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Fifth Column
Idiots Imitate Satire
2006-03-06
(via LGF)

Truly, reality has come full circle, as Indymedia unwittingly imitates Little Green Footballs: Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast.
No, itÂ’s not a joke.

The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at DennyÂ’s Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am.

The Public is invited to a memorial pancake breakfast at DennyÂ’s Restaurant on Douglas Street near Finlayson, 10 am, Sunday March 12, 2006 to celebrate the life and untimely death of Rachel Corrie, Peace Activist with the International Solidarity Movement.

There will be a reading of selections from Ms. CorrieÂ’s letters and diary, followed by a ceremony at Topaz Park, where a stone cairn will be erected in her honour.

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/

ISM offers many ways for you to get involved in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Whether youÂ’re thinking of traveling to Palestine to work with us, or youÂ’d like to work to educate your community about the reality in Palestine, we welcome your involvement.

I wonder if it will be your choice between bacon and pork sausages? "I'd like a Rooty-Tooty Fresh and Fruity. What do you mean they only serve that at IHOP? I'm being oppressed! I DEMAND A ROOTY-TOOTY FRESH AND FRUITY TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE!!! Say, how do you get syrup out of your veil?"
Posted by:Fred (actually, not Fred. A bug)

#24  LOL I missed it!! dern!!
Posted by: RD   2006-03-06 23:55  

#23  Trex - you are correct. She should be honored with an award. I was thinking, perhaps a Darwin.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-03-06 20:34  

#22  Nothing quite like a good finger-wagging bit of silly posturing from a "self-aggrandising" moral superior.

The Minimum RDA is one per lifetime. We're all covered, now. Thanx, asstard. Back under the mossy wee rock.
Posted by: .com   2006-03-06 20:26  

#21  Pancakes for Corie?

What next, the Joan of Arc Memorial Bonfire and Candlelight Vigil?
Posted by: too true   2006-03-06 20:12  

#20  she was an unfortunate wee girl who got into something she knew nothing about.

Not hardly.
Posted by: lotp   2006-03-06 20:10  

#19  Gee. You lot are pretty sad - at least as bad as the other lot. eg So brave too, insulting a dead girl.

"She was a crazy woman who deserved to die, both for her hateful desires, and her willingness to inflict death and destruction on others."

Amazingly hypocritical.

She thought she was saving the world but instead she was an unfortunate wee girl who got into something she knew nothing about.

Your alternative descriptions are self-aggrandising vitriolic BS.

I thought I shared some views with you guys (you know who you are). But hey, we all make mistakes eh.
Posted by: Trex   2006-03-06 20:03  

#18  This young lady died for a cause she beleived in. How many of you can say the same?

Died? No. Wounded? Yes.

Now fuck off, you British Columbian git.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-03-06 19:49  

#17  Trex: So you don't like buckwheat pancakes?

More to the point, Rachel Corrie was a fanatic, filled with rage and hate. No different in many ways from the crazy Lori Berenson, who joined the Shining Path down in Peru.

Her cause was not just, because it was less concerned with helping the Paleos to help themselves, then by supporting them in their war, much like the Arabs who give them money solely that they will fight and die in a proxy war.

The house she was defending had been used by snipers to shoot at civilians, not soldiers. And by saying so, it strips her of any semblance of fairness or reasonableness. She was helping snipers to shoot at women and children!

You do not HELP anyone by encouraging war.

What had she done in the name of peace? Did she try to change how they teach their children? Did she show how their leaders were corrupt and stealing money from their own people? Did she do anything to help the Paleos help themselves?

NO. She died trying to stop the Israelis from defending themselves against attack. She was a vile creature who supported terrorism against those she hated. Her idealism was no different than the idealism of Pol Pot, but perhaps not as intense.

She was a crazy woman who deserved to die, both for her hateful desires, and her willingness to inflict death and destruction on others.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-06 19:20  

#16  she died a wasted death, and I'm glad she's gone. She was hateful, anti-american waste of oxygen, spreading her venom to others. Happy Trax?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-06 19:11  

#15  "This young lady died for a cause she beleived in."

So did Adolf Hitler, for the same cause: killing Jews.
Posted by: Thoth Theash6328   2006-03-06 18:08  

#14  Hear, Hear Trex!
I live in GoreTex myself. I like to flash morons.
Posted by: 6   2006-03-06 16:10  

#13  Fred is quite clever, but even he hasn't figured out how to connect the Web to the Great Beyond. So clearly, none of those posting have emulated the flat Miss Corrie, who chose to commmit suicide-by-large-machinery, thus proving all our mothers correct when they told us

(1)Choose your friends carefully and

(2)Don't play around construction equipment or you'll get hurt.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-06 15:15  

#12  Trex, next time buy the CAT.
Posted by: john   2006-03-06 14:58  

#11  Gentlemen. In an entirely neutral stance I am disgusted with your words and behaviour. This young lady died for a cause she beleived in. How many of you can say the same?

You are a bunch of apathetic morons hiding behind your sticky keyboards. Very rarely is there any intelligent comment here. Small wonder we are in the shit we are in if you are examples of the 'good folks'.

It makes you look and feel like those humans you despise so much. Go have a shower or something.
Posted by: Trex   2006-03-06 14:54  

#10  Cooks and tastes just like regular (insert food)

Yep, tastes just like horse beef.
Nice girl, great personality, makes here own clothes and a fine cook.
The checks in the mail, I still luv 'ya and I swear I won't....
Posted by: 6   2006-03-06 14:43  

#9  For you pancake lovers out there who would like a lower-carb alternative, I would highly recommend buckwheat pancakes. That is, process buckwheat flour in a pancake mix, not crude buckwheat, or that stuff that tries to imitate whole wheat.

It is also gluten free, and buckwheat isn't even a grain, it's a berry. Cooks and tastes just like regular pancakes.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-06 12:44  

#8  Would be funny to flood the DennyÂ’s with folks wearing yarmulkas.
Posted by: ed   2006-03-06 11:55  

#7  Porgy: Hi Mom! Bombs away Dad! Oh boy, groatcakes again, heavy on the 30 weight!

George Tirebiter: Don't eat with your hands son, use your entrenching tool!
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-06 11:48  

#6  "My pancake looks angry"
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-06 11:16  

#5  MMMMM Pancakes!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-03-06 11:01  

#4  Waiter! This pancake isn't flat enough!
Posted by: Grunter   2006-03-06 10:43  

#3  I bet the pancakes taste like crepe.
Posted by: BH   2006-03-06 10:35  

#2  I wonder if raspberry syrup will be available.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-03-06 09:45  

#1  Imagine the madcap hijinks that would ensue if someone drives up to the parking lot during the festivities in a Caterpillar D-9.
Posted by: Mike   2006-03-06 09:33  

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