Sheehan Went Too Far with the T-Word (Even Leftist Whackos Beginning to Back Away from Grief Pimp!)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 02/01/2006 | Susan Paynter

[DCPatriot]

Must give thanks to the Jesuits.

[mewzilla]

Anyone see CNN a moment ago? Andy What's-His-Name, the business guy, and Miles O'Brien were having kittens about Sheehan being arrested. She was arrested just for "wearing a t-shirt", and they couldn't believe this had happened in America.

Boy, your net really has a financial death wish, doesn't it?

[sergeantdave]

The effect of the rainstorm affected my plans to paint the window trim.

[colonialhk]

Unbelievable what a senseless commie dingbat

[freema]

Wow, am I glad that you posted that article!!!!!

This little tidbit struck me. In the face. "Her attitudes on war were shaped in high school, when she thumbed through a Life magazine and opened to a spread on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam."

Why, you ask? (OK, you didn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway ; )

It struck me because I was shaped by the very same experience. I opened the Life Magazine myself. I wasn't in high school, though, I was 12.

I remember the evening very, very, vividly. Because I could not, nor could my mother, quell my tears or anger.

How, then, did I end up adamantly on the other side of the fence from this woman?

Perhaps, it was because I was guided to develop some critical thinking skills an using a little logic on the way to Oz, got a brain.

[CIB-173RDABN]

bump for later read

[xzins]

"When my son was there (in Iraq) I was asking the questions he had but couldn't ask. But some of the things people say really disturb me. When they talk in terms of extremes they're really losing people in that greater middle."

I don't know how many still straddle the middle when it comes to Iraq

Here is the American middle on the war in Iraq.

Take the percentage of America that supported the war and president Bush about one to two weeks into the ground war.

Many of those people still fully support this effort to protect America. All the remainder are those who can be won back ONCE a way is found to overcome the misinformation spread by the mainstream media.

[oldironsides]

Cindy Sheehan is being supported by what group or individual? Does she have to file any type of statement with the IRS for her group? She has to be carrying the water for someone. How do we find out her money trail?

[Strutt9]

"I disagree. The more these idiots --- Sheehan, Dean, Moore --- are in the news, the worse they make all Leftists and Liberals look. Keep up the ignoble effort, you anti-American traitorous scumbags. You're exposing all RATS for what they really are."

Does it really matter that she is a symbol of the extreme lefties? There are many people do just vote Democrat because they have always done so. Otherwise, how do you explain the likes of Finestien, Kennedy, Kerry, Pelosi etc. Some of the more moderate Demo will still vote Demo.

[nothingnew]

(And on the second day The Lord created February - the slowest month of the year.)

You got that right. It's even the shortest month, but lasts forever.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Lucky Dog]

ef•fect n.

1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
3. A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect.
4. Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
5. The condition of being in full force or execution: a new regulation that goes into effect tomorrow.
6.
a. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general
design or intention: The lighting effects emphasized the harsh atmosphere of the drama.
b. A particular impression: large windows that gave an effect of spaciousness.
c. Production of a desired impression: spent lavishly on dinner just for effect.
7. The basic or general meaning; import: He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.
8. effects Movable belongings; goods.

tr.v. ef•fect•ed, ef•fect•ing, ef•fects

1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

[Onelifetogive]

Monk has separated herself from Military Families Speak Out since her son came home from Iraq.

That.....and when he got home and found out what she was doing, he tore her a new one!

[albee]

"I say again what I said early on that caused me no end of grief; "That bitch is crazy."

I do believe that Mother Sheehan has "jumped the shark".

It really is time to put her back into her padded cell and remove all nearby sharp objects.

[Westbrook]

Cindy need terrorism lessons, because she does not know the meaning of the word. She needs to spend a few months in Palestine, watch a few people tortured and executed in the streets for being political opponents to the standing leaders. Then she will understand how pampered of a life she leads, and how much of a fool she has made of herself.

Nope.

Won't work for her.

Didn't work for Rachel Corrie, either.

Like Rachel Corrie, the Paleo-stinians would LOVE Cindy, because she HATEs America.

They would be sure to do their head-sawing and summary executions where she couldn't see them.

[winner3000]

(she winced when she saw the words Sheehan used from her international platform.)

ROTFL, international platform! Try consorting with the enemies of America. Makes them slightly uncomfortable doesn't it? Go Cindy go! I hope we next see her doing a joint conference with Zarqawi denouncing Bush!

[Mr. Brightside]

I think the GOP has dropped the ball.

We should be tying Sheehan's comments around their necks. And the picture of Dean holding a Code Pink t-shirt should be on every Republican's commercial while the announcer lists all of the nasty things they do to soldiers.

But as usual, the Republicans insist on fighting "fair".... whatever that means.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'd welcome a good explanation of the difference between the two.

They used to be plainly different . . . but some special uses have blurred the lines between the two.

Generally speaking, you are correct -- "affect" is the verb, while "effect" is the noun. "Affect" is to act upon something to produce an "effect." However, there are exceptions.

The shrinks have a term of art "affect", a noun, meaning the demeanor of a patient . . . usually seen in the descriptive term "flat affect" - one of those blank-looking people.

And "effect" is used as a verb in the phrase "effect change" - it doesn't mean exactly the same thing as "affect" in this context, though, because "affect" denotes a partial or tangential force operating upon something, while "effect" in this context is causative. So the usage in this article is an exception to the general rule, but correct.

Clear as mud?

[doberville]

The patient displayed flat Affect.

[popdonnelly]

I thought the t-word was theater.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Holy cow.  My first thought about this article was, "You F%^$ing, whining, Seattle snitnoid...what did you think was going to end up happening with this loon?  That she was stable and going to stay that way?  Cindy's lunatic ravings were on the wall from the start."

Then I saw that the article was by Susan Paytner.

I got to stand up for Paytner:  9 or 10 years ago I wrote her a very long and angry letter about a topic she covered off and on for several months.  I'd written her basically to get something off my chest and honestly never expected anything to come of it but she asked my permission to use the letter and she printed it in its entirety.  She did it because she felt I was in the right, that my point of view needed to be heard and that I explained my position very well. 

I believe I got more column space than she'd ever had.

She also followed-up with me personally later on, and let me know some information that she secretly become privy to.

I've always respected her from our interactions even though she's center-left on most subjects.