Samantha Lynn Gilmour is a lifelong family nudist who lives at home with her mother. She was born in 1994 and now goes to college as well as teaches ballet and piano. If that's not enough, Samantha also volunteers her time at the nudist resort in which she was raised. Earlier this month, she ’blogged her thoughts about nudists and clothes and it seemed to fit on this thread.

NUDIST WOMEN OUT IN A CLOTHED WORLD

If presentation of female breasts — vis-à-vis nipples — is the issue, what is this lady’s legal status?

Let’s, for the moment, dispatch one demographic and replace it with another in the initial query: How will married textiles affect nudist clubs and venues? Would clothed people make a difference? Why are “textilists” coming to such a place? This is not to say that non-nudists would not be welcomed but rather they’d be expected to assimilate to the norms of the community.

Since we are working with some pretty arbitrary definitions — card-carrying vs. casual vs. home nudist, homosexual vs. bi~ vs. curious, &c. — percentages discussed are rough approximates open to discussion. That given, the estimated portion of the American population who routinely participate in mixed-gender social nudist activities is 2-6%. Also, contrary to the onslaught of media portrayals, Gallup reports that homosexual couples constitute less than 1% of US households with around 2-3% of men and women calling themselves homosexual or bisexual. Now consider the number of people from the two-to-six percent who are nudists AND also from the two-to-three percent who are homosexual — these are rather minor characteristic sub-sets of the overall populace across the country.

South Floridian author and activist Jesse Monteagudo writes:

“Openly gay nudists are but a small percentage of the gay male population. Most gay men share the non-nudist population’s dislike for public nudity; or the belief that public nudity should be limited to those favored individuals who look like Colton Ford or Matthew Rush. But most openly gay nudists do not look like porn stars (darn it!). Rather, we run the gamut from the incredibly hot to the incredibly not. Even a large percentage of the men who attend gay-and-naked parties are not nudists in the personal or political sense of the word. Some of those men go to parties to meet sexual partners; while others go there to socialize.”

Courts have blurred the delineation between public and private accommodations or organizations to the point where they are seemingly mandating outsiders of groups be admitted. This must prompt the question, For what purpose are they seeking entrance? As Julius Henry Marx famously wrote, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.” We live in the antipodean, politically-correct paranoid-someone-will-be-offended world from this quote, where our freedom of association is being whittled away by very small yet highly-charged groups whose only agenda is to push their agenda. Again, assimilation — not assertion — is the key.

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Was there no end to this conspiracy of irrational prejudice against Red Ryder and his peacemaker?

The attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building claimed 168 lives, including nineteen children under the age of six years. Why wasn’t Oklahoma City the last straw? Perhaps the use of a fertilizer-and-Diesel bomb doesn’t quite fit the anti-Second Amendment narrative. Surely the death of 44 people, including thirty-eight children, in Bath Township was the last straw. Oops, again, no gun. These examples in no way diminish the preciousness of each and every soul lost; they do, however, go to illustrate that people bent on mass killings will find the means.

The only choice acceptable to liberals is the option to kill an unborn child.

Tucson is close enough to México that they are practically next-door neighbours and one can actually see the border from land there in Arizona. No, those are not Native Americans lining the ridges — they are cartel members possibly armed with Fast and Furious weapons bought with American taxpayers’ dollars and provided by the Regime. They are also any of a variety of nefarious characters like al-Qāʿidah, the FARC, Ḥizbu-llāh or other international terrorist organization members looking for a weak, porous frontier. Only need to talk with ranchers along the southern flanks of Cochise, Santa Cruz, Pima and Yuma counties to get their perspective on placing daisies in rifle barrels of illegal crossers.

Assault weapon is simply more bass-ackwards зviƨƨзяgoяq newspeak. It is a purely subjective non-technical label slapped onto any firearm a Utopian politician deems “scary” from a catalogue picture — that’s how Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA] did it in 1994! The catch-all phrase was first used in 1973 to categorize any weapon not meeting the stricter definitions of a rifle or pistol. Who needs extended clips? If the bad guy has twenty rounds, the good guy better have twenty-one. This country has a Bill of Rights which guarantees our personal freedoms — not a “bill of necessities” dictating arbitrary quantities from each according to his ability or to each according to his need.

The answer may lie in addressing the mental health of potential perpetrators but, thanks to the ACLU, it is much harder to have a person involuntarily committed to an institute until after they harm themselves or others. Privacy acts have also stemmed the background investigations. There is no gun show loophole either. Despite claims from the liberal media talking heads, all existing gun laws apply just as much to gun shows as they do to any other place where guns are sold. Since 1938, persons selling firearms have been required to obtain a federal firearms license. Read the commentary, The Facts about Gun Shows by David B. Kopel of the Cato Institute for additional information regarding the sale of guns.

It is interesting to notice, when this White House pRESIDENT addresses the
country, how similar his actions are to other socialist nations around the world.

Each time news flashes across the wire of another senseless shooting, this nation is gobsmacked with sorrow. Not only does the loss of innocent lives send grievous chills to our bones, it also signals the next round of liberty-robbing debates from the Left who will seize upon any opportunity to push their anti-freedom agenda. Whether it’s movie-goers at a theatre multiplex, holiday shoppers at a mall or citizens listening to a congresswoman at a Safeway parking lot, the empathy for the victims reaches beyond the local city limits.

At last Wednesday’s press lecture, Jake Tapper asked Barack Hussein Obama II why his plea for action on gun issues has come so late in his first term and only after last week’s tragic incident in Connecticut. The perturbed president responded sharply, insisting that he’s been too busy “be[ing] president” to focus on a gun control platform.

“I’ve been president of the United States dealing with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,¹ an auto industry on the verge of collapse,² [and] two wars.³ I don’t think I’ve been on vacation;⁴ and so, you know, I think all of us have to do some reflection on how we prioritize what we do here in Washington.”

Barack Hussein Obama II seems to think that his re-election is a mandate to lie and bully. So here are a few facts to set the record straight and make low-information drones wince:

¹ Ѳ did not inherit the worse economy since the Great Depression but he has created the worst recovery — such as it is — since the Great Depression with his asinine and miserable socialist policies.
² Ѳ did not save the auto industry but rather he destroyed secured creditors invested in GM and Chrysler, bilked the taxpayers for tens of billions of dollars in subsidies, rewarded the UAW for the union’s political support and violated existing bankruptcy laws.
³ Ѳ has not been fighting two wars but rather has been overseeing a slow, bloody, deadly withdrawal while hollowing out the military generally.
⁴ Ѳ has found lots and lots of time for vacations like Hawai‘i and Martha’s Vineyard, over one hundred rounds of golf, more live White House concerts than Madison Square Garden, a myriad of domestic and international travel, &c.

Whilst most members of this NCH group deject the narcissism and delusions of grandeur, the reality is that — through wanton disparage for the Constitution or intentional ignorance — the most leftist administration was re-elected for another four years of fundamentally transforming the United States of America. The Second Amendment is not the only aspect of the Bill of Rights that are in this regime’s crosshairs. No matter how well versed the argument is, the Utopian ruling class will continue to inflict their ideology unless the citizens regain the ideal that government works for We, the People.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste …” —Rahm Emanuel, 19^th November, 2008.

In the midst of an otherwise heartfelt speech honouring the children and teachers lost in the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, the president made one of the most reprehensible displays of vile political pandering with his loathsome plea for Americans to back his massive tax hike agenda:

This vulgar non-sequitur, dovetailing the nation’s emotional outpouring to his messianic appeal to follow him into taxmageddon, has to be one of the lowest moments of a very low presidency. He systemically ascribes all kinds of nefarious political motives to his opponents whilst never acknowledging that he, or anyone else on his side, has anything but the best intentions.

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Yet the shameless audaciousness doesn’t stop there. Former WH advisor David Axelrod blasted a mass eMAIL on 16^th December — two days after the horrific school shooting — which directs people to a video link of the contemptible ☭BAMA speech from Newtown, Connecticut. The page also features two donate buttons asking for $15 to $1000 for his campaign. His campaign? Just further evidence of this regime’s contempt for We, the People.

It’s going to be interesting to watch Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-NV] react to pressure coming from his Leftist ilk to restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans in the light of this 2010 video — posted on Reid’s YouTube account — of him with members of Nevada’s congressional delegation, various state and local leaders and the National Rifle Association’s Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne L^a Pierre as they appeared together for the grand opening of the Clark County Shooting Park.

The Nevada senator speaks glowingly about shooting sports and says he carried a gun for self-defence when he headed the Nevada Gaming Commission. “Nevadans aimed high when we set out to create the largest and most advanced shooting range in the world,” said Reid, “but we kept a steady eye on our target; and to-day, with great pride, Nevada has hit the bulls-eye.”

The NRA endorsed Sen. Reid that year in his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate. “I had a lot of bad people after me and I carried a gun every place I went … but for me, guns are more than that. In fact, the most important part of guns as far as I’m concerned in my personal life is the recreational aspect of guns.” Let us hold Mr. Reid to these espoused principles as his band of Utopian sǝʌıssǝɹбoɹd again attempt to turn our constitutional right to bear arms upside-down.

After recent shooting tragedies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA] is making another push for tighter gun control. She is widely known as one of the biggest anti-gun and anti-NRA advocates in Washington, D.C., to-day. In fact, Sen. Feinstein championed the federal assault weapons ban in 1994 which expired eight years ago to sunset provisions in the law.

Yet on 27^th April 1995, Sen. Feinstein spoke candidly at a US Senate hearing on terrorism shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing at which she referenced her concealed carry permit and how she carried a gun with her in the 1970s, citing the urge to arm yourself for protection — in her case from threats. “I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon and I made the determination if somebody was going to try and take me out, I was going to take them with me.”

Once again, the Utopian зviƨƨзяgoяq Liberals display their inherent hypocrisy: the ruling class of the president regime are perfectly at ease with assuring they can freely exercise their constitutional rights whilst advocating the erosion of the liberties belonging to We, the People.

Need I say more?

The 1964 Blake Edwards comedy, A Shot in the Dark is the second installment in The Pink Panther series starring Peter Sellers as French Sûreté Inspector Jacques Clouseau and Elke Sommer as the maid Maria Gambrelli. Clouseau always finds himself at the wrong place at the right time — in the first scene (↑), his investigation leads him to track a murderer “hiding” at a nudist community. The second scene (↓) opens as the inspector and Miss Gambrelli are forced to flee in a 1963 Morris Mini Cooper where they subsequently get caught in a Parisian traffic jam.

There will always be those some people but we need not worry about such captiousness because they carry little, if any, weight. Conservatives have always supported members of society who cannot fend for themselves through charitable donations as well as contributions to the community chest. As far as the job killer proposals, basic Keynesian economics say repealing tax cuts is indistinguishable from raising taxes — whatever the income level of the affected taxpayers — and raising taxes takes money from the economy that otherwise might get spent on food, clothes, cars or employee wages. The proposal to increase taxes on the more productive and successful individuals will disproportionately hurt the largest job creation machine in the US economy: small businesses.

That is because about four million small businesses with employees — including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and other so-called flow-through firms — report their income on individual tax returns, according to US Treasury figures. Of these, approximately 1.2 million report income greater than the cut-off for President ☭BAMA’s proposed tax increase of $250,000 for couples filing jointly or $200,000 for individuals. This small, relatively successful group reports about $341 BILLION in annual income. That’s 91% of the money earned by all flow-through employer businesses. If the profit margin is minimal, employees face seeing hours cut or their positions eliminated — jobs killed — to accommodate the additional tax bite.

From the White House to their -BOUGHT drones, the Left insists that successful Americans must pay their fair share — but what does that mean? They are convinced that the American Pie does not grow — that there is a zero-sum gain — and taking from one to give to another is fair. Liberals are rapidly turning the Land of Equal Opportunity into the Land of Equal Outcome.

As Dr. Charles Krauthammer explains, “The whole question of what’s a fair share is a liberal’s question.” What moral right does the government have to confiscate earnings for the purpose of redistributing them to others as they deem fair? Taxation is an issue of necessity — to assess revenues in order to lay roads, build bridges, raise defenses and provide for those people who truly cannot fend for themselves (not the ones who won’t).

In tax-year 2009, the top one percent of wage-earners — those making over $344,000 — carried almost 37% of the
total FPI tax burden whilst the bottom 50% contributed only 2¼%. This is what liberals call fair! Source: NTU.

America’s Founding Fathers considered the nation’s necessities and raised needed revenues accordingly; but for nearly a century, the sǝʌıssǝɹбoɹd have systematically flipped the equation to be a matter of collecting as much monies as possible to then redistribute to those who will best advance their agenda. They also inject guilt — like referring to legitimate deductions such as for residential mortgages that are designed to entice home ownership as loopholes — into the lexicon because their words will incite negative connotations. By queering the language, true linguistic communication becomes twisted and manipulated into this perverse leftist Newspeak.

Thank you for posting these challenging queries which deserve their own thread …

Democrats defend wanting to raise taxes on the rich back to the pre-Bush rate of 39.6% with the chorus, “Hey, it led to prosperity during the Clinton years.” All right, forward-thinking ƨзviƨƨзяgoяq: If that top rate from fourteen years ago was really good and really led to economic success, then let’s go back to the Clinton SPENDING LEVELS at the same time!

When the Clinton rates were where the Democrats are now drooling over, it was the Republican-controlled Congress exercising fiscal restraint which helped improve the economy. It was Bubba who pushed for the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 which — amongst others — increased gasoline tax by 4.3¢/gl and directly impacted the average American family. His tax hikes were specifically designed to place an unfair burden on successful businesses by punishing the most productive members of the economy whilst cutting taxes for the least productive. It was only after the Republican Congress passed tax cuts in 1997 that the economy really became stronger and the budget was balanced. Yes, there were roughly 22.5 million new jobs created, unemployment fell from 7.5% when he took office to 4.0% by the end of his second term and the poverty rate dropped to 11.8% in 1999; but, since the president administration hides behind the “I inherited all this” crying towel, then it’s just to remember that Bubba took a lot of credit for the good economy of the 1990s, which was already growing when he inherited it.

By the way, the federal budget in 1998 was $1.6 trillion — that’s just barely above what the annual deficit has been for each of the past four years — and everything was fine back then! That’s what the Democrats say: Everybody had what they wanted, everybody had what they needed and everybody was living the good life of an economic boom time … Happy Days are Here Again! So let’s go with the Clinton tax rate AND the Clinton spending levels: How will that sit with all of the Ѳ-BOUGHTS’ and entitlement giveaway dependents?

It’s amazing what a simple concept this is …

Skincare merchandising and nudism — two lines of business that go together naturally. From sun protection creams for those long summer days at the pool or beach to bandages protecting life’s little “boo-boos” on the shuffleboard or volleyball court and even eaux de cologne for that special evening, these adverts could entice discerning nudists to consider using these products.

The “Golden Days” of nudist magazines coincided with the post-WWII sense of accomplishment and the freedom to travel. President Eisenhower introduced Americans to the Interstate Highway system with the focus of being independent. Cars are the conveyance of liberty: go where you want to go and not where busses or light rail take you. Besides, no public transportation wanders past the suburbs to those remote sun clubs! It’s fair to say that nudists really love their automobiles — car companies ought to target ALL of their customers …

… even if their wording is a bit questionable!

Mahalo for the kind words Jim. The video, Legalize Nudity by Tohm Sarah Lev, is so antipodal to the peaceful song and message. Miss Lev refers to herself as a “free spirit” and admits to spending most of her at-home time in the nude.

Back to Laci Green, the San Francisco “sexual futurist” — Laci has been posting v’logs on YouTube since joining the site in 2007. Her early videos (posted under "gogreen18") were geared toward anti-theism and religious politics. In 2008, Laci reïnvented herself through a weekly series of v’logs in which her discourse has shifted toward relationship advice and social commentary. Though her SEX+ programmes focus on sexual matters, reviews of toys and prophylactics, and her random musings, her fun-yet-frank discussion on nudism seemed to fit well on this forum.

Laci Green is a 20-something self-styled “sexuality geek” from the San Francisco Bay area. She operates a series of positive educational projects called SEX+ which consists of a biweekly videos, a weekly live show, daily blogging, university lectures and a peer tutelage network. Miss Green also hosts two additional web programmes: a science news show for the Discovery Channel and a sex education series for Planned Parenthood.

In this video Laci addresses shame and the nudist/naturist way of life. Though her approach is a typical point of view for a textilist, she explores the philosophy and benefits of naturism as well as answers some of her viewers’ questions whilst dispelling the sexual myths surrounding nudism.

Citroën has resurrected the déesse moniker as a premium luxury vehicle sub-brand, only this time the initials stand for the very English expression “Different Spirit” or “Distinctive Series.”

The new super-mini Citroën DS³ has been produced since 2009 as a highly customizable competitor to such marques as Alfa Romeo MITO, Audi A1 and (BMW) Mini. The faux-SUV Citroën DS⁴, introduced for the 2011 line, features petrol engines produced by a collaboration of PSA and BMW. Also débuting in 2011, the compact executive Citroën DS⁵ combines the styling lines of a hatchback and estate into a hybrid design reminiscent of a shooting brake or sports wagon.

All three nouvelle DS models are based on the Citroën C3, C4 and C5 respectively. They are a completely distinctive range from — and are in no way a successor to — the legendary Citroën DS nor do they share any common feature from their predecessor, save the double chevron logo.

A neo-retro designed DS or a customized edition of the classic would be well-suited for many loyal Citroën fans.

New York singer Tohm Lev presents Legalize Nudity with the provocative juxtaposition of ferocity and a simple peaceful message as a demonstration to the irony that violence is much more acceptable than bare skin. The video was shot around Los Angeles — including the 3^rd & Washington neighbourhood as well as Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills — and prompts the query: How did it come to be that we are ashamed, embarrassed and even offended by our natural selves?

With the advent of Thanksgiving once again upon the calendar, here are a few fun adverts that are loosely related to this very American of holidays. It is said that the first celebratory feast included beer as well as a grain new to the Pilgrims: corn — or, in this case, Corn Flakes with milk! The helpful aboriginal people also introduced the newcomers to tobacco as a way to finish the evening’s fête. A latter-day addition to the harvest gala was that welcomed effervescent glass of Alka-Seltzer; all the makings of a true Kodak moment. Happy Thanksgiving … naturally!

With the advent of modern medical techniques and the blurring of male/female tenets, conundrums such as this couple challenge society’s traditional values and force rethinking what many believe to be absolutes — this includes the nudist community, as demonstrated in this thread. All great civilizations in history have fallen once the moral fabric of their culture deteriorates; is this the case for to-day’s modern world or is this the future shock of progress?

Firstly, we thank and salute JIME for his dedication and service to this great nation. In 2010, the president administration promised ъαмαscare would not diminish health benefits for service families or retirees. The 9.6 million veterans and active duty personnel — those using TRICARE (the Defense Department’s health plan) or go to Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics — were assured they would be better off under his omnipotent scheme:

Yet, last March the administration unveiled a plan to remake TRICARE that breaks that very promise; and that change is only part of a broader proposal that could weaken TRICARE and force many veterans into health exchanges and Medicaid. It assumes most of the three-quarters of military retirees who are eligible to receive health care through their employer would do so. However, if wealthier and healthier veterans migrate to private health plans, it will leave TRICARE caring only for veterans with lower incomes and more battle-related diseases such as traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, lost limbs and physical disabilities. More expensive and smaller group coverage will lead to even higher premiums and co-pays. Some veterans will be more adversely affected than others — this is the ‛ƨзviƨƨзяgoяq definition of fair — so the answer to the query depends on the financial and medical standings of the individual.

CLICK on this script to watch a debate regarding this issue.

The big misnomer regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is that it will provide better healthcare to more Americans. No! Its promise is to effectively make everybody prescribed to the same level of medical services, unless you are in one of the president’s favoured waiver groups — if you can afford a Cadillac, too bad; the ƨзviƨƨзяgoяq dictate you get a Yugo like everybody else. Yet, as the former speaker of the House smarmily stated, we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it. To the “lady” from a city made famous from it, the FOG is far from lifted.

Former New York L^t Governor Betsy M^cCaughey (née ~Ross) recently wrote an article for the New York Post regarding ъαмαscare — and with the results of this past election, this IS the law of the land; no more abstract platitudes or hyperbole.

Either pay to be covered or pay a fine; and the fines in the first three years are much cheaper than the policy, by design. Pay the fine and you’re legal! You’re okay; you’re in compliance. What does that do? It takes more people out of the private insurance market because the private insurance market must cease to exist for ъαмαscare to realize its ultimate dream. So New Year’s Day 2014, the employer mandate will require businesses with fifty or more full-time employees to provide the government-designed health plan or pay a fine.

The government plan adds $1.79 per work hour to the cost of a full-time employee. To compare, employers in retail and fast-food industries currently pay less than half that to cover their workers. When weighing the new cost of health insurance to the government’s mandated penalty — roughly 98¢ per work hour —employers will push workers into part-time status whilst others will opt for the fine so as to avoid the costly mandate; either way, workers risk losing their on-the-job coverage, if not their jobs outright.

Betsy M^cCaughey also explains that seniors or Baby-Boomers will receive less care than in the past. “Cuts to future Medicare funding [will] pay for more than half the Obama health law.” Already $716 BILLION has been cut from Medicare; the Republicans clearly explained this during the campaign but the demagoguery and besmirching from the Left obscured the truth from the naïve. That money is gone.

Hospitals will have $247 BILLION less to care for same number of seniors than if the law had not passed. Hospitals will spread nurses thinner. California nurses already are striking over the increased workloads. When Medicare cuts led hospitals to reduce nursing care in the past, elderly patients had a lower chance of surviving their stay and death rates from heart attacks rose, this according to a 2011 report by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

These are folks who love to get their kit off …


Town has crack at nude calendar to lift rodeo’s bottom line
© Jackie Sinnerton, The (Queensland) Sunday Mail of 18^th November, 2012

The people of the Queensland country town of Chillagoe have gone buck naked to save their much-loved rodeo. They have just published their fourth fundraising nude calendar in ten years and some of the cheeky locals have gone the Full Monty.

“Our population is only 300 and we have three main events every year in the town which we all look forward to in a big way. There is the country music festival, the wheelbarrow race and the rodeo,” said calendar organiser Donna Burton, who runs the Post Office Hotel and has a starring role in the 2013 Chillagoe Cheekies publication.

“We need AU$7000 to save the rodeo. The run-down amenities must be upgraded,” she said. “There is no way the residents will ditch the rodeo. It is one of the times of the year we all come together.”

“This is a town with the most amazing community spirit. We look after each other and do whatever it takes to keep things running even if that means taking off our clothes.” The calendars are AU$25 each. Previous reveal-all calendars rose AU$28,000 for equipment for the local hospital.

“It's been a decade since the first calendar and we have some of the same people stripping off … “There were a few who were a bit worried about the effects of 10-year sag but we all took it as a bit of fun,” she said. “There is no real embarrassment. We just have a good laugh and a drink and get on with it.” The previous calendars are proudly displayed on the pub wall.

The small town — which is more than a two-hour drive west of Cairns — is well known for its limestone caves. The limestone works manager Ron Little lets it all hang out in the month of January, along with his mates Fred Burdell (a patron of the rodeo) and geologist John Nethery.

“The January guys are singers and call themselves the barber shop quartet, even though there are only three of them. That pretty much sums the humour in our little town,” Ms Burton said.

On the opening day of the 44^th Arizona State Legislature in January 2000, NRA president Charlton Heston encouraged its members to boldly lead and pursue an agenda of freedom. This was the state legislature’s first session in the new millennium and he had one wish for each public servant in attendance: That they have the courage to be unpopular. Mr. Heston issues a challenge for all elected officials and a warning that political correctness is just tyranny with manners. A lesson that applied then and one that certainly applies to-day.

Mahalo CS for posting this great message.

To-day marks the semi-centennial of that fateful meeting of the Pan-Hellenic Disciplinary Council Student Court at Faber College in which the members of the ΔΤΧ House were brought to charges, including more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion so profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here. This, according to testimony, was faithfully submitted as record on 15^th November 1962 by Doug C. Neidermeyer, Sergeant at Arms. In commemoration, let’s have some fun at the expense of the smug зviƨƨзяgoяq leftists who pandered to the S.T.U.P.I.D. vote and won the 2012 elections with promises of condoms, birth control, food stamps and the most confiscatory taxes this — or any other — nation will witness.

The issue here is not whether you broke a few rules or took a few liberties with your female party members — you did; but can we hold the whole Democrat Party responsible for the behaviour of a few sick, perverted individuals? For if we don’t, then should we blame the whole political system? … And if the whole political system is guilty, then is this an indictment of our governmental institutions in general? I put it to you, Barry: Was this election an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America!

As “Bluto” would tell us … It wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor … and it ain’t over now!

Whether it’s computers or landscaping tools, citrus or telephone facilities, the nudist community needs products and services just like any other neighbourhood — because we ARE just another neighbourhood (only a lot more comfortable)!

To celebrate the launch of a new venture into the premium accessories category, PUMA and Ryan M^cGinley teamed up with the Serpentine Gallery to create a short film to set the mood and feeling of the PUMA Urban Mobility collection. It focuses on the celebration of movement and freedom. M^cGinley directs his subjects, friends and models alike, in a cinema vérité mode thus creating a fantasy world of colour, visuals and music.

The film features a nude couple are riding their PUMA 8-Speed Urban Mobility bicycles and carrying the Urban Mobility edition bags as they lead the viewer on a journey of innocence and freedom. It was shot in the legendary Woodstock, New York, the location of the famous 1969 Woodstock festival. It explores a beautiful world that doesn’t exist, a fantasy; the life Ryan M^cGinley might wish he was living.

Time to leave the kerfuffle behind us and get back onto the topic of vintage nude adverts that are light, bubbly and refreshing — with the reminder that a sense of humour will go a long way.

Perhaps this is the way a Nespresso advert should look?

That age-old adage applies to the main stream billboards and commercials that bombard the textile world. No sex is implied in those ersatz Coca-Cola, Honda or Volkswagen adverts; the “clothing optional” Nespresso trailer isn’t inherently sexual, albeit the background music and sultry voice may set a tone. no worries; a visit to the ophthalmologist seems unwarranted here.

French fashion model Alexa de Puivert finds clothing to be optional when brewing her favourite Nespresso latte.

The preceding is a post on another NCH group in which the author thought his infiltration into Conservative Naturists would result in unrest — lest driven by malice — along with his attempt to stain one political philosophy with culpability for anti-nude restrictions. Quite a sad declaration.

Perhaps our liberal friend has yet to read about the rules effecting freedom on the American River or at San Onofre in California. Maybe he is naïve about the fight for a nude beach near Key West, Florida. Perchance he overlooked or has not heard of the nudity regulation enacted in Boulder, Colorado. It’s possible he turned away from Washington House Bill 1333 (2005) by State Rep. Al O’Brien [D]. These locals can hardly be classified as bastions of conservatism.

A little research would have revealed that introductions of anti-nudity bills are almost evenly split between Democrat and Republican legislators. The proposals usually target strip clubs or other carnal businesses but, since they contain vague or poorly written language, wholesome nudist activities and organizations get hit with negative secondary effects. The AANR and TNS both have legal councils which continuously comb pending legislation to effectively defend nudists from these unwarranted laws.

Conservative naturists welcome our proud liberal friends as we would any fellow nudist seeking the truth. The left has cultivated amongst its followers a dark misconception that simple disagreement defines their enemies. Open, spirited debate is a cornerstone of the American experience — there is no room for Alinsky-style tactics such as those pondered.

As posted earlier here, we ALL make our contributions to nudism and both viewpoints are necessary for us to be successful. Unlike a forum for Ford owners or stamp collectors, politics is an integral part of the nudist experience. Magistrates and Congress have yet to legislate against philatelists or Focus drivers but our choice to be nude is constantly under the scrutiny.

British animator Felix Sputnik — better known to his mother as Michael Schlingmann — presents a wonderful study of walks and runs which replicate the nude form in motion. The background ditty is The Swimming Song by Loudon Snowden Wainwright III with the three-finger banjo of Earl Scruggs.

Republican zombies are plotting to invade your home, rifle your medicine cabinet and confiscate your contraceptive pills! Really, they are!! YAWN. That is according to the same boorish people who every election tell citizens the GOP will force-feed Granny cat food before tipping her off a cliff in her wheelchair.

When the president’s minions began developing its general strategy for duping a majority of the voting public into re-elect him, they knew they needed to drive a lot of disenchanted female voters back onto the Democrat plantation.

Yes, the DONKEY PARTY is up to their old propaganda-scare game: Switch the issue in order to turn voters — in this case, women — against the Republicans. Nobody is trying to take away women’s reproductive rights; no Republican has even brought this subject up!

It became an issue when ъαмαscare dictated that religious institutions — specifically Catholic hospitals, colleges, and service groups — pay for contraception and abortion-inducing drugs that violate their faith; clearly unconstitutional.

They concocted the fictional Republicans’ War on Women knowing full well the government education system has long since dispensed with teaching accurate history (re: the 19^th Amendment and the nearly four-decade battle against Democrat-controlled Congresses and the ɘviƨƨɘяgoяq deity President Woodrow Wilson). They also know that the more the electorate is distracted from the failure of this presidency, the better the chances Barry Benghazi will continue to slouch in the Oval Office with his feet atop the Resolute Desk.

Enough of the failed presidency. Our nation’s economic downturn and unemployment have caused suffering for millions of Americans but they have hit the African-American community disproportionately hard. Mitt Romney’s priority as president will be creating jobs, so that all Americans can have an equal opportunity. VOTE ROMNEY AND RYAN ON 6^th NOVEMBER, 2012!

Reassured by countless slogans and platitudes, Americans were told things would get better. Now, four years later, President bama has admitted he cannot change Washington. We need no more slogans; we need leadership … and WE, THE PEOPLE, can change Washington in just six days.

The erstwhile naked San Francisco mayoral candidate George Davis is interviewed by the equally dressed Gypsy Taub of MYNAKEDTRUTH.TV to discuss the pending Wiener Bill legislation that would ban public nudity throughout San Francisco, except for “police permitted” events. The first committee hearing is at City Hall on Monday morning, 5^th November, 2012; public is welcome.

Daniel Toledo is a talented young artist who was born in 1981 in Rio de Janeiro. He continues to live and work in there and is a member of the Opavivará Collective. Toledo studied at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage and graduated from the School of Fine Arts, UFRJ, where he is currently a candidate for a Master’s degree. His portfolio includes video, performance, objects, interventions, collective actions and photography. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Brazil and has work in major private collections both at home and abroad.

The film Troca Troca - Rapidinho (2008) is an interesting study of clothing which is open to interpretation. Is it about unity? Sexual identity? Hygiene? It features the talents of Pedro Buarque, Nadan Guerra, Daniela Kohn, Pedro Lago, Doreen Mehner, Amélia Sampaio, Daniel Toledo and Caroline Valansi; videography by Pedro Victor Brandão with editing provided by Julia Barreto and Carla Dutra.

Panic has enveloped the regime as their surrogates reach new lows in decorum whilst demonstrating their utter contempt for the American people. The means: Send the Powderpuff President to hard-hitting interviewers like David Letterman, the ladies of The View and hip-hop radio DJ Pimp with a Limp. The goal: Avoid any dialogue regarding the economy, four years of failed policies, the deadly scandals like the Arab Spring, Fast and Furious or Benghazi. You have to be a liberal to find moral equivalency to a campaign worthy of the Oval Office. Here are just a few audacious examples from the deflating campaign to re-elect the Civility-in-Chief …

Surely Lena Dunham will vote like her lady parts depend on it as this the leftist stooge delivers the liberals’ VOTE=SEX ideal to young single women and carries the subliminal message that, to the Democrats, a woman is worth less than the sum of her reproductive parts. She is a quintessential young Hollywood liberal: Extraordinarily privileged, rich one-percenter and hatched from some left-wing pod where her guilt is salved by encouraging the government to handle everything — as long as those solutions won’t affect her.

This subliminal misogynistic message of this low brow advert definitely makes Lena Dunham expunge worthy.

Imagine an America where strip mines are fun and free
Where gays can be fixed and sick people just die and oil fills the sea
We don’t have to pay for freeways! Our schools are good enough
Give us endless wars on foreign shores and lots of Chinese stuff
We’re the children of the future, American through and through
But something happened to our country and we’re kind-a blaming you
We haven’t killed all the polar bears but it’s not for lack of trying
The Earth is cracked, Big Bird is sacked and the atmosphere is frying
Congress went home early; they did their best we know
You can’t cut spending with elections pending unless it's welfare dough
We’re the children of the future, American through and through
But something happened to our country and we’re kind-a blaming you
Find a park that is still open and take a breath of poison air
They foreclosed your place to build a weapon in space but you can write off your au pair
It’s a little awkward to tell you but you left us holding the bag
When we look around the place is all dumbed down and the long term's kind of a drag
We’re the children of the future, American through and through
But something happened to our country and yeah, we’re blaming you
You did your best you failed the test; Mom and Dad we’re blaming you!

The ммм ммм ммм Barack Hussein Obama Kids are all grown up and still being indoctrinated to sing his praises.

What can be said about a presidential campaign advert that has to be labeled NSFW? From moveon.org and Michael Moore comes this gem of senior citizens threatening violence and bodily harm which demonstrates that even nonagenarians are merely pawns in the left’s vulgar efforts to scare Americans …

Is that Barry’s illegal immigrant Aunti Zeituni promising to karung Mitt Romney’s ahlahs?

Exactly LACEY~ … and let’s not forget the terroristic murder — oops, drive-by shooting — at the US Army Recruiting Office in Little Rock.

A powerful documentary, Losing Our Sons, tells of two American families whose lives intersected through a shattering act of violence. Melvin Bledsoe, a small business owner in Memphis, watched with pride as his son Carlos went to Tennessee State University in Nashville to better his life; Daris Long, an ex-Marine, felt honored that his son, Andy, chose to follow in his footsteps by joining the military: but when Carlos Leon Bledsoe — a/k/a Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad — murdered Pvt² W^m Andrew Long on 1^st June, 2009, both fathers had to face a new kind of American nightmare. As Melvin followed the trail that led Carlos from Nashville to Yemen and then to Little Rock, Daris confronted a leftist government that seems in denial about what happened to his son.

When Little Rock is called a street crime, F^t Hood a workplace incident and Benghazi is blamed on an obscure video, it show to what lengths the ZER Regime will go to deny admitting that successful terror attacks have occurred on its watch. Once is and anomaly, twice a pattern and thrice confirms suspicions.

Hawai‘i is under a TSUNAMI WARNING after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Queen Charlotte Islands off the west coast of Canada late Saturday night.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre originally said there was no tsunami threat to Hawai‘i but then issued the warning late Saturday. It remains in effect until 19:00 HST Sunday and a small craft advisory is in effect until Sunday morning. Officials are estimating a wave between one to two metres (three to six feet) for certain locations in Hawai‘i.

The centre says the first tsunami wave could hit the islands by about 22:28 HST. In addition, the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center says parts of coastal Oregon and northern California have been placed under a tsunami advisory.

A tsunami warning means an area is likely to be hit by a wave, whilst an advisory means an area could be hit.

A small tsunami was barely noticeable in Craig, Alaska, where a ten-centimetre (four-inch) wave was recorded. Dennis Sinnott of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Science said a 69 cM (27 inch) wave was recorded off Langara Island on the northeast tip of Haida Gwaii, the First Nation name for the Queen Charlotte Islands. Another 53 cM (21 inch) wave hit Winter Harbour on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island. “It appears to be settling down,” he said. “It does not mean we won’t get another small wave coming through.”

The temblor shook the waters around British Columbia and was followed by a 5.8 magnitude aftershock several minutes later. Several other aftershocks were reported.

The U.S. Coast Guard in Alaska said it was trying to warn everyone with a boat on the water to prepare for a potential tsunami. Lt. Bernard Auth of the Juneau Command Center said the Coast Guard was working with local authorities to alert people in coastal towns to take precautions.

The quake struck 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Sandspit, British Columbia, on the Haida Gwaii archipelago. People in coastal areas were advised to move to higher ground.

Urs Thomas, operator of the Golden Spruce hotel in Port Clements said there was no warning before everything began moving inside and outside the hotel. He said it lasted about three minutes. “It was a pretty good shock,” Thomas said. “I looked at my boat outside. It was rocking. Everything was moving. My truck was moving.”

After the initial jolt, Thomas began to check the hotel. “The fixtures and everything were still swinging,” he said. “I had some picture frames coming down.”

Natural Resources Canada said in a statement that a major earthquake was felt across much of north and central British Columbia but that there were no immediate reports of damage. PrayForCanada became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter.

“I was sitting at my desk on my computer and everything just started to move. It was maybe 20 seconds,” said Joan Girbav, manager of Pacific Inn in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. “It’s very scary. I’ve lived here all my life and I've never felt that.”
The quake was felt on the mainland in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, which is across the Hecate Strait from the islands. “Everyone felt it here,” said city recreation director Rudy Kelly, who was setting up an evacuation centre for people from the city’s low-lying areas. He said the work was in anticipation of a tsunami wave.

Prince Rupert resident Grainne Barthe said fire trucks had blocked access to the waterfront when she came out of a restaurant. “Everything was moving. It was crazy,” she said. “I’ve felt earthquakes before but this was the biggest. It was nerve wracking. I thought we should be going under a table.”

Residents rushed out of their homes in Tofino, British Columbia on Vancouver Island when the tsunami sirens sounded but they were allowed to return about two hours after the quake. Yvett Drews, a resident of Tofino, said she and dozens of others had gathered at the local elementary school where they were told by police that they could return home; but while on the way home, Drews said she heard the tsunami sirens go off again. “Well that just freaked me out, hearing the siren and the voice,” she said.

Carsten Ginsburg, a resident on British Columbia's mainland in Bella Coola, said the quake lasted for about 40 seconds. “It shook everything. The electricity went out, the power lines were swinging all over the place and stuff was falling off the shelves.” Ginsburg owns the Float House Inn on the public wharf in Bella Coola and had about six customers celebrating a birthday party.

Canada’s largest earthquake since 1700 was an 8.1 magnitude quake on 22^nd August 1949 off the coast of British Columbia, according to the Canadian government's Natural Resources website. It occurred on the Queen Charlotte Fault in what the department called Canada’s equivalent of the San Andreas Fault — the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates that runs underwater along the west coast of the Haida Gwaii.

Saturday’s quake is the strongest in Canada since 1958 when a 7.9 magnitude quake struck along the BC/Alaska border about 300 miles northeast of Saturday’s quake, according to the website.

Hawai‘i County Mayor Billy Kenoi speaks about evacuations and preparations for the anticipated tsunami. 27OCT12

On Friday, 8^th June 2012, Ѳ inexplicably said, “The private sector is doing fine.” Since the president is completely out of touch, these American workers talked about their experiences to remind him of the realities of the bama economy.

Constitutional Republic or Utopian Socialism: individual liberties with the freedom for all to prosper or a tyranical bureaucracy with confiscatory taxes for the purpose of redistribution. In 2008, Barack Hussein вaмa II spoke in Derry, New Hampshire, and promised big things for voters. Four years later, those promises were utter failures that have added to our debt and made it harder for businesses to engage or expand. Governor Mitt Romney is an experienced businessman who will cut government spending and free the private sector to create jobs.

Bart Simpson’s epic nude skateboard trip through Springfield on his way to Krusty Burger.

Washington can’t be changed from the inside and, according to bama, he’s ONLY had four years. Yet for Governor Mitt Romney in Massachusetts, that’s all he needed. He turned the commonwealth around — reducing unemployment and turning the deficit into a rainy day fund. Leaders find a way to get things done.

Michelle Obama recently described this recovery as huge. Maybe she forgot what decade it is. The Reagan recovery in the ’80s was huge; but the one her husband’s policies have given us? Not so much.

A Washington DC hip-hop station host asked Michelle to, “in your words, tell us what you think the state of the union is in right now?”

Her answer: “I mean, we are seeing right now that we are in the midst of a huge recovery. Right? Because of what this president has done.”

We wholeheartedly agree with the First Lady that the current state of the economy is the result of what this president has done; but to call Obama’s recovery — which started just five months after he took office and is now in its 40^th month — huge shows just how detached from reality the White House has become.

Obama’s policies have produced a smaller economic recovery than any since World War II. This recovery is so small that only half the jobs lost in the recession have been recouped. It’s so small that there are almost half a million more long-term unemployed today than in June 2009 and millions have dropped out of the labour force altogether.

The Obama recovery is so small that median household incomes have been steadily falling since it started and there are eleven million more people on food stamps and 2.7 million more mired in poverty.

Indeed, had Obama’s recovery merely been average, there would be about eight million more people with jobs to-day and the GDP would be $1.2 trillion bigger.

If you want to see what a really huge recovery looks like, take a look at the one President Reagan oversaw. He entered office in January 1981 amid an economy mired in malaise, with inflation out of control, unemployment high and rising, a decade-long energy crisis and sky-high interest rates; and in July 1981, just one year after the previous downturn ended, the economy fell into another recession that lasted almost as long (sixteen months vs. eighteen months) and sent the unemployment rate higher than the one Obama inherited.

But Reagan’s combination of permanent, across-the-board tax cuts, deregulation and domestic spending restraint helped produce a massive recovery.

Obama, in contrast, has gone in almost precisely the opposite direction — temporary, targeted tax cuts; huge new spending; vast new regulations — and he threatens more of the same, plus a $1 trillion tax hike, if he were to get a second term.

We hope Mrs. Obama will pardon us for saying this but after seeing what this president has done to the economy, we can only hope he doesn’t get the chance to do any more.

Hat tip: Investor’s Business Daily 16OCT2012

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the Obama Administration want the price of gasoline to go even higher.

Looking at history often teaches a lot. However, people are slow to learn the lessons of history as a quick look at fuel prices shows. The recent sharp rise has to do with the increase in its demand over the last few decades, as well as the energy policies that have been put in place.

In the 1950s, gasoline was cheap — very cheap. That’s because in 1950 the US was energy self-sufficient. There was no need to import oil since the United States used as much as it produced. On average, gasoline was about 6¢ per gallon. Just to compare, a M^cDonald’s hamburger cost 15¢ and a movie ticket cost 60¢. In other words, a single gallon of gas cost twice as much as a burger but half as much as a film.

Throughout the 1970s, petrol remained under $1 per gallon; yet, already, the world had begun to change. The Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal contributed to rising uncertainty which fueled the late decade’s inflation crisis. By the time Jimmy Carter was in the Oval Office, an energy crisis gripped the country and petrol was hard to find but this had less to do with the average price — which remained under $1 — and more to do with democrat-controlled 95^th and 96^th Congress’ price fixing schemes. As always happens, when the government tries to circumvent the laws of supply and demand to artificially set a petrol price, the supply evaporates. Simply, no one will continue selling a product after the profit has been removed. It’s too bad the well-respected peanut farmer never studied Economics 101!

The Reagan Revolution changed the economy for the better: Price controls were removed on many items, fuel prices increased — albeit just slightly — and a gallon was still just over one dollar. The difference was that in the 1980s, fuel was available everywhere. There were no long lines and no one had to follow the tanker trucks. There was a big spike in prices when the Iran-Iraq War erupted but gradually the prices returned to normal levels. In fact, all the way until 2005, when adjusted for inflation, fuel prices were relatively constant. Hamburgers and movies, on the other hand, continued to rise. By the close of the decade, it was cheaper to drive a date around town than actually take her for dinner and a movie!

The next two decades saw fluctuating prices as dependency on imported oil grew and world crises gained control on the American market. Then, over the last three years, gasoline prices around the country have more than doubled. This is happening not only in the United States but around the world. People in countries from Israel to China are paying about eight dollars per gallon. Now whilst some predictions have prices falling again, they will never go below where they were in 2005 and beforehand. Gasoline prices even reached over six dollars per gallon in some parts of California in the past few weeks.

The interesting part is that not all of this is due to a lack of global supply. Some of the price spikes are unintended consequences of government taxation and energy policy practices. California’s liberal legislature over the past thirty years has prevented the building of new refineries, barred their vast coastal resources to be tapped and yet mandated a myriad of specially blended fuel requirements. When a fire disrupted production in the state’s only operating depot, the perfect storm resulted in the unprecedented spike. If ever a new, comprehensive energy policy is needed, the time is now.

It’s a paraphrase of Richard Dreyfuss’ line from The Goodbye Girl. Kudos to Dawn’s father for his obscure yet appropriate movie reference. Marsha Mason and Quinn Cummings also star.

The popular tag line is featured in the 1977 theatrical trailer, starting at the 01:04 mark.

The demographics of those parading naked in San Francisco do not represent the cross section of American nudists.

Mahalo to SUNBUNNY for bluntly stating my otherwise urbane points — sometimes a 2×4 is needed with this group! Being nude does not a nudist make; what started as an experiment in exercising the distinct privilege to be unclothed has been taken to the N^th degree by a fringe group of radicals who are even shunned by many in San Francisco’s homosexual community.

The proposed bill has specifically exempted such street circuses like Bare-to-Breakers and the Folsom Street Fair so as to keep with the city’s progressive cloak but rather targets the scandalous actions which started in the Castro District. The fact that the Naturist Action Committee has taken to supporting the Naked Guys has more to do with their political slant than the issue of nudity. The action alert purposefully evades the main reason for Sup. Wiener’s proposal: the gratuitous use of genital devices intended to achieve or maintain a semi-erect penis. For the NAC to embark on this cause under the guise of it being a nudists’ fight is disingenuous and the outcome will most likely be equivalent to their San Onofre fiasco.

We may dream of a Nudist Utopia and surely some in this group foresaw the San Francisco experiment as its fruition. As with any fanciful nirvana, the reality of overactive zealots pushing an agenda will eventually rear its ugly head (and vice versa). Even with the diligent work by genuine nudists, society will continue to equate nudity with sex in the conceivable future and the Naked Guys have done us no favours.

Keep in mind that it is not the simple privilege to be nude in the City by the Bay which has precipitated San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Scott Wiener [D-8^th] to call for the ban but rather what certain members of the community are doing with that licence. Learn about the chief complaint amongst the district constituents prompting Sup. Wiener’s bill and be sure the energy expended is focused in the right direction so that the desired results are achieved.

Tom Mulhall (standing) pays a visit, along with some San Francisco locals, to the Buff Stop.

Democrat National Committee chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL²⁰] stars in a comedic tragedy of her own making …

… Debbie Downer !

Week IV and the NFL referees are back. WOOT! In an almost universal nod of agreement, the substitute referees were incompetent. Yet how many Seattle Seahawks’ fans were genuinely furious over the botched call? Perhaps a few felt a little guilty but most were jubilant. Surely the Green Bay Packers’ cheeseheads were livid over this; and people who revere the NFL institution are fuming over the integrity of the game (let’s not discuss what happens if the Packers miss the playoffs by one loss). True football fans understand this and they’re worried about it.

The animosity towards the replacement refs was genuine; but weren’t they treated unjustly? Doesn’t the mandate to give everybody a fair shot? Don’t they lecture us to be tolerant? Doesn’t the left, in general, promote the advancement of the incompetent based on the fact that they are incompetent? Test standards: We don’t need to find the best; that’s unfair. If somebody’s better than somebody else (pay attention wage-earners), he or she needs to be penalized. Outcome-based education: two plus two equals five! If little Joey thinks so, congratulate him for thinking outside the box rather than humiliate and saying he’s wrong.

The left has been messing with standards for decades. They don’t like standards, particularly those of excellence, because not everybody attains it and the left wants equality of outcome. For all the people who are incensed over what’s happening in the NFL regarding the integrity of the game, how are they feeling about the integrity of this presidential election? How about the integrity of the American way of life?

There were two substitute referees at the end zone: 26 and 84. Referee 84 got the call right, signaling, “That’s it; time-out and game over;” in other words, “interception.” Yet 26 overruled the call. The older referee inserted his authority and ruled a touchdown. Just like in the liberal’s utopia, facts are dismissed by perceptions.

One can only imagine if it’s later revealed that 26 is a registered Republican! The young black referee got it right but was overruled by the old white guy. Shudder the thought if 84 was a homosexual Muslim transgender with a Spanish surname … and was overruled by 26!

The first three weeks of the 2012 Season were a microcosm of America; a əʌıssəɹƃoɹd dream. Not the best qualified referees but rather a cross-section of the country. There was every kind of referee: There were long ones, tall ones, short ones, brown ones; black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones too … sorry, almost spilled the wine! The way liberals view things, it’s all good. Some that are good at it and some that aren’t; but everybody got a fair shot. “Nobody’s being denied opportunity because of where they came from or what they don’t have,” so sayeth the benevolent messiah.

Carina: A Day in the Life of a Naturist centres on a twenty-something Brazilian who seeks to abandon urban life by moving to Colina Do Sol, a functioning naturist village near Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul — roughly halfway between São Paolo and Montevideo or Buenos Aires. The documentary is by Norwegian film-maker Petter Hegre, famous for his “artsy” nude photography. Not exactly the most ideal choice in cinematographers for a naturist documentary but the video is quite positive and much better an endorsement than many nudist biographies produced by mainstream television channels.

Aqui está vídeo que detalhando a experiência de um jovem que vive no
clube naturista Colina do Sol no Brasil; em português e legendas em inglês.

Here is a video explaining the experience of a young woman who lives in the
Colina do Sol naturist club from Brazil; in Portuguese and subtitled in English.

Colina do Sol is a naturist village — the largest in the Southern Hemisphere — with around fifty full-time residents. The community actually has almost a hundred cottages with many cabaneiros living in nearby towns and coming for the week-end. Other members, those who live out of state or from foreign countries, just visit on holiday. There are also accommodations available for visitors. Contact them, via eMAIL, at colinadosol@colinadosol.com.br for more information.

Paul Harvey Aurandt (1918–2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was a conservative American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcasted News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, as well as at noon on Saturdays, along with his famous The Rest of the Story segments. The most noticeable features of Harvey’s folksy delivery were his dramatic pauses and quirky intonations as he reviewed the news peppered with his à propos opinions.

Harvey had a knack of delivering to his listening audience a verbal painting of America: Typically celebrating its richness in heritage and exceptionalism; occasionally, he describes a darker image warning of an America in decline. The editorial speech, If I Were the Devil, was originally broadcast on Saturday the 3^rd April, 1965, yet it remains as pertinent to-day as it did in the midst of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The need to control the lives of others — manifested in the arrogance of the ɘviƨƨɘяgoяq statists who believe that they can engineer the perfect society by removing our freedoms, our liberties, our choices, our responsibilities and nudging us into their desired direction through power grabs and regulatory codes — can only originate from evil.

—Paul Harvey … Good Day?

Moonstone Beach was a popular nude shoreline along South Kingston, Rhode Island. Its name was earned from the abundant lunar-looking silicate stones that had been polished by the waves. As development along the western side of Point Judith Pond flourished in the 1970s, the textile use of this once-secluded Atlantic coast increased. The nudists were eventually relegated to a limited section fronting Trustom Pond on land owned by the local Audubon Society chapter which administered it as a wildlife sanctuary.

Nude use of the barrier stand continued until — around 1980 — the Audubon Society could no longer afford to support the property. Word of this spread to the beachgoers; many of the nudists joined the local chapter as their way to spur financial solvency and thus continue the symbiotic relationship between the naturalists and the naturists. Unfortunately, the influx of new members was interpreted as a hostile takeover attempt on the nudists’ part. The state board for the Audubon Society used their authority to transfer the property to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in order to avoid the perceived seizure.

Signs banning nudity almost immediately appeared on Moonstone Beach. The nudists responded by organizing the New England Naturist Association to challenge the veracity of the ban. They successfully argued that no law preventing nude use of federally controlled lands existed and the USF&WS removed the postings.

It was then determined that a closure of some of the beach was necessary to protect recently listed endangered species of wildlife. This time the NENA worked in conjunction with USF&WS officials to assure a co-existence on the beach by both nature and naturists. Both organizations worked to educate beach users about fragile eco-system issues and on beach projects including the purchase and installation of dune grass to help prevent erosion and fencing to protect nesting areas. This continued through 1987.

That was the year the USF&WS ordered all of the nude section closed for the sake of the endangered wildlife. The strand at the end of Moonstone Beach Road, leased by South Kingstown as a town beach, was also abbreviated. The nudists negotiated a move from the front of Trustom Pond to that of Card Pond on the east side of the town beach. This lasted one season.

In 1988, wildlife officials from Washington, DC, determined further wildlife closure was necessary. Faced with no place to go, NENA started looking for land to use as a nude beach. They managed to lease a section of private beachfront — just east of the Card Pond preserve boundary —starting in 1990. This association lasted for two years. The nudist association then was able to purchase ocean frontage on the other side of Trustom Pond near Charlestown. Unfortunately, this neighbourhood was less-friendly to the nudists as local property owners did not want the outside foot traffic on their roadways and an ugly campaign was started to get them removed. Threats of arrest and vandalism of the group’s property were intolerable.

A cat-and-mouse game ensued for the next several years. The USF&WS were frustrated with nude hikers along the ponds’ bird fences; they had Rhode Island’s statute regarding genital exposure broadened. A screen around the NENA property assured that passers-by did not view the nudists, thus preventing police from citing anyone lying or sitting to sunbathe nude; but people had to dress with a G-string or other covering to access the water sans arrest. Land owners bent on removing NENA and the nudists started alleging sexual misconduct complaints; plain-clothes police, armed with video cameras, came to verify but never observed any such behaviour (who looked out of place on a private nude beach: legitimate family nudists or dressed uncover officers with cameras?).

It became obvious that the constant problems and complaints were not going to abate. Then late-1994, the state ruled that NENA needed portable toilets on the beach. This presented the nudist group with a catch-22: Suggesting they walk to the Charlestown Beach facility wasn’t enough; and the Coastal Zone Management Commission as well as the Town of South Kingston would not allow any structures on a barrier beach.

With options and finances depleted, NENA was forced to close its beach. The land was sold and the money was used to settle remaining debts. Memberships were transferred in 1996 to the Pilgrim Naturists of New England in Boston and the New England Naturist Association voluntarily ceased to exist. The beach, located about two miles south of Commodore Perry Highway along Moonstone Beach Road, has suffered from recent erosion with many of the nearby oceanfront homes needing sandbag protection. The nudists — for the most part — are gone and the shore belongs to plovers.

… spiel?

Conservatives are routinely called the party of NO by their liberal counterparts in futile tantrums to intimidate right-thinkers into abandoning steadfast principles of logic and reason. A lot of times they have to say, “No” … no to reckless spending; no to confiscatory taxation; no to over-burdensome regulations; no to illogical, liberty-robbing mandates. Someone has to be the adult in the room who knows when the children are out of control; properly scribed, conservatives are the Party of Know!

Yet, in keeping with the antipodal attitude, there are the Ten Cannots — a latter-day pseudepigraphon popularly attributed to Abraham Lincoln, the first GOP president — which serve as a simple foundation for fundamental conservatism. They are:

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
3. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
4. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
5. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
8. You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence.
10. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

These tenets, simple in their brilliance, were actually penned more than a half-century after Lincoln’s death by a Presbytarian minister, the Rev. W^m J. H. Boetcker, in 1916. The mistaken credit came to pass when lobbyists in 1946 printed leaflets with authentic Lincoln quotes on one side and the Ten Cannots on the reverse, properly attributed to the good preacher albeit in a small footnote. By the end of the decade, the maxim had become ascribed as Lincoln’s and even became part of the Congressional Records through a reading in the House of Representatives.

With a proper hat-tip to the right reverend, the Ten Cannots are — like any forthright American tradition — solid in their ethics, simple in their values and unwavering in their meanings. As the Election Day 2012 approaches, We, the People must hold the next session of elected officials accountable for they represent us … no matter on which side of the aisle they sit.

The semi-annual NCH gatherings have proven to be quite successful. Brian has brought his clipboard of activities to Florida four times, thrice in California, as well as clubs in Michigan, Colorado and Oklahoma; even the Nudist Clubhouse Expo 2012 in Las Vegas was a de facto gathering for many NCH members who bought tickets to the nude pool parties. The ones at Cypress Cove Nudist Resort & Spa usually set attendance records and the most recent, at Oaklake Trails Naturist Park, was a wonderful opportunity for Sooners and surrounding state members to join.

A constituency yet to participate is the Pacific Northwest. One resort in particular would be well suited to host a NCH event: The Willamettans. The 40-acre forested club is about thirty minutes from Springfield, Oregon, where the 500+ owner-members make it the largest nudist organization in the region. The modern facility features RV sites, rental cabins, a heated pool and Jacuzzi, extensive hiking trails along with all the usual amenities and accoutrements to keep the most discriminating nudist happy.

For those opting to fly, Southwest Airlines provides daily flights into Portland International Airport, with The Willamettans located less than three hours south along . Also, PDX serves as a hub for Alaska/Horizon and SkyWest airlines as well as providing gates to a number of global and regional air carriers.

If a gathering in the Eugene/Springfield area of west-central Oregon is of interest — or elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest — please let Brian know via eMAIL or by posting your thoughts on this thread.

A wonderful week-end was had by all at the Fall 2012 Gathering held on the beautiful grounds of Oaklake Trails Naturist Park near Depew, Oklahoma. Nearly two dozen NCH members from around the country were graciously welcomed by owners Gary and Brenda, managers Dennis and Diane, as well as several “home team” clubhousers.

The weather was perfect: The 100°+ heat broke on Friday after one of Oklahoma’s famous thunderstorms came sweepin’ down the plain, leaving in its wake comfortable sunny days and cool clear nights. The pool was a popular spot as was the pavilion fronting the Bare Buns Bistro — and kudos to the restaurant staff for augmenting their hours to cater the week-end.

Brian kept an active itinerary with NCH chat room, the traditional group photo and a special clubhouse gathering with gifts and prizes on Saturday. That evening, a sizable group of dressed nudists were welcomed by the staff of the Rock Café, a landmark on the old Route in nearby Stroud; and there was a special filming of Nudes in the News — dedicated to CFI nudescaster Susie Walker — Sunday morning. All along, there were water volleyball, shuffle-board and countless nature trails to explore. The week-end was certainly a success and hopefully it won’t be too long before the NCH will again get their kicks at this wonderful club.

On an installment of Jay Leno’s Garage, the prolific car collector presents his Citroën SM and discusses its attributes with renowned Citroën mechanic Jerry Hathaway of SM World, Ltd.

Mr. Hathaway became a Citroën dealer by default. He was the suspension technician in the service department of a Los Angeles Buick dealership when the dealer added Citroën to the inventory. It took only one look at the SM’s reversed V-6 engine and transaxle assembly for most of the dealer’s flat-rate mechanics to know they didn’t want to have anything to do with the car. Not so with Jerry. He was already well past the point of being challenged or excited by front-end alignments and control-arm bushings: He wanted to learn something new and the Citroën was it. Jerry’s obsession lead to opening his own shop in Valencia, California.

Jerry and Sylvia Hathaway with their custom SM truck which pulls the world’s fastest SM.

The preceding is a post on another NCH group in which the author thought his infiltration into Conservative Naturists would result in unrest — lest driven by malice — along with his attempt to stain one political philosophy with culpability for anti-nude restrictions. Quite a sad declaration.

Perhaps our liberal friend has yet to read about the rules effecting freedom on the American River or at San Onofre in California. Maybe he is naïve about the fight for a nude beach near Key West, Florida. Perchance he overlooked or has not heard of the nudity regulation enacted in Boulder, Colorado. It’s possible he turned away from Washington House Bill 1333 (2005) by State Rep. Al O’Brien [D]. These locals can hardly be classified as bastions of conservatism.

A little research would have revealed that introductions of anti-nudity bills are almost evenly split between Democrat and Republican legislators. The proposals usually target strip clubs or other carnal businesses but, since they contain vague or poorly written language, wholesome nudist activities and organizations get hit with negative secondary effects. The AANR and TNS both have legal councils which continuously comb pending legislation to affectively defend nudists from these unwarranted laws.

Conservative naturists would welcome our proud liberal friend as we would any fellow nudist seeking the truth. The left has cultivated amongst its followers a dark misconception that simple disagreement defines their enemies. Open, spirited debate is a cornerstone of the American experience. There is no room for Alinsky-style tactics such as was pondered.

As posted in November 2010, Conservative or liberal, we ALL make our contributions to nudism and both viewpoints are necessary for us to be successful. If our community was polarized liberally, it would draw the nakedists and those far too [progressive] to be able to distinguish acceptable levels of decorum; too conservative and younger people will be turned away by the conformity, further aging the demographics. We need input from those who keep the nudist movement in line and focused, and those who bring new ideas and directions.

Our choice to be nude is constantly under the scrutiny of outsiders, from the left and right; our ability to shed our clothes without shedding our principles makes us nudists. If not, we are just naked apes.

We need to be careful in the way nudism is defined. Though it is recognized that some nudists also participate in less than wholesome social interactions whilst naked, those events should not be included as part of a discussion on nudism. Even mundane words like LIFESTYLE have been hijacked to promote carnal happenings. Perception is reality and to introduce “public sex” as a type of nudist activity serves only to advance the agenda of our opponents. It would be tantamount to declaring all non-pork-eating people are of the same religion.

Once adjectives are attached to the word NUDIST (or to any other assemblage), one group of an already small populace becomes segregated from the rest. There is a natural human tendency to gather with like kind — and nudism may be the only common thread for some — but taken to the extreme, the results will be beneficial to none. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

These ladies may have the right spirit but a wrong sense of direction …

… TO-DAY IS GO TOP-FREE DAY!!

Duplicity and hypocrisy are DemocЯAT norms. Using the logic of the Left, a vote for someone on the content of their character and not on the colour of their skin — à la the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — would earn the epithet of racism.

Question: Which is more repugnant, a dumb comment stated once by a senatorial nominee or a political party that regurgitates and envelops every one of their 2012 campaigns in that legitimate rape quote?

An abhorrent radio advert retches the familiar line and perpetuates the jackass party’s reflective fabrications.

Seriously? Fauxcahontas is standing to try to unseat Sen. Scott Brown [R-MA] yet this desperate candidate needs to reach for another campaign 1400 miles away to look for mud? … And she is not alone. From municipalities down to Chicago-based David Axelrod’s vitriol-filled management of the presidential re-election bid, the party of the jackass has lost what little respect they had left after the last five election cycles. Turn on any cable news or comedy channel and see one or more of the odious blabbermouth segregates evoking legitimate rape as they are barfing the new slogan from the DemoCRAPS’ daily talking points. Pull their string and hear the phrase … pull their string and hear it again.

A third party would present its own concerns. As for the election, another conservative candidate could effectively split the vote and give Claire M^cCaskill the victory. If the tertiary should win, (s)he does reduce the number of Democrat senators by one (good) but it does not add to the Republican count (null). Like Sen. Joseph Isadore Lieberman [I-MA], an independent senator from Missouri can choose to caucus with the GOP but, sans party affiliation, his/her effectiveness is limited. This is how a two-party system works.

Why is the agenda-driven alphabet soup media making such hay over a congressman skinny-dipping in Israel? Check his party affiliation and you will have your answer. The press’ assignment is simple: Amplify any and all stories — or fabricate a few — that will distract the public’s attention away from the weak economy, joblessness rate, deficit-spending and failed policies.

Whilst the political pundits are enjoying their giggle-fest over a naked member of Congress, they are perpetuating the myth that nudity equals sex and demonstrating their lack of tolerance for someone’s personal freedom. Kudos to Tom Mulhall, AANR Director of Public Relations, for coming to the defense; but the sadder story is that Rep. Kevin Wayne Yoder [R-KS³] felt obligated to apologize for an activity in which surveys have revealed that 25% of his fellow citizens partake.

A few former White House residences who enjoyed scandal-free nude swims on this side of the Pond.

Firstly, let’s establish that the comment made on the Jaco Report by US Rep. W^m Todd Akin [R-MO²] regarding legitimate rape was reprehensible, ill-advised and smacks of misogyny. That said, we should now turn towards the big picture: electing Willard Mitt Romney president, strengthening the GOP majority in the House of Representatives and returning the Senate to Republican control.

Akin’s remarks were stupid and unfortunate but he has decided to stay in the race to unseat Sen. Claire M^cCaskill [D-MO]. Though many in the Republican establishment originally supported Akin over other well-qualified primary candidates yet now call for him to step aside, conservatives must focus on beating the ass-backwards зviƨƨзяgoяq juggernaut that is bent on destroying this country. We may not necessarily agree that his decision to continue his campaign was the best but it is immeasurably more important to defeat M^cCaskill than to NOT support Akin.

The future of the United States of America is at stake. We need to restore the American Dream and not let it be replaced with the Dreams of My [Absent Communist Hate-filled Drunken Atheist] Father. We must retire the gaffe-o-matic vice-president who spews vile racial affronts as jocularities. We have to send to the back benches the doddering senate majority leader that cares more for his pomegranate trees than passing a congressional budget or bringing substantive GOP bills to the floor; and we must stop liberal rubber-stamps like Claire M^cCaskill along with the rest of her ilk who want to continue the downward spiral of the country by supporting OBAMAsCARE, the $timuME$$, et al.

There will be resentment that Congressman Akin didn’t resign and step down from the race but that’s over now and we must support him if we are serious about wanting to take the Senate. There is an imperial presidency which is usurping the Constitution at every opportunity; a complicit Senate and a weak House which facilitate his imperious actions; and a Judiciary that enables the dismantling of the separation of powers. Given M^cCaskill’s own scandals that the DemocЯAT-controlled media all but ignores and low popularity amongst her constituents going into this contest, along with the resulting drop of support for Todd Akin, a third-party candidacy may have a chance; the next couple weeks will tell.

Point taken. The availability of historical information and imagery for many of the long-past ASA clubs, parks and resorts is limited. Heart and soul are employed to assure accuracy is achieved; sometimes poetic license is sparingly used to knit the facts together. As additional material is uncovered, stories are updated. Accompanying photographs, too, are chosen to reflect the spirit of the times. Certainly, those .PICs identified as being of a certain person or locale are mated with the corresponding thread; others are added for artistic purposes. Such is the case with the pictures of Linda Shockley, a member of Oakleaf Ranch — they were included here even though the set was taken on a JWSA camping retreat. Since the club was the hub of the nudist-teen movement, other such imagery was embedded with knowledge that they were shot elsewhere. With appreciation, positive input as well as constructive criticism is always welcomed.

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On another post, KAREN writes of her experience, as a fourteen-year-old, seeing an elderly couple at a nude beach enjoying the sun and each other’s company; there cannot be a more idyllic definition of nudity. The socializing, recreation, skinny-dipping, photography, activism or any other tag attached to the word NUDISM is just frosting on the cake.

The American Association for Nude Recreation — née the American Sunbathing Association — encourages everybody to partake in the plethora of wholesome activities available at the various shores, parks, clubs and resorts … or simply be nude! Though it may be too late to celebrate the sun at Jardín del Sol, it’s never too late to create great memories of your own.

While walking through the Castro, I spy two naked men outside of Peet’s on Market Street. I stop and ask if I can take their photo. “Sure,” they reply before inviting me to join them.

The two are part of a group known as the Naked Guys, a dozen or so urban nudists who primarily hang out in the Castro. These brave few epitomize the city’s acceptance and advocacy of personal expression and uphold the reputation of San Francisco as a city that challenges taboos. Like all good San Franciscans, the Naked Guys have found a way to push boundaries and challenge the status quo.

Spontaneously, I strip down right then-and-there and enter into the collective of the Naked Guys. It felt like I was consummating my relationship with San Francisco.

Standing naked on the sidewalk at Market and 16^th streets with my new friends, Bare and Lloyd, I tell them my personal history with nudism. At UC Berkeley, I lived in a student co-op called Cloyne Court, where naked hall racing and rewards for nude housecleaning were common. This openness about nudity fostered the kind of community we wanted — comfortable, uninhibited, and a bit freaky and weird.

While we chat, a nudist with long hair and a staff approaches and greets me warmly. He introduces himself as Wil and gives me a business card featuring a photo of him posing with his staff and an enormous erection. His profession: art model.

When the initial rush of being naked in public subsides, it’s amazing how normal it can feel. After a pleasant hour of hanging out with Bare, Lloyd, and Wil, I completely forget I’m naked. That is, until someone yells, “Looking good, guys!”

Tom Mulhall (standing) pays a visit with some San Francisco locals to the Buff Stop.

At the end of our hangout, I agree to meet them again the following Saturday at the Buff Stop, the bustling corner of Castro and Market, the Mecca of the Naked Guys.

It’s unseasonably warm the following Saturday, an ideal day for a naked adventure. I arrive at the Buff Stop, still fully clothed, where I meet Mick and George. Mick is wearing cutoff “shorts” (effectively just a denim belt). George is a major advocate for nudists’ rights who recently ran for mayor, campaigning naked the whole time. For some reason I feel a bit more hesitant to strip down than I did last time but, once I’ve taken my clothes off, it feels completely natural.

Everyone I meet at the Buff Stop seems glad I’m there. A queen in very theatrical drag comes up to me and says, “Girl, I really like seeing you out here.” A nudist named Woody introduces himself and remarks that people often approach him and thank him for helping to keep the Castro the Castro. “There’s a little old lady I see in the neighbourhood who always tells me, ‘You brighten my day every time I see you! I love how you push the envelope.’”

The majority of the comments the Naked Guys receive are positive. Occasionally someone reacts negatively; the most common complaint is that public nudity hurts kids. Won’t someone please think of the children? In my experience, kids are generally unfazed by nudity unless their parents tell them there’s something wrong with it.

A man approaches us and asks to take our photo. “It’s a tourist thing,” he says. I ask where he’s from, and he replies, “Berlin, where they invented social nudity.” It’s fair to say that the Naked Guys have become a tourist attraction in their own right. Bare tells me a story about last year’s World Naked Bike Ride. When the roughly 150 unclothed cyclists finished the ride at the Palace of Fine Arts, streams of tourists suddenly poured out of buses to take pictures. Many posed for photos with the nudists, with the swans on the lake as the backdrop. All of these photos and experiences returned home with the visitors and were shared online — helping spread the gospel of the Naked Guys.

At the Buff Stop, I also meet Rusty, the OG Naked Guy, who tells me his story. All his life he desperately desired to get naked but it wasn’t until he was a grad student studying biophysics at Stanford in the early ’90s that he took action. He started by slipping out under the cover of night and wandering around campus in the buff. When he moved to San Francisco in the mid-’90s, he began walking nude at night; occasionally others would join him.

The California Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that nudity isn’t inherently lewd or sexual and doesn’t in and of itself qualify as indecent exposure. Individual counties can pass legislation banning nudity but no such law exists in San Francisco.

Emboldened by this discovery, Rusty and the fledgling Naked Guys started doing daytime walks. At first it was a cat-and-mouse game; they would often duck into the bushes when they saw cops approaching. They received many citations — and were sometimes handcuffed and detained — but judges would always throw out the charges because there were no grounds for prosecution. It took years but slowly attitudes changed and knowledge spread that it wasn’t illegal to be naked in San Francisco. These days, it’s not very shocking in San Francisco to see public nudity, especially at events like Bay-to-Breakers and the Folsom Street Fair.

Official legal acceptance of public nudity came from an unlikely source. Last year, Supervisor Scott Wiener — whose district includes the Castro — passed legislation making it illegal to sit naked in a public space without putting down a towel or some kind of barrier. It also became illegal to go into a restaurant without covering up. The Naked Guys were against the legislation because they deemed it unnecessary; it’s already required by NG etiquette to put down a barrier and whether patrons had to wear clothing in a restaurant was left to the discretion of the establishment’s staff; but although the Naked Guys initially fought these new laws, the effect of the legislation was the opposite of its intention. Previously, the city didn’t have any law forbidding being naked in public but now it has legislation that implicitly allows it with just two restrictions. Furthermore, the second part of the law was written very vaguely. Bare says, “I can put on the tiniest cape and say I’m wearing clothing. It’s up to the individual restaurant whether or not that’s okay, just like it was before.”

We decide to walk to Peet’s. I notice there’s a guy following us down the street. He’s staring at me and, when I look back, he throws both fists in the air and exclaims, “I LOVE FRISCO!”

Not long afterward, a woman comes up to me and excitedly says, “Yes! I have been waiting so long for you!” Mick replies, “We’ve all been waiting for Katie.” Excellent! I am a naked messiah. Throughout the day there are countless smiles, waves and thumbs-up in my direction. A woman shouts at me from across the street, “You have the biggest balls in the group!”

SaraKay is one of the few Naked Girls who routinely exercises her freedom to walk nude in the city.

I ask the Naked Guys if there are Naked Girls. Women occasionally participate, they tell me, but it’s rare. When I ask why, Woody says, “Patriarchy has severely sexualized women. I think it forces women to be really careful about what they do and how they look, even in the 21^st Century.”

Being naked in public breaks social expectation and that’s part of what makes it so thrilling. There are many social conventions that should be questioned and challenged. Rusty says, “Breaking rules like this is a very useful tool in disempowering those in control who are trying to restrict us.”

Woody tells me that a cop recently yelled at him, “This isn’t just a gay neighbourhood anymore!” To which he replied, “This isn’t just a gay thing! Straight people are nudists, too.” Wait, what?! I had wrongly assumed that the Naked Guys are gay. I’m surprised to learn that half of them identify as straight.

At the end of the day, I reluctantly put my clothes on, bid the Naked Guys farewell and begin walking home. Wearing clothes doesn’t feel very different from not wearing clothes; it just seems like a less interesting way of walking down the street.

Different people join the Naked Guys for different reasons. I like being naked because I like to test my own boundaries and the boundaries of those around me. I like to shock people and get a thrill out of breaking taboos; and the sun feels so nice on my skin.

Take off your clothes and join us! Just remember to put down a towel or some kind of barrier before you sit in a public space. Never, NEVER ask nudists if they feel cold, unless you’re okay with being the most unoriginal person on the planet; and always ask a nudist before you take a photo.

After nearly four years of a weak economy, soaring deficits and misplaced priorities, the GOP is dedicated to bringing America back. “Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will bring the kind of leadership and economic reform that this country desperately needs,” says RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.

“They have the knowledge, expertise and vision we need to get America working again and get our fiscal house in order. Both have proven records of solving tough problems and getting the job done,” Priebus continues; “America’s Comeback Team stands in stark contrast to four years of failed economic policies and misplaced priorities of President Obama and Vice President Biden. Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan is what America needs in these troubled economic times to get our country back on track.”

Now that US Rep. Paul Davis Ryan [R-WI] has been announced as the vice-presidential running mate with presumptive Republican nominee – former Governor Willard Mitt Romney [R-MA] – the next three months will be an exciting time for the American electorate. The various media outlets will be filled with facts and conjecture regarding both parties’ candidates: the Democrats will flood the airwaves with every diversion imaginable to sway attention away from the present administration’s weak economy, high unemployment and class warfare; whilst the GOP will focus on those very points as well as outline their plan for a bright future for all citizens.

What are our hopes for change? Will we, the people of the United States of America, return to the dreams of our forefathers? Can we show them our audacity of hope? Let’s be positive in our comments as we move forward towards keeping that promise of making this administration a one-term proposition. We CAN make it … there IS a light at the end of the tunnel!

Join the YNA on Saturday, 17^th August 2012, for the Young Naturist Naked Week-end! Based out of the NY/NJ/PA area, the organization is growing rapidly and welcomes everyone to join them in trying nude recreation, regardless of race, colour, sexual orientation, tattoos or piercings.

The nudist movement used to be about acceptance, so they say, Back to the basics! The goal of their young naturist organization is to promote nude recreation and to educate people about nudism. They explore nudist resorts and clothing optional places as well as organize nude events and naked parties for fellow naturists from all over the world! Such gatherings include their signature Nude Night Out and Nude Year’s Eve party in Manhattan — there is always a naked party or nude-friendly event taking place either hosted or co-hosted by the YNA organization!

Just as the regime hits new lows with their contemptuous flow of libellous main-stream-media fodder like the unsubstantiated accusations from the Senate floor by Dingy Harry Reid [D-NV], the Chicago-based slime merchants dig themselves deeper with the scandalous exploitation of a woman’s heartbreaking death with fabrications and outright lies — uttered by her own widower, who has been identified as a long-time DemocЯAT operative.

It is understandable that this thread preaches to the choir but it has to be asked of anyone who — after witnessing the three-and-a-half years of failed policies, unfettered deficit spending and unprecedented string of broken promises which will burden citizens yet to be born — willfully supports Barrack Hussein Obama II for re-election … WHY?

Oh H-E-DOUBLE-TOOTHPICKS ... all this time I thought that word was a contraction of fried chicken!


Fricken

Forty-one months of over 8% unemployment; twenty-three million citizens unemployed; more than two hundred days since he met with his Jobs Council; and a 41% increase of welfare …

Hope and Change → Hoax and Chains → Hope for a real change!

@TEXASNNEWD … … and mahalo!

Oy, Crabcakes! Watch the latest adventure for GEICO’s spokes-gecko, which takes him this time to a clothing-optional beach for some fun in the sun. The popular series of adverts is produced by The Martin Agency based in Richmond, Virginia. Oy!

Newscasters on Denver’s KCNC discuss a new billboard in the metropolitan Denver area which advertises Mountain Air Ranch, a nudist resort that is geared toward families. Those who are members — there are more than 450 registered at MAR — said it’s a quiet campground and a family-friendly resort where they can relax by the pool or go on a nature hike. It is located in the Jefferson County foothills near Deer Creek Canyon on Mica Mine Gulch Road.

“It’s comfort,” said Chuck Jensen. “I just like it myself. It just feels good.”

“I certainly like the feeling of the sun and the breeze on my body,” said another nudist.

Mountain Air Ranch is one of the Denver’s best kept secrets. “This is a lifestyle that many people find relaxing,” said MAR manager Jim Colegrove. “Until you’ve tried spending a day swimming, lying by the sun and so forth without clothes you don’t realize how comfortable and relaxing that is.”

The free-spirited group said they have nothing to hide. “Nudity and sex aren’t necessarily always joined,” said Carla Gurovich. “This is probably the least sexual place I’ve ever been. “We’re really a family nudist resort. It’s all about the family, wholesomeness and being out in the open air.”

Vicki Blum is a nudist and cancer survivor who said she doesn’t feel judged by her body at the resort. Blum lost part of her breast to the disease. “I am here now more than I ever have been because of the fact that as you notice I have these scars here,” said Blum. She and her fiancé plan to get married at the resort because they consider the members as family.

The Mountain Air Resort has been in the same location for nearly 70 years but posted the billboard advertisement in the past few months. The resort caters to families with children of all ages and offers free tours and first time stays.

The amazing thing isn’t that broke so many promises; that was expected. It’s that nearly 50% of the electorate may vote for him again — despite all the lies, ignorant decisions, buck-passing, ineptness and anti-capitalist schemes that he pushes. Four years of this guy and his congressional ilk has been disastrous; imagine four more.

ѲBLAIMa has passed the buck to others — mainly to George W. Bush — for complications that characterize his presidency, suggesting time and again that his own policies, managerial naïveté and lack of private sector experiences are not culpable for his difficulties; he is simply doing the best that can be done with the cards he was dealt. Uh-oh … looks like needs to be changed.

In 2008, Candidate ☭BAMA promised Hope and Change. Four years later, America knows it was all an act; and since he has no record on which to run, resorts to using the same negative scare tactics he once claimed to be against.

We are nudists. We have all seen penes. Yet for the vast majority of textilists, the male genitalia remains an object of horror, humour, mystery and ridicule. Read any ’blog regarding nudism and there will always be a thread or two (hundred) addressing queries about erections or size. Why? Obviously these enquiries come from people either new or naïve to social nudity.

Society to-day offers little exposure to the nude male anatomy. With exception to changing a soiled nappy on a baby boy, most non-nudists rarely see a penis other than their own or that of their husband/boyfriend. Gone are the days of nude swims at the YMCA; many public school districts have eliminated communal showers “to protect the children;” and Hollywood shuns the full monty lest it is played for giggles. The mere mention of a penis invokes juvenile snickers from the audience; that is if it got passed the censors.

Speaking frankly, our textile-covered cousins generally see a penis only in some form of pornography — and we know in what state it is. Even many faux-“nudist” web galleries include photographs of men who are seemingly fluffed for the camera. It’s no wonder guys worry about their perceived shortcomings. The lack of exposure to a normal, flaccid male member has led many men to experience an array of emotions ranging from a lack of self-esteem to an inferiority complex. Their nether regions just never measure to the artificial standards set in their minds.

These are on the same line as female body image anxieties, just not openly discussed. To quote the renowned intellect on the human condition Elaine Benes of Seinfeld, “Well, the female body is a … a work of art. The male body is utilitarian. It’s for getting around, like a Jeep.” A pair of breasts is a pair of breasts: some big, some small and some seem big until the tissue has been dispensed. Same for a penis (and the rolled sox); the difference, save the obvious, is that clothing normally offer no visual cue to a gentleman’s virility.

Major paradigm shifts need to occur before nudity receives general acceptance — especially male nudity. The debate will continue as to the effectiveness of such displays as World Naked Bike Rides have on public approval but one point remains constant: Nudist gentlemen must “bare” the responsibility to always conduct themselves in a respectful, civil behaviour. Displays of bravado are tantamount to the stereotype we must combat in order to achieve recognition.

The visit to Oaklake Trails Naturist Park will be our first to this part of Oklahoma, so we have been doing a little research into the area. Its backbone is Route — known also as the Will Rogers Highway, Main Street of America or simply the Mother Road. As aficionados for pre-Interstate highways, we look forward to the adventure of stopping at some of the following historical landmarks as well as seeing all of our NCH friends.

	OLLIE’S STATION is the last of a string of old restaurants, motels and curio shops which used to dot this stretch of . Now surrounded by Interstate access ramps, the restaurant still serves classic diner food. Aside from the menu, OLLIE’S STATION draws customers wanting to see its model trains that travel around the dining area on tracks suspended from the ceiling. at West 41st Street (west side of ), Tulsa
	The ROCK CAFÉ opened in May 1939 and has been a favoured landmark on old ever since then. Dawn Welch bought the café in 1993 as a one year investment to fund her move to Costa Rica; she’s still there! A disastrous fire destroyed the interior in 2008 but she rebuilt with the help of the community in time to reopen for its seventieth anniversary. Dawn is also the inspiration for “Sally Carrera” of the movie Cars and her family typify the good people who live in Oklahoma. between North 1st and 2nd streets, Stroud
	A true jewel of , the SKYLINER MOTEL sports one of the most iconic neon signs anywhere along the old highway. Room 3 features a top-of-the-line bed originally bought for an elderly family member of the owner who didn’t like it because it was too tall! An alternative to a chain motel, the Skyliner may be also a convenient substitute accommodation if rentals at Oaklake Trails are fully committed. at North 8th Avenue, Stroud
	The CHANDLER ARMORY is an example of Works Progress Administration architecture of the Great Depression. Built in two sections between 1935 and 1937, the eastern half contains offices, locker rooms, truck bays, an ammunition vault and classrooms; the other half is mostly drill hall. To-day, the massive sandstone armory houses the Chandler Route 66 Interpretive Center with exhibits featuring virtual hotel rooms, vintage billboards and period video viewed from the seats of a 1965 Ford Mustang. at East 1st Street, Chandler
	In Arcadia is the ROUND BARN, one of America’s unique landmarks. Wm H. and Myra Odor needed a new barn in 1898. Mr. Odor’s idea did not sit well with his neighbours but he stubbornly proved them wrong. After building his own sawmill, he cut native bur oaks into boards, soaked and placed them into special jigs to bend them into shape, and created what many consider to be an architectural wonder. Designed with the unscientific notion that its true round — not just multi-sided — shape would help it withstand tornados, the ARCADIA ROUND BARN continues to stand more than a century later as testimony to its builder. between Division and Main streets, Arcadia
	A newcomer to the Main Street of America is POPS, opened in the summer of 2007 and quickly becoming a tourist attraction in its own right. With a 66-ft tall soda bottle adorning the entrance, POPS boasts hundreds of soda pop flavours and brands in the convenience store section of the petrol station. There is also a restaurant that features several café food options such as burgers, sodas and shakes. at Westminster Road, Arcadia

There are many little towns and interesting sites along the nearly 100 miles of concrete and asphalt between Tulsa and Oklahoma City: Oakhurst, Sapulpa, Kellyville, Bristow, Depew, Stroud, Davenport, Chandler and Edmond to name a few. For history and statistics buffs, Oklahoma has more miles of the old pavement than any of the other seven states laying claim to a piece of the Mother Road.

The Mulhalls are the quintessential promoters for The Terra Cotta Inn as well as nudism in general. They have embraced the electronic media with a number of virtual outlets for information. In addition to MC’s recently renovated Tumblr ’blog, Tom is now writing snippets for The Huffington Post. Keep in mind that their reading audience is mainly “textilists” who are in need of serious education regarding nudism. Be sure to also flip to the Terra Cotta Inn page on Nudist History Wiki.

There’s a BIG difference …

Mr. T (1981)	T (1981)

The NCH gatherings are opportunities to meet fellow clubhouse members as well as visit with other nudists at some of the finest resorts and facilities AANR has to offer. Brian always has an itinerary of activities — as listed below — but the “good time” assurance comes from within each participant. Bee and I have planned our annual holiday around these get-togethers a few times and, for us, they are always worth the minimum five-hour flight from the islands (this trip will be eleven hours air time and four airports). That’s our advertising. Since it’s just a quick seven hours along the turnpike from S^t Louis, c’mon down and see all of us!

I T I N E R A R Y
Friday, Saturday and Sunday OAKLAKE TRAILS all day and night!
Saturday afternoon CHAT ROOM at 1:00 CDT
Saturday afternoon NCH GROUP PHOTO at 3:30
Saturday afternoon SPECIAL GATHERING at 4:00
Sunday morning NUDES IN THE NEWS at 10:00

Saxo is a supermini or subcompact hatchback coupé manufactured by PSA for its Citroën badge between 1996 and 2003; it replaced the AX line and was succeeded by the C2 and C3 models. The uninspired design hardly reflects the unique styling of the pre-Peugeot merger years; dare say, it’s run-of-the-mill looks are on pair with just about every other 4-to-5 passenger car.

The range included five petrol engines and one diesel engine, all naturally aspirated.

It shares many engine and body parts with the Peugeot 106 — which, itself, was an offshoot of the Citroën AX — with the major differences being interiors and body panels. Saxo received a much-needed exterior restyling in 2000 with more modern headlamps, bonnet and grill; interiors remained quite vanilla. The series was finally put out to pasture after seven years of service.

Whilst preparing to move into a new building at the end of 2012, editors at KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are taking inventory of everything in their current location, including hours of old video to share the best of what they find with their audience.

Twenty years ago, KOTV’s News on 6 accepted an invitation from owners Dovel and Leonite Moore to come and visit the former Sun Meadow nudist club in Catoosa. In fact, they reported from Sun Meadow’s open house week-end three times: in 1992, 1993 and 1994. In this copulation footage, watch as the News on 6 reporters practice maintaining eye contact as they interview members who are … under-dressed to say the least.

When asked to think of a French automobile, one of the first thoughts is that of the Citroën DS. With its idiosyncratic ærodynamic body design and innovative technology, including a hydro-pneumatic self-levelling suspension and braking system, DS stylists Flaminio Bertoni and André Lefèbvre created an iconic vehicle that still looks futuristic some six decades later.

The distinctive shark-nosed DS made its début at the 1955 Paris Motor Show where it received 12,000 orders on its first day, 743 of which came in the first fifteen minutes! It introduced to the world power front disc brakes as well as fully implemented hydro-pneumatic assisted suspension, power steering, brakes and gearbox/clutch assemblies.

Throughout the series’ twenty-year run, DS was outfitted as a mid-sized luxury sedan, a station-wagon and up-scaled Pallas. Renowned carrossier Henri Chapron partnered with Citroën to build the DS-Décapotable convertible, Prestige limousine and notchback Lorraine. A more economical version — la ID — was also offered sans all the bells and whistles. For trivia buffs, it should be noted that the moniker DS is a French pun: the letters are pronounced DAY-ESS, similar to déesse, the French word for goddess; and ID in French is said EE-DAY, like idée (idea).

André-Gustave Citroën founded his namesake company in 1919 which earned an international reputation for creative innovation and revolutionary engineering in the automotive industry. From the world’s first mass-produced front-wheel drive car — la Traction Avant — to its ground-breaking hydro-pneumatic self-levelling suspension system on the ID/DS models, Automobiles Citroën has produced many iconic vehicles in its ninety-plus years.

Perhaps it is simply the juxtaposition of two favoured interests
that makes the woman with car a popular subject for men.

Arguably the most popular icon of the Citroën livery is the uncompromisingly utilitarian 2CV — la Deux Chevaux — with unconventional looks and understated engineering which evolved surprisingly little over its 42 years run. Designed for low cost, reliable on- and off-road driving, the little car that could was intended to move the French farmers away from horse-drawn carts to vehicles with equal simplicity of use. The versatile 2CV and its sister models — Ami, Acadiane, Dyane, Fourgonnette and Méhari — account for nearly 8.8 million vehicles produced world-wide.

A clever BMW advert demonstrates how a driver’s head is not always in the right place when behind the wheel, as one fellow discovers. The man’s disembodied cranium appears to be enjoying time on a tropical getaway: He … err, his head goes snorkeling, gets a massage, visits a nude beach and water-skis before getting a very rude awakening. Thanks to BMW’s lane departure warning system, the driver snaps back to reality and avoids drifting from his lane.

Be sure to check the Official NudistClubhouse.com Events page for updates. All major and informal NCH sponsored gatherings are listed here along with photographs and hyperlinks to the hosting clubs. It’s the perfect way to meet your newd friends in person!

OK is what’s next on the agenda!

Pole dancing ban? Shall we also disallow hat Czech girls? What about simply Roman around the dance floor? Are we Russian to judgement here? Sorry, these puns are making me Hungary.

All seriousness aside — we, as nudists, must always be vigilant of the image we project to the public in general. Rationalization may make some of us feel justified and noble but will it serve to advance our goal in conveying social nudism as a wholesome, family-friendly environment? The summer calendar was once filled with inter-club pageants for nudist kids, teens, parents and grandparents to compete and be part of the Royal Family representing our values; then someone had the brilliant idea of letting outside professional dancers compete …

… okay, I’m Finnish here.

Life is a series of stark realities and bare facts … So says Buster Bunny as he introduces Part II of “The Acme Acres Zone”, a parody of Rod Serling’s popular anthology of the 1950s. Hamton J. Pig gets duped into skinny-dipping in a rich-kid Montana Max’s pool by Plucky Duck and then needs to find his way home sans clothes. A portrait of a pig without blanket …

“Life on Three” is a short video study by French filmmaker Guillaume Vellard which is featured in his 2011 movie, Anatomie d’un Échec. The accompanying soundtrack is from the François Truffault 1962 film, Jules et Jim.

Nøgenshoppere ved åbning af ny grænseshop i Sønder Løgum

Nacktkäufer auf der Eröffnung einer neuen Grenze Shop in Süderlügum

A new supermarket on Hauptstraße just south of the German-Danish border was stormed by a horde of nude shoppers on Saturday (16^th June, 2012) after offering free groceries to the first hundred customers willing to go it in the buff.

A handful of police, photographers and one bemused manager witnessed strange scenes at a grocer’s opening in Süderlügum, Nordfriesland, as patrons wandered between the aisles studying shopping lists in nothing but their birthday suits. Customers had camped outside the new Priss market in the hope of being among the lucky first hundred who had been promised a basket full of free groceries worth €270 if they came in the nude.

Supermarket manager Nils Sterndorff was overwhelmed by the success of his gimmick. “I never thought a hundred people would come, I thought maybe more like ten,” he said. In fact, so many turned up that Sterndorff had to let them enter in batches of twenty. The police placed the number at 250, mostly Danish shoppers, who often take advantage of the cheaper alcohol and confectionary on the German side of the border.

An episode of Thailand’s Got Talent has stirred a morality debate after a contestant painted a canvas using her bare breasts. The topless take on art drew a rebuke from the culture minister who called it very shocking.

Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome said yesterday that nudity on television is not considered appropriate in Thai society. She said the show’s producers have been summoned to explain why the segment was broadcast and the ministry will then decide whether to take action. “This programme is intended to showcase the talent of Thai people and it usually encourages youths to show their special skills,” the minister told reporters. “Still, there have to be some limits.”

The show, broadcast Sunday on Thailand’s Channel 3, featured 23-year-old Duangjai Jansaunoi, who walked onstage barefoot in jeans and a baggy men’s button-down shirt. She introduced herself as an independent artist from northern Thailand. Miss Duangjai turned to a large canvas and painted a yellow outline of a person. She then removed her shirt, unhooked a black bra and doused herself with several tins of paint before turning to the audience with a broad smile to display her multi-coloured torso — censors electronically blurred her breasts from the TV audience’s view.

As dance music played, the contestant used her body as a paintbrush to fill in the outline. Some in the audience gasped with hands over their mouths, whilst others cheered. “If I paint in a normal way, then it would be too ordinary,” Miss Duangjai told the judges after being handed a towel to cover herself.

The judges then debated whether her act could be considered art.

Pornchita Na Songkhla posed nude covered in chocolate for a 2010 photo shoot but rejects this art form.

“I’m not saying this is not good, but it’s not appropriate,” said the panel’s only female judge, actress Pornchita Na Songkhla. “Within the Thai cultural context, I don’t support this.” As online chatter soared, some called Pornchita a hypocrite and posted photos from a 2010 fashion shoot in which her naked torso was covered with melted chocolate.

The panel's two male judges advanced Miss Duangjai to the next round. “This is an art form. If we were in Italy, like Florence or Milan — or the Czech Republic, say Prague — this would be okay,” said singer Jirayut Wattanasin. The audience roared in support, many flashing V for Victory signs.

Thailand’s Got Talent issued an apology late yesterday. Panya Nirandkul, the head of Workpoint Entertainment which produces the show, was quoted by the Thairath newspaper as saying he was not aware the contestant would be topless and denied the act was staged to boost ratings. He vowed not to let the mistake happen again, Thairath reported.

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Thrice failing to push their agenda on the majority: is that their democracy? Bus-loads of out-of-state union operatives storming the Capitol: is that their democracy? Protesters harassing the governor’s family at their private home: is that their democracy? ’Blog-based death threats: is that their democracy?

This blubbering buffoon (video, below) has no clue of what he speaks. Firstly, the United States of America is NOT a democracy — it is a republic. The certified gubernatorial election in 2008 sent Walker to Madison and, though the motivation may be in question, the system allowing a recall election of 2012 was our representative government in action.

Gov. Walker and Lt. Gov. Kleefisch won with a greater margin of victory in a fair and honest ballot. If the end of obligatory union dues which are laundered into Democᴙᴀᴛ donations, confiscatory taxes and the stifling of individual liberties means that, “USA is done and democracy is over,” then let the Republic return!

Congratulations to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch on their victory in the union-sponsored recall attempt. The LEFT thrice tried in vain to stoke the battle between public sector collectives and the Governor. The fact that over one-third of union households sided with Walker demonstrates the rift between members and their fat-cat overlords at the local Union Halls.

Tuesday’s balloting serves a strong notice to the Regime that Americans have had enough. Nevertheless, the embattled state executives are not in the clear yet: Thuggery is part and parcel of the sǝʌıssǝɹƃoɹd and has become their signature, as seen in the Capitol Rotunda in Madison at the genesis of this scenario. Nevertheless, the battle for fiscal sanity in the state is not over; the DONKEY PARTY’s clinched fist and closed mind will not disappear. They will surely continue to — pardon the pun — badger Walker and Kleefisch throughout their elected term.

2012 Gubernatortial Election by County

Listening to the presiDEBT bloviate year-after-year, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”

If the listened to his own words, he’d vote for Mitt Romney!

In October 1980, then-candidate Ronald Reagan famously asked the nation, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” The voters responded by showing Jimmy and Rosalynn the door. Pose that same query of most Americans to-day and the answer is likely to be similar.

Michelle Obama commented on 26^th April that her fantasy, “… is to walk right out the front door [of the White House] and just keep walking.” Let us HOPE for a CHANGE that will make her dream a reality come January next.

一畫勝千言 is a Chinese expression which translates as a painting worth a thousand words. For the next six months, TV, radio, the Internet and all other outlets will paint a story of the numerous successes of Barack Hussein Obama II. NT! The Democяѧтs believe that bombarding American citizens with political deceptions, rhetoric and false imagery will mask their candidate’s disastrous economic record or his series of failed policies over the past three-and-a-half years and fool the voters into re-electing an administration arguably worse than that of Jimmy Carter.

“To see him strutting around, you’d have thought he’d licked [bin-Laden] single-handed.”

If someone pays for a product or service with a TWO DOLLAR BILL this Memorial Day Week-end, it just could be a message from a member of the American Association for Nude Recreation, who wants you to know that nudists are your neighbours and that they have economic clout.

Nudists are good citizens. They are doctors, lawyers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, members of the clergy, educators and just about any other profession of which you can think. The only difference is that they enjoy the freedom that comes from nude recreation, one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry, where people enjoy swimming, hiking, sports, sunbathing and socializing without the discomfort of wearing clothes.

Since TWO DOLLAR BILLS are uncommon, AANR members hope to make themselves visible by spending them in local retail establishments and restaurants, demonstrating how important nudists are to the economy. It’s also an opportunity for anyone who enjoys nude recreation to strike up a conversation with someone who might be curious about nudism but was perhaps reluctant to ask.

There are some urban legends circulating about this unusual paper note, such as some people believing that it’s counterfeit — it’s perfectly legitimate and legal — or that it’s worth more than face value (it’s not). There is also an old story about a coastal town which was upset with some rowdy naval recruits, but when the Navy began paying sailors with TWO DOLLAR BILLS, the merchants in the town quickly came to realize how important these men were to their local shopkeepers.

On Memorial Day, we solemnly honour those who have fought and died to make possible the freedoms we all cherish. We are proud to live in a country where people are free to pursue their own personal liberty and happiness. What better way to celebrate freedom than to spend a TWO DOLLAR BILL with President Thomas Jefferson on the front, and a reproduction of the John Trumbull Declaration of Independence painting on the back?

From a historical perspective, the current size of the TWO DOLLAR BILL was introduced in 1929, the very same year that Kurt Barthel began the American League for Physical Culture in New York, thus beginning the American nudist movement. Since then, the numbers of nudists and naturists have continued to expand under the philosophy that every body is beautiful. In an increasingly stressful and artificial world, a return to a more natural way of living is the ultimate relaxation.

With roots dating back to 1931, AANR has served 213,000 individuals throughout the United States, Canada, México and beyond. Its members enjoy clothes-free living in their own backyards, in pools with family and friends, and take their nakations in over 260 nudist resorts and affiliates.

AANR is committed to fostering wholesome, nurturing environments which promote body acceptance and respect for all persons, and recognizes that physical health and mental well-being are enriched through social nude recreation.

If you would like further information on AANR, please contact Carolyn Hawkins at pubaffairs@aanr.com or call 407/933-2064 or 800/879-6833.

Dangerous currents swirl around Sotobanari island, which has not a drop of natural water and local fishermen rarely land there; but 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has made this kidney-shaped island in Japan’s tropical Okinawa prefecture his retirement home with an unusual dress code: nothing at all.

Naked, he braves lashing typhoons and biting insects as a hermit in the buff. “I don’t do what society tells me but I do follow the rules of the natural world. You can’t beat nature so you just have to obey it completely,” he said. “That’s what I learned when I came here, and that’s probably why I get by so well.”

The wiry Nagasaki, his skin leathered by the sun of two decades on the island, worked briefly as a photographer before spending years on the murkier side of the entertainment industry. When retirement came, he wanted to get far away from it all.

He chose Sotobanari, which is roughly a 1000 metres across and means Outer Distant (island) in the local dialect. It lies off the coast of Iriomote island, far closer to Taiwan than to Tōkyō.

His resolve was tested relatively soon into his stay when a massive typhoon swept over the island, scouring away most of the scrub he had counted on for shade, as well as carrying away the simple tent in which he lived. “I just scorched under the sun,” he said. “It was at that point I thought this was going to be an impossible place to live.”

For the first year he lived on Sotobanari, he threw on clothes whenever boats passed his way; but slowly the island stripped away his embarrassment. “Walking around naked doesn’t really fit in with normal society but here on the island it feels right, it’s like a uniform,” he said. “If you put on clothes you’ll feel completely out of place.”

He does throw on clothes once a week for a trip to a settlement an hour away by boat, where he buys food and drinking water. He also collects the 10000 円, sent to him by his family, on which he lives. His staple food is rice cakes, which he boils in water, eating whenever hunger strikes — sometimes four or five times a day. Water for bathing and shaving comes from rainwater caught in a system of battered cooking pots.

Each day is conducted according to a strict timetable, starting with stretches in the sun on the beach. The rest is a race against time as he prepares food, washes and cleans his camp before the light fails and insects come out to bite. It isn’t the healthiest of lifestyles, he concedes, but that isn’t the point. “Finding a place to die is an important thing to do, and I’ve decided here is the place for me,” he said.

“It hadn’t really occurred to me before how important it is to choose the place of your death, like whether it’s in a hospital or at home with family by your side; but to die here, surrounded by nature … you just can’t beat it, can you?”

©Reuters

Liberals abhor facts whilst conservatives relish in them. It’s that simple. Liberals want to create their Utopia and no moment of truth or snap of reality will sway them from their pie-in-the-sky dream of a bloated, leviathan government controlling every aspect of our lives.

Barack Hussein Obama II promised CHANGE and he has delivered; is this for what we’d HOPEd?

“In three years we’ve begun to see what change looks like.” —Barack Hussein Obama II, at a University of Vermont rally.

These are the fundamental definitions for the terms in question. A CLUB has a human element to it where as a RESORT is a facility that caters — at a prescribed level — to said club.

With regards to the moniker of a nudist (or any) organization, the Madison Avenue types are at liberty to use their poetic license when promoting either entity. There may also be legal definitions with which to contend depending on local jurisdictions. It would be quite subjective to establish a naming convention since each local is unique to its area, regulations and cliental.

We have our own general descriptions which hopefully will not muddy the waters too much …

Caveat emptor: Don’t get so caught in the semantics! Check the Internet and organizations like AANR or TNS to assure that the club or resort is reputable and serves your needs. Buyer beware.

You can club at a resort but don’t resort to a club …

It takes real chutzpah to insist that women are not some monolithic group … women are not an interest group at an event entitled, “The White House Forum on Women and the Economy,” but that’s exactly what the Panderer-in-Chief has been, and will be, doing from here to November. Instead of viable individuals, Ѳ only sees voters in demographic groups who enjoy being reduced to an identity and then patronized for it; this week it’s women, next week maybe Hispanics (a “race” fabricated in the 1970s to further divide Americans) and after that, any of a number of hyphenated citizens. So for now, the self-appointed Mayor of Suffragette City has garnered the Uterus Vote with his unctuous display.

If only he wasn’t such a chauvinist, the Great Divider might realize women — like their male counterparts — are worried about the economy, employment and other nasty real world concerns.

That’s to-day’s typical White House orchestrated event in microcosm — non-political, yet ridiculously political. No wonder the Attorney General lapsed into campaign mode; why bother keeping up the charade? They needed to organize something at the White House that would give the media an excuse to keep blathering about the War on Women and this is with for they opted, replete with a few sound bite-ready lines for The One — including a gross exaggeration about Planned Parenthood offering mammograms — so that his sycophant news propagandists would have some footage to air as an introduction to yet another reflective navel-gazing segment about supposed Republican misogyny.

Exit question: In honour of Ѳ’s attempt to reduce women to a single interest group based on gender, ask any mother, “How do you like it that this PRES(id)ENT keeps dropping anvils of debt on your kids’ heads and then, when asked to stop, the best he can do is offer this pathetic travesty?”

To us, Brian Spence has been "Mr. Nudist" for a long time. For the better part of two decades, Brian has demonstrated his commitment to wholesome, family-oriented nude recreation. In that time, he founded a travel club (Naturally California), created two authentic Internet social sites (singlenudist.com and nudistclubhouse.com), organized Nudist History Wiki — an on-line reference portal to which we are proud to be partners — and has competently served a vast array of positions at the club, regional and national levels. Brian has the proven leadership skills and needed integrity to advance AANR without compromising on principles.

Probably best known to non-AANR affiliated nudists as the effervescent host of Clothesfree.com's Nudes in the News, Brian has extensively traveled the country to represent and promote nudism in its most positive light. His joie de vivre, along with a steadfastness to AANR values and standards, will bring social nudity to the forefront of public understanding with respect and dignity.

We love him as a brother and wholeheartedly endorse Brian Spence as the next President of the American Association for Nude Recreation. Please join us in supporting Brian with your vote.

Andy and Bee Walden
Kona Sun Klub, Hawai‘i

Liberals continue to collectively treat women as helpless boobs (don’t get mad Mr. Newcastrati, you didn’t get upset with Bill Maher), unable to make a thoughtful decision for themselves or their families. This is all part-and-parcel to the cyclical pattern of fabricating crises and creating victims with the valiant Barack Hussein Obama in shining armour swooping to save the destitute damsels in distress. Empowerment of the individual is the death knell to the Left. Pathetic.

We have seen this pattern with every niche group the liberals declare as too weak, too downtrodden or too ignorant to fend for themselves. This thread has only sampled the list of conservative women who are viciously attacked by the elitist Left and their minions but look at the way they react to Herman Cain, Condoleezza Rice, Michael Steele, Clarence Thomas and Allen West; look at the vitriol aimed at Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Mark Levin, Jonah Goldberg, Joe Lieberman and Eric Cantor. Look at the way зviƨƨзяgoяq “thinkers” treat Marco Rubio, Paul Rodríguez, John Quiñones, Susana Martínez, Alberto González and Mike Curb; and look at their besmirching of Anh “Joseph” Cao, Bobby Jindal, Charles Djou, Jay Kim, Pat Saiki and Steve Austria. The roster will continue ad-nauseam as long as the radical Left are in control.

Racial and gender intimidation is an important tenet for liberals because they know they are rapidly losing many from the base. It also justifies — in their psyche — use of the c•••• word, the other c••• word, h•••• word, n••••• word, t••• word and all other demeaning vulgarities in-between. Their message is clear: wander from the liberal plantation and we will hunt you with hounds — just as they did to wayward slaves a century-and-a-half ago.

When liberals project their selective moral outrage upon conservatives, their shallow and pedantic nature is fully demonstrated. They cannot and will not realize it’s the upside-down ǝʌıssǝɹƃoɹd logic which sexualizes and degrades women.

Traditional social conservatism tells women it’s best to act modest and not provocative. It tells boys and girls — as well as men and women — that it’s best to wait until marriage to have sex. It tells both genders that they are able to control their body and instincts; they are the masters of their domain and not the slave of it. Liberals have tarred that aspect of traditional social conservatism as oppressive to women. If this is oppressive, then liberals must be calling for the opposite of the traditional social conservative view.

What are the contrasts of these perspectives? The antithesis of “women acting modestly” is women acting immodestly. The opposite of “telling girls/women and boys/men to only have sex in marriage” and “they can control themselves” is to tell them that they are slaves to their passions and should have sex almost any time they crave it.

It is the liberal contradiction to traditional social conservatism that is telling women to present themselves immodestly and provocatively. It is the liberal contradiction to traditional social conservatism which tells women they should have sex any time they want. It is the liberal contradiction to traditional social conservatism that is instructs boys and men to act upon their sexual desires sans consequence … yet the bass-ackward зviƨƨзяgoяq hypocrites have the audacity to denounce conservatives as the ones sexualizing and degrading women?

One redeeming factor for the Hilo community formerly served by KPUA is that the Internet provides continued access to The Rush Limbaugh Show via live streaming. Honolulu station KHVH 830AM is available on I♥RADIO and broadcasts the programme in the same time slot. Other shows that are “not certified and acceptable by the змιgзЯ” are also available using the ’Net; but let not your vigilance rest. The assault on free speech continues and, though the Fairness Doctrine has been defeated, the liberals are as relentless as a spoiled seven year old and will push and push and push until they achieve their agenda.

Surely you jest ~FARMER! As an affiliate of CBS Radio, KPUA is obliged to their main stream media masters who typically ignore such condemning rumours. The studio’s web site has no mention of The Rush Limbaugh Show or the controversy, the on-line schedule remains blank in the 10:00-12:59 block (programming has placed syndicated sports talk in the time slot) and my eMAIL has yet to be opened by the station let alone worthy of a reply.

Misogyny is an important tool in the liberals’ bag of tricks, dispensed as humour with the intention to control and keep women in their place. Just a quick, abbreviated review of a few celebrated зviƨƨзяgoяq masters of mirth illustrates the depth of Left’s loathing:

John “Sly” Sylvester
♦ The left-wing Wisconsin radio host called Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice a black trophy and continually referred to her as Aunt Jemima. The equal-opportunity bigot also used the epitaph Uncle Tom in reference to then-outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell.
♦ Incensed with the Republican Lieutenant-Governor’s campaign to persuade businesses to move to the Badger State, he ranted, How amateurish is it to have Rebecca Kleefisch, who — I don’t know — she has some, like, little panty business in her basement or something, I don’t know. She’s hardly a … she’s hardly an entrepreneur. You know what? You know how amateurish that is? Cold-calling? [in mocking voice] “Would you like to move to Wisconsin? Would you like to move CouponCabin to Wisconsin? I’m Rebecca Kleefisch. I perform fellatio on all the talk show hosts in Milwaukee; and they endorse me and that’s how I became lieutenant governor; and then I got colon cancer and I ran around the state to help people. Even though I have government health care, screw everyone else.” … I had heard at one point Rebecca Kleefisch pulled a train but that must have been a different story I was reading about …

Keith Olbermann
♦ In discussing with analyst Howard Fineman the previous night’s victory for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Pennsylvania Democrat Primary, he asked if it was time someone takes her into a room and only he comes out?
♦ When commentator Michelle Malkin exposed New Jersey educators teaching elementary schoolchildren a reworded version of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to glorify the president, he ranted that her mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred — without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it was responsible for death threats towards the woman who posted the video.
♦ Responding to columnist S.E. Cupp’s opposition to Planned Parenthood funding, he posted a tweet, On so many levels she's a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does on his Twitter account.

PLAYBOY
♦ The men’s magazine’s on-line edition published Guy Cimbalo’s list of Ten Conservative Women I’d Like to Hate-F**k. The article — promoted by Anne Schroeder Mullins at politico.com — included Laura Ingraham, The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck, former GWB spokeswoman Dana Perino, Rep. Michele Bachmann and others. Michelle Malkin topped the list with the following descriptions: a highly f**kable Filipina and a regular on Fox News, where her tight body and get-off-my-lawn stare just scream, “Do me!”

David Letterman
♦ When Sarah Palin visited New York City to participate in a charity event for autism, he said that Palin bought makeup at Bloomingdale’s to update her slutty flight-attendant look.
♦ One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game: During the seventh inning, her daughter (then-14-year-old Willow) was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez … The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.

Ed Schultz
♦ On conservative Laura Ingraham’s criticism of the president’s Ireland trip, he said, … but you know what they’re talking about, like this right-wing slut, what’s her name: Laura Ingraham? Yeah, she’s a talk slut.

Jimmy Fallon
♦ When Rep. Michele Bachmann [R-MN] walked onto the stage, the show’s band Roots — led by drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson — played Lyin’ Ass Bitch, a song by alt-rock band Fishbone that has mostly incomprehensible lyrics.

Really? The Liberals … the Progressives … the Left … the Democrats — the party of Slavery; the party of the Ku Klux Klan; the party of Japanese Internment; the party of Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy and, of course, the $1 Million donor Bill Maher who has made degradation of women a cornerstone of his sophomoric humour (sorry, the Internet doesn’t have enough electrons to list even his least offensive diatribes) — are the self-proclaimed champions of women’s issues?

Many former KPUA listeners have written to the station with thoughts over this latest kerfuffle to silence the conservative voice in the most monolithic Left run state in the Union. Here is a letter from a local proprietor who faces the stifling regulations imposed by not only the Federal authorities but the confiscatory taxations imposed by the sǝʌıssǝɹƃoɹd at state and local levels.

Since the market opened on Monday, 5^th March, through its close Tuesday, Carbonite stock (NASDAQ: CARB) has plummeted nearly 12%, outpacing the drop of the NASDAQ index in that same time period by nine-and-a-half points. It was also one of the biggest decliners on the NASDAQ for 6^th March.

Looks like somebody FLUKE’d up …

The response from the community has been good. People every day are awakening to understand this змιgзЯ and its assault on the Constitution of the United States of America. This is my letter to Chris Leonard, President and General Manager of New West:

This is the press release from a local radio station on the Island of Hawai‘i who has proudly aligned themselves with the Ѳвѧмѧ Regime by kowtowing to the most recent mandate to silence the opposition. Whereas some advertisers to the Rush Limbaugh programme have opted not to accept monies from Dittoheads, thinking their cash is not green enough, it is altogether different when a station’s ideology removes America’s most successful show from an entire market area.

I invite everyone to write their own letters to local affiliates: If the station continues to carry the Rush Limbaugh programme, praise them for their convictions; if they have coward behind the curtain of зviƨƨзяgoяq dogma, respectfully let them know your thoughts. Either way, please share your letters here so that fellow conservatives know that we do not stand alone.

WELFARE FOR NOTHING
to the tune of Money for Nothing by Dire Straits



(I want my mediocrity)

Now look at them moonbats that’s the way you do it
They praise the ’genda on MSNBC
That ain't workin’ that’s the way you do it
Welfare for nothin’ and the Pill for free
Now they ain't workin’ (that’s the way you do it)
Lemme tell ya they get free condoms
Maybe pack a lunch for your little sister
Maybe get food police on your Mum

We gotta install socialist programmes
Confiscate all those salarie-e-es
We got the Move-On liberators
We gotta move LGBTVs

See the little flaco with the big ears and the ’prompter
Yeah but we get his arrogant stare
That little flaco’s got his own jet airplane
That little flaco wastes trillions out there

We gotta install socialist programmes
Confiscate all those salarie-e-es
We got the Move-On liberators
We gotta move LGBTVs

Oh bama-rama

(We gotta install socialist programmes
Confiscate all those salarie-e-es)
We got the Move-On liberators
(We gotta move LGBTVs)

Look-a here look-a- here

I shoulda’ learned to play the retard
I shoulda’ learned to play real dumb
Look at this Obama
He’ll stick it to big pharma
Man he can have some fun
And he’s up there, what’s that? Hawaiian ’cations?
Bangin’ down the burgers at the local Zippy
Oh that ain’t workin’ (that’s the way you do it)
Get your welfare for nothin’ get your Pill for free

We gotta install socialist programmes
Confiscate all those salarie-e-es
We got the Move-On liberators
We gotta move LGBTVs

Hill-ar-ry-ry

Listen here now that ain’t workin’
That’s the way you do it
You praise the ’genda on MSNBC
That ain't workin’ (that's the way you do it)
Welfare for nothin’ and the Pill for free
Welfare for nothin’ and the …
And the Pill for free
Get your welfare for nothin’
And the Pill for free

Look at that look at that

I want my …
I want my …
I want my mediocrity
I want my …
I want my …
I want my mediocrity

The man on the street interview was popularized by Steve Allen on the Tonight show, with Jay Leno continuing the tradition to-day. Other microphone-wielding examiners arise every-so-often but this particular video is one of the more stunningly sad of this genre. From thinking the Vice President of the United States is Osama bin Laden to naming “Europe” as a country that starts with the letter U, students at a Washington state public high school will shock and bewilder all but the hard-core ǝʌıssǝɹƃoɹd who knows these kids are tomorrow’s drones to the liberal elite.

There’s a problem in this nation. We keep saying, “We’ve got to fix our schools.” Yet this is how the liberal agenda works: Before history can be rewritten, there needs to be no one who understands the real story. By making the lectures tedious and uninspiring, students will put forth just enough effort to learn the lessons of history for grades but will not foster the passion to learn from the lessons of history for life. Whether or not the filmmaker — also a student at the high school — set forth to embarrass his classmates by editing correct answers is immaterial. The fact that these kids haven’t a clue on so many simple points, such as the capital of their own state, is alarming. This is by зviƨƨзяgoяq design.

When clothes come off, so do labels. It simply does not matter if one identifies him/her/itself as LGBTI or GLBTQ … or ABCXYZ or NOYFB or ROFLMFAO — as far as most individuals in the textile challenged community are concerned, it’s no BFD. Claiming victimhood before any wrongdoing has been committed serves no purpose in the quest for understanding and acceptance. Lest a bona fide nudist club has rejected admittance, no discrimination has occurred.

Getting back to the intent of this forum — attracting a younger crowd — the decline in club membership may be, in part, to the success of moving nudism from the fringes of society and closer to the mainstream. Nudists in the early and mid-20^th Century gathered at camps that were “in the middle of nowhere” to avoid consternation from the general public. With the advent of paradigm shifts in attitude towards the unclothed human body in the 1970s, the fear of the scarlet letter N carries far less weight than fifty years ago.

A facet already touched on this thread is the prohibitive cost of many clubs and resorts. “Bare” in mind that several clubs of old have ceased to exist due to exponential increases in land value and confiscatory taxes. Out-of-the-way locations are quickly encroached by expanding metropolitan areas. Another factor is the rise in the standard of living amongst the Baby-Boom Generation. Half a century ago, nudist camps were just that: camps. People looking to enjoy nude recreation were content with “roughing it” in the wilderness. To-day’s expectations are more inclined towards all-inclusive resorts with modern facilities and conveniences. These amenities require more staffing, enhanced infrastructure and greater finances.

The American Association for Nude Recreation is the mainstay representation and standard-bearer for wholesome, non-sexual family nudism via its affiliated clubs. The Naturist Society has well represented the “freelance nudists” — those more inclined to attend nude beaches, naked bike rides and other public venues. Social network sites like Facebook and NCH are the e-colonies of to-day. No longer do nudists need to commute to a sun club to assemble; they can socialize via video-chats and rendezvous at local settings on short notice. These are the tools which anyone interested in social nudity may use to find the right group for their enjoyment. The only ones being discriminated are doing it to themselves.

… and now for something completely different:

The bottom is falling out of British nudism. Concerned by drooping … err, dropping membership, the aging British Naturism is on a youth recruitment drive in the sprightly form of Daryl Jones, who is in the habit of bouncing about on his barge as free as a bird. He is on a quest to normalise nudity, question the media’s obsession with the body beautiful and encourage young people to liberate themselves by simply going nude — on the streets, in cafés or at art shows.

This phenomenon is explored in a documentary called My Daughter, the Teenage Nudist that was broadcast across Great Britain on Thursday, 12^th January 2012. The film’s title muse is Mollie — an eighteen year old student from Hinckley, Leicestershire UK. Granted she is seen more top-free than completely sans clothes, it is obvious that a programme producer at Britain’s Channel 4 felt it would have more audience appeal to suggest the Full Monty. Along with Alex, an undergraduate at the University of Manchester in her mid-20s, they are part of a growing group of teens and twentysomethings embracing the world of public nudity; a contemporary phenomenon that’s been driven by social networking sites such as Facebook as well as niche websites like Naked Vegan Cooking.

The new nudists are keen to take the nudist lifestyle beyond the old fashioned naturist clubs. So why is this pastime increasing in popularity and what do the parents think about their child revealing all in the most public of places?

The bottom is falling out of British nudism. Concerned by drooping … err, dropping membership, the aging British Naturism is on a youth recruitment drive in the sprightly form of Daryl Jones, who is in the habit of bouncing about on his barge as free as a bird. He is on a quest to normalise nudity, question the media’s obsession with the body beautiful and encourage young people to liberate themselves by simply going nude — on the streets, in cafés or at art shows.

This phenomenon is explored in a documentary called My Daughter, the Teenage Nudist that was broadcast across Great Britain on Thursday, 12^th January 2012. The film’s title muse is Mollie — an eighteen year old student from Hinckley, Leicestershire UK. Granted she is seen more top-free than completely sans clothes, it is obvious that a programme producer at Britain’s Channel 4 felt it would have more audience appeal. Along with Alex, an undergraduate at the University of Manchester in her mid-20s, they are part of a growing group of teens and twentysomethings embracing the world of public nudity; a contemporary phenomenon that’s been driven by social networking sites such as Facebook as well as niche websites like Naked Vegan Cooking.

The new nudists are keen to take the nudist lifestyle beyond the old fashioned naturist clubs. So why is this pastime increasing in popularity and what do the parents think about their child revealing all in the most public of places?

Not quite sure what is meant by the Mormon thing but the Massachusetts Health Care Insurance Reform Law of 2006 remains a major sticking point. What is it about these Bay State politicians that seem to always be “for it before being against it” — à la the haughty John Kerry, who speaks French and also served in Việt Nam.

One other observation since it was mentioned: the 5.8 million American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are the only historically persecuted minority in the United States that the liberals have yet to hollowly embrace, assign victim status and enslave with entitlements. The LDS may not be popularly viewed as being mainstream as other churches but their moral compass and ethics are more in line with American values than most of those so-called sǝʌıssǝɹƃoɹd ɹɐןnɔǝs.

In Canada, public nudity is allowed so long as you don’t offend against public decency or order. In fact, nudity is considered a political crime, one of the few offences that requires the Attorney General’s approval to lay charges. So, letting it all hang out among thousands of like-minded souls at the Pride Parade? You’re probably safe; but going for a naked jaunt to your local A&W — not so much. Brian Coldin of Bracebridge, Ontario, currently faces five charges for his repeated clothing-free visits to fast-food restaurants located near his naturist resort. Coldin is fighting the charges, calling Canada’s nudity laws unconstitutional. A judge is expected to rule this fall. Until then, here’s a full-frontal look at our country’s long history of public nudity.

• 1918 — First Canadian nudist club founded in Welland, Ontario.

The Doukhobors stage a mass nude protest in Langham, Saskatchewan, in 1903.

• 1931 — The Criminal Code first defines nudity as an offence in response to mass nude anti-conscription protests by radical Doukhobors, a Russian pacifist religious sect. The following year, 118 Doukhobors are arrested and sentenced to three years each for their naked protest.

• 1939 — The Van Tan Club is founded in Vancouver by Ray Connett, the self-dubbed “Father of Canadian Nudism.” To-day, it’s the oldest nudist club in Canada.

• 1947 — The Canadian Sunbathing Association is formed. This and similar euphemisms are employed to make advertisements acceptable to newspaper and magazine publishers.

• 1953-54 — The Criminal Code is amended to remove Doukhobor-related “parading” references. Criminal charges remain rare, however, as Attorneys General prove reluctant to prosecute. Those going clothing-free are instead usually charged with mischief or indecency.

Gwen Jacob was a student at the University of Guelph in 1991. To-day, she is nonchalant about being a role model.

• 1991 — Nineteen year old Gwen Jacob takes off her shirt along Gordon Street in Guelph, Ontario, and is charged with indecent exposure and fined $75. In a recent interview with The Naturist Living Show, Jacob reflected on the episode: “With my hands shaking furiously, I took my shirt off and jammed it down the back of my shorts and I can’t tell you the freedom that entailed in that moment … I was scared to death but there was a nearly euphoric sense of taking control of my own body.”

• 1996 — The Ontario Court of Appeal rules that Jacob’s “indecent exhibition” did not pose a risk of harm as defined by the Supreme Court of Canada and therefore could not be the subject of criminal charges. The conviction is overturned and Jacob gets her $75 back.

Evangeline Godron prefers to swim sans a bathing top.

• 1998 — Evangeline Godron swims topfree in a Regina pool. After she declines to either leave or put on a top, police are called and she is charged. Godron is convicted of mischief a year later and subsequent appeals are thrown out.

• 2011 — Brian Coldin challenges the constitutionality of Canada’s nudity laws. His case is pending.

From an article
by THIS editor
Lauren M^c Keon.

Here’s to America’s favourite Ninety of Hearts Betty White!

Betty W. Ludden, known to her fans as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, author and former game show personality. With a career spanning nine decades since 1939, she is best remembered for her television roles as ever-frisky “Sue Ann Nivens” on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and S^t Olaf’s favourite daughter “Rose Nylund” on The Golden Girls; she is currently starring as “Elka Ostrovsky” on the TV-Land sitcom Hot in Cleveland.

Yet in the 1940s and ’50s, White was a pin-up model where sometimes the wardrobe department need not be involved! Her girl-next-door smile makes these shots more sweet than sexy. However, if these images of her being young and nude make it difficult to reconcile the mental image of her as the world’s coolest, funniest nonagenarian lady … well, just remember that she twice donated $500 to the Dianne Feinstein for Senate campaigns and is a regular contributor to various Democrat controlled organizations.

She’s certainly no conservative but, at ninety years old to-day, let’s pause and salute Betty White!

AANR Welcomes Jim Smock, New AANR Executive Director

By Pete Williams, AANR Staff Writer

James “Jim” Smock has a résumé seemingly tailored to lead the American Association for Nude Recreation, with a 20-year background in government relations, business management, public relations and lobbying.

About the only thing AANR’s new executive director does not have is a lot of nudist experience but he’s working on that. He jumped right into the pool during a visit to the Cypress Cove Resort in December and plans to make up for the lost nudist opportunities he did not have as a lifelong Michigan resident.

“We have nudist facilities in Michigan but some tend to be seasonal and if we get three summer months, that’s a win for us,” says Smock (48), who began his new role at the AANR Headquarters in Kissimmee, Florida, on 9^th January, 2012. “Nudism is not something I had thought about one way or the other but I’m really enjoying it so far.”

The AANR Board chose Smock among more than 180 applicants for the position, vacated last year when long-time executive director Erich Schuttauf resigned to pursue other opportunities.

Like his predecessor, Smock is a law school graduate with a deep background in government affairs. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Smock spent more than a decade in the private sector before working for a Michigan legislator from 2004-06. He spent the next three years as the legislative affairs manager for a financial services trade association.

Smock says that progression, from the corporate world to the public sector to government work to the “quasi-public sector” of lobbying and trade association involvement, provided him with a strong foundation to lead AANR, which is something of an unconventional trade group.

“It’s a traditional trade association but it also has a social mission, almost a Civil Rights mission to it, in that folks should be allowed, where appropriate, to be nude if they so choose,” Smock says. “The idea is that even if you’re not a nudist yourself, you should respect the rights of nudists to privacy as long as it’s not hurting anyone else.”

Smock says AANR’s membership challenges are common to trade associations in recent years. That’s partly because of the economy, which he says should not be used as an excuse and also because people in their twenties and thirties are less inclined to join organizations than in previous generations.

“Our society with Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club and online retailing has conditioned us to expect a lot for the least amount of money possible,” he says. “In many cases that’s true; but it’s up to AANR, working with the clubs and the regions, to present a united front and show members the reasons why they should join and the value they receive.”

Smock says those reasons could include AANR getting more involved with issues that are important to potential younger members and that do not stray from AANR’s core message, much like the organization’s involvement with breast cancer awareness.

“There are some issues young people support that we can also support as a way of outreach and being good citizens in areas where we operate,” Smock says.

“You have to get the message out, build those relationships, and put yourself in the lawmakers’ shoes to see what they’re facing from their colleagues and from their district and state,” Smock says. “My mission, in addition to what we’re doing internally, is to carry the message to lawmakers and let them know through education what AANR does.

“There always will be those who say, ‘I can’t support an organization that supports nudity no matter how wholesome it may be,’ but if you keep educating these lawmakers and show that we’re a resource if they have questions, that just works the best for everyone.”

Smock and his wife, Kathleen, have been married for 16 years and have two sons, ages 10 and 14. An avid fan of the University of Michigan football team and the Detroit Tigers, Smock says he hopes to catch the Tigers during spring training in Lakeland – or at least when they play the Houston Astros near the AANR office in Kissimmee.

He says he plans to spend much of his time in the beginning getting to know the AANR board, regions, and the clubs.

“I certainly appreciate the trust and confidence of the board in selecting me,” Smock said. “I know there were a lot of people who applied for this position. I’m honoured to be chosen and appreciate the confidence of the membership, club owners and everyone associated with AANR. I’m looking forward to the challenges and opportunities.”

Source: http://www.aanr.com/aanr-welcomes-jim-smock-new-aanr-executive-director

To-day, Friday 30^th December 2011, simply does not exist in the Independent State of Sāmoa. This is because the Pacific nation — along with the New Zealand territory of Tokelau — has decided to relocate itself west of the International Date Line to be better aligned with its chief trading partners of New Zealand and Australia. They will all now be on the same calendar day.

To mark the official change of the date line, Sāmoa is holding a Public Service in the capital of Apia starting at 23:00 on the 29^th December with Christmas carols and a performance by the Police Choir. At 23:30, Rev. Elder Oka Fauolo of the National Council of Churches will lead the prayers. Prime Minister Tuitalepa Sailelel Malielegaoi will deliver his keynote address at 23:45 and, at the stroke of mid-night, church bells will ring to signal the change of date from the 29^th December 2011 to the 31^th December 2011.

This view from Falealupo has traditionally been called the last sunset in the world.

With Sāmoa and Tokelau moving, Niue and America Sāmoa will be the last places on Earth to welcome the New Year 2012. The Samoan village of Falealupo has had the designation of the last sunset in the world; as of Saturday, that distinction will belong to the American Samoan village of Poloa. No specific details as to whether or not Poloa will hold a ceremony to mark this historic occasion are known.

American Sāmoa Visitors Bureau executive director, David Vaeafe, said the shifting of the IDL by their western cousins will be of huge benefit to the US unincorporated territory. “When this takes place, the sun will rise in Sāmoa and set in our territory. The opportunities to offer unique holiday experiences will benefit not only us but also Sāmoa,” he said.

For travelers seeking unique and fun ideas for 2012, Vaeafe provided a list of ten ventures:

• Travel to Sāmoa to celebrate your birthday, wedding, anniversary, graduation, Christmas or New Year’s Eve and then, the next day, fly over to American Sāmoa, arrive yesterday and celebrate all over again; double the celebration!
• If you are a fishing buff, charter a boat in Pago Pago, sail west to the International Dateline, park your charter boat on the American Sāmoa side and cast your line over to the Sāmoa side to catch a fish tomorrow!
• Keeping with the nautical theme, take a New Year’s cruise where some liners sit directly on the International Dateline so passengers do the back to the future thing by walking from one side of the ship to the other.
• Hopeless romantics can simply charter a boat and take a beautiful sunset cruise around Tutuila Island.
• For American football fans, fly down to American Sāmoa in late December to catch the annual Sāmoa Bowl All Star Game, the last American football game played in the world!
• Charter a luxury jet; starting in Sāmoa at mid-night, jet west and fly around the world in one day to arrive in American Sāmoa to see the sunset.
• Another jet-set idea is to start with breakfast in the US Virgin Islands — the easternmost territory of the United States — then to Los Angeles for lunch and finally to Apia for a late dinner.
• On a smaller scale, fly to the most western populated island in American Sāmoa, Ta‘ū, and watch the sun rise on the east coast; then fly back to Tutuila island, sit on the beach at Poloa and watch the sunset.
• For something fun with a bit of exercise, play the last tennis game of the year at the American Sāmoa Tennis Club in Tafuna or surf the last waves off Tutuila.
• Get a spiritual uplifting at the final church services of the year in American Sāmoa.

So as to not cause a Pacific-wide cataclysmic tsunami — or any undo concern on the part of Rep. Hank Johnson, Jr. [D/GA-4], who worried in 2010 that Guam might become over-populated and capsize — the islands will remain in place and the International Date Line will, instead, shift to bisect the 222kᴍ straits separating the two Samoas.

Here’s a cheeky thirty-second advert by director Jérôme Py for www.naturisme.fr, the web portal dedicated to nudism in France. Simple, clever and effective; saucy, audacious and bold. Please accept apologies for not having an English translation available.

C.A.F.E. Spells R.I.P. for Trucks

The ъαмα Regime’s pending 35.5 MPG Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements — which for the first time apply to trucks as well as passenger cars — are going to make it very difficult for any automaker to sell trucks in volume in this country.

Ford has just dropped the compact-size Ranger from its US model lineup — making it the first CAFE casualty — and surely larger trucks are on the endangered species list now too. Just as large V-8/RWD sedans were almost completely destroyed as mass-market vehicles by the original — and far less punitive — CAFE requirements that went into effect a quarter century ago.

Even a small truck with a four-cylinder engine will have a hard time averaging 35.5 MPG. To get there, the truck would need to be capable of 40 MPG on the highway and 30 MPG in city driving. There are only a handful of economy cars that achieve 40 MPG on the highway right now. Trucks do worse, MPG-wise, because they’re heavier (to be able to do work such as pull a trailer or carry a pallet of bricks in the bed), less ærodynamic (in part because they need to ride higher off the ground than a car) and often ride on M/S-rated tires that have higher rolling resistance than standard passenger car radials. Fuel efficiency takes a back seat to capability.

The just-canceled Ranger manages 23 city / 27 highway — or about 25 MPG average. For a truck, that’s not bad; but Ford would have had to get another 10 MPG out of Ranger to make the CAFE cut — and avoid CAFE fines. Ford probably dropped the Ranger from its US product portfolio because it realizes that getting a truck, any truck, to achieve 30 city / 40 highway-type driving will probably — almost certainly — require:

• A dramatic reduction in weight via the use of composites rather than steel while maintaining the same level of crashworthiness;
• Very high-efficiency turbo-diesel engines or other advanced technology, such as a hybrid powertrain;
• Significant reduction in power/capability.

All of which will increase the cost of the vehicle, perhaps to the extent that it is no longer economically viable to manufacture. The Ranger got nixed first in part because it’s a lower-on-the-totem-pole model than the best-selling F-Series; but CAFE is gunning for the F-truck too. It gets considerably poorer fuel economy than the Ranger, which will make it that much harder (read, economically untenable) to achieve compliance with the 35.5 MPG diktat.

Even the government’s own estimates of the costs imposed by CAFE so far are startling high: $2.4 Billion — and that was back in 2003, when the Congressional Budget Office issued its report, The Economic Costs of Fuel Economy Standards Versus a Gasoline Tax. Mind, the $2.4 Billion referenced by the CBO assumed the old CAFE standard of 27.5 MPGs, not the recently enacted 35.5 MPG standard — which also, for the first time, applies to trucks. The old CAFE standard was much more lenient, with a separate, higher CAFE peg for light trucks. The CBO study also noted, presciently, that, “unit sales of light trucks would ultimately decline about twice as much as would those of cars.”

So, what will the new 35.5 MPG standard cost us? Automotive Fleet, an industry journal, estimates it will add at least another $1,000 to the sticker price of every new vehicle sold and $52 billion cumulatively; and CAFE does not stop at 35.5 MPG by 2016. Chief Social Engineer Øbama pushed for — and got — a further bump to between 47 and 62 MPG by 2025!

Want to take a guess what that will cost? The “sort-of” electric car Chevrolet Volt gives us a clue. It is capable of operating on electricity alone for 20 to 30 miles at a stretch and uses so very little fuel. It also has a sticker price of $40,000. Even with a massive federal subsidy of $7500 the thing still costs about as much to buy as a new BMW 3-Series or similar entry luxury-vehicle. It’s thus a toy, or at best, an engineering concept. Whatever you’d like to call it, it’s not economical — and few people, other than affluent people, can afford to buy one. It is doubtful GM would have even produced the Volt for retail sale absent the PR value and, of course, government subsidies.

With trucks, it’s even worse because to a great extent the market for such vehicles is middle and working class. There are people in San Francisco and Washington with $200к annual incomes who will buy the Volt; but how many $40к-per-year electricians will be willing or even able to plunk down $30,000 for a high efficiency compact truck, as outlined above? Hence Ford’s decision to pull the Ranger from its US model line whilst continuing to sell it in other countries where there is no CAFE law.

It’s an impossible situation for the car companies. You can’t have both very high fuel economy and the capability people expect at a reasonable cost, whilst also meeting all the government’s existing crashworthiness standards too.

The latter is especially interesting because, for the first time, two mutually exclusive government edicts — one relating to fuel economy, the other relating to crashworthiness — are coming into obvious conflict. It would be relatively easy to chop a few hundred pounds off the typical truck and without doing anything else, score a significant increase in fuel economy. It would also be possible, with a lower curb weight, to use a smaller, less powerful engine and still maintain approximately the same performance while further increasing fuel economy (by dint of the fact that a smaller, less powerful engine would use less fuel). This would also have the happy effect of lowering the price of the vehicle since it costs nothing to remove weight or equipment that adds weight, such as the now-mandatory multiple air bags with which all vehicles must come equipped.

Yet maintaining the vehicle’s compliance with existing and pending federal crashworthiness requirements, whilst also significantly reducing its curb weight, won’t be easily or cheaply done. It will probably require wholesale re-engineering of the vehicle, not merely replacing steel with high-strength, lightweight and very expensive composites. Major R&D will be involved and the end result, though possibly both safe and efficient will also cost a small fortune, just like the Chevrolet Volt.

The people on the top floor of the Ford building are not idiots. They’ve crunched the numbers. They see the future. There is none for the Ranger — and soon, bigger trucks too. Bet your sweet bippie that GM and Chrysler are hip, too.

It may be all over for trucks as mass-market vehicles. We just don’t realize it yet.

What if Facebook (or, for that matter, NCH) existed two thousand eleven years ago? This video is an artistic take on how the story of the nativity might have read had Joseph, Mary, Zechariah and Elizabeth kept in touch via social network. Follow this historical period as it unfolds as a digital narrative. This vignette highlights the truths and circumstances of our Savior’s birth in a fresh, unique way that emulates our world to-day. The background song, O Come Emmanuel by Folk Angel — as well as this video — is available from IgniterMedia.com.

Think you’ve seen all you can see in the GOP debates? Well think again! Brian Sack is a writer, author, voiceover artist, actor and host who lends his talents to bring humour to the political scene. Currently working in conjunction with Glenn Beck on the Internet video network GBTV. Brian wrote In the Event of My Untimely Demise and the forthcoming The B.S. of A.: A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted along with several newspaper and magazine articles.

With no regard to his personal safety, Brian proudly stands before a microphone and says things for TV and radio adverts, audio books and video games. At other times, much like a Minuteman sans musket, Brian will — at a moment’s notice — stand in front of a camera and say things: sometimes funny; other times, not. Sometimes that is on purpose; and when not doing all that, he yells “Freedom!” out of a fifth storey window.

Sean Quigley, a sixteen-year-old Grade-11 student at Oak Park High School in Winnipeg has produced, directed, edited and stars in a music video homage to his Saviour that is taking YouTube by winter storm. Filmed on the snowy streets of his home town, Quigley rocks the Christmas standard Little Drummer Boy which, he explains, “… speaks to me so much.”

… and to all a Good Night.

Sean Quigley, des seize ans et un Grade-11 étudiant au École Secondaire Oak Park à Winnipeg a produit, réalisé, monté et les étoiles dans un hommage vidéo de musique au Sauveur qui est en train de YouTube par la tempête d’hiver. Tourné dans les rues enneigées de sa ville natale, rochers Quigley la norme de Noël Little Drummer Boy, qui, explique t-il, «… le parle tant à me.»

Sean Quigley, a sixteen-year-old Grade-11 student at Oak Park High School in Winnipeg has produced, directed, edited and stars in a music video homage to his Saviour that is taking YouTube by winter storm. Filmed on the snowy streets of his home town, Quigley rocks the Christmas standard “Little Drummer Boy” which, he explains, “… speaks to me so much.”

It’s easy to understand people in a populous state like California favouring opposition to the Electoral College; jurisdictions with a large electorate could wield a lot more clout over the rest of the country via a direct vote. Of the 56 presidential elections, only thrice were there anomalies where the plurality of the nationwide popular vote did not coïncide with that of the Electoral. The system has faithfully performed its function 95% of the time by ensuring that the President of the United States has both sufficient popular support to govern and that his popular support is sufficiently distributed throughout the country to enable him to govern effectively. Quite an acceptable record.

Since third parties generally start as regional phenomena, a third-party president would possess no national mandate and lack the platform that appeals coast-to-coast. The introduction of a third party to the Executive Branch would assure legislative stagnation far greater than observed to-day in Washington, DC. The president needs affiliations in the Congress to, in a sense, do his or her bidding. Sans political alliances, the occupant of the White House would be just that — an occupant.

Assuring a voice to the individual, enhancing the status of minority groups and maintaining a separation of powers within the three branches are paramount to the American conservative. Though not perfect, a two-party system is the most stable to assure the federal character of the United States of America. The fact that the Electoral College was originally designed to solve one set of problems but to-day serves to solve an entirely different set of problems is a tribute to the genius of the Founding Fathers.

Contrary to the зviƨƨзяgoяq ideology that has metastasized into so many aspects of this great nation, American history is not secretive, shunned or rewritten — the account of the Founding Fathers is to be told, cherished and passed onto future generations as a badge of pride and honour. To put it another way, “By all means, share the American Story with friends, family and especially nā keiki.”

The United States of America is a republic, not a democracy. The purpose of a REPUBLIC is to control the legislative power of the majority in order to protect the individual’s God-given, unalienable rights. The defence of the all minorities’ rights and the liberties of the people in general is preserved.

On the other hand, a DEMOCRACY has a very different purpose and is an entirely different system of government; the chief characteristic and distinguishing feature being the rule by an omnipotent majority. In a democracy, the individual — or any group of individuals composing any minority — has no protection against the unlimited power of the majority. This is why, in American politics, the liberal party is known as the Democrats and the conservatives are the Republicans.

The form of government is known as a federal presidential constitutional republic which means the USA has a limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution — adopted by the People and changeable only by the People via amendment.

The Electoral College ensures the President will build a nationwide coalition to demonstrate he (or she) will be a good representative for the diverse nation composed of both small and large sovereign states. Conversely, candidates who focus on only a handful of states or metropolitan areas will not be successful. In other words, to win the presidency, one must be successful in simultaneous elections across fifty states and the District of Columbia. The Electoral College preserves federalism, encourages the parties’ nominees build national alliances and grants definitive electoral outcomes.

Good gravy — If you suffer pangs of anxiety over your complex immune system not being up to the normal task of fighting germ warfare, just quietly stay away from the Jacuzzi. People have been relaxing and socializing in communal hot waters for millennia; common sense and decency will keep the risks at a minimum. We are bombarded with a new health peril almost daily: don’t drink coffee, watch your sugars, stay out of the sun, minimize alcohol, no peanuts on airplanes, put down the salt-shaker. Enough with the hyperbole. If you cannot be responsible for yourself or are in need of a nanny, write to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, give away your liberties and let the rest of us enjoy one of the simple pleasures of nude recreation sans hysteria.

At risk of being pedantic, we need to properly delineate for what we are vying. A RIGHT is something that is inherent to an individual: It is as much a part of a person as eye colour or intellect, something with which someone is born — indeed, endowed by our Creator. Since rights do not come from a government, a government cannot withdraw them; they can only protect or usurp them. Conversely, any activity that a government gives permission to do, or any generosity they deign to bestow, is a PRIVILEGE, to which it ultimately is revocable by that government.

Michael Badnarik wrote the following regarding “rights” versus “privileges” in his book Good to be King: The Foundation of our Constitutional Freedom:

I define a RIGHT as something you can do without asking for permission. The opposite of a right, therefore, is something you cannot do without asking for permission. Any time you need permission to do something it is a PRIVILEGE. Black’s Law Dictionary defines this as, “… a particular and peculiar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company or class, beyond the common advantages of other citizens. [sic] An exceptional or extraordinary power or exemption.” Rights and privileges are opposites. I have three corollaries to the definition of rights. They are:
• All rights are derived from property;
• Every right implies a responsibility; and
• The only limitation on your rights is the equal rights of others.

To illustrate, consider walking across your property or your neighbour’s yard; the former requires no permission, the latter most certainly does. Too many people have based their dreams on mistaking privileges for rights and need to consider the unforeseen consequences when envisioning their Nudist Utopia. We already have the privilege to be nude where it is private or appropriate — say, a secluded garden or a nudist club — but to invoke right status could result in undesirable situations like a naked pedophile, albeit sans prior conviction, rightfully loitering in a school zone. There are already jurisdictions where women are permitted to be top-free yet these provinces are far from being Areolæ Elysia.

Western societies still have a long ways to cut through the top-free paradigm enjoyed by other less advanced cultures.

Paradise Valley Club is one of a plethora of nudist retreats that thrived in the 1950s and ’60s, only to disappear with nary a trace. Chartered in 1964 by the American Health Alliance, it was located on the — then — southern outskirts of Boise, at 1707 Division Avenue. Back then, the Idaho capital had about one-fifth the population as to-day and its politically conservative tilt lent to the freedom from obtrusive governmental regulations.

Not much history has been found regarding Paradise Valley Club. Public records reveal the house located at the old address was built in 1931 whilst neighbouring domiciles were constructed in the mid-1980s. Coïncidentally, the Bare Backers Nudist Club was founded in 1981, just about the time the old grounds of PVC were being developed into suburbia. Only a couple Ed Lange photographs identified as from the club are available. Hopefully further research will yield more information about this bygone Boise beauty.

A panorama of the city of Boise with the capitol in the centre; Paradise Valley Club was at the far right of the image.

Diary of a Nudist was extremely controversial and daring in its day; the kind of movie teenagers with fake IDs would go to see at the drive-in theatre. Though its raison d’être is the nudity, it is no more daring than many rated movies of to-day. There are plenty of bare bums of both genders along with a bounty of bouncing beautiful breasts but very little else: No titillation, no sexual situations, nothing explicit; and everybody always seems to be carrying around hats, towels or magazines in front of their genitals! “Diary …” is simply a film of healthy, beautiful people doing everyday things in the buff.

Still the movie is a lot of fun to watch, even if there seems to be so much tedium and a tortoise-moving excuse of a plot. Director and writer Doris Wishman went to Pennsylvania’s Sunny Rest Resort as well as Sunny Palms Lodge for the backdrop of her 1961 skin flick. The scenery is beautiful, a glimpse into what Heaven would look like, but that’s about all “Diary of a Nudist” has going for it. Nonetheless, enjoy a trip back to the early sixties’ interpretation of nudism.

Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood (Norman Casserly) is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy Taylor (Davee Decker) to the camp so she can write an exposé on the camp and get it closed. However, much to her surprise, Stacy finds that she enjoys the nudist lifestyle and writes some very positive articles on her experiences, which doesn’t sit well with Arthur. He then decides to join the camp himself and write his own story.

Nothing says Thanksgiving better than gathering with family and friends around the dinner table to engage in a spirited discussion about current events …

… Hau‘oli Lā Ho‘omaika‘i from Hawai‘i Nei!

Time to add my 2¢ worth: Before this thread descends into the realm of a tit-for-tat by deviating from the original subject, let’s address the reasoning for such postings. It’s obvious which pictures are in question — they’re so apparent, they are borderline absurd. Yet they have sparked commentary; to that, brilliant! CAVEAT: Never load PhotoShop onto a Commodore-64.

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If these wrecked beach images are meant to deceive, then the perpetrator knows not his audience here. PhotoShop is an art medium just as time-lapse photography onto film or an editor with airbrush is: It opens a surreal universe that we normally cannot see. The personal galleries for each NCH member is just that — personal. It is a way to allow the profile’s owner to express him~ or herself a thousand words at a time. The only dishonesty comes when said member uses another person’s portrait as their primary photograph. To that, there have been scores of fake profiles reported, usually with a foreign celebrity’s picture — typically a soccer or Bollywood star — submitted. Those are the unethical ones on this site and BRIAN takes care of them swiftly.

An incredible moment was captured on live television this past Monday when two news anchors realised the name on the winning ticket for a $2,000,000 lottery was that of their colleague.

Global BC hosts Sophie Lui and Squire Barnes were stunned to discover sports anchor Barry Deley had won the jackpot prize as they presented their Monday morning show from Vancouver. Barnes then telephoned his friend live on air to tell the new millionaire what had happened, to which a delighted Deley replied: “You know people are going to think this is kind of fishy don’t you?”

He now has the choice of $2м in cash or one of four properties in the area worth up to $2.5м after winning the BC Children’s Hospital Dream Lottery, which is drawn live on Global BC each year. Barnes revealed that Deley had been a regular benefactor to the Children’s Hospital ever since doctors there helped his 11-year-old daughter overcome leukemia in 2004.

What happens to wind turbines when they die after 20 years? Residents of both Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i look to the Island of Hawai‘i with anxiety of the apocalyptic scenes at Kamā‘oa or Lālāmilo occurring on their islands. This is a modern day David vs. Goliath story of two little islands trying to fight a Big Government agenda from ruining their lifestyle with a very inefficient, big-money technology to power O‘ahu with absolutely no benefit to the host islands.

Visitors to Ka Lae, the southernmost point of the USA, pass this “green energy” albatross.

P. F. Bentley, a resident on the west side of Moloka‘i, traveled to the southern tip of Hawai‘i to document the post-industrial wasteland at Kamā‘oa in Ka‘ū District — a 1980s’ leftover from the last tax-credit-driven wind bubble. Built in 1986 and tied to the HELCo power grid a year later, the 37 battered and beaten Mitsubishi 250 кW turbines essentially stopped producing energy and went dormant in August 2006.

The wind farm at Lālāmilo Wells in South Kohala District before it began to fall apart.

Yet Kamā‘oa is not the only “clean energy” junkyard scarring the Island of Hawai‘i. Mauka of Puakō, far removed from the resort artery known as the Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway , is the Lālāmilo wind farm. It was commissioned in 1985 by HELCo with the purported capacity to produce 1.56 мW of electricity from 81 wind generators. An electronic shock absorber (ESA) designed to stabilize the rapid fluctuations inherent to wind energy, was installed in January 2006; but how much electricity was there to buffer? By October of that year — following the 6.7 and 6.0 earthquakes — the severely damaged ESA was off line and toppled derricks littered the landscape. However in fact, most of Lālāmilo turbines either fell or burned out long ago. The South Kohala ruins are simply another taxpayer-funded Big Government green boondoggle.

Bentley’s film, IAM Aftermath, was sponsored by the group I Aloha Moloka‘i who opposes the installation of wind turbines as well as the undersea cable traversing the Kaiwi Channel to send power from the Friendly Island to Honolulu. “After ruining our ‘āina, the resulting little power all goes to O‘ahu; none of it goes for Moloka‘i.”

Where did the massive government subsidies go? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

This is an ongoing and growing issue for Moloka‘i, something to which residents are very opposed. In two recent polls, over 95% of the island’s population do not want wind turbines. Similar numbers were found across the Kalohi Channel amongst the residence of Lāna‘i. Whilst the other islands have been overdeveloped, Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i still retain the old sense of Hawai‘i in their people, culture and lifestyle. Both Kamā‘oa and Lālāmilo rank among the world’s best potentiated wind energy sites yet, even with massive government subsidies and tax-credits, neither works. Are Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i next?

On the one hand, members of Absolute Naturists vehemently defend their “right” (read that privilege) to be nude with aspirations to do so anywhere and everywhere regardless of law or social norms; and on the other hand, they are affronted by the fact that society as a whole views nudity as an anomaly to which one practicing it should be subjected to gawking or consternation. We oft speak of the tyranny of being forced to conform to the covering of our bodies whilst in the textile world yet we then advocate a reflective attitude towards those who venture into our realm by requiring them to immediately bare all; isn’t this just tit-for-tat?

The freedom and tolerance for which we strive also apply equally to those who do not share our beliefs. If a nudist is “absolute” as defined by this group’s participants, then the worry of stares or the discomfort of being amongst dressed individuals ought not to apply. GORDON is right: “When in Rome, [d]o as the Romans do.” Someone coming into an established nude area must A) be properly informed that a clothes-free environment exists, and B) respect the notion that nudity will be exercised by others. Said person choosing to remain dressed amongst nudists is the odd one out and relatively harmless; if he/she is there to gawk, then the line of societal decency has been crossed and should be resolved post-haste. Be the master of your domain!

One aspect thus far not discussed offers its own conundrum. Of all the pros and cons revolving around top-free liberties, the arguments for cultural and societal norms, flat-chestedness versus man-boobs or the ponderances of self-esteem and body image — all focused on the privileges of one gender over the other — it seems to boil down to what one has “down there” determines what can be shown “up there.” Case in point: Chaz (née Chastity) Bono.

Prior to gender re-assignment surgery in 2010, Chastity was compelled to cover her breasts yet post-operation Chaz is free to doff his shirt. Interesting! Of course the rules work in reverse for a male-to-female transition where the textile society expect proper breast covering once hormone replacement therapy begin to have the desired effect. Surely this is a more complex subject than the example presented here but the fact remains that when rules are written and enacted based in emotion or opinion, there is no logic.

Nudity is illegal at state beaches in Hawai‘i according to state park regulations. That is the official position of the State of Hawai‘i; however, as is often the case, nothing is that simple. The fact is, there are beaches that are well known as “nude,” “top-free” or “clothing-optional” around the Islands.

There is also some question as to whether nude sunbathing or swimming is actually illegal in Hawai‘i. Dr. George R. Harker, a former professor at Western Illinois University and a nude enthusiast based in Hawai‘i wrote an interesting overview of a court case addressing these issues in the following article for his Dr. Leisure web site.

IS IT LEGAL TO BE NUDE ON A NUDE BEACH IN HAWAI‘I?
Dr. George R. Harker: Maui, Hawai‘i

A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Hawai‘i suggests that indeed it just may be, or at the very least it is not indecent exposure under Hawai‘i Revised Statutes. On 18^th October, 1998, six men were arrested for being nude on “Polo Beach” at Makaleha Beach Park, a beach popular on O‘ahu as a nude beach. All were charged and convicted of violating HRS §707-734 renamed Indecent exposure and redefined in 1993.

HRS §707-734 Indecent exposure: (1) A person commits the offense of indecent exposure if, the person intentionally exposes the person’s genitals to a person to whom the person is not married under circumstances in which the actor’s conduct is likely to cause affront.

The Circuit Judge found the men guilty as charged. Reasoning that anyone coming across these individuals on the beach could be affronted, the judge said, “I don’t have to have testimony before me from the policemen that they were affronted. All I have to do is have the facts before me that would indicate that a reasonable person under the same circumstances could and would be affronted by it.” Apparently, according to the judge, it is young children and elderly persons which are particularly prone to be affronted by beach nudity. Well, the Supreme Court didn’t see it quite the same way. It reversed the convictions of the four who appealed on 29^th September, 2000. A brief review of their analysis should yield insight into whether nude sunbathing in Hawai‘i is legal or illegal and whether it is indecent exposure or not. The Court noted that the exposure of genitals had to be intentional and with a conscious object to affront the other individual. It was also important that the person not be married to the person doing the exposing.

Under Hawai‘i law, there are four states of mind: intentional, knowing, reckless and negligent. In this regulation, the operative state of mind is intentional; nothing more and nothing less. The Supreme Court had trouble with the idea of intentional because the other individuals were also naked and it didn’t make any sense that the individual was trying to cause alarm to any of the other persons on the beach. The Court also noted that the act had to be directed to some specific person, not someone who might or might not happen along. Clearly whether the police were affronted or not was immaterial.

Some mention was made of a legislative committee report which stated, “The newly titled section is intended to deal with behaviour such as nude sunbathing or streaking, which does not cause alarm or fear of bodily harm, in circumstances where it is likely to be an affront to a substantial part of the community.” (Sen. Com. Rep. № 1000, in 1991 Senate Journal, at 1103.) The Court took the position that the law was very clear as to what it meant and to bring in other interpretations not self-evident would lead to constitutional questions best left out of the picture. The real crime in this story is the cost in money and energy to those arrested. It took two years and thousands of dollars for the court to make the determination that should be self-evident to any public prosecutor with a minimal amount of intelligence. Some of the funding for the appeal came from the Naturist Action Committee and the Naturist Education Foundation.

Ironically the closing of Kaloko-Honokōhau to nude use — the catalysis for the formation of the Kona Sun Klub — was challenged in Federal Court and the Judge used the idea that State of Hawai‘i regulations prohibit nude sunbathing as the basis to allow the National Park Service to violate its own procedures in that closing. It is interesting to note that the people whose convictions for nude sunbathing were all local and lived on the Island. Yet the fact of the arrest was not lost on the tourist. The islands of O‘ahu and Hawai‘i both suffered a decline in visitation in 1998. It appears to be self-evident that the decline was directly attributed to the anti-nude sunbathing and ocean bathing activities of individuals.

Can one legally sunbathe nude in Hawai‘i? Clearly the answer is yes as long as the sunbather doesn’t have an attitude or tries to intentionally affront someone. Due to the 1993 change in wording, one’s appearance may alarm someone, it just may not affront. Remember also that the operative word is “intentionally.” It is not your fault if you are well endowed and the mere site of it makes people shudder!

In a concurring opinion by J. Ramil, the Justice noted that the, “… majority’s analysis does not yield a result apparently inconsistent with the legislative purpose and design of Hawai‘i Revised Statute §707-734(1993).” The opinion of the Court by J. Acoba alluded to the 1991 legislative committee report which talked of prohibiting nude sunbathing and streaking and decided that such language didn’t apply to all nude sunbathing. So in conclusion, if somebody wants to get naked in Hawai‘i, the key is go to an established nude beach and join those already there. An established nude beach is one mentioned in a guide book and/or established by local use. Hawai‘i has a long tradition of nude bathing that predates the tourist and the missionaries. Many residents and visitors alike want to see this aspect of the local culture returned. With the clear decision by the Supreme Court of Hawai‘i, the legal path to re-establishing nude beaches is open but the ingrained attitude of misguided activists will continue to stymie the nudists’ efforts.

Believe We Can Change …

… YES WE CAIN!

The New York Post: “It’s a den of thieves! Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food. ‘Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,’ said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.”

Another protester was crying, “I had my MAC stolen — that was like $5500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was … get the message out to our supporters that we needed food! Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters,” the volunteers said. “I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad — they took that, too!”

Then there’s security volunteer Harry Wyman, 22 of Brooklyn, who was furious about the thievery and vowed to get tough with the predatory perpetrators. “I’m not getting paid, but I’m not going to stand for it. Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff? All it does is make people not want to come here anymore.”

‘Auwe, what a shame …

Wait … Isn’t that what these anti-capitalists are all about — stealing? The protesters are carrying signs that say, “We just want your money.” So (addressing the protestors) apparently the problem is called stealing when it happens to you but when it happens to others, it’s social justice. The whole idea here is if somebody’s got a $5500 MAC and you don’t have a $5500 MAC, then you’re entitled to it. The same if there was an envelope of $2500 of cash in the kitchen and it’s not yours; you’re simply entitled to it.

Make no mistake: The perpetrators are the same people that have learned to scam Medicare and Social Security. They see exactly what makes the bulk of the Occupy (city) hordes: a collection of absolute birdbrains. They see a bunch of spoiled rotten, mostly rich, kids. They know there will be a lot of money there and a lot of goodies. So they wait until these people burn themselves out at the end of the day and get all tired; then they walk in as fellow protesters and just walk out with whatever they want. It’s that easy because these protesters can’t fathom anybody taking anything from them.

Yet when they do, it’s a terrible injustice.

Governmental regulations are not the front line. There needs to be a dramatic paradigm shift in the public’s perception of decency. In the early 1980s, Italy dropped their top restrictions for females. Some three decades later, ladies can — and do — go topfree but they are still a small minority amongst the women who opt to wear both halves of their bikini.

Just remember: The quest for equality can backfire if lawmakers of the jurisdiction opt to require males to conform to the rules currently imposed upon females. The “few who wish to control the many” have taken the art of double-speak to a despicable level. The scales of justice can be levelled by either lifting one side up or pushing the other side down.

Being at a loss for words at the sight of yet another presidential protocol gaffe: This time it’s [ZERO] raising his hand in front of Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, the President of Mongolia. The embarrassing moment was captured whilst an assemblage of national leaders gathered for the Open Government Partnership event at the United Nations on Tuesday, 20^th September.

The floor is open to write your own caption to accompany this faux pas.

這聽起來像 Alex 的朋友有一個裸體主義社會的不同理解。對裸體主義的理想是從衣服免費欣賞整個人。它不是有關查看 “淘氣位”。這是窺淫癖。我們的建議是，讓您的相機在你的上半身集中，畢竟，你看一個人的臉時，交談，而不是生殖器。如果他繼續強調在視頻他的陰莖，停止觀看;像改變頻道如果你不喜歡的節目。如果这些活动是发生在 NCH 聊天室，请务必立即报告。

Where did you first look: His face? His penis?
The three naked girls in the background?!

你在哪儿先来看看他的脸?
他的阴茎? 背景中的三个裸女?!

It sounds like ALEX’s friend has a different understanding of social nudism. The ideal of nudism is to be free from clothes and to appreciate the whole person. It is not about viewing the “naughty bits.” That is voyeurism. Our suggestion is to keep your camera focused on your upper body; after all, you look at a person’s face when conversing, not the genitals. If he continues to emphasize his penis on video, discontinue viewing; like changing the channel if you do not like the programme. If these activities are happening in the NCH chat room, please sure to immediately report them.

Al Gore treated the globe to “24 Hours of Reality” this past Wednesday and Thursday but, before the finale, Mother Nature stepped in with a show of her own.

As Hour Six opened from the Hilo offices of the Mauna Loa CO₂ observatory, Hawai‘i Lieutenant Governor Brian Schatz warned ominously that the islands are “particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.”

Schatz mentioned, “… Rising sea levels, impacts to marine and costal eco-systems, and impacts to our fresh water supply from encroachment of sea water into our aquifers.”

The Lieutenant Governor didn’t mention summer snow though that is exactly what Hawai‘i received. By sunrise, the crown of Mauna Kea —clearly visible across the Humu‘ula Saddle from the CO₂ observatory on Mauna Loa — was dusted with about an inch of the white stuff.

Time-lapse video taken in the tropical moonlight shows snowfall at the Mauna Kea Astronomical Observatories beginning about 03:00 Thursday morning, Hour 14 of the Gore “Reality Show.”

Presenters included Maxine Burkett, an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy at the University of Hawai‘i. Questioned about the Hawai‘i snow, Burkett had a ready explanation: BIVN reports Burkett “… said that warmer air holds more moisture. We can expect to see more rains – and greater drought – if trends continue.” If this year’s trends continue, Hawai‘i will soon have snow during July and August!

On 21^st May, 2007, the late Augie Auer, Chief of the Meteorological Service of New Zealand, said of Global Warming: “We’re all going to survive this. It’s all going to be a joke in five years.”

His prediction has come true eight months early.

“Lean Forward” — a new slogan for MSNBC or the words of a proctologist?

It’s always amazing when a left wing affirmative-action dolt like Maxine Waters has an epiphany, if only before being drawn back into the cushy liberal fold of elitism. Last week, Ms Waters — the scandal-riddled California member of Congress from the haughty Hancock Park district of Los Angeles — suddenly realized that Barack Hussein Obama is ignoring Black neighbourhoods, be it Watts or Oakland, Détroit or Cleveland, S^t Louis or Atlanta. The most historical first Black president shuns the Black community.

Why? Simple: He knows he already has their vote. Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free? The whole assumption that blocs of voters are dedicated to one candidate or another based on the colour of their skin is, in itself, racist. Yet this type of politicking has been fundamental for the Democяᴀᴛs for decades. Obama knows he has the blind loyalty of the “Black vote” so why waste time worrying about their plight? It’s not like he is going to receive substantial financial support from the inner-cities; hence the snob-knobbing hob-knobbing on Martha’s Vineyard with all those über-rich liberal Caucasian liberals (that’s all right, his other half will understand … and so will Michelle).

Speaking of Ms Waters — wait, it was the cow/milk thing — surely people have noticed by now that the Democяᴀᴛs talk a good campaign but rarely deliver: How’s that War on Poverty working? Those ladies from Détroit are still awaiting that “Obama Stash.” Unfortunately, the money is not free. It’s our tax money with which O and the rest of the sǝʌıssǝɹƃoɹd buy constituents. To that, one has to ask, What is the Difference between Slaves on Plantations and Blacks Who Blindly Vote for Democяᴀᴛs?

The slave owners provided their property free housing, free food, free healthcare, free transportation to the fields and a menial education sufficient to perform the expected tasks; the only thing they demanded from their slaves in return was unquestioning loyalty.

The ɘviƨƨɘяgoяq Democяᴀᴛs, for at least the last half century, have promised their constituents free housing, free food, free healthcare and a menial education sufficient to correctly mark the ballot … and free transportation to a voting booth in their precinct or another when needed.

So Maxine Waters complains about her people not receiving attention from ☭bama (the fact that she sounds like she represents only some in her district will wait another day). The fact is, Blacks are not the only people subjected to this treatment by the Left: Democяᴀᴛs keep the homosexual community in check by scaring them into believing Republicans are evil — the Log Cabin Republicans must know otherwise; Democяᴀᴛs keep Hispanics under control by pushing Spanish instead of helping them assimilate and excel through teaching them English — keep them separated from the rest of American society; Democяᴀᴛs keep women submissive with cultural wedges like abortion, convincing them voting liberal is in their economic interest — and they have activists like Jeaneane Garofalo to do their bidding; Democяᴀᴛs keep the Jewish population in the attic with rhetoric and Nazi-comparisons — despite the unbound compassion and support for Israel found amongst conservatives.

The rant that Herman Cain is paid to be a Republican candidate or that conservative women suffer from Stockholm Syndrome is as repugnant as the racism that exists on the Left. If people blindly vote Democяᴀᴛ year-after-year with never a thought of what have I got to show for my loyalty?, then they are either slaves to the liberals or a damned fool. The Democяᴀᴛ Party dumbs people down, keeps them stupid, keeps them poor and keeps them dependent, all in the name of compassion. It’s one of the most amazing hoaxes and frauds that have ever been achieved. Yet they’ve been getting away with it for 50 years! Do these drones to the Left realize they’ve been complaining about the same things your whole life? That they’ve been grumbling about the same economic circumstances? That they’ve been scared the bogeymen are going to get them but the threats never materialize?

Conservatives recognise every man and woman as an individual: a unique, distinct person with the inalienable ability to be successful. Yes, there are those who do need assistance — a hand up, not a hand-out — and they are willing to assist the helpless but not the clueless.

Members of the South Kohala community stood to-day in honour of United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Christopher L. Camero, the first soldier from this district to be killed in action whilst supporting Operation: Enduring Freedom as part of the Global War on Terror.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of our fellow citizens with flags and banners lined the funeral procession’s route which departed Annunciation Catholic Church at 11:00 this morning and arrived at the West Hawai‘i Veterans Memorial Cemetery an hour later. The route was along the mauka Māmalahoa Highway , turning onto Waikoloa Road, makai through Waikoloa Village, then left on Queen Ka‘ahumanu Highway and onto the gravesite, just past Kūki‘o. Once the official procession passed, many got into their own vehicles and become part of the motorcade.

Lance Cpl. Christopher L. Camero of Waimea died 15^th July 2011 in Germany of wounds suffered whilst conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 3^rd Battalion, 4^th Marine Regiment, 1^st Marine Division of the I Marine Expeditionary Force based in Twentynine Palms, California.

The infantryman came from a military family and as a young boy he was always saluting. His aunt, Florida Ballio, said Chris was born 22^nd February 1992 in the Philippines and emigrated at about age five where he was raised in the paniolo town of Waimea. “He always goes fishing with his father whenever he gets time,” Auntie Florida said. Chris was a 2010 graduate of Honoka‘a High School and loved the martial arts — judo and karate — football, fishing and cooking. He always wanted to be a Marine and was set to join after graduating.

Camero’s infantry battalion is stationed in the upper Gereshk Valley, just south of Sangin. The 3^rd Battalion, 4^th Marines had replaced another battalion landing team temporarily assigned to the area while US Marines moved into violent opium poppy-growing regions of northern Helmand. In June, Ṭālibān insurgents increased their attacks in an apparent bid to regain lost territory.

On 6^th July 2011, L-Cpl. Camero stepped on an improvised explosive device — a homemade bomb — whilst patrolling the Nahr-e-saraj district. He was transported to military hospital in Germany where his legs had to be amputated and he was placed on life support. Chris succumbed to his wounds ten days later. He was 19.

A friend who attended boot camp with Camero wrote on his web site: “His lifelong goal was to become a Marine, and his childhood dream came true … I heard you were hit by an IED and I prayed for you. I will never forget you or any of the stunts we pulled.”

Camero was serving his first combat deployment since he enlisted in the Marine Corps on 7^th June 2010; he arrived in Afghanistan on 12^th April 2011. The Lance-Corporal’s service awards include the Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and Afghanistan Campaign Medal.

Semper Fidelis.

OBAMA
(to the tune of Tom Sawyer by Rush)





A push button warrior
Mean mean stand,
To-day’s Obama
Afghanistan.

Though his politics are bent
Just put him down as arrogant
He’s resolved to cut defense
Riding out the day’s events
The sniveller …

What you say about his company
Is what you say ’bout his policy
Catch the mist, catch his myth
Catch his mystery; catch my drift?

The word is, the word is
Hope and change are deep
Maybe as his lies are wide …

To-day’s Obama
He thinks low of you
And the truth he evades
He puts tax on you.

No health care is not for rent
From any dog or government
All his hope is full of discontent
He knows change ain’t permanent
But change IS!

And what you say about his ideology
Is what he says about a bag of tea
Catch the terrorists, catch the twits
Catch the sprint, catch the spit.

The world is, the world is
In financial deep
Maybe as his ears are wide …

Exit the one-termer
To-day’s Obama
He gets axed by you
And green energy you trade
He gets the friction from the right of the day.

Without the necessary $4000 membership fee, the quintessential slackers Beavis and Butt-head must sneak into Sunny Grove Nudist Colony in order to see naked people. First aired in September 1993, Naked Colony is the fifth episode from Season III and stars the oratory talents of series creator Mike Judge with other voices provided by Kristofor Brown, Guy Maxtone-Graham, Toby Huss, Chris Marcil, Chris Phillips, Dale Reeves and Gail Thomas. They seem like a good risk …

This report was first broadcast in the Dallas F^t Worth area one year ago to-day; Skinbook closed two months later. Co-founder Karl Maddocks posted a brief message to his subscribers on the 12^th September 2010 explaining the site’s departure from the Internet: “After all the effort (and money) we have put into saving the Skinbook network; the complaining, negativity, abuse and general lack of support we have received from our users has been, quite frankly, disgusting …”

Vermont and the northern terminus of Route lay just beyond the Border Inspection Station on Rue Dufferin .


The International Boundary around town is nothing more than a white painted line between the two countries.


The Canadian side of the street (Rue Canusa) is to the right whilst the American side (Canusa Avenue) is on the left.


The line on the floor of the Haskell Free Library marks the International Boundary between Canada and the USA.


The corner of Main Street and Caswell Avenue offers drivers the last chance to turn before entering Canada.

International boundaries are places of abrupt transition, where a conceptual cartographic line manifests itself in many ways: physically, culturally, linguistically, ideologically, &c. Along the Canada-USA border, it is often no more than a low fence, a shallow canal or a six-metre boundary vista through the trees running along the path of the world’s longest undefended frontier. If a road meets the perimeter in a perpendicular fashion, sans an encounter with a natural obstacle such as a river, it is simply blocked by earthen berms, posts, a guardrail or overgrowth; if it does traverse the International Boundary, only a customs inspection station, one for each country, stand opposite each other at the demarcation.

However, the situation for Derby Line, Vermont, is a bit of an enigma. The site for the village was to be just south of the 45° N Parallel — the agreed boundary — and was incorporated in 1791. Unfortunately the 18^th Century surveyors miscalculated and incorrectly drew the border separating Canada from the United States, thus inadvertently placing an American town north of the border! The error was confirmed and settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. For decades, the line dissecting Derby Line — its north of the border neighbourhoods are officially known as Stanstead, Québec — ran nonchalantly through the community, cutting through the street grid and sometimes even buildings. An entire tool-and-die factory is divided in two thanks to the surveyors (the Canadian side closed in 1982 but the American portion remains open). Some homes are situated to where meals prepared in one country are then eaten in the other.

Living in an international paradox affects behaviour in some interesting ways. Two streets cross the line sans any checkpoints: Technically, any time a person crosses the International Boundary, he/she is subject to reporting in person to a port of entry inspection station for the country being entered. This makes traffic on RUE BALL / MAPLE STREET as well as RUE LEE / PELOW HILL fairly light since the drive-through posts on RUE DUFFERIN / MAIN STREET are just a couple of blocks to the West. Pedestrians are also obligated to report as soon as they cross: A game of Catch behind the library would be an international event. No laws would be broken, presuming that each time the ball is caught its recipient marchs to the respective Customs to declare it!

The most prominent building on the line is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House. It was built intentionally straddling the border by American sawmill owner Carlos Haskell for his Canadian wife Martha Stewart-Haskell in 1901 as a gift to the community and a symbol of international harmony. The entrances, one leading into the library and the other for the stairs to the opera house theatre, are both in the United States. There are no restrictions on movement within the building yet its placement on the International Boundary can lead to a few legal and logistical complications. A line embedded in the floor is more than just a novelty; it is required to delineate which portions of the structure and furnishings are covered by the separate Canadian and American insurance policies. Plans for a recent renovation project at HFLOH took three years due to the conflicting construction, fire safety and historic preservation regulations of the two countries: with some of the public restrooms sitting on the divide, plumbers from Memphrémagog and Orléans counties had to be involved to assure the work met their respective building codes; a fire escape is located on the Canadian side but had to be accepted by the US; and if flames ever do erupt in the opera house, American evacuees would have to head immediately to the immigration station up the road.

Following the Attacks of 9/11, the US Border Patrol expressed a desire to close the two uncontrolled streets connecting Derby Line with Stanstead, citing concerns about illegal immigration. In 2007, the Vermont villagers met with their counterparts at a joint session in Québec. Gates were installed at the two unchecked points but foot traffic remains as previously regulated. The only road to officially be centred on the Canada/US line — RUE CANUSA / CANUSA AVENUE — remains open to traffic albeit both ends of the street curve back into Canada. At its west end are the two countries’ custom houses and a solid granite building which once served as the world’s only “international” post office (one postmaster, two counters). The citizens of both townships, many of whom are families dating back generations, see the painted white line through their village as a concern for the US and Canadian authorities: C’mon, this is not Berlin!

The American Nudist Research Library is the first and one of the largest repositories in North America dedicated to preserve the history of the social nudist movement. The idea for such a facility began with the usual pack-rat story: Read and Jayne Schuster had accumulated quite a bit of nudist-related material over the years and needed more space. Jim and Lyda “Pete” Hadley — founders of Cypress Cove Resort — had a vacant room and a partnership was born. It was 1979 and the two couples soon realized that making the material accessible to peruse would be a wonderful asset. They applied for, and received, incorporation as a non-profit Florida 501(c)(3) organization … and the ANRL became a reality.

It only took one year before additional donations forced their collection to be relocated to a building of its own. Growth continued through the 1990s and the small wood-frame building was doubled in size. Though located next to the pool area on the grounds of the Kissimmee resort, the ANRL continues to operate as an independent entity separate from Cypress Cove. Its collection spans the history of nudism with an emphasis on the mid-century boon of journals and magazines. Along with the myriad of printed material, the archive also has videos, film, sound recordings and other memorabilia to be enjoyed. The all-volunteer staff is also busy converting the resources to digital media for safer preservation and eventual electronic sharing.

The collection — which is wholly supported by financial and quantifiable donations as well as library memberships — is available to individuals or groups who treasure and wish to participate in a sincere effort to preserve the unique history of the movement. The ANRL is open Wednesday through Saturday afternoons between the hours of one and four o’clock, barring holidays. Scholars, students and benefactors of nudist history are encouraged to contact the library via eMAIL to anrl@netzero.net or call 1-407/933-2866. For those closer to Southern California, be sure to visit Glen Eden Resort, home for the Western Nudist Research Library.

The Western Nudist Research Library was established to house a broad collection of nudist magazines, books, journals, memorabilia and photographs documenting social nudism through the golden age through to-day and for the future. The invaluable archives are the results of a decade’s long dream and dedication to assemble a research facility on the West Coast.

The opening ceremonies were held along Kennedy Lane and Connett Grove of the Glen Eden Resort on Saturday, 26^th May 2007. Attendees celebrated the tireless efforts of volunteers who lovingly converted the former home of Ray and Mildred Connett into a centrepiece for nudist study. Jim Zack, Richard Hirst and Jeannette DeRosier spearhead the efforts to sift, catalogue and organize the plethora of material donated by generous benefactors.

The WNRL is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit California corporation that serves as a central location for collecting, preserving and presenting the origin and development of the American Social Nudist movement. As a private library, it relies solely on financial and material support from its members. Access is available to all of its members as well as Glen Eden members and visitors interested in social nudism (proper identification requested upon arrival). Additional information about the library is available by eMAIL — wnrl@netzero.net — or call 1-951/277-9821. When in Central Florida, be sure to visit Cypress Cove Resort, home for the American Nudist Research Library.

… And now, Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley. Stuart Smalley is a caring
nurturer, a member of several 12-step programmes but not a licensed therapist.



“I’m going to do a terrific post to-day; and I’m gonna help people,
because I’m nude enough, I’m cool enough and, doggonit, people like me!”

Quite frankly, we should concentrate on being Americans, Canadians, Australians, New-Zealanders, British, Europeans, &c. that enjoy being nude when possible and practical instead of hanging labels on ourselves and others. Perhaps it’s a bit pie-in-the-sky to imagine this to-day but by segregating people into “those who do” and “those who don’t” keeps us separated which seems contradictory to this group’s initial goal. Calling part of the population non-anything is a psychological negative which only leads to unnecessary barriers and additional resistance.

Love and the Bashful Groom — first telecast on Friday 22^nd October, 1971 — is an episode of the anthology “Love American Style” which aired on the ABC network from 1969-74. Writers David Ketchum and Bruce Shelly did an excellent job with letting the dialogue contain just enough clichés and double-entendres for comedy whilst director Charles R. Rondeau employed well-placed landscaping and props, clever camera angles and editing to keep the network censors at bay. The story has a rare, positive slant towards nudism. Paul Petersen stars as the eponymous bridegroom and Meredith M^ac Rae as Linda; with Dick Wilson and Jeff Donnell as Linda’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hutton, and Christopher Stone is the resort’s assistant manager Jerry Harper. Things at the Green Glen Resort aren’t exactly the way Calvin expected when his fiancée brings him to the community in which she was raised to meet her parents and be married there.