Nothin' quite like a well-reasoned debate
Posted on 08/27/2005 10:02:40 AM PDT by TXBubba
Just talked to Basil on site in Crawford, Texas. Currently there are about 100 folks there helping to set up. They have not received word about the caravan arrival in Waco yet. JimRob is riding with the caravan. She thinks it might get to Crawford around 1:00 p.m.
Basil says the stage is set up, the sound system is excellent and they have hung the most beautiful banners overnighted by W04Man on the stage. A big thanks for the banners, they are much appreciated!
Someone arrived early and hung yellow ribbons everywhere.
They have an American flag that is about 50 feet by 40 feet. Children of military personnel serving in the Middle East have written notes to their parents on the stripes of this flag. A very touching thing to behold.
The HOT Chapter booth is being unloaded right now. The will sell buttons made by Angelwood to help off set costs.
Someone rented the Community Center for our use so there is access to AC. However, they also have 10 tents set up. And there is a Moonwalk for the kiddos.
To top everything else there is BBQ on the grill! Basil is the official taster and says it is great!
That is all the news I have at the moment. It is hard to get a cell phone connection to Crawford but when I hear more I will try to update everyone.
I agree with that. Fox has been extremely disappointing.
---How can I be 200 posts behind again?---
The night that our armored troops entered Baghdad there was a live thread going that was zooming....I think 50 posts were hitting every five minutes....it was incredible.
I was reading/writing at 3 am and zooming like I had mainlined coffee....it was wonderful.
.......and Cindy thinks it was terrible.
God, rest the innocent people killed by Saddam Hussein
Heh.
Al-jazeera LUVS Cindy, of course:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8C74B84-475B-44DE-8911-F8AA98B2A715.htm
Doesn't she realize she's handing the enemy a pr victory? She doesn't care.
Someone suggested in an earlier post that FR set up a news television station for conservatives.
Sounds like a good idea.
Where can we find someone with the deep pockets to start such a winning operation.
The nights of the debates in the live thread the post were coming about 100 a minute. So fast that the thread was being limited to 20 posts/page.
The thread about the death of Sadam's sons and the thread about his capture were like that as well. There is so much I miss on threads like these that it takes me a week to read the whole thing.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8C74B84-475B-44DE-8911-F8AA98B2A715.htm
Try the above link. See if it works any better. Picture of Cindy on al-Jazeera website!
More mothers on our side. ;-)
I LOVE that idea!
I loved it. Hippie rejects, and they think this turns Americans on? LOL
Hope lots of pics are posted.
Speaking of attracting publicity (in more ways than one), here's a relevant blog post. Yes, I'm a whore.
Posted on 08/27/2005 5:15:01 PM CDT by johnmecainrino
CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush warned of more sacrifices ahead in Iraq, while thousands of his supporters and anti-war protesters flooded this one-stoplight Texas town near his ranch.
Many on both sides flew the US flag or wore its red, white, and blue colors and everyone agreed that it was paramount to "support the troops" fighting and dying thousands of miles (kilometers) away -- but on little else.
Bush kept out of sight, but in his weekly radio address he urged patience with Iraq's constitutional process, saying Iraqis were "making the tough choices and compromises necessary for a free and peaceful future."
"Our efforts in Iraq and the broader Middle East will require more time, more sacrifice and continued resolve. Yet people across the Middle East are choosing a future of freedom and prosperity and hope," he said.
Not far from Bush's ranch, police kept dozens of his supporters and about the same number of anti-war protesters on separate sides of a narrow country road, while the two sides jeered at each other and waved flags and signs.
Police arrested two people for "disorderly conduct," according to Captain Kenneth Vanek of the McLennan County sheriff's office, who said that they faced a fine of up to 500 dollars for improper "language."
Asked which side had produced the offenders, Vanek replied: "They were no side. They didn't get along with anybody."
While the two sides traded schoolyard taunts, questioning each other's virility, musical skills, wardrobes and hygiene habits, a constant stream of cars festooned with slogans and flags rolled past, honking their horns.
Each side had their champion: The anti-war group rallied behind Cindy Sheehan, who soldier son Case was killed in Iraq in April 2004, while Bush supporters stood with Gary Qualls, who son Louis was killed in Iraq late last year.
Sheehan, who met once with Bush shortly after her son was killed, sought a second meeting to confront the president and demanded a swift withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, where more than 1,870 have died.
Qualls says the United States must honor the fallen by staying the course in Iraq, and has repeatedly objected to Sheehan supporters using a cross with his son's name as part of their protest.
Pro-Bush demonstrators, headquartered at a makeshift "Fort Qualls" in central Crawford, and Sheehan's supporters, settled at "Camp Casey" outside this town of 705 people, held loud rallies.
"Camp Casey is what it is, a camp. This is a fort. This is a war, and we're going to win it," Bill Johnson, 63, told AFP, while sitting in the shade at Fort Qualls, which sits on his property.
Nearby, sweating in the searing Texas summer sun, was Brad Ward, who drove from Austin, Texas, to Crawford early Saturday and waved a sign with a peace symbol on it and the description "Footprint of the American Chicken."
"I'm here to support the president and the troops and honor the fallen hero, Specialist Casey Sheehan, since his mother is disgracing his memory," said Ward, an army veteran who never saw combat because "the Gulf War ended before I could get over there."
Ward, who packed "a big cooler full of water" for his day-long trip to Crawford, urged reporters to "tell our side, since you told hers (Sheehan's)."
At the road-side protest, Don Eyre, 68, stood on the anti-war side clutching an "impeach Bush" sign, and quietly declared that "Bush lied, soldiers died," a popular refrain among anti-war protestors that plays off the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"I hate this war. I've been against it ever since it started," he told AFP.
On the pro-Bush side, one young man held up a sign that read "Cindy and Osama, sitting in a tree..." the beginning of a schoolyard jibe that ends with "k-i-s-s-i-n-g."
They are too busy looking for dead party girls in Arubba to bother with patriotism in Texas......FNC is just full of presstitutes as well IMHO......just another alphabet MSM outlet selling to the sheeple.....
You know, I never did find out who won the bet on what time the war would start.
LOL! I just clicked on your link and when the picture popped up of Cindy my 6 year old said "Ugh, that woman is picking her nose."
True, but since FOX prides itself as being better than CNN, I'm taking delight in the so called "Fair and Balanced" network being upstaged by CNN.
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