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Edina (MN) woman shaves head in protest at climate gathering
StarTribune.com ^ | 12/18,09 | Paul Walsh

Posted on 12/18/2009 8:13:45 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

An Edina woman in Copenhagen for the U.N. climate conference as part of a youth group joined 30 others in shaving their heads outside the conference center on Friday, the last scheduled day of the gathering.

Valida Prentice, 24, who traveled to Copenhagen two weeks ago as an accredited observer, and the others each held a sign outside the conference center that explained why they made this symbolic gesture.

"Shaving my head can symbolize a lot," Prentice said in a prepared statement, "the ugly negotiating process, the bad decisions made by negotiators, or the catastrophic changes that unabated climate change could bring about. But for me, my shaved head symbolizes a promise of new growth in the international climate movement to secure a fair and binding international agreement on climate change."

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To: vpintheak

Some women can pull off the bald look and still be beautiful.

This is not one of them.


41 posted on 12/18/2009 10:36:57 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Most definitely not.


42 posted on 12/18/2009 10:38:54 PM PST by vpintheak (How can love of God, Family and Country make me an extremist?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

If her hair was as greasy and as infected as her skin, maybe it’s a GOOD thing that she shaved it.


43 posted on 12/18/2009 10:45:15 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: BigCinBigD
Nun as in, Aint had nun and aint gonna get nun... ;^)

...and probably don't want nun.

44 posted on 12/18/2009 10:49:17 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: TypeZoNegative

Envirowhako
Dingbat
Idiot’s
Never
Attractive

And this ice queen conehead proves the point.


45 posted on 12/18/2009 10:54:46 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Normally these people protest such weighty issues by taking off their clothes. I guess it’s just too bloody cold in Denmark this time of year for a traditional naked-lefty protest.


46 posted on 12/18/2009 10:58:30 PM PST by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Awww, geez. This could be my niece (husband’s side, LOL), except she’s in Minnetonka. Her parents are wannabe hippies that never grew up.

Lots of deluded youth are up and coming here in the land of 10,000 taxes. I think their hope and change dreams are about to get smacked upside their shaved heads.


47 posted on 12/18/2009 11:36:20 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
 
 
"Shaving my head can symbolize a lot," Prentice said in a prepared statement, "the ugly negotiating process, the bad decisions made by negotiators, or the catastrophic changes that unabated climate change could bring about. But for me, my shaved head symbolizes a promise of new growth in the international climate movement to secure a fair and binding international agreement on climate change."
 
 
????????
 
I don't have a translator to convert all that moonbatese to English, so I guess I'll have to remain ignorant and un-enlightened.
 
 

48 posted on 12/18/2009 11:53:16 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: stevem
Does the opinion of an accredited observer carry more weight than the opinion of an unaccredited observer?

Of course. The unaccredited observer doesn't have a badge and is probably $150 richer for not having paid for it. Therefore their opinion is... well...cheaper?

49 posted on 12/19/2009 2:11:02 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah, big deal.

Moonbat chicks still won’t shave their underarms or legs.
They’ll never get it.


50 posted on 12/19/2009 2:24:50 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

51 posted on 12/19/2009 3:05:42 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; SteamShovel; SolitaryMan; grey_whiskers; IrishCatholic; Darnright; Entrepreneur; ..
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

52 posted on 12/19/2009 3:36:09 AM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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To: combat_boots

It looks as if they should have been shaving her legs, too.


53 posted on 12/19/2009 4:37:40 AM PST by TheOldLady (No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

OMGosh! OMGosh! Kool-aid makes you bald!


54 posted on 12/19/2009 4:39:11 AM PST by TheOldLady (No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

AAAHHGHhuuuhhh!

Get a Burka! Bag! Something! GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!


55 posted on 12/19/2009 4:40:49 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: John-Irish

It’s idiocy with a purpose. Idiots like her are cultivated and encouraged for the purpose of making the radicals in charge of the summit fiasco look less lnsane by comparison.


56 posted on 12/19/2009 4:45:18 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lapsus calami
"Shaving my head can symbolize a lot," Prentice said in a prepared statement...

Words symbolize a lot. She should try communicating that way.

Why a 'prepared statement' for what is supposed to be her sincere and heartfelt belief? Maybe because it was someone else's agenda on the tool's notecard?

What's do these loons do when they get in a heated debate? Do they try to duel with facepaint?

57 posted on 12/19/2009 4:58:22 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

It’s very true what you say. However, idiots like Pelosi are still idiots. Which in and of itself wouldn’t be so bad but this woman is an idiot who holds the gavel to The House of Representatives of The United States .


58 posted on 12/19/2009 5:53:35 AM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: TheOldLady

:^) OH YEAH!


59 posted on 12/19/2009 5:55:10 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What is wrong with people that they think that making a *statement* is going to make any difference?

All it does is show that she and her friends are attention whores.


60 posted on 12/19/2009 6:34:42 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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