Today’s the big demo day down in DC, and other places around the country. If Granny finds WiFi, she’ll hopefully be able to live blog, and let us know what’s going on. Otherwise, she’ll be able to e-mail me some pictures from her phone. Last I heard, it’s gonna be broadcast by CSPAN, and LinkTV often puts these things on as well, so look for her on stage with the rest of the Raging Grannies. She’ll be the one with the silly hat. Supposed to be a balmy 30 degrees here today, so all the fairweather dog walkers will probably be out crowding the park. Bastids. I much prefer the crappy weather. Oh well, I guess I’d better get some work done so I can watch the festivities on the Span later on. Have a good one.
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 :yuck: :crap:
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 😯 😯 :fustrate:
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I hope the demonstration in DC is as big as most people expect it to be ..
I don’t think that under the current situation with the media all being on the side of the saber rattlers that it will send anyone including our demodrop majority any more of a message as any of the previous ones ( remember there were previous ones)
Now if they were to perhaps burn the justice dept down .. that would send a message …
RETHUGS :tommygun:
The thugbot phone into C-span brigade must have been out spending their dividend checks last night :alc: .. there are actually some sane callers this morning .. not as many as one would hope .. but .. :yuck: :rant1:
AAAHHH poor Hillary is behind the eight ball already
:crap: The thugs are beginning to wake up .. they sound like they are still a bit :alc: but still as incoherent as usual :yuck: :barf: :paranoid:
Gonzales appoints political loyalists into vacant U.S. attorneys slots
One reson things will remain FUBAR for a long time .. but… we don’t have a long time :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
I find it amazing how these big peaces rise to the top in the military…. and …. we had 8 years of a demodorp admin to fix this problem .and….to get rid of RayGuns Nazis too… did we .. nooo.. .. do we have any reason to believe we will if we elect another demodorp to offce .. I don’t think so ….another reason things are FUBAR… :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Lets see if the US was occupied ..
There would be groups of paramilitary ( insurgents) that would rise up to fight the occupiers
There would be groups of capitalists that would try to make a fortune by siding with the occupiers ,. who would form their own paramilitary to fight the insurgents because they are screwing up there bottom line .
There would be that 30% who would side with the puppet presidork no matter what . .
Now one has to ask who would be shooting at whom ❓ ❓
and they are clueless that what is happening in Iraq can happen here. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Now it looks like we have been occupied by a Nazi regime .. but no one sees it that way .. we elected these people… right .. right ..
We seem to have the capitalists, Blackwater ( the capitalist’s paramilitary) and the clueless but where or where are the insurgents ( Americans have always been a bit slow on the uptake) ??? :gate: :omg: :jason: :fist:
Now it could be that an underlying unrest was detected shortly after the Nazi’s obtained power .. People were already seeing the propaganda being spewed forth by the Nazi’s noise machine and were beginning to organize .. ( I have absolutely no idea where that was it certainly wasn’t around here). In any case they were getting really really ticked off .
So the unrest was pacified by the rise of a media which seemed to speak the truth to the propaganda and told us that just electing democrats to power would solve the problem .. giving the Nazis another five years or so to create their police state and to fatten the pocket books of there capitalist friends. It also gave the capitalists time to move their assets out of the country so when the frogs finally discovered that they were being boiled alive that they would find there infrastructure decimated , a large percentage of there their populus plunged into poverty, a huge national debt and a tax base incapable of supporting there already inadequate social programs ..
The “new media” however became to aware of what was happening and were beginning to create new unrest as apposed to pacification so the capitalist management met with them and told them to tone it down .. Only point out the moral and ethical violations, make the puppet presidork out to be a fool , make stupid jokes and move closer to the center, Tell the people that rising up would be futile while telling the elite that things would be better .. that the democrats would fix things up. Meanwhile other spokes people were telling the worker( the person who most likely owns the assault rifle) how bad shape they were in ( not that they didn’t know that already) to further demoralize them while of course offering no solutions outside of electing the opposition party to office ..
Now one sees that all of that has transpired and that ..we are still incapable of fixing the problem.
So the “new media” says… well…. you just need to elect more democrats to office .. you need to elect a democrat to the presidency ( puppet strings most likely still attached) and then .. things will improve .. That of course requires two more years meanwhile the Nazis still remain in power and things get more and more FUBAR :yuck: :yuck: :crap: :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
American’s think they are above reality. They watch too much teevee.
:banana: :banana: Hey Krista :banana: :banana:
Hows AridZona ???
It’s gonna be 68 and sunny today. :nana: Are you fed up with winter yet?
C-span often has the Mark Stein character on .. he is a good case for those three guys in ski masks and sweatshirts. :yuck: :barf: :crap: :gate: :omg:
Yes … We are supposed to get another 1-3 inches of snow today . :yuck: . Hasn’t started snowing .. yet .. 😯
How deep is the snow there, by now?! Are you sidewalks like canyons of ice?? :omg:
I have bare spots in the front yard but along the driveway where the snow thrower put the snow its 18 inches deep. It was in the 40s and 50s the last two days . The snow sometimes sublimates which means it goes from solid directly to water vapor without making for gutter water .. Thats because the humidity is so low . .
hey everyone!
Its in the 20s here but the dogs had a good romp…happy in the dog run with a pillow that they stole from me and gutted in a cloud of flying stuffing…
what a newsweek…there is no friday dump because its all dump all the time! Crazy!
I hope that this march is on the major networks and to that end, if I dont see it Im gonna write in and ask them WTF?….
MSNBC has that horrible blonde woman with things like one soldier from Iraq saying ” If the people say they support the troops and not the war, thats not good…you have to support the whole thing or it hurts us”…and osme wimpy dem saying “well, thats one soldier and how can you say thats what everyone thinks”…and her saying, “well, its his point of view and he represents a certain number of them…” whatever …..
If MSNBC wants to show one guy like that they have to then follow wit the polls from all different osurces saying what the people there really think.
Im happy to hear his opinion as long as its followed by real numbers aoubt how the minority and majority feel…or at least one other soldier with a different viewpoint…..
This is ONE guy…and they dont actually have access to a variety of news….
I wish it would snow…but I have to drive to the city
Already up to 14 here. Might have to fire up the A/C today.
Wow, 40th anniversary of Apollo 1. As if I didn’t feel old enough.
I think the guy said that they would be starting with the speakers at the march in DC at 11 am eastern .. The march itself would start at 1pm .
Hopefully there’s free WiFi around there. I know there is in front of the Supreme Court and the Library of Congress, and there are a bunch of indoor free hotspots.
.Oops, that didn’t work. I’ll try to find the link again.
This march is supposed to be around a much larger area than the last few .. The guy who was on C-span said they had come to the conclusion that Bush was being made impotent by the democratic congress and was unmoveable by demonstrations so they were going to “influence” the democrats . Didn’t they have to blog from a coffee shop somewhere near the park the last time because there was no WIFI ( probably to much NSA traffic) at the park ??
http://tinyurl.com/3x5xeq
This should be right.
I hope the Iraqis and the Iranians see Bush as impotent as they stare at all those large gray objects assembling off there shores .
That didn’t work either. Maybe it’s tinyurl.
sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/chron.php?cat=Astronomical_Images
Nice images Sue P
This should work:
http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/chron.php?cat=Astronomical_Images
Yeah, Bush will never be influenced by anything, but hopefully this will help to give democrats a little spine stiffener, and also help to show the rest of the world that we’re not all a bunch of idiot, warmongering cowboys. No doubt, there will be the requisite couple dozen counter protesters, declaring their allegiance to the king, and support for getting fully grown humans killed, all in the name of the “right to life.”
Sorry, I’m a dork.
Yeah, I saw those pix. Who knew that Eliot Spitzer had his own telescope?
ah…love John Dean’s writing:
Yeah, he really had to struggle with not calling Gonzalez a lying idiot (well, that’s actually what he did call him, just not in so many words).
hadn’t seen those picts!
hey, do any of you birders out there know what’s up with the purple martins this year? how far have the scouts gotten? i forgot to clean out the martin house until yesterday so i hope the scout didn’t give our house a “pass” this year. :paranoid:
A church for Sean to go to
thanks sue…no info on jorja so i think i got it cleaned out in time! :parrot:
(holler if you see granny)
Oh, the demo’s on CSPAN.
Schedule of events , maps etc
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
http://www.purplemartins.com/DataDisplay/Charts/index.asp
Here’s a site for sighting of purple martins.
Pretty snazzy getup this Michael Lerner is wearing.
C-span always looks at the crowd from the ground level so you can’t see how big it really is but it looked like there were a lot of people in the first 100 feet or so of the camera
Yeah, it’s pretty hard to tell. Plus, it’s pretty early yet. You know these peaceniks – they’re nowhere near as punctual as Republicans.
i messed up on the posts or something…edited out porn pancakes and jezus and answered sueP…hmmmm :priest:
If the DC coffee shops ran out of Lattes that could keep a lot of liberals away too .
There’s no shortage of lattes in deecee. I think a lack of them would be more likely to run the rich Republicans out of town, actually.
Looks like it goes back up the mall for quite a ways. I hope they fill it up from the capitol to the Lincoln memorial.
Looks like the grannies are taking the stage
There is a rumor this is on CNN
I listened to Mr. Stein (briefly) on CSPAN. I thought he said that Bush had read widely about the Middle East but that there was no evidence that Pelosi or Dean had done so. Did I hear correctly? Is there evidence that Bush has read anything widely?
WHOOO!!!!
Well, I didn’t see da wife, there.
Oh, no, upon reviewing the instant replay, I have located my wife.
There were lots of grannies with funny hats on ..
Can you do a frame grab from the instant replay and post a picture ??
All Bush knows about the Middle East is what he has read in the Oil and Gas Journal .. or the WSJ ..
Corporatists are 👿
Rethugs are 👿
well, what color boa was she wearing, pj?
It was pink. Or purple. Or one of those colors that only women seem to know the name of, like puce or something.
She was all the way over on stage left, with dark sunglasses on. After the recording’s done, I can transfer it to my PC and try and get a picture.
No, maybe we can see junior, with his bush mask and big yellow cowboy hat.
PJ, have you heard from RG? What is the turnout like?
I just never saw the reson to yell when you have a microphone, though. The speakers all seem to do it. At least this is a UFPJ event, and not ANSWER.
I haven’t heard from her yet. I wish she’d taken a phone pic from the stage, so we could see the crowd, but I bet she didn’t get a chance.
Yeah ANSWER is to fringey .. They have a lot of groups in it that might be considered to be CCCOOOMMMUUNNIIIST by the Reich wing media .
Although the AFLCIO is sort of out for world domination too .. 😮 😯
Just heard from RG. She says it’s hard to tell how many people are there, but there’s a lot – going back to the Washington Monument, as far as she can tell (which is a long way). She also got to see Dennis Kucinich and shake his hand. His wife was there, too, towering over him. The grannies are gonn be at the front of the parade, when it starts.
well, by the time i read the color boa, tivo had gone too far. i’ll wait for when they start the march to look for her…..the teen and i have to go fix the fence in the meantime…
Funny, I don’t seem to see on any stories on this on CNN, or the Washington Post. NY Times has it on their front page, though. Just an AP story, wich pegs it at “tens of thousands.”
Ah, finally on CNN (just the crappy AP story, though), with the big news:
• NEW: About 40 people, including military family members, stage counter-protest
Wow. 40.
Well, I just took a look at a map, and from 3rd St, where the stage appears to be, back to 14th St. (which is at leat 1,000 feet from the Washington Monument), there is roughly 2,000,000 square feet of space in the mall (and that only counts the lawn area, not the streets). If theaverage population density is just 1 person per 10 square feet (and it’s probably a hell of a lot more than that, at least in the front), that’s 200,000 people.
To bad they don’t try to fit all of themselves in Plosers office .
Oh, David Cline. He was in Sir! No Sir!
Morning Remembrance (we need Earl back, too)
I’d like to think he was one of us
The first time Danny Finegood played a word game with the Hollywood sign, he hung curtains to make it read Hollyweed. That was Jan. 1, 1976 — the day the state’s relaxed marijuana law took effect. :gate: :bong: :nana:
Well they had a very diverse number of speakers with a lot of house reps .. I don’t think they picked up a senator though . At that last big demonstration almost no reps showed up..
I guess when you are out of power your tongue is tied off or something ..
Are there any live satellite sites where we could find an aerial shot of the mall?
BTW, energizer bunny presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is making a speech tonight at 7 PM in San Francisco.
The Energizer Bunny was just speaking .. he is a busy bunny today ..
Pacifica just mentioned the Raging Grannies on KPFA but I think we are listening to a tape. Are there any live online streams, audio or video?
OK, here’s a relatively unsophisticated “screen cap” (I took a picture of the teevee).
RG is the one on the left.
Should be able to see it on the CSPAN-1 live feed.
Live video streams at C-span and CNN
I think c-span is gonna leave at 1:30 EST though. They keep flashing a “schedule change” up there.
C-Span? Duh :doh:
Thanks!
I’m sure the NSA has a bird up there watching, but I don’t know if they’d let us take a peek.
Yeah, I figured that. That is why I wish I could have been there. On a sunny day the reflection off of my dome would seriously disrupt the picture.
RG! Yeah ❗
Saw an “Impeach Cheney First, then Bush”
that’s the way to go :tommygun: :fist:
A.I.V. :jason:
Well C-span still has their web cast running .. As they go out onto the street it looks like people people everywhere . :yippee: :yippee:
It’s funny to watch this, after living there last summer, and knowing the area so well.
Hey, I like that backbone.
pj- my page just flipped to the live ms feed. Do I have to come back here to write or is there somewhere on the feed to comment?
thanks for the photo, pj! that backbone IS cool. geez, this rally looks HUGE!
Huh ?? Live ms feed ??
Estimates of several thousand? YGBFKM.
“several thousand” cspan says… that’s an understatement. ugh
I don’t know what it was- the page just updated with new graphics-kind of cool. Was asked to subscribe- but no place to write comments
Live MS feed? What’s that?
Ewww.. the march coverage interrupted for a Hillary event Ewww.. :crap: :barf: :barf: :yuck:
The live ms feed sounded like a pop up.. if they are advertising as if they were ms I think we should object. :yuck:
You don’t mean my in development Drupal area, do you? If so, that’s not working. And how did you find it?
Sorry for the confusion- not a feed in the video sense- there was a link like the one you get for opening mp3’s at the top of the page and everyone’s name was in blue…. have I tapped into the alternative universe morningseditionists website? :tinfoil:
clinton is going to have to change her war tune or she’ll lose the base and the dlc can’t do it solo anymore.
Wow, if you get back there, copy the URL and let me know.
The page just automatically updated and there it was. I tried to go back but it wasn’t there 😮 😯
Well we know that when Art plays streams his computer has to have the date and time for an earlier time .. maybe Arts computer is possessed. 😮 😮 :paranoid: :paranoid:
I have MSNBC on, and they’re covering it, too. They were saying how she won over the people in upstate NY (which, frankly, she did). The bimbo on the teevee said, that upstate ny’ers are similar to midwesterners, because they”have strong family values and believe in loving their families,” which I guess is the opposite of what the rest of you godless heathens believe.
This computer is working of a (supposedly) secure router- do you think someone’s fucking with it?
I had two things open at once- the ms website and cpan. If someone could tell me how to go back in time and capture the url let me know
No, but I’m not sure what you saw. If it happens again, hit the printscreen button, and copy it into word or something.
yeah, folks in the south don’t have strong family values or believe in loving their families….well, maybe some of ’em down here love their own family members a little too much. :tongue:
“Tens of thousands” again from MSNBC. They just repeat whatever the AP reports. More like hundreds of thousands.
huffpo says tens of thousands, too. how the hell do we can accurate numbers now that the dc pOleece don’t “keep”those numbers? google earth?
I’ve gotta go shovel the :fu: driveway again.
Fred, is this six or is it SEVEN weekends in a row of snowstorms :fustrate: :omg: :cold:
Oh, now a Porn & Pancakes story.
The Mall is part of the National Park system, but they don’t provide crowd estimates. It’s very simple to do. You just get an aerial photo, lay a grid over it, and count the people in a few representative grids. Unfortunately, while there are always plenty of helicopters flygin around for these things, I think they’re all government spies, and they won’t tell us.
Well HTML or XML is not checksummed in anyway so once in a while you get a web page that loads strangely .. I have had this page as well as others come up with the formatting all screwed up like it was in text only mode .. Like I tell the techs… well document what happened and we will see if happens again .. ( insert shrug shoulders emo)
think of your growing arm muscles, art!
add the beer and it could be your weekend motto, pj.
Ciao!
Oh, I’m not much for pancakes.
More like cat puke & more cat puke. The cats aren’t very happy with me, though. I decided if they’re just gonna puke it up anyway, there’s not much point in giving them canned food. They can stick with the dry stuff (it’s much less disgusting when it’s regurgitated).
Well Hillary’s comments about globalization just made me :barf: Got to go anyhow blog with ya all later . :pup: :pup:
According to the story at the WaPost:
That’s hard for me to believe.
so msnbc reported the demonstration as massive and faux news reported it as standard……
:pup: :banana: :pup: lyrics from the 4th branch, by immortal technique one of my favorite rappers…………
It’s like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain
Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change
They wanna rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
The fourth branch of the government, want us to settle
A bandana full of glittering, generality
Fighting for freedom and fighting terror, but what’s reality?
Read about the history of the place that we live in
And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
According to the story at the NY Times:
Sounds more like it.
:40: partial lyrics of bin-laden by immortal technique
[Verse 2 – Immortal Technique]
They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam
But that’s bullshit, I’ll show you why it’s totally wrong
Cuz if another country invaded the hood tonight
It’d be warfare through Harlem, and Washington Heights
I wouldn’t be fightin’ for Bush or White America’s dream
I’d be fightin’ for my people’s survival and self-esteem
I wouldn’t fight for racist churches from the south, my nigga
I’d be fightin’ to keep the occupation out, my nigga
You ever clock someone who talk shit, or look at you wrong?
Imagine if they shot at you, and was rapin’ your moms
And of course Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons
We sold him that shit, after Ronald Reagan’s election
Mercenary contractors fightin’ a new era
Corporate military bankin’ off the war on terror
They controllin’ the ghetto, with the failed attack
Tryna distract the fact that they engineerin’ the crack
So I’m strapped like Lee Malvo holdin’ a sniper rifle
These bullets’ll touch your kids, and I don’t mean like Michael
Your body be sent to the morgue, stripped down and recycled
I fire on house niggaz that support you and like you
Cuz innocent people get murdered in the struggle daily
And poor people never get shit and struggle daily
This ain’t no alien conspiracy theory, this shit is real
Written on the dollar underneath the Masonic seal
Hey guys…I just truned on CNN and they are showing the protest and the first clip at the top of the hour that begins with Jane Fonda then cuts and cuts to a bunch of what looks like Raging Grannys singing a song…is it possibly our Raging Granny? I have to see if I can catch it again in the next loop of war footage…coolio.
Now, is it gonna be on the regular network news?
What a change to have the news actually reporting on a demonstration!
It looks huge!
:fist:
This is pretty cool
http://tinyurl.com/ypx2vl
Hey, that is pretty cool, KP.
This is so weird. I can’t remember the last time I sat down with a few frosties and watched an SU basketball game from start to finish. I guess probably since the 2003 National Championship game. It’s kinda nice.
Wendy’s frosties? You people and you ice cream in the winter 🙄
Oh wait. I’m a little slow today. Beers, I know what a frosty is. 🙄
I guess I need to find a Homer belch smilie.
OMG! I got fleece sheets for my bed. I didn’t know you could get any better than flannel! :bow: :love:
vanilla frosty!
Fuck! Now I remember why I quit watching these games.
It looks like the CNN ‘package’ Melina spoke of above (#125) is a keeper. It just ran out here a few minutes ago complete with RGs. I will have to pay closer attention at 10.
Didn’t see the link here, so lookeeeeeeee what I found! Bring Our Troops Back Home! Woo! :banana: :knit: :banana: :40: :pup:
:tinfoil:
Yeah, ok, that’s enough of that. Really wish I coulda been there, too!
Thanks for that link. Very cool. If I am guessing right, some serious face time for our own favorite RG.
I was actually referring to the CNN feed that goes to local stations everywhere so the RGs should show up on many local news programs throughout the land numerous times in the next 24 hours if they bother to report this story.
:pup: all hail the queen of the morons!
Morning / Evening :yinyang:
How’s it?
Chinese have 900 missiles now pointing at us.
And when I say ‘us’ I mean those of us in Taiwan. :dancers:
Quiet, KK. There were some good demonsrations today. You can see Raging Granny up above a bit and if you look at moronqueen’s link you can see her for a few seconds toward the end of a CNN thing..
wvmc3d-
thank you for the direction. :peace:
off to the cafe. :joe: i need a coffee and some sway-jow. :pup:
oh my god the nazis just destroyed the americans……
Thanks to vwc and Sean 😉
One of our local stations did mension the protests breifly, but there was no RG action, unfortunately…the Code Pink ladies made quite the appearance, though.
Hi Em!
You can see your brother here.
Hi step-daddy!! YAY!!! :yippee: