July 4, 2006
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TUESDAY POLITICS
Bombs Bursting in Air
by Cindy Sheehan
The star spangled banner has been in the news quite a lot lately. Some “courageous” Senators, including one of my own, Dianne Feinstein and everyone’s favorite left-wing liberal, Hillary Clinton, bravely stuck their necks out to support an amendment that would make it illegal to burn the flag of the USA under certain circumstances.I implore you, while you are enjoying your potato salad and fireworks on the 4th to reflect on what the star-spangled banner means to you. If our flag symbolizes the same thing to you as it does to the neocons, then by all means, enlist and go to Iraq to let some of our soldiers come home that are tired of suffering and committing war crimes for Halliburton, Dick and Donny.
If, however, you realize that the flag no longer waves “o’er the land of the free” and you would like it to again, we invite you to come out to Camp Casey this summer and help us fight for the heart and soul of our nation. If you realize that while you are “oohing and ahing” over the pretty fireworks in your home town that there are real bombs bursting on the people of Iraq, killing them and destroying their nation for no reason other than Dick Cheney wanted to, then you need to digest your 4th of July BBQ and get out and show Dicky and the world that we mean business when we say we want our troops to come home to save them and our brothers and sisters in Iraq. (Full article here.)
Deep Thought: “Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall, leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.”
Today I am grateful for: Fixed rate mortgages
Guess the Movie: “Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.” Answer: Singin’in the Rain, 1952.
Winner: ChattyCat02.
Anti-war protesters begin July 4 fast
Mon Jul 3, 2006 8:07 PM ET
By Amanda Beck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 150 protesters sat in front of the White House on Monday to savor their last meal before starting a hunger strike that some said will continue until American troops return from Iraq.
The demonstration marking the Independence Day holiday was organized by CodePink, a women’s anti-war group that called on volunteers to abstain from eating for 24 hours from midnight on Monday. (Rest of article here.)
Comments (23)
Freedom is like a bag of mixed nuts. People pick out what they think freedom means and then try to feed it to someone else. Sort of like some religious groups.
CLOG makes a good point. However, I believe in telling people the truth regarding for what freedom we are actually fighting. Especially when the US liberates another country from a “dictator” that the US help put in place. For what, I can only guess could only be another freedom that we are unaware.
Here’s to hoping that on this 4th of July, people will wake up and see just how much freedom we’ve left behind.
Thanks for commenting on my xanga. That evil sugar…LOL..love it. If it were good people, I’d take all of them on my island.
I won’t fast but I appreciate the sentiment. I’ll check back to see if anyone guesses that movie; I’m clueless.
Happy 4th and all that it means!
Thank you, once again, for the excellent link.
i really dislike the ssb. i prefer america, the beautiful. it fits
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Me
will you be joining them at Camp Casey this summer? just curious. i did my protesting during the vietnam war, and now it’s the kids’ turn, i feel. but…of course i am against the war in iraq and against losing our freedoms as we seem to be doing faster and faster, so quick you’d think we had had freedom before? my vote is about the only protest outside of my mouth these days.
I, too, am grateful for a fixed rate mortgage. But, on a more serious note…while I may not like it when some radical pot head (weren’t they all radical pot heads back then when flag burning was more common??) burns the American flag to protest our government, our laws, or our morals but I will defend (not to the death) his right to do so. Our rights & our freedoms are being eroded by the very political party that professes to be the most politically correct & patriotic. With that said, I also am so disappointed with my Senators but that happened long ago when they didn’t step up at the time of the elections(not). How & why this administration has been allowed to do the things it has done totally baffles me. Is the rest of the country deaf & totally blind?? I already am aware of the dumbness factor. Why have there not been protests daily…. & in frustration & to make a point, especially now….how come no one in this country (it seems) is actually burning an American flag??
We have more important & pressing problems than this. Bring our soldiers home….NOW!!!
Hope you have a great 4th…..is this a great country or what??!!
oh, I almost forgot…..is it “Singin’ in the rain”?? one of my all time favorite movies, btw.
Great post – and yes, Singin’ in the Rain wins!
I guess my idea might have had some feasible weight when we were in Gulf War of his daddy’s. My thoughts at the time were that we should take the entire country, clean it up and go on from there. Not that I am in love with war, and less in love with pre-emptive military action using the excuse of weapons of mass destruction and the effort to blame 9/11 on Saddam.
My total dis-respect goes to our feeble minded Congress, and the stealthy, sleazy higher-ups of our administration.
RYC
Thank you so much, your comments mean a lot to me.
I really love “Singing in the Rain”. How odd that I watched old classic musicals in Junior high and high school. LOL
My state senators were split on the flag ammendment. The Dem voted nay. The Rep. voted yay. Funny enough. If it’s all about “desecration” of the flag… what are they going to do about GW SIGNING flags. How disrespectful is it to use the “symbol of our freedom” as scratch paper. I mean not simply because I think that GW is a horrid example of a leader, and probably a person, but because if this is our “symbol of American rights and freedoms” who the hell is he to be important enough to have his name added to something like that? One of 43 other guys, many of whom were much more qualified to sign their John Hanncock to that symbol than he is.
Link to pictorial proof.
good post…
I don’t come here often, but when I do I’m always very glad I did.
And also the idea of a tall, quiet, leafy dog will stick with me the rest of the day.
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Hi, thanks for dropping into my blog. RYC: Do I look like someone who would be taken in by that kind of scam? Seriously? Is my humour so obscure? Have a nice day!
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This is so true
I’m glad you left me a comment. It helped me find you, and I really like your blog style. And you’re a fellow Portlander to boot!
Thanks for your thoughts! Be well, here, now.
I wish that the actions of protesters may have an effect on world events.
FYC: Swell that he died? Swell that others were left with nothing as a reslut of his actions? Swell that his family will have a lot? Swell that he’ll never do time….in a earthly prison cell? Swell that the media will portray him as always giving to the needy causes?