[FreeTheHostages]

Sorry missed your Freepmail, I've been out leafletting in this INCREDIBLY SYMPATHETIC VENUE for three hours, 3 - 6 p.m. We gave away I'd say at least 2,000 leaflets on fertile ground. We're cold, our voices are hoarse, and there's just no way I'm going out to do more leafletting tonight! : ) Tgsl, it went *really* well.

[tgslTakoma]

Put your feet up and have a hot cocoa, Free. You ROCK!

I'm going to get things loaded up into the gas-guzzling SUV tonight. See you in the morning!

[BillF]

We gave away I'd say at least 2,000 leaflets on fertile ground. We're cold, our voices are hoarse, and there's just no way I'm going out to do more leafletting tonight! : ) Tgsl, it went *really* well.

Another super effort! You're soaring to new heights!

[Taxman]

LOL!

There is always the 10% that do not get the word!

chicagolady, rface and I showed up at Metrocenter to leaflet the hordes of Lisa Minelli admirers at about 6:50 PM (1+10 before show time), and there was no one there!

No FReepers, no crowds, a few stragglers up and down the METRO escalators, one drunk panhandler and two of WDCs finest in a squad car.

So, we leafletted everyone who came within range, but they were few and far between -- I mean there was nobody going to MCI tonight!

"Lisa is in big trouble" I thought -- "What if she came to sing, and no one came to listen to her?"

LOL! Finally, at about 7:45 or so, we found out that the show was cancelled!

The good news is that we handed out about 200 or so leaflets before we packed it in.

There is no bad news! We had a ball!

I may have even convinced a nice lady that I spent 10 or so minutes talking to that going into Iraq to take out Saddam Hussein was a good idea. I reminded her that the monumental lapse of judgement the world showed towards Hitler in the late 1930's led to about 50,000,000 needless deaths, and that if we let Saddam Hussein stay alive, the results could be even more catastrophic than that.

She promised to reconsider her position, and said she would attend the Rally tomorrow. I do hope she shows up.

With that win (she is the one who told me that Liza cancelled), we abandoned MetroCenter and went to dinner.