Blown Away By The News

[new_iconoclast]

In today's RedStarTribune:

A Veterans for Peace float pisses some people off:

Deanna Mickelson, a parade director in Biwabik, said some veterans and mothers who have lost sons in Iraq have told her that they "are just mortified by the float," as well as by some of the signs held by Veterans for Peace members. Among the more offensive signs, she

Comments

[sugarbeet]

I was really amused by the part where the person said the float scared children.... Ya, sure it did...

[amagdalyn]

Very well said!

[gentlemaitresse]

There is a lady on our local homeschool email group whose husband is in Iraq right now. Actually, he sometimes emails to the group, too.

They suggest that we are saying they are too stupid to make their own decision when we suggest that the government was wrong to send them there. This couple support this war; they actually think it's a good thing.