People are smiling & returning the Peace sign in--gasp-Sugar Land, TX!

[elehhhhna]

The tide is turning, people.

When I flash the sign, they look startled, then delighted, then return it. One bozo in an SUV made an ugly face, versus at least 8 other random drivers today.

How can one argue with a peace sign?

[MuseRider]

1. I had not thought

of trying that here. I will. I was stunned last week when someone at Camp Casey did that, I had not seen it in a long time. It felt so good. Gonna have to try that and see what happens. Thanks for the thought, it had not occured to me to do that.

[elehhhhna]

9. DO IT! I remember the first time anyone flashed me the Peace sign--

in Quebec City, on vacation. I was maybe 10 yeers old, making it about 1969. I saw a "hippie" in a coffeeshop and was probably staring. He smiled and made the peace sign and I was THRILLED!

I'll never forget it.

[Generic Other]

2. My favorite pic of Cindy from Indy Media:

[Booster]

3. Yes, in times like this, when things get really ugly, there is nothing

as powerful as the peace sign. It's interesting that the only sign the opposition to peace has is the middle finger, which speaks volumns of where their heads are - generally up their ass.

[Sparkle]

4. I take it the bozo was a republican?

[elehhhhna]

8. Don't know. He was sorta ugly so probably.

[Sparkle]

15. LOL!

[Big Kahuna]

5. When someone flips you the bird, flip them the peace sign

I've done that at peace vigils when a few people flipped me off. It's great to see the disturbed look on their face. :)

[me b zola]

16. Yep, it was my response to a purple finger

During our peace march right after the Iraqi "election", there was a couple(2-3) freepers standing at Pioneer Square along our route. As we passed the freeps held up their stupid purple fingers, so I countered with a peace sign :)

[redwitch]

6. I remember flashing the peace sign to soldiers standing guard at Fort Dix

On our way home from the Jersey shore,(VietNam era) from the back of a big Country Squire station wagon. The soldiers always returned the sign with big smiles. I would then hide on the floor of the car, blushing madly. I'm sure they were wishing everyone in charge was thinking along the same lines.
-edited for so many typos it was kinda scary!

[Neocondriac]

7. Perhaps...

The tide will turn enough to where the sheriff's dept.in Sugarland reopens the case where charges levied against GW Bush by Margie Schoedinger regarded being drugged and raped.Probably not, she committed "suicide".

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Do you mean this lady who just wanted to...

"Get on with her life"?

The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush

Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. I expected to leave a message on a machine, so I was caught a little offguard when Schoedinger answered.

She, too, sounded somewhat surprised I had called, saying she hadn't heard from many other reporters. But she talked to me for a few minutes about the legal action.

"I am still trying to prosecute ," said Schoedinger, a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. "I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life."

Well, Schoedinger hasn't gone on with her life. In fact, three months after I spoke to her, she died in an apparent suicide. And this matter remains unsettled.

http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1103bush_rape_suicide.htm

Funny how the same phrase just happened to pop out of Bush's mouth just the other day...

Welcome to DU Neocondriac

[NoSheep]

19. Holy shit! That is an amazing story. I don't doubt one word of it.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Neocondriac!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jokerman93]

10. And let's take heart and not forget...

The peace sign is also a victory sign. Peace wins.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. I was at a reptile show this weekend

selling t-shirts. Just for kicks my husband decided to bring along a design we call 'Butterfly Peace'. It's a peace symbol made out of assorted butterflies on a bright yellow shirt. It ended up being our 2nd best selling shirt at the show. Keep in mind this was a reptile show! Most of the crowd only wears black and tattoos and this shirt sold more then shirts covered in snakes. Go figure? Maybe it's a new dawn?

[elehhhhna]

14. Make shirts w/ a Peace sign made of snakes & you'll be a MILLIONAIRE!

[Al-CIAda]

18. This man is thinking. nt

[elehhhhna]

21. woman, thank you.

And if you say i'm "thinking like a man" I'll go all PMS on ya, bub!

[aquart]

22. Don't tread on me.

Or my peace.

[seabeyond]

12. 3 months i have bumper full of liberal stickers in panhandle of tx

and i have not had one person say a neg. i dont get positive feed back either, but no one is attacking me for them, and seeing more and more liberal stickers, and the rapture stickers from spring and fall of '04 are gone. not that many bush stickers

heard an old old man wearin a cowboy hat say how bad these crooks in the office are they gotta go. they are ruining our country. talking to another really old dude

my repug family doesnt talk about bush and the war at all

[callous taoboy]

17. Big gulf in my family too-

I was so fatigued and pissed re:'04 that I did not attend thanksgiving (with my dad's blessing, no less). My dad is getting harder to be around in his old age. He's on some cholestoral drug which my freeper brother thinks is having a negative affect on his cognition.

[NVMojo]

23. Incredible, especially in Sugarland!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

24. Isn't that home of BugSpray man?