Op.Infinite Freep: Fresno Support our Troops/President Rally for 04/09/04

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[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Spring was in the air as we gathered to support the troops and President Bush on the corner of Shaw & Blackstone.

Present for the rally were:

Jim, Sheila, and Chris Robinson,

Chadsworth, Ladyinred, Enterprise, JustAmy, and Notpoliticallycorewrecked.

The traffic was very light due to it being Good Friday, but the honks in support of the troops were numerous.

We had one gentleman that stopped by to support our troops and visited with Jim and Enterprise for a short time. I did not catch his name, but he was much nicer that the other visitors that came by.

A group of teenagers on their way to catching the bus decided to engage us in some lively debate about the war in Iraq. The discussion went hot and heavy for about 30 minutes. They finally decided that they were going to miss their bus if they stayed any longer and left.

After that experience it was quiet except for the honking of the horns in support of the troops and Sheila's music to keep us motivated.

Chadworth worked the crowd with his famous layered message board. He also provided our rally with a HUGE pair of flip-flops to let the Kerry crowd know what to expect from their candidate in the future.

It was a great Freep with good friends and great weather.

[chadsworth]

These kids have no earthly idea of what may be coming if we do not get control of these terrorists, in Iraq, Iran,Afghaniswhatever or any where else in the world where they are planning world domination at any cost.

These young folks have only their parents, the phoney news media and their peers to get information from. They do no research to find the truth unless it is given to them from a video game or tatoo parlor.

During our debate, they displayed a bad case of cranial constipation.

Pray for them they need it bad.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTW....I teach sewing and have some high schoolers. While they're conservative in their NO drugs, NO abortions, things like that....the teachers ARE messing with them as to the politics.

They've got the typical 60's mentality going on. One instance was a MATH teacher. THAT ticked me off, big time.

One of my girls said, "Oh, I guess you're FOR war?". I said yes, if it's to make YOUR life safer, you bet I am. It kinda stopped her dead in her tracks.

Good night all.

[Jim Robinson]

Say goodnight Grammie.

[Mama_Bear]

I get all mine from CNN and MTV. LOL

Don't we all? LOL.

I was watching the news a few weeks ago when the subject of lowering the voting age came up and a reporter asked a high school girl how she felt about people her age (16, I think) being able to vote. The girl said she thought it was a bad idea because no one her age that she knew knew enough to make an educated decision about who to vote for. One of the smartest things I've heard come out of a kid's mouth in a long time. It gives me hope.

Too bad so many adults don't know enough to make an educated decision either. I guess it is too much to expect that voters should be required to have a basic understanding of our government and how it operates.

[Mama_Bear]

During our debate, they displayed a bad case of cranial constipation.

Just as I thought.

You know, IMO there is nothing wrong with kids being kids, that is as it should be. But there definitely is something wrong with kids who are pretentious enough to believe that they have the knowledge and experience to debate adults over matters that they know nothing about. It's not their fault, they simply haven't lived long enough to have acquired the foundation required for independent thought and analysis. When I was a kid, I knew that I knew nothing. I'm still pretty sure that I don't know very much. LOL

[Mama_Bear]

All good FReepers need a personalized Tshirt.

Oh, I have got to have one! That is too cool! I didn't know they were available. (I have an FR personalized mug, but JK's was broken in the mail.) :-(

I have a drawer full of FR t-shirts but I don't wear them. I just know that someday they will become collector's items. LOL

It's 1:30.....long past my bedtime! Good night all.

[RonDog]

Ron Dog posted some really funny and clever ideas about FReeping Kerry using Flip Flops...

That would be:

Sandal whappers serenade Kerry
[Should we FReep Kerry with REAL "flip flops" - across the USA?]
Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | April 7, 2004 | Gregory Korte and Cindi Andrews
Posted on 04/07/2004 10:25:07 PM PDT by RonDog

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Sandal whappers serenade Kerry

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Reporter's Notebook

By Gregory Korte and Cindi Andrews
The Cincinnati Enquirer

John Kerry had seen the tactic before - it emerged on the campaign trail last week - but few others seemed to understand what was going on.

Young Republicans wearing cheap sandals got in the front row and started clapping them together almost as soon as the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Sawyer Point on Tuesday.

Their message: that Kerry has flip-flopped on the issues...

-- snip --

See also, from www.rushlimbaugh.com:

Pathetic Kerry Condemns "Rude" GOP Protestors

April 7, 2004

-- snip --

Kerry's playbook is so old and he is so dishonest, it can be infuriating. But there's a simple way to listen to liberals without tearing your hair out, and that is this: everything liberals accuse Bush of, is what they do themselves. So when Kerry talks about the politics of lying, he's telling us what Democrats do. He's identifying his own tactics. As an example, consider Kerry's freak-out at a group of protestors waving flip-flop sandals at Kerry's Cincinnati speech.

As you can hear in the audio link below, this man who protested the Vietnam War and whose party has defined patriotism as requiring dissent, grumbled, "Obviously some young Republicans proving that they are very rude and they have no manners." Oh, the power, my friends! I am paralyzed here with how impressed I am by his retort. Why, what a way to shut them down! Not only calling them "rude" but "very rude!" This is so pathetic!

-- snip --

Listen to Rush...

(...JIP Kerry, and dismiss his angry ripping of dissenters at a speech in Cincinnati)

Read the Article...

(Cincinnati Enquirer: Sandal whappers serenade Kerry)

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[RonDog]

Chadworth worked the crowd with his famous layered message board.

He also provided our rally with a HUGE pair of flip-flops to let the Kerry crowd know what to expect from their candidate in the future...

That would be THESE wonderful images:

-- snip --


Flip Flop Kerry Sign.

[SkyPilot]

Some union workers quickly surrounded the dozen Republicans with Kerry signs. Some elbows were thrown...

Ah yes---Democrats. Feel the love.

[RonDog]

If I can, I am going to make a large print sign of his Anti-American / Anti- National Security voting record that JK sent out.

Need to come up with some good flip-flop slogans...

I should have a giant version os THIS sign back from the printer soon:

Image created by JulieRNR21
www.FreeRepublic.com

I agree that we DO need to bring along some sort of sign to summarize our message...

...to help explain the meaning of our "flip flops" - to maroons out there like THIS guy:

...The Hamilton County Republican Party disavowed any knowledge of the tactic, and Rep. Rob Portman - forced to field a question about the tactic in the official Republican response - seemed befuddled by it.

"I'm not sure hitting yourself in the head with a flip-flop makes a particularly compelling case," he said...

[Mo1]

Yes Chads, my friend who happens to be my husband was given a briefing on camel spiders prior to his unit being deployed to the ME. Apparently the spider injects its victim with an anesthetic then proceeds to eat the victim. It is not safe to sleep on the ground over there

OMG .. that spider is CREEPY!!

Other then that GREAT pictures!!

[RonDog]

See also the NEW thread:

Touch 'Em All: The 'EWWWW!' Factor
[GIANT "camel spiders" menace our troops in Iraq]
TheWBALChannel.com ^ | April 9, 2004 | Larry Frum, Jr., Managing Editor
Posted on 04/10/2004 2:38:36 AM PDT by RonDog

The "EWWW!" Factor

My brother is a member of the United States armed forces. I can't tell you what he does, because I don't think I completely understand it myself -- which is probably best for me.

However, with all that is going on over in Iraq, he does have a pretty good sense of what some of the personnel are going through over there. His latest e-mail makes me wonder if we here at home really understand.

Take a look at this picture:

This is a camel spider (or rather two of them) -- one of the indigenous creatures in Iraq. The following is from an e-mail my brother sent me with the picture:

The camel spider isn't really a spider, because it is also called a wind scorpion, but it is not a scorpion either. It is related to both the spiders and the scorpions, and it belongs to its own group of animals.

It can be as long as 6 inches across and camel spiders like to live in barren parts of the desert. They don't like oases either, and they feel most at home in the open, uninhabited places of the desert.

Most of the time camel spiders hide in their burrows, coming out only when they're hungry. So when they do come out at night to feed, they are very ferocious and dangerous. A hunting camel spider runs across the desert floor almost at lightning speed, and it is so fast that it is impossible for the human eye to follow...

-- snip --

...One guy said he killed about a dozen of these things because they kept coming into their tent.

While they knew they weren't poisonous, they still freaked out the soldiers -- especially the new ones...

Ya think?

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

[Trteamer]

Boy did those poor misguided kids pick the wrong people to argue with. In the pictures they look as if someone had told them there was no Tooth Fairy. A little more time in the sun wouldn't hurt them either, they don't have that famous California tan. You should have offered to have them mow your lawn. LOL!

Great Job FResno!

[MeekOneGOP]

Thank you for the Freep, the post, the pics and the pings !

Here are the lively little teenybopper peaceniks ....

haha ! Here is what is on their leetle minds !! ...

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[tubebender]

Nice looking kids. It's to bad they are captives of the CTA and the NEA...

[MeekOneGOP]

[kristinn]

Great pictures of the Fresno FReepers and the young peaceniks. We need to keep getting out there supporting our troops--especially now.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Thank You Fresno Patriots

[Landru]

re #52?
You gotta be shi**in' me. :o)
Geeheezzzz!

On top of having to put up with insane maniacal Islamofacists there's *this* little detail to deal with, too?

"A hunting camel spider runs across the desert floor almost at lightning speed, and it is so fast that it is impossible for the human eye to follow..."

Yea, well it ain't faster than an M-16 in full auto, I'd bet.

Scholar, Braveman?
Check out #52.

...double-geeeeeheeeez!

[chadsworth]

Boy did those poor misguided kids pick the wrong people to argue with. In the pictures they look as if someone had told them there was no Tooth Fairy.

That picture,(the one where the kids had that"far away look")was when they were engaging me. I remember Justamy taking the pic. I was telling them about how they were too lazy to search out the truth and how they relied on the phoney news media for all of thier information.

They left with a confirmed case of cranial-rectal inversion.