Posted on 07/13/2006 5:20:16 PM PDT by satchmodog9
Julia Field covered her auburn curls with a blazing pink cowboy hat and listened to her stomach growl. A year ago, the stay-at-home mom from Oak Park would never have imagined herself fasting to protest war.
Until then, she had volunteered at her son's elementary school and belonged to the local PTA.
Now, armed with a bright pink lawn chair and a motivating dose of outrage, Field has joined a national fast that began July 4 in Washington and has become--from 4 to 8 p.m. for two weeks--a one-woman anti-war crusade.
"It might be a little lonely today," Field said on a recent afternoon as she set up a Code Pink camp by herself in a sunny corner of Evanston's Fountain Square. "I'm pretty much the face of the fast."
But she isn't the only suburban mom juggling her children's music lessons with anti-war activism. Across Illinois, roughly 6 of every 10 women who have joined Code Pink's e-mail list hail from the suburbs, said Catherine Caporusso, co-founder of the Illinois chapter.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
from 4 to 8 p.m. for two weeks--a one-woman anti-war crusade.
So this dumb broad thinks not snacking between meals is fasting.
, roughly 6 of every 10 women who have joined Code Pink's e-mail list hail from the suburbs,
So what, like all 36 of them? She spent afternoons without interruption, sipping cups of carrot juice, beet juice and broth while sitting in the pink lawn chair in public.
That constitutes food sweetie. This whole article just shows the bias of the Libune. Not once did the reporter question the legitimacy of a rolling hunger strike. Typical liberalism with symbolism over substance. Liberals love to feel like they are doing something when all they are really doing is wasting time.
The neo neo nazis in pink.
Sorry, it's a chunky-barf-o-rama.
Renders a 8.6 on the toilet flush sphincter scale. .
You should have seen my wife have a melt down while she was reading this tripe. It was quite the sight.
This is an almost-perfect distillation of today's left: silly, shallow, self-involved, self-important, self-righteous, dim-witted, ignorant, and hubristic.
This sad sack moron is free to protest because of the troops who are keeping this world safe for her proveracating self.
The difference between her and I is that I admit to myself that I am eating when I take in calories, and I thank God those troops are on the job.
I would love to send her a pizza. Any north shore Freepers out there?
I've argued with people like this. After learning how they think, one comes to realize that these people have no compassion for anyone. They don't care about the troops who put their lives at risk to protect their freedom. They just exploit the troops' deaths to promote their anti-American cause, and stage stunts like this to gain glory for themselves.
To all the people who feel sorry for these protestors and think they're simply "misguided," they're not. You can't honestly believe that they care about innoncent children becoming casualties of war, when they never expressed any sadness or anger at all the innocent children who died at the hands of people like Saddam Hussein.
I want to see the pink cowboy hat.
Somebody please give these women some clothes to wash, floors to sweep, laundry to fold and dinners to prepare.
Count me in. I'll pay 1/2.
I have some toppings to put on it. From my cat's litter box.
Is there a picture of this auburn-curled, pink cowboy-hatted, stomach-growling beauty?
Have some real fun groosing them out make and serve --
Kitty Litter Cake
A purrfect party cake, made to look like a litter box!
Ingredients
* 1 box German Chocolate or Spice Cake mix (any brand)
* 1 box White Cake Mix (any brand)
* 1 (1 lb 4 oz) pkg. Vanilla Sandwich Cookies (any brand)
* 1 large pkg. Vanilla Instant Pudding
* Green Food Coloring
* 12 small Tootsie Rolls
* 1 NEW Kitty Litter Box
* 1 NEW Kitty Litter Box Liner
* 1 NEW Pooper Scooper
Directions
Prepare cake mixes per package directions. Bake them in any shape pan you'd like, you'll be breaking them up later on, so it doesn't matter what they look like. Prepare pudding mix per package directions. Refrigerate until well chilled. You may or may not need the entire package (save the leftovers to eat later on.)
Put the cookies into your food processor (with the filling). Pulse until the cookies are crushed. Don't over-do it, this is suppose to look like kitty litter. Scrape the sides of the processor bowl often, the crumbs tend to stick. You'll need to do this in small batches.
Add a few drops of green food coloring to one cup of the cookie crumbs. (This is the chlorophyll in the kitty litter.) You can put the crumbs into a jar, add the food coloring, and shake until it's fairly well mixed.
When the cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining (uncolored) cookie crumbs and enough of the pudding to make the mixture moist, but not soggy.
Line the kitty litter box with the new liner; add the cake/pudding mixture and spread it out. Unwrap three of the Tootsie Rolls and heat them in the microwave until they are soft and pliable; don’t melt them! Shape blunt ends into slightly curved points (use your imagination).
Repeat with three more Tootsie Rolls. Bury the shaped Tootsie Rolls in the cake mixture, allowing some of them to stick out of the top at random intervals. (Again, use your imagination.)
Sprinkle the remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter the green crumbs lightly over the top. Heat the remaining six Tootsie Rolls, three at a time, in the microwave until almost melted. Scrape them over the top of the cake and sprinkling with crumbs from the box.
I know, right? I wish these "anti-war" commie mommies would fast for real - and that means not putting one drop of food into their whiny mouths until the last terrorist is dead. Let Susan Saran Wrap lead the charge.
"...So this dumb broad..."
Hmmmmm. Either you're old or I am. I didn't know they used the word "broad" anymore. If so, I will revive it in my vocabulary.
Right! Why does the Tribune waste time of a one person insignifcant crusade? LIberalism. What's a rolling hunger strike?
For all you people not in Illinois Oak Park is very liberal.
You know, nuclear free zoned and gay marriage friendly.
That's a cowboy hat? Maybe in an Ang Lee movie, but not in any reality I know about.
Very nostalgic 38 year old. Believe me, the word I wanted to use would have gotten me banned.
Now my stomach is growling, more like barking!
So why is this twit from Oak park going to Evanston?
Evanston is the North Shore enclave of liberalism ;Northwestern University. The other out post is the North side.
In essense the rest of us in Chicago are designated as fly over country.
Guess her intelligence dropped a lot in the last year!
Wow. Fasting from 4:00pm to 8:00pm. What a sacrifice. She needs to take some lessons in fasting from the IRA's Bobby Sands. Now there's a dude who knew how to fast!
Ask my favorite conservative blonde, twiggy, best-selling female author.
;-)
I know I should laugh. Really I should.
But these people just piss me off. I can find plenty to laugh at in life today, but these idiots just torque me.
It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.
Thanks. You put it really well.
These morons want to keep their damned hands "clean" and take the moral high ground (as they see it)
The rest of us have to be grown-ups and accept the moral responsibility of supporting the war and everything that entails so these asshats can live in their liberal la la land fantasy world.
God, this stuff has got me in a foul mood today.
First off, that is freaking brilliant. It would definitely be the best tagline ever. Second, I did laugh at this article. My wife was having a meltdown over it and all I could do was laugh and comment on the foolishness of every line in this piece.
I was 18 then. When the Pope (JP2) sent him a blessed crucifix, it was the beginning of the end of me and the Catholic Church.
The RCC supports illegal immigration today. Since 1981 they have suppported terroists.
Thanks...it just sounded like something Ann Coulter would say...:)
Gosh. I know I should laugh...must...take...it...less...seriously...
Anyway...you are right...it DOES look good as a tagline!
Exactly.
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That ain't no cowboy hat..............
These sapheads have read People magazine religious and watch all the awards shows. The 'wear a ribbon' mentality has filtered down to the hoi polloi. Empty gestures like this 'fast' are interpreted as 'doing something about it' and treated with reverence instead of the ridicule they deserve. I'm no fan of the IRA but Bobby Sands & crew would certainly not classify what they're doing as a hunger strike.
5.56mm
religious s/b religiously
Being nominated for a Nobel Prize is like being called a "biblical expert" after reading the Song of Solomon.
The Chicago Tribune is a leftist rag. It is the best paper available to me. The Wisconsin papers suck and the Sun Times is a freaking tabloid. The Onion would be more accurate and less biased than the Tribune.
"People in Code Pink are protesting the war outside Walter Reed Hospital," Ibbotson said. "What kind of a welcome home is that?"
Perhaps CT writer Deborah Horan will do an in-depth report on Code Pink's nastier anti-war protests outside WRAMC, now that she's covered their cutesy loud pink hats and pink boas angle?
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