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Here it is...the animated .gif thread. Since tomorrow is Valentines Day, I figure we can gear up for it here... Come and be my valentine and share your animated images or just share a humorous valentines quip.

Kelly Wilson (left), Lynelle Johnson and Genna Griffith send their regards to troops at the "Love Our Troops" pavallion Feb. 7 on Times Square. Sgt. 1st Class Eric Reinhardt • Printer-friendly version New Yorkers send world’s largest digital Valentine to troops February 9, 2006 NEW YORK CITY (Army News Service, Feb. 9, 2006) – Operation Love Our Troops, billed as a “Guinness Book of World Records” attempt to create the largest digital Valentine for America’s troops, took center stage Feb. 7 in Times Square. The campaign has already received more than 10,000 messages from around the world since it...

Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," she asks,"will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine? Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?" "Osama Bin Laden," she says. "Why Osama Bin Laden?" her father asks in shock. "Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama...

Valentine’s Day has become a day when merchants order people to give candy, cards and flowers to people they lust after. It is celebrated in our schools, and even children in pre-schools are encouraged to exchange valentines. But the real Valentine’s Day is not about cards, candy, flowers, and our romantic love for each other, but about God’s love and the martydom of a Catholic saint. Why don’t most people know this? Because we’ve been leaving the saint out of Saint Valentine’s Day. Secularists and merchants who make money off Saint Valentine’s Day want you to believe this day has...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2006 – A radio station is saying thanks to a few lucky troops by interviewing them on the air and giving them a romantic night on the town this Valentine's Day. Howard University Radio, which reaches almost a half million listeners around the nation's capital, began the program of interviews yesterday, said Renee Nash, WHUR's director of information and public affairs. "We wanted to do something a little differently this year for Valentine's Day," Nash said. "We thought, 'What greater way to let the troops know that we are thinking about them and that we love and...

A bank manager's 'gesture of affection' towards a colleague cost him his job and a £1,000 fine AN ITALIAN bank manager who tried to kiss a woman cashier on the lips on Valentine’s Day has lost his job, been given a 14-month suspended jail sentence and fined after being convicted of “sexual violence”. The ruling by Italy’s highest court puts another dent in the reputation of the macho Italian male, always on the lookout — according to the national myth — for a chance to pay a woman a compliment and overwhelm her with his charm. It was applauded by...

Send a Valentine to a soldier in Iraq!/Support Our Troops Visit www.operationaBitofHome.com, and click on the big red heart. We will send a valentine to a soldier in your name with your Valentines message. We are fundraising to send more boxes to the Freedom Rest R&R Facility in Iraq. Valentines are $1.00, but you can give more! You can no longer send any mail to "ANY SOLDIER" it is destroyed as a security risk., We have a military distributuion point in Iraq where your Valentines will reach thousands of troops. Background In March, 2004, while my wife was in Iraq,...

Kevin Seamus Hasson is busy this time of year. The founder and president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public interest law firm dedicated to protecting religious liberty, Hasson is busy with numerous challenges to Nativity scenes on public property. Author of the new book The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America (Encounter, 2005), Hasson once worked under Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. He spoke to Register correspondent Joseph A. D’Agostino. Some will argue that if we continue to allow Christmas trees and menorahs, some day we will have Islamic crescents, Wiccan...

U.S. Manager's Style Yields Winning Team And Social Debate TOKYO -- You can see it in the $13 six-packs of Bobby Valentine Beer being snapped up at Japanese ballparks. In the scores of magazines with Valentine's winsome mug on the cover. In the ticker-tape parade held last week, when 240,000 fans poured into the streets to toast him and the long-losing baseball team he just coached to its first Japan Series title in more than 30 years. It's as clear as a game-winning homer in the bottom of the ninth: Three years after being unceremoniously sacked by the New York...

A gay rights group has filed discrimination charges against Romania's TAROM airline after the company allegedly excluded gays from a Valentine's day discount offer for lovers. The state-owned firm offered travel discounts during February to couples travelling together, but the offer excluded gays, said Florin Buhuceanu, from Accept, Romania's main gay rights group. Mr Buhuceanu said he tried to purchase tickets for himself and his partner for a two-for-one offer, but was told that people of the same sex did not qualify. He said his organisation filed charges against TAROM with Romania's anti-discrimination board which would discuss the case today....

Just wondering.

It's Valentine's Day, Prince Charles is going to marry the other/older woman, and as of Friday, withoutreservations.biz still had a few offerings: $40 for a 10 p.m. reservation tonight for dinner at Fleur de Lys, an 8:30 p.m. at Postrio and so on. The wafting scent of romance is mingling with the stench of money. On to the first encounter. "You're not ugly but if you were smarter, you'd be hot.'' (Pick-up line overheard by Doug Wyllie, bartender at Fly.) "Black leather jacket? Sunglasses? Oh, my God! I would have so done him if I wasn't running to a final.''...

WASHINGTON Senator Barbara Boxer will receive perhaps the splashiest Valentine's Day gift on Capitol Hill today. Some 24-hundred roses will be delivered to her office from supporters who contributed to the "Barbara Boxer Rose Campaign." The idea came from Stacy Davies, a writer from Claremont, California who cheered while watching Boxer challenge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during last month's confirmation hearings over the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq. Davies contacted a national online florist which set up a special phone line for the campaign. Then she sent e-mail appeals to several progressive Internet blogs, and got a pitch...

FrontPageMagazine.com | February 14, 2005 "According to the legend, St. Valentine was beheaded on Feb. 14, at Rome, under Claudius. The old notion was that birds began to couple on that day, and hence arose the custom of young persons of both sexes choosing each other as 'Valentines' for the ensuing year by a species of lottery, and of sending love missives to each other." That was the description of Valentine's Day given by Collier's New Encyclopedia in 1928. One legend runs that Claudius II, believing that single men were better soldiers, forbid young men from marriage -- a decree...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Wishing all the ladies on FR a Very Happy Valentine’s Day! May it be as sweet and innocent as this little angel,May your day and all the days to comebe filled with the same awe, wonderment and simple joys as her face shows. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY LADIES! SandRat

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: As has become their custom while in Washington on Sundays, the President and First Lady attended St. John's Church. They are spending a quiet weekend in Washington. In DC, there is always some wag who has to nitpick just to fill column space. I saw an article the other day in which the author was speculating as to why a President who says he doesn't like Washington has spent the last several weekends in the city instead of going to Camp David. Now why can't I get paid for doing nothing -- a job situation...

Virus writers are targeting the world's lovers by creating Valentine's Day related malicious code. Two worms, Kipis-H and VBSWG-D, are spreading their love and destructive payload, via email and peer-to-peer networks. Cashing in on nostalgic lovers VBSWG-D spreads under the subject line "First Love Story...!!!". The grumpy worm, echoing echoing the days of Al Capone, then swears at users before murdering the computer by shutting it down. Victims receiving an email with the subject line "Happy Valentine's Day" will find the Kipis-H worm. It turns off anti-virus protection, inserts a trojan and forwards emails to other contacts. "Virus writers will...

ROME, FEB. 10, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Lent is when Rome offers its international community the chance to grow in holiness through the traditional "station church" pilgrimage in their own languages. I am not a keen early riser, but during the Lenten season in Rome, I find myself actually pleading with colleagues to change shifts so that I can have more time to attend the 7 a.m. Masses in a different Roman church every day. That amounts to around 46 churches over seven weeks. And I am not alone. In fact, due to the large crowds, it's recommended that pilgrims get to...

Hanover, Penn., – Moral values are being undermined at 30 Catholic colleges during the weeks surrounding St. Valentine’s day. In fact, many students are afflicted by a play called “The V***** Monologues,” which is scheduled to be held on Catholic campuses throughout the country. (Asterisks added for the sake of modesty). TFP Student Action – a conservative organization of Catholic inspiration – is opposing the play, urging its members on 375 campuses to protest. According to the group’s web site: “In one scene, a woman describes her seduction by a lesbian woman when she was 16 years old, declaring it...