[Rhodes22-list] Hey Slim, This News Just in from MN

[Steve]

In case the liberals can't figure it out; I talking
about the real story!!!!!!!!!!!  I knew I probably
would need to explain that to you:-)
Steve


--- Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This is a prime example of what liberal thinking
> does
> to this country.  There is no other way to think
> about
> Jane Fonda other than she will go down in history as
> a
> Traitor to this country and the same can now be said
> about the people that allowed that story to be
> published in Newsweek. Anyone who think different is
> just living in denial.  Facts are facts & traitors
> are
> traitors.   
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Newsweek Lutefisk Story Sparks Fury Across
> Volatile
> > Midwest
> > 
> > Decorah, IA - The debris-strewn streets of this
> > remote
> > Midwestern hamlet remain under a tense 24-hour
> > curfew
> > tonight, following weekend demonstrations by rock-
> > and
> > figurine-throwing Lutheran farm wives that left
> over
> > 200 people injured and leveled the Whippy Dip
> dairy
> > freeze. The rioting appeared to be prompted, in
> > part,
> > by a report in Newsweek magazine claiming military
> > guards at Spirit Lake’s notorious Okoboji
> internment
> > center had flushed lutefisk down prison toilets.
> > Newsweek’s late announcement of a retraction seems
> > to
> > have done little to quell the inflamed passions of
> > Lutheran insurgents in the region, as outbreaks of
> > violent mailbox bashings and cow tippings have
> been
> > reported from Bowbells, North Dakota to Pekin,
> > Illinois.
> > 
> > Whether the violence was triggered by Newsweek’s
> > report of lutefisk desecration or frustration over
> > chronic shortages of Beanie Babies and Old Style,
> > one
> > thing seems certain – occupying U.S. troops face a
> > steep road to reestablish trust in this tinderbox
> of
> > ancient hatreds and delicious dairy products. Some
> > analysts say the latest outbreak represents the
> most
> > vexing challenge to US strategy since its invasion
> > the
> > region three years ago. 
> > 
> > “It could be months before we get the area back
> > under
> > control,” said Brigadier Gen. Glen Hastings of the
> > US
> > Army’s Southern Minnesota Command. “We’re hoping
> the
> > tractor pull and swap meet seasons will help calm
> > down
> > some of the violent elements.” 
> > 
> > ‘Campground of Evil’
> > 
> > Military efforts to stabilize the violent ethnic
> > Protestantism of the region have had a mixed
> record
> > of
> > success. U.S. paratroopers first landed along the
> > Iowa/Minnesota border in early 2002 to root out
> > extremist Uff Da militants, followers of the
> > charismatic Lutheran cleric Pastor Duane
> Gunderson.
> > Despite fears of being bogged down in the harsh
> > Mankato winter, troops encountered little
> > resistance,
> > save sporadic eggings from ill-equipped insurgents
> > atop the grain elevators of local cornlords. U.S.
> > forces achieved swift success, taking as many as
> > 1,500
> > Lutheran rebels into custody and bringing a
> > momentary
> > measure of stability to what has long been
> > considered
> > a dangerous Scandinavian backwater.
> > 
> > The initial battlefield victories, however, have
> > since
> > proven to be only the beginning of the American
> > struggle here. The subsequent occupation created a
> > number of difficult challenges critics claim were
> > overlooked by the White House’s top Midwest war
> > planners. The tipping point seems to have been a
> > 2004
> > incident at the now notorious Okoboji.
> > 
> > First constructed as a boredom punishment camp for
> > Midwest dissident youth, the US Military Command
> > converted the sprawling Arnold’s Park / Lake
> Okoboji
> > area into an internment facility to house
> insurgent
> > detainees. Almost immediately stories began to
> > surface
> > of prisoner mistreatment, including vivisections,
> > anal
> > probes by extraterrestrial strippers, and
> blackouts
> > of
> > Viking games.
> > 
> > American military spokesmen initially dismissed
> the
> > stories, but several news organizations – led by
> > Newsweek – obtained a series of shocking photos of
> a
> > Texas Army Reservist, Tyffanie Cruddup, laughing
> as
> > she humiliates a naked inmate by putting a Dallas
> > Cowboys stocking hat on his head. 
> > 
> > The photos sent the Lutheran street into riots as
> > far
> > as Rheinlander, Wisconsin, and sent shockwaves
> > throughout the media world. The incident received
> > heavy play on network and cable news, the New York
> > Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, the Guardian,
> > Packers Illustrated, and was the subject of over a
> > dozen off-Broadway dramas during the 2004 season.
> > For
> > its part, Newsweek ran a record eight consecutive
> > covers on Okoboji, along with a special
> > commemorative
> > November 3 collector’s issue with pull-out
> > humiliation
> > poster.
> > 
> > Luting and Looting
> > 
> > In the wake of the incident, American military
> > spokespeople have taken pains to defend handling
> of
> > prisoners at Okoboji. A series of new guidelines
> > instruct guards to “respect the rituals and
> > traditions
> > of our valued Lutheran prison guests,” including
> > “dietary needs, Wednesday Nite Bingo, and twice
> > daily
> > viewing of Wheel of Fortune.”
> > 
> > “It is important that we remember that Lutheranism
> > is
> > a religion of peace,” said Army spokesman Maj.
> > Richard
> > Lehrman. “And we need to remember to avoid
> > insensitive
> > behavior and remarks that will cause these
> peaceful
> > Lutherans to go on another bloody killing
> rampage.”
> > 
> > Despite officials’ claims of intensified
> > sensitivity,
> > rumors have persisted of continued prisoner abuse
> at
> > Okoboji, including lutefisk desecration – an
> > especially heinous crime under Lutheran doctrine.
> > Some
> > analysts have viewed the rumors skeptically,
> > pointing
> > to the Uff Da insurgent training manual “How To
> Lie
> > About Lutefisk Desecration By Infidels.” Still,
> > dozens
> > of news organizations continue to investigate the
> > charges.
> > 
> > In its May 6 “Midwest Quagmire Wire” section,
> > Newsweek
> > appeared to have confirmed the lutefisk rumors.
> > Bylined by Senior Correspondent Michael Isikoff,
> the
> > magazine cited an unidentified source claiming
> that
> > Okoboji guards had deliberately flushed an entire
> > batch of the pungent cod-and-lye concoction that
> > prisoners had been aging in a specially prepared
> > commode. “The guard smelled it and thought it was
> > prison burrito night,” the source was quoted as
> > saying.
> > 
> > News of the desecration spread quickly from Iowa
> to
> > the Dakotas to Minnesota and Wisconsin, fanned by
> > radio soybean reports and Lutheran clerics in
> fiery
> > pancake breakfast sermons. Soon, enraged farm
> wives,
> > clad in their traditional sweater vests and Disney
> > jackets, had taken to the streets and begun a wild
> > spree of destruction, overturning hundreds of
> rusty
> > Blazers and Pontiac Grand Ams and hurling flaming
> > Lladro porcelain figurines. Decorah was
> particularly
> > hard-hit, as a frenzied throng of ululating Iowa
> > women
> > were seen looting needlepoint geese and rabbit
> > tchotchkes from a Victorian craft shop. In a
> > chilling
> > moment caught on Army night vision cameras, their
> > plus-size leader urges the mob to attack the
> near-by
> > Pamida.
> > 
> > “Ya, you betcha!” came the chant of her enraged
> > coreligionist.
> > 
> > After battling back the women with volleys of
> > teargas
> > and Land’s End catalogs, a detachment of
> California
> > reservists finally quelled the riot early Sunday
> > morning, and attended to the injured.
> > 
> > Fake But Not Completely Implausible
> > 
> > As soldiers patrolled the streets of Decorah,
> > Faribault and La Crosse Sunday, Newsweek Editor
> Mark
> > Whitaker issued a surprising, terse clarification
> of
> > the original story, saying that the magazine could
> > “no
> > longer vouch for every detail of the story,
> > including
> > the brand of lye used, the number of soldiers and
> > prisoners present, or possibly whether any of it
> > actually happened.” 
> > 
> > Whitaker, however, declined to retract the story,
> > saying that the magazine was “standing behind its
> > essential plausibility.” 
> > 
> > “Obviously, if it causes thousands of native gals
> go
> > on a berserk looting rampage, there’s got to be
> > something believable in there somewhere,” said
> > Whitaker. “Obviously, it’s now up to the
> > Administration and the DoD to disprove these
> > charges,
> > once they finish cleaning up the carnage.” 
> > 
> > In a later and terser clarification, Whitaker said
> > that the magazine’s anonymous source could no
> longer
> > remember whether he had ever been to Iowa, was in
> > the
> > military, or knew how to pronounce ‘lutefisk.’ In
> a
> > still-later, and yet-terser clarification,
> Whitaker
> > finally retracted the story after revealing that
> its
> > anonymous source was Kippy, Michael Isikoff’s
> > imaginary childhood friend. 
> > 
> > “This is a really unfortunate accident for
> > everybody,”
> > said Whitaker. “But let’s not forget the real
> > victims
> > here – Newsweek, Mike Isikoff, and especially
> > Kippy.”
> > 
> > While retracting the Okoboji accusations, Whitaker
> > said Newsweek stood by the original article’s
> final
> > two sentences, “Boo-yah! In your FACE, Chimpy!”
> > 
> > Despite the Newsweek’s humiliating public
> retraction
> > of the controversial lutefisk abuse charges,
> > tensions
> > remain high across the upper Midwest. Many here
> > discount the retraction as being coerced by White
> > House “crusaders,” and believe that other abuses
> are
> > being covered up at Okoboji.
> > 
> > “Oh yahh, I tell ya what, dere’s a lotta bad stuff
> > goin’ on in dat outfit over dere,” said a young
> > Decorah cleric who identified himself only as
> > ‘Pastor
> > Doug.’ “I heard dem infidels are switchin’ da
> > prisoner’s Leinies with Schlitz.”
> > 
> > 
> > --- Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
> > > Right you are, Tom.  And only a little watering
> > and
> > > some fertilizer (manure)
> > > required.
> > > 
> > > On 5/19/05 3:13 PM, "SVTRITON at aol.com"
> > > <SVTRITON at aol.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > the american people listened and planted 2
> > Bushes
> > > in the white house
> > > > tom
> > > >
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