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Sheehan: My son "did indeed die for nothing" • She is upset that Democrats and anti-war politicians can't end Iraq war • She is exhausted by the personal, financial and emotional toll • "I am going to take whatever I have left and go home," she wrote Adjust font size: Decrease fontDecrease font Enlarge fontEnlarge font (CNN) -- Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became an anti-war leader after her son was killed in Iraq, declared Monday she was walking away from the peace movement.

Cindy Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, said Monday that she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war movement. In a 1,245-word missive entitled "Goodbye Attention Whore" posted on the liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in Iraq had strained her relationship with her children, cost her a marriage and left her nearly penniless.

Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who gained national attention protesting President Bush's Iraq war policy by remaining camped in a ditch near his Crawford, Texas, ranch, has issued a resignation letter as the face of the American anti-war movement. "Good-bye America," Sheehan writes in her online diary, "you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it." Sheehan says she came to her "heartbreaking conclusions" this Memorial Day morning, saying, "These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things...

Goodbye everyone, I feel that alot of you miss the point of this community. You're all mean b****s. Your soil reaps of evilness. If I were a hacker, I swear to Goddess you people and your stupid forum would be down tonight and never come back. i'm out of here. i am not sad about it either.

About me: Lurker - since 1998 Member - since 1999 In self-imposed exile - since April 2007 The tone of the debate and the attacks on long-time fellow Freepers for the cardinal sin of daring to support Rudy Giuliani in early 2007 around here have really saddened me. Instead of fighting the enemy FR is now imposing an 'ideological purity' test on FR members. The well-oiled train has gone off the rails and Mr. Robinson risks becoming the next Joe Farah - a fellow who started a great website for conservative news and opinions, but who gradually drifted off to...

We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents. One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They...

I've found less and less to like about posting on FR - especially due to the wide-spread (and mod-condoned) anti-Catholicism. I'm spending little time on this website. It is no longer appropriate that I maintain the KofC ping list. I will post the ping list, post the graphics that have been used and do this no more.

With friends like this… There is only one Church I am aware of that holds as doctrine that the Constitution is not only inspired, but sacred in nature. There is only one Church that I am aware of that as a point of doctrine commits its members to defending that sacred document and all who fall under its protection with their lives. There is only one Church that I am aware of whose members have been categorically and energetically pursued with rage and who have been denied or who have had attempts at denying their place in the halls of...

<p>Maybe I should just quit while I am ahead, just go shopping for another "politically incorrect assault rifle", while I can! Hell, I think I will, Rudy, and a whole mess of ammo, too! Y'all excuse my attitude, it is the only attitude I have, or, you can kiss my ass, Rudy! All NYC means to me is a cesspool to avoid! Rudy, if you had ever had to survive in the "real world", outside of NYC, sheeat, little Yankee buddy, you would be really starving your little urban ass off, long ago! Think you are smart enough to patronize my Redneck ass, and get away with it? Good luck, you will need it! My folks were what I am, before your folks ever got their European butts through Ellis freakin Island. My folks came here in search of FREEDOM, tell me, Rudy, why are you here? Hell, Rudy, you could have been the King of Italy, by now, maybe you just need to move your ass back home, where you belong, and take the whole damned State of NY with you! Last damn thing I will expect from your sorry little ass, Rudy, is honest debate, your momma told you that you are too smart to debate Rednecks, and you are dumb enough to buy that shit! I won't vote for your sorry liberal ass, Rudy!</p>

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13 years ago, Berkley Breathed prophecied that digital photograph would be used to alter photos reliability as fact. (Of course, a lot of people did, but just play along.) Out of repsect for their copyright control, I direct you to the comic as a link: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/blm/1993/blm930822.gif And, here is a link to the web page of U Comics: http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/ You can read the lead in to this at this link: http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1993/08/15/

I'm a conservative who has voted VERY consistently for GOP candidates for 24 years. I believe in small government, personal responsibility, reducing taxes and sensible solutions to pressing problems. On many issues, especially terrorism, the GOP leadership has done a mostly excellent job. On a few others, which happen to be quite critical issues, the GOP has done exactly the wrong things. There are two main issues that are at the root of the electoral angst of the GOP leadership. Number one is the GOP leadership's penchant for looking at politics like some sort of a board game. This is...

The 2006 FreeRepublic LexiconAKA "The Freepism, Freepology, Lingo, Dictionary, Terminology, Lore Handbook" A revised and condensed version of The Lexicon of FreeRepublic, culled from Lexicon of FreeRepublic - 4th Edition and Freeper Lingo Thread (the history and meening of 'Freepisms' including pictures). Thanks to the many Freepers who contributed! In this latest update, I have cut the emoticons and standard acronyms (LOL etc - which are readily available on the web and previous Lexicons) for the sake of brevity. I have attempted to include all definitions and histories provided to me and give credit to those who provided me the...

Dear beloved Freepers, this early Thursday morning I am catching a flight to Birmingham. I'm entering a convent as a postulant there. Try not to be too scandalized! :) This is their website: Sister Servants If you have any questions about the particulars, please mail me! I just wanted to say good-bye and ask for your prayers, especially for fortitude. (Extricating myself from the world is more painful than I thought it would be) Have a holy feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe! Love y'all! God Bless!

BUSH UNVEILS NEW 'NO MILLIONAIRE LEFT BEHIND' SOCIAL PROGRAM WASHINGTON -- President Bush proudly unveiled his new $70 billion dividend and capital gains tax cuts at a ceremony in the Rose Garden this morning, calling it an inspired way to help "a forgotten part of American society -- the rich." "We've put these provisions in place to help the already rich remain rich, or become richer," said the president. "I call it the 'No Millionaire Left Behind' program." Bush denied that the tax cuts were designed to rally his base before the November midterm elections. "Not so," he said. "My...

"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" Thus spake the troll in the famous children's tale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Miffed that the goats were encroaching on his property, the troll threatened to gobble them up. But the trolls' adversaries had the last laugh.

It's the end of an Era of Shameless Self-Hype. The Puffed Up Verbose One who uses five melodramatic words when just one would work, Pied Piper Pitt, is leaving DUmmieland. And what was the reason for this sudden departure? Most likely it was the result of recently getting egg on his face for backing up the "integrity" of JASON LEOPOLD. As the Lib of the infamous team of Leopold and Lib, Pitt stuck his neck out backing the journalistic credentials of the factually challenged Leopold who stated that Karl Rove received a target letter from Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. When...

Well Folks! I finally did it, fwiw. 10,000 times I punched the button .. and plop, like magic, there it was. I wanted to make this one a little more personal than most of the others. Some were boring as hell and some I couldn't get a hit on if I paid folks to look at 'em. Others , were equally as dull, but Hey, with all the stuff out there on the 'net these days, who's to say I could or would have much to add to much of anything that folks cared to know about or had always...

It was the best of times- it was the worst of times....Good-bye and best of luck in cyber space freepers. My parting sentiments are: if you would please remember the troops, our veterans and their families in your prayers-they are getting the job done for all of us. (Go out and do something nice for one of them if you can.) The most important thing on our minds, IMO, *should be* to get our troops home safely, when they are done with their jobs, to make sure the liberals do not turn this into a *Vietnam type of thing*, and...