O BOY. I will be so tuned in. This is so cool.

HIYO SILVER!! Who is that masked man? Oh boy, it's BRAD! Be careful and good luck.

Brad-

A donation will be mailed. Have fun in Crawford!!!

Also, Winter P and the gang an excellent choice to fill some very big shoe's while Brad is in Crawford ..... all of you .... are truly great patriots and a fine group of journalists.

"Thank all of You" for helping to save Democracy and America !!!

Sorry I couldn't get back out there again Brad. It would have been an honor to meet you. I heard Joan Baez was performing there today. Did you see her there? Anyway, I'm proud of you and glad you're there to kick some Bush ass. Rock on.

Hey Brad,

Isn't there anyway to rent a bigger parcel so everyone could park and protest in one space?

Can you find out why the Peace House turned down the 212 acres that Fred Mattlage offered?

cool
thanks

I heard from a friend that Fred Mattladge offered his 212 acres so that the scorpions could attack the protesters.

Brad, you sure do throw around the word "miracles" a lot.

Because of Global Warming and in Texas in August, it's hot as a firecracker outside. Good luck Brad! Without you, this "necessary national discussion" would not be possible.

Some good links to great articles:

Rush Limbaugh says Cindy Sheehan story is a fake...
link

Mike Gallagher's 30-minute soundbite to trash Cindy Sheehan...
link

Two Pa. war protestors "tasered" by police...taken to hospital...
link

How "Drudge Report" attempts to make Cindy Sheehan appear extremist...
http://www.infowars.com/...ehan_cindy_unleashed.htm

Cindy Sheehan to Drudge: "It's not about me, it's about the WAR"...
http://www.huffingtonpos...dge-et-al-it_b_5868.html

Memorials at Sheehan's "Camp Casey" violently destroyed by Bush-backers...
http://www.infowars.com/...raq/crawford_crosses.htm

Alex Jones at Camp Casey, Crawford...
http://www.prisonplanet....2005/200805campcasey.htm

Bush-backers "Swift-Boating" Cindy Sheehan...
link

It seems strange that many Americans revere protestors in other countries, but ridicule them at home...
http://www.huffingtonpos...al-authority_b_5854.html

Bush's fury over Cindy Sheehan...
http://www.huffingtonpos...over-sheehan_b_5927.html

Cindy Sheehan will return to Camp Casey, Crawford...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/....html?section=cnn_latest

TV station won't air Cindy Sheehan's ad...(so......the Swift Boat ad attacks on Kerry WEREN'T censored, but..........)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9024790/
link

Can Cindy Sheehan end the war?
http://www.freepress.org...mns/display/13/2005/1187

Cindy Sheehan's own words: "Hypocrites & Liars"...
http://www.buzzflash.com...tors/05/08/con05297.html

Add Cindy Sheehan to the attack list of those who tell the truth about Bush...
http://www.buzzflash.com...rial/05/08/edi05059.html

How did Cindy Sheehan gain this much attention?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bi...05/08/20/BAGJCEASE21.DTL

Cindy Sheehan has paid for access to Bush, with the blood of her son...
http://www.latimes.com/n...s20aug20,0,3424348.story

Pro-War folks attacks against Cindy Sheehan show their desperation...
http://www.madison.com/t...p?ntid=50925&ntpid=1

Political comic Will Durst's Q&A about Cindy Sheehan...
http://www.buzzflash.com...urst/05/08/dur05012.html

Bob Koehler: "Hiding from Cindy...The world is watching: George, will you look her in the eye???"...
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col307.htm

Who is pulling the strings at Camp Casey? Is Cindy Sheehan a political puppet of the left?
https://bradblog.com/arc...es/00001729.htm#comments
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/081805A.shtml

Blaming the Anti-War protestors...
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0817-34.htm

Cindy Sheehans speech to Veterans For Peace, the day before going to Crawford...
http://www.veteransforpe...5/sheehan_transcript.htm

Cindy Sheehan: One mother's stand...
http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml

Emails with this website in the body of it, were found to be filtered from Comcast subscribers. The problem has since been remedied.
www.meetwithcindy.org
https://bradblog.com/arc...es/00001720.htm#comments

AND THE BEST FOR LAST!!!

Photo Slide show from some of the 1,600 Cindy Sheehan vigils throughout the United States...
http://www.flickr.com/ph...moveon/sets/774501/show/

Sorry, but the torqued thing does not work for me.

Aaaccckkk. The page width makes it impossible to read.

Big Dan --- if torqued's thingy doesn't work for you, please use this link tinyurl.com to make the long-assed ones "tiny!"

PLEASE!

Paul --- Still holding out for a miracle that you'll come to your senses and stand for peace rather than for Bush!

I can only hope the Democracy and Radio Gods are shining down on our team in Crawford right now!

GO BRAD and DESI and OTIE GO!

I believe in miracles, too, Kat!

Are you going to be in Crawford, too?

YAAAAYYYY!!! RawStory says Brd will broadcast from Crawford Monday.
Joan Baez is in Camp CaseyII singing in free concert right now. Maybe 1000 people. God I wish I was there.

Me tooo, Colleen! :cries, pouts:

Kat,

Who is Otie?

What would be a 'miracle', is if Paul and friends could muster up enough courage to listen to two Iraq vets over at truthout. Scroll down to video, Tim Goodrich and Hart Viges have an urgent message for all trolls. C'mon guys, "Support our Troops", listen to them.

Have you made your donation tonight Paul? That information just may cost you some $$!

I will be making the journey to Crawford on Thursday where I will stay for a week or so. Most important issue is getting the broadcast up --- and pulling all the elements together --- and making sure our terrific host and field producer arrived safely! We are so very close! And we've got backup options, which gives us much hope that we will be able to pull this off!

Donate if you can!! All going for a great cause --- keeping the dialogue going this last 10 days and beyond is incredibly important!

Thanks to Kira and David and Winter for the blog support, and all the rest of you for continued good vibes!! (I'm getting the feeling that even Paul is cheering for us!)

Thanks Kat. Yes, I got a Thank You from Brad today, and was touched he took the time. No need I know he is busy. SAFE TRIP!

Paul
I'm waiting... Did you have the courage to watch the video? If so, what did you think? C'mon, Paul, you talk big and tough, can't watch a little video?

Paul?

Thank you Nana! Paul must be hiding now --- just like him?

Here's a good article I found just now on MSNBC Hardblogger:

Bush's war without end? An antiwar Democrat can emerge with the majority
(Bob Shrum)

[snip] ... The mother of an earlier casualty, Cindy Sheehan, has become a symbol of protest against a war we were led and lied into by neo-cons who have sent other people’s sons and daughters off to war. Pat [Buchanan] is right about her iconic role; he’s wrong about what it portends for the Democratic Party.

First, the voters --- and not just Democrats, but 61 percent of Americans --- are ahead of the politicians in their opposition to Bush’s war policy. That was true as well in the 1960s --- except that the anti-war opposition is greater now than it was then; in fact, it’s almost a super-majority. If the realities don’t change in Iraq, the politicians will catch up with the people. In the end, they always do. Why even Pat’s boss, Richard Nixon, felt compelled to mislead the electorate in 1968 by leaving the impression that he had “a secret plan for peace” in Vietnam.

... Pat concludes by arguing that Vietnam did more damage to Democrats than Republicans. Well, the first casualty of war is not a political party; human beings, including too many young Americans, died in Vietnam and are dying today in Iraq. Beyond that, maybe Pat’s forgotten that little Republican catastrophe known as Watergate, which was a direct outgrowth of Nixon’s law, breaking obsession with the anti-war movement. The party of Bush may end up as shattered as the party of Nixon was in 1974.

A national Democratic leader will break with the conventional caution and speak out unequivocally. And he or she may just find themselves speaking for a majority of Americans as the next President of the United States.

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OK, thanks for that link. Sorry!

I have a comment about the DailyKOS. They keep posting stats about how a Dem is leading in a pre-election poll. This is doing nothing to help vote fraud! They did it with the Hackett race, too. Then, when the Dem loses, they say, "We really showed them, with that close race." That's doing nothing to prevent vote fraud. In fact, they may be helping them out by notifying them that a Dem will win an election, so then they can concentrate harder on hacking that election!

I'd admire them even if they ran stories questioning why the polls were one way before an election, and then they questioned the outcome. But they just say "moral victory". wtf???

We saw how exit polls and stats are totally disregarded when they show fraud. There's tons and tons of data proving fraud. We have to do something about it. That's why this blog and Velvet Revolution is better than DailyKOS. What's their bag? Just posting pre-election stats? And then saying it was a "moral victory" when the Dem loses 51%-49%?

Can this blog be fixed, and take out the manual flight instructions on posting links? I posted those links to several sites, and this is the only one that needs manual flight instructions! Pump the pedal 3 times, wait 5 seconds, then turn the key....(I'm joking)...

Funny Big Dan! LOL! I agree - Lots of folks aren't tek-geeks and are probably rushed for time. Too bad there isn't an easy way ... yet. Maybe it will come if there's ever any free time for the Bradblog R&D team!

51% to 49% ... hmmm ... sounds familiar, doesn't it.

I don't know what's up, Big Dan, but it just became apparent to me, that those of us who won't just "move on" and accept it and look forward to 2006 and 2008 are what lots of Dems & Progressives call "Far Lefties."

Wow! Have you been noticing anything like that in your perusal of the web lately?

More about the Cindy & the war:

INSIGHT: Cindy Sheehan: The power of the ordinary

Imperial claims of the commander-in-chief

Here's a job for the might 6 or 7:

Take Action! Demand FOX News Retract Cindy Sheehan Lie

2:05 PM ET, FOX News Live reported a vicious lie about Cindy Sheehan without bothering to provide the source.

Laurie Dhue introduced the segment by saying snidely that Cindy Sheehan is the "so-called Peace Mom," as if that in itself is something distasteful.

Molly Henneberg reported from Crawford, TX that Sheehan "says America is not worth dying for." Rather than provide a specific source or a clip, Henneberg merely told the audience Sheehan said that "back in April at a rally in San Francisco for a lawyer convicted of providing support to terrorists." Perhaps the reason no clip or source was provided was because Henneberg completely distorted what Sheehan said.

In fact, Iraq was the country Sheehan said was not worth dying for, as this complete quote from a transcript at wikipedia shows:

I'm going all over the country telling moms: "This country is not worth dying for. If we're attacked, we would all go out. We'd all take whatever we had. I'd take my rolling pin and I'd beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq." (applause)

~~~~~~MORE at News Hounds Site~~~~~~~

Contact FOX News and demand a retraction:

Call FOX News
1-888-369-4762

Email FOX News (Clickable Links at the site.)

This really sucks!

You have to read this article. The latest poll shows that only 26% fully support bu$h's war in Iraq. Considering there are some pro-war Democrats & other non-Republicans, that means that fewer than half the Republicans are standing with bu$h. Sing it out, folks!

Pro-War Folks' Attacks Show Desperation
John Nichols, Associate Editor of The Capital Times

[SNIP] ... The rapidly dwindling minority of Americans who continue to search for some rationale for keeping U.S. troops in Iraq have been driven to the brink of breakdown by the success of Sheehan's protest. Go to the Web site of William F. Buckley's National Review magazine, and you will find Sheehan described in headlines as "nutty," dismissed by columnists as "the mouthpiece ... of howling-at-the-moon, bile-spewing Bush haters" and accused of "sucking up intellectual air" that, presumably, would be better utilized by Condoleezza Rice explaining once more that it would be wrong to read too much into that Aug. 6, 2001, briefing document that declared: "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the U.S."

... What the pro-war crowd does not understand is that Cindy Sheehan is not inspiring opposition to the occupation. She is merely putting a face on the mainstream sentiments of a country that has stopped believing the president's promises with regard to Iraq. According to the latest Newsweek poll, 61 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's handling of the war, while just 26 percent support the president's argument that large numbers of U.S. military personnel should remain in Iraq for as long as it takes to achieve the administration's goals there. [SNIP]

~~~~~~~~MORE~~~~~~~~

Woo-Hoo! The latest on bu$h's new neighbors!

Howdy, neighbor!

We had an incredible evening yesterday up at the new Camp Casey site. Now, as you read the rest of this post, keep in mind that the new site is literally within spitting distance of Bush's ranch-- though we wouldn't actually spit, as we're trying to behave ourselves. And besides, why stoop to vulgar behavior when we have a sound system so loud the words "No more war!" can surely be heard in the man's bedroom?!?

Other statements that boomed over the loudspeaker tonight, besieging Mr. Bush and his pro-war agenda --- More at Link above (After Downing Street .org)

Woo-Hoo!

Baez Performs for Crawford War Protesters

By ANGELA K. BROWN --- Associated Press Writer

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) --- Iraq war protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch got some support Sunday night from a prominent figure in the anti-Vietnam war movement: folk singer Joan Baez.

"In the first march I went to (opposing Vietnam) there were 10 of us. This is huge," Baez told relatives of fallen U.S. soldiers Sunday before performing a free concert just up the road from the ranch.
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Rumor has it that the shrub does not read polls, or is it just "does not read"?? He is a sick, twisted man who unfortunately has power to hurt a tremendous number of people with no conscience or remorse. I can't begin to comprehend his actions.

"We have Cindy Sheehan to thank for the beginnings of what I believe is a mainstream movement against this war."
Steve Earle

Yes kos is fixed. I read on this blog that they took diebold money. If you try to comment on this, they will censor you. Try it. I can't even read a diary anymore and have been a kos reader for a year. Americablog will also censor comments of kos's fix. They stopped election fraud discussion even though a lot of bloggers wanted to comment. When I saw them do the same thing for the hackett race. I raised the suspicion as a comment. Two earlier posts I had made were also taken off. touchy touchy.

That really nice guy, Rick Santorum, has another hissy fit:

Santorum’s People Toss Young Women out of Barnes & Noble, Trooper Threatens Them with Prison

Leaders lead, they don't lead by polls.

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within"

Douglas MacArthur

#27 Kira,
That Santorum/Barnes & Noble story is EXTREMELY DISTURBING!!!
As is what went on in Utah. We're hearing of more & more police state tactics. I think letters/phone calls/faxes of outrage & protest to Santorum's offices are in order, maybe from 6 or 7 of us.
I'll look up contact info.

Re #27 & Kira's link:

I really think we need to flood them with letters etc. This incident was outrageous!!
PA Senator Rick Santorum contact info....

Web Site: santorum.senate.gov
E-mail: Contact Via 'Web Form.'

Washington Office:
SD-511
Washington, D.C. 20510-3804
Phone: (202) 224-6324
Fax: (202) 228-0604

Main District Office:
Landmarks Bldg., 100 W. Station Sq. Dr., Ste. 250
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: (412) 562-0533
Fax: (412) 562-4313