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A T-shirt a day has kept unemployment at bay for an American man who is making about $85,000 a year by selling advertising space on his torso. Jason Sadler, 26, a former marketing professional from Florida, founded his own company, www.iwearyourshirt.com, in 2008 with the idea to wear a T-shirt supplied by any company and then use social media tools to promote the firm. For his human billboard service, Sadler charges the "face value" of the day so January 1 costs $1, while December 31 costs $365. Sadler said this may not sound like a lot but it adds up...

A more reliable place to get a 'R.I.P. Constitution' shirt: www.matternow.net or www.shirtsforsigns.com

Interesting correlation Chicago police dept has no mugshots with Bush on their t-shirts. This was sent by a Chicago Police Officer, by the way...

I wore my "we're screwed 08" shirt to work today. My obama-worshipping co-workers seem distraught that I have this opinion and would pay $ for this shirt. They looked like a little kid who's just been told Santa is not real. I haven't yet been commented on by McCain supporters as of yet...

Hey guys..and gals. I haven't posted on FR in some time. I've been traveling for a good portion of the year. But, the $700 billion bailout has gotten my attention, so I wanted to post something. I have never posted a vanity before now and don't want to risk my Member in Good Standing status with this question. But, I'll never know unless I try. Are we allowed to promote personal websites on here? If I had an idea for a product that I felt my fellow Freepers would enjoy, could I direct you to the website with the guarantee...

School officials have apologized to student, American Legion DOS PALOS -- Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday -- by wearing patriotic regalia to school -- after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag. Officials at the Merced County school confirmed Thursday that Jake Shelly was forced to take off a red, white and blue tie-dyed American flag T-shirt on Tuesday. The shirt said nothing offensive, just: "United States of America, Washington, D.C." The school's assistant principal issued Shelly a bright yellow T-shirt that read "DCV: Dress Code Violator" to wear for the...

Designer claims unhappy customer got assaulted, now wants to sue When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face. Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility. Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims. But the Israeli-born Braun — born Doron Braunshtein — says what allegedly happened to his...

The controversy is over a T-shirt that read "puschin' it to the limit" and on the back it reads "Class of .08 Seniors."

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer SALEM, N.H. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, "Iron my shirt!" during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary. Clinton, a former first lady running to become the nation's first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman's place is doing the laundry and not running the country. "Ah, the remnants of sexism — alive and well," Clinton said to applause in a school auditorium. The two men were removed from the hall after...

A Turkish lawyer is suing Inter Milan for taking to the field against Fenerbahce wearing a kit he claims is 'offensive to Muslim sensibilities'.

Owner Says Racially Offensive Clothing Was Confiscated: PITTSBURGH -- A North Side deli owner faces customer criticism after an employee wore a racially offensive T-shirt. An African-American woman was shocked to see a clerk at the North Shore Deli on East Ohio Street wearing a shirt that depicted blacks hanging from nooses. Community activist, Paradise Gray, said the clerk, a 20-year-old white male, refused to answer questions about the shirt. "It's extremely insensitive to wear that shirt without being able to represent what it means to you, yourself and if someone is offended and they tell you, 'Hey, what's that...

..still available to private collectors! Newly-elected President John F. Kennedy wore this shirt on the day of his inauguration, January 20, 1961. When the third button from the collar went missing, Kennedy gave the shirt to his personal valet. The button remains missing even today. The shirt was custom-made for the fastidious Kennedy, known to have changed clothes as often as fives times a day. The shirt has been thoughtfully preserved under clear acrylic and protected from direct light for at least the past nine years. The shirt is beautifully mounted in a 42” x 46” x 1.25” black and...

I found a very good shirt online. Basically sums up where I'm coming from: I support Israel because I support Democracy.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Fashion-wise, yellow is the new black this season in Thailand. Yellow shirts, honoring the country's beloved King Bhumibol Adulyadej on the 60th anniversary of his ascension to the throne, are so popular that there aren't enough to go around. Thailand is marking the anniversary this month with elaborate celebrations to be attended by more than two dozen heads of state and representatives of royal families from around the globe. Ordinary Thais, meanwhile, are showing their allegiance to the king by heeding a government-encouraged campaign to wear yellow shirts. Yellow is the king's birth color, traditionally corresponding to...

From a Freedom of Expression Rally in London’s Trafalgar Square.

Dear Friends, As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened: This afternoon at the People's State of the Union Address in DC where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik Rahim and John Cavanagh. Lynn brought me a ticket to the State of the Union Address....

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woollen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together. When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria on Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet. "It sounded almost like a firecracker", Clewer told Australian...

BAYBORO -- A handful of students from Pamlico County High School asked school board members Monday night to rescind their school's ban on clothing that contains the Confederate flag, arguing it strips them of their Southern heritage and compromises their First Amendment rights. The three students, all of whom were white, told board members that they don't believe the clothing creates any conflicts at their school, and they presented the board with a 201-name petition urging it to allow the clothing."Most people we've talked to don't have a problem with it," said 17-year-old Kristina Mayeur. "We've talked to black kids...

What if you could wear lightweight armor that kept you warm – and let you phone home? Nanotechnologists have come up with a super strong, flexible fiber that can conduct heat and electricity. It could be made into a modern version of chain mail, the heavy metal mesh worn by medieval knights. If woven from the new fiber, modern chain mail could be light as a cotton shirt, but bulletproof. Molecular Chain Mail Over hundreds of millions of years of evolution, many animals, plants, and natural materials have developed extraordinary properties. Spider silk, for example, is five times tougher than...

STORM OF CONTROVERSY Shameless Shirtlessness Shocks Official was the headline. The story began with the news that a 30-or-so Westerner, caught on his motorbike in a rainstorm on Kampuchea Krom Blvd, decided to remove all of his clothing except for his underwear. This act apparently caused such a stir that Phnom Penh Governor Chea Sophara announced a ban on shirtless motorcycle driving. The governor was quoted as saying, ?I must stop this. Do not allow this to go on anymore. They can do whatever they want outside the city, but not once they get inside.? He then added that...

DETROIT (Reuters) - A Detroit-area school was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday for prohibiting a student anti-war protester from wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of President Bush and the words "International Terrorist." The American Civil Liberties Union said the suit, filed in federal court, alleged that the constitutional rights of Bretton Barber had been violated by Dearborn High School when it ordered him to either wear the T-shirt inside out or go home on Feb. 17. Dearborn High School Superintendent John Artis declined to comment on the suit involving Barber, who is a junior at the school...

By KAY CALLAHAN LOS ANGELES — Geeks are becoming popular party animals, thanks to an incredible new shirt that makes them seem as sexy as Hollywood movie stars! It’s called the Party Shirt, and it turns social misfits into irresistible hunks. Early tests show the chemically treated shirt drives women wild whenever they come near any man who’s wearing it. “I used to get tossed out of line any time I tried to get into a hot nightclub,” says Ralph Jarmel, a 22-year-old convenience-store clerk from L.A. “Girls would laugh at my skinny body and my eyeglasses. “Then I found...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A rural New Jersey school district was wrong to suspend a high school student because he wore a T-shirt with redneck humor, a federal appeals court ruled. In a 2-1 decision issued Thursday, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the ban by the Warren Hills Regional School District was unconstitutional because there had been no previous problems involving the T-shirt at the school near the Pennsylvania border.The district adopted an anti-harassment and intimidation policy last year after several months of racial tension at the high school. The policy most notably banned the display of the...

October 3, 2002 -- The Cherokee County School Board is dealing with a clothing controversy of its own, which bans Dixie outfitter clothing.So far, there is no change in the policy, but last night the school board heard plenty of arguments for changing the policy.Some people came from surrounding counties to voice their opinions about the Confederate Flag and wearing confederate symbols.Many students and parents insist it's not about promoting discrimination but rather southern pride and history."Your students are not racist," one speaker said. "It's your teachers and your principals that's the problem."The principal at Cherokee High School has formed...

Amy Slauson, 15, a 9th-grader at Cherokee High School in Canton, wears a T-shirt bearing the Confederate flag. On Friday, about 150 students protested a ban on Dixie Outfitters shirts, and were told to change their shirts or hide the emblem. Some 150 Cherokee High School students showed up Friday for class wearing T-shirts with the Confederate flag emblem, in protest of a school ban.School officials told students to change their shirts or hide the emblem, saying the flag is offensive to some students.Principal Bill Sebring announced Thursday that Dixie Outfitters T-shirts featuring southern heritage themes with the Confederate flag...