Posted on 03/20/2005 7:14:50 PM PST by Loopy Picklefink
Hi Lauren! Great to see you and the others at the rally yesterday. Thanks for the wonderful after-rally report and posting these pictures, they're great. I'm sending the thread link out now to my various lists of people that have expressed interest.
The editor of a Rollins College (Winter Park) newspaper, himself a veteran, was there doing interviews for the article he plans to write. He assured me that he will mention Protest Warrior as organizer, with the enthusiastic participation of the Central Florida Chapter of Free Republic Network, Vietnam Veterans of Central Florida, et.al. Hopefully we can get a copy of that article and make it a part of this thread.
One if the girls from the radical anti-war group, "Not In Our Name", came over to our side of the street to hold her sign which said, "Draft Me".
OldGlory immediately engaged her in conversation - keeping her busy so that she wouldn't notice that I was blocking her sign from view with my own "Bush/Cheney/Free Republic" sign with a big yellow bow around it. LOL
A policeman noticed what was going on and came over to ask her, "Aren't you on the wrong side of the street?" OldGlory told him that everything was OK since the girl seemed to be a peaceable person with whom she could reason (and of course, nobody could see her sign anyhow. LOL). Eventually some of the girl's friends came over(without their goofy signs) and also became involved in the conversation.
Before we parted company, I told them that they may want to check us out on Free Republic and see if they could successfuly defend their positions here. They said that they weren't interested in "arguing". I told them that most of the people on here don't argue, but that we just implement calm reason and logic in legitimate debate. I let them know that if they were UNreasonable Liberals and only interested in coming here to cause trouble, that our "Zot Father" would send out the "Viking Kitties" to "ZOT" them immediately. Since they thought that was really funny, they may show up here to see what that's like. They said they would ping me to their screen names if they sign up so as to remind me who they are. Riiight. LOL
Gene McDonald will get a kick out of this. I was wearing one of his "Pajama Patrol" badges of "Free Republic Pajamahajeen" fame, and it apparently looked so "official" to one of the young people there, that he asked me if I knew of any jobs that might be open at the police department. LOL
BTW - If anyone hasn't seen that badge, here's a closeup picture of it:
http://0cents.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=0CP&Product_Code=PJP20000&Category_Code=PJP (NOTE to those out of the loop: You can find links to the background regarding the term "Pajamahajeen" at the end of this post.)
As an aside, I may not be doing something right because I can't bring up these videos you linked us to. I clicked on, and tried to install the "Quick Time" thingy it says I need in order to view them, but I got a message saying it was unavailable. I'm wondering if I'm the only one having that problem. Any ideas / suggestions?
Thanks again!!! BTTT
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Pajama Patrol background info:
BOB J ROCKS!!! Go FreeRepublic!!!
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Posted on 09/18/2004 5:41:25 AM EDT by elhombrelibre
Significant contributions (Info and links) in this thread are here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=16#16
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=22#22
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=38#38
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=65#65
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=105#105
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=117#117
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=120#120
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219689/posts?page=141#141
Hmmm...not sure about the videos. My camera can only shoot in .mov format, which is generally used for quicktime, and I'm not sure if other players can play it. You could try right clicking then "save target as" which will save it somewhere on your computer. Then you could try opening it in Windows Media Player or whatever else you use.
But quicktime is free, and it should work fine. Maybe try going to http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/ and downloading it directly from the source. Then try the videos again.
Thanks, I'll try those suggestions as soon as I get time. Thanks again, Lauren for all you do for the cause! You are just the greatest!!! FReep on!!! BTTT
Great Freep! Excellent After Action Report!
God, I miss you guys....Good to see Bill, Dave, Gloria in those photos.
You made this ex-Florida Chapter President very proud this morning.
You KNOW we love you! We were just talking yesterday about how much we miss you and Pete down here. FReeping will always be lots of fun, but it just isn't the same without you guys. We had a blast talking about some of the great Florida FReeps of the recent past involving The Free Republic Army, Navy and Airforce, how you and your bull-horn ran Jesse Jackass out of West Palm Beach before he could even get on stage to start his "rally", etc., etc., etc. Hahahaha
Nice job!
Great work in FL MPI!
Woo Hoo!! Thanks, Bob!
Good work, gang. Wish I had been there but complications from a past fractured ankle are grounding me at the moment. But like General MacArthur, I shall return, LOL.
What a good lookin' bunch of freepers!
Leni
Central Florida counter protest PING.
Great FReep! Love the photos. I was in Daytona trying to sell my old car, so I wasn't able to join you.
Great pics! Great work!
Thanks Loopy and sorry I couln't make it.
Good job on the FReep!!
Thanks Loopy! Great job! The videos captured yet another sad day for libs... hahaha!
Great job you all did yesterday. Wish I could have been there to help, but had to work. Hopefully next time.
Lauren:
Great job!
Good pictures.
Keep up the good work.
Great Pics....thanks Orlando & FL Freepers for standing up for all of us!!
Thank you, for doing this!
Missus and I worked at The Mouse - we know Sand Lake & I-Drive very well.
As I get ready to go to The Sandbox, it's wonderful to see people fighting on the home front.
Again, Thank You!
Lauren--we love you--great "after action report"! Thanks!
What is glaringly obvious, is the TOTAL absence, of our AMERICAN flag, at all the protests, by our "friends" on the LEFT!! Their HATE of America, is the only message they have!!
The aforementioned young Liberal girl I spoke with---did make the observation that we had ALL ages represented, in our group-while their group consisted of "young punks"(my words--not hers--ha ha)
Susan Saranden and the usual celebrity suspects, were NO where to be seen--although it was announced, they would be in attendance at this "event"! We really did miss them--ughhh
We had a great time at Pizzeria Uno--20+ with "Mcmuffin" and "MatchettPI" reminiscing about some of our hilarious Freeps of the past! --Bhuddist Nuns-Florida recount-Free Republic Air force etc.---
I love FReepers !
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