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Operation Infinite FReep: Colorado Style, 11/2/02
11/02/02 | Trteamer

Posted on 11/02/2002 3:39:19 PM PST by Trteamer

A well dressed crowd of patriots enjoyed an hour playing in the snow and Supporting Our Troops on the corner of Mulberry and College Ave in Fort Collins today. The weather wasn't bad at all, the sidewalk was clear of snow and the sun was out. The good citizens showed a tremendous amount of support today and horn honking was spreading throughout the lines of cars at the light......


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To: Pookie Me
Okay, just read your profile page. Do you have a guest room? LOL! I need to live in some South Pacific Island somewhere where it is warm all of the time! I detest winter even in California! :-)
21 posted on 11/02/2002 10:57:43 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: ladyinred
Only if you let me pick out some antiques that you'll bring down as rent...

Pookie & Me

22 posted on 11/03/2002 9:32:42 AM PST by Pookie Me
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To: ladyinred
Go to Cabella's website at www.Cabellas.com and have them send you a catalog. Lots of warm stuff to buy.
23 posted on 11/03/2002 11:29:31 AM PST by Trteamer
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To: Trteamer
Trteamer,
Thanks for carring on. I had all intentions of being there, but got invited back to Steamboat to fill another elk tag.

We were dressed for hunting too. A foot of fresh snow on Saturday morning produced more meat for the freezer. I hope to be there this week.
24 posted on 11/04/2002 7:13:36 AM PST by fivetoes
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC; softengine; RMrattlesnake; Trteamer; John R. (Bob) Locke
Have you ever wondered where they, the antis go after they leave FT. Collins at 1:00 PM?

This is from the Loveland Reporter Herald Sunday edition.

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The young man driving north on Taft Avenue gunned the motor of his red and white Ford Bronco an yelled something unintelligible.

His look suggested uncomplimentary words.

"If they really want to make their point, they ought to come over and tell us in person," Loveland resident Deb Stucklen said Saturday as she stood at one of the city's busiest intersections with signs showing her opposition to war in Iraq.

"We can't hear what they're saying as the car speeds by," she said.

A girl, a passenger in a dark-colored Honda, was traveling south on Taft Avenue. She looked over at the group and gave the thumbs-up as the driver waited for the light to change at Eisenhower Boulevard.

"We get more positive honks and waves and peace signs," Loveland resident Jim Mosley offered. "At least I'd say 10 to 1 positive to negative, of course with a lot more blank stares."

So it goes at Taft Avenue and Eisenhower Boulevard from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. every Saturday, Stucklen said.

Loveland's peace demonstration, which started here a month ago, follows a weekly vigil in Fort Collins at Mulberry Street and College Avenue on Saturdays from noon until 1 p.m., she said.

The Fort Collins demonstration geared up shortly after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and Stucklen said another group now meets to counterprotest.

"I don't know what the other group is named," she said. "All I know is they say, 'Support our troops' and 'Thank a vet.' They have a (sign with a) picture of (Osama) bin Laden with bars in front of his face."

The people Saturday in Loveland's group of 10 said they oppose an impending war in Iraq for various reasons, among them the harm that could come to innocent civilians.

And they stood in the cold to make that point.

Their signs cite millions of deaths since sanctions were imposed in 1991. They display pictures of babies losing battles against illnesses.

Stucklen holds one sign with a doe-eyed girl without arms, her head wrapped in the traditional hijab scarf that covers the head and neck as a symbol of modesty.

The caption: "War maims." "Saddam Hussein is a jerk. He's evil. I totally agree," Holly Roessner said.

But she also said that was beside the point.

"There are other ways" to achieve peace, Roessner said. "You don't have to go and bomb the daylights out of people to get them to pay attention. You really don't."

"The babies there, the children and the old people are dying."

Sam Nordstrom is sniffling but remains on post, waving and holding his sign. The Loveland High School senior forgot his gloves but decided to stop in Loveland before going home after protesting earlier in Fort Collins.

"This is the first one I've been at down here," he said, adding that he's attended the Fort Collins demonstration five times.

Although only 17 and not yet old enough to vote, Nordstrom still has politics on his mind.

"I look forward to it," he said of voting. "With the elections coming up, Bush and the oil industry, it's just such a ploy for oil and political gain."

Mosley looks a little warmer than the others with his multi-colored jacket and hat and the salt-and-pepper beard he's been growing for 30 years.

The Loveland man sums up his views in big, red letters on a white poster board: "Only love prevails."

"It's a universal truth," Mosley said. "Look to the history of war. It's always a temporary solution. The data supports me."

25 posted on 11/04/2002 9:27:45 AM PST by fivetoes
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To: BikerTrash; NorCoGOP; mpoulin; America; ancient_geezer; Cajun Against Carville; cybergal; ...
See post 25
26 posted on 11/04/2002 9:28:39 AM PST by fivetoes
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To: fivetoes
"We get more positive honks and waves and peace signs," Loveland resident Jim Mosley offered. "At least I'd say 10 to 1 positive to negative, of course with a lot more blank stares."

Unless Loveland is radically different than Ft. Collins, (which it ain't), this guys is a damn liar! The truth is even more than the other way around.

Gee, a commie, liberal, socialist sympathizer lying about something. How weird is that? </sarcasm>

"I don't know what the other group is named," she said.

Never heard of the VFW but probably thinks she is a good American? Naaaahhh, just another damn liar!

Must be some kind of anti-truth residue in their crack pipes.

27 posted on 11/04/2002 2:50:38 PM PST by BikerTrash
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To: BikerTrash; fivetoes; RMrattlesnake; softengine; CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC; NorCoGOP
The gloves are off, a double FReep is coming. A DOUBLE FREEP!!! I can spare an hour or so to get Loveland to Support Our Troops. I can spare two hours to make sure the leftists don't get in the only word.

Get fired up gang!

Fort Collins, Noon to 1:00.
Loveland, 1:30 to 2:30.

Wouldn't it be great if we beat them to Loveland and give them a warm welcome? The poor useful idiots need to get the same reception in Loveland that we give them in Fort Collins.

fivetoes, do some recon- find us some good parking.

I wonder if they choose the Northwest Corner? I have signs for that!
28 posted on 11/04/2002 6:11:12 PM PST by Trteamer
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To: BikerTrash
Must be some kind of anti-truth residue in their crack pipes

That residue really gets around. There seems to be an abundance of it in Columbia MO across the street from "some unnamed real Americans". Hang in there. We love what you are doing.

29 posted on 11/04/2002 6:59:28 PM PST by zip
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To: fivetoes
As I remember, this Loveland protest is right in your backyard. Don't you live just a couple of blocks from there?
30 posted on 11/04/2002 8:33:52 PM PST by Trteamer
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To: Trteamer
I wonder if they choose the Northwest Corner?

Yes, they have chosen the Albertson's parking lot which is the NW corner. There is a much better spot,IMHO, on the SW corner. It is a long parking lot right along the HW-34. We could park and protest right next to our vehicles. Why we could even have a tail gate BBQ.

I will have to finally get fresh batteries for the ole bullhorn. I worn them down tonight on the corner of 287 and 34 rallying for the Republicans.

Some of us could be waiting there for them. We need a big SUPPORT OUR TROOPS sign. Of course bagpipes and fife and drum would be wonderful.

Maybe the Ft. Collins VFW could ask the Loveland VFW to join them in their own backyard.

And then maybe it is time to get a FreeRepublic.com banner.

31 posted on 11/04/2002 9:28:59 PM PST by fivetoes
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To: Pookie Me
LOL! You can have the pick of the litter so to speak! I'd trade it all for a tropical climate!:-)
32 posted on 11/04/2002 9:32:37 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Trteamer
Thanks, I will get the catalog right away. I sure don't want to give up the rally's, but due to a medical conditon, I have to stay warm! (Just so you won't think I am a wimp! :-D)
33 posted on 11/04/2002 9:35:07 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: fivetoes
Gee, wonder where that young man heard that line about Bush and Oil being the reason for the war? Don't you just love it? He hasn't a clue about the oil industry and you just know it. Just repeating the party line like some Zombie!
I don't believe they get 10 to 1 positive feedback from the public. Sorry, that does not compute. Typical liberal, can't tell the truth!
34 posted on 11/04/2002 9:40:30 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: fivetoes
I can't believe they chose the N.W. Corner again. PERFECT!! All the signs are at the VFW so I'll pick out the best when done FReeping in Fort Collins. Well fivetoes, we have two so far. That sounds like a FReep to me!!
35 posted on 11/05/2002 6:11:32 PM PST by Trteamer
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To: Trteamer
"Fort Collins, Noon to 1:00."

Make that HIGH NOON.

36 posted on 11/06/2002 11:35:41 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: BikerTrash
"I'd say 10 to 1 positive to negative ......
This guys is a damn liar! ...."

Or perhaps he just needs new glasses, and he thought ir was the THUMB that he saw projecting upwards from the middle of all the hands of passing motorists.

37 posted on 11/06/2002 11:42:44 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: Trteamer
Your pics made my homesick for Ft. Collins. I have been living in Alabama since 1999 because I couldn't find a job paying more than $7.00 an hour there. I hope to move back some day.
38 posted on 11/06/2002 11:48:19 PM PST by fish70
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
I wonder if he's adjusted his 10 to 1 estimates since the election results came out, or if he's increased his crack intake so that he can keep it the same?
39 posted on 11/07/2002 5:49:16 AM PST by BikerTrash
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
HIGH NOON!!!!!

Watch out peace-nik varmints, your about to be double FReeped.

CCMVRWC, I heard rumors of a BBQ Style FReep in Loveland at 1:30, maybe we can get fivetoes to BBQ some of those critters he's been filling his freezer with.LOL!

40 posted on 11/07/2002 6:01:18 PM PST by Trteamer
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