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With eco-fashion trending so quickly into people’s wardrobes, Fur Fashion Week looks like a controversy to be sure. This year’s Fur Fashion Week, organized by FICA (Fur Information Council of America) will take place over the next two days, May 13 – 14, at which time, there will be 17 presentations, including those by Michael Kors, Bill Blass, Ralph Rucci, Isaac Mizrahi, Peter Som, Zandra Rhodes, Zac Posen, Angel Sanchez, Carmen Mark Valvo, and Kati Stern for Venexiana.

GASP! How dare the West Virginians REJECT our beloved Obamassiah! What a bunch of ignorant hillbillies! Half of them actually believe that Barack Obama shares Rev. Wright's views. Hey, what is wrong with them? Didn't they hear our beloved Barack state that he never ever heard (during the Annunciation prior to the Renunciation) Rev. Wright say anything remotely slamming the USA. Just because Obama was a member of Wright's Hate Whitey congregation for 20 years doesn't mean he ever heard anything unpleasant leaving the good Reverend's lips. He most likely wasn't attending church that day or was sleeping through...

It is really amazing to watch. You can make money on this: whenever politicians or church leaders glom on to a concept, it’s over. John McCain has fastened on the global warming hoax like a remora. It’s not just bad for the economy, for freedom and for the environment, it’s also incredibly bad timing for “Maverick” John McCain. Holman Jenkins points out in the Wall Street Journal: And yet every journalistic tendril senses that the fuss over warming is about to cool. Global mean temperatures have been flat for a decade. The biofuel folly has chased away any easy belief...

Let’s see: Obama beat Clinton in North Carolina by 20 points and that seals her fate. Clinton beats Obama by 41 points in West Virginia and it makes no difference. The fact is it probably doesn’t in term of who get the Democrat nomination. Cokie and John Roberts point out that being Black in the Democrat party is an asset. But at this time, in this party, being black is an enormous asset. Given America's long, torturous path toward racial justice, many Democrats simply cannot imagine denying the nomination to the first serious African-American candidate for president.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (Ariz.) told a campaign audience that charges he has a bad temper make him angry. “In fact, I had to deck one of my senate colleagues for calling me ‘Senator Hothead,’” McCain announced. “For me, fighting for this country and my beliefs isn’t just a figure-of-speech.” McCain argued that he is “the perfect candidate for those bitter Americans who cling to guns and religion and have antipathy toward those who hate our country.” Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) called McCain’s remarks “a vindication of my plan to rejuvenate America by sweeping aside the angry...

As many of you know my wife just immigrated to the U.S. She is living in the Denver area and needs some help finding a job and social services. My mom is helping her but she is starting to get older and this is all new to her. So if any of you freepers live in the Denver area and can give her a hand let me know. I will be forever in your debt.

Last week Typical White Person Sen. Hillary Clingin' made an appeal to the bitter nature of her base, the HillAryan Nation. She talked about "how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on. . . . There's a pattern emerging here. . . . " Yes, Your Thighness, you do have a much broader base, as your poor pantsuit will attest. And yes, there is a pattern emerging here:...

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Purchasing a pistol with your stimulus package money is foolish if you consider that for the same money...

“Legal Dramedy”, is how Wikipedia defines the format of the TV series Boston Legal. Living TV describes the show as a “… critically acclaimed and Emmy Award-winning quirky legal drama …” That is a good summary of why I first became enamored with this brilliantly entertaining program. Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to hear the production characterized as “shamelessly liberal”. With that, Boston Legal’s brilliance and entertainment value has continued to decline and its charm is rapidly fading for me. Ironically, in a recent episode, entitled “Tabloid Nation”, Boston Legal, itself, addresses my very concern. In that episode, during...

Pictures from and more pictures available in: http://media.theaustralian.com.au/multimedia/2008/05/13-quake/index.html May 12, 2008, 2:28pm local time in Sichuan Province, China, when school children were in class, a severe earthquake happened. More than one thousand school children were killed or buried in debris. My hometown is in Deyang, one of the areas most severely affected by the earthquake. How I hope to help a hand to those people suffering in my hometown instead of trapping in US for summer work. Thank you all guys for your kind heart and attention to this disaster. I really appreciate it.

[Fax sent in CAPS] DEAR SENATOR MCCAIN: THANK YOU, FOR YOUR SERVICE IN VIETNAM AS WELL AS THE UNITED STATES SENATE. I WAS ALSO MEDEVACED OUT OF VIETNAM AND SPENT MANY MONTHS IN MILITARY AND VA HOSPITALS. IF I MAY, SENATOR, I WOULD LIKE TO STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT YOU KEEP ONLY THE SLIGHTEST OPEN MIND TO THE INCREASING DATA THAT IS BEING RELEASED ON A DAILY BASIS SHOWING THAT MUCH OF THE CARBON SCARE IS BASED ON COMPUTER MODELS THAT ARE VERY, VERY SUSPECT, AT BEST. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY FRAGILE ECONOMIC TIME FOR AMERICA'S ENERGY NEEDS AND SO MUCH...

Here is the 2008 Electoral Vote Projection Map and State Poll Average Chart for Tuesday, May 13, 2008. . . .Check out a new feature added here at Electoral Projection. The National Poll Average Chart (above) will now break down the polls from the last 50-days by polls that use: Likely Voters; Registered Voters; Random Sample of Adults. You can always find the chart at the bottom of the page. I have noticed that polls using "Registered Voters" or "Adults" rather than "Likely Voters" seem to always have Obama doing better. The chart bears that out. McCain actually leads in...

Suppose they held a lunch of all the major Wall Street brokerage players and investment bankers , except no one invited anyone from Bear Stearns. Then immediately following the lunch, no one wants to buy securities from Bear Stearns and the Fed walks in to give JPMorgan Chase a multi-billion dollar ticket to buy Bear Stearns on the cheap because of the “panic” about Bear Stearns liquiditiy. The lunch actually happened and here’s who was there...

The National Council of La Raza is literally means the National Council of the Race. It started in Phoenix in 1968 as the Southwest Council of the Race, funded by Ford Foundation, the National Council of Churches, and the United Auto Workers. In 1973, it went national, moved to Washington, D.C. and renamed itself the National Council of La Raza. At first, the organization focused solely on the advancement of Mexicans in America, but in 1975 it expanded its focus to include other Latinos. By 1979, it became policy. At this time, the NCLR was almost completely federally funded. The...

Event coming up: Military Appreciation Day at the Tacoma Mall Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 10:00 to 5:00 - in response to the protest on March 15th. Stop by and see us if you are in the area! Freebies and fun stuff for the kids - Volunteers welcome! (face painting and balloon animals) All materials will be provided. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post announcements - I don't know where else to post it.

Several years ago, when I still thought Fantasy/Sci-Fi conventions were good places to sell books, we came up with a promotion to give away fortune cookies stuffed with "alternate" fortunes. This met with mixed results. About 50% of the recipients laughed; about 40% said "huh?"; and the remaining 10% got mad (including one miscreant who crumpled up the fortune and threw it at us). Anyway, here they are. See what you think:Eeewww. You got the fortune cookie that fell on the floor. You will join a political party headed by Patrick Stewart. Something awful will happen to you on November...

2008-05-13) — A day after Republican presidential candidate John McCain unveiled his cap-and-trade plan to defeat the imminent threat of global warming, a coalition of conservative voters announced it would enthusiastically support his proposal by refusing to burn fossil fuels on November 4, 2008. “We’re eager to live out Sen. McCain’s conservative vision for the earth,” said the group’s unnamed spokesman, “by keeping millions of Republican-owned SUVs and pickup trucks in their garages on election day.” The coalition said the symbolic move would not only “cut carbon emissions by thousands of tons,” but it would also “put a president in...

Revelations concerning the preaching of Rev. Wright have hit the airways recently; his message exhibits a recurring theme, petitioning God to curse America.  Repeatedly his message condemns the country that shelters him, gave him an education, and provides him an environment to preach his anti-American, pro-Marxist theme of hate, rebellion and racial prejudice all the while providing him a 6 to 7 figure income to promote his bile.           His major thesis is that God has cursed this country and requests God to damn our country.  I would like to share a few thoughts from this humble preacher whose message is...

Scary Signals: Obama’s Ideology Hints At Dangerous Policyhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/scary_signals_obamas_ideology.htmlIf people have more money they won’t be terrorists. (Presumably, like people in Pennsylvania, only the lack of jobs makes people in Lebanon cling to guns …Hezb’allah: Mission Accomplished American Thinker Lebanon to the West — and Obama: Wake Up!http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/12842.htmIf you want to know what’s wrong, consider Obama’s May 10 statement on Lebanon. He starts out playing tough, talking about “Hezbollah’s power grab in Beirut … Analysis: Hezbollah guns mightier than penUnited Press International - May 12, 2008By CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) — Lebanon has always been a country that has...