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The GUILD 2-23-2003 Grateful for our freedom

Posted on 03/24/2003 5:21:03 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs



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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs; *The GUILD
Yea! My computer is fixed!

Fine work on the signage and we're thankful you remain free of an arrest record.

Thanks as always for getting goodies to our troops, you will have a special place in heaven!

Have we seen this picture yet? Received it in my email while computer was down.

May our Soldiers Never Walk Alone!

Photo by: SSGT D. MYLES CULLEN, 1ST COMBAT CAMERA SQUADRON Record ID No. (VIRIN): 030202-F-0193C-004

Note: This photo has been enhanced to show the outline of the angel. To see the official Department of Defense photo: Click Here

41 posted on 03/25/2003 4:10:55 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: mountaineer; All
Tim Robbins finally finds something he thinks is worth a fight.

As for Robbins, we said hello to him in a crush of partygoers that included his life partner, Susan Sarandon (both of them had displayed their deep commitment to nonviolence by holding up the two-fingered sign of peace at the Academy Awards). Robbins flashed a smile and jovially shook our hand -- Bob Roberts at a campaign stop. But when we mentioned that we'd had the pleasure of talking recently with 79-year-old Lenora Tomalin -- conservative Republican, George W. Bush supporter and wry observer of her daughter Sarandon -- his expression turned cold.

"Wait. You're the one who wrote about Susan's mother?"

Robbins narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips -- the secretly murderous neighbor in "Arlington Road."

"You wanted to be divisive and you caused trouble in my family," he went on -- the unjustly imprisoned banker in "The Shawshank Redemption." He added that it was especially low to have quoted Tomalin's speculation that he and Sarandon had politically "brainwashed" her grandson Jack Henry.

"At least you got Jeb Bush to call her -- that was great," Robbins spat -- the bitterly cynical studio executive in "The Player." He moved within inches and said into our ear: "If you ever write about my family again, I will [bleeping] find you and I will [bleeping] hurt you." WashPost

More from WP:

It looks like that unauthorized video of President Bush primping and practicing on the teleprompter before last Wednesday's war speech is destined to become a cult classic. White House officials cried foul after the BBC broadcast 97 seconds of the not-ready-for-prime-time president, but we hear that broadcast outlets in Portugal and Italy aired a full 10 to 15 minutes of the scene, mistakenly made available by the CBS crew pulling pool duty for the speech. (more at above link)

What CBS won't tell you is that last week during the first days of Operation Iraqi Freedom one of Howard Stern's fans called CBS and told the people who answer the phone he was Jim Axlerod (a cbs embedded reporter) that he had breaking news, that the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division had crossed the border into Iraq. They then without verifying that the caller was indeed Axlerod put him on the air with Dan Blather. After the fan yelled into the phone, "Bababooyee you idiot" on the air with Dan they cut him off but continued to report that story for an hour. The prankster felt guilty and called back to plead with them to take the story off the air.

Way to check those facts CBS!

42 posted on 03/25/2003 4:33:04 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
March 25, 2003 --VINCE MORRIS -- Reporting from a Marine helicopter base in the Kuwaiti desert

THE Marines at this chopper base near the Iraqi border are seething with rage and talking revenge over the treatment of American POWs - paraded on TV and some possibly executed.

"OK, they want to play that way. We can play that way," vowed one enraged pilot.

Marine after Marine had the same message - many of them warning that there would be "no second chances for those Iraqis now."

Virtually every conversation here touched on the POW's treatment and possible executions yesterday. It was discussed on chow lines, in the bomb shelters, outside the latrines.

Robert "Doc" Davenport, a Marine medic trained to both save people and kill them, was among those struggling to digest the appalling news.

"It makes it harder to do my job," he said, explaining he'll now think twice about dressing the wounds of injured Iraqis.

"If we run across one of them and he needs my help, it will be harder for me to do it," he added.

Many Marines on this desert base - affectionately known as "Snakepit" - said they believe they were sent to Iraq not to hurt people, but to free them from Saddam Hussein's ruthless grip.

"We want to help these people and look what they're doing to us," said more than one shocked Marine.

"What we should do is go in there and kill every last soul," growled Sgt. Mike Brady.

"If they realize that we are going to kill them like that, they'll be like 'OK, OK, we surrender,' " said the 28-year-old Texas native.

Brady, who mans the twin 50-caliber machineguns aboard a Sea Stallion chopper, said he'll be much more wary now when he's flying over Iraqi positions.

He'll no longer give enemy soldiers the benefit of the doubt when they start waving white flags.

"I'm going to be a lot quicker to pull that trigger if I think they're up to something," he said.

During an air raid yesterday - when everyone rushed into the bomb shelters with their gas masks and chemical and biological gear - one Marine's muffled swearing was heard above the din.

Repeating the sneering nickname used for Saddam Hussein, he kept saying, " 'So damn' insane, 'so damn' insane. I'm going to come up there myself and kill you."

Of course, not everyone on the base is calling for blood - yet.

Cpl. Joseph Michinki said he's not convinced the executions actually took place.

"They can fake all kinds of things with video," noted Michinki, 21, of Georgia.

"But if that really was Americans being killed, I'd be pretty pissed," he added. NYPost

43 posted on 03/25/2003 5:05:11 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
"We, as The Guild, did not support an Oscar thread last night. With the events of the day, we did not feel that it was appropriate to watch the anti-American show and encouraged everyone to spend the time in prayer and thoughtful reflection of our troops and freedoms."

That's terrific. :) Has anyone seen the ratings? I hope they were abysmal.
44 posted on 03/25/2003 5:07:03 AM PST by proud American in Canada ("We are a peaceful people. Yet we are not a fragile people.")
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To: All
To the members of the Guild:

I hope you enjoy these... and please feel free to contribute!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/874511/posts
45 posted on 03/25/2003 5:13:33 AM PST by proud American in Canada ("We are a peaceful people. Yet we are not a fragile people.")
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To: BigWaveBetty
The photo of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon entering the Kodak Theater said it all. They signalled "peace" with two fingers, but their faces were twisted with hate, smugness, self-righteousness, arrogance and just plain meanness.
46 posted on 03/25/2003 5:14:33 AM PST by mountaineer
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The French love pedophiles too! What a surprize.

ROBERT Evans was ecstatic when his pal Roman Polanski won the Best Director Oscar, but was frustrated he couldn't reach Polanski via cell phone at his home in Paris.

"I've been calling all his numbers, and they're all busy," lamented Evans at the Vanity Fair party at Morton's in L.A. Sunday night.

In fact, Polanski and his sexy wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, watched his surprise win from the privacy of a $2,450-a-night suite at the Plaza Athenee in Paris, a hotel rep told Post travel editor Pucci Meyer. Guests who spotted Polanski arriving joined management in sending up bottles of champagne. PageSix

POMPOUS peacenik Barbra Streisand says she supports our troops, but still thinks President Bush is a bust. "I pray for America's military servicemen and women and their families," Streisand wrote in a missive on her Web site yesterday. "I pray that this war is over quickly, that our troops come home safely and that there are few civilian casualties." However, "I find it tragic that the Bush administration's attempts at diplomacy failed so miserably and have led us to the point of starting a war that might have been avoided." Page Six

BRITISH MP Boris Johnson has accused the New York Times of turning an op-ed column he wrote into a smarmy piece of politically correct garbage. [No way! This can't possibly be!] Johnson was initially "thrilled" to be asked to write the piece - which ran in the Times on March 16 - on Tony Blair, George Bush and Iraq. But he was dismayed when the editor raised issues of "political correctness." After a "bizarre, hourlong negotiation . . . I started to get a floaty, out-of-body sensation," Johnson writes in the London Spectator, when the editor informed him he couldn't say anything "deprecatory" about a black African country. "How craven and mealy mouthed can you get?" Johnson fumes. But he really flipped when told he couldn't use the expression "Gee, thanks" - because, the editor explained, "Gee is an abbreviation for Jesus, [and] for a century this has been a Jewish-owned newspaper and we have to be very careful about anything that might offend Christian sensibilities." Declares Johnson: "This is utterly insane." A Times rep did not respond to several calls and e-mails seeking comment. PageSix

ADD Lizzie Grubman to the list of Oscar boycotters. Grubman says she was supposed to go to the Academy Awards with her father, Allen Grubman, a prominent lawyer who reps many celebs, but decided against it. "We canceled because there's a war on," Grubman tells PAGE SIX. "The Oscars should have been canceled. There are prisoners of war and American soldiers are dying - to go out and party is disrepectful and not appropriate." Grubman says she didn't even bother to watch the show on TV. PageSix

47 posted on 03/25/2003 5:21:16 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: BigWaveBetty
More on Tim Robbins' disdain for his girlfriend's mother (he's spitting mad!):

Tim Robbins applauded all those who injected an antiwar message, but when we ran into him at the bash that Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter threw at Morton's, he declined to speak about the cold war raging in his own family. We asked Robbins if it was true that he's unhappy with the pro-Bush cheering that his partner Susan Sarandon's Republican mother, Lenora Tomalin, has been doing in the press. "I don't want to talk about that," Robbins said, spitting some of his appetizer into our eye.

"I'm very sorry," he said. "That was an accident."

We'll take him at his word - this time. Ny Daily News

From the same source: (Producer Robert) Evans said he believes Polanski's Best Director Oscar shows Hollywood had "forgiven" him for his statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. "This gives him back his dignity, which he certainly deserves."

Well, that's important, that pedophile rapists regain their dignity. The NY Post also reports of the rapist that he enjoyed watching the Oscars from Paris.

Polanski and his sexy wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, watched his surprise win from the privacy of a $2,450-a-night suite at the Plaza Athenee in Paris, a hotel rep told Post travel editor Pucci Meyer. Guests who spotted Polanski arriving joined management in sending up bottles of champagne.

48 posted on 03/25/2003 5:26:17 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: proud American in Canada
Has anyone seen the ratings? I hope they were abysmal.

Oh they were, even worse than last year.

The wartime Academy Awards telecast on ABC Sunday night was the least-watched Oscar ceremony since Nielsen Media Research began keeping records in 1974.

An estimated 33.1 million people watched "Chicago" win best picture, Nielsen said on Monday, down sharply from the 41.8 million who watched the Oscars last year.

The Academy Awards is often the most popular entertainment program of the year, but even last month's finale of "Joe Millionaire," with 40 million viewers, beat it this year. Complete story

49 posted on 03/25/2003 5:31:57 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: Iowa Granny
The excitement builds, n'est pas?

If you're one of more than 15,000 people planning to attend former President Bill Clinton's lecture Wednesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, prepare for long lines. Ticket-holders should consider arriving even before the doors open to the public at 6 p.m. because of increased security, University of Iowa officials said Monday. Clinton's lecture, titled, "Embracing our Humanity: Global Security in the 21st Century," is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public. However, advance tickets are necessary to attend the event. The University Box Office ran out of tickets Monday afternoon. The capacity crowd will face increased security in part because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert level from yellow, or elevated risk, to orange, or high risk, officials said Monday. ...

The UI Lecture Committee, which paid the former president $50,000 to speak Wednesday, is sponsoring the lecture. Committee members have said Clinton plans to donate the money from UI's F. Wendall Miller Fund to AIDS research. full story

50 posted on 03/25/2003 5:33:05 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
Robbins said, spitting some of his appetizer into our eye.

Tim, next time try talking without food in your mouth, you cretin.

51 posted on 03/25/2003 5:34:51 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs; BigWaveBetty; mountaineer; Timeout; lodwick; *GUILD
Good Morning everyone. Had a busy day yesterday. I went into DC to see another doctor.

Today is Mr. Teacups's Bithday and our 14th wedding anniversary. I promised everyone here we'd have Ice cream cake and decorate with balloons and all. Since I was gone most of yesterday i have a lot to do today.

I wanted to share this with all of you. My surgeon's office is located on "M" street right downtown DC. As we came out of the metro (subway) we noticed all kinds of posters glued to the sidewalk poles where the right lights are. They were Anti-War posters. I wanted to get one and scan it for you all, but they were glued on and pulling on it would have torn it off. I will tell you this. Most of the posters were defaced and torn off by many bystanders who were publiclly showing their disust with these protestors.
The posters told who their funding came from and who sponsored them. I couldn't read all the fine print, darn it! I wanted one of those posters real bad. Maybe the next time i go there i can get us one.

52 posted on 03/25/2003 5:39:40 AM PST by Teacup (Go 11th Marines, and the 1MEF)
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To: Teacup
Those protesters must be getting frustrated with the lack of support they hoped the American people would provide. I just read that another student walkout is planned for 10 a.m. April 16 for high school and college students. They say:

We want to show our administration and our entire Nation that our generation is not going to sit idly and watch as our peers are sent off to war to take the lives of innocent Iraqi bystanders. source

They're not going to sit idly by? So they're skipping class? As if that will affect anything. Morons.

53 posted on 03/25/2003 5:45:04 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: BigWaveBetty
"The wartime Academy Awards telecast on ABC Sunday night was the least-watched Oscar ceremony since Nielsen Media Research began keeping records in 1974.

An estimated 33.1 million people watched "Chicago" win best picture, Nielsen said on Monday, down sharply from the 41.8 million who watched the Oscars last year."

This is great news... I'm going to forward it to my friend who has family in the military. :)
54 posted on 03/25/2003 5:46:47 AM PST by proud American in Canada ("We are a peaceful people. Yet we are not a fragile people.")
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To: BigWaveBetty; All
I know I haven't been on FR much and maybe this has already been discussed, but this morning Steve Ducy on "Fox and Friends" said, there is an article in the Washington Times today from a so called Human shield. Apparently, according to this human shield, he has changed his mind about the war. He said he saw Saddam's folks torturing Iraqi people by throwing them alive into wood chippers feet first. This human shield said, the screams heard coming from these poor people were gross and enough for him to come home and change his mind. Lord have mercy!
55 posted on 03/25/2003 5:50:01 AM PST by Teacup (those are my 11th Marines, and 1MEF)
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To: mountaineer
which paid the former president $50,000 to speak Wednesday

Has Bill's price come down recently? I seem to remember in the past (right after he left the WH) he was getting up in the six figure amounts.

Speaking of the couth-less one... After hearing President Bush remind people that this war is not a cake walk and could take a long time I remembered what the smartest women in the world's lackey said on the David Letterman show.

We’re stronger, he’s weaker. You’re looking at a couple of weeks of bombing and then I’d be astonished if this campaign took more than a week, astonished, but if he’s got these stocks of chemical and biological weapons and if he knows he’s toast, don’t you think he’ll use what he can and give away what he can’t to people who’ll be using them on us for years to come so he can have the last laugh. [Oh, that'd be why you thought it was sooooooo important to waste time on the UN? So SoDamnInsane could get busy distributing chem/bio weapons? You piece of $#%&!!!] Those are the two big questions so I think the President is doing the right thing to go to the United Nations to ask them to do something, and I hope that whatever we do, I think we need to turn up the heat. I think it is just a mistake to walk away from this, but I think that we should if at all possible try to take an approach that has broad international support because the precedent of our acting alone might someday come back to haunt in something somebody else does. Link to transcript

Another scumbucket I hate with the passion of a thousand white hot suns!!

56 posted on 03/25/2003 5:51:48 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: BigWaveBetty
"The wartime Academy Awards telecast on ABC Sunday night was the least-watched Oscar ceremony since Nielsen Media Research began keeping records in 1974.

An estimated 33.1 million people watched "Chicago" win best picture, Nielsen said on Monday, down sharply from the 41.8 million who watched the Oscars last year."

This is great news... I'm going to forward it to my friend who has family in the military. :)
57 posted on 03/25/2003 5:52:00 AM PST by proud American in Canada ("We are a peaceful people. Yet we are not a fragile people.")
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To: BigWaveBetty
I think Blubba gets the six-figure payoffs for those overseas corporate appearances and for anyone else stupid enough to pay that much, but I guess he's cutting IU a break, considering it's a public institution of higher education.

Just found this, from some leftwing Seattle columnist:

One well-placed local Republican reports that (state Rep. Jennifer) Dunn's beau has a son at Oxford who tutored an American student named Chelsea Clinton. source

She's supposedly pursuing a master's degree, and she needs tutoring? What a joke.

58 posted on 03/25/2003 5:58:29 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: Teacup
Thanks for the report on the posters. Try and remember a camera next trip (like you don't have enough on your mind) and snap a pic for us. I hope the new doc can help you, you remain in my prayers.

I didn't see that on Fox and Friends but I did hear a similar report on one of the morning radio shows (either local or Glenn Beck) that said the human shield had smuggled a video tape out of an Iraqi woman who told stories of horrible tortures to her family or people she knew. Haven't seen anything in print about it yet.

59 posted on 03/25/2003 5:58:57 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: mountaineer
they're skipping class

That's what I think. They don't care a rats behind about the people in Iracq or our troops anymore than my dogs care about reading the newspaper. Give me a break. Besides, come on. The weathers been beautiful out here. Who wouldn't want to come outside to play?

60 posted on 03/25/2003 6:01:33 AM PST by Teacup (those are my 11th Marines, and 1MEF)
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