Schiavo protest WTF photos

[OrlandoGator]

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. My lord they even brouight out the Shroud out

what were they expecting for her to rise after three days?

Ok for those fundies reading this

There is a time to be born and there is a time to die

you will find this in Eclesiastes.

[LynneSin]

59. You know I watched a special that showed the Turin to be fake...

...they think it was a prank done by Leonardo di Vinci

[OrlandoGator]

71. Oh, be gone with your quaint "facts"!

n/t

[shrike]

82. OT, but didn't it predate Da Vinci? n/t

[KharmaTrain]

85. Photo Obscura

I just saw the same PBS show...something like "Discoveries Of the Dead"...well worth watching.

[Swamp Rat]

2. One could make a killing selling cheap crap to those folks.

:think: Maybe I have a use for all those bags of Mardi Gras beads after all. Just clip on plastic crosses with a photo of Schiavo's face, and viola!. 10 bucks! :D

[izzie]

21. Do you re-call the man trapped in the mine?

I re-call reading about that. They even set up stands in that thing. I do not re-call when it went on but have read about it and I keep thinking about it as this goes on. This stuff looks like something we drag out for the end of Oct. The pros of the death people are out in force. Maybe we could put them at Arlington Cem?Well with any luck I am sure Congress will get a good place on the Mall to build another pile of something to this poor women.C-span can show local from Fa. crying at it for us.

[Swamp Rat]

25. Nope

But I bet someone was selling mine shaft dirt to the halfwits. Ai! Gente burro!

[izzie]

36. I am sure they did.

I re-call reading that they sold soda and the whole thing.

[DoYouEverWonder]

46. They can cut up her body afterward

and sell off relics of her?

[Guitarman]

51. Time to get the...

Terry Schiavo foam finger concesion. What a freak show this is.

[tinymontgomery]

55. As dylan sang many moons ago

"As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred."

[Azathoth]

3. Looks like someone even brought the Shroud of Turin

The fundies are partying like its 1099.

On edit: someone else noticed the Shroud and beat me to it :D

[loveable liberal]

5. your post made me chortle for 5 minutes.

[JohnnyRingo]

33. Hahahahahahaha...."Like it's 1099"

I'm gonna use that somewhere tomorrow.

[MsTryska]

57. *lmao*@partying like it's 1099! nt

nt

[loveable liberal]

4. and people say christianity isnt cultish.

Talk about total disregard for reality. Good gravy.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Just wanted to make a correction

REAL Christianity isn't cultish. THESE people are cultish. The fundies.

[Bobbie47]

6. The 2nd picture

is he getting his toe nails clipped? or what?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. no, feet washed

this is somehing done this time of the year.. and egads I am NOT christian and know this

[rooboy]

10. Apparently you can get your dog shampooed for $10. n/t

[Bobbie47]

12. Thanks,

Makes sense now, just couldn't figure out that one..

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. you welcome

;-)

[FreedomAngel82]

17. It represents something Christ did

One time Christ washed his disciples feet and then dried them with his hair. It's a forum of respect. Usually the followers wash the rabbi's feet after the long travels. It's a tradition.

[ebayfool]

39. Now there's something I'd rather NOT remember - foot washings!

Raised Freewill Southern Baptist, they had those little foot washing rites frequently. For some odd reason, the nasty old men always insisted on the young (I'm talking YOUNG, here!) girls giving them the footjob.

Nasty!

[ET Awful]

41. I thought maybe they were gettin ready to nail him up in protest

:evilgrin:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

91. It's an optional part of the service for Maundy Thursday

At the Last Supper, Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, a task usually performed by servants in a society where everyone went barefoot or wore sandals, as a sign that they should be humble and not try to lord it over one another.

During the Maundy Thursday service, which commemorates the Last Supper, parishioners in many churches are given the option of coming forward and having their feet washed.

[Kindigger]

31. I thought that might be their version of a shoe shine stand

n/t

[rooboy]

8. I suppose the "get a brain, Morans" poster would be in bad taste...

:spank:

[Gemini Cat]

19. LOL!

No, I think it's entirely appropriate for the situation.

[incapsulated]

34. Hahaha!

It's funny cause there was an old Monty Python on tonight, the one where people buy a new brain...

:crazy:

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. The woman on the ground, holding the cross, scares me.

:scared:

[Lorien]

18. Me too-what's that about?

Why is she grimacing in pain?

And why do we never see these people at anti war rallies? I'd just love to give them all some photos showing what's going on in Iraq and the Sudan, for starters...

[Hatalles]

38. She's taking a shit. Duh.

:)

[Solly Mack]

11. "foot-washing" Baptists? (picture 2)

Growing up in Georgia, where Baptists churches are like crosswalks (or Hookers, as my Baptist preacher grandfather usta say) - they're on every corner...you had the hardshell variety, the once saved, always saved variety, and the foot-washing variety...(and I just know I'm forgetting the other myriad sects/dogma divisions within the Baptist denomination)

[FreedomAngel82]

14. My God

That little baby looks scared to death. Look at his eyes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. you are right, that baby IS SCARED

[atommom]

45. Poor little thing ... I'd be scared too. Hope he isn't scarred for life!

[caligirl]

16. posted to the petition tonight. 77777 for getting lucky.

21220. King George
Karl, you cunning thing. You sure know how to play those southern KKristians. Using the Schindlers was a stroke of genius, yes siree. Karl your going to be President one day for this. oh, oh I think I am madly in love Power is ours with sheep like some folks in Florida. Whats that you say, its time to read the polls again. oh we gotta dump them! Can't throw out a branch of the government just for them. Remeber we promised Kenny. But damn it sure is fun duping people Karl, Poppy and Lee taught us a lesson there for sure, we can fool some folk all the time! time to move on to SS. 77777

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[bluestateguy]

23. So how do we get these people to vote Democratic?

I think that should be the highest priority for the Democratic Party: getting white conservative fundamentalist Christians to vote for them.

[Radio-Active]

24. -

Don't they realize this kind of stuff happens all the time? Actually, I'm sure they don't.

Here's one really stupid one that you might have missed:

[TyeDye75]

40. Why isnt that guy pissed off about Guantanimo bay instead?

[flygal]

26. Were are these people when they bring back a dead US Soldier from Iraq?

OH, I guess those don't make the MSM so no photo ops.

[OrlandoGator]

27. Great counter-protest sign idea!

"WHERE WAS YOUR MORAL OUTRAGE WHEN 1,500 OF OUR PERFECTLY HEALTHY TROOPS DIED?"

[Rex]

28. What about the Iraqis who

are on the edge of life and death right now? Why aren't you praying for their children everytime we drop a bomb on a family's house? Fundies only care about fundies, if they cannot convert you then they kill you.

[pnorman]

29. To a certain extent, many of these people

have a counterpart within our own DU midst, although I'll certainly grant that the percentage of hypocrites and charlatans is a lot higher. Try to be a little more charitable to them. It's quite possible that Bush himself has psyched himself int a similar True Believer state, but the people pulling HIS chain are as close to representing the Anti-Christ as we've ever seen in this country. When those "fundies" wake up to that, WE will look like "moderates".

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation', which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
(Erich Fromm: "Man For Himself")

pnorman

[JohnnyRingo]

30. I thought at first this was a real guy on the cross....

...But no, It's somebody that just happens to have a mini "Jesus on a stick".



What a circus (That baby looks terrified)

[OrlandoGator]

32. That same cross shows up in a bunch of the protest photos.

Apparently they were passing it around.

[janx]

66. I'm not sure if it's that one or another crucifix, but one of them

is duct taped to a board.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. The idiots with the "Feed Terri" signs

I bet they step over homeless people all the time on their way to church.

[DIKB]

37. Now THAT

I wouldn't doubt AT ALL.

[OrlandoGator]

42. Call a spade a spade...these people are nuttier than fruitcakes.

Let's just be honest. They are crazy.

What kind of people take a week off of work to quiver and cry in support of a brain-dead woman they've never met?

[Radio-Active]

44. yep, they're crazy.

but you're forgetting - it's spring break.
What better place to be than Florida?

[annabanana]

54. fundamentalism is a psychosis

When this many people are involved, it is mass psychosis

[auburngrad82]

43. What's with the dead lady with the cross?

The lady in photos 8 and 9? Are they digging up bodies in the hopes that Teri will resurrect them?

[jmowreader]

47. What the hell is up here?

Is she supposed to be playing the part of Terri Schiavo?

[mopaul]

48. this is typical born again behavior

i know, i've seen my own relatives in this condition. it's depressing.

[exploited]

49. Anyone spot the subversive in their midst?

The guy back there wants her to be set free.

He's either a subversive Christian protester (let her fly back to Jeebus) or he's a right proper moran.
Must be a subversive... he's positioned himself right behind the mike stand ;)

[Guitarman]

50. www.getagrip.com

These people are just feeding their own feelings of moral superiority. Culture of Life my back side, I suppose life is all well and good unless you are a 9 year old girl who was raped and killed, or the victim of some kid with a handgun, or one of over 1500 soldiers. Oops, seems we forgot to give a damn about their Culture of Life.

[POAS]

52. I have to ask,

Why aren't these protestors being marched off to a free speech zone?

[Vinca]

53. Do I smell a t-shirt concession???????

Wow! I bet I could pay for some health insurance in one day. Oh dear, the photos finally loaded and - wouldn't ya know - someone beat me to it.

[aeolian]

56. DON'T THESE PEOPLE HAVE JOBS?!?!?!?!?!?!

or are they part of that great, festering middle that does nothing but consume.

[MsTryska]

58. You know.....

i just can't wrap my head around the fact that this fundie carnival is going on outside of a Hospice, of all places.



A place that should be quiet, full of light, kindness and dignity, and this is going on outside. Nothing is sacred.

[Ilsa]

60. Woman with red sign saying "Nonchristian for tube reinseriton"

has probably left by now. I bet she got really tired of everyone there trying witnessing to her, praying over her, and trying to convert her.

On the other hand, maybe in a moment of passion she drank their Koolaid.

[The Backlash Cometh]

61. OMIGOD! Is there anyway to get a restraining order against

these people so that I don't have to live my life bumping into them?

What a nightmare!

[Bombero1956]

63. second picture

They brought a podiatrist with them?

[The_Mule]

78. Haven't you heard of

Chiropodists For Christ?

[OrlandoGator]

62. I wonder if deep inside, these people...

...are secretly hoping Terri will die on Good Friday and return from the dead on Easter Sunday to tell us all about Jesus and Heaven.

I am not being sarcastic, by the way. I really think this is going through at least some of their alleged minds.

[Chovexani]

64. Wow.

It's like somebody baked a whole bunch of crazycakes and passed them around with a pot of crazycoffee. It's a bonafide Jesusland Krazyklatch.

Since I'm going to hell anyway (according to them), I can feel free to say this is some deeply funny shit. Makes me pine for the "This Week in God" bit on the Daily Show.

Okay that poor, scared baby isn't funny. That's just depressing. Hopefully he'll learn to question things in spite of his upbringing the way I did and get a one-way ticket out of Jesusland.

[OrlandoGator]

65. Kick

:kick:

[deadparrot]

67. I know I shouldn't, but those photos make me laugh hysterically.

Am I evil?

[OrlandoGator]

69. I laugh at the old woman on the ground every time I see it.

And we're talking about at least 20 times by now.

[mmonk]

68. Is there some sort of comfort

in their madness?

[Left Is Write]

70. I agree with the one that says "Free Terri".

But probably not in the way the sign-holder means.

These comparisons to Christ are really getting unnerving.

[janx]

72. Is the guy in the maroon shirt drinking a big, goldfish bowl beer?

[exploited]

75. Not sure about the maroon shirt guy.

... but the guy in the white shirt appears to be a Wham fan


... and the guy in the black shirt must be a fan of Andres Serrano.
That IS a picture of Pisschrist on his shirt... isn't it? :shrug:

[janx]

79. Somehow I doubt

there are any Serrano fans in the crowd.

[exploited]

81. You're probably right... but Jesus works in strange ways

Today the Devil spoke to me and I thought fondly about pouring myself a fishbowl sized glass of beer. But then a vision of Jesus appeared before my eyes; he was floating in a glowing amber nectar of urine and blood. Suddenly my urge for beer disappeared! Praise Jesus for He spoke to me and I know what he wants. I must give my beer to Terri instead.

Tomorrow there will be TWO people in the crowd with fishbowls of beer. One of them will be a Serrano fan.

BTW, I wonder how many people in that crowd are stuggling to come terms with a secret attraction to George Michael?

[janx]

86. We could take a Mapplethorpe image like this one

and put it on T-shirts and try to sell them to the crowd. Proceeds would go to the Mapplethorpe Foundation or the NEA.

[Al-CIAda]

92. lmao -n/t

[deutsey]

73. The delusional is no longer marginal. Bill Moyers

Truer words have not been spoken.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

74. This country has sunk into the depths of insanity

:crazy:

[MrSlayer]

76. The chick with the crucifix in the 10th picture is hot.

The rest of them look like a bunch of psychos. The baby is the only sane looking one there. He has a "Get me the fuck out of here!" look on his face.

[OrlandoGator]

77. Actually, there are some other pics of "crucifix chick" out there...

...she's good from afar, but far from good.

[short bus president]

89. See "Saved," the Mandy Moore character.

n/t

[spanone]

80. America is Appalled.Cable news can't get enough.

[spanone]

83. I just Love selective moral outrage. fucking idiots.

So Terri's life is more important than all other lives in balance. Cripes.

[OrlandoGator]

84. WTF Day 2: Brain Damaged People in Pinellas Not Named Terri Schiavo

Elvis?




Smell it. You know you want to.




Let the Taliban parallels continue.


From the same people who brought you the magical ribbons that support troops.






The Power Pillow compels you!


He just happened to have one of these lying around the house.


Ah, a dignified and solemn protest.


The irony of telling the Bushes to "stop killing" is totally lost on these people.


I'll never get enough of this one.

[janx]

87. Me must keep up with the latest pics.

Cable news has reduced its coverage of the hospice.

[OrlandoGator]

88. I'll post it as a new thread.

n/t

[Toots]

90. I wonder how many are on Delay's payroll

Delay has a habit of hiring people to go to Florida to protest. It sure would be interesting to find out how these people who are obviously unemployed are able to travel to Florida to protest.

[DS1]

93. I dunno about you guys, but I'm rooting for about a brick sized meteor

to hit.

Hellfire and Brimstone indeed.

[ComerPerro]

94. If only they actually cared

They don't. They are just doing this so they can invoke moral superiority and feel important.

[glaeken777]

95. ah, what the hell...

It's a free country and this is what America is about. The right to protest. They're exercising the same rights we do when we protest the issues that matter to us, and evidently they possess the same kind of activist mojo that we'd bring to a protest. I won't mock them, even though I totslly disagree with their opinions on this case.

Anyway, this is all going to be over soon, and these people will pack up the signs, the crosses etc and go home. As with all deaths from time immemorial, the living DO move on eventually. There's no choice, really. There never has been.

I just hope Michael and the Schindlers will all be given the respect and privacy to do so. The circus that the media has enflamed this private family matter into is nothing short of disgusting.

My .02...