WEEK 13 - Olney, MD., 03-25-06: Operation Infinite FReep, PICTURE HEAVY FROM A FREEPERS' VIEW

March 28,2006 | Trooprally

[trooprally]

iMacMan did his wonders with his camera today by taking pictures of the passing cars from the FReepers point of view.

BELOW: The highlight of this is the car of young supporters who circled around 2 times to cheer us on.
TOP LEFT: First pass by;
TOP RIGHT: They turned around and came back - Trooprally waving to them;
MIDDLE: Close up of car;
BOTTOM: They turned around again before heading east on MD Rte. 108

BELOW: Moonbats (In back ground) not liking the flag waving youths. Pic by iMacMan

Four FReepers/Lurkers were in attendance: iMacMan, [Mrs] Trooprally, myself, and local Lurker Bill.

BELOW: iMacMan & Trooprally setting up banner. Pic by [Mrs] T.

BELOW: Trooprally & iMacMan with Lurker Bill just to left outside pic enjoying fruits of their set up labor. Pic by [Mrs] T.

BELOW: View of iMacMan & Trooprally from "grassy knoll". Pic by [Mrs] T.

BELOW: Local and Lurker Bill. Pic by [Mrs] T.

BELOW: [Mrs] & [Mr] Trooprally. Pic by iMacMAn

The moonbats had eleven for about a half hour, then 3 of them left. Ten minutes later another left. At 4:30 all but two left. Waveman and a lone moonbat on the southeast corner stayed til almost 5 PM.

BELOW: Early shows with Waveman (aka Swearman & Barkman) at left. Pic by [Mrs] T.

BELOW: Lots of moonbats. Pic by [Mrs] T.

BELOW: LEFT: Pic of simpleton, I mean singleton moonbat on SE corner. Pic by [Mrs] T. RIGHT Close up of singleton. Pic by iMacMan.

The teens from last week did not return. We had hoped they would. We did get the word to several drivers about our Saturday rally. They stopped for the red light, rolled down their windows and thanked us. That's when we told them about the FReep. We'll see if any of them come out.

Two cars flipped us the one finger salute and several shook their heads in disdain. But the honks from cars and waves from the Metro bus drivers always warm the heart. One bus passenger also waved to us.

The below pics are all by iMacMan from a FReeper's VIEW. Like them nice shiney cars? I personally like the waves and thumbs up. iMacMan spotted several that he would like to have.

BELOW: A TwoFer

BELOW: Another TwoFer

BELOW: Same car as above but now passenger has two thumbs up!!

BELOW: Call the company on the van - Tell them you saw them on FR and ask about a discount - Tell them Trooprally sent you. See how fast they hang up.

The red banner held up to the brisk breeze today. It bent, it flipped around, but the twine tie downs held. But the weather was warm enough that the breeze did not create a severe wind chill. Just hard to light my cigars.

Pic by iMacMan

REMEMBER

Next Saturday, same place, Georgia Avenue, MD Rte. 97 and MD Rte. 108 in Olney, MD

Same time, 3 PM to 4:30 PM

[gate2wire]

Yes, I am aware of the situation and trying to work it out. Hope to see you all Sat.

[trooprally]

:-))

[trooprally]

Sounds good from this end. GunsareOK has agreed to do the AAR. Just no photographer yet. He'll be picking up the signs, flags and banner.

A OBone from Colonial Beach,VA requested directions.

If everyone does show, looks like 5-6 FReepers.

There is a leftist at Olney with a sign that has the number of killed in Iraq. Maybe someone can talk to her. :-)) If not I'll do it next week. Couldn't really do it before since the numbers were low and didn't want to leave our corner. Plus it looks like she's a regular now.

Thanks all for heeding the call.

See you at WR if you're there. We'll have to leave early though.

[Mr] T

[Sisku Hanne]

Am I understanding this correctly? Military deaths are actually lower under George W. Bush during wartime than they have been under all these other presidents, including during peacetime???!!!!

[iMacMan]

Am I understanding this correctly? Military deaths are actually lower under George W. Bush during wartime than they have been under all these other presidents, including during peacetime???!!!!

I don’t want to mislead anyone. In the document I referenced, only one year of Carter is covered (his last), whereas 8 years each for Reagan and Clinton, and four years each for the two Bushes are covered. Note that 2005 was NOT included. The numbers I posted were the yearly averages for each President – just for the data in the document.

The result was that Clinton’s average for the total number of deaths was the lowest, while George W Bush’s was the next lowest (this number would go up if 2005 were included, but his “ranking” by average total deaths probably wouldn’t change). Carter’s last year was the highest.

Also, note in my previous post that George W. Bush’s average deaths due to hostile action is the highest.

CJ posted some more data of this type on his milblog:

http://www.soldiersperspective.us/index.php?paged=2

This is the average number of combat deaths for each major war in the past hundred years or so (his post includes the total number of months and deaths plus some marvelous perspectives). Draw your own conclusions…

War          Av. Deaths
             Per month

WWI            2816
WWII           6639
Korea           909
Vietnam         526
Gulf War I      148
Iraq             55