March 09, 2006
Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast and Puppet Show
This is not a joke.
The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at Denny's Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am.
Meanwhile, Seattle's Consolidated Works theater is presenting a
Rachel Corrie puppet show this week. It's tragic enough that the naive young Corrie was incited to kill herself as a human shield for a bunch of terrorists. To commemorate her death with pancakes and puppets is tasteless beyond belief.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 09, 2006
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1. Why is it tasteless? Because she was a "puppet" of her Evergreen State professors? Or because she ended up flat as a pancake?
2. I love how they make the spoiled little brat out to be a martyr who was "protecting homes", when in reality she was "protecting tunnels used to smuggle weappons and explosives that were used to kill Isrealis"...
Apparently, THEIR fantasy version rolls off the tongue better.
I think WE should have a pancake breakfast for her, too. ;0)
3. It's so paradoxical (at least to me) that liberals are so sympathetic to the "plight of the Palestinians" and yet most Jewish people vote Democratic.
4. Wasn't Victoria where that Millennium Bomber came from before he was stopped by US Customs officials?
5. How long will it take for the U-Dub student senate vote for a Rachel Corrie memorial on campus? Do the Greenies have one up yet? I love my job because I sometimes have to drive the main drag of Olympia in my log truck loaded with dead trees and I get the free sideshow of the enlightened "students" with riveted faces and fruitloop-dee-dooos, not that there is anything wrong with that, I like the diversion.
6. I see that Rachel Corrie is no longer registered to vote in Washington.
7. Can we order bacon with our pancakes? What about pork sausage or a slice of ham?
8. In honor of her matriculation at Evergreen State, can we order a Lumberjack slam?
9. Still, I think this Rachel Corrie Memorial Pancake Breakfast is a big joke. Of course, I think it is a funny joke. But still a joke. I cannot find any confirmation of this supposed event, other than what this conservative blogger posted on his website. Everyone who is claiming this is a real event is using the original blogger as their source.
10. I think they wanted to do a nice thing by remembering her, but the only picture I can get in my mind is the clay character, MR BILL, from Saturday Night Live a few decades ago.
11. "Can we order bacon with our pancakes? What about pork sausage or a slice of ham?
Posted by Richard Pope at March 9, 2006 04:44 PM"
Richard--
Obviously you didn't hang at the same Co-op as Rachel. If you did, you would know she preferred TOFURKEY SAUSAGE!!
12. Hmmm, I don't recall reading about a whole lot of Israeli suicide bombers blowing up Palestinians on the way home from work. And having spoke to a Jewish soldier who fought in the Six Day War, the goal of the Palestinians/Arabs is to eliminate Israel. Little Rachel was only deluding herself if she thought she was part of the "oppressed" team. What she and her family never understood is that Rachel had plenty of time to move out of the path of the Israeli bulldozer. A Palestinian would never have given a target a chance to escape.
13. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see this saga get made into a made for TV movie.
14. Rachel Corrie would have grown up and made a fine elected officer for the Washington Education Association.
15. Huey- I guess we can call Israel an ally in more ways than one, eh?
16. She should have stood up in New London instead. At least then she would have died for a sensible cause.
17. Where is Rachel Corrie buried? Hummmmm?
I can find no published news stories about this and have been looking and asking since her alleged "death." Given all the publicity, whining and crying about her 'martyrdom' one would think the news manipulators would have made a big deal out of service sending her to her final resting place. Yet there was nothing. Why???
I think the 'death' was staged. The pictures of the bulldozer, etc. certainly have been challenged.
Can any of the ace Internet surfers on this blog find a reliable source telling where she is buried and when? This has bugged me for years.
18. Yes, it is ironic that this event is at a pancake house. Do these people not know how Rachel is referred to at places such as "little green footballs"??? The blogosphere is not always known for politeness.
19. Pancakes and puppets...
Kinda reminds me of the early 1980s when the commie broads of the Women's Peace Encampment used to stage topless protests around the Army nuclear weapons facilities.
Mostly "pancakes", as I recall. That bra-burning thing ruined a whole generation of our frail flowers of America.
20. I hear tell that bulldozer driver in Israel felt mighty bad about that accident....both when he ran over her AND when he backed over her.
21. Nobody is answering my question.
Is that because it is more fun or useful to think she is actually dead? Did anyone see the link Stefan posted? There are videos that are obvious lies - pastiches of unrelated pictures, distorted views, changing landscapes...
Can't anyone prove she is dead by posting a news item or some other proof that her body was cremated or buried or otherwise disposed of? What happened in that Palestinian hospital where she was taken? Why hasn't the press followed up on this? So the so-called enemies: So-called Islamofascists like the Palestinian Authority v. so-called democracy promoters like the U.S. govt?
Help - I'm getting mighty paranoid.
22. This pancake breakfast thing is a HOAX. A funny one, but still a HOAX.
23. Anyone here know why the family in the house she was "protecting" didn't run out to save their heroine from a slow moving bulldozer? I find it very hard to believe that people who live with suicide bombers and arms smugglers were suddenly rendered helpless with fear at the sight of a bulldozer and TV cameras.
24. WHy do libs always use puppets in their protests and demonstrations?
25. It's very funny, but it is clearly a HOAX.
26. Mac,
She is buried down in Tumwater. WA.
27. I'm glad I didn't let my heart do the thinking when I was straight out of college where they tried to indoctrinate me with all the leftish BS. That's what happened to Rachel. She really believed there was some kind of moral justification for terror. I wonder where she got those ideas? Evergreen State?
You got to hand it to her though for being steadfast. Most of the folks on the left stop short of implementing these failed ideas when it comes to their own personal welfare and fortune. But Rachel put herself in front of that bulldozer really believing that her convinctions were a match for a D9.
In the end, she learned the lessons of reality the hard way. When you choose terrorists as your friends, don't be surprised when you get killed in their backyard.
28. Will they be using a Balinese shadow puppet to play young Corrie, something to add just a touch of realism???
29. Do you think Rachel Corrie was being drugged by the Palestinians?
You look at that picture of her and there is a madness to her that could be drug induced.
http://newjersey.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/10/rachel-corrie-flag-burner1.jpg
30. Someone could call the Denny's Restaurant in question and ask them if there really will be a Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast on Sunday morning:
3100 Douglas St.
Victoria, BC
V8Z 3K2
Tel: (250) 382-3844
It is the only Denny's restaurant in Victoria. There aren't as many Denny's restaurants per capita in Canada, as in the USA. Nearly half of them are in British Columbia, with Alberta having a decent number as well. Also a few in Ontario and two in Saskatchewan.
31. Perhaps pancakes is inappropriate since Rachel was so angry at this country. However, it is rumored that she loved France. You know, the Country where the National Anthem is "I SURRENDER!"!
Anyway, to show at least a smidgeon of respect for this misguided young woman, it may be more appropriate to have a "CREPES & TOFURKEY SAUSAGE BREAKFAST"!
32. It amazes me how wingnuts get off on a young woman's death. I do not agree with Ms. Corrie's cause, but unlike most of you, she actually acted on her belief instead of whining on a slanderous blog.
I would ask you to show a little respect, but then I remember that you all got off on this too:
http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/005686.html
33. So JDB, you are comparing the death of Rachel Corrie to that of a Dog.
Well I admit, they had much in common.
34. Kurt, have you no shame? Rachel Corrie has nothing in common with dogs. Dogs are smarter. Dogs don't commit treason. Dogs don't stand arrogantly in front of bulldozers. Dogs have better parents. Dogs have a better education.
Really Kurt. I am shocked. Shocked.
35. JDB, get off your high horse. Ronald Reagan did more to benefit the world than Rachel Corrie did in her brief, pointless, pathetic life. And when Ronald Reagan passed away, liberal toadies acted like it was Fat Tuesday.
Give me a freakin' break. You can take your faux sensitivity where someone gives a rip. It ain't here. Corrie was a stupid little brat.
36. Rachel Corrie was a terrorist. She aided and abetted the very people whom we are fighting against. May she rot in hell.
37. got was she (voluntarily) asked for so no tears here; you seek out danger, you sometimes find it; just like a cliff climber; my beef is with parents who would so twist a kid's ideals to do that extreme act; as the twig is bent, so grows the tree; shame on those parents who wasted a kid's life as if a pawn; if the parents have no regrets, why should we? this story gets more time than our troops and fallen (God bless 'em) heroes;
38. JDB "But unlike most of you,she acted on her belief instead of whining on a slanderous blog."
OK just post your address and all of us whiners will rent a D-9 CAT and be right over..actions speak louder than JDB.
Tell us oh sage JDB why aren't you in Gaza fighting for the rights of the oppressed peoples of the middle east? Could it be you spend your days trolling on slanderous blogs whining for social justice? To what end?
39. To the tune of Richard Cory (refrain omitted)
They say that Rachel Corrie was protecting homes in town
from bad Israeli dozers, come to tear them down
Born in Ol’ Olympia, a student of the left,
She had everything a rad could want but of sense she was bereft
The papers printed her picture, she wrote polemics just to show
Intifada sympathizers would have nowhere to go
And the rumors of their bombings and the settlers they had shot
Oh surely Israeli “Majnoon” or a dirty Bushie plot
She said her work was charity
and not a killer’s shill
They were glad of her naivete and thanked her very much
So why should any mind be wondering when the evening headlines read
Rachel Corrie blocked a bulldozer, and now she’s really dead.
40. Nice job ignatz!