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Knitting women unite to keep Navy dolphins warm (Update with video)
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| March 2, 2007
| Bryan Johnson
Posted on 03/05/2007 8:18:47 AM PST by Stoat
Knitting women unite to keep Navy dolphins warm
Story Updated: Mar 2, 2007 at 5:50 PM PST
By Bryan Johnson
A group of women gathered Friday at the Bainbridge Island Senior Center.
They are part of a knitting group growing across the United States.
It only It looks like a knitting club.
This is much more than knit one, purl two. This is politics.
"The whole problem of putting them on the dolphins is one of the things we have to consider in the future. It's an interesting thought," said Jan Bailey, one of the knitters.
The women are knitting sweaters for warm-water bottlenose dolphins. The Navy wants to put them on Homeland Security patrol here.
One of the knitters Karin Beran says that's cruel, but says the dolphins will know what to do with the sweaters.
"Well, I guess the dolphins are so smart, so they can figure it out, if and how and when. I'm just happy to knit for them," Beran said.
They've thought of everything. Susan Scheirman showed me a multi-colored yarn.
"We've imported camouflage yarn for these local dolphins," she said, "so they don't become subject to any kind of terrorism."
Jan Bailey even went to a button store and bought regulation Navy buttons. She sewed the regulation 13 buttons on what could be called the bathroom flap. But dolphins don't have arms:
"That is the dolphins problem. No, that's the Navy's problem," Bailey said. "I think if they have divers in the water, and the dolphins signal. The whole problem of putting them on the dolphins is one of the things we have to consider in the future. Then the divers can go over and unfasten the 13 buttons, one at a time."
They even have a knitting song.
Oh so why do I swim through seas so arctical," one of the lines asks.
The women say they'll keep on knitting as long as the Navy plans to put dolphins in the frigid waters of the Northwest.
The women plan to present the sweaters to Navy officials at a hearing on the plan to put bottlenose dolphin into guard service locally.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Washington; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: barkingmoonbats; ditzytits; dolphins; knitting; knittingfordolphins; moonbats; washington; washingtonstate
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posted on
03/05/2007 8:18:52 AM PST
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
Do they make bikes for fish, too?
2
posted on
03/05/2007 8:21:22 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
To: Stoat
This is a joke, right.
Please tell me this is a joke.
3
posted on
03/05/2007 8:23:48 AM PST
by
stentorian conservative
("I don't have to hire a consultant to develop a conservative image, I am a conservative." -D Hunter)
To: Stoat
Another moonbat game to give aid and comfort to our enemies.
4
posted on
03/05/2007 8:24:35 AM PST
by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Do they make bikes for fish, too?:-)
Here's further proof that ANYTHING will eventually have a web page devoted to it:
Literary Fish on Bikes
5
posted on
03/05/2007 8:24:58 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Wet sweaters are cold, ladies.
6
posted on
03/05/2007 8:25:09 AM PST
by
Carolinamom
(Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure -- President Bush SOTU)
To: Stoat
The idiocy of this is so utterly breathtaking and profound that it leaves me speechless.
Just what I was thinking. And as a knitter, I'm sitting here with my chin on my desk as I read this. Sounds to me like a bunch of enviro anti-war bitties making a political statement with their knitting needles.
My knitting group knits caps for kids at cancer hospitals and for preemy-newborns. Thank goodness my group of ladies have good ole common sense and compassion.
To: Carolinamom
"Wet sweaters are cold, ladies."
Not to mention that it will weight them down and tire them out, possibly causing them to drown.
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posted on
03/05/2007 8:29:29 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Carolinamom
Wet sweaters are cold, ladies.
Not only that, but could be very dangerous too.
To: Stoat
"We've imported camouflage yarn for these local dolphins," she said, "so they don't become subject to any kind of terrorism."
OMG!
These women are WHACKED!
lol!
10
posted on
03/05/2007 8:31:55 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Stoat
Won't global warming keep them warm?
To: Stoat
the dolphins will know what to do with the sweatersThe dolphins will laugh their grey asses off. This is proof that dolphins are smarter than these idiots.
12
posted on
03/05/2007 8:34:19 AM PST
by
hsalaw
To: BADROTOFINGER
Washington State Barking Moonbat Ping
13
posted on
03/05/2007 8:34:59 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Let's not knit these ping!
14
posted on
03/05/2007 8:35:51 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
To: Stoat
They still do. The group is called "Sox For Soilders." They are a world wide organization.
15
posted on
03/05/2007 8:35:59 AM PST
by
texaslil
(and)
To: Stoat
"So Long And Thanks For All the Sweaters."
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posted on
03/05/2007 8:36:37 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Championship U)
To: Stoat; Doohickey; sionnsar
Have these "activists" ever thought about the "drag" and "weight" of a water-soaked KNITTED pullover WITH BUTTONS! on a sleek, underwater-evolved mammal like a dolphin?
Can you say "trying to swim with a trench coat and combat boots" ??? Trying to see an eagle fly wearing galoshes?
Have the papers in Washington been ridiculing their stupidity, or praising their "activism"?
If the dolphins DIDN'T like the cold water, it would be evident from the reactions on entering it.
17
posted on
03/05/2007 8:39:15 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Dominick
Yes, but...the article says it's the Navy's idea.
The women are knitting sweaters for warm-water bottlenose dolphins. The Navy wants to put them on Homeland Security patrol here. One of the knitters Karin Beran says that's cruel, but says the dolphins will know what to do with the sweaters.
Can that possibly be true? Or is someone playing a tremendous joke on them? Or is it their anti-war joke?
Mrs VS
To: VeritatisSplendor
Closer reading - the Navy wants to put the dolphins on patrol. Not the Navy wants to put sweaters on dolphins. Phew.
Mrs VS
To: Mercat; alwaysconservative; wildehunt; IN Farm Girl; proudofthesouth; HarleyLady27; ...
You said it. A let's not do this ping! I hate knitting being tired to lefty weird folks....
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posted on
03/05/2007 8:42:00 AM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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