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a rather good looking gang if i must say so. way to go meg.

Thanks to Max for letting us know about it. Meg was pleased with the turnout and many of us came because of the AT Blog. That's me on the right and Zonker is holding the sign. Ann Brown is on the left and standing in the middle is a man from the Green Party (whose name I didn't catch). I hope some more of you get a chance to come out next week and help Meg out.

Click on name to see why we need more of you out there. The two idgit galoots running this country into the ground need to be stopped.

jake what i was trying to say as i left was i spent my working career with secretaries to clean up my writing whch allowed me to get real sloppy. they wrote well so all i had to do was tell them what i want to say and someone else would say it nice for me. this is why at my age i have a horrible writing writing style, choppy, to the point but i envy people who can tell somebody off and do it with style. i have never been able to do that.

Thanks for the compliment, Zonk. You have a way of communicating the truth and brother that will never go out of style. I'll try to wear one of my more flattering T-shirts next time. I think I'll go with the one that says "Intelligunt Desine."

It ought to go well with your button: Don't Blame Me, I Didn't Vote for That Dumbass!!

As god is my witness, I swear next time I'll be there. Thanks to you folks for showing up.

Beautiful. Inspirational Little Rockers, thank you so much!

ENOUGH!

Guilty. I'm a hypocrite. An armchair quarterback. A backseat driver. I bellyache about how we're being swindled out of our Republic and no one is doing anything about it. We're all too busy doing yardwork or going to soccer to take the time to go to a peace rally. When I read about this I thought for a split second that I should go, then forgot about it today. Too busy doing yardwork and cooking out, I guess.

My thanks also to you who represented my feelings today. May the numbers grow. AT, please fly the banner next time, too.

Thanks for my new favorite cartoon, Jake.

Gang of five?

Hell we had over twenty people show up for a similar protest in JASPER, Arkansas (pop. 498) this January...in the SNOW. (It was a light snow, but still cold.) I'm actually saddened that the peace movement is so fractured and obviously has no real organization behind it to the point that people have to rely on blogs and alternative media to find out when they are happening or where...generally. It's very frustrating.

Click my name for a couple pics of that protest I referred to up here in Newton County.

Hats off to all you folks, zonker, Jake , Greens, Ann and other unsung heroes of the un-silent majority.

Yeah...hats off to you folks!

I wonder if it was the draft or the sheer number of deaths that prompted the huge Vietnam protests?

A couple of updates from last week:

More pictures can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/princess_megling/tags/enough/
(I'm going to have to break down & bring my digital camera next week- which means finding the USB cord???)

I am in the process of getting the needed permit from 'Traffic Engineering,' so we should be OK on that front.

Finally- if you are thinking about coming, please click the link on my name & consider signing up through the DFA. I know there are regulations about the sizes of signs we can have, etc. I will send out everything I find out via the DFA sight.

A couple of updates from last week:

More pictures can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/princess_megling/tags/enough/
(I'm going to have to break down & bring my digital camera next week- which means finding the USB cord???)

I am in the process of getting the needed permit from 'Traffic Engineering,' so we should be OK on that front.

Finally- if you are thinking about coming, please click the link on my name & consider signing up through the DFA. I know there are regulations about the sizes of signs we can have, etc. I will send out everything I find out via the DFA sight.

I'm real proud of you people who showed up to protest. I wish I had lived closer so I could have stood beside you. But I'm guilty of not attending the regular after church Sunday protest the old nuns throw here in Fort Baptist every week. I attend their big protests (up to 30 people) for noting things like the 2000th and 3000th troop death or the anniversary of the start of the war. I can use taking care of Ma as an excuse, but I know the main reason I haven't been attending lately is because when you throw a protest and only 6 or 8 people show up.....everyone looks like a nut. And no one pays a damn bit of attention to a nut unless they're carrying a gun.

It's also depressing to stand on the side of the road with a tiny group and think about how many people live in FS, people who obviously don't give a damn. That also contributes to the idea that you look like a nut. How can the war be so wrong and yet so few people care? Same thing with Cheney-Bush....the worst 2 men to ever set foot in the White House and while there's a little talk, there's no action. A few Democrats in Congress are trying, the rest are busy stuffing their pockets as usual. But why for are the American consumers not all up in arms? What will it take.....Cheney shooting a 4 year old in the head on C-Span? How much worse do these 2 agents of evil have to act to get our attention?

By now they both should be hiding in the White House bunker scared shitless by the millions of protesters who have pitched tents in DC. Where is the hundred thousand voice chant of Hey Hey Dick Che-ney! How many kids did you kill today! And we got nothing. The old bastard has another fetal heart implanted last week and no patriotic surgeon was present. One slip of the scalpel would have saved the lives of thousands of US soldiers and Iraqis who'll die in the future.

Cindy Sheehan was as close to a national protest leader as we got and now she's given up and gone home. I am proud of her, but she was no Martin Luther King...neither am I. The 2 things missing when you compare the protests of the 60s to the present day....the danger of the draft and the lack of national leaders telling us what to do to stop the war and clean out the White House. We're FK'ed without those things....this war will last forever.

Maybe things will change when puppet Bush announces the suspension of the 2008 election. But my god...do we have to wait for that to happen? Must we reach the absolute bottom before we yelp? Think of how many will die between this moment and then. Plus like leaving Iraq, once the public outcry forms...it will take months or years to finally get rid of Cheney and Bush......leaving more to die for nothing.

Keeping this a small war is a brilliant plan. Too many people like me, have lost nothing because of the war for oil in Iraq. Unless something changes, the war can go on for centuries and not touch my house. My kids aren't going, my relatives aren't going, my friends and their kids aren't going. There is no rationing, my TV shows keep coming on.....if I'd just bury myself in Big Brother 8, I'd never know a war was going on. God I wish I could at this point. But once your nose has been opened...as a druggie friend of mine says. So no wonder few people bother to get off the couch and protest. Cheney & Bush are bleeding us....but like a mosquito bite, it's not enough to make us get up and shut the window. Maybe no election in 2008 will bring more people out of their houses and we'll start getting somewhere.

Again, I'm very proud of the people who protested this weekend. If we don't win maybe the few survivors will remember your names and faces and deeds.

DBI, Cindy is back in action, was arrested in DC last week with 300 to 400 others for demanding Conyers bring forth impeachment proceedings. She also announced she will run against Speaker Pelosi in San Francisco next year.

ENOUGH!

I'm trying the link again. If it doesn't attach to my name, here it is again:
http://dfalink.com/group.php?id=2337

The city traffic engineer said the paperwork will take 10 days to process. Until the permit is granted, we are supposed to stay under 10 people. Hmmmm???

By my count, there were 7 of us on 7/29. Zonker has a previous obligation & The Greens are meeting in Eureka Springs.

I wonder if we divided up between all four corners, if we could push the limit to 40? Probably not.

It would appears that Bush/Cheney's reckless overture's to war continue without abatement. Click on the handle for the bad news from Novak.