Tuesday, June 14, 2005

"HELPFUL HINT" According the current CNN CASUALTY LIST, there have been 1702 American deaths in the war in Iraq. Let the People know: a bucket of 52 thick pieces of sidewalk chalk can be had for three bucks.  Take a walk with chalk. 6:25:45 PM    comment []

RECIEVED VIA EMAIL FROM SISTER, MOTHER, AND DANCING ELDER CLARISSA: from this morning's  news... i just ran it from prose into poetic lines. She is one fierce mother. the rest of the article is below. HARD WORK Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's "hard work" comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq. "Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big (brother) into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both," she said. Mother of dead soldier vilifies Bush over war PRESIDENT RIDICULED AT INTERFAITH RALLY By Frank E. Lockwood HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States' "illegal and unjust war" yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington. Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., accused President Bush of lying to the nation about a war which has consumed tens of billions of dollars and claimed more than 1,700 American lives -- including the life of Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan. Sheehan was one of more than a dozen activists who were scheduled to speak at yesterday's anti-war rally at the Red Mile, which was organized by the Clergy and Laity Network and co-sponsored by dozens of liberal religious organizations. Sheehan ridiculed Bush for saying that it's "hard work" comforting the widow of a soldier who's been killed in Iraq. "Hard work is seeing your son's murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you're enjoying the last supper you'll ever truly enjoy again. Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son, your first-born, your kind and gentle sweet baby. Hard work is burying your child 46 days before his 25th birthday. Hard work is holding your other three children as they lower the body of their big (brother) into the ground. Hard work is not jumping in the grave with him and having the earth cover you both," she said. Since her son's death, Sheehan has made opposition to the Bush administration a full-time job. "We're watching you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power to have you impeached for misleading the American people," she said, quoting a letter she sent to the White House. "Beating a political stake in your black heart will be the fulfillment of my life ... ," she said, as the audience of 200 people cheered. The "Freedom and Faith Bus Tour" -- which brought Sheehan to Lexington, has already visited New York, Chicago and Indianapolis. The next stops include Columbus, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Other speakers included state Rep. Kathy Stein, D-Lexington, Clergy and Laity Network executive director Rev. Albert Pennybacker of Lexington, Kentucky Council of Churches executive director Nancy Jo Kemper and Baptist Seminary of Kentucky Professor Glenn Hinson. Quoting scripture and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hinson suggested the nation is greedy and morally bankrupt and warned that America's fear of terrorism is excessive and unhealthy. Denouncing "fear that immobilizes, fear that causes you to lash out mindlessly, fear that prompts a nation to launch a preemptive strike against an imagined enemy, fear in excess," Hinson said, "Only God's love can bring that kind of fear under control." Reach Frank Lockwood at (859) 231-3211 or 800-950-6397 x3211 or flockwood@herald-leader.com 5:34:21 PM    comment []

"HELPFUL HINTS" Send Dr. Omed an email with the subject line "black ribbons." By return email Dr. Omed will send you a Word file formatted as you can see in the .jpg above. Print a copy of said Word file on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. Make many copies of the copy at Kinko's, or better yet, on the office copier. Cut each sheet in four between the four black ribbons, as neatly as you can manage. You now have four fliers per 8 1/2 x 11 page printed. Take a stack of said fliers to a parking lot, and place them under the windshield wipers of SUVs or any other vehicle sporting a fish stick, "W" yellow or ribbon magnetic stickers (Sometimes they have all three. I find Church parking lots most satisfying for sowing my dissent. 6:45:14 AM    comment []

The June crosses have been planted, each with a small American flag, as befits Flag Day. No pictures this time, my digital camera is broken. Maybe later. I'm not saying where I put them, either; I don't want it too make to easy for the reporters who are reading my blog, since they tip off the City of Tulsa, which removes them. 6:22:46 AM    comment []