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Anti-war students shut down school board meeting. Adults cower. The cycle begins.

The moonbats continue to bash the Blue Angels in San Francisco. Here’s video of one of the leaders trying to kick the Blue Angels out of the city for Fleet Week. The Examiner’s letters page shows that there are a few sane people left there. A sampling:
I find it interesting and somewhat amusing that Supevisor [...]

Anti-military loons in the Bay Area are working together to drive the Blue Angels out of San Francisco for Fleet Week:
The annual aerial show by the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels — a San Francisco tradition dating back to 1981 that pumps millions into the local economy — is running into opposition from three local peace [...]

Ready to gag? Check out this nursery school video from NYC, in which three-year-old toddlers are used as props for an anti-war protest at a local politician’s office. The video is at NYPress politics blog:

That green construction-paper thingie that looks like it’s about to devour the two little boys is a “Tree of Peace.” The [...]

In Portland, Oregon.
Yes, question their patriotism.
Speaking of which, the “patriotism” of the moonbats and the Gathering of Eagles were topics briefly discussed tonight on our O’Reilly Factor segment tonight. Fox aired a bit of our Hot Air video report. If you’re just checking in for the first time tonight and haven’t seen it, go here [...]

Hanoi Jane is scheduled to appear at an anti-war protest at the Navy Memorial this weekend. From the United for Peace website:
10am: Women Say Pull Out! Women’s Convergence for DC Mobilization
Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey, Rhea Perlman, Eve Ensler, Mimi Kennedy, Q’orianka Kilcher, the Co-founders of CODEPINK and many [...]

Columbia University junior and Marine corporal Matt Sanchez has a must-read in today’s NYPost:
DiD you hear the one about the Marines that Columbia University invited to campus for Fleet Week?
Not any time in the last few decades, you didn’t.
But you might have heard the one about the Marine who was told by a fellow Columbia [...]

I wrote last week that we’d see more outbreaks of anti-military vandalism leading up to Election Day. In upstate New York on Halloween eve, “(expletive) Bush” and a depiction of a penis were scrawled on the 20-by-40-foot flag and similar pictures in the same shade of green were painted on the American Legion Mohawk Post.
Now [...]

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Dan Riehl notes that libs are rallying behind Kerry because he was just speaking “the truth.” Via the SFChronicle website:
(Note: Images removed 06/07/2007 to facilitate web site re-design. As of June 2007, the SF Chronicle link still works.)

Chickenhawk invocation? Check. Absolute moral authority card? Check. Unapologetic elitism? Check. Check. Check.
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It’s moonbat season and [...]

***update: the school backs down! Michael Graham reports: “As I’m about to report exclusively on my show in 20 minutes, King Philip High has backed down under pressure from angry supporters of the US military. They’re going to allow representatives of West Point and the ROTC at graduation on Sunday (not tonight’s awards event, alas) [...]

In the Stamford, Conn., school district.
Why? Mostly, it seems, because school officials and parents didn’t want the inconvenience of an extra school day in June. I’m not so crazy about all the days kids get off from school anyway, but the veterans have a good point in response to school officials who disingenuously argue that [...]

First, the UC Santa Cruz thugs drive recruiters off their campus. Then, anti-war nuts target ROTC facilities in North Carolina. Now this via the Minneapolis Star Tribune (hat tip: reader David):

S-T caption: Three people were apprehended this afternoon by police after pouring paint on an Army recruiting station near the University of Minnesota during an [...]

Here’s how they show support for the military at UC Santa Cruz (hat tip: Brian Maloney and reader Allen) - via the Santa Cruz News Sentinel:
Military recruiters packed up their displays and left a UC Santa Cruz job fair Tuesday after several protesters attempted to force themselves inside the fair while others blocked the entrance [...]

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In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings.
You write a letter to the editor.
Here’s a Tom Toles cartoon that our military leaders did not appreciate:

Here’s a letter to the editors [...]

***update: Hugh Hewitt interviewed Joel Stein today and posts his thoughts…transcript and audio at Radioblogger…***
Some website has named me the 49th most loathsome person in America. (I’m just ahead of Geraldo. Others on the list: 30) Hillary Clinton; 29) Terri Schiavo; 19) James Sensenbrenner; 13) God; 4) You.)
You want loathsome? I nominate LA Times [...]

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Lots of blog buzz over MoveOn.org’s latest, noxious anti-war propaganda. First, check out the video here (in Quicktime).
Notice this?

Best of the Web reported yesterday on a sharp-eyed Army captain’s reaction to that scene in MoveOn’s fund-raising ploy:
I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I happened to [...]

From the unhinged cartoonist/columnist who sneers at our volunteer troops as murderers for Halliburton and derided Army Ranger Pat Tillman as an “idiot” and a “sap,” comes this new slander of the troops:

Conservative Dialysis takes aim at Rall’s odious moral equivalence.
But we mustn’t question the Left’s patriotism, right?

From the “We support the troops by smearing blood all over their offices” file:
The infamous “St Patrick’s Four” anti-war zealots who “poured their blood” all over a military recruiting center in Ithaca, N.Y.–on the walls, windows, doors, and smeared on an America flag–are back in court today for a re-trial:
Four anti-war protesters who spilled their [...]

I know, I know, we’re not supposed to question any leftist’s patriotism. So how then should we make sense of this?
The USS Iowa joined in battles from World War II to Korea to the Persian Gulf. It carried President Franklin Roosevelt home from the Teheran conference of allied leaders, and four decades later, suffered [...]

Smash explains.
Doesn’t San Diego have more important business to attend to?

By distributing hateful flyers like this.
Hat tip: Rocco DiPippo
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Related:
Smash counters the counter-recruiters. Must-read.
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And here’s how some righty bloggers are supporting the troops:
La Shawn Barber calls attention to the Helping Our Heroes Foundation.
Molten Thought is holding a “Rear Echelon” blogathon to raise money for the Armed Forces Reserve Trust.
Don’t forget Soldiers’ Angels.

Blogger Billy Yates sends along today’s neologism:
Durbinize, verb.
1. To make, either explicitly or implicitly, a moral, political, or factual equivalence between two situations which in reality have little or nothing in common. (After U. S. Senator Richard Durbin (D, ILL) who compared the alleged abusive treatment of a terrorist detainee held at Guantanamo Bay with [...]

Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette sends along this blood-boiling story. If you live in Idaho, please consider showing up to counter the hate and support Spc. Carrie French, whose death is being exploited by so-called Christians.

The ever-vigilant Neal Boortz was all over the story of a middle school that refused to allow a Marine to come visit a class of sixth-graders that had written him letters while he served in Iraq. After getting pressure from Boortz’s listeners and others across the country, the local superintendent has now apologized.

Ranting Right Wing [...]

Oh yeah, there it is…today’s poisonous dose from Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal cartoonist David Horsey at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

For balance, recall this. And bookmark embedded reporter Michael Yon’s excellent blog.

This just in…
Military deserter and anti-war Left poster boy Pablo Paredes has been denied conscientious objector status. His request for Other than Honorable discharge in lieu of a court-martial trial has also been denied. In a press release e-mailed this morning by his brother, the Paredes family reported:
Massive support activities for Pablo Paredes are being [...]

Here’s your blood pressure-raiser of the day.
Dateline Santa Cruz….
UC Santa Cruz junior Jonathan Perez dressed in a suit and tie Tuesday, hoping to impress company recruiters at the campus job fair.
But more than 200 student anti-war protesters got there first, storming the Stevenson Event Center, shouting and banging on windows and demanding that military recruiters [...]

Good piece at Front Page magazine by Jamie Weinstein, a Cornell student in the trenches. An excerpt:
I guess I overestimated the movement to drive our military off campus. While it is true I believed the motivating force behind it was hatred for our troops,and not “discrimination,” I thought that the shameful protesters would at least [...]

Lost in the news last week was a bizarre incident involving Hasan Akbar, the Muslim soldier charged with a fatal fragging incident two years ago that killed two and injured 14 troops. Here’s what happened:
(FORT BRAGG) – Wednesday morning’s scheduled hearing for an Army sergeant accused in a fatal grenade attack in Kuwait was postponed [...]

For those of you who have been following the Seattle anti-war school spectacle we’ve been blogging about for the past week (see here and here), there are new developments. I just got off the phone with Maj. Terry Thomas, who was in attendance at the moonbat assembly at West Seattle High School. He’ll be meeting [...]