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Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave - and then rescinded - a business award to a popular topless club in Texas, the proprietor said Thursday. Dawn Rizos said she was looking forward to receiving the promised "Entrepreneur of the Year" award at a Washington, D.C., banquet from American Solutions for Winning the Future, which the former U.S. House speaker chairs. After all, Rizos is the owner of The Lodge, which was named the Best Overall Club in America last year by ED Publications, which sponsors the gentlemen's club industry's annual convention and trade show. But before she had a chance to...

Video at link. One of Zo's best, IMHO.

LIBERAL TALIBAN ISSUES FATWA AGAINST MISS CALIFORNIAMay 13, 2009 Not even Dick Cheney can incite the blood-curdling rage of liberals at the sight of a sexy Evangelical Christian. Paula Jones, Katherine Harris, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and, most recently, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, have all come under a frenzy of attacks from liberals. Christians are supposed to be fat, balding sweaty little men with bad complexions. It's liberals who are supposed to be the sexy ones. (I know that from watching "The West Wing" and all movies starring Julia Roberts.) But sadly for liberals, in real life, the fat, balding...

NDP candidate Lenore Zann says she was disappointed but not surprised to learn a Liberal campaign worker leaked a nude photo of her to the media. The photo of a topless Ms. Zann, an actor, was from an episode of the lesbian drama The L-Word she filmed in Vancouver in 2007. "Everybody warned me before that politics is dirty, that if they can’t find something on you, they will make something up, that smear campaigns are quite the norm, which I think is really, really a shame for our democracy," she said in a phone interview from New York on...

As a bartender and trainer at a national restaurant chain, Rebecca Brown earned a couple thousand dollars in a really good week. Now, as a dancer at Chicago's Pink Monkey gentleman's club, she makes almost that much in one good night. The tough job market is prompting a growing number of women across the country to dance in strip clubs, appear in adult movies or pose for magazines like Hustler. Employers across the adult entertainment industry say they're seeing an influx of applications from women who, like Brown, are attracted by the promise of flexible schedules and fast cash. Many...

A one-time motel in a small central Maine town could soon be offering an eye-opening way to start the day — topless coffee shop waitresses. The Vassalboro Planning Board on Tuesday will consider a business permit request for a topless coffee shop on busy Route 3. The one-story building has also been the home to several other business ventures, most recently Mac Daddy's Pub at the Fat Cat Grille, which closed three or four years ago. Neighbors have mixed opinions. Some say Vassalboro is a rural town and that a topless coffee shop would bring the wrong crowd. But others...

A woman sunbathing topless on a beach does not surprise anyone now. Most people do not even pay any attention to such a phenomenon nowadays. Some other women believe that they have to remove the lower part of their bathing suit too, although in this case they need to find a nude beach. Sunbathing nude obviously has its advantages. It gives a beautiful tan with no stripes of white skin on the body, whereas the body does not suffer from synthetic fabric. However, wearing Eve’s or Adam’s costume has its downside too. “Sunbathing for a long time can be harmful....

Group: Topless taboo is sexistCity says shirtless protest can skirt ordinances Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican 8/22/2008 - 8/23/08 An organization that believes in extraterrestrials and claims to have cloned the world's first human wants women to bare their breasts in public today. They'll get no legal arguments from the city of Santa Fe. The Raelian Movement was founded by a sports-car journalist named Claude Vorihon who claims to have been visited by space aliens near Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1973. Vorihon, who subsequently changed his name to Rael, said the aliens — 3-feet tall with pale-green skin, almond-shaped eyes...

We enjoyed reading Jane Ahlin’s column published on inforum.com, “McCain’s good-ol’-boy fun won’t win the hearts of women voters,” about McCain jokingly suggesting that his wife partake in the Buffalo Chip beauty pageant in Sturgis, S.D. We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that Gotopless.org is organizing an upcoming Gotopless national protest on Aug. 23, to which Mrs. McCain has formally been invited, because gender inequality is unfortunately not a joke in the United States when men are free to be sans shirt while women are arrested and fined for this “criminal” act. If Mrs. McCain...

ABC News' Gregory Wallace and Sara Just Report: Sen. John McCain, R-Az., perhaps unknowingly, volunteered his wife for a beauty pageant on Monday that often features contestants topless -- and, occasionally, without any decency -- at the Sturgis, South Dakota, motorcycle rally.

Easton, MD--For only the third time in five years, Easton police have ticketed someone for going topless in public. Sean Cephus, 18, was cited June 4 when police say he was spotted without a shirt on South Street near Hanson Street. He was also cited for failing to obey a lawful order to stop for police. A town ordinance adopted in 1974 forbids anyone from going topless in public buildings or on public streets and sidewalks. Possible penalties are a fine of up to $100 and up to 10 days in jail Easton Police Lt. Gregory Wright said people without...

"Women will continue to be barred from bathing topless at an indoor pool in the central Swedish town of Enköping following a decision by the town council’s recreation committee on Tuesday. Prior to the decision, committee member Stefan Brandberg cited concerns about the health of young girls in his opposition to the proposed lifting of the ban. “We believe that it can contribute to anorexia—there is a risk for that,” he said to the newspaper Expressen. Monica Hällgren, chair of the Enköping recreation committee, confirmed that one of the central arguments for leaving the ban in place was concern over...

Women will continue to be barred from bathing topless at an indoor pool in the central Swedish town of Enköping following a decision by the town council’s recreation committee on Tuesday. Prior to the decision, committee member Stefan Brandberg cited concerns about the health of young girls in his opposition to the proposed lifting of the ban. “We believe that it can contribute to anorexia—there is a risk for that,” he said to the newspaper Expressen. Monica Hällgren, chair of the Enköping recreation committee, confirmed that one of the central arguments for leaving the ban in place was concern over...

Two Swedish women who want to be allowed go topless in the nation's swimming pools have had their case rejected by Sweden's equality watchdog. A ruling released on Friday underlined that women's bodies were different from men's: "There is a physical difference between a woman's upper body and that of a man," said Equal Opportunities Ombudsman Anne-Marie Bergström. "There is also a great difference between how people in general perceive men's and women's bodies. It is therefore hard to maintain that [the topless bathers] were in a comparable situation to men who bathed with naked upper bodies." Ragnhild Karlsson, 22,...

Photos of a shirtless Vladimir Putin on vacation in Siberia have stirred numerous debates and set hearts aflutter. But some of the photos of him taken on the same trip -- topless and with a rifle -- were only made available to the Russian media.

Topless woman battles deputies By Kymm Mann/Appeal-Democrat May 16, 2007 - 4:53PM East Nicolaus High School was locked down Tuesday afternoon after a bare-breasted, shotgun-toting woman reportedly took a shot at a cropduster. Sutter County Sheriff Jim Denney said the woman, Jaymi Louise Sanders, 47, possibly from the Pleasant Grove area, was walking near Pacific Avenue about one-quarter south of Nicolaus Avenue in south Sutter County, near the school. “We got a call about 12:15, someone reporting there was a female carrying a shotgun and waving it around in that area,” Denney said. “We also heard that she allegedly had...

Related To Story The Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals disclosed Thursday that it upheld a Volusia County judge's opinion that Elizabeth Book could protest while topless on the city's Main Street Bridge.   Appeals Court Upholds Woman's Right To Protest While Topless   POSTED: 4:59 pm EDT October 12, 2006 UPDATED: 5:33 pm EDT October 12, 2006   ORLANDO, Fla. -- A woman, who was arrested when she exposed her breasts to protest laws that bar women from publicly going bare breasted, can demonstrate topless as part of a legitimate political protest, an appeals court has ruled.  ...

The Austin High School Art teacher at the center of a national controversy over topless photos of her that were published on-line is resigning from the school district. In a statement on her web site on MySpace.com, Tamara Hoover says she is settling out of court with AISD and stepping down from her position. The school board had upheld Hoover's termination after they found out that her friend, photographer Celesta Danger, had posted topless photos of her on-line. Hoover vowed to appeal that decision, but writes on her web site that the high cost of the continuing legal challenge played...

(08-08) 16:12 PDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A lunchtime parade of topless porn stars down the main street of New Zealand's biggest city has been given official approval, as no laws will be broken. The parade later this month will feature up to 30 porn stars riding on the back of motorcycles or in open cars through Auckland's CBD to promote an erotica exposition. The bare breast drive has been held informally since 2003, but this is the first time permission has been sought, and given, by Auckland City Council. Organizer Steve Crow said it would promote an Erotica...

"Tirana, Albania (AHN) - After thirty Scandinavian women went topless on an Albanian beach resort, the Albanian police were left speechless. A local newspaper in the town of Sarande said, "Police only watched ... they could not approach the tourists because they spoke no English." "

A Swedish tourist caused a military alert in an Albanian village when she decided to indulge in a bit of topless sunbathing. The woman was part of a tourist group that stopped by at the beach. According to Aftonbladet, Albanian women on the beach fled with their children and called the police, shocked by the sight of the scantily clad tourist. A military patrol was sent to the scene, the paper quoted Italian daily Corriere della Sera as reporting. The soldiers were unable to do anything, however, as they couldn't communicate with the woman.

PARISIAN sunbathers will no longer be allowed to go nude or wear g-strings on the capital's artificial beaches and risk a fine if they are caught baring their breasts or buttocks. City hall has issued a decree banning indecent clothing to preserve the tranquillity of the sandy beaches created on the banks of the River Seine every summer since 2001. "People must behave according to good standards to maintain tranquillity, security and public order," the decree said, according to Saturday's edition of Le Parisien. "Notably indecent attire (nude sunbathing, g-strings and toplessness etc) is forbidden." The city police will be...

China irked by topless women's health ad Tue Jun 13, 12:45 AM ET A Chinese TV presenter issued a public apology after posing topless with two other women in hospital advertisements for women's health, the Beijing News said on Tuesday. Chen Dan, a presenter on Changsha TV's "Women's channel" in the southeastern province of Hunan, drew fire from Internet chat-rooms and station bosses after her "Clever Girls Love Themselves More" advertisement appeared at bus stops and on billboards in Hunan's capital, Changsha. Chen, who was suspended from presenting duties said it was a "public interest advertisement", the Beijing News said....

A Garland County sheriff's deputy has been fired and charged with misdemeanors for allegedly going topless at a campground at Lake Ouachita. Dawn Rene Roberson, 38, of Royal was terminated Wednesday after she turned herself in on misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and disorderly conduct. Incident reports show that marine patrol Deputy John Tinney on Sunday spotted Roberson riding on the bow of a boat with her top off. Tinney told her to cover up and not ride on the bow, letting her off with a verbal warning. Later Sunday near Crystal Springs Campground, Army Corps of Engineers Park Ranger...

A California professor has been exposed … well, actually, she exposed herself (and with a smile). Dr. Diana York Blaine—a women’s studies professor at the University of Southern California—has decided to post topless photos of herself on the Internet. Based on the pictures, Blaine enjoys burning her bras and being “liberated.” Unfortunately, that “liberated” feeling is available for everyone to see on her personal website. The USC professor’s “titillating” site is causing quite a stir, but the university, apparently, won’t be making any “busts.” A KNBC reporter said “a university spokesperson was caught off guard when asked for a reaction...

CEO disputes $241K tab at topless club Attorney says charges were fraudulent NEW YORK (AP) -- American Express is suing the CEO of a communications company for payment of $241,000 worth of disputed credit card charges at a Manhattan topless club. American Express says in papers filed in state court that Savvis Inc. chief executive officer Robert A. McCormick was in the club Scores in October 2003 with at least three other men. After McCormick got the $241,000 corporate credit card bill, Savvis called American Express and complained that some of the charges were fraudulent, the lawsuit says. The communications...

NEW YORK -- A Russian tennis player and French Open winner cannot stop a New York photographer from distributing topless pictures taken of her during a magazine photo session in the summer of 2002, a federal judge says. Anastasia Myskina was 20 years old when the photographs were taken by Mark Seliger, according to facts outlined in a written decision by U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey in Manhattan.

DAYTONA BEACH -- Elizabeth Book, the stay-at-home mom with a rose tattoo, has won the right to bare her breasts in her ongoing fight to go shirtless anywhere men can. On Saturday at noon, the 40-something "top-free" revolutionary plans to demonstrate her right to protest by dropping her top at the Peabody Auditorium next to three statues of women nude from the waist up. "I will be as top-free as the statues," Book said Monday in an e-mail to the nudists and naturists who have gathered to support her cause. "This is not over until Daytona is forced to recognize...

PHILADELPHIA -- An animal rights protester went topless Wednesday to expose what she alleged was animal abuse at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. The half-naked woman from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals handcuffed herself to the Gallery Mall in Center City Philadelphia. The circus is at the Spectrum in South Philadelphia through May 1. Brandi Ballad wore shackles and fake scars to depict what she said was reality for circus animals. What she wasn't wearing was a top to go with her black panties. "I want people to know that every time they buy a...

A FORMER topless dancer who was famously cleared of battering a Florida nightclub patron with her huge breasts, has shed her oversized silicone implants and put one of them up for auction on eBay. Tawny Peaks, as she was known professionally, said yesterday she had retrieved the implants from a box in her closet after watching a television program about bizarre items sold on the internet auction site. She said she would autograph the size 69-HH implant for the winner but would keep its mate. As of last night, the top bid was $US2300 ($2927).

Easley campaign returning money from topless club owner The Associated Press Published: Feb 3, 2005 Modified: Feb 3, 2005 2:40 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Gov. Mike Easley's re-election campaign will return donations it received from a Charlotte-based operator of topless bars. Easley political adviser Mac McCorkle offered no reason for the refund to David "Slim" Baucom, who runs 17 topless clubs, including 12 in North Carolina. Easley, who won re-election in November, has returned contributions from other club owners in the past. Campaign finance reports at the State Board of Elections show Baucom gave $8,000 to Easley during the 2004...

SACRAMENTO CA - Picture a gorgeous day. Surf and sand. Perfect time to erase unsightly tan lines, or just enjoy the sun's warmth on your chest. At least, if you're a guy. Under a little-known law, it's technically illegal for women to sunbathe topless on California state beaches or in state parks. Worse, some lawyers contend, topless sunbathing could land California women on the state's sex-offender database for life. So lawyers with the California Bar Association's Conference of Delegates are shopping around for a lawmaker willing to clarify the law, or even take a step toward what they view as...

IS THIS THE MEASURE OF EQUALITY?: As it happens, a Ventura California female lawyer is attempting to make the case that the state is discriminating against women. How so? Because topless sunbathing by women is a criminal misdemeanor - for men it is not. Additionally Liana Johnsson is arguing against the inclusion of the "topless misdemeanor" in the list of offenses that gets one included on the Megan's List for sex offenders. In an Orange County case last month a State Appeals Court ruled that anyone convicted of misdemeanor indecent exposure must be added to the list. Orange County public defenders are objecting because of...

ATHENS -- The Olympics received a glorious welcome home last night, as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad officially began with ambitious, sexy and entertaining -- if somewhat long -- Opening Ceremonies. [SNIP] In what must have been an Opening Games first, there was more than a hint of nudity in the parade -- most of it simulated, with molded costumes that showed male athletes competing in the ancient Games sans clothing. But the very elegant young lady who led the parade as the Goddess of Fertility was quite obviously topless for real. [SNIP]

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...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There's a topless protest being planned this weekend in Daytona Beach, at the end of Bike Week. Liz Book of Ormond Beach is among the organizers. She hopes to lead a thousand "top-free" women and men along a half-mile of Main Street from the pier to the bridge. The goal is to add Daytona Beach to the small but growing list of places that allow women to show their breasts openly, just like men. Even if only two people join her protest, she plans to still go through with it. City officials and police are mostly...

MADISON -- A Saco businessman who hoped to open a topless coffee bar on Main Street promised Thursday to reconsider after residents spoke out against his plans at a Planning Board meeting. Normand St Michel said he was surprised at the reaction to his proposal and promised residents outside the meeting that he took their concerns seriously. "I was all for it when I came here but now I am split down the middle," he said. He added his wife was also against the plan. Ann Harsh, who works at a convenience store on Main Street, was one of those...

ROCKLEDGE, Fla. - (KRT) - Scanning the roomful of women, Jamie Hooper couldn't help but snicker. Seated together were 10 women, most of them middle-aged and two who qualified as senior citizens. "Ladies," Hooper teased her fellow plaintiffs that day a month ago, "we don't need to be taking our tops off." Yet they are battling in federal court for the right to do just that, hoping to add to the small list of places where baring the female breast has been decriminalized. Meet the women who call themselves the Topfree 10, a group as diverse as the ordinances and...

Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz has temporarily blocked the publication of topless photographs taken before she was famous. The 31-year-old star of Charlie's Angles and Something About Mary is suing photographer John Rutter in a Los Angeles court to suppress the pictures, taken when she was 21. She says a signature appearing on a release form permitting sale of the photos, has been forged. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alan Haber ruled that the pictures should be sealed until the case is settled because Diaz has a right to protect the privacy of her own body. He also sealed release of...

Hollywood beauty Cameron Diaz has begging a Los Angeles judge to ban 11-year-old photos of her wearing only a leather basque. The Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle star wants 28 risque pictures and a sexy video of herself semi-naked banned from being published in newspapers and magazines worldwide - as the images were taken when she was just 19. Cameron, who is dating Justin Timberlake, told a Los Angeles court on Friday, "These pictures will cause me distress, embarrassment and anger." The sexy actress also fears they will damage her reputation as one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. However...

A 75-year-old woman has upset her neighbours in southern China by cooking topless on her apartment balcony. Neighbours complained to local authorities about the woman who cooks topless even in icy weather on the balcony of her home in Dongguan. The widow appeared to be polite and intelligent in all respects other than her tendency to remove her top before cooking out of doors, the Southern Metropolis News said. The neighbourhood committee talked to the woman but she told them it was "nobody's business" how she dressed at home. Explaining why she cooked topless, the woman reportedly quoted an old...

<p>FBI agents leave Cheetah's in Las Vegas after the raid Wednesday.</p> <p>LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Dozens of FBI agents conducted raids in two states as part of a public corruption probe seeking information about strip club owners and their possible involvement with elected officials.</p>

<p>ATHENS, Ohio -- Eight years ago, Ohio University hired renowned photojournalist Larry Nighswander to direct its visual communications school, figuring his talent and industry contacts would add prestige to OU's acclaimed communications program.</p> <p>On Monday, Nighswander was fired as director in the aftermath of a $3 million lawsuit filed by a student who says Nighswander used his position to coerce her into posing topless for him while they were alone in a locked campus studio.</p>

Wednesday, May 7 Price calls SI report an 'absolute lie' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESPN.com news services BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Former Alabama football coach Mike Price said he was "too drunk to really know" what happened at a topless bar in Florida on the night that ultimately led to his firing, The Birmingham News reported Wednesday. But Price told the News that he did not have sex in his Pensacola, Fla., hotel room that night, and he denied allegations that he bought alcoholic drinks for students in Tuscaloosa bars on other occasions. Price's attorney, Stephen Heninger, also said Price had never been warned...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has to fork out $10,000 for arresting a woman who appeared topless at the 2001 Coney Island Mermaid Parade, her lawyer says. The 31-year-old Brooklyn woman, Amy Gunderson, wore only a thong and body paint at the annual Mermaid parade and sued the city for violating her First Amendment rights after police arrested her. "A woman has a constitutional right to appear in public topless, the same right that men have," her lawyer, Ron Kuby, said Wednesday. The city settled after the charges against Gunderson were dismissed. City lawyer Deborah Meyer said the...

Lock up your daughters! Here's some performers getting their start in the biz.

<p>They like their colorful characters; they just want them to behave.</p> <p>So while lauding the artists and musicians who gather downtown, Santa Cruz council members Tuesday agreed to move forward with an aggressive program aimed at making the downtown more comfortable for other visitors.</p>

Women Who Run Topless Car Wash in Liberal Idaho College City Are Evicted From Communal Home The Associated PressPublished: Jul 11, 2002 MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) - A topless car wash held to raise rent money was drained when some of the bare-breasted businesswomen were kicked out of their communal home. City officers served trespassing notices on five of the 11 residents Wednesday, threatening arrest if they returned, Police Chief Dan Weaver said. The residents do not have a lease and not subject to formal eviction procedures, he said. The action came at the behest of landlords David and Sis Clift,...

A topless car wash is raising eyebrows and questions in Moscow, Idaho. Is it a case of indecency, or women exercising their civil rights? That's a question Moscow's City Council will answer this week. "We had about four days to come up with four hundred dollars," said Daisy Mace, one of the topless car washers. Mace and some of her roommates needed to earn rent money, and they had to earn it fast. The out of work roommates looked around for ideas and landed on a plan for a topless car wash. The gimmick worked. "We were washing cars nonstop...

Using Booze and Breasts to Get Voters Last Updated: June 10, 2002 09:38 AM ET PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech voters are having to make some hard election choices -- should they support the party offering free alcohol or the one using topless women in its campaign? With the Christian Democrats handing out free shots of plum brandy in the Moravian town of Valasske Mezirici during a weekend election rally, the Communist party had to quickly change its strategy for a meeting in the same town square. Soon the party had five topless women handing out campaign literature, forcing people...