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The editor of “Patrol” speaks with Christopher Hitchens after the debate with theologian Douglas Wilson at The King’s College in New York City.

The complete thing: http://www.vimeo.com/2111182

I asked: “Can somebody tell me what the ‘red flower’ means on CH’s lapel?”

The answer came quickly, user calcecini said:
“In answer to your question about CH’s lapel,it’s actually a poppy (made of plastic) worn in November in Britain as a memorial for those who have died in war (war remembrance day in on November 11th in the UK). You are given a poppy by people on the street after a donation, and that money goes to veterans charity. The tradition covers all wars, but is especially associated with WW1 1914 -18 - as the poppy grows in the area where the terrible trench wars took place.”

I checked and read that the tradition is based on the Canadian poem “In Flanders Fields”:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

I think we should indeed show this kind of stoicism and respect for those who protected our Freedom in the past and now against another dreadful enemy in poppy fields. I hope this catches on also in the USA and other places.

more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields

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CLICK to watch 75 SECONDS ! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC0YwcnQNtY

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http://wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ayers

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ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (AP) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of his association with a former 1960s radical, stepping up the campaign’s effort to portray Obama as unacceptable to American voters.

Palin’s reference was to Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the group the Weather Underground. Its members took credit for bombings, including nonfatal explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol, during the tumultuous Vietnam War era four decades ago. Obama, who was a child when the group was active, served on a charity board with Ayers several years ago and has denounced his radical views and activities.

The Republican campaign, falling behind Obama in polls, plans to make attacks on Obama’s character a centerpiece of presidential candidate John McCain’s message with a month remaining before Election Day.

Palin told a group of donors at a private airport, “Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” She also said, “This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America.”

Palin, Alaska’s governor, said that donors on a greeting line had encouraged her and McCain to get tougher on Obama. She said an aide then advised her, “Sarah, the gloves are off, the heels are on, go get to them.”

The escalated effort to attack Obama’s character dovetails with TV ads by outside groups questioning Obama’s ties to Ayers, convicted former Obama fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko and Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He and Obama live in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and served together on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that develops community groups to help the poor. Obama left the board in December 2002.

Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.

Palin cited a New York Times story published Saturday that detailed Obama’s relationship with Ayers. In an interview with CBS News earlier in the week, Palin didn’t name any newspapers or magazines that had shaped her view of the world.

Summing up its findings, the Times wrote: “A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called ’somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.’”

[ OCTOBER 4, 2008 ]

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According to PerezHilton.com, which is where I found all this information: Vinatge sexy!

A photo of John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate, Alaska Governor Sara Palin, during her college days in the ’80s.

The t-shirt reads: “I May Be Broke, But I’m Not Flat Busted.”

Classy! Trashy pics Sarah Palin

According to the A.P., the pic was provided by Palin’s family.

Why would they release that?????

Additionally, according to her Wikipedia page, Palin and her daughter, Bristol, have a lot in common.

Just like her teenaged daughter, Sarah had a shotgun wedding.

Palin “eloped” with her husband Todd, in 1988. Just EIGHT months later, their first son, Track, was born.

Curious timing!

Makes you wonder why big boobs “eloped”!

GROSS! IS THIS THE WOMAN YOU WANT IN THE SECOND MOST POWERFUL POSITION IN THE FREE WORLD?

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I WANT MCCAIN TO WATCH THIS!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/paper-trail/2008/9/5/sarah-palins-extensive-college-career.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/02/politics/animal/main4407224.shtml
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/10/sarah-palin-s-1.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/joe.plumber/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/10/26/2008-10-26_elisabeth_hasselbeck_sarah_palin_undress-3.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrfQ5dAiw3I

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