Posted on 05/17/2002 9:45:55 PM PDT by mtngrl@vrwc
Well, tonight's "Support Our Troops" rally had some great moments and some awful ones too. First the bad news I guess. About halfway into tonight's rally, a new guy showed up that we hadn't seen before. He wasn't very talkative but we were happy to see him because he immediately picked up one of our signs, the one that says "Respect War Protesters?? NO WAY!!!" Sounds like a kindred spirit, doesn't it? Then he went over our new cardboard cut out of President Bush and untaped it from the pole that was helping him stand up. He held President Bush in one hand and the other sign in the other one.
I got out my camera (which I do every time someone new shows up because I know you guys probably get sick and tired of seeing pictures of the regulars week after week after week) and asked him if he would mind if I took his picture. He said something like he was in a position where he didn't want his face to show (red lights should have gone off right there) but let us take a picture of him holding the signs so that we couldn't see his face. (See picture below)
So I decided to take the rest of tonight's pictures as long as I had my camera out. When he decided we were too busy to notice what he was doing, he dropped the sign he was holding and ran off with the cardboard cut out of President Bush!!!!! We tried to follow and catch him but we were unable to.
Notpoliticallycorewrecked figured that it had to be someone from the other side of the street and got very upset. She crossed the street and warned the other side that if our cut out showed up on their side of the street, we would call the police. They said that they had nothing to do with it. I sincerely hope that they are telling the truth, because I wouldn't want to mess with NPC when she is angry if I were them!
Otherwise, there were nine FReepers and patriots on our side of the street and eleven peaceniks on the other corner tonight. It was hot out there standing in the sun tonight. Note to self, no more long black pants until the hot weather is over! It is still 87 degrees at 9:40 p.m. as I write this! HOT!!!
We played and enjoyed listening to patriotic tunes and got plenty of honks from drivers by tonight. FReepers attending tonight's rally were:
To those who attended tonight, we appreciate you! To those who couldn't make tonight's rally, WE MISSED YOU!
He wouldn't DARE do that with --
Beep of FReep around!! Such individuals would be quickly assimilated. And forced to eat gakh and drink blood wine with a bunch of mean Klingons! And Cynthia McKinney. (I wonder if they'll notice any difference?!) (Shame on Beep! Of course they will! The Klingons will make more sense!)
If you find the twit who ran off with Bush, you let me at 'em too!! Maybe you need a stand-up cut-out of Captain America as well?! "Ooh baby; stand back and watch my cybernetic implants light up and shoot off fireworks!"
That will be all for now. I must regenerate! "Whew!"
As I swill hot coffee this AM and glance out my window at the steadily falling SNOW, i find it reassuring to know that SOMEWHERE, SOMBODY, can wear shorts without freezing to death <G>
BUMP for the president, for patriotism and our troops!!
Hmmm...how about a GW dressed AS Captin America sign?
(GW dressed as a Star Fleet captain would probably go over the peacenik's heads. You don't want to send TOO many high flies into far-left field...not enough catcher's mitts to go around)
It looks like another hot and dry summer here. It only seems like a few weeks ago we were shivering!
No kidding. We have 49-degrees here in Mobile. No beach party today.
Beat me to the punch! Doh! Too many interruptions!
I'm jealous, too. I'm in Northern PA, looking out of my workroom window at the three inches of SNOW that accumulated overnignt.
SHORTS!! SHEEEESH!!!
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