Posted on 02/11/2016 4:59:52 AM PST by nikos1121
Thursday, February 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Baton Rouge, LA at the Baton Rouge River Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM CST.
As the "Capital City", Baton Rouge is the political hub for Louisiana, and is the second-largest metropolitan city in the state, with an estimated population of 228,895 as of 2014. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, had a population of 820,159 people as of 2013.The urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants.
HOW DID BATON ROUGE GET ITS NAME?
The French name le baton rouge ("the red stick") is the translation of a native term rendered as Istrouma, possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma ("red pole") Andre Joseph Penicaut, a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville, published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. According to Penicaut,
"From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called ecorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick [baton rouge], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge named the Oumas."
THE BATON ROUGE RIVER CENTER
At this time, I have no idea if the event will be in the large arena or the theater.
We get a BUNCH of woodpeckers ( we actually have 2 different kinds here ) and there's one idiot, who has decided that trees aren't very good, so he pecks at the house and/or the shutters outside my bedroom windows. I want to murder him!
Must go to bed!
Well perhaps. I’ll have to see the poundage requirements.
Aaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....kicks some dirt with toe of shoe. *blush*
LOLOLOLOL.....yeah right!
Thanks. :-)
That’s the thing....WE are HAPPY, have a GREAT time on these rally threads, have all become better friends and the Cruz supporters are just nasty, angry, mean, PREACHY, and are NOT enjoying themselves at all; not ever !
Gotta say that Maine is one of our favorite states. We traveled there many times back in the “road band” days. Spent a lot of time at the NCO Club at Loring AFB (closed by idiots). We had good friends in Houlton (you can’t get theah from here), Maine, and very good friends in W. Pittsfield. Those were the days.
A lot of the Cruz supporters are Christians....we are not angry, mean...etc..... We are at peace, because we know that this is not our home....we have a heavenly home. We look towards the life to come. And you?
Up with stinking trolls, I will not put. ;^)
No what?
Yay!! We love converts :)
Hubby’s a Trump fan, but not as YUGE of a Trump fan as I am!
Hee hee.
Re Reagan & Trump...yes, we all feel that way!
Thanks for the tips....in case we do a FReeper Trump inauguration repeat!!
Welcome aboard!! Glad you are here.
Is it any good ?
I’m really impressed. He hasn’t paid any attention to any politician in all the years I’ve known him. He started out really dismissive of Trump and then would catch parts of rallies I was listening to. Now he watches them all with me.
If Cruz can read MY mind, his hair will burst into flames. LOL
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