Cambridge to Boy Scouts: Get your stinkin' collection boxes out of our polling places

Sheesh....

I've lived in Central Square for almost 30 years,
and I never cease to be amazed (and embarrassed) by
the abject stoopidity of my PC neighbors. And what's
with the spineless election commissioner who didn't
just tell the complainer to bugger off?

On the plus side, in a move that may be construed by
the same crowd as pro-war, Cambridge is actually making sure
that serving city employees receive full pay and
benefits:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1149882451

When somebody raised the possibility of getting kids together to make up care packages for our troups a couple of years ago, the knee-jerk brigade threw fits on the grade school list because "supporting troops = pro war".

I challenged that perspective, despite having actively protested the war. Why? Because kids and adults putting together packages of phone cards, underwear, and basic toiletry needs ultimately can't avoid actually questioning WHY our country can't even provide SHAMPOO and TOOTHPASTE or an internet phone line to people who are purportedly risking their lives for us!

If anything, it works nicely as a conversion activity. It raises awareness of the stupidity involved in this quagmire.

That doesn't surprise me at all. The "Support our troops" bumper stickers are meant to imply falsely, "If you don't support the war, you hate the soldiers," but in the case of the Cambridge city government, it's probably a correct conclusion.

It's a real shame that the person who complained could care less about the brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, Aunts and Uncles over there risking their lives.

The Boy Scout troop was merely asking for some toiletry donations, not weapons or bombs.

I think we should kick the person out of the Country!

Just send the boy scouts over - they are a paramilitary organization anyway and rather than expose the troops these little toy soldiers make a smaller target.

It's a pointless war, a waste of time, effor life and American lives - send the Scouts over now to kick terrorist butt!!

The Marine Corps Intelligence Association has a similar program that supports deployed Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. MCIA Inc. would be glad to partner with the Boy Scouts to support the troops in the field.

http://www.mcia-inc.org/s2carepackage.htm

S/F,

William McNulty
Secretary, MCIA Inc.

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3864
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 2
Total 3866
DoD Confirmation List

11/15/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. Derek R. Banks, 24, of Newport News, Va., died Nov. 14 in San Antonio of wounds suffered Oct. 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, when the vehicle he was in struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 237th Engineer Company...

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 3874
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 1
Total 3875
DoD Confirmation List
Latest Coalition Fatality: Nov 20, 2007

11/20/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 3)
Cpl. Christopher J. Nelson, 22, Rochester, Wash...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis...died in Baquabah...when an IED detonated during a mounted patrol in Baquabah

11/20/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 2)
Cpl. Jason T. Lee, 26, of Fruitport, Mich...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis...died in Balad...when an IED detonated during a mounted patrol in Baquabah

11/20/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualties (part 1)
Pfc. Marius L. Ferrero, 23, of Miami, Fla...assigned to the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis...died in Baqubah...when an improvised explosive device detonated during a mounted patrol

11/19/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
2nd Lt. Peter H. Burks, 26, of Dallas, Texas, died Nov. 14 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

11/19/07 DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty
Staff Sgt. Alejandro Ayala, 26, of Riverside, Calif., died Nov. 18 of injuries sustained as a result of a vehicle accident in Kuwait. He was assigned to the 90th Logistics Readiness Squadron, F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

11/30/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. 1st Class John J. Tobiason, 42, of Bloomington, Minn., died Nov. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries suffered from an incident that is currently under investigation. He was assigned to the 847th Adjutant General Battalion...

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/wounded/gallery.htm

Corporate Media and the war in Iraq.

Bush Administration’s Lies About Iraq: Compendium of the relentless lies by the Bush/PNAC administration related to the invasion of Iraq, as sold to America by the corporate media.

http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/iraq_lies.html

http://www.afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

Bring em home!

Here is what American citizens are not shown! I only know of one station that salutes our fallen with moments of silence. That would be PBS. No other network that I'm aware of honors them, yet they talk of attacking Iran and Syria!

http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarpix.html#IRAQW...

http://iraq-kill-maim.org/ik01/iraq-kill1.htm

Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins

By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, October 21, 2003; Page A23

Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.

To this problem, the Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers' homecomings on all military bases.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=...

Military Ceremony for Louisiana National Guardsmen Killed in Iraq

Brave family and Louisiana Guardsmen defy Dumbya and the Pentagon!

Six National Guardsmen from Southeast Louisiana were killed by a roadside explosive on 6 January 2005. Their remains, in flag-draped coffins, arrived in Belle Chasse, near New Orleans, six days later.

The Pentagon told the Guard to keep out the media, but the families of all six soldiers wanted to share the sad homecoming with the world. Obeying the family's wishes instead of the Pentagon's, the Guard allowed the press - including CBS News and the Associated Press - to film and photograph the arrival ceremony.

The soldiers:

* Sgt. Armand "Luke" Frickey
* Sgt. 1st Class Kurt Comeaux
* Staff Sgt. Chritopher Babin
* Sgt. Huey Fassbender III
* Sgt. Warren Murphy
* Sgt. Bradley Bergeron

http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/la/

The fearless leaders of this great nation who would propagate more unending war!

http://www.symbolman.com/chickenhawks.html