The Mother's Day Project Mid-Day Open Thread
By bluegal Saturday May 10, 2008 4:45pm
Although the Mother’s Day Project began a little over a year ago, I think of Mother’s Day as an anniversary marker for the journey that began in the spring of 2007.
It was a simple idea. We would, all of us, join together to honor the mothers, daughters, wives and lovers - the female members of the Coalition forces who had died in service to their country while fighting in Iraq. We would stitch their names onto swatches of muslin, and I would complete the process by fashioning a simple tote bag from the stitched names to circulate amongst ourselves as a reminder of the ongoing conflict and the many thousands of dead men, women and children whose names are either unknown or too numerous to fit onto a portable memorial like a tote.
But, something happened along the way.
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Would be nice to have more on Obama Clinton, rather than puff and fluff. Guess because Billary is off to the glue factory, we just have to pretend that she wasn't the megalomaniacal, disruptive force that we know she was.
We're neck and neck, weasl. To close to call. Gotta find dirt on ya.
yes! what would politics be without dirt.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 3:
Honest productivity?
I would like to wish a happy Mother's Day to all the caring, thoughtful, loving, mothers everywhere. Thank you so much ladies.....Even you Hillary.
Have you guys read this garbage from Maureen Dowd?
I find it ironic that the Republicans who talk of "manliness" and "honor" show neither....
and that they talk of gay men "ramming stuff down our throat." Does that say something about what they're into?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11dowd.html?em&ex=1210651200&e...
Wasn't able to link Is She a Trojan Rabbit?
Brad @ 4:
that's a stretch, don't you think? first, you said 'honest'.
The Bush-Cheney gang have made this a gloomy Mother's Day for over 4000 mothers.
Left&Left @ 5:
suck up!
Ruthless People @ 10:
more like 400,000 mother's If you count Iraqis.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 12:
Mother's Day is an American holiday...otherwise yes, 400,000 mothers.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 9:
Stretch? Displacement!
A BUSH FAMILY MOTHER’S DAY CARD: A Special Tribute to the Mother of All ‘Mothers’
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 11:
blasphemy! my god in himmel
Don Davis @ 15:
I hate to talk bad about somebody's mama but damn. It's like an elephant in pearls. Now i know where the Republicans got their mascot.
Neck..............................................................................................................and neck.
tyree @ 16:
Here's HILLARY! Notice the background. It seems to be her theme.
Originally Mother's Day had nothing to do with honoring Mothers or Motherhood, buying greeting cards, dining out at a restaurant, or letting Mom sleep late.
Originally Mother's Day was a call to Mothers Of The World To UNITE and put an end to WAR.
Julia Ward Howe (1870): Mother's Day Proclamation
So, regardless my empathy for the female members of the "coalition," I can hardly imagine a Mother's Day Project more at odds with the original intent of Mother's Day in the US.
Julia Ward Howe exhorted the Mothers Of The World to stand up to the Men who create the Madness Of War.
I can't imagine she'd exhort us to honor the Women who have themselves joined the Madness.
Don Davis @ 15:
I think this is a better BUSH FAMILY MOTHER’S DAY CARD
not that yours wasn't cute.
tyree @ 16:
gotterdammerung!
Everyone here wants a Dem as the next president.
Suggestion: Be careful. You might get what you want.
VietVet8666 @ 23:
What's that supposed to mean?
VietVet8666 @ 23:
Deep.
But that's ok.
I have hip boots.
Leslie @24
Simply that what we wish for may turn out not to be what we want.
VietVet8666 @ 26:
I certainly hope so! We don't need another 4 years of Bush.
VietVet8666 @ 26:
You're right. We need to install Bush as President for life. Thaten we won't have any wishes and we will already know how things will turn out.
xoites at 25
Nothing deep. Just my thoughts. Always like your posts.
Has anyone heard another "peep" about the DC Madam? I mean, with multiple suicide notes, etc., you'd think it might garner some attention, especially after we watched one year of Anna Nicole Smith "news".
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 12:
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Or billions that can't pay for food, water or electricity, or worry about their children and grandchildren living in/on an over-heated garbage dump. And how about 150,000,000 (% thereof who are mothers) Dems? And me too, but I'm not a mother.
i think next year at this time we will all be experts in polishng a turd , wont it be grand?
MountainMan:
"Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead."
You're wrong. The Mother's Day Project is an anti-war project. It's purpose is to make the ongoing war in Iraq personal and real in a way that the current administration actively tries to discourage. Follow the link at the beginning of this post to learn more about the project and what it is designed to accomplish.
There is nothing puff and fluff about the Mother's Day Project. I participated in this and found it a very meaningful political statement to make.
Ruthless People @ 13:
actually, counting mothers of the sick and wounded americans, it's probably a million.
amazing! a holiday founded so that no mother should ever again lose a son to war.
"Hillary Clinton skewered by SNL as a Sore Loser"
Hee hee hee (funny):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a0e5O0aBrOU
Comcast Is Censoring Political Content Again. Last week
in San Francisco they REFUSED to accept the new Shirley Golub TV ad.
http://www.shirley08.com/rubber_chicken.php
i still think obama ought to consider edwards as his running mate.
the number one job of your veep is to continue to carry out your agenda, should you meet an untimely demise.
having a ticket with a coherent message also serves as a deterrent to anyone thinking of taking out your number one guy.
lbj was forced on jfk's ticket, and it wound up being disastrous for america -lbj was a military industrial trojan horse and 58,000 americans were sacrificed because of it.
lieberman was a neocon trojan horse, and had al gore won, i wouldn't have been surprised to see him bite the dust in a new york minute or so after swearing in.
clinton's the corporatist's democratic horse in this race, always has been. important to keep her off the ticket. obama really would need to hire a full-time food-taster.
aside from all that, though, america absolutely deserves an election without the names bush or clinton on any of the four slots on the tickets -for the 1st time since 1976!
bullfrog @ 39:
edwards said he does not want the job.
threadingwater @ 34:
I followed the link & read the article.
Notice the date on the Mother's Day Proclamation I posted - 1870.
That's the beginning of Mother's Day in USA.
I know .. "that's history" .. well it IS history .. maybe you should respect it!
I went to the Mother's Day Project website and liked what I read there, It is indeed an anti-war effort, in a very personal way. Now there are more than 200 people involved, the originator is having to re-think the artistic format. Because I have done that kind of handiwork, I recognize what it takes to participate. These women are being honored in this way, by other women who understand what an uphill battle it is these days, simply being female in the military. This is a consciousness-raising project, not a pro-war statement.
After a long weekend of drinking, I think I've blown chunks that look like that.
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