How sweet is this? Too bad the critter doesn't see it here.

[Gabi Hayes]

Demonstrators organized marches to call America's top diplomat a war criminal and human rights abuser as she joined British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on a tour of his adopted northern England working-class home.

Rice said she was not surprised by the depth of opposition in Britain, President Bush's strongest ally in Iraq, to the war and other American policies.

"I've seen it in every city I've visited in the United States," Rice said earlier Friday. "People have strong views."

"People have the right to protest, that's what democracy is all about," Rice told reporters at a British aerospace plant. "I would say to those who wish to protest, by all means."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-03-31-rice_x.htm

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another demonstrator held a yellow hand-lettered sign that read "How Many Lives Per Gallon?"

I HEARD her say these words on radio news earlier today, and the TONE of her voice was so haughty, so pedantically snotty, that I wanted to reach out and......sorry, agent Mike.

she's worse than the chimp, IMO, cause there's never anything amusing about the things she does or says

I love that sign, btw

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The little devil's pitchforks are awesome!

That poster as "from the heart"! I can dig it.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. haha....I missed that. I like the horns on her head, too

"...back where you came from"....HELL! I'm like the chimp; a bit slow on the uptake

one of my favorite things is to just google "protest signs," or the like

found some great ones from Portland the other night: guy in a Bush mask/Burger King hat riding the Portland tram last Halloween. hilarious slideshow with some wonderful kid reactions

[Gabi Hayes]

3. from another article

Jack and Condi’s first stop is a BAe Systems factory making parts for the new-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

There is nothing to see but a video of a milling machine that, we are told, is accurate to 50 microns, one third of the width of a human hair.

Condi's hair, of course, is immaculate when she comes in dressed in a mauve trouser suit and pearls.

Against the backdrop of the Union flag and the Stars and Stripes, the message is that of top-level co-operation among allies. But there is a snag: the Americans will not give the Brits the computer codes for the aircraft, and the Government is very cross.

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according to the article, most of the press questions were about protests/protestors, and "enmity" towards US
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=BLOGDETAIL&grid=P30&blog=diplomatic&xml=/news/2006/03/31/bldiplomatic131.xml

[Gabi Hayes]

4. muslims LOVE condi!

Condoleezza Rice's two-day visit to the north of England suffered a second setback today, as a visit to a mosque was cancelled due to fears of anti-war protests.
It follows the withdrawal of the poet Roger McGough from attending a celebratory concert in Liverpool on Saturday, to be attended by the US secretary of state.

A spokesman for the mosque in Blackburn said the planned visit had been called off because of fears of an "invasion" by anti-war Muslims - although Ms Rice is probably the most heavily-protected woman in the world.



Ms Rice's visit to England begins tomorrow - a reciprocal trip after the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, last year visited her home town of Alabama. Mr Straw is MP for Blackburn, where the mosque is situated.
Ibrahim Master, a member of the Blackburn mosque's governing committee, said Muslims opposed to the visit intended to "invade" the mosque before Ms Rice arrived.

He said concerns about safety meant the visit to the Masjide Al Hidayah mosque on Millham Street had been cancelled.

Mr Master said: "The visit wasn't cancelled because we don't like Condoleezza Rice.

OH. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,,1743028,00.html