I am working with PLN to see if they will release some of the images, which are priceless.
Posted on 01/10/2007 11:20:55 AM PST by johnqueuepublic
What goes down in the San Francisco Bay Area is, still, quite unimaginable in NC. Dean, Pelosi, etc., are yet attempting to spread the San Francisco Virus. They will lose.
I trot over to Chapel Hill every now and then, just so I never forget.
Except for the sidewalks.
In Laugh-ayette California having a sidewalk in front of your house tends to reduce your property's value.
Rural roads are preferred by a large margin. like for example: Happy Valley road, Canyon drive, Hunsaker Canyon Road, etc. Where typical homes run about eight to ten million, compared to 1.8 to 2 million on the streets with walks :o)
I am working with PLN to see if they will release some of the images, which are priceless.
Aside from the fact you didn't do much advance planning here...
What's your REAL agenda - drumming up some controversy you can report on?
Hey, ease up. MoveOn didn't get that much time to plan, either. They only sent out their call for bodies on the 10th, the morning after the President's speech, and this thread was posted before lunch the same day. I'd say that's about as much in advance is it could be, without having an insider at MoveOn.
It would have been NICE if we could have mobilized a dozen, or so, to represent sanity on the south side of the street, but more of us have jobs, families, actual LIVES that we enjoy... The 'bats had a fair number of bodies out, bolstered by curious locals who dropped in during the course of the hour to see the hilside display; many dragging their little skulls full of mush along with them to imprint them with memories of the evening.
I cut out of my office and managed to get there a bit before 7:00pm, myself. I walked the length of the block twice, looking for anyone else who'd responded to this thread, chatted with one guy who identified himself as a rather left-of-center Republican voter and set him straight on a couple of points, then watched the moonbats do their blood dance for 15 minutes. The main body of the 'bat party broke up at 7:05 and all but about ten were gone by 7:15. I drove off at about 7:20.
There was a MSNBC news van there, but, in summary, the whole thing was something of a non-event; a flock of libs patting themselves on the back over "making a difference", how ever ephemeral. The only REAL difference I noted was the increased traffic congestion they caused in front of the BART station along Deer Hill Road, and the assignment of two or three officers from the local PD who spent the hour reminding the 'bats to use the crosswalks instead of jaywalking across the street.
In sum, it wasn't much to have missed; not for the SF Bay Area, anyway.
I went by at six, and managed to get in the CCT for calling them filthy traitors. There were only about eight people then.
Hey, good ON ya!
I wasn't wearing my flea collar, so I stayed across the street.
Good photo essay. BTW, when I told my son that the new sign he saw on the hillside was neon, his mouth just dropped. He was disgusted.
(I love that kid.)
The bumper stickers shown in the photos are typical.
One of the worst ones I've seen (in the high school parking lot once) is:
"I'M ALREADY AGAINST THE NEXT WAR"
There is so much wrong with that, on so many levels.
The next war (or, shall we say, the next battle in the global war for civilization) may well save that person's sorry rear end.
Did you read carry okie's comment on where Louise got her money?
My meeting was canceled so I swung by. I was there from 5:45-6:05. Didn't see anyone doing a counterFReep so I beat feet. I would have stayed if I had my American flag and done a one man protest, but frankly, this takes planning.
Well, dang. Ya missed me by 45 minutes. I posted that I'd be along toward 7:00. I think may be johnqueuepublic might still have been there, at that time; if he was, he was across the street getting some pictures. Looks like, all told, there were three of us that showed up.
This reinforces the need to get some equipment stowed in the car for such spontaneous occasions. One of those $10 American flag kits they sell at ACE around Independence Day, a folding camp chair, which I've got, and appropriate signage.
AFAIK, this display's going to be there, for awhile; they're planning to add 200 crosses each Sundy 'til they hit 3011. We COULD plan to, er, co-opt it as the backdrop for a Freep on some upcoming day.
With a little planning, you understand. ;-)
Takers? Time/date suggestions??
Well at onetime I had a list of about 5-10 contra costa FReepers. I'll check
Need about 100 flyers with the following...
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
Trouble is that many (over half) don't have their city (or even county) of residence listed on their contact page, so even if they ARE CoCoCty, ya can't tell unless they give out that info on their Profile page or in a post. If they did, you could really compile quite a list from the 27 pages of Freeper screen names subscribing to the State of California announcement page.
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles2?m=member-list;location=53
The other thing is, you've got to check each person's profile and look at their "In Forum" page to see if they're even still actively posting. Makes it hard to get/keep a 'good' list unless you've got back channel communications with each person on it.
I did - and I wasn't aware of that. Thanks, okie, for posting that info - fascinating!
They're going to install 200 crosses weekly, whether or not the count is accurate?!!
Shoot! I read this too late!
Well, they've got something like 1250 up there, right now, so they've a few weekend blood dances to do -- nine, if my math serves me -- before they hit 3011; or whatever their chosen number is. That would have them placing their final batch of crosses on the weekend of March 11th; 5 1/2 years (66 months) after 9/11.
[Mr] T
It is more or less the same here in NC. With one caveat: The Same MSM who describes the "sidewalkless" homes in SF Bay Area as Sunset Magazine every-one-wants-one... in NC, they call us red-necked hicks. lol.
No agenda, hell who needs to gin up controversy at an event like this?
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