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2006-07-04 Fifth Column
US stars align in anti-Iraq war hunger strike
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Posted by Sherry 2006-07-04 00:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Hey! Lets start a pool on how long this 'hunger strike' is going to last.

Personally I don't think it'll last three days - unless Pen, Sarandon, and Cindy Shithan use 'desinated strikers'.

You know teams of 'hunder strikers' who strike in shifts......
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-04 00:36||   2006-07-04 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 "Rolling" fast, ROFL!

Only a moron would find this meaningful in any way.

I can imagine them putting together "emergency kits" of Evian, brie and patè in case one faints or gets a bit peckish...
Posted by Cralet Jeth6763 2006-07-04 03:34||   2006-07-04 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Actors get paid to pretend, but in the Left's inverted reality it means we should take what they say and do more seriously.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-07-04 07:19|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-04 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The US isn't offended by the war in Iraq in general because many are able to see the bigger pitcher, not being blinded by bush-hate and such. It is as simple as that.

These folks can't even see the successes and the slowly winding down process that already appears to be beginning.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-07-04 09:42|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com]  2006-07-04 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 And that bigger pitcher we are looking at is a pitcher of beer and a pitcher on the mound. Happy 4th of JULY :-)
Posted by 2b 2006-07-04 10:12||   2006-07-04 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's see if this lasts longer than Saddam's hunger strike.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al  2006-07-04 10:25||   2006-07-04 10:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Other supporters, including Penn, Sarandon, novelist Alice Walker and actor Danny Glover will join a 'rolling" fast, a relay in which 2,700 activists pledge to refuse food for at least 24 hours, and then hand over to a comrade.


I suggest the protest be renamed.

24 hours on and 24 hours off should make it the 'half-fast for peace'.
Posted by WTF 2006-07-04 12:01||   2006-07-04 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 half-fast for peace. not bad. perfect in fact.
Posted by 2b 2006-07-04 12:03||   2006-07-04 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9 They are amusingly irrevelent-this wholegrain caviar set of hacks.
Posted by SamAdamsky 2006-07-04 12:27||   2006-07-04 12:27|| Front Page Top

#10 After the 10th day will they be kind enough to provide us live video feed so we can bet properly in deadpools?
Posted by 3dc 2006-07-04 12:29||   2006-07-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Pass the popcorn! How long before they can't talk? WIll they quit smoking...and contributing global air pollution?
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-07-04 13:21||   2006-07-04 13:21|| Front Page Top

#12 The hunger strike will see at least four activists, Sheehan, veteran comedian and peace campaigner Dick Gregory, former army colonel Ann Wright and environmental campaigner Diane Wilson launch serious, long-term fasts.

"I don't know how long I can fast, but I am making this open-ended," said Wilson.

Notice Penn and Sarandon aren't included in that list.

Oh puh-lease, this isn't a hunger strike, a hunger strike is supposed to go right to the very bitter end, to when your eyesight and kidneys fail. When you've gone so far that your body is irrepairably damaged from the fast. And then you die. Or make it much quicker - refuse water as well.

Although I despise the IRA, at least Bobby Sands went right to the end - are any of these tools going to die for their cause?

Bueller?

ps I used to like Danny Glover, now I think he's a joke. I never liked Penn and after his 'red bucket' incident last year, I'm convinced he's not all there.
Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-04 13:35||   2006-07-04 13:35|| Front Page Top

#13 The Pew Poll, now that is a real non-partisan and fair minded outfit. Do a Google on the Chairman, Andrew Kohut. It is a Times Mirror group, he appears on NPR as a commentator. Why don't these pollsters get off their dead asses and do polls out in the real world. Keep it up Penn, Sarandon, Gregory, et al. If anyone is into gaming, try this one on for size. Imagine Al Gore was President on September 11, 2001. It is an interesting mind game to speculate on where we would be today. But that is fodder for a whole 'nother thread.
Posted by vietvet68 2006-07-04 13:46||   2006-07-04 13:46|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds more like practice for ramadan than a hunger strike.
Posted by ed 2006-07-04 14:43||   2006-07-04 14:43|| Front Page Top

#15 10:45 here on the east coast. Is it over yet?
And remember celebrity dilletantes. A hunger strike can only succeed if someone actually gives a shit that you're on one. Ask your friends at Gitmo.
Posted by tu3031 2006-07-04 22:50||   2006-07-04 22:50|| Front Page Top

#16 Snore
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-07-04 23:08||   2006-07-04 23:08|| Front Page Top

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