Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.
The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "Witches, clowns and sirens day," the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.
"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.
The group's week of themed protests, which included days to galvanize grannies and bring-your-daughter-to-protest, appears to have done little to boost its flagging numbers.
A FOX News camera, which has a 24/7 live shot of the recruiting center's front door, recorded little action, and the gatherings have, until this point, been ill attended.
Darn, I thought this was about a chapel service at Episcopal Divinity School, one of the healthy and growing seminaries I attended. I guess I should have known better, after all the word “queer” wasn’t in the title.
I would never embarrass my children, my own parents and my husband by affiliating with these pink loons! What an embarrassment to American Mothers! Geeshs! :(
There must be something in Berkely’s water! Nothing but wack-a-doos! The video was just a sickening as Gene Robinson’s Today show interview!
Now you know why we SANE Californians call Berkeley “Berzerkeley!”
Perhaps they could be invited to the Episcopal Church 2009 Convention to figure our new direction.
"Are we sure this group isn’t an offshoot of ECUSA?”
The attendance is about right.
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“There must be something in Berkeley’s water!”
Look at the bright side: Berkeley has 100,000 residents. More than 1.1 million other people share the same water supply. The San Francisco Bay region has more than 7 million people. And Code Pink can hardly get anyone to show up.
If y’all haven’t seen the video from Comedy Central on Code Pink, you simply must check out:
If only there was an organization sworn to defend free speech...
#7 Robroy....There is an very elite and most honorable institution that defends Free Speech.....its called the United States Military and its defending our Constitution. May God Bless each and every one of these fine warriors.
AnglicanRon. Your sarcasm detector must be off. If you watch the video, it is clear that the “reporter” is mocking the CP protestors.
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
AnglicanRon, I could not agree more and that should be obvious to every American. As Deacon Phil says, watch the video and unfortunately witness those that can’t see the obvious.
Half of my residency training was at a VA hospital. I very much appreciated the honor of serving those who had served. In the entrance of the hospital, there was a big sign stating, “Enjoying your freedom? Thank a vet.” I had walked past that sign hundreds of times and never noticed it until the day after watching Saving Private Ryan. Thereafter, I always noticed it and walked past with humbleness and gratitude.
They had a day for galvanizing grannies?
What do they have against grannies that they would want to electrocute them and cover them with a Zinc coating? No wonder their attendance was abysmal. That could hurt.
They were also working too hard on the bring your daughter to protest thing. I’m sure the protests started at home when the TV was turned off. After that, attendance was history.
#11—Would the zinc bath have been while the grannies were nice and hot, or after they’d turned cold and frigid?
“...figure out how we’re going to end war.”
Try this, ma’am:
Cap all the Bad Guys until there are no more Bad Guys left and nobody wants to be a Bad Guy anymore.
War ends.
That’s the Bad Guys strategy with respect to us. But here’s the difference - we value life and we worry about hurting innocents. The Bad Guys? They couldn’t give a Spong.
As long as the grannies stay under 200C it doesn’t matter much. Cold and frigid works with the electronic method for a thinner coating that could be covered with paint or unexposed to air. I guess for a thicker coat on the exposed parts the dip in a hot zinc bath (roughly 450-500C) would heat them up a bit if they used the molten zinc method. I wonder which method they planned to use.
Witches, Clowns and Sirens - which one describes your bishop?
With a name like Zanne Sam Joi she could be the next CEO for TCGC.
AP+
texex,
Awww, do I HAVE to choose just one?
It really seems Jana Winter had a lot of fun writing this article, Code Pink has inspired just too many “money quotes” in response.
robroy, I watched that Marines in Berkeley with my teenaged daughter a few weeks ago. Laughed myself silly. She was not as amused, thinking it was an incredibly lame “skit”. When it began to sink in that these were real people expressing real opinions, she was horrified at the stupidity. (I suppose she won’t be applying to UC-Berkeley!)
Militant “witches” wanting to end war by casting “spells.” One might be reminded of the infamous “Clown Mass” of the east coast, or San Francisco’s “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” the “order” of transvestite “nuns” who gave the Romans just a bit of trouble last year.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/oct/07101706.html
In a way, it’s kind of funny, because it’s so absurd. But, as noted above, these people are apparently quite serious. This kind of twisted perversity has to be examined carefully. The contemporary theologian Yoda writes, “The dark side clouds everything.”
What is really disgusting is that their behavior would be considered normal and acceptable, even laudable, in any area TECusaCorp church. Bleahhh.....
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This certainly warrants prayer:
Father, bless encourage and protect those who come under the assault of the evil one or his minions, especially in this situation in Berkley. Preserve the honorable, strengthen those who are fatigued. Protect them from discouragement.
Satan and all other hosts of wickedness, I rebuke you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in your attempts to wound or curse and command you to go and leave those of the Berkley Marine Recruiting station.
Instead of curses, let there be blessing + in the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
+Bill
"Witches, Clowns and Sirens Day”
Foht’nately, Ah say foht’nately, this is the suhm’r fuh supah-he-roes… Good, fuh just s’ch an ‘merguhncy.
(That’s a joke, son)
Thank-you, Bp. Bill, for that reminder and for leading us in prayer.
These are very, very soul-sick people in pink.
I still can’t believe I lived for 3 years in this insane asylum, um I mean city. The saving grace is that there are also a ton of Christians who live right in the lion’s den. Check out the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley if you’re there--great church.
http://www.fpcberkeley.org/welcome.asp