17
Oct
I Can’t Quit You, Cindy Sheehan!
By popular request, a Cindy Sheehan update:
Over the summer I had a hysterectomy, and um, I got my “parts” back. I thought I could just [inaudible] on eBay, you know, “[inaudible] Cindy Sheehan’s uterus.” And so I planted it in the garden where the bush, it’s a pretty bush… It’s so funny ’cause me and my children, we’ll always be a part of, of Crawford, Texas. Long after people forgot the horror of the Bush regime, long after, you know, we’re forgotten. We’ll always, our DNA will always be in the land…”
I can’t decide if that is more weird than gross, but my overall reaction is ‘yuck.’
Pb
Ok, so explain this to me. A woman buries her own human remains on her own property… and the immediate ‘conservative’ reaction is… can we arrest her for it?
Punchy
In 3 years they’re going to have the biggest Uterus Tree in all of Crawford. When the wind blows past the leaves, it will give a whining, wailing sound, and it will drip sap, much like the soft tears of a greiving mother…
They will declare it a whole new species…the Cindus Sheehaniniganis Copious Bushhatetus...
chopper
of course. ‘property rights’ only belong to the party faithful.
srv
If she’d just put it on eBay, we could have bought it for you John.
Mr Furious
Worst. Quote. Ever.
Mary
Damn. I had a myomectomy last week and I didn’t even think of getting my “parts” back. Probably because this ain’t planting season in Toronto.
Paddy O'Shea
Hey, Gandhi drank his urine. And he sells more merch these days than Led Zeppelin.
Love her or hate her, Cindy’s got something none of us will ever have. A Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
ThymeZone
I’d think this was a cute thread, if the blog routinely went after weirdness in the news in general.
But it doesn’t, so what’s the point? That this ditzy woman had the stones to camp out in Crawford and decry this stupid war before a lot of other people had the guts to step up and say basically the same things, so … that makes her a legitimate target for ridicule?
Yeah, that’s it. That must be it.
SEe, what’s important isn’t whether the war is a disgrace to the country. What’s important is whether the people saying it are funny looking and odd. That’s what’s important.
It’s the worldview of the perpetual 14-year-old.
John Cole
Paste this is why I posted this, PPGAZ.
ThymeZone
I know. Just giving you a hard time. It’s what I do.
And I am ill paid for it.
ThymeZone
Hint: The classy thing to do do here would be to ignore Sheehan. She served a purpose, and is long past the point of fighting above her weight class.
Retief
Alright so what would the boys and girls here do after the doctors handed you back your reproductive organs. Personally I’m thinking book ends, a la Bronze Baby Shoes.
Face
I’m thinking her group hug with Hugo Chavez put a mighty large kibosh on the “sympathize with her” meme. Had she stuck with simply getting bounced from SOTU addresses and setting up shop in Crawford once a year, there’d be more empathy for her plight. Instead, she hadda pull out all the stops and do everything short of taking donkey punches from Osama Bin Forgottin to prove her hatred, and in doing so killed a lot of support…
ThymeZone
Right. the one thing you don’t want to do in the face of a stupid, useless, dishonest, ill concived and worse-run war is PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS.
I mean, really! The nerve!
Pb
Face,
Hugo Chavez didn’t convince me that George W. Bush is Satan—but on the other hand, George W. Bush hasn’t convinced me that Hugo Chavez is Satan, either. If Cindy Sheehan wants to give him a hug, more power to her, and vice versa; I’ve never met either one of them.
srv
In the end, Cindy will have done more to justify a Peace Prize than 8 years of George Bush.
ThymeZone
Satan just called, and said to please stop picking on his boys.
srv
Saddam lover
Terrorist lover
Hugo lover
Difference is, two work for the gov’t.
Tsulagi
LOL. I could have gone all day, or much much longer, without the visual of Cindy retrieving her “parts.” At least I have the serenity of knowing her uterus will forever be close to a particular Bush when he’s in Crawford. Maybe it’ll make him a little horny. Get those two airheads together in Crawford at the same time and the thermals must be great for hang gliding.
ThymeZone
{ voice of Goofy }
A-yuk! Yep, those two are { chuckle } like peas in a pod.
/goofy
Well, if Bush sent his daughters to Iraq to get killed, and Sheehan were busy destroying the world, they would be. Sort of.
canuckistani
Plant ‘em like bulbs, and see what comes up in the spring. Unless you live downtown, in which case keep them the hell away from my property values.
Krista
They gave her her parts back? Pardon my saying, but that’s really damn weird. Is that standard practice?
Krista
They could just change the name of the neighbourhood to Fibroid Hill instead of Forest Hill.
Mary
Not in Toronto it isn’t. Maybe it’s an American thing, like getting your own copy of the surgery video afterwards.
canuckistani, I live in the old stockyards area near the Junction, so a planting may be in keeping with the ambience of the neighbourhood, but I’ll still skip planting what I have not got and will put in my tulips and irises this weekend as planned.
Face
Just wait until Sheehan starts sending Valentines to Saddam and “Get Well Soon” missives to the Jonger. How long must we wait until she three-ways with Castro and Khaddafi? She’s going for her 30 minutes when 15 would have sufficed.
I have to believe planting a uterus in the garden can only serve one purpose—to grow uterus-flavored carrots and squash. Cindy Salads
!
Kimmitt
Enh, I buried my cats, and I feel like a piece of us will be on that property. Much less something which was once part of me.
Pb
I believe they do that primarily because of certain religious beliefs people have—some people can be quite touchy about their body parts / precious bodily fluids / etc. I seem to remember that they offered me my appendix back when I had to have it removed; I declined. After all, the darn thing tried to kill me!
Tsulagi
Sorry, TZ, I’m not a Cindy fan. But if it’s any consolation, I think she’d be every bit as capable being president and CIC as Bush. Hell, maybe even more so. She can probably pronounce “nuclear.”
Tim F.
Speak for yourself. Nominations are never made public so you guys will never know about the five or six that I have racked up so far.
You must be lost.
Krista
I have an actual Nobel Peace Prize. So there! (It was bequeathed, not awarded, but it’s still got to count for something, right?)
Punchy
I just think this would be too cool. A piece of me sitting in a jar that I could talk to when I’m bored. Ask him how he misses the whole digestive process….get some insight on how all that McDonalds is really being received down there.
Jon H
Well, at least she didn’t plant it in Sadr City.
I heard this weekend about a couple who wanted to honor the late Steve Irwin. So when their baby was born, they named it Irwin. And they fed the afterbirth to their pet iguanas.
Krista
Well yeah, ‘cause if you talked to your appendix while it was still in your body, that would just be weird.
Mary
Krista, is it Pearson’s Nobel Peace Prize that you were bequeathed, or some furriner’s Nobel?
Bombadil
My mechanic does the same thing. I think the last time it was a set of spark plugs.
Punchy
Oh? Like you don’t talk to body parts?
docg
Ooohhh! A new profit center for mohels!
Tom
No doubt Crawford earthworms are hard at work pushing up her “body parts”, saying, “No, thanks, Peace Mom.”
ThymeZone
I agree, but then so would my neighbor’s chihuahua.
ThymeZone
I was lost, but now I’m frowned.
Kyle
Ha ha! Well said, Tom! The earthworms … yes.
Bruce Moomaw
Well, it’s certainly a novel variation on “I Left My Heart In San Francisco”. However, it also serves as further evidence that if Cindy Sheehan had not existed, Karl Rove would have had to invent her.
DougJ
Clinton did it first. That’s where Gandhi got the idea.
CaseyL
Well, it makes more sense to bury the bits back into the earth than incinerate them and add to pollution.
Sometimes I wonder if there are ecological consequences to humanity’s 5,000+ year tradition of NOT returning our biomass to the ecosystem.
Let me note that filling dead bodies with formaldehyde and other Sta-Fresh! chemicals makes them toxic, and therefore unfit for composting.
But I do wonder about that.
Krista
A furriner. :) It was bequeathed to the non-profit that I work for. Those suckers are surprisingly heavy for their size.
Bruce Moomaw
Thats’s because they’re filled with uranium.
Krista
Huh. So that’s why my pee glows in the dark…
Geoduck
A book for JC to add to his reading list: Melanie Morgan’s American Mourning, which details among other things Cindy’s supposed addiction to internet porn.
Pb
I don’t know that that’s even an accurate characterization of the smear; from here:
What we don’t know, however, is if she was just doing research. For all we know, scs is really Cindy Sheehan!
The Other Steve
Don’t worry, it’s the non-radioactive nucular uranium.
The Other Steve
I heard she talked to Mark Foley in the chat rooms and gave him pointers.