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One of the human embodiments of why parents shouldn't teach their kids two religions is Roseanne. It confuses the kids, and sometimes has long-term effects well into adulthood. The bizarre, has-been, unfunny comedienne was raised with both Mormon and Jewish upbringings and hates both religions as a result. And, also as a result, she's, well . . . screwed up. And she also hates Israel and, apparently, herself. But she loves HAMAS and Jihad Cindy. Now, she's bragging that she was supposed to be on the HAMAS Love Boat with Jihad Cindy a/k/a loony Cynthia McKinney: i was going to...

There is no challenge greater than the defense of our nation and our values. The men and women of our military –-– have signed up at a time when our troops face an ever-increasing load. Fighting a resurgent Taliban. Targeting al Qaeda. Persevering in the deserts and cities of Iraq. Training foreign militaries. Delivering humanitarian relief. In this young century, our military has answered when called, even as that call has come too often. Through their commitment, their capability, and their courage they have done us all proud. But we need to ease the burden on our troops, while meeting...

Muslim terrorist leaders are "thankful" for the efforts of activist and congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan, stating in a new book Sheehan's anti-Iraq war activities and her statements against President Bush "give us hope" the U.S. will change its Mideast policies. "You [Sheehan] give us hope and you show us that there are different Americans than those whom we know," stated Ramadan Adassi, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group in the West Bank's Anskar Refugee Camp. "This sincere woman says what we've been saying all these last years – Saddam never threatened America or its security. Now Iraq...

CNSNews.com) - Organizers of an anti-war protest scheduled for Sept. 15 said Wednesday that the demonstration will be "unlike any other" as activists gather to demand an immediate end to the war. The protest, organized by Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), begins with a rally near the White House, continues with a march to the U.S. Capitol, and concludes with a "die-in" that organizers estimate will involve approximately 1,000 people lying down near the Capitol in a symbolic effort to represent dead U.S. soldiers and dead Iraqis.

After gaining national attention for belaboring President Bush over the war in Iraq, activist Cindy Sheehan — the mother of a U.S. serviceman who lost his life in that conflict — has been back in the news for refocusing her anger at a different and somewhat unexpected target: Sheehan officially announced Thursday that she is staging an independent campaign to unseat Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi next year in the San Francisco-based 8th Congressional District of California. Yet some political analysts speculate that Sheehan’s candidacy actually could benefit Pelosi and her Democratic Party. While Sheehan is widely deemed as unlikely...

Rough Start for Sheehan in Battle to Unseat Pelosi August 11, 2007 (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan faces a difficult task if she runs against current House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi next year, according to a poll by SurveyUSA released by KPIX. 66 per cent of respondents in California’s 8th Congressional District say they will vote for Pelosi, no matter who the Republican candidate is. Unconditional support for Sheehan stands at nine per cent, while 21 per cent of respondents would need to know who the GOP contender would be, before deciding their vote. On...

A tearful Cindy Sheehan cited her son, killed in Iraq, as her inspiration as she announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House against Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan last month said she intended to run against Pelosi, the House speaker, if the San Francisco congresswoman didn't move to impeach President Bush by July 23. Sheehan said Thursday that Pelosi had "protected the status quo" of the corporate elite and had lost touch with people in her district, most of whom, she asserted, want American troops out of Iraq. Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Pelosi, would not comment on Sheehan's candidacy...

Cindy Sheehan Announces Run Against Pelosi Anti-War Activist To Challenge House Speaker For Seat In Congress (AP) SAN FRANCISCO Citing her son as inspiration, a tearful Cindy Sheehan announced her candidacy Thursday for the U.S. House of Representatives. The anti-war activist is running as an independent against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco in Congress since 1987. "The country is ripe for a change," said Sheehan, who spoke at a podium with her son's photograph taped to it. "It's going to start right here and right now." Sheehan's 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004....

A blog written by antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and posted on MichaelMoore.com criticizes Charlotte police for allowing counter-protesters to "try to intimidate us" during Sheehan's antiwar rally Tuesday in Bryant Park. But in a memo to top police administrators, one captain said officers had no issues during the two-hour event and expressed surprise at the complaints. "At the School of the Assassins in Columbus, GA, and in Charlotte, NC, we ran into similar problems: police presence that seemed to be there to foster violence. At both places the neo-Nazi, pro-war fascist group "Gathering of Eagles" came out to mostly try...

Cindy Sheehan Has Her Daily Kos Account Taken Away A useful idiot who is no longer useful gets purged from the movement. I can't post here anymore because my potential run for Congress is not on the Democratic ticket. ... If Speaker Pelosi does her constitutionally mandated duty and I don't run, then I can come back and post. I know a lot of you are hostile towards my candidacy. Please understand that I am doing it for your children and grandchildren (and my surviving ones.) Remember, it's the left that allows "colorful and far-ranging" debates on the issue while...

Just five short weeks ago, terrorist sympathizer Cindy Sheehan staged a public hissy fit and announced she was quitting the Democratic party and the antiwar movement over the failure of the Democrats to end the war in Iraq and personal attacks she received from liberals for criticizing the Democrats' failure.Now, claiming to be motivated by the commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence by her arch-nemesis, President Bush, Sheehan has announced a world tour commencing in the president's hometown of Crawford, Texas, on July 10.Sheehan says she will travel on foot to New Orleans, Ft. Benning, Washington, D.C., New York City...

I’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon ---and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in. I can’t sit back and let this BushCo drag our country further down into the murky quagmire of Fascism and violence, taking the rest of the world with them! I have sat quietly back these past five weeks as the slaughter in Iraq sorrowfully surges along with...

FORT WORTH, Texas: Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan will return to her protest site near President George W. Bush's Texas ranch this weekend to bid farewell to the peace movement. Sheehan will sell some camping items, gather with friends from previous demonstrations and celebrate her 50th birthday in Crawford, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Fort Worth. Then she will hand over the deed of her 5-acre (2-hectare) lot to its new owner, radio talk-show host Bree Walker. "I'm feeling like it was the right decision for me. I feel like it was the best thing to do," Sheehan told...

Call out the Instigator Because there's something in the air We got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution's here You know it's right! - Thunderclap Newman I'm not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, which BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter's sentence (he's not ruling out a full pardon - and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in. I can't sit back and let this BushCo drag our country further down into the murky quagmire...

I’m not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter’s sentence (he’s not ruling out a full pardon —and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in… Did we ever think that the criminality and arrogance of the Nixon White House would be eclipsed in our time with nary a “baaaah” from the Sheeple in Congress?… The recent commutation of I. Scooter Libby’s sentence, however, was the straw that broke my camel’s back of...

When Cindy Sheehan burst on the national scene, it was as an aggrieved mother whose son had died in Iraq. Plainspoken and unscripted, Sheehan delivered an easily relatable story that gave her a kind of moral authority. Since then, some have questioned whether Sheehan has strayed too far politically. In January, she denounced President Bush as a terrorist while standing alongside Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an ally of Fidel Castro's who has said he is prepared to repel a U.S. invasion. The same month, she was arrested at the State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt reading, "2,245...

That shrill sound you're hearing isn't coming from the cicadas. It's the cackle of conservatives reveling in war protester Cindy Sheehan's abrupt decision to leave the anti-war movement and return home to California. Typical liberal, they're saying. Cut and run.

Cindy Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, said Monday that she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war movement. In a 1,245-word missive entitled "Goodbye Attention Whore" posted on the liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in Iraq had strained her relationship with her children, cost her a marriage and left her nearly penniless.

Sheehan: My son "did indeed die for nothing" • She is upset that Democrats and anti-war politicians can't end Iraq war • She is exhausted by the personal, financial and emotional toll • "I am going to take whatever I have left and go home," she wrote Adjust font size: Decrease fontDecrease font Enlarge fontEnlarge font (CNN) -- Cindy Sheehan, the California mother who became an anti-war leader after her son was killed in Iraq, declared Monday she was walking away from the peace movement.

Yesterday she violated Rule One of nutroots politics as articulated by the Chairman himself: she undermined the Democratic Party. Twenty-four abusive hours later, on a day dedicated to honor people like her son, Mother Sheehan’s decided it’s time to pitch one last attention-getting fit and then take her absolute moral authority ball and go home. ===================================================== I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize...

Well, sports fans, at roughly the same time I was putting together my article concerning the media ignoring Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democrat Party, the antiwar heroine was expressing similar sentiments at Daily Kos. In a piece entitled “Good Riddance Attention Whore,” Sheehan literally tore apart those who used to fawn over her so adoringly (h/t Charles at LGF). After a brief introduction, Cindy shared feelings about her role as an antiwar spokesperson that many on the right have been expressing for almost two years

Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "Peace Mom" who gained national attention protesting President Bush's Iraq war policy by remaining camped in a ditch near his Crawford, Texas, ranch, has issued a resignation letter as the face of the American anti-war movement. "Good-bye America," Sheehan writes in her online diary, "you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it." Sheehan says she came to her "heartbreaking conclusions" this Memorial Day morning, saying, "These are not spur of the moment reflections, but things...

Hello, my name is Cindy Sheehan and my son Casey Sheehan was killed on April 04, 2004 in Sadr City , Baghdad , Iraq . He was killed when the Republicans still were in control of Congress. Naively, I set off on my tireless campaign calling on Congress to rescind George’s authority to wage his war of terror. Now, with Democrats in control of Congress, I have lost my optimistic naiveté and have become cynically pessimistic as I see you all caving into as one Daily Kos poster called: "Mr. 28%" It used to be George Bush’s war. You could...

By Cindy Sheehan Karl Rove and his manipulative, behind the scenes machinations continue even though he had to resign in disgrace from BushCo. Also, the willing tools of the Republican killing machine, including Karl Rove, with whom they have formed an unholy alliance, Move America Forward, are helping Rove whip a group called “Gathering of Eagles” into a frenzy over something that is not and was not ever going to occur. Okay, I am not sure that Karl Rove started this particular pile of horse pucky, but it sure has his stank all over it, so we are going to...

American "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan called for the closure of the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as she and other activists arrived here Saturday to draw attention to the nearly 400 terror suspects held at the remote site. Sheehan is among 12 human rights and anti-war activists who will travel across this Caribbean island next week, arriving at the main gate of the Guantanamo base in eastern Cuba on Thursday - five years after the first prisoners were flown in. "Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything," Sheehan said when asked about the...

In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney announced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush. The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment. McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush...

Activists to Rally for Impeachment By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer December 08, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - Impeachment may be "off the table" for the Democrats' incoming congressional leadership, but left-wing activists will rally across the nation Sunday calling on Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney for what they consider to be human rights abuses and war crimes. More than 50 demonstrations are planned from Connecticut to New Mexico on Sunday, the anniversary of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed Dec. 10, 1948. The anniversary has been dubbed "Human Rights Day." Protesters will lobby...

NEW YORK -- Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who protested the Iraq war by camping outside President Bush's Texas ranch, went on trial with three other women Tuesday on charges of trespassing at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The women tried to deliver an anti-war petition with 70,000-plus signatures to mission officials on March 6. ...

Traveling around the world these past months has given me an education about American history that majoring in the subject at UCLA never did. I have witnessed first hand what US imperialism and militarism can do to countries and societies. I sat with indigenous Hawaiian tribal leaders who shared their tragic stories of how US colonialism and militarism ruined their fishing waters and turned their lands into super-fund sites. I stood in solidarity with Irish peace activists who want the US military off of their soil and US transport and rendition planes to stop using Shannon Airport to land to...

When Republicans lost control of Congress in this month's midterm elections, there was plenty of cheering within the ranks of anti-war activists. Yet that glee at the GOP defeat should not be mistaken for support for Democrats. Although optimistic that the new majority in Congress will help their cause, activists emboldened by a vote largely seen as a referendum on the Iraq war intend to keep up, if not step up, pressure on Democrats and Republicans alike. "Some people felt like celebrating and dancing" over the election's result, said East Bay activist Bob Hanson of Rossmoor Grandparents for Peace. "But...

Friday, 10 November 2006, 10:34 am Press Release: impeachforchange.org National Groups to Announce Movement for Impeachment For immediate release November 9, 2006 Web: http://impeachforchange.org On Saturday, November 11, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, just across from Independence Hall, where the U.S. Constitution was written and signed, a coalition of national organizations will announce plans to mobilize a movement to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The mobilization will be called ImpeachForChange. Speakers will include Elizabeth Holtzman, former Member of Congress, served on the House panel that voted to impeach President Nixon, and author of "The Impeachment...

An Interview with Cindy Sheehan by Joshua Frank Frank: I've heard a rumor that you may be looking to start your own third party. Is that true? Sheehan: Yes, it is true. I think that to save our democracy our country needs a viable and credible third party. This nation was founded on rule by a few rich white males, and for all intents and purposes, we are still ruled by a corporate elite. We need a third party that will represent all the people, not just the wealthy

He told her that Cindy’s grief had turned into panic attacks that forced her to leave a job with Napa County. At home, she took refuge with a computer that became her companion day and night.“This went on for months,” Cherie recounted. “Cindy had become addicted to online chat rooms of a pornographic nature. She had many men communicating with her. She eventually had physical rendezvous as well.

DIRECT LINK TO THIS ARTICLE - CLICK HERE What are Cindy Sheehan fans saying about the early sales and high-profile publicity a new book highly critical of the anti-war figure is getting? They are calling one of the authors "fat." They are calling another one a "whore." They are using the "b-word" about both of them. And those are the calmer reactions. Supporters of Sheehan have become enraged at the success that the new patriotic book, "American Mourning," the latest release from WND Books written by talk-radio star Melanie Morgan and veteran journalist Catherine Moy. "American Mourning: A Story of...

Shock and AweI visited the 9/11 memorial in Wesley Bolin Plaza Tuesday and I was stunned by what I saw.  Here's how the Governor describes the memorial.According to governor spokeswoman Shilo Mitchell , Napolitano described the memorial as being " unique, bold, educational and unforgettable," she said. " The memorial uses the sun to articulate words and thoughts."The memorial is an elevated flat ring with phrases cut through the metal.  Throughout the day, the sun shines through the ring and phrases become visible on the side walk.                        What kind of phrases?  Politically correct phrases that bash America.  That's what...

Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!" On the fifth anniversary week of the Sept. 11 attacks, the anger of entertainment industry liberals and anti-war zealots is directed not at Islamic terrorists telling us to convert or die. Not at American al-Qaida operative Adam Gadahn smirking at our country's pain and praising the throat-slitting, children-incinerating hijackers as "strong-willed men." No, their thoughts are not focused on killing jihadists. Their dreams lie with killing George W. Bush. The mainstreaming of presidential assassination chic is on. In her new...

Cindy Sheehan: Confessions of a Dangerous Mom The right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom. In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush, thereby preventing the Iraq War. In fact, she reveals, her son's death in that war almost drove her to take her own life: "Every night I had to restrain myself from taking my entire bottle of sleeping pills instead of just one." Other targets of her...

In her new book due out Sept. 19, "Peace Mom," Cindy Sheehan writes of her fantasies of killing President Bush.Sheehan, whose son Army Spc. Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq in April, 2004, couches her desire for the murder of the President by saying she wishes she could go back in time and kill George Bush as an infant in order to prevent the Iraq war.Sheehan has been trying for over a year to meet with President Bush, but to no avail. She met with the President once in 2004 shortly after her son gave his life in Iraq. Since...

Sheehan's Texas protests die down Nation: Anti-war demonstrations smaller; critics say movement lost fire. By Angela K. Brown, Associated Press Long Beach Press Telegram CRAWFORD, Texas - This one-stoplight town, especially the road leading to President Bush's ranch, turned out to be much quieter than it was last summer. The 700-resident town's streets were clogged last year as more than 10,000 people began streaming in over the 26-day vigil, which started when Cindy Sheehan demanded to talk to Bush about the war that claimed her oldest son's life in 2004. It was a different picture last month when war protesters...

CRAWFORD, Texas - Anti-war demonstrators said Sunday they hope the end of President Bush's ranch vacation doesn't hurt attendance at their protest during the rest of the summer. They urged opponents of the war in Iraq to come to the five-acre campsite purchased last month by Cindy Sheehan, who resumed her protest a week ago. Sheehan's first trek to Crawford one year ago during Bush's monthlong vacation turned into a 26-day vigil that drew more than 10,000 people and spurred counter-protests by Bush supporters. A few hundred war opponents returned at Thanksgiving, when Bush was at his ranch, and again...

It was at the Veterans for Peace national convention in Dallas last year that Cindy Sheehan says she was galvanized to seek a meeting with President Bush at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. The result was a 26-day sit-down protest near Bush's ranch that attracted common folk and luminaries from across the nation, rejuvenating the anti-war movement.    On Thursday, Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, was at the Veterans for Peace national convention at the University of Washington. Now almost 40 days into her fast supporting war resisters and...

Adding to the historical record of our times in song. This is a little known song from THE RIFLEMAN'S Johnny Crawford. MIDI - CINDY'S BIRTHDAY (brief musical intro) Her clock just got cleaned but good...she still hasn't understood She, of course, will blame the Jews...bigots do that when they lose She is nothing but a lowlife slug Wave bye bye to Cindy...goodbye to Jihad Cindy She says she's still gonna fight...she sang quite a song last night Simon just sent her a note...for her, Idol fans should vote There's a new career awaiting her Wave bye bye to Cindy...goodbye to...

A year after her first war protest in President Bush's adopted hometown attracted thousands and reinvigorated the nation's peace movement, Cindy Sheehan resumed her vigil Sunday. Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush's ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver's license and said she wanted to meet with the president.

Our nation stands at an important precipice: War has been declared against our nation; our people have been killed and wounded in this war, and yet a sizable portion of our population is unwilling to recognize this war and stand up to fight it. The war is of course the battle between Islamic jihadists and the United States of America and our allies in the West. Right now the brave people of Israel are on the front lines of this battle, one that poses a far greater threat to mankind and the civilized world than even the most diabolical machinations...

I was one of a number of Jewish conservatives who spoke out in defense of Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of The Christ. (See "More Power To Mel," published in FrontPageMag.com on February 10, 2004.) For that, I have no regrets. I believed then – and continue to believe – that The Passion is not anti-Semitic. However, based on what followed Gibson’s drunk-driving arrest on Friday, I’m convinced that the actor/director himself is an anti-Semite. According to various news reports, when he was arrested by a sheriff’s deputy in Malibu for DUI, Gibson was enraged. At one point, he reportedly...

A new poll by Insider Advantage shows challenger Hank Johnson with a hefty lead over incumbent CynthiaMcKinney in the Democratic run-off for the 4th District congressional race. The poll shows Johnson leading McKinney, 46 to 21 percent, with a third of voters undecided. The survey recorded the responses of 489 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 5 percent. Run-offs are notorious for low turnout, which often makes telephone surveys unreliable. Matt Towery, CEO of InsiderAdvantage, said he was unwilling to say that McKinney was headed for certain defeat. "But is she in deep, deep, deep, deep...

Local blogger, Charles Ryder, went down to the Iraq Embassy yesterday with camera in hand to cover the latest Cindy Sheehan/Code PinkO "Look At ME! I'm starving For Peace" media stunt.There were only six or seven PinkOs in attendance, no mention of any mainstream media.It looks like the Jamba Juice Smoothies, protein shakes and coffees with dollops of ice cream are taking their toll on Mother Moonbat Sheehan's waistline, so much so that she had to wear a tablecloth as a skirt...WARNING: BARF ALERT !! Photo Credit: Charles Ryder, Age of Hooper

Very old Hollywood joke: Starving beggar with tin cup: ''I haven't eaten for three days.'' Zsa Zsa Gabor: ''Dahlink, I wish I had your will power.'' Up-to-the-minute Hollywood joke, from Agence-France Presse: ''U.S. Stars Align In Anti-Iraq War Hunger Strike. ''Star Hollywood actor-activists including Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon and anti-war campaigners led by bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan plan to launch a hunger strike, demanding the immediate return of U.S. troops from Iraq. ''As Americans get set to fire up barbecues in patriotic celebration of U.S. Independence Day on July 4, anti-war protesters planned to savor a last meal outside...

The blurb below was taken from MSNBC.com. I wonder how long it would take us to raise the funds to fly her there. ‘Wrong and immoral’ July 5: Activist Cindy Sheehan, who is leading a hunger strike against the war in Iraq, tells Norah O’Donnell she would rather live under Hugo Chavez than George W. Bush. Watch the entire interview on “Hardball” at 5 p.m. ET.

Here is Mother Sheehan's Fourth Of July love poem to our country. Courtesy of her fellow America-hater, Michael Moore: Bombs Bursting in AirMonday, July 3rd, 2006By Cindy SheehanThe rockets red glare,Bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the nightThat our flag was still there.Oh, say does thatStar spangled banner yet wave,O'er the land of the free,And the home of the brave.The star spangled banner has been in the news quite a lot lately. Some "courageous" Senators, including one of my own, Dianne Feinstein and everyone's favorite left-wing liberal, Hillary Clinton, bravely stuck their necks out to support an amendment that would...