The following is not made up.

Just caught a press conference on C-Span with an organization called "Counter-inaugural.org." What is it about these young leftist where you can spot them a mile away. I didn't even have to see the sign to know they were some left wing group. The women have short short hair with thick black glasses and the men all have beards. Is there a leftie radical official look or something? Their website encourages those who oppose Bush saying:

"..... energy is high to organize visible resistance to another 4 years of Bush through linking the national and even global struggle against the Bush regime..."

It seems they will be using "puppets" to emphasize their points. They described the puppets as being as tall as 15 feet with moving arms and legs. (those who read my post on my experience at a anti-abortion protest will remember a similar 'puppet' I described) What is it with the puppets? Do they realize how ridiculous they look? Maybe the puppets will start blowing each other up like in "Team America."

Now that would be cool.

One of the puppets is a giant spider. The body of the spider represents the 'power' of this administration and the legs represent things like "poverty, exploitation, and war," said one young looney leftie.

This is mainly an anti-war protest. You have to shake your head at the irony that she somehow equates Bush with poverty and exploitation. One wonders what she thinks Saddam was busy doing with those rape rooms and mass graves. The world might not have called it war, but I'm thinking it felt like one to the people who were gassed and thrown in the graves. Since Bush is the one responsible for ending not only the exploitation of those people, but especially the exploitation of the afghan women, you might think they would at least give him credit for that. But no, this is the tunnel vision of the looney left.

Here are some notes from their Nov 18th and Jan 6th meetings:

Discussion on Actions:-Many ideas for actions were discussed.---(inserts are my comments...;-)

---Billionaires for Bush will auction off social security and perhaps The Artic Wildlife Refuge (now that is sooo funny, funny, funny. What a hoot these guys are) They're currentlylooking for a venue to do this and are open to input on when/where might bebest.---Blockade roads, preoccupy police. (Oh that's good. Preoccupy the police during an inaugural for a President fighting a war on TERROR. Perhaps we should let the police keep a look out for that instead of DISTRACTING THEM.)

---Die-in on Pennsylvania Avenue (could there be anything more stupid than people laying on the ground pretending to be dead? Flowers put in butts of guns is even less stupid than that)

---Multiple park march.---Blanket city, billboards, fronts of buildings, etc, with messages countering the Bush Agenda.---Public school walkout.---(Who will be able to tell the difference?)
--- Marches from many different parts of city.---Stop the parade strategically, look for bottlenecks in parade route. (How rude)

---"Turn your back on the President" as his motorcade goes by.(ohhhh, that is gonna hurt)

---Demo on mall whereby message could be spelled with coffins or another demo.(Spelling things with coffins always makes a statement of intelligence, don't cha think?)

---Small actions around city of a few members each.-----Call for action for several hundred volunteers willing to work in smallgroups around city with informative posters, etc.---Lock down before barriers are set up.---Commuter information actions on Friday (January 21?) for federal govtemployees, defense contractors, etc.---Multi-issue women's march coordinated by Code Pink. (one is assuming the celebration of the freedom of afghan women from rape, forced marriage, no music, no school, no work, and having to wear what we call comforters every day, will not be mentioned)

Thank you all, and let's burn one down,~Lacy MacAuley (Burn one down??? Is that the best choice of words?)

Also this:

National Alliance of Black Panthers- holding events aimed at youth education including poetry slams, art nights and music. (A poetry slam? Someone want to fill me in? It sounds painful)

Pagan cluster- the pagan cluster will host a public ritual the night before the inauguration. (Public ritual? One can only hope it doesn't involve animal sacrifice. Perhaps just a big black boiling pot of eyes of newts, and things like that. If you live in D.C. though you might want to hide your black cat)

Here are the contact numbers on the site to make sure these guys remember to spread the word!!!! Do with it what you will folks...;-)

Senator Barbara Boxer, (202) 224-3553,senator@boxer.senate.gov
Senator Dick Durbin, (202) 224-2152,dick@durbin.senate.gov
Senator Russ Feingold, (202) 224-323,russ_feingold@feingold.senate.gov
Senator Tom Harkin, (202) 224-3254,tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov
Senator Jim Jeffords, (202) 224-5141,Vermont@jeffords.senate.gov
Senator Edward Kennedy, 202/224-4543,senator@kennedy.senate.gov
Senator Patrick Leahy, (202) 224-4242,senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov