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Ah, the Summer of '05! William Rivers Pitt was the Pied Piper of DUmmieland, prolix prog blogger supreme, leading an army of psychophants enthralled with the Pitt and the Ponderous. True, a chink had emerged in his armor through the Andyscam scandal, but Pied Piper Pitt had recovered nicely and was back to leading the anti-Bush hatefest at the DUmp. Yes, it was a young, vigorous, 33-year-old William Rivers Pitt back then, a rising star in the ranks of the barking moonbats. And William had his eye set on higher things still: talking headness, punditry, a paid position on...

Now that the Capitol's frogs have been kissed, the impasse over the state budget jumps back under the dome. Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan is coming under attack from peace activist Cindy Sheehan and others, who say they'll begin occupying the Capitol next Monday to protest what they're calling his "savage austerity measures." Peace of the Action, United Progressives, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, the Peace and Freedom Party and several other organizations are backing what their news release bills as a "prolonged occupation" in support of a statewide push next week by the California Teachers Association and other...

The image most of us conjure when the name Cindy Sheehan surfaces is that of an enervated woman standing in the summer swelter on the side of the road, a few miles from George W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas. Sheehan's four-week long vigil began August 6, 2005, when the Iraq war protests began to reach full boil. The media referred to it as Camp Casey, the name of her son, killed in enemy action in April 2004. Demanding a meeting with Bush, Sheehan stood near her pup tent and told members of Veterans for Peace, "And another thing I...

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.

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....

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...

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...

In yet another case of strange (or not-so-strange) bedfellows, it seems former anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has her fair share of fans among the Syrian government and its lackey government media. Her decision to "step down" as the figurehead of the anti-war movement because of her disappointment with the Democrat Party, has led to a flurry of commentary in Syria. The Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri.org)'s latest report quotes an op-ed from Dr. Buthayna Sha'ban, Syria's Minister of Expatriate Affairs, on the subject: Cindy Sheehan's letter makes it clear that she received all the backup and support [she needed]...

I have endured a lot of smears and hatred since my son Casey was killed in Iraq and especially since I became the so-called "face" of the American anti-war movement. And, especially since I renounced any ties I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the milder rebukes. I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day morning. These are not spur-of-the-moment reflections, but things I have been meditating on for about a year...

Scott Soares, San Francisco Not effective at all. She was a mouthpiece of the radical left, and only showed how easy it is to mock groups like Code Pink, ANSWER, etc. When you cozy up to dictators like Chavez and openly degrade the U.S., your 15 minutes are up. Good riddance, Cindy. Michael Bush, Santa Cruz I thank Sheehan for her effort in general and for the unknowable number of consciousnesses she raised. Effective? Only if we put an end to this dismal Iraq adventure. Cindy Sheehan has done more than her share. Toby Dixon, San Francisco She was...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced Monday she is giving up her role as the "face" of the American anti-war movement. Sheehan, 49, of Vacaville, Calif., lost her 24-year-old son Casey in Iraq on April 4, 2004. She has since emerged as one of the most vocal and high-profile opponents of the war, drawing international attention nearly two years ago when she camped outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch to protest the war. "I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try...

After the 2006 elections in November, I frequently wrote about the Democrats’ bait and switch campaign scheme whereby Party members had made promises to the electorate they never intended to keep, one of them clearly being an expeditious withdrawal of troops from Iraq.On such occasions, I asserted that once folks realized they had been lied to, something with a foul aroma would hit the fan.Well, on Friday evening, it was liberal actor Ben Affleck castigating his Party for caving in on the recent Iraq war funding bill.On Saturday morning, one of the leaders of the antiwar movement, Cindy Sheehan, was...

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...

The Democrat challenging Republican Rep. John Doolittle lashed out at the incumbent Friday after a series of Republican-financed attacks questioning his support for U.S. troops. In a rare display of anger, Charlie Brown called Doolittle a coward who is "hiding behind the flag" and slammed him for failing to serve in Vietnam. "While I was being shot at in Vietnam, John Doolittle was practicing his tennis game at (the University of California) Santa Cruz," Brown said during a news conference as he was surrounded by fellow veterans. Brown, 56, left the Air Force in 1998 after 26 years of service....

Sheehan treated at Waco hospital 10:26 PM CDT on Friday, August 11, 2006 Associated Press WACO – Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to say what Sheehan was being treated for and declined to release additional information. Sheehan was taken to the Waco hospital after friends picked her up Friday afternoon at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport,...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan (R) wipes her brow as she maintains her vigil near a roadside checkpoint leading to U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas August 7, 2006. Sheehan's military son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, and for a year has sought to meet President Bush about the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

The American Left as "crisis cult" Clinical psychologist Robert Godwin proposes an interesting framework for understanding the increasingly bizarre behavior of the American Left at his very interesting website One Cosmos. Drawing on the work of psychoanalytic anthropologist Weston LaBarre, he posits that the left has become a “crisis cult” such as are found in societies whose bedrock assumptions break down in the face of the superior strength of foreign cultures impinging on their territory. Probably the most famous of the crisis cults are the cargo cults which developed in Melanesia. The Cargo Cults believe that manufactured western goods (‘cargo’)...

U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan gestures next to Social- Democrat Party Leader Alfred Gusenbauer during a news conference at Vienna's airport June 19, 2006. Sheehan arrived in Vienna to support protesters during the visit of U.S. President Bush in Vienna, Wednesday, June 21, 2006.

Crawford, Texas -- California peace activist Cindy Sheehan returned to Texas on Wednesday for another war protest near President Bush's ranch, although he was to spend the weekend at Camp David. The anti-war demonstrators accused Bush, who has spent every Easter at his Crawford ranch since he was elected, of running from them and their message to bring the U.S. troops home from Iraq immediately. "We chased him away from his ranch," said Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004. "We protest all over the country without him being in attendance, so I don't think it takes...

"Susan Sarandon (R) introduces Cindy Sheehan at the 'Bring Em Home Now!' concert in New York, March 20, 2006. The peace concert marked the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the war. REUTERS/Erin Siegal "

Cindy Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her son was killed in Iraq, is arrested in front the building which houses the American Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Monday, March 6, 2006 in New York. Sheehan and three other anti war activist were arrested after trying to deliver a letter to the American mission. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Cindy Sheehan, who drew international attention when she camped outside President Bush's ranch to protest the Iraq war, was arrested Monday along with three other women during a demonstration demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The march to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations by about a dozen U.S. and Iraqi anti-war activists followed a news conference at U.N. headquarters, where Iraqi women described daily killings and ambulance bombings as part of the escalating violence that keeps women in their homes. Women Say No to War, which helped organize the news conference and march, said Sheehan and...

What a shame the Michelin Man got himself arrested. Oh wait, that's Cindy Sheehan: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/malex130/capt.jpg

Not for the faint of heart:AHHHHHH!!!!

Caption Cindy's Antics.

I posted here Tuesday night that Cindy Sheehan is coming to speak at Chicago's St. Xavier University in mid-February. Here is the entire press release, courtesy of St. Xavier's web site: U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan will give a lecture titled "One Person Can Make a Difference, Not One More" at Saint Xavier University’s Shannon Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16. This will mark Sheehan’s first lecture on a college campus and in Illinois. Sheehan won nationwide attention with an anti-war vigil outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch after her son, Army Specialist Casey A. Sheehan, was...

Fresh from a trip to the World Social Forum in Venezuela--where she met with President Hugo Chavez, "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan has a visit to Chicago's Southwest Side coming up, the Daily Southtown reports.St. Xavier University will host Cindy Sheehan on February 16 at 7:30pm at the school's Shannon Center. Expect a lot of Code Pink activists and their ilk prowling around St. Xavier that night.

9:00 P.M. EST!!! It's a great day to be a Republican!!!!

You know the drill. Someone attacks President Bush in some vicious way and they immediately score a megbuck book deal with Viacom's publishing arm, Simon & Schuster. Next, they get a puff piece on Viacom's CBS show, "Sixty Minutes." We've seen it how many times before? Viacom has become an everflowing sewer pipe pipeline of hate America agitpop. Behold the breathless press release: Atria Books Acquires Memoir by Peace Activist Cindy SheehanMonday January 9, 4:20 pm ET NEW YORK, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive Vice President and Publisher Judith Curr announced today that Atria Books will publish a memoir by...

Michael Moore’s site, the moonbat “peace mom” dispenses her special brand of wisdom, with the headache-inducing title: The Opposite of Good is Apathy. (Hat tip: Decision ‘08.) “I would say 30,000 more or less have died as a result of the initial incursion and the ongoing violence against Iraqis,” said George on December 12, 2005. Even if one accepts this very low guess-ti-mate by George, his policies have been responsible for ten times the 3000 deaths on September 11, 2001. By his own admission, he is ten times the terrorist that Osama ever was. If George says 30,000 ... who...

This past Thanksgiving, my grandparents brought to me a recent issue of Aramica, a non-sectarian, non-partisan, bilingual newspaper focusing on the issues, events, and people impacting the Arab American community which, in New York and New Jersey alone, numbers well over 350,000. Aramica maintains a good reputation, or so I thought, until I looked at the cover page and lo and behold, there was Cindy Sheehan. Some people call this woman a "media whore." I don't like this nor do I agree with this. However, ever since Hurricane Katrina knocked Cindy off page one, she's been popping up in a...

#1: The hero's welcome! #2: Commemorating "Sheehan's Stand" #3: The book signing

Do you think she'll go out with me?

« Screwing Over the Boy Scouts | Main September 21, 2005 The AP, Washington Post, and other news sources gleefully mentioned Cindy Sheehan's march on the White House this afternoon. With the exception of Reuters, however, they were all more than willing to forego this little tidbit of information: Mrs Sheehan was joined by about 30 supporters in her march down Pennsylvania Avenue to deliver a letter to Bush urging him to pull the troops out of Iraq.

Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war activist whose soldier-son fell in Iraq, could fit in quite snugly among Israel's Four Mothers. They too included members who shamelessly exploited their painful losses to bolster superficial slogans with emotional appeal. Cindy is no different from the equally personable Orna Shmueli, a sincere but no less misguided do-gooder. She and her colleagues - abetted and amplified by sympathetic media, left-wing propagandists, pseudo-pacifist draft-dodgers and political objectors - hawked facile panaceas and delectably simplistic solutions. Inevitably they wrought real damage. They helped spur Israel's middle-of-the-night flight from Lebanon, rendering half the country - from Hadera northward...

The Madness of the Left September 2nd, 2005 A cynic might speculate that the tide must be turning against the monsters, the jihadist murderers and other assorted thugs, as Jane Fonda has announced that she’s rolling up her sleeves and hitting the road ( with the odious George Galloway as the opening act) to work for--surprise!—an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Fonda, her ageless beauty disfigured and her resplendent talent tarnished by a lifelong advocacy of evil causes, lusts so passionately for America’s defeat that she is even willing to make a mockery of her iconic feminism to...

Stormfronters' Rally In Crawford, TX On Saturday & Sunday Aug. 27 & 28 I'm driving out to Crawford, Texas tomorrow, Friday August 26th to help put up a White Nationalist voice in the protest against Bush's War for Israel that was started by Cindy Sheehan. We'll be uploading digital photos, and maybe video, from Crawford so that Stormfront's 58,000 Members (achieved today) and hundreds of thousands of Guests can follow the events in Crawford from a White patriot perspective. If you live anywhere within a driving distance that won't put you out too much, would you please join us on...

I got up really early today to head back to Camp Casey. On the way, I had some amazing conversations with people. In one of those conversations, I was talking to Tyler who was sitting next to me on one of the planes. We were not talking about me and what I have been doing. Randomly, he told me he had just been in Texas about an hour north of Crawford. I said: "Wow that's where I am going and that's where I have been all month." He said: "I know I own a television." I thought that was pretty...

International Cindy Sheehan shows Bush is now losing in Iraq and at home For the past week Cindy Sheehan has camped outside George Bush’s ranch in Texas demanding the opportunity to ask him why her son Casey was sent to die in an illegal and immoral war. Cindy says of her campaign, “We are gathering people together in this country who believe that this war is a mistake and our troops should come home. “I know people have been frustrated, either sitting on the fence or apathetically sitting on the sidelines. I know before Casey was killed, I didn’t think...

Freepers: Arianna Huffington is blocking posts that are critical to Cindy Sheehan's blog. A few are getting through, mainly those from military members, or family of military members. I have been trying to post since 7:30 PM, EST. Where are the virtues of "free Speech" now? Is it only well and good when one's post is favorable to Cindy Sheehan? This site/blog deserves to be freeped!

Memo to Drudge, et al: It's Not About Me, It's About the War (134 comments ) Even after my repeated attempts to keep the focus of my protest on the war, the Drudge Report and others continue to try to make the issue about me. But I am not the issue. The issue is a disastrous war that's killing our sons and daughters and making our country less secure. They attack me because they can no longer defend this war. I've come to Crawford to bring to the president's doorstep the harsh realities of a war he's been trying so...

American Nazi Idol By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | August 18, 2005 LAST NIGHT THERE WERE 1,500 CANDLELIGHT VIGILS FOR CINDY SHEEHAN AND ONE BURNING CROSS. Sheehan has become the poster girl for the antiwar Left, because her status as a grieving mother renders the 48-year-old Vacaville, California, native more sympathetic than Medea Benjamin, Ramsey Clark, or Michael Moore (whose website hosts Sheehan’s blog). However, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and racist extremists have also begun gathering around the Gold Star Families for Peace founder. Leading the parade is none other than "former" Klansman David Duke. Duke recently authored the article, "Why Cindy Sheehan...