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I'm going to make this short because, frankly, talking to/about Code Pink makes me want to vomit on my laptop. Code Pink co-founders Madea Benja-------. See, I just hurled. Madea Benjamin and other members of a "US delegation" are travelling to SYRIA and LEBANON to "bear witness to the suffering of innocent victims of war in the region." They are doing this not in response to kidnapping by Hamas or Hezbollah. They are not doing this in response to Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel. They are doing this in response to Israel defending itself. If Code Pink really wants to...

UN Yahoos Moonbat Mysteries Part IV by Wayne Boettcher Posted: 08/11/2006 Rain had been falling for some days now, saturating the ground in and around Tucson, Arizona with much needed water and turning the desert from tan to a lush green. But on Wednesday morning of August 9, 2006 the blue sky was relatively clear as I slogged towards the Military Recruiting Center at 2302 E. Speedway. Traffic was light for a change and I arrived in time to help set up American flags in a row along the front of the building in preparation for a strange group...

This week's report is (almost) entirely stolen from a wounded warrior in residence at Walter Reed (Elijah), and from a Veteran on temporary assignment here in D.C. (Citizen SMASH). I just felt was waaaaaay better than winging it as usual. Enjoy! Ashley and Megan finding their favorite signs. Friday with FreeRepublicBy Sgt. Elijah Allen, Contact Right...Taking Fire!In a war where most people have decided not to choose sides openly (ie. We Support the Troops, but We don't support the war.) it does me well to see people come out with a pair of brass balls. People choose to only to...

Honor roll for this week: Lurker Bill, BillF, Cindy-True-Suppoter, and Myself (BufordP)We arrived around 2:30. Got everything set up. Took about 20 minutes. This is only my third Olney Freep. Filling in for Mr. and Mrs Trooprally while they were out of town. While we were making trips back and forth from the cars to the corner with all our gear, people driving by already began honking their horns before we got a single sign in place. They knew why we were there and wanted to show their appreciation. (Not registered. Doesn't lurk.) Lurker Bill Cindy passed along to...

A report on the first day of Camp Casey III action for peace in Crawford. Cindy, back to the same spot near the President's ranch that last year made history. The August vigil at Camp Casey 3 is starting a bit earlier than originally planned. Cindy Sheehan decided to arrive on the anniversary of her first attempt to meet with George Bush and get an explanation from him about why her son Casey died in Iraq. Camp Casey has moved to a new location. It is a 5-acre piece of wooded property less than a mile from the Crawford Peace...

I ARRIVE EARLY at Walter Reed, to help the Freepers and friends set up their large banners expressing support for the military. As we're getting established, a car full of soldiers in civilian clothes leaving the hospital grounds pulls up, and one of them asks what our purpose is (listen to the audio). When I tell him, they all smile, and tell us how much it means to them that someone is showing some appreciation for what they do. The passenger in back has a cast on his arm; he tells me he was injured in Iraq while serving with...

"Off base?" Since when is the truth "Off base"?It would appear that some PA newspapers will go to any length to protect their darling, John Murtha. Up to and including not only calling a spade a spade, but calling anything a spade! This from the Towanda, PA Daily & Sunday Review: Sherwood off base with ugly criticism of opponent’s backerRepublican Congressman Don Sherwood’s rebuke of his Democratic colleague, Rep. John Murtha — who, in the Scranton area Thursday, renewed his criticism of President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war — was an uncalled-for low blow. In a statement released...

CODE PINK continues to piss off regular people with obnoxious media stunts across the nation. This time, it was shutting down gas stations in Kansas City. Eyewitness (and left-wing blogger) Alan Scherstuhl provides the disapproving play-by-play: On July 21, the Strip watched as a dozen demonstrators met in a parking lot at Westport Road and Southwest Trafficway. "This action's an experiment," Lindsey Walker told the Strip before handing out pink tops to anyone not dressed for the event. "We're not after agitation or confrontation. This is a distraction from that normal flow, that repetition of getting gas and not thinking...

The FReepers in attendance included regulars Lurker Bill, Cindy_True_Supporter (CTS), [Mrs] Trooprally ([Mrs] T), and myself along with BMWcyle (BMW), Apple Blossom and their daughter, and BufordP. BELOW: Our corner, L to R: BufordP, [Mr] T, Lurker Daughter, CTS, BMW, Apple Blossom. BELOW: Lurker Bill and what cars see when traveling east bound on MD Rte. 108 BELOW LEFT: [Mr] T and BufordP in the smokers corner. BELOW RIGHT: Ever vigilante BMW effectively manning the bull horn. BELOW: Daughter and Apple Blossom Dueling photographers: BELOW LEFT: [Mrs] T, pic being taken by CTS. BELOW RIGHT: CTS, pic by [Mrs] T....

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MARCH PLANNED FOR LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES. INTELLIGENCE ON THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MARCH PLANNED FOR LABOR DAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES. The Washington D.C. planning conference of ILLEGAL ALIENS for what is to follow between now and the ELECTION IN NOVEMBER took place in Washington D.C., July 28 -30th. At the bottom of this email you can read what organizations where there and which of their leaders spoke and held “training sessions”. In addition to that, EFE, a Hispanic newswire service, quoted Nativo Lopez, one of the March 25th Coalition organizers as...

Diane Irey Joins FReepers at Walter Reed - July 28Yes, we were graced by the presence of Rep. John Murtha's (D-Pa) worst nightmare! Diane Irey will unseat the treasonous EX-Marine this November! Almost everyone is in the picture! Diana Irey allowed herself to be corralled into a group photo before being whisked away by her manager(?). She talked with a lot of folks and, according to SMASH, she even spoke with the stinky Pinkos! Being a pretty rotten reporter, I have no idea what she said to anyone. Please - help me out people! Put your conversations with this nice...

AFTER WORK ON FRIDAY, I take the Red Line Metro train to Takoma Park, and walk a few blocks west to witness the Code Pink protest (and Free Republic counter-protest) outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. My first stop is to visit the Freepers and thank them for their support. When they realize who I am, they greet me like a conquering hero. Apparently, my successful efforts to drive away a similar protest outside Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego have made me somewhat of a legend amongst the Freepers. A special treat on this Friday evening is...

The late terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi is doing more than pushing up daisies. He's fasting, too. Yes, that's Zarqawi -- or at least his ancestral tribal name -- along with his hometown of Zarqa, Jordan, listed on Code Pink's roll of protesters who are "fasting" in hopes that U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq. And how did the once-notorious terrorist's name wind up on the peace and social justice group's list, among celebrity fasters like the ice-cream-licking Cindy Sheehan? It was submitted by a merry prankster from the D.C. chapter of FreeRepublic.com, we've learned, a conservative group that...

See http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/2976421.shtml "Joan Braun, a member of Farmington Women in Black, a group that holds the silent peace vigil in front of the Farmington Post Office every Friday at noon, said she received an e-mail this week that CODEPINK had a break-through. She said long-term fasters, including Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed in the war in 2004, have been invited to meet with five members of the Iraqi Parliament in Amman, Jordan. The gathering will be to discuss the peace movement and publicly break their fast with the Iraqi peacemakers."

Five antiwar activists, four of whom have been on a hunger strike for 25 days, were arrested yesterday... {snip} The arrests occurred after the five blocked the entrance and ignored police orders to move..... Three of the people arrested are members of CodePink, including its co-founder, Diane Wilson of Seadrift, Tex.

From the (Vermont) Burlington Free Press: Peace activist Cindy Sheehan cancels Vermont visitJuly 28, 20Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has canceled her visit to Vermont because she plans a trip to Jordan for peace talks there, organizers announced today.Sheehan was to have attended a rally Sunday at Montpelier's Unitarian Church.The rally will still be held, with Vermont organizers planning to address renewed efforts to end the war in Iraq and pursue impeachment of the Bush administration.The event is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and is free and public. It’s sort of like Ike saying he would go to Korea.Only different.

The American Left as "crisis cult" Clinical psychologist Robert Godwin proposes an interesting framework for understanding the increasingly bizarre behavior of the American Left at his very interesting website One Cosmos. Drawing on the work of psychoanalytic anthropologist Weston LaBarre, he posits that the left has become a “crisis cult” such as are found in societies whose bedrock assumptions break down in the face of the superior strength of foreign cultures impinging on their territory. Probably the most famous of the crisis cults are the cargo cults which developed in Melanesia. The Cargo Cults believe that manufactured western goods (‘cargo’)...

The below link is working to post a pic ... possibly due to the story being pulled. Cut 'n paste it to view. http://www.content.clearchannel.com/Photos/military/patriotism/cindy_sheehan_GI34.jpg I found this to be a very odd photo? Perhaps it's already been discussed in a previous thread. Talk about an opportunist! The article was pulled, but if you Google "Cindy Sheehan Protest"....the photo appears on the first page, second row. Is this the only photo from the photo opt session?

Laura Ingraham & CODE PINK on O'REILLEY NOW!

Michael Moore has made a career of butting heads with bigwigs. His documentaries, laced with satire on politics and society, have taken aim at General Motors Corp. (Roger & Me), the National Rifle Association (Bowling for Columbine, the 2002 Oscar winner) and U.S. President George W. Bush (Fahrenheit 9/11). Still in the works is Sicko, a none-too-flattering perspective on the U.S. health-care system. And he's overseeing the second annual Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan, which he established last year with author Doug Stanton and photographer John Robert Williams. More than 70 films, many independently produced, will be shown in...