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Act Your Age! Barney Frank Barks at CodePink LadiesMarch 25, 2009 12:56 PM ET By Amanda Ruggeri, Washington Whispers Missing in all the coverage yesterday dominated by President Obama's press conference and his economic team seeking expanded bank-seizing authority was the craziness at the AIG hearings before Rep. Barney Frank's Financial Services Committee. The setting: Before the committee were Fed chief Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talking about the economy and their bank plan. Behind them in the audience were the always outspoken CodePink women, an antiwar grass-roots organization that has expanded its attentions from Dick Cheney and...

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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, talks with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 24,2009, prior to the start of the committee's hearing on AIG. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (R) and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner take their seats to testify in the House Financial Services Committee Hearing on "Oversight of the Federal Government's Intervention at American International Group (AIG)" on Capitol Hill in Washington March 24, 2009.

That's Code Pink co-founder, Medea Benjamin, on the left of the screen (on Bernanke's right). There's another Code Pinko behind him on the right of the screen. Currently streaming live at FoxNews.com (12 Noon, EDT):http://www.foxnews.com/

BERKELEY — The U.S Marine Corps Recruiting Center, which has been the target of protests for the past 18 months, was badly damaged by vandals Wednesday night, the eve of the 6th anniversary of the Iraq war. Today, broken windows are boarded up with sheets of plywood at the recruitment center in downtown Berkeley. CodePink and other anti-war groups picketed in front of the Marine recruiting center at 64 Shattuck Square in downtown Berkeley since the fall of 2007. The groups say the Marines do not belong in liberal Berkeley and they should find a new spot for their center....

Reporting from Washington — The embattled chief executive of American International Group told a congressional subcommittee today that he had asked employees who received more than $100,000 in controversial retention bonuses to return at least half of them in response to public outrage over the payments. "We've heard the American people loudly and clearly the past couple of days," said AIG Chief Executive Edward M. Liddy. Some employees have already volunteered to do so, or return all of the bonuses, he said. Noting that he came out of retirement in September to run the company after the government provided the...

CAIRO, Egypt – Pulitzer-prize winning author Alice Walker, who wrote "The Color Purple," is traveling to Gaza along with other female activists to highlight the devastation of the Israeli offensive on Gaza's residents. "I feel that what is happening in the Middle East is very important because the situation is so volatile," said Walker, speaking by telephone Saturday from the Rafah border crossing as her group waited to travel into Gaza. "I love people, and I love children and I feel that the Palestinian child is just as precious as the African-American child, as the Jewish child." Walker is part...

Salinas-area activists going to Gaza February 23, 2009 A group of Monterey County peace activists will be traveling to the Gaza Strip in early March to provide humanitarian and emotional support to children, women and women's organizations. Led by Monterey CodePink founder Hanan Sharwar, approximately 25 activists will fly to Cairo and tour the Gaza Strip with former Army colonel and peace activist Ann Wright.

As I was snooping around the internet that Gore made, I ran across a web site that was practicing Fear Mongering. As has become common practice, I took a screen shot for future reference. As is the “norm” for the Leftinistra, posts such as this one vanish which then, any criticism of any particular issue can be seen as “hate speech”. Thus the screen shot. This plea for help for a faltering endeavor cannot be denied. Why are they pleading for help? If they have the heartbeat of America, shouldn’t they be rolling in cash? Doesn’t George Soros care about...

Saving America: Time to hit the streets? Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff Sunday, February 22, 2009 Jim DeMint's gentlemanly air and refined tone belie a power and an urgency in his words. The stately senator from South Carolina sees America's unique centuries-old system of freedom dying out.And he thinks we may have to take to the streets to save it."I would think it's time to start thinking about peaceful demonstrations," he told us last week.Seriously?"Seriously."The power of the people is there. Freedom is in the people's hands right now, and it's about to slip through."Of course, the recent "stimulus" debate is...

President Barack Obama has approved adding about 17,000 U.S. troops for Afghanistan. Strange. No reaction from the rambunctious Code Pink. Heres's Code Pink's Mission Statement from their site:

The "liberal solution" to America's conflict with the Islamic world, Dinesh D'Souza argues, is doomed from the outset because it imagines that American political values may be absolutely abstracted from its cultural values. Most Americans, according to D'Souza, have cultural beliefs that give them much more in common with the "family values" of Islamic culture, than that of the cultural Left. The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 by Dinesh D'Souza published by Broadway (February 12, 2008) Ppbk., 384 pgs. ISBN-10: 0767915615 ISBN-13: 978-0767915618 In his 2008 book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left...

Shoe throwing has jumped the shark? Code Pink gals say hand cuff 'em, just like they did Karl Rove.

BOSTON — A lesbian couple who led the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts has filed for divorce. Julie and Hillary Goodridge were among seven gay couples who filed a lawsuit that led to a court ruling making Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriages in 2004. The couple became the public face of the debate in the state and married the first day same-sex marriages became legal.

We weren't their long before being reminded of what it's all about. One of the Walter Reed buses that have been converted so they can carry wounded troops flown in from the field to Andrews Air Force Base, and from there transported to Walter Reed came by Seeing one of them always quiets you for a bit as you wonder about who is coming in and what they've been through. Not to long after we got going, we had a special visit. Mr. Trooprally tells the tale: Trooprally was on the southwest corner when he heard "CONCRETEBOB". Looking around he...

During the course of the Bush/Cheney interregnum, millions of Americans resisted the worst excesses of a lawless and irresponsible administration that led this country into wars of whim, sanctioned torture and extraordinary rendition, embarked upon a spying regimen that made a mockery of the right to privacy, and destroyed the system of checks and balances that was supposed to protect the republic from monarchical abuse. Each year during a period of democratic decline that was so aptly anticipated by Jefferson with his 18th century reference to "the reign of the witches," we honored Most Valuable Progressives -- groups and individuals...

A reporter for The Nation magazine reported today that the President Barack Hussein Obama support group Code Pink held a witchcraft ceremony to 'cleanse' the White House on President Bush's last full day in office.One of Code Pink's leaders, Jodie Evans, was an early financial supporter of Obama's, serving as a bundler for his campaign and donating the maximum to his primary and general election campaigns, as well as thousands of dollars to the Obama Victory Fund. Code Pink also organized get out the vote efforts for Obama.Code Pink's affiliation with witchcraft was present at its creation--a Wiccan who calls...

<p>You know things have changed in Washington when Code Pink gets seats up front at the inauguration.</p> <p>Medea Benjamin, the group's founder, and Desiree Fairooz, one of the group's most visible members, are in Section 10, about 100 feet from the stage.</p>

Dubai (PTI): In what could be an echo of the sentiment of 'Gandhigiri', two women in Bahrain have launched an international 'flower power' campaign to halt the Israeli onslaught in Gaza that has claimed over 900 Palestinian lives. Christine Hasan and her daughter Moona Fairooz are asking women in the country to send white flowers to US Ambassador Adam Ereli, with a message urging a halt to the killing. They have also e-mailed peace groups around the world, including Iraq, the UK and Australia, asking women there to send flowers to their respective US embassies, Bahrain’s Gulf Daily News has...

As some of you may know, I am deployed to Iraq. I sent a Christmas card to Code Pink which read, "Merry Christmas from a soldier in Iraq defending your rights." Today I recieved a response. It is a nice card with a picture of a little girl on the front. Written on the front it says, "All children deserve a happy life." I agree that all children do deserve a happy life. On the inside of the card it says, "Happy New Year! Peace on Earth includes Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia Darfur." There is also a picture enclosed...