A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....01-22-03...What IS IT with all these People?

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[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest.....
......Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001

So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.

Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!

And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.

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TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog.
MIDDLE:  Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son.
BOTTOM:  JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.

TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon.
BOTTOM:  Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat.

TOP: ladtx #2 son; DiverDave's twin Don; petuniasevan and husband
poorman; Mustard; ladtx #1 son;
BOTTOM: AlamoGirl's brother Floyd; AG's dad; AG's brother Jim (inset);
WVNan's husband; ladtx Aunt Eva.

We now have eleven groups of veterans/active military; we will post each group of three or four twice a week, with thumbnail/links of the remaining seven or eight groups on each thread. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see the group full-size.

         

GROUP 1A: TOP: Logos, SwedeGirl's hubby, Neil E Wright, FallGuy, 1John, Sneakypete MIDDLE:  T'wit, COB1, LadyX, Dick Bachert, 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub BOTTOM:  YankeeinSC, Delta21, JoeSixPack1

GROUP 2A: TOP:  Bosniajmc, AFVetGal, Archy, A Navy Vet MIDDLE:  4TheFlag, Aeronaut, 68Grunt, Xinga BOTTOM:  Codger, AAABest, Clinton's A Liar, Duke809, dcwusmc

GROUP 3A: TOP:  mc5cents, Norb2569, LBGA's son, VanJenerette MIDDLE:  Jim Robinson, KJenerette, davidosborne, KG9Kid BOTTOM:  gwmoore, Equality7-2521, SAMWolf

GROUP 4A: TOP:  porgygirl, Phil V., MudPuppy, NorCoGOP MIDDLE:  RaceBannon, OneidaM, rdb3, jwTexian BOTTOM:  USMC Vet, TheMayor, Vineyard, rhododogma

         

GROUP 5A: TOP:  spectr17, RightOnline, SERE_Doc, Tet68. MIDDLE:  FutureSnakeEater, RightOnline's wife, CIApilot, Clamper1797. BOTTOM:  usmcobra, onedoug, DiverDave, Joe6-pack.

GROUP 6A: TOP:  g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett. MIDDLE:  fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick, Leroy S Mort, Mark17. BOTTOM:  Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau.

GROUP 7A: TOP:  ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam, dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony.BOTTOM:  rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang.

GROUP 8A: TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx. MIDDLE:  The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law. BOTTOM:  deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.

                     

What IS IT with all these People? by FreeTheHostages

If you ever come to a DC Freep, come to fly the flag and have your voice heard. We’ll make sure you stay safe. But we can’t protect your sanity.

Our DC Patriot’s Rally would have made perfect sense to you. At the DC Rally, marine Corps Veteran Joel Kernoodle, right, saluted the Vietnam War Memorial before giving a rousing speech. (You can read all the background on the DC Freep against the “peace” protestors you wish RIGHT HERE and view the photographs RIGHT HERE!)

If you live in “fly over” country, you Praise God that these leftists don’t live anywhere near your lovely little shire. But perhaps you want to know: WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE? What IS IT with young college women taking off their shirts and young men holding Hezbollah flags and horrifying-looking ex-60’s protestors with matted hair and “Regime Change Begins at Home” signs? Mainstream TV news tends to select the more washed, photogenic, and moderate of the group for comment.

About 20 percent are left-over 60s radicals. The older hippie people were more likely to carry signs that said “Re-Elect Carter.” These people didn’t want any war ever anywhere. One of them apparently thought it would be persuasive to hold aloft a large sign asking, “Who Would Jesus Bomb?”

They held signs that said “War is never the answer” and “No child wants to be an orphan.” I had to laugh when I saw that last sign, thinking that was probably the only sign in the lot I would agree with. One held a sign that said "This is not about 911." Hmm, that’s like when someone says, "This is not about money."

Here’s a frightening leap of logic: “Whatever Change Occurs in Iraq Should Come From Within From the Iraqi People Themselves.” Wow: it’s too long, it makes no sense, it pretty much ignores what happens to dissenters within Iraq. It brings to mind Christopher Hitchens’ scolding of those who want to avoid solving the Iraqi problem: “such . . . abstention will be remembered only with pity and scorn.” Some of these protestors were into weird stuff, like putting peace signs all over their half-naked bodies in 20-degree weather.

Another 30 percent are mostly rich white college kids. There were many gentle and kind-faced youth who solemnly held out a two-fingered peace sign to us as we carried American flags: those are the redeemable silly kids you wish you could talk to and explain that removing a dictator who gassed the Kurdish people, who oppresses and murders his own people, who continues a curiously unpublicized, clandestine war of murder against the Kurds to this day,

who plots wars against peaceful neighbors, is entirely consistent with peace and freedom. But you can’t, because they came in closely packed “affinity groups” of like-minded kids from the same college campus. The extension of adolescence into early adulthood personified: everything is done in groups. One group came to DC for a “peace” rally on a bus called the “Joan of Arc” bus! I guess no one told them that Joan was a bit of a warrior. These children think our President is a terrorist.

I’d guess another 20 percent are the radical hard left. People who could not hold a job, rather obviously. Socialists, anarchists, weird lifestyle people, masked people, half-naked people, people wearing chickens on top of their head (no really!). The “puppet people” who dissent for dissent’s sake and often bring puppets to protests. (We were disappointed by the lack thereof and occasionally yelled at them in our afternoon Freep of their parade: “Where are the puppets!”). These people often white college kids wearing Palestinian scarves – or that’s what they’ve been told they are – and they hold signs that say things such as “Israel, your Zionism is staining this holy land red” and “Long Live the Intifadah.” There were a group of about 50 or so marching in lock-step unison, with 3 leaders holding flags showing a picture of a lion saying “no,” swirling their flags in unison. They were repeating whatever chant was given by a drum corp at the front of their group. They gave a “vibe” of being a paramilitary group.

Some of these more radical kids got arrested Sunday at the White House when they tried to do an “inspection” of the White House (which they called a “presidential palace”) for weapons of mass destruction. Some members of the DC Chapter (not me) went back in the cold Sunday to remind them that Saddam uses civilians as human shields. DC Chapter members formed a mock human shield to protect our White House.

But of course we let the police to the real protecting. Sixteen of these radical kids were arrested, and one boasted on the news that this arrest was going to help change the world. Visions of grandeur.

Finally, there was about 30 percent that I’d call general rent-for-a-day-Democratic-party activist types that looked like labor union activists, environmentalists, the usual coalition members in any coalition you might want. “No blood for oil” was a very common sign. When Curtis Sliwa spoke at our rally he suggested that many of these leftists wouldn’t have come to Washington if Al Gore were in the White House. It’s a good point. We definitely had the usual rainbow of activists. It was very common for these types to walk in groups with the same pre-printed signs. I was very shocked to see the feminist groups out and about: they’d be shot in Iraq for protesting publicly uncovered!

When I got home from the day’s activities, I turned on CSPAN to watch the leftists’ speakers on re-run. I had to switch channels when I heard a rally speaker call for a revolution in the United States, and I landed on the CNN channel/planet just in time to hear a CNN commentator opine: “Of course, the anti-war protestors are very careful not to appear anti-American.” Bwa-hah-hah.

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[FreeTheHostages]

I like your idea.

I hesitated to comment because, for my part, my neighborhood is so liberal here in DC that my neighbors worry that if I fly my US flag, it might lead to someone throwing something at our building. It's suddenly occurred to me that that's not a very good reason not to fly it!

And so I will. Thanks for clarifying my thinking. Today's thread is all about muddled thinking.

(I do hope it doesn't bring people down too much -- it's healthy I think to laugh at this stuff whenever you can. I know it's not funny but it's still healthy to laugh!)

[iceskater]

Along those lines, consider this mock news report:

289 Million Americans Avoid Peace Rallies

Police across the nation estimate the crowd that avoided yesterday's anti-war demonstrations at about 289 million.

Americans from coast-to-coast voted in absentia against criticizing the Bush administration for Iraq's failure to comply with U.N. resolutions. . . .

Police reported no unusual problems with the droves that stayed away from the protests.

I LOVE your news report! Can you imagine a day when this would be an actual news report? Wouldn't that be something?

[Billie]

I'm back, just about in time to go to lunch. :) Hi, Maggie!

[Billie]

Morning, Mr. Stix - a little big band sounds today. :)

[FreeTheHostages]

Actually, it sorta was a news report -- it's from scrapple.com and, although it's a humor piece, they had a longer and even funnier version of it.

About a college girl who spent the day finishing a term paper, etc. LOL!

Life goes on.

It's really really important to laugh at these guys when you can get in the mood. Some of them are just young, silly, and redeemable. (I'm still working on my sister!)

[Billie]

Good morning, Finest Sistah Dutchess! Loved seeing the pics of your lunch with the other Finest Sisters and reading about the good time you all had!

I've been busy in my mailbox this morning since posting the thread.....now YOU have much mail, too!!! LOL

[Pippin]

Hi, LadyX!

I have a niece in the US Air Force, she's stationed in Georgia. She works as a lab technician.

I also have a nephew in the UAS Army. He's currenmtly in Seol, South Korea.

[Fiddlstix]

Morning, Mr. Stix - a little big band sounds today. :)

Yep J

[Pippin]

I need to get a new flag as I gave mine to a little Iraqi boy at the Patriot's rally held last October.

[Billie]

Cute calendar page, Free! Your tag line is cute - but not to worry - Miss Aqua will get her due! LOL

[Billie]

Well, thank you for your sweet post, and look forward to seeing more of you here! :)

[Billie]

Morning, 'pod. :)

[FreeTheHostages]

If you like that news article, you can read more about "289 Million Americans" voting with their feet by not attending here (Freeper thread) and here (original web source).

[iceskater]

Some of them are just young, silly, and redeemable. (I'm still working on my sister!)

Humor is always a good thing. I'm a firm believer in using humor to defuse tense situations, etc.

Re: still working on your sister. There's always hope. I, too, was once a poor, misguided liberal. Then, I saw the light. And finally found FR!

[Billie]

Awwwwww, that's sweet, and it's a deal! Enuff with the apologies stuff!

[Pippin]

You have more mail! :^)

[FreeTheHostages]

{{{'pod}}} What a *lovely* hat you wore to the rally! We were both so busy, I'm not sure we ever said hi! But there you were, out and about. Good work.

Billie said "good morning" to you, and in case you didn't see her tag line, it said: "waiting, waiting, waiting. :))"

You have Freepmail!

[Billie]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Aqua, and I'm sorry the weather made you change your plans for your visit. Maybe it won't last long. :)

[Billie]

Hi, Mr. Owl, you are just too charming. :)