart breaking -- of this evening's post "Lost an Old Friend Today. Politics and the Personal"; and I find that far and away most of these intense,friendship-breaking liberals mentioned in these posts are women. (Obviously, not all.) Add to this that in many news stories it seems to be chiefly women who protest this or that by climbing trees or running around with their blouses off; or that when it come to really off-the-wall legal ruling(s), college admin. decisions, local government declarations, etc. odds are pretty darn good...

Romanian police is going to ban ladies over 60 years old to sunbathe at beaches topless. The police states that this "ugly show" distracts tourists. The police in Constanta County famous with its sand beaches on the Black Sea coast, constantly receives complaints from people having holidays, about elderly ladies who demonstrate their wrinkled breasts to people while sunbathing, with no shame. "Sunbathing topless has its age restrictions, and elderly ladies ought to understand this", said Chief of local police Victor Polesku. The policemen patrolling beaches say they are sick and tired of the busts of elderly females who filled...

In New Jersey, it's last call on Ladies' Night. This week, director of the state division of civil rights, J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, announced that the Garden State will henceforth ban the longstanding practice of offering drink and admission discounts to women on designated ladies' nights. The 13-page ruling lectures that a bar's desire to attract customers doesn't override the "important social policy objective of eradicating discrimination." In this case, "discrimination" refers to a Cherry Hill restaurant's Wednesday-night practice of charging men a five dollar cover while letting women in free and offering them cheaper drinks. This ruling will apply to...

Even blind old ladies terrify the cops Sunday, April 25, 2004 S he was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue. And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt. How vicious and ugly can the Portland police get? Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner. This 2003 case is so blatant, the...

Bars, clubs forced to drop promotions in face of lawsuitsBy Alex Roth UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER It might seem like a harmless marketing stunt, although some lawyers will tell you it's an insidious form of anti-male discrimination. Either way, it's now history in the Gaslamp Quarter. Several local bars and clubs have been forced to drop their so-called ladies night discount-for-women promotions in response to a series of lawsuits claiming the practice discriminates against men. Lawyers quietly settled all the suits last month. Seven nightspots in the Gaslamp and elsewhere in San Diego County agreed to pay a total of $125,000...

Five transsexuals are suing a pub boss who threw them out after one of the group used the ladies' loos. Landlord John Gawthorp says he asked the group to leave after other customers threatened to beat them up. Mr Gawthorp, who is fighting the case at Northampton County Court, has branded the action "ludicrous". Women customers at the Red Lion pub in Thornby, Northamptonshire, got angry when Jayne Smith - who has not yet had sex-change surgery - popped into the ladies' WC. The women warned the landlord they would use physical violence if they caught any of the sex-swap...

<p>Political tidbits and other shenanigans from around the nation's capital.</p> <p>No matter your position on Iraq, a march, rally, protest or demonstration is being held somewhere in Washington to suit your fancy. But don't be fooled by the organizer's name.</p> <p>Take "CodePink," purportedly peaceful ladies.</p>

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Why watch Baywatch when there's Fox News?

"ATF Night" The Premiere Pro-Gun Social and Informational Monthly EventIs Pleased to Present: T. J. JohnstonN.R.A. Master Training Counselor and Founder of AllSafe Defense SystemsThursday, July 18, 2002Free Admission Doors Open @ 6:30 PM - Program Begins @ 7:30 PM The San Gennaro Cafe 9543 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA (310) 836-0400 T.J. Johnston will be addressing the extremely important subject of "Principles of Self-Defense and the Legal Ramifications of Using Lethal Force" "AllSafe Defense Systems operates to empower people to take charge of their lives. By employing proven principles of self defense, T.J. Johnston offers civilians the training necessary...