4 hours with ignorant minions.
u da man. props.
thanks braaah
ignorant in that there was no ing room for a line yet hundreds kept trying to get through an area right in front of me. It was ridiculous.
I never knew people in wheelchairs feel en led to show up at a crowd of hundreds at the last ing minute and expect to casually wheel their way through the entire crowd. I hate people.
it's texas, right?
why didn't you shoot'em?
That would be wrong and there would be no justification to use deadly force here in Texas.
they were infringing on your personal space. you felt threatened.
no jury in texas would find you guilty.
also, it would ease the tax burden.
They did not infringe on my personal space through use of deadly force, therefore I cannot return the favor.
you ever felt the deadly force of a wheelchair hauling around 400lbs. of fat?
10K max. that's like not even a tenth of the people that are gonna pack la villita in a couple of weeks. fail.
Good crowd.
Hey, if the people attending these at least wake up politicians to the fact that they can't spend all the time, good on them.
However, if most of these people are just dogwhistle-hearing low info voters who are only attending so they can shout down anything Barack Obama does (which I think is the case).... well, they'll have as much effect on the Republican party that they do now. Jack squat.
I was very surprised here in Portland. I call Portland the "Capital of the North-West Coast" for a reason. There were only a few liberals trying to interrupt the Portland event. I'll bet there were more conservatives in downtown Portland, outside of work, in a very long time.
I've been uploading my pics that I didn't delete to my Photobucket.
Wow... 2.4 to 3.7 megabyte files are slow, even with cable, then photobucket will chop them down. Oh well. The original format is 3264 x 2448. The first (IMGP0163.jpg) was taken before the 5 PM vendor start, and the last (IMGP0278.jpg) at about 7:30 PM. The Rally itself started at 6 PM (IMGP0373.jpg).
As of posting this, a little over the first 50 are uploaded.
Enjoy.
Why don't you scale them down to web size first?
I don't have a bulk scaler. I'm bulk uploading. It would take longer for me to scale 200 pics, than let photobucket automatically resize them to 1024 x 768.
Let me preference this by saying, all the "tea parties" held yesterday... what a bunch of dumb asses.
Back to the quote:
Damn, not a good prediction.
The sa tea party site claims the crowd was 16,000. Pretty good turnout.
Color me impressed if this turns into a movement. Likely these people had their done and ill be done with it. 16,000 isn't really that many people for an event like this - IMO - but even if you think it is you have to acknowledge its meaningless unless they keep it up. If one month from now the people haven't done a damn thing more then all ti was was a nice day in the sun for people to vent their frustrations over someone they don't like in office.
That is my feeling.
If they can morph this into a movement to force some fiscal discipline on the government, then great, I would actually support that.
The problem is that everyone here knows these protests weren't about fiscal discipline. They were anti Obama/left protests under the guise of fiscal conservatism and many of the pictures and videos I've seen do nothing but support this.
Naturally the protesters could do themselves a favor and protest their own individual demands for increased state spending which benefits themselves. Yes, politicians are s but its the people who they often bed down with for 30 minutes or an hour. Though I agree that increasing the national debt by however many trillions to subsidize the losses of large financial services companies is worthy of spending a day on the streets.
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. ~Gerald Barzan
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Ye of glass house becareful with the rocks.
Did anyone who went get one of these?
This whole tea party thing is about as hilarious as Republican Congressmen crying about fiscal conservatism after going see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil during the Bush Administration.
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