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Nope, that isn’t a misprint.  In the article below she will explain why.  In the meantime, since she was nice enough to have a QnA, I will nice enough to comment on it.:

Cindy Sheehan Q&A: Peace icon on the mend, looking ahead

CRAWFORD — The growing anti-war movement fueled by last summer’s peace demonstrations in Crawford resurfaces in Washington, D.C., today, but the peace icon who sparked it all won’t be there.

Cindy Sheehan says she’s taking a hiatus from her activist role to heal and re-energize herself after a trying and torrid summer.

Most of the 100 or so anti-war demonstrators who joined her this year had left her peace camp in Crawford by the close of the Labor Day weekend. However, Sheehan, 49, remained behind, collecting herself after what proved a low-profile protest compared to last year’s massive, monthlong demonstration near President Bush’s ranch.

Could it be her 15 minutes is finally up?

This year’s protest gathered little steam in Crawford. Bush, who usually spends the entire month of August at his nearby ranch, cut his vacation to 10 days. And when Sheehan wasn’t hospitalized for exhaustion, dehydration and gynecological problems, she was recuperating at a motel in nearby McGregor.

How, pray tell does one recuperate at a motel?  I can never get a good night’s sleep at one.

Sheehan looked tired and moved slowly when she granted a brief interview to the Tribune-Herald. Her son, Andy, 22, sat with her. She talked about this year’s protest; her controversial association with Hugo Chavez, the anti-American president of Venezuela; and her plans for the five-acre spread she purchased for $52,500 just north of Crawford this summer.

Q: You’ve spent a lot of the past month in the hospital or on the mend. How do you feel?

A: Just really tired.

Q: You’ve been spending a lot of your time in McGregor instead of Crawford.

A: Yeah, when I haven’t been in the hospital.

Q: How does Camp Casey this year compare to last year? You became an international event in 2005.

The story from the NY Post today details what many have known for a while, that lurking beneath the cultured and urbane, proudly civilized tolerant surface of the Democratic Party is a hateful Anti-Semitic ugliness. Anyone who has perused Moveon.org or Daily Kos has seen this.

Now, this should not be assumed to be a plank in the Democratic Platform.  I would never assume that many liberals I know and respect are bigoted idiots.

But there is a farily vocal minority that is.

HATEFUL ‘MOVE’ VS. JOE– SITE’S ANTI-JEWISH SLURS

September 5, 2006 — A string of anti-Semitic rants about Sen. Joe Lieberman have popped up on the liberal MoveOn.org’s open forum Web site, drawing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League.

It’s the latest flap in the contentious race between Lieberman, who is running as an independent to keep his seat in Connecticut, and upstart Ned Lamont, the Democratic nominee.

Since Lieberman is Jewsih, the ADL is justifiably concerned:

"We recognize that Action Forum is an open forum intended to foster the free flow of ideas," ADL head Abraham Foxman said in a letter dated Aug. 31 to MoveOn, which supported Lamont in the Democratic primary against Lieberman.

"Nevertheless, since such profoundly offensive content is appearing on a board clearly linked to MoveOn.org, we believe you should assume some responsibility to respond to this hateful content," Foxman wrote in the letter, which was forwarded by Lieberman’s campaign.

Foxman cited examples from the site’s Action Forum, including "media owning Jewish pigs," "Zionazis," a reference to the senator as "Jew Lieberman" and the question, "Why are the Jews so Jew-y?"

Foxman wrote, "Those who allow hate to rear its ugly head under their auspices bear a special responsibility to distance themselves from that hate, and to speak out against it, as loudly as possible."

That does detail my only question in regards to this:  What do the Liberals/Democrats say about it?

Foxman and Eli Pariser, executive director of the MoveOn Political Action Committee, couldn’t be reached.

There is no way I can let the passing of Steve Irwin go unremarked.

My children and I used to spend many the hour watching the Croc Hunter and his antics.  He was an amazing man, with an infectious passion for animals, and a bit of a knack for drama and sensationalism.

And he was a bit of a daredevil, taking chances that we all shook our heads at, knowing he was pushing his luck, and the underlying feeling was that someday his luck would run out.

It did.

He even made sport of it, in a snake bite episode in a Fed Ex commercial.

A lot of people have noted that he died doing what he loved, and would have preferred to die how he did, then to any other way, but to me that’s a kind of meaningless thought.  I mean honestly, I think he would have enjoyed dying of old age, his wife beside him and surrounded by kids and grand kids, like most people would.

I feel sorrow for Terri and his kids, as they will be faced with a barrage of people making that observation, for it almost generates a self destructive nature about their loved one.

And since the deadly accident was videotaped, how long before they will see their beloved’s death on the news and or television and Internet?

They will have to relive this, over and over.  I pray for their strength.  Yes, the world shares their loss, but the world will also be reminding them of it for years to come.

But looking beyond that, there is no doubt that Irwin did love his work, and the "beautiful" creatures he studied.  As I said, he had an almost infectious way of making the most obscure lizard or snake into the most amazing creature.  Where most people saw a man eating lizard suitable for hand bags ans shoes, he saw a thriving creature with a place in the ecosystem, a creature of deadly beauty.

And that is the vision he tried to share with us every week.