[Trteamer]

Freepers in attendance were BikeTrash and family along with Trteamer. Jim, Joe, Terry, Terry #2, Leon, Harry, The "Girls" and other veterans represented the VFW today. Paul played on the bagpipes and was excellent, did you know that once you warm up the bagpipe that it sounds REALLY good in cold weather! Well it sure did! We have such a great crew of dedicated people, I am so proud to stand with them each week.

We got 6 inches of snow yesterday and the temperature today was right around 30 degrees. I just dressed like I would for goose hunting and it was toasty, and fun! The roads were clear and the public was again trying to create traffic gridlock at our intersection.

We had several Viet Nam Vets stop by today and chat. One vet lost his leg 35 years ago on Wednesday and thanked us, he was promptly thanked back. He told us he knows war only too well, but understands the purpose behind going after Saddam. He then proceded to cross the street right through the middle of the peace-nik crowd, and was not too happy with their ignorance.

My digital camera had low batteries and the cold didn't help, but I did manage to snap a few pictures before it died. Here they are for your enjoyment....

Leon did admit afterwards that he was a little bit frozen towards the end. The public loves to give him a "honk" !

The VFW "Girls", I think they really like facing off across the street from the useful idiots.

The traffic was heavy, the sun was out, our spirits were high, A great FReep once again developes!

Son of BikerTrash with his sign "GIVE SELF-DEFENSE A CHANCE", he was wearing his green belt karate outfit and had fun actually playing in the snow.

How NEON signs jump out at you when the sun shines on the snow!

I didn't get any group pictures or any of the useful idiots today, Sorry, I'll get lots of batteries for next week! Speaking of the idiots, they made up more stupid signs and looked as pitiful as ever. The "Women in Black" were over there with thier very informative banner that reads "Women in Black". I prefer to call them the B...... in Black, you can probably guess what the "B" stands for!! How unhappy they look, how stupid they all look. The girl in the "Grim Reaper" outfit once again did her "I am Stupid" dance to the bagpipe music. We all crack up when she does that.

Once again the Infinte Freep keeps FReeping on!! Thanks to all who attended and a special thanks to our Troops! This FReeps for You!!

All the Best

[Trteamer]

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[NorCoGOP]

Excellent job as always...I should be there again next Saturday!

Did anyone spray slush on the idiots?

[Trteamer]

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[ladyinred]

BRRR! Tell me, how do you dress like you are going hunting? I am trying to figure out how I can go out on Friday nights and not freeze in California?

Loved the pictures of you great patriots on the snow covered streets. I still have to say I love Colorado, snow and frigid temps and all!

A big thanks to all of you for getting out there in spite of the weather and showing such enthusiastic support for our wonderful men and women who are risking it all for us!

Colorado Freepers Rock!

[bluesagewoman]

OH, WONDERFUL report! The pics bring that old song to mind, "I'm FReeping in the snow, Just freeping in the snow." Way to go!

Your Grim Reaper Girls don't sound too pleasant to deal with. Thank you for supporting America and facing the maroons every week!

P.S. I better not tell my husband what you said about the bagpipes. He'd stick our cat in the freezer.

[Trteamer]

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[Mo1]

The girl in the "Grim Reaper" outfit once again did her "I am Stupid" dance to the bagpipe music. We all crack up when she does that.

Sounds interesting .. LOL

Great job on the Freeping .. Go Freepers!!!

[Doctor Raoul]

Thanks for doing that on such a cold day.

[BikerTrash]

I've been crackin' up all day about all the work one of the idiots put into her "Blessed are the peacemakers" sign, evidently not knowing we've had a sign for months now that says "Our Troops ARE the Peacemakers." We made sure that sign was pointed at them the whole time...lol!

How does that old song go again..."Why do you think they call it dope?"

[fivetoes]

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.

[fivetoes]

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."

[fish70]

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.