[METRO.CO.UK] If you're a man and have ever wanted to dress in women's lingerie a firm has come up with the perfect product for you. Because what's more masculine than wanting to dress up in ladies' underwear?
HommeMystere are hoping their new range of lingerie for males, which includes thongs and padded bras, will change the landscape of men's underwear. I guess it'll help distinguish one kinda guy from the other.
The Australian firm said their under garments include 'comfortable men's panties that really do fit, bra straps that don't fall off the shoulder, teddies that don't ride up halfway through the night and quality soft fabrics that feel great for all day wear'. Cotton and that sort of stuff doesn't make it, of course.
The label already has a UK seller so men this side of the world can look forward to more 'enjoyable' pants. That statement results from a misreading of the diffo, if any, between men and women. Women wear 'enjoyable' pants, sometimes changing three or four times in the course of a day. Men wear pants to keep drafts off the wedding tackle and to avoid being arrested.
And the company are keen to stress the garments are not just for gay men. No, no! Certainly not! Your average construction worker or CPA wants nothing so much as to go home at night, have a long bubble bath, and put on a nice teddie.
They added: 'We provide our lingerie for guys. We are not concerned if you are gay, straight, vegetarian, republican, anglican, martian or any other persuasion. "They money's the important thing to us!"
'We just design and manufacture attractive luxury underwear for men.' "And you're never going to hear from us again."
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I'm anticipating Chelsea to run for political office once Big Mama Hillary retires after the 2016-2024 period.
At the rate the GOP = GOP-Right is going, both the 2014 US Midterms + 2016 POTUS Elex will be an ALL-DEMOCRAT SHOW - presuming that Hilary suffers no more health issues [brain clots] come 2016, iff Jaaawhn "I was in Cambodia - you know, Laos" Kerry runs for the Presidency in 2016 the risk is there that Hillary may have to poten settle for being VPOTUS only widout evar! achieving the Presidency???
The Senate strikes me as a better fit for both. They can be graciously patrician without having to actually do anything except be wooed by lobbyists and occasionally make a meaningless floor speech before heading off for endless cocktail/dinner parties hosted by A-listers.
Mark Steyn at his best remembers the invasion of Iberia by the Moors in 711.
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And, if you think today's Euro-American feminists are pretty submissive in the face of Islamist theocrats, well, at the very dawn of female emancipation, millions of women apparently wanted nothing more than to be forcibly seized by some Bedouin chieftain, trussed up over his Arab stallion and ridden into the desert to be his bride. Valentino's moment was brief: the film of The Sheik opened in 1921 and he was dead by 1926, at the age of only 31. And, to the puzzlement of your average bloke, Hollywood's first great screen lover was frankly a bit of a nancy boy. But his alleged smoldering eroticism drove the gals crazy, and 80,000 of them showed up for his funeral, and came near to rioting. It was the biggest send-off for a charismatic Middle Eastern type until the Ayatollah Khomeini's six decades later, when the excitable young lads clutching at his shroud managed to yank the corpse off the bier at one point.
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Steyn for some reason leaves out Ray Stevens, one of the greatest artists of recent (well, fairly recent) years. His "Ahab the Ay-rab" set the standard for burning sands stuff, just as "It's me again, Margaret" set the standard for anonymous phone calling stuff.
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I still got my Ray Stevens greatest hits Al Bum around here somewheres (...rummage...rummage...rummage...). Ahab the A-rab's lyrics alone would make my my dotter's head explode (she's a recent gradgeate from the esteamed Califlower You See System with a degree in International Basket Weaving -- with a minor in perpetual hurt and empathic high horseism ).
[STEVENGODDARD.WORDPRESS] The only year when the spring started colder was 1975. If you really believe in Global Worming you're not surprised.
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Unusually warm temps gets wall to wall coverage like Newton. Unusually cold temps gets coverage like an abortion doctor in Philly. You might think the LSM had an agenda.
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Actually SteveS wasn't that the idea behind the movie 'Day after Tomorrow' where, due to 'Global Warning' an instant ice-age developed over the northen hemisphere - New York City froze over, etc...?
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CrazyFool, that movie was based on a very confused and mistaken telephone-game mangling of the theory extant at the time about meltwater shutting down the North Atlantic Conveyor, which is driven by salt concentrations. Supposedly that would freeze the British Isles, Norway, and western Europe. The idea was that England would be as cold as Labrador without the NAC.
The continental US isn't affected by that mechanism, NYC being some eleven degrees latitude south of London.
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[Al Ahram] Hundreds of Egyptian university students protest deteriorating on-campus services and security, demand dismissal of higher education minister Mostafa Mosaad
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The Newsweek/Daily Beast owner, Barry Diller, shared his regrets today on TV:
There are some magazines that have no competition essentially in their field, luxury magazines, the Washington Free Beacon reports Diller said. Advertisers must advertise in them. But for a news magazine it was not possible to print it any longer. So we said we will offer a digital product. We have a very, very solid newsroom, and well see. I dont have great expectations. I wish I hadnt bought Newsweek. it was a mistake.
[CNBC] Original Twinkies are coming back--but under new management--and with a vow to use nonunion workers.
Some five months after Hostess shut down over a standoff with its unions, the restructured company is expecting to put its snacks back on store shelves in the coming months.
The Hostess closing left more than 18,000 people out of work across the country--with the vast majority belonging to the Teamsters and the Bakery Union.
With Hostess back in business, labor analysts say the union movement may have taken a major hit just when it seemed to be gaining lost energy with recent walkouts or job actions.
"The Hostess strike will be a lasting image and not for the good of unions," said Marc Bloch, a labor and employment lawyer at Walter & Haverfield.
"I think any management team will hold up a photo to its workers of Hostess strikers and say, 'What's a union going to do for you?''' Bloch said. "The case can be made that they did nothing."
The Teamsters said it had no comment, and calls to the Bakery Union were not returned.
For the union workers who were left without a job, the Hostess shutdown showed the weakness of unions, said Daniel Opler, a history professor at College of Mount Saint Vincent and a labor relations specialist.
"There's no question the bakers union that rejected a settlement made a tactical error here," he said. Nothing to worry about. They've got 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
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Private unions have been slowly dying for decades. It's the public unions which are swelling their evil ranks.
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It would be interesting to track the 'leadership' of the former Bakery Union to see if they're collection unemployment or were taking care of by the 'movement' to other positions in the guild hierarchy.
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can't vouch for other municipalities/states, but my eeeeevil (closed shop) public union has shrunk. Managed Competition with private industry (to some extent), cutbacks in pay (6% since 2009) and benefits (no pension - 401K's only for new hires since last year). We aren't allowed to strike and have never had that stranglehold so many claim. I guess we're doing it wrong :-)
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The Marxist/Leftist-Globalists intend or desire for the post-2015, "borderless", OWG-GFU suborned Amerika to be completely unionized - THE SNAFU IN THEIR SCHEMING IS HOW ARE ORDINARY AMERIKANS + LEFTFED GOING TO PAY + SUPPORT US-SPECIFIC WORKPLACE UNIONS [read, $$$ Dues = Accts Payable] WHEN NO ONE HAS A FULL-TIME = 8-HOUR + OT JOB ANYMORE, WHILE THE MILYUHNS + DILYUHNS OF FOREIGN WORKERS INVITED TO LIVE + WORK IN PAN-TTP AMERIKA ARE SALARIED AT BELOW THE US/FED MINIMUM WAGE???
Lest we fergit, OWG-NWO + "Globalism" = "PART-TIME/LESS-THAN-PART-TIME IS THE NEW FULL-TIME".
FEAR NOTTETH, HOSTESS-LOVERS, SURELY CANADA + MEXICO + GREENLAND + ..... ....@ETC. WILL PAY FOR OUR SUGARY UNION "SPACE/STAR SNACKS"!
[BBC.CO.UK] The Greek parliament has passed a bill which will see 15,000 state employees lose their jobs by the end of next year.
The sector has been seen as notoriously bloated since it expanded in the 1970s and 1980s as successive administrations employed their own people.
The bill passed by 168 votes to 123, and had the support of the three parties making up the ruling coalition.
It is part of continuing moves by the centre-right government to cut costs and ensure more bailout money from international creditors. But it was vociferously opposed by protesters outside parliament.
The new law will overturn what had been a constitutional guarantee for civil servants of a job for life, says the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens. The sector has been seen as notoriously bloated since it expanded in the 1970s and 1980s as successive administrations employed their own people, our correspondent adds.
Some 2,000 civil servants will lose their jobs by the end of June, another 2,000 by the end of the year, and a further 11,000 by the end of 2014.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Despite a long recession and high unemployment, Italians are shunning the job because of the long hours and modest pay. Sounds like a job for Mexicans... Wonder if you have to be bonded and licensed as is proper in any progressive country...
But with a slice of pizza an increasingly popular lunch time option in times of economic hardship, the pizza sector is booming - and an estimated 6,000 new "pizzaioili" are needed, according to FIPE, an Italian business federation. "Notwithstanding the economic crisis and unemployment, it is proving difficult to find them," the association said in a report released this week.
Italians may be reluctant to get their hands dirty by stoking ovens and kneading dough, but foreign immigrants have no such qualms
Italians may be reluctant to get their hands dirty by stoking ovens and kneading dough, but foreign immigrants have no such qualms and are now filling the gap, producing an increasing share of the three billion pizzas that Italians eat each year.
Egyptians have shown themselves to be particularly adept at mastering the art of the perfect pizza and now run many of the pizza restaurants and hole-in-the-wall takeaways in big cities like Rome, Milan and Turin.
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Actually it's not that easy to find a good pizza in Italy.
I get better ones in Germany.
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I never could find good American-style pizza in Italy, EC. (Duh!)
But there was this GREAT pizza place (mostly takeout) on Ringstrasse (I think) in Frankfurt am Main, near some of the American installations. But not just the Amis went there to get pizza - there were lots of Germans in there too.
It's probably gone now, but I have this dream that it's still there, blessing all who wander by with their wonderful pizza. ;-p
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Munich has several excellent ones... some are even run by Italians ;-)
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Most new state laws passed this year have loosened gun restrictions. It's just a handful of the usual suspects heading the other way, and quick frankly no business belongs in any of those states -- especially a firearms related business.
Drive out individual rights, drive out business. They should pull a Mexifornia & raise taxes again in order to make up for the business they just let leave. That way they can have the proverbial socialist hat-trick.
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Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant as a suggestion. Always have a featured market within Kansas, which is keeping pace with other pro-business states. Just sayin'.
Plenty of room out west as well, so if y'all break ground for Magpull, KS let me know - I'll come open a store up; its not out in the sticks anymore and there would be some great sporting opportunities to show off the wares first-hand.
[Pak Daily Times] Declaring that no one can defeat the Pakistain People's Party in the election, PPP Senior Vice Chairman and former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that his party would give marvellous results in polls. Addressing a public meeting at Dera Makhdoom Zahoor Shamsi, he said the PPP leadership had always rendered great sacrifices for the people and the country. He said the PPP was hit by terrorism and was stopped from running its election campaign, but the party believed in elections.
Gilani said the former PPP government ended a sense of deprivation among the people of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and also provided employments to the people during its five-year tenure. He said the PPP believed in democracy and the rule of law. He said that the former PPP government had taken initiatives to end scheduled power outages, and its results would come in the years to come. Gilani said that elimination of unemployment and ignorance from the country was the PPP's manifesto, and added that it wanted a progressive and prosperous Pakistain.
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[Pak Daily Times] Five people, including a bride, were killed when unidentified gunnies opened fire on a wedding party in an area of Lower Dir in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , officials said on Sunday. Officials said the incident took place in Jandola Samar Bagh where gunnies attacked the vehicles of a wedding party, leaving five people dead.
The bride and two other women were also killed, as the wedding party travelled from Samar Bagh to Tatar area.
Police cited old enmity as the reason behind the incident, and said that two people were also injured in the attack. The dead and the injured were shifted to Lower Dir Civil Hospital. Police claimed that the attacker, who managed to flee after the attack, hailed from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... .
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smail Helou was working at his family's petrol station on a Thursday afternoon when a police jeep pulled up. The plain-clothed officers ordered him to get into the vehicle. He was blindfolded and taken to a police station, where his legs were bound to a wooden plank and the soles of his feet were repeatedly beaten with a plastic pipe. Then they tried to shave off the gelled spikes of hair on his head.
"I was screaming and crying. It was the most painful thing I have ever faced. My feet were blue and I couldn't walk for three days," he said. Bruises on his soles were still visible three weeks later.
After the ordeal, Helou, 22, went to a barbershop to get his ravaged hair cropped. Now shorn of his one-inch spikes, he has been given no reason by the police for his detention and beating. But his experience is shared by other young men in Gaza City.
Over the past month, at least 40 men have had their heads shaved by Hamas officers in a pattern of intimidation and abuse aimed at enforcing Islamic mores governing personal appearance, according to the human rights organisation Al Mezan. The individuals have been targeted for sporting "western" hairstyles or wearing low-slung jeans that reveal underwear. But one, to whom the Guardian spoke, insisted he was guilty of neither "offence", but was beaten and shaved simply as a mechanism of social control.
[REUTERS] In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority. I guess she's a priest, or maybe a priestess. She not a Roman Catholic priest or priestess.
Rosemarie Smead is one of about 150 women around the world who have decided not to wait for the Roman Catholic Church to lift its ban on women priests, but to be ordained and start their own congregations. Why not just become an Anglican? They dress about the same as real Catholics, don't they? They don't seem to have any rules, or if they do they're willing to change them if somebody bitches. I don't even think you have to learn Latin.
In an interview before the ceremony, Smead said she is not worried about being excommunicated from the Church - the fate of other women ordained outside of Vatican law. "It has no sting for me," said Smead, a petite, gray-haired former Carmelite nun with a ready hug for strangers. Oh, God. I can't take the puffery.
"It is a Medieval bullying stick the bishops used to keep control over people and to keep the voices of women silent. I am way beyond letting octogenarian men tell us how to live our lives." ... said the septuagenarian woman.
The ordination of women as priests, along with the issues of married priests and birth control, represents one of the big divides between U.S. Catholics and the Vatican hierarchy. Last I looked, the Vatican hierarchy was in charge, though probably not among Carmelite ex-nuns.
Seventy percent of U.S. Catholics believe that women should be allowed to be priests, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll earlier this year. I'm guessing that means that seventy percent either favor it or wonder what's for dinner.
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Fred is exactly right in his tone and assumptions. This woman just jumped out the window. Her "congregation" won't out last her and then its gone too. And from her age she hasn't got a decade if that.
You not only don't buck the Catholic system and its way of doing things...you can't. There are Catholics all over the place who try and always have. You don't see them around for very long. Dried up and blown away. There have been whole groups down thru' history. I once walked through a graveyard on the North African coast with headstones from before St. Augustine, reading the headstones with symbols from some obscure group that didn't play the game with Roma concerning a definition of Catholic. THAT was all that was left of them...the gravestones in the middle of nowhere. Dried up and blown away.
Smead said she is not worried about being excommunicated from the Church - the fate of other women ordained outside of Vatican law. "It has no sting for me," said Smead
Which tells me she's not Catholic. Being excommunicated means being OUT OF COMMUNION.
Betcha if you scratch around in her past, you find all sorts of "liberation theology" and other Marxist BS.
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Betcha if you scratch around in her past, you find all sorts of "liberation theology" and other Marxist BS.
see "Former Carmelite Nun"
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The headline is idiotic. The only "defiance" here is in the good former Sister's head. The only way the church would take the slightest notice would be if a RC bishop in current good standing tried to ordain her. Then the bishop would quickly become an ex-bishop and the whole proceeding declared null and void.
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Rosemarie Smead has excommunicated herself, latæ sententiæ. Her excommunication may have been occult for years; it is now public knowledge.
P.S. Does Ms. Smead's silly pretend ordination also defy the Byzantine Catholic Church? What about the Melkite Catholics, the Coptic Catholics, the Uniate Catholics...?
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I belonged to one of these groups when I lived in the Bay Area; meaning, specifically, a small church formed by a renegade former nun. I greatly enjoyed being a part of it too. I got a lot out of it, and still consider myself a member, even though I live too far away to attend services regularly.
However, the church I belonged to never claimed to be part of the Catholic church, to be Catholic in any manner, or demanded that the Catholic Church do or not do anything. Our bishop was a *former* Catholic nun who decided to go her own way with her own teachings - not somebody going "look at me!"
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There 'ya go SM. That's the way it's done. In gawds due time we will all be independent Baptists and roll in our free-will and our asiles, purdy much.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[METRO.CO.UK] If you're a man and have ever wanted to dress in women's lingerie a firm has come up with the perfect product for you.
The Newsweek/Daily Beast owner, Barry Diller, shared his regrets today on TV:
[CNBC] Original Twinkies are coming back--but under new management--and with a vow to use nonunion workers.
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
[REUTERS] In an emotional ceremony filled with tears and applause, a 70-year-old Kentucky woman was ordained a priest on Saturday as part of a dissident group operating outside of official Roman Catholic Church authority.
