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2009-12-19 Science
Minnesota Woman Shorns Hair to Protest Global Warming
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Posted by badanov 2009-12-19 01:09|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Words fail.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-12-19 04:49||   2009-12-19 04:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Was she protest global warming during the blizzard or before?
Posted by Scott R 2009-12-19 05:12||   2009-12-19 05:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe it was a last ditch effort to get rid of lice once and for all? (I mean, look at her picture. I've seen that look before. You think she would be happy about her little protest, but she looks like she is just waiting for this bad haircut to grow out so her normal stylist can fix it.)
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-19 07:03||   2009-12-19 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope she plans on knitting a shirt from all that hair. I hear it's damn cold at the Warming Conference.
Posted by ed 2009-12-19 07:13||   2009-12-19 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 A Georgetown grad, Germanophile, media expert, Sociocultural Anthropologist and now skinhead. Promising (but a bit frightening) future that.

Valida Prentice’s Summary
Marketing & communications project manager with knowledge of the wind industry. Experienced in desktop publishing, logo design, and writing & editing for external communications. Particularly adept in new media marketing: website design, utilizing social networking & media-sharing sites, and blogging for business.

Valida Prentice’s Specialties:
Writing, editing, layout design, HTML/CSS, web design, Drupal CMS

Valida Prentice’s Experience
Agents of Change Youth Delegate
SustainUS (Non-Profit; Environmental Services industry)

July 2009 — Present (6 months)

Member of the Agents of Change youth delegation to the UNFCCC COP-15 in Copenhagen. Main role pre-COP is to work out policy positions and media strategies with policy working group and communications working group, respectively. Main role at COP is to liaison between policy, communications, and grassroots actions working groups and to work on media production.

Valida Prentice’s Education
Freie Universität Berlin
MA , Environmental Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

The George Washington University
BA , International Affairs , 2004 — 2007

Graduated with Special Honors, Summa cum Laude
Thesis: "The C40 and Sub-State-Level International Cooperation on Climate Change Mitigation" Minors in German Language & Literature and Sociocultural Anthropology
Received Citation of Outstanding Academic Achievement

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Green GW, Delta Phi Alpha, German Club, Phi Eta Sigma
Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-19 08:10||   2009-12-19 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 At first glance she looks like Larry Flynt

Larry is "messaging" all attendees of the Climate Change Conference in his photograph, especially the U.S. Delegation - Al Gore
Posted by Pancho Pholuth3490 2009-12-19 08:36||   2009-12-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#7  One may shear their hair so it is shorn but one does not "shorn" their hair. Oh, an it's women, not womyn.
Posted by Varmint Glunter7711 2009-12-19 08:48||   2009-12-19 08:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, an it's women, not womyn.

Based on her resume, Varmint, I'm pretty sure it's "womyn", since "women" has that evil, phallocentric and oppressive word "men" in it. Surely you've gotten the memo? ;)
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-19 09:10||   2009-12-19 09:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Womyn is a dreadful feminist invention modifying the word for their sex so that it does not appear to derive from the word for the other sex, Varmint Glunter7711. Badanov is using it sarcastically, I'm sure.
Posted by trailing wife  2009-12-19 09:15||   2009-12-19 09:15|| Front Page Top

#10 http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4696/parrot450we1.jpg
Posted by  Anonymoose 2009-12-19 09:31||   2009-12-19 09:31|| Front Page Top

#11 "We refuse to agree to this treaty, and nothing you say will make us change our minds. My instructions from my government are absolute."

"Excellency, there are thirty people out in front of the building shaving their heads."

"Damn. They've got us dead to rights. Hand me my Bic ballpoint."
Posted by Mike 2009-12-19 09:34||   2009-12-19 09:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Hope she gets a good hat. Frostbite is a nasty thing.
Posted by DMFD 2009-12-19 10:08||   2009-12-19 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Synthetic wool lined Pickelhaube no doubt
Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-19 10:12||   2009-12-19 10:12|| Front Page Top

#14 The resume in #5 is the emptiest I've seen in a long time.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839  2009-12-19 11:10||   2009-12-19 11:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Why not just go nekkid and really get into the protest? Oh, never mind!
Posted by JohnQC 2009-12-19 11:49||   2009-12-19 11:49|| Front Page Top

#16 JohnQC---Back to yer room. That was NOT a nice thought. /[LOL]
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-12-19 12:47||   2009-12-19 12:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Womyn is a dreadful feminist invention modifying the word for their sex so that it does not appear to derive from the word for the other sex,

IIRC it's also used almost exclusively in the lesbian community when referring to one another, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Also noticed that Ms Prentice' CV is a touch thin on...like...real work.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-12-19 12:49||   2009-12-19 12:49|| Front Page Top

#18 I suppose using sheep shears is easier than pulling her hair out, but not as dramatic.
Posted by Muggsy Glink 2009-12-19 13:10||   2009-12-19 13:10|| Front Page Top

#19 Mike, she can't be more than 30, 35 years old. She doesn't even have her Masters Degree in a useless subject yet. Give her a chance ...
Posted by Steve White 2009-12-19 13:44||   2009-12-19 13:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Sadly that's now a Presidential level resume.
Posted by ed 2009-12-19 14:11||   2009-12-19 14:11|| Front Page Top

#21 "One may shear their hair so it is shorn but one does not "shorn" their hair."

If there's any pedantry to be delivered here, that's my job, Varmint. I'm the official Rantburg Pedant.

So give it a rest.

Also, please remember that not everyone who posts here speaks English as a first language - or gives a rat's patootie.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2009-12-19 15:07||   2009-12-19 15:07|| Front Page Top

#22 I shaved my head for global warming as well. Too much hair makes me sweat under the nomex when hauling off snapped branches and putting out electric line fires. Shaved too, so my mask will fit for the odd chimney incident.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-12-19 15:28||   2009-12-19 15:28|| Front Page Top

#23 Are we sure that's female?
Posted by tipover 2009-12-19 15:56||   2009-12-19 15:56|| Front Page Top

#24 Just another greentard. Nothing to see. Move along (and keep the snickering quiet please).
Posted by OldSpook 2009-12-19 17:14||   2009-12-19 17:14|| Front Page Top

#25 I shave my head as well, albeit not for Global Warming.

It's a lifestyle choice.

Going out for the evening and wanna look great? Five minutes in the shower, and I'm groomed and ready.

Buy a blow dryer or strop that bowling ball in two seconds?

Tough decision, huh?

One may shear their hair so it is shorn but one does not "shorn" their hair. Oh, an it's women, not womyn.

Thanks for the tip. It did look strange when I pressed the submit button, but then again I knew I could rely on you to point out what was not to me an obvious flaw in my grammer.
Posted by badanov 2009-12-19 18:15|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2009-12-19 18:15|| Front Page Top

#26 The local barber left town. Rather than drive for 40 minutes looking for a haircut, I went down to the barn and used the horse clippers, on myself. Beard, head, upperlip. Wife thinks I'm nuts.

Barber moved back into town this fall, so I'm spending the ten buck again. Clippers were giving quite the razor burn.
Posted by Skunky Glins****  2009-12-19 21:05||   2009-12-19 21:05|| Front Page Top

#27 Dear Skunky Glins****, doing your bit to support the local economy. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife  2009-12-19 23:25||   2009-12-19 23:25|| Front Page Top

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