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Protester immolation virtually unnoticed (What if you set yourself on fire for Iraq & nobody cared?)
Associated Press ^
| 11/27/06
Posted on 11/28/2006 7:29:50 AM PST by presidio9
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Malachi Ritscher holds up a sign during an antiwar protest in Chicago in this photo from April 2003. On Nov. 3, 2006, Ritscher set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire on expressway off-ramp in downtown Chicago. War protesters are hailing him as a martyr. (AP Photo/Joeff Davis)
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:29:55 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:31:29 AM PST
by
Spruce
To: presidio9
Fine his estate for polluting the air.
To: presidio9
Ritscher set up a video camera...Sounds like he would've garnered more attention if he set out sticks and a bag of marshmallows.
To: presidio9
A member of Mensa who claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal placesAbsolute fruitbat.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:33:08 AM PST
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: presidio9; All
Please.
I noticed,
....and shook my head for this crispy critter who became the ultimate Hot Pocket.
Stuffed chock full of bullcrap and done to a turn.
Yum.
What a schmuck.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:34:24 AM PST
by
Gideon Reader
("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
To: wideawake
I guess I'd be depressed, too, if my claim to fame was something so utterly useless...
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:35:31 AM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(I'm Hegemony Cricket, and I improvised this message.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:35:39 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
( <h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
To: presidio9
The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:35:59 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
To: presidio9
>the 52-year-old
experimental musician
To: presidio9
"...experimental musician..."
??????
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:36:54 AM PST
by
duckman
(I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
To: presidio9
Was that regular or hi-test?
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:36:58 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: presidio9
Sounds like a waste of perfectly good gasoline if you ask me.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:37:04 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
To: wideawake
claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal places Big deal. I know all the lines from Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:37:12 AM PST
by
presidio9
(Tagline Censored)
To: presidio9
He sounds like the father of the Dr Evil character... "He accused chestnuts of being lazy and claimed to have invented the questionmark.."
I bet people were pissed that their commutes were delayed because some nutjob decided to light himself on fire..
Martyr?? Maybe they should follow in his footsteps.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:38:03 AM PST
by
newnhdad
(They'll raise your taxes, grab your guns, look out wallet, here they come..)
To: presidio9
A member of Mensa ... It does tend to discredit IQ as a reliable measure of intelligence, doesn't it?
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:38:09 AM PST
by
SargeK
To: presidio9
Self-fulfilling Darwinian. But sad that this victim of the mainstream media (and probably of academia as well) decided to take it to the logical extreme.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:38:09 AM PST
by
3AngelaD
(ic.)
To: presidio9
Malachi's position on the IQ chart....
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:38:09 AM PST
by
AdvisorB
To: presidio9
War protesters are hailing him as a martyr.Using the broadest possible definition of a martyr, one can only be a martyr if someone else kills you for your beliefs.
Ritscher was a lunatic who succumbed to mental illness.
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:38:21 AM PST
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: presidio9
A member of Mensa who claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal placesWouldn't you think an experimental musician would find some way to play Pi on the sitar?
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posted on
11/28/2006 7:39:13 AM PST
by
HIDEK6
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