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I see the patriots at Move America Forward (thank God I have found them- a veritable treasure trove of blogging material) have a grand new plan to support our troops and keep up with morale on the home front- TSHIRTS FOR THE WOUNDED! so while our soldiers are convalescing, they can stop worrying about the injuries that will haunt them for life, and display their sacrifice in style:

I hope you all head on over to Move America Forward, because if we have learned anything the past few years, it is what our troops really need are t-shirts when they are wounded. Considering the shortage of Purple hearts, I think this endeavor fills a real need (and in fairness, I thought the claims that we were short Purple Hearts was indicative of anything was a stupid and overblown charge on the left- it meant, if anything, that someone screwed up the ordering of Purple hearts).

BTW- no mention on the Move America Forward website about whether 3.5% is too much of a pay increase, or demands for more veteran healthcare, or… you get the point.

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  1. 1.

    rachel

    Did you ever notice it’s never “I support our troops”? No, they just tell other people to support them.

  2. 2.

    demimondian

    That’s not true, rachel. I’ve seen tshirts which say “I support our troops”. The backs say “That’s why I want them home.”

  3. 3.

    Pb

    Just to watch John’s head explode… I think I first noticed the idiocy that is Melanie Morgan and Move America Forward when they did their “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy” Caravan:

    On August 16, MAF announced in an email that, the following week, they would be “leading a caravan to Crawford, Texas – to present an alternative voice to that of Cindy Sheehan, who has become the heroine of the ‘Blame America First’ crowd. … We cannot allow MoveOn.org, Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan communicate a false sense of weakness to the terrorists overseas” (August 16, 2005 email, titled, “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy”). The caravan traveled from August 22 to the 27, stopping in more than 15 cities and towns, including Vacaville (Sheehan’s hometown), Sacramento and San Diego in California; Phoenix, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Dallas, Waco, and Crawford in Texas.

    The MAF caravan featured a counter to Cindy Sheehan, Marine Mom, Deborah Johns, who the group described as “a positive alternative to the likes of Cindy Sheehan who seem determined to undermine American resolve to win the war against terrorism” (August 18, 2005 email, titled, “MUST SEE VIDEO: Pro-Troop Caravan”). MAF noted that Johns beloged to an organization called Northern California Marine Moms and that her son, William, “is a Marine who has served in Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Johns told the Boston Globe, “If the building of bridges and roads and schools and power plants was portrayed in the media, it would make a huge difference. We need to stand by our men and women so they can keep their morale up.” [29]

    And predictably:

    Additional controversy erupted in August 2005 centered around Move America Forward’s “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy!” campaign countering the protest of Cindy Sheehan. Observers and the press have noted that some pro-Bush activists in the MAF entourage were aggressively confrontational and verbally abusive, calling the anti-war protesters “communists”, saying they are “aiding and abetting the enemy”.[11]

  5. 5.

    jake

    What? No Purple Heart band-aids?

    BTW- no mention on the Move America Forward website about whether 3.5% is too much of a pay increase, or demands for more veteran healthcare, or…

    Boy John, your case of Moonbatitis is really getting out of hand.

    True patriots know that soldiers are supported by symbolic gestures like placing a yellow magnet made in China on your car and wearing T-shirts that show a complete lack of understanding of the complex war they are fighting.

    How dare you insult our soldiers by suggesting they are sissy enough to want decent equipment, something more than a joke of a “raise” or decent health care? I mean, you’ve seen Rambo. He took on the bad guys without a shirt and he didn’t go running to the VA when he got wounded.

  6. 6.

    maf54

    MAF was nowhere to be found when the Walter Reed scandal surfaced a few months ago. Support the troops, indeed…

    Sorry, still in rehab…

  7. 7.

    ConservativelyLiberal

    Melanie Morgan ought to change her name to Mealy Mouth. She is one twisted twit. What MAF should give our wounded soldiers are ‘Support our troops’ bras and jock straps! T-shirts are so yesterday.

    I wonder how many people are enriching themselves in the ‘support out troops’ movement. I would not put it past some lowlifes to squeeze the situation to stuff their pockets with cash.

    I rode my motorcycle up the Oregon coast yesterday heading to Vancouver, Washington (365 miles, 9 hours of fun!), and I saw turrists everywhere! They were in the waysides, in the state parks, on the beaches, everywhere!! It was a total invasion!

    Turrists means terrorists? Oh, I thought it was tourist! Well, same thing… ;)

    Heading back home today, nothing like 700+ miles on a bike in less than 38 hours. Having a bony ass don’t help…lol!

    See y’all on the return home. Don’t give Tim and John too much grief. ;)

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    Melanie Morgan: The new Phyllis Schafly.

    From Schafly’s wikipedia entry:

    In 1992, her eldest son, John, came out as being a homosexual. Schlafly has expressed a desire not to talk about this in interviews.

    Schlafly has been an outspoken critic of what many conservatives refer to as “activist judges”, particularly on the Supreme Court. In 2005, Schlafly made headlines at a conference for the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration by suggesting that “Congress ought to talk about impeachment” of certain Supreme Court justices (see [1]), Justice Anthony Kennedy being the primary target.

    In 2006, Schlafly provided an interview which appeared in the March 30 New York Times in which she attributed improvement in women’s lives during the last decades of the twentieth century to labor-saving devices such as the indoor clothes dryer and paper diapers.

    In honor of Phyllis, I am wearing a paper diaper right now, and I urge all of you to wear them too.

    In any event, the “conservative movement,” which was always a marketing ploy and never a coherent theory of government in the first place, has always needed its clowns to get the crowd stirred up. I guess Melanie is the new Queen of Batshit Crazy.

  9. 9.

    Tsulagi

    Hadn’t heard of Move America Forward before. Went over to their website and most of what I saw was just links to sell crap, or to get you registered after providing a fair amount of personal info.

    Did a quick Google; found a little info about their finances…

    Move America Forward has raised about $1.2 million in tax-deductible donations. A breakdown of Move America Forward’s largest expenditures:

    • $693,456 on television and radio ads and movie screenings.

    • $123,491 to send talk radio hosts to report from Iraq and orchestrate counterprotests against anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas, and elsewhere.

    • $113,434 to send coffee, cookies and beef jerky to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    • $20,744 for rallies commemorating 9/11, supporting tighter border controls and other issues.

    Source: Internal Revenue Service Form 990

    So yeah, they support the troops. To the tune of about 10%. Sounds just about the norm percentage for those types of Hannity buttplugs making money off of or advancing their swill off the backs of those deployed. Disgusting.

  11. 11.

    Dixie

    That is amazing, Psycheout. I’m stunned by how nuanced that graphic design is!

    An America that doesn’t surrender to terrorists because it’s not burdened by a “left wing!”

  12. 12.

    Tax Analyst

    Psycheout Says:

    Hmmmm. Is Uncle Sam missing his left arm? Is this what you mean by t-shirts for injured troops? How odd.

    We Terrurist-luving LIEBRUL scum-rats gnawed it off.

    We start work on his balls tomorrow.

  13. 13.

    Bruce Moomaw

    Nice piece of research by Tsulagi. There has GOT to be a ring in Dantean hell reserved for such people, although I’m not quite sure whether it’s located in Malebolge or Cocytus.

  15. 15.

    jon

    I understood that the armed forces are still handing out Purple Hearts that were stockpiled in the 1940s in anticipation of the invasion of Japan.have they finally run out?

  16. 16.

    foofighter

    The only way these T-shirts can be of any help is if you turn them into bandages. Then they can really save a life.

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