NATIONAL CUB CONVENTION -- America's first!
Saturday, January 30 -- younger men/older women
Cougars always get the spotlight, but not tonight, which features the Cubs!
7pm - Doors open.
7:30pm - Keynote Address: Why Younger Men are Better, with author Rich Gosse.
9pm - 1am - Dance Party, featuring your favorite hits, with DJ Miguel of Startracks.
At approximately 11pm one bachelor will be voted by the Cougars at the convention to be
The Cutest Cub in America and awarded prizes,
including a free berth on The 2nd Annual International Cougar Cruise, December 2010,
courtesy of SinglesTravelCompany.com. a free DVD of Ashton Kutcher's Cougar movie Spread,
and a free CD of Unique Monique's Cougar Anthem.
To be eligible, you must be a single man, 21+, who is attracted to older women, and in attendance.
Gloria Navarro, Miss Cougar America, will be the Guest of Honor. See her photo below.Read more...

    Republicans, religion and the triumph of unreason How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality? 
Sarah Palin really has claimed ? with a straight face ? that Barack Obama wants to kill her babySomething strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarised by the comedian Bill Maher: "The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital." The election of Obama – a black man with an anti-conservative message – as a successor to George W. Bush has scrambled the core American right's view of their country. In their gut, they saw the US as a white-skinned, right-wing nation forever shaped like Sarah Palin.When this image was repudiated by a majority of Americans in a massive landslide, it simply didn't compute. How could this have happened? How could the cry of "Drill, baby, drill" have been beaten by a supposedly big government black guy? So a streak that has always been there in the American right's world-view – to deny reality, and argue against a demonic phantasm of their own creation – has swollen. Now it is all they can see.Related articlesIs Glenn Beck too right wing even for Fox News? Since Obama's rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown. It started when they claimed he was a secret Muslim, and – at the same time – that he was a member of a black nationalist church that hated white people. Then, once these arguments were rejected and Obama won, they began to argue that he was born in Kenya and secretly smuggled into the United States as a baby, and the Hawaiian…

  Ideas for Immigrant Detention Include Converting Hotels and Building Models  Kate Brumback/Associated PressAn immigration detention center in Lumpkin, Ga., run by a private company. The government is exploring holding detainees in less restrictive, and cheaper, sites.    

 "They raised children, went to work in the city each day, talked the small talk with neighbors about yard work and overpriced contractors. In short, they could have been any family in any suburb in America." Read Article   

  Williams cites the Devil in attack on invasion 'spin' By Kim Sengupta, Defence correspondent
Saturday, 10 October 2009 The bitterness, recriminations and accusations of betrayal which enmeshed the Iraq war surfaced unexpectedly and powerfully at a memorial service for the fallen yesterday. With members of the government who took Britain into this controversial conflict sitting in the congregation in St Paul's Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of the Devil's influence as he condemned policymakers for failing to consider the human cost of their actions. And outside St Paul's after the service, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq refused the proffered hand of the former prime minister Tony Blair, saying: "I am not shaking your hand, you have got blood on it." Peter Brierley, whose son Lance-Corporal Shaun Brierley, 28, was killed in 2003, said: "I believe Tony Blair is a war criminal. I can't bear to be in the same room as him. I can't believe he has been allowed to come to this reception. I believe he has got the blood of my son and all of the other men and women who died out there on his hand." In his address, Dr Rowan Williams praised the courage, fortitude and sacrifices of the 179 British personnel who were killed in the conflict. "The demanding task of winning local trust in a chaotic, ravaged society like post-invasion Iraq was one of the heaviest responsibilities laid on armed personnel anywhere in recent times .... Many here will know just how patiently and consistently that work was taken on," he said. But then he turned to those who had sent the men and women to a war which had faced massive opposition at home and which also claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqis. "Many people of my generation…