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[I haven't recovered from this headache] Cambridge votes down scouts’ aid for Iraq GIs
bostonherald. ^ | November 16, 2007

Posted on 11/22/2007 8:52:16 AM PST by PRePublic

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To: PRePublic

Wait till next month when those Cambridge-Kooks realize that almost 100% of the civilian workforce at Hanscom Air Force Base and 100% of the contract workforce that supports Hanscom will be laid off...including all of the funding for “research” being done in Cambridge. They have the Democraps not funding the DoD and the GWOT to thank for what will likely cause them great grief. BAWAHAHA!


21 posted on 11/22/2007 10:58:25 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: RC2

If the Republican Party truly practiced conservatism to the fullest and best of abilities as well as actually have a political backbone, then the Republicans would still be a political majority at the federal level today, and the U.S. wouldn’t be heading towards long-term socialism, starting in January ‘09!


22 posted on 11/22/2007 11:04:45 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: bert

Just another sign of the guilt and self-loathing the anti-America folks have - they can’t bear to be close to any source of appreciation for this great country or those who bleed to keep it Free because they know that all they stand for is tearing it down and relegating themselves and the rest of us to the status of livestock instead of Freemen.


23 posted on 11/22/2007 11:08:39 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: PRePublic

No they don’t ! These are people who spit on wounded G.I.’s at Walter Reed Hospital ,who confront service members on university campuses & call them various & assorted obscene names simply because they are members of the armed forces.

These people are simply despise the very existence of the United States.


24 posted on 11/22/2007 11:08:59 AM PST by Nebr FAL owner (.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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To: Tax-chick

That’s why we give the Eagle pin to the mom!!


25 posted on 11/22/2007 11:33:06 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: PRePublic

If they’d been collecting care packages for Nepali Maoists or Venezuelan Marxists, the Cambridge City Council would have pitched in to help them with a city-wide pull-out-all-the-stops effort.


26 posted on 11/22/2007 12:14:06 PM PST by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: bert

I have two sets of Cub Scout pins :-). I understand I’m supposed to be buried with all the Scouting day-cor!


27 posted on 11/22/2007 1:15:34 PM PST by Tax-chick (Every committee wants to take over the world.)
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To: bert

I couldn’t disagree more!

This was an off year election....municipal offices only.

School committee, Town Council, Mayor and the like...

Nothing even remotely touching on a national issue. And even if there had been , it is only an emanation of a penumbra of an extension of a penumbra to presume that collecting goodies for servicemen is a political statement....

Now, if the PTO is conducting its bake sale in the hallway of the school, where the polling is taking place, isn’t that a political statement? I mean, after all...the school committee members are being voted on and the Town Council members are being voted on. These are the people who will establish and approve the education budget....These are the folks who will decide if a Prop 2 1/2 measure will go before the voters to suopport budget increases...

And having the PTO there, holding a bake sale, bemoaning the lack of funding for the schools....

Now, THAT’S a political statement directly impacting the votes!!!!!


28 posted on 11/22/2007 1:26:00 PM PST by steve in DC
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To: Clintonfatigued
To state the obvious, sending gifts to soldiers is not a political act. There is no excuse for this.

You can always tell a Liberal. You can't tell 'em much that they won't disagree with you on, but you can tell 'em.

29 posted on 11/22/2007 2:48:01 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: agere_contra
Polling places are in every tiny Massachusetts town. Many still use antique wooden ballot boxes—quaint, but very secure. Setting up in Cambridge was an error, but does make for some good backfire-editorial fodder.

"...Or is it because the Scouts aren’t gay enough...?"

The Boston Globe is heavy in gay editors. This appeared in the Boston Herald, usually running counterpoint to the Globe.

Where's our "Gay-State Republican" on this story?

30 posted on 11/22/2007 4:07:55 PM PST by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: bert

Scouts are allowed to take part in civic projects of any kind just about anywhere. A polling place shouldn’t be a problem. They are not advocating for one politician or another, so their efforts are not ‘political’. There’s no reason they shouldn’t be there.


31 posted on 11/22/2007 4:11:49 PM PST by SuziQ
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but I think the only thing that should be going on at polling places is voting.

Most polling places are in already established venues, schools, etc. Our polling place is at the local Public Works garage. So all kinds of stuff is going on. For civic groups, such as the Scouts, engaging in a Service project, there shouldn't be a problem,and in just about any other town, except maybe Ithaca, NY, it wouldn't be.

32 posted on 11/22/2007 4:30:33 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: bert
That’s why we give the Eagle pin to the mom!!

Yep, I gots one of them!! Our oldest son is an Eagle Scout.

33 posted on 11/22/2007 4:34:33 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: PRePublic

The anti-Boy Scout thing got me so riled up, I decided to launch a new organization—CAMBRIDGE PATRIOTS COMMITTEE. Come on down & take a look at our new web site:

http://patriots02139.wordpress.com/

Commenters & authors welcome! Help us do battle with the moonbats and leftist city officials who perpetrate this type of nonsense.


34 posted on 03/02/2008 4:39:37 PM PST by TheBlueBaron (from a Freeper Formerly Known as “A Conservative In Cambridge")
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To: TheBlueBaron
The anti-Boy Scout thing got me so riled up, I decided to launch a new organization—CAMBRIDGE PATRIOTS COMMITTEE. Come on down & take a look at our new web site: http://patriots02139.wordpress.com/

Great-idea-great-blog, I hope for 'spreading the word'. wordpress-tags are a great plus for spreading it even further.

35 posted on 03/04/2008 7:28:40 PM PST by PRePublic (Islamic Hamas kidnapped Johnston & then "freed" him)
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