September 26
...serving up your daily dish.
We told you about the large turnout in Washington of anti-war protesters, but more than one reader seems to be hinting at something sinister about an accident involving a crane that interrupted Amtrak service. Here, color comentary of the march from Pegi Adam, who attended and penned the following press release for BlueWave NJ:
A more than two-hour march ran from the Washington monument along Constitution Avenue and around the White House, energized by bands, drummers, bugle blowers doing taps and good old protest folk songs to guitar accompaniment. Signage ranged from the sad and morbid -- pictures of mothers holding dead children -- to the caustic and whimsical -- "Blow Jobs Beat No Jobs,""President Bush is a Doody Head," "Yee-hah is not foreign policy," "Trust the Bush Plan in Iraq, then believe in the Great Pumpkin."
Pegi, I never thought to use blowjobs and "whimsical" in the same sentence, but maybe I've just been doing it wrong. The release goes on to explain about the crane and its impact on the event:
Had Amtrak service along the northeast corridor not been interrupted by a crane accidentally dropping a beam on electric wires in Raway, more protesters would have descended on Washington. Reports of the beam drop do not name a responsible party.
Meanwhile, the march has served to breathe life back into Montclair Unmoderated. Go over there and check out the heated discussion.
September 26, 2005 in Really Freaking Weird | Permalink
"Blow Jobs Beat No Jobs,""President Bush is a Doody Head," "Yee-hah is not foreign policy," "Trust the Bush Plan in Iraq, then believe in the Great Pumpkin."
Oh, yeah, those libs got me good and skeered, I tell ya. Who wrote these signs, second graders? I take that back...that's an insult to grade schoolers! And they wonder why they can't win back The White House.
Posted by: Miss Martta | Sep 26, 2005 4:40:19 PM
This posting is unworthy of comment.
I question the validity of the original poster/posting.
Perhaps the posting is part of a conspiracy to discredit the significance of 100,000+ patriotic Americans who trekked to Washington, DC to let the Bush administration know that enough is enough and it is time to End the War in Iraq!
Carpe Diem!
Posted by: Franklin | Sep 26, 2005 4:55:00 PM
Oh franklin, I just bet the admin is shaking in its boots right now. Gosh a 100K partriotic (I think that is debatable) but anyway, Americans show up in DC and these are people who probably voted for Kerry 99-1. So they must be worried. Tomorrow you are gonna read that we've withdrawn the troops and all is ok in the neighborhood. I think it's time for a bedtime story.
Posted by: jmo | Sep 26, 2005 5:29:27 PM
Oh franklin, I just bet the admin is shaking in its boots right now. Gosh a 100K partriotic (I think that is debatable) but anyway, Americans show up in DC and these are people who probably voted for Kerry 99-1. So they must be worried. Tomorrow you are gonna read that we've withdrawn the troops and all is ok in the neighborhood. I think it's time for a bedtime story.
PS. Carpe diem is so over
Posted by: jmo | Sep 26, 2005 5:30:27 PM
To my friends on the right, on the left and in the center.
If the Republicans have their way we will all be paying for the cost of the War in Iraq.
So instead of ending the War in Iraq and cutting the military budget WE Americans will pay the price through cuts in the domestic budget.
Just last week a Republican proposal, titled "Operation Offset," was authored by the Republican Study Committee, a group of over 100 influential members of Congress, including powerful committee chairs and members of the Republican leadership.
"Operation Offset" calls for an astounding $949 billion dollars in cuts over 10 years to vital national services. To put that in perspective, it's also more than 4 times what we've spent in Iraq.
Perhaps it is time to end the War in Iraq and come November 8, 2005 show the Republican Party/Candidates that their services are no longer required.
Carpe Diem!
Posted by: Franklin | Sep 26, 2005 5:49:42 PM
Right, we couldn't possibly be patriotic if we disagree with the President's policies. But at least we can spell...partriotic?
Posted by: Terry | Sep 26, 2005 5:55:13 PM
Here are some of the budget cuts proposed in "operation Offset":
$225 billion cut from Medicaid, the last-resort health insurance program for the very poor.
$200 billion cut from Medicare, the health care safety net for the elderly and the disabled.
$25 billion cut from the Centers for Disease Control
$6.7 billion cut from school lunches for poor children
$7.5 billion cut from programs to fight global AIDS
$5.5 billion to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
$3.6 billion cut to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
$8.5 billion cut to eliminate all subsidized loans to graduate students.
$2.5 billion cut from Amtrak
$2.5 billion to eliminate the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
$417 million cut to eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency
$4.8 billion cut to eliminate all funding for the Safe and Drug-Free schools program.
And the list goes on!
Remember who to vote FOR on November 8, 2005.
Carpe Diem!
Posted by: Franklin | Sep 26, 2005 5:57:11 PM
So sorry to offend. Patriotic. I can spell but sometimes I have a tough time typing. I am sure you, Terry have never made a typo. That's right lefties always possess teh high moral ground.
The point of this original post or thread was that somehow the breakdown in the Amtrak corridor was a Republican plot. Keep smoking whatever that keeps you content, and we'll another four years soon sans Dem in the White House.
Posted by: jmo | Sep 26, 2005 6:37:42 PM
But, JMO, at least they got to call Bush a "doody head" and lived to tell about it.
/sarcasm off
Posted by: Miss Martta | Sep 26, 2005 6:49:06 PM
Miss Martta, they're slogans for a protest, not a candidate's platform - for goodness sake! You remember - like
"Hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today"
Posted by: Agent99 | Sep 26, 2005 6:49:27 PM
Slogans, platforms, whatevah....They suck either way.
Posted by: Miss Martta | Sep 26, 2005 6:53:22 PM
How many was it that showed up to the Pro-War March??
500,000?
Oh wait, no, that's just 500.
Posted by: butchcjg | Sep 26, 2005 8:52:33 PM
Yo Franklin,
Carpe Annum-- seize the year- hell with jmo and the day!!!
Yo jmo- like you're so over too....
Posted by: exit_151 | Sep 26, 2005 9:29:39 PM
151 and franklin-see politics does make strange bedfellows-yikes
Posted by: cstarling | Sep 26, 2005 10:17:40 PM
i was at the march. i am surprised by the nasty tone of the posts above. franklin makes many good and valid points.
the march was packed. it was a sea of humanity, all up and down 14th street, constitution, ave. g, etc.
i was galvanized at how many it was. i'd guess easily 200,000, but probably more since when i left to get the buses returning to montclair it was 4:15, and walking back to the metro station, there were more and more waves of people still arriving and marching.
i wasn't surprised at the numbers of people marching against the war, nor at the spectrum of people--middle class families with small children, military moms, teenagers, 20 somethings, the elderly, some in suits, some in tie dye, some in wheel chairs, or tapping canes--all desperately frightened by what this illegal and draining incursion into iraq is doing to our young men and women, our national bank account and to our sense of national honor.
what surprised me, though, was just how few pro-bush supporters there were out there yelling at us. in my mind, i put the number at between 300 and 400, and several news stories i have seen corroborated that. even more surprising--at the special 'gold star moms' rally the next day, meant to show up the anti-war people, they estimated that only 100 people showed up. and those number came from a variety of sources.
i also met steve earle (warm and gracious) and cindy sheehan, in the back of the concert by the music trailers (a friend of mine was playing in the concert.) i only spoke to cindy for a minute, but i told her i respected her courage and that when she spoke of the war and the need to bring home our troops, that she DID speak for me. she was kind and receptive, and she just seemed tired and weary. but she asked where i was from, and i said montclair, new jersey and she perked up with a smile and said 'oh, montclair! I know montclair, i like montclair.'
my take away is that many americans are horrified by this war, enough so to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and sit on a bus for four hours each way in order to make a statement. and no matter how much bush tries to stroke the 'gold star moms' they are, for the most part, not buying it.
now you can sneer at me and franklin and pegi adam and you can make fun of the signs, call us leftie losers living in a crazy whacked out dream world, and put us down all you want. i was there. this was important to me. i'm telling you what i saw.
Posted by: fran | Sep 26, 2005 10:19:18 PM
Agent99,
My favorite was always "Nixon and Mitchell better start shakin 'cause today's pig is tomorrow's bacon"
as well as
"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me" - Hunter S. Thompson
Cheers!
Yo Franklin, roll over you're snoring a cstarling can't sleep.
Posted by: exit_151 | Sep 26, 2005 10:32:17 PM
President bush deserves some credit for having a vision and guiding us through some of the toughest times our country has ever faced. Historians will one day applaud the bold moves of his presidency. Our boys are fighting them over there so we do not have to fight them over here. I am not just saying that because i support the gop.
Posted by: Sebastian | Sep 27, 2005 12:53:38 AM
>>"President bush deserves some credit for having a vision and guiding us through some of the toughest times our country has ever faced. Historians will one day applaud the bold moves of his presidency. Our boys are fighting them over there so we do not have to fight them over here. I am not just saying that because i support the gop."<<
what do you hope to see this war accomplish? what is your opinion of halliburton's no bid contracts?
Posted by: fran | Sep 27, 2005 1:26:32 AM
On the other hand. I do not support fellow republican jmo. I feel he might be more for the war so the middle east blood money keeps flowing to his wallet. I do not know how anyone could do business over there while thousands of american families visit funeral homes. This is clearly a boom time for him and his friends. We all need to get out of the middle east after our military finishes the mission.
Posted by: Sebastian | Sep 27, 2005 1:41:01 AM
