To Start Off The Week

Posted by on 8/30/2004

Thought we’d give you a shot of the balloons that WILL drop at the RNC convention:



Unlike the ones they had problems with at the DNC.

Radical Islam

15 Comments.

  1. peejz 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 06:35 AM

    I will be watching this and I can’t wait to see the balloons:grin:

  2. winston 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 06:48 AM

    Half-a-million people marched against the Bush administration’s policies in the streets of New York City on August 29:

    “A roaring two-mile river of demonstrators surged through the canyons of Manhattan yesterday in the city’s largest political protest in decades, a raucous but peaceful spectacle that pilloried George W. Bush and demanded regime change in Washington.

    On a sweltering August Sunday, the huge throng of protesters marched past Madison Square Garden, the site of the Republican National Convention opening today, and denounced President Bush as a misfit who had plunged America into war and runaway debt, undermined civil and constitutional rights, lied to the people, despoiled the environment and used the presidency to benefit corporations and millionaires.

    The protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 500,000, rivaling a 1982 antinuclear rally in Central Park, and double the number it had predicted. … one officer in touch with the police command center at Madison Square Garden agreed that the crowd appeared to be close to a half-million.
    …
    The organizers said they were also pleased by the size and diversity of the turnout. The faces appeared to be a cross-section of the American experience. There were individuals, families and groups from many states and across the region and the city. There were young people and older citizens, families with small children, students and representatives of the middle and working classes and many organizations, including advocates of gay and women’s rights, antiwar groups, immigrants, veterans, artists, professionals, religious organizations and proponents of education, health and other causes.

    For many participants, there was also pride, and a kind of amazement, in being part of an event so large and diverse, and yet so pacific. …”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/campaign/30protest.html

    Photos from the NYC half-million people march against the Bush administration’s policies, August 29 2004:
    http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/106765/index.php

  3. LisaS 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 06:53 AM

    Yes, winston – - we know there’s a protest going on. . . and we don’t really care. :)

    Funny, though – the NYPD are reporting a little under 100,000 people at the protest.

  4. doubletakebill 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 07:05 AM

    Let’s hope they don’t mic the balloon guy! :grin:

  5. peejz 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 07:17 AM

    Lisa I saw that as well. Fox and Friends reported that the weekend was a bust for the demonstrators. All I can say is at least they got the streets and not a cage!

  6. doubletakebill 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 07:34 AM

    Winston,

    I think that the protest will actually help the Bush campaign. It will create MORE news coverage of the convention and will show the undecided that far left is made up of a bunch of angry, malcontent, goofballs.

    Send in the jesters for the entertainment! :grin:

  7. Snowy Egret 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 09:20 AM

    Yeah all those idiots in their stupid protests what a bunch of wrong way dweebs and fools they dont know what their doing since their so darn braindead and brainwashed by the left-wing educators at these collage campuses they are traitors but the red,white and blue balloons look nice:cool::idea::roll:

  8. geli 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 12:50 PM

    so that i don’t produce several pages of criticisms these liberal protestors, i will specifically direct my comment to one particular topic that they were protesting about.”used the presidency to benefit corporations and millionaires” i don’t think these people remember the large tax cut that the lower class received during bush’s term. the millionaires got the lowest percent of a tax cut than the lower class. and what about the increased benefits for the military? surely there aren’t millionaires serving in our army, navy, air force, marines, and national guard, so as usual the liberals baffle me with their senseless protests. thank god the “left-wing educators” aren’t able to brainwash all of us college students.

  9. PCD 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 01:07 PM

    Geli,

    You have to look at things from their angle. The protestors are paid by Soros and other well heeled Anti-Americans. When one of their benefactors, like Saddam Hussein, goes down, there’s less “gravy” for them to suck up.

    Oh, how honest are your professors? Do they require their students to buy books they have written?

  10. Snowy Egret 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 01:27 PM

    And thats not all i saw a picture of some of these protesters with a sign reading VOTE SOCIALIST meaning they are all socialists and i would not doubt if soros is behind this he is a rich solialist himself and lets not forget the communist Workers World Party and many others too numerous to mention:mad::twisted::cool:

  11. Zelda 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 01:36 PM

    Does anyone know what night President Bush is speaking? I’m looking forward to hearing his speech.

  12. LisaS 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 01:39 PM

    Zelda – he speaks Thursday night. :)

  13. geli 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 01:39 PM

    well of course they do. i took a twentieth century class and the teacher told us to buy his book, but he said that he would not have any financial gain because “that had already been taken care of”.well, we never cracked the book. (he didn’t like me from day one anyhow because he asked everyone what their favorite thing about the twentieth century was and i said either president bush or ronald reagan.before i made the comment, he wished that he could have an anti-bush pill)

  14. PCD 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 02:30 PM

    Geli,
    I think an ethics case could be made against that professor. He evidently has no ethics to practice. Personally I think there needs to be a Federal law against such practices by professors.

  15. peejz 8/30/2004 at August 30, 2004 - 02:37 PM

    And look at the money someone like geli shells out for an education:shock: Price that and then think about that every time you make a tuition payment to a Univerity that pushes their agenda down your throat, and generally the agenda has nothing to do with the major the student is enrolled in!