Crawford, a weekend in pictures..

[BeTheChange]

Well, these are the ones that made the final cut. Here is our weekend in pictures. Unfortunately I cant get the other ones off the stupid smart card, so this is it for this weekend. Some of these are repeats from the last thread, but I wanted them all together for posterity.

[ulysses]

1. thank you for this. n/t

[Richard Steele]

2. Thanks for being there. Recommended.

Good job with the color, btw. Very nicely done!

[cloud75]

3. great job!

[xultar]

4. WOW!!! oh and that one

Don't mess with my Bush you Pussies. Leave it to Rethuglicans.

[SammyWinstonJack]

46. Classy huh?

:eyes:

[benny05]

50. I don't trust any Bush

unless it belongs to a woman friend of mine...

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. This one just infuriates me

How can anyone think this is okay? What kind of sadist would enjoy this picture?

[BeTheChange]

9. Yeah, the kids broke my heart..

I really wish I could get the pics off the stupid smart media card we have... it was amazing to me how they used their children.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. I have a picture of my own kid

dressed in fatigues. He was about 5 or 6 and was at an air show. It is actually a sweet little picture. But my son isn't holding a sign and the picture isn't making a political statement. That is what makes this so offensive.

[FreedomAngel82]

35. Something I don't get with the picture

is why do they have quote's around the word afraid? :shrug:

[BeTheChange]

39. No clue..

I wondered that myself. I really wanted to go talk to the protestors. I just want to understand what they think and how... So that I can figure out ways to get through to them in the future.

But I didnt dare as I worried that Id cause way more harm then good.

[PurpleChez]

64. Please tell me that you meant it to be ironic

when you pluralized "quote" with an apostrophe-s. It freaks me out to find classified ads in the Atlanta Journal Constitution advertising for TEACHER'S.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

55. Love your signature/tag! (nt)

[BeTheChange]

13. Oh.. and you should have seen the news folks eat this kid alive..

they swarmed him when he got there. Keep in mind, it was in the high 90s. Thank God they finally took the coat off the kid after a couple hours.

[AuntiBush]

19. My Neighbors

Right up until school let out, Daddy prepped all the kiddies each morning, while waiting for their school bus with "At-ten-hut!" And marched them. His poor little son, appears so intimidated, not a pushy kid, more w/smarts.

Talk about enjoying a cup of early morning java w/infuriation! Know the feeling.

[readmylips]

51. My step-grandkids say this too: I love prez bush 'cause he's a Cxtian.....

..of course they told me that I'm not a Christian because I'm Catholic, and I almost fell off the chair. But, they also told me that their parents changed their school from public to a Christian school because there were too many dark kids in the class...that broke my heart. My step-son is in the military (16 years) and those dark kids in public school belong to other brave dark-skin soldiers.

I am trying very hard not to hate those kids. I'm the only Grandma that spends time with them, and I can make a difference in the damage their parents are doing to their mental development.

[fasttense]

54. readmylips, I have the same kind of problem with grandchildren

My granddaughter just born three weeks ago and her father is a brainwashed republican. He was quoting from Ann Coulter's (sp) book the other day. I made the mistake of saying that she might grow up to be the next president of the US and you should have seen the looks I got. Like what, a woman president are you crazy. Then I got into a big argument with his family over the war. Unfortunately, My daughter lives near them and not near us. I guess I will have blood running from my mouth for biting my tongue.

But you know the funny thing. Everyone of those five boys in his family are staunch republicans and none of them went into the military. My family was very liberal and three of us went into the military. Funny how republicans talk about supporting their country but never do.

[readmylips]

57. My hubby is a repub but he's disgusted with how hate....

has been introduced to his grandkids. When my step-son looks at me, I can feel that hot racist fire coming out of his eyes. I'm USA born Hispanic, tan skin, educated, attractive, but all he sees is my tan skin. My hubby/his dad's ancestors come from England. Last Christmas, his list included all of Ann Coulter's books. We sent him a gift certificate to Barnes & Nobles. My hubby and I refused to buy any of those Coulter books.

[jurassicpork]

62. A Republican,

obviously. I don't know what's more chilling: This picture or the one with the three huge hot air balloons with the names of our military branches hanging over that Boy Scout Jamboree.

I know it smells of reductionism to make easy parallels between Pretzel Boy and Hitler but note that in one respect, Bush is doing the exact same thing thing as Hitler in the last days of his war (not the first, trust me on that): He's actively setting up our children for military service as well as conscripting older people. Has it been lost on anyone that the Pentagon asked for permission to draft people up to 42 years of age?

JP
http://jurassicpork.blogspot.com

[bear425]

6. Nice photos, but

How did you get them to be black and white and color at the same time? Thanks for posting.

[BeTheChange]

11. Photoshop :)

All the pics were taken in color.

[TexasLady]

7. Great Pics!!!

:applause:

[Warren DeMontague]

8. "Welcome To Crawford...

...Let me put my thumb up your ass. Right, Laura?"

[Warren DeMontague]

10. "Don't the Iraqi People Deserve Freedom?"

Sure! So why don't we stop occupying their country, and they can figure it out.

[A Simple Game]

14. I noticed that they made the sign out of cloth.

Just in case it needed to come down in a hurry?

Not a lot of faith in your home boy?

[BeTheChange]

34. It seems like they rotate different ones out..

texas.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/CrawfordWelcomeSign.jpg.w300h450.jpg

[Generic Other]

15. I LOVE how you colorized these!! Ben Burch will host pics on his site

I'm blown away by these pics!! Thanks.

Please send me your Camp Casey (crawford) or Support Rally pictures!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4347885

[BeTheChange]

21. Thank you all for the compliments..

Im so glad you guys like them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Thanks! These will look great in Ben Burch's official photo album

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. I can't believe that Idiot and Laura sign hasn't been defaced or destroyed

I would drive out of my way to avoid having to look at that. :puke: Sheehanistas???? Bastard. :grr:


Don't mess with my Bush, you pussies???

HELLO! Remember the outcry from the religious RW wacko nut jobs when Whoopie made a joke that said basically the SAME thing??? :grr: Where's the outrage now? Damn hypocrites.

That Ten Commandments and the Liberty Bell is just RIDICULOUS. Talk about "IN YOUR FACE".... I wonder if it's big enough? :eyes:

Crawfordites are 'different' creatures. They'd have to be different to like that bastard they call president. :(

[BeTheChange]

20. The local economy is so dependant on Bush..

I mean, it isnt as if there is anything out there but a gift shop and a restaurant for tourists and reporters to eat at.

Waco definately isnt that far, but.. that is how I rationalize their ignorance.


I am curious about the 10 commandments and the liberty bell that they trotted out... I wonder if that is a prop they keep around for special occasions or if Judge Roy Moore sent it over.. or what the deal is.

[Solly Mack]

23. I was wondering the same thing about that one (don't mess w/ my bush)

and they had this on display around children?

and I bet they will tell you what good Christians they are too...

[BeTheChange]

30. Those were the Bikers for Bush...

One of em had their kid bungied to them on the back of their bike.. it looked really safe..not

[SunDrop23]

45. They'll probably tell you...

"Well he (their kid) will only fall of once, then he'll learn to hold on tight...."

[BeTheChange]

56. He'll only fall once, that's sadly for sure eom

[FreedomAngel82]

36. Something I found kind of funny with that

is the sign "freedom isn't free" is below the tablet that says "thou shalt not kill."

[mark11727]

53. Have you ever noticed...

The ones crowing about freedom not being "free" aren't usually the one's who are paying for it (chickenhawks!).

Just sayin'.

[LeahD]

42. I'm outraged too, but then I saw Isabelle....

a face that makes hearts melt. Cavalier? Do you like the breed?

[Kali]

60. Freedom = Following COMMANDMENTS???

I don't get it? A list of regulations (even if some are ok) and a symbol of FREEDOM??? As in free from regulations and commands from imaginary beings?

[Clark2008]

18. My son has an Army outfit like that little boy's.

Only difference is that his role model is a real, bona-fide general who taught him to salute - who understands the realities of war - who understands the need to bring in the world to Iraq so we can get out.

I'd say you can guess who his role model is by my avatar and sig pics.

[Maru Kitteh]

26. Oh my God, I love that photo of Clark

He looks AMAZING. :loveya:

[Clark2008]

32. Doesn't he?

What a gorgeous hunk of intelligent charisma, eh?

:loveya:

[FreedomAngel82]

37. Definietly kept his looks going for him

:) He reminds me of how my grandfather was. He looked younger then what he was. And I think Mr. Clark is a good war hero for kids to look up to. Him, Kerry, Cleland, Glenn.

[BeTheChange]

38. While Wes isnt my cup o tea..

I do wish I had a pic of that Iraqi Veteran against the war with the Shaggy hair and glasses...

Im a married woman, so I cant elaborate... but ;)

[tavalon]

22. Please, please, please

with sugar on top, owuld you or someone you know please photoshop that billboard so it shows more acurately which finger Bush is really wanting to hold up.

[sonias]

24. Great idea!

I hope someone will do that. The most natural thing the bu$h does, is give us all the finger. He hates us for our freedom.

Sonia

[BeTheChange]

29. Here ya go...

Edited cause the colors were really off..

[Demrock6]

52. LOL!!

[sonias]

25. Super pics BeTheChange

I love the effects. I love Maxine!

Sonia

[BrklynLiberal]

27. WONDERFUL pictures! Your color effects are great. Thanks for posting.

[BrklynLiberal]

28. A little history of the ol' LAZY W ChickenHawk Ranch

This article was written in 2002

PHONY TO THE CORE: The "Ole Family Ranch" in Crawford is a Set Completed the Same Day the Election was Stolen
By Cheryl Seal
17-Apr-02

Have you seen all those article and pictures of Bush "at home on the ranch" in Crawford - the ones that imply that he is "just an ole ranch hand" more comfortable on the family homestead than in the "Big City," be it Austin or D.C.? Well, if you bought this image, you've been royally snuckered. The Bush family homestead in Crawford is nothing more than an elaborate set. The house, built in 2000, was designed to be ready for Bush to step into - like a set awaiting an actor - during the 2000 presidential election. Not only was the "ranch" created in 2000 - so, essentially, was the "town" of Crawford! The original completion date of the house was November 7 - election day 2000. In other words, the curtain went up on the set on schedule for "show time." The very timing of this event indicates that Bush was absolutely confident that the election would be successfully engineered in his favor.

PHONY TO THE CORE: The "Ole Family Ranch" in Crawford is a Set Completed the Same Day the Election was Stolen
By Cheryl Seal

Have you seen all those article and pictures of Bush "at home on the ranch" in Crawford - the ones that imply that he is "just an ole ranch hand" more comfortable on the family homestead than in the "Big City," be it Austin or D.C.? Well, if you bought this image, you've been royally snuckered. The Bush family homestead in Crawford is nothing more than an elaborate set. The house, built in 2000, was designed to be ready for Bush to step into - like a set awaiting an actor - during the 2000 presidential election. Not only was the "ranch" created in 2000 - so, essentially, was the "town" of Crawford! Before then only about 400 people lived in the area. The Crawford Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture were formed shortly after the ranch was finished.

The 1,600 acres on which the "ranch" sits was purchased in 1999 for an undisclosed price, but it was a helluva lot less than the current real estate agents' appraisal of $1.2 million. Yep, worth $1.2 million, but G.W. has a sweet deal at the tax appraiser's office, where the property is valued at about $988,000. Oh, and that "homey ole ranch house?" It's actually a 10,000-square-foot single level mansion/compound that won't even be 2 years old until this November! (This article was written in April, 2002)The compound features a swimming pool for daughters Jenna and Barbara, who apparently loudly demanded it - the Bushes call it the girls' "Whining pool." Btw - we hear Bush got a sweet deal on the house construction, (the cost, of course remains undisclosed): the builders came from a religious community in El Mott, Texas. The original completion date of the house was November 7 - election day 2000. In other words, the curtain went up on the set on schedule for "show time." The very timing of this event indicates that Bush was absolutely confident that the election would be successfully engineered in his favor.

The whole idea behind the ranch set, of course, was so that the public could be treated to footage of Bush seeking a quiet "retreat" at the family ranch. Americans would thus assume that the ranch was a rooted family homestead or compound like the one Kennedy's had in Martha's Vineyard or FDR had at Campobello. But when Bush retreated into his "homestead" in November, 2000, he was merely walking onto a prepared set upon which the paint had barely dried, let alone even the barest of roots put down! When we see photos of Bush bombing around the ranch in his leather jacket in his "ole pickup," supposedly knowing every tree and bush - it's all pure fantasy! If Bush knows every tree and bush after actually spending, all told, a total of about 2 months on the ranch (if you put the odd days end to end) since it was bought, then I''d like to know when he found time to hold all those endless Crawford press conferences! Seems to me he'd be way too busy introducing himself to trees and bushes.
<snip>

more....

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=6687

[FreedomAngel82]

40. I read that before and it is very very interesting

It goes to show that they had it planned all along to steal Florida from Gore. :mad: Why else would they waste all that money? I read that Bush and the family actually lived in a gated community. I can't remember where though but it was in Texas. I also have read that when he was first campaigning in 1978 for Congress people weren't buying his Texas cowboy act and then he "met" Laura and people started liking him more. I also have heard that Laura used to be a democrat until she met George through "mutal friends". Then there's him "finding" religion as well that we all know is fake and phony and his whole recovering alcholic story (yeah right).

[Dudley_DUright]

31. Very nice photos BTC

BTW, your comment about the "stupid smart card" tickled my funny bone. :rofl:

[BeTheChange]

33. I made a funny...

;) I really think it's name is very misleading.

[Liberal In Texas]

41. Thanks...that's all. Nice...n/t

[DJ MEW]

43. great pictures

I would like to see more of Camp Casey and the supporters though, but beautiful job with the black and white vs. color.

[SunDrop23]

44. OH the HYPOCRISY

Yes the Iraqi people deserve freedom you numbnuts?

Do they also not deserve the same electricity and clean water that YOUR FAMILY enjoys every day?

If you want to be called "unAmerican," just point out the HUMAN TOLL in Iraq whenever they ask the question "Don't they deserve freedom?" But we've been in Iraq for how long now and the progress we have made was summed up in the WaPo last week:

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

Translation: We will meet none of the objectives we set before the invasion.

What kind of BULLSHIT is this? We've torn the fucking place all to hell and the best we can come up with is THIS?!? BASTARDS!

Cripes I was having a good day until I saw that shit, now I am fired up. Any of us...you, me, your brother, your aunt...any of us who had performed in the workplace like the fuckstick in the White House had and we would ALL be fired.

[BeTheChange]

49. Thanks..

There are lotsa pics by lotsa people of all different types of things from crawford. These are the things that stuck out for me and hadnt been posted 100 times already :)

[dogday]

47. Don't mess with my Bush you pussies

Now there is some intelligent talk. In front of the little ones and they are supposed to be a Christian bunch at that. These people have the mentality of a knat....

[BeTheChange]

48. Classy, huh?

:)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

58. it is good to see Maxine Waters there! now we need to see Clinton or Kerry

[Extend a Hand]

59. Hey-- you caught me and my son in one of your videos

very briefly :) I wish I had gotten to meet you.
I just got back this afternoon.
What an amazing experience

[BeTheChange]

61. Sad I missed you

I was kinda on the periphery of the whole thing in a way, just trying to document and provide logistical support. I only met one duer the whole time :(

[DollyM]

63. Interesting thing about the "thumbs up" sign . . .

In several countries, including Iran, it is an offensive gesture that means "up yours."
Here is more information . . .

THUMBS UP
Gesture: Upthrusted thumb.
Location: Iran, Afghanistan, Nigeria and parts of
Southern Italy, Israel and Greece.
Contrary to popular belief, the thumbs-up gesture did
not spare a gladiator’s life in Ancient Rome. A plebian’s
pointed thumb or pollice verso actually meant that the combatant
was to be slain. A HIDDEN thumb, folded out of
sight, or the pollice compresso meant he was to be spared.
The famous scene in Spartacus (or any movie with gladiators),
where the Emperor signals that a warrior’s life should
be spared by the upturned thumb, was flawed by mistranslation
through the ages.
In much of the world today, the thumbs up means,
“O.K.,” “Right On!,” or “I like this movie, Gene.” But in
Iran, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Israel, and parts of Italy and
Greece it is an obscene insult, especially when combined
with a sweep of the arms. It roughly means, “Sit on my
phallus, asshole,” and carries the same stigma as the
middle finger. In places such as southern Sardinia, where
this gestures is noted for being particularly obscene, a hitchhiker
would be well advised not to wave his thumb in the
air or he may
find himself in a
ditch, his face
stuffed with
uncooked
rigatoni.

www.ooze.com/finger/thefinger.pdf