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Feb. 13, 2006 — The familiar double-lobed heart symbol seen on Valentine's Day cards and candy was inspired by the shape of human female buttocks as seen from the rear, according to a professor of psychology who studied the origin, history and symbolism of the Feb.14 holiday. Galdino Pranzarone of Roanoke College in Salem, Va., told Discovery News that he analyzed "essential literary and speculative evidence from mythology and secondary sources," which led to his theory. He believes one rather obvious bit of evidence is that the heart symbol does not directly duplicate the heart human organ. "The twin lobes...

Muslim females are Xing out Valentine’s Day because it furthers vulgarity. Muslim males however may have several wives and several "temporary wives" they use as sex slaves. That of course is morality maximum. The "temporary wives" live with their parents and the male has no financial obligation to them whatsoever. That’s why they are sex slaves. Muslim females are so brainwashed in Islam that they yield to the masochistic, which adds another neurotic dimension to the killing cult. However, all this is typical of cults. Reason is not a top priority. Nor is morality. Therefore when other parts of the...

A couple shopping for Valentine's day in Bangalore (TOI) NEW DELHI: Love was in the air as twosomes thronged parks, restaurants and malls in major cities to celebrate Valentine's Day with roses, chocolates and sweet nothings under the stern watch of Hindu hardline groups who tried hard to mar the celebrations. Lovers were everywhere - holding hands and cosying up in parks and open spaces, meeting in lounges, discotheques, pubs and even parking lots - as flower sellers made a killing with a single rose stalk going for as much as Rs.50 in some places. It looked as if the...

We Support Our Troops!  For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. No greater love hath a man than to give his life for his friends.  FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT:  Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. On Valentine's Day, we celebrate love.  Usually we celebrate the love between a man and a woman.  However, there are many faces of love, and I believe that our men and women who serve...

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....

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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