Posted on 01/04/2005 8:39:37 AM PST by kahoutek
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.
In the "Breast Christmas Ever" contest, 13 women were awarded the procedure after writing essays to the stations explaining why they wanted larger breasts. A Tampa station claimed to receive more than 91,000 entries.
Clear Channel said it had nothing to do with the contest and that it was a decision by local station managers to hold the promotion. The contest was aired on Clear Channel stations in Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Louis and Detroit.
The contest has drawn the ire of both the National Research Center for Women & Families and the National Organization for Women. NOW has urged its supporters to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission against Clear Channel and its stations.
The controversy comes within months of Clear Channel paying a record $1.75 million fine to resolve indecency complaints against New York-based shock jock Howard Stern, Tampa radio personality "Bubba the Love Sponge" and others. The station formally agreed to "clean up its act," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in June.
Picture is a little over the top for FR... IMHO. That pink string does not cover the oreo cookies.
I don't remember what my batting average was this last year, but it was OK... could always be better. Guess they don't get in the way of my swing!
I know that...at my skinniest looking, I actually weighed more. This came from riding a bike 12 miles a day, plus running 3 miles and weight training. I loved that duty station, man I was CUT!!! LOL
I can't even wear Wonderbras, as they don't make them in the "you've already got boobies, so why are you complaining" size. :o)
I haven't swung the bat in 30 years.
I guess the argument that the feminazis are so fond of ("It's my body and I'll do as I please with it...") does not apply here. NOW better hope that its criticism is merely ignored.
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The NOW biddies think that women who have plastic surgery are doing it to please an EVIL MAN!!! That's why they get in a huff over it. They're still going to try to convince normal women that all men are evil raping sexist pigs.
Good luck to them...women in general have more brains than that.
You were svelte!
LOL! That's too funny. I knew I liked you. :)
You have GOT to get back out there! Did you know that there are more women playing softball out there than ever? And most of them aren't the chubby cuties like me... most of them are thin cuties! Of course, they are ultra competitive, and many of them field better than the men, but they are fun to watch (or so my guy friends tell me!)
N.O.W.... hmm isn't that the organization that let Clinton off the hook regarding SEVERAL accusations of RAPE because his politics was OK?
That so looks deformed.
Not to me, lol! I was quite proud of my skinny biceps, but Mr. Ex would have been horrified if I had ended up looking tougher than him, lol.
I was in the best shape of my life, I have to say. No way to get back to that kind of regimen again, but I will be working out more intensely after the baby is born. I am sick of elastic waistbands already. :) Course, I just got out of the suckers six months ago, so gee I wonder why!
Photoshop?
Well, since they aren't real, it's like posting a picture of a mannequin. ;)
You'll rebound at whatever rate you choose. Not substitute for good genetics.
Yes, there aren't many adult baseball leagues here either. I think it's a liability thing. What a shame!
Any woman who is tough enough to have five babies is a hero in my book! How far along are you?
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