and lost...
Posted on 03/13/2008 12:24:59 PM PDT by bahblahbah
EDITOR'S NOTE: The story of 23-year-old Olympia native Rachel Corrie gripped the Northwest in March 2003 when she was killed in the Gaza Strip by a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army as she tried to block demolition of a Palestinian family's home. The emotions around her death were tumultuous. A New York production of a play about her diaries was shut down after objections from pro-Israel activists. Indeed, the force of Corrie's convictions made her writing shimmer with urgency. On March 7, W.W. Norton published her diaries and poems under the title "Let Me Stand Alone." These excerpts are reprinted with permission of the publisher. Often entries were not dated, so they are headed by the span of years a journal encompassed.
1990, age 11
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
Journal, 1989-1991
Oh but the fall was filled with cobwebs,
Rotting images, and leaf skeletons.
Peppered with tree bark
And inconspicuous mushrooms ...
But I noticed everything.
The lazy football games, the boys in the park,
The mysterious hazes, and a certain person across the room.
That year was drowning in purple-gray hills,
The kind that roll out from blue mountains.
1992-1993
I am a good, strong word giver I am a jealous guard of my own secrets Freedom is the rule I am hungry for one good thing I can do
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
and lost...
Whoops, screwed up the headline.
Couldn't find pancake on the list.
Stupid is as stupid does...
Rachel Corrie: ‘I am hungry for one good thing I can do’
dfwgator: ‘I am hungry for some pancakes.’
She was always flat.
Wow. Her crimes against literature were even worse than her crimes against America and the Jewish people.
All the years we dated I never knew this about her.
The woman who stupidly got in front of an armored bulldozer that couldnt’ see here while trying to protect the house of a known terrorist.
Where’s that “Look ma, I’m roadkill” graphic, because it’s entirely appropriate along with a “barf alert” for this thread.
Rachel Corrie was seriously misguided and died supporting terrorism and career-terrorist Yasser Arafat. What a waste. What sheer stupidity.
Apparently too many mushrooms to notice a big bulldozer.
“Hi, I’m Rachel of the Evergreen VIP Club. Is this Client D9 I’m speaking to?”
Sounds like the play “flat” lined. LOL
Then she should have learned to get out of the way of bulldozers.
“Rachel?...Er...yeah...I was hoping for someone who wasn’t so flat-chested”
Rachel Corrie was an idiot.
I stood in front of a bulldozer and all I got was this headline.
Well, I've picked out my clothes for when I go.
‘The Life and Work of Rachel Corrie - The woman who stood up to a bulldozer for the people of Palistine’
...and Lost!
Like the unknown guy said in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’, ‘Youth is wasted on the wrong people’!
Ain’t that a fact!
Standing in front of a bulldozer is like chaining yourself to the undercarriage of a lawnmower to protest harming the environment.
Way too full of herself.
Her poetry sux as bad as her judgment.
“The kind that roll out from blue mountains”
Heh. She said ‘roll’.
Now.......why is this story being dredged up when we have a perfectly viable “Kristin” story going on? Dueling stories of wayward 23 year old gals? OK, bring ‘em on!
What sort of idiot art is that?
Yeah, but Rachel Corrie threads are much more fun.
Liberals were always 2 dimensional.
Too bad....
The best she did was to ba an Israeli OSHA fatality statistic.
lol! good one. :)
Hmm, will keep my eyes open for those “tributes.” If I see one, I’ll make sure to spit on it (at the least)...
Only $29.95 + $4.00 S&H (Flat rate).
Dammit, you two beat me to the punch! I was going to suggest add campaigns for Cat and Bisquick.
The bulldozed house was believed to house weapons, used by militants to murder Jews whose crime was being environmentally responsible and making the desert bloom. The "Palestinians" were squatters in a land where their ancestors did zip towards improving it in any way. In the few years when Hamas and it's violent, bloodthirsty, murderous ilk were NOT trying to push all Jews into the sea and eradicate every Jewish man, woman, and child, as is their stated goal, there were jobs apleanty in Israel for palis who were peaceful and just wanted a job, and everyone was happier.
The Jews could live happily with your beloved sand-squatters, if only they would stay on their own land and start using their money to improve it and do commerce, the way the Israelis have, rather then pi$$ their money away buying explosives and murdering schoolchildren, the way the Pali's have. If they had spent the last fifty years actually working on improving the land, rather than bawling like spoiled babies about what their neighbors had, they wouldn't be living in a Third-World hell-hole so nasty that even their Arab brothers who supposedly love them so much won't let them out of the desert and into supposedly "civilized" Muslim countries (and I had to stretch the definition pretty much to make it work here, I assure you.)
You might have had a more useful life if you had written some books of poetry about the murder of Jews at the hands of towel-headed Muslim goat-hearders and had died throwing yourself nobly on a rocket-launcher, rather than being so blathering stupid you didn't know to get the hell out of the way of a bulldozer driven by a real soldier who has had friends and neighbors killed by real terrorists.
Rachel, it is beyond me how Liberals can love the myth of one woman too stupid to step aside from heavy earthmoving equipment more than the reality of a tiny nation of Jews holding out bravely and successfully against a dozen nations of hate-filled Muslim madmen. I guess you spent your limited life singing the wrong folksongs.
Don't worry, Ms. Corrie. Your task of being an object lesson for what others should not be has long since been accomplished.
Now drag your flattened behind outta here. *punt*
Couldn’t find terrorist-enabling, terrorist groupie/dhimmi on the list either.
She had big time intellectual and physical aspirations for someone who turned out to be too dumb and slow to get out of the way of a bulldozer. They aren’t exactly the fastest machines in the world.
Should have named it:
“I stand alone, because no one else is dumb enough to try to block a twenty ton bulldozer with their chest.”
If it’s a tribute to Rachel, one thing for sure, it’s not going to “pop up.”
You Photoshop wizards know what to do...
I hate Washington State Nazis.
Where is that picture from?
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
[BABELFISH]
“I am a child and think like one. My wants exceed my understanding that my natural abilities and talents will only be suitable for a few of these professions, and that grownups are lucky to have one or two things they are really good at to the point someone will pay them to do it. And so rather than have the discipline to accomplish one of these other difficult things, I will concentrating on going to places where I haven't been invited and whining about somebody else's problems.”
[/BABELFISH]
I am a good, strong word giver I am a jealous guard of my own secrets Freedom is the rule I am hungry for one good thing I can do
[BABELFISH]
“I am the product of the Public School system, and cannot punctuate properly. If confronted about this, I will call what I have written “poetry” and defend it’s shortcomings in form on poetic liscence. I keep to myself. Freedom is an ill-defined idea that means whatever I want it to be, including the freedom of “oppressed peoples” to murder innocent schoolchildren with rockets. I am so hungry to find a reason for my life that I will travel thousands of miles to a culture not my own to stand in the street and try to shout down earthmoving machinery in the smug assurance that since I am the most important person in the world, nothing bad could possibly happen to me.”
[/BABELFISH]
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