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    Posted: 06 October 2010 at 3:48pm
Was on the Ohio Pike (I80/90)@2130 stopped at a service plaza. Two busses role in (I am parked by the bus parking with my pick up and trailer), and I was just nappin. Out of the busses pours what I would call 'street people' wearing SEIU Blue T-Shirts, my guess was a returning 'crowd' from the DC rally of Socialist and Communist Party Supported Democrats (the one where the nutjob signs never made the news, unlike any Tea Party Rally, or Glenn Beck Rally where the few were portrayed as the norm by our unbiased media).
I had to go in and use the 'facilities' and then I went to Mickey D's to get a drink and there were groups of these fine upstanding Democrat representatives counting pennies and change hoping to have enough for whatever, a real pitifull sight to see.

I hope they had great return trips to downtown Detroit or Chicago, but it was very indicative of the stuff you never see on the news on the status and games being played.

BTW when towing a lightweight trailer with a 800+pound Harley on one side and a 250lb Dirt bike on the other DO NOT look in the mirrors, you really do not want to know whats going on back there at 65+.
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I can honestly say I didn't know about the second Washington thing until the day before when I read something about it on FARK. Wicked bad PR. I may think Beck is a huckster, but the guy knows how to promote something. I've only seen a random scattering of news about it too, mostly pointing out how small the attendance was.

On the second point: Hauling things is not a fun experience. I've expressed this sentiment before, but hauling a fully loaded U-HAUL pull-behind with a six-cylinder Tucson through West Virginia is for the birds.
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subtle you hate black people thread.
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Subtle calling someone a racist post.
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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

there were groups of these fine upstanding Democrat representatives counting pennies and change hoping to have enough for whatever, a real pitifull sight to see.

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You act like being short on cash is a character flaw...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mack Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 October 2010 at 6:27pm
^^^ This, is a valid response.  (As opposed to the previous one.)
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Hysteria Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 October 2010 at 6:51pm
Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

Out of the busses pours what I would call 'street people'


That implies that others usually call this select subset of persons something else.  So what, pray tell, is a 'street person' in terms of what they are usually called? 

Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:


I had to go in and use the 'facilities' and then I went to Mickey D's to get a drink and there were groups of these fine upstanding Democrat representatives counting pennies and change hoping to have enough for whatever, a real pitifull sight to see.


Irony!  Don't you always go on and on and on, along with FE, about the fine moral character of Christian Republicans and how morally depraved us Communist, Social, Atheist Liberals are?

Why is it, then, that instead of helping out your fellow man with a few dollars--something that is not only morally right, but is demanded in your religious book--you judge, belittle and insult them--something that is morally reprehensible and strictly forbidden in your religious text--on an internet forum?
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Am I the only one that is curious about what was going on a 65+ MPH in his trailers?
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^^ I was thinking the same thing. haha
oldsoldier needs to get with the times and get a camera.
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What, no Big Mac?
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Originally posted by PaiNTbALLfReNzY PaiNTbALLfReNzY wrote:

Am I the only one that is curious about what was going on a 65+ MPH in his trailers?


Hordes of monkeys reproducing everywhere.


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Originally posted by ArthurBignose ArthurBignose wrote:

Originally posted by PaiNTbALLfReNzY PaiNTbALLfReNzY wrote:

Am I the only one that is curious about what was going on a 65+ MPH in his trailers?


Hordes of monkeys reproducing everywhere.


probably not. at 65+ they tend to fall off the trailers and get stuck in the grills of the tractor trailers that are following you. Its funny, and a little bit sad.
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Originally posted by Reb Cpl Reb Cpl wrote:

Originally posted by ArthurBignose ArthurBignose wrote:

Originally posted by PaiNTbALLfReNzY PaiNTbALLfReNzY wrote:

Am I the only one that is curious about what was going on a 65+ MPH in his trailers?


Hordes of monkeys reproducing everywhere.


probably not. at 65+ they tend to fall off the trailers and get stuck in the grills of the tractor trailers that are following you. Its funny, and a little bit sad.

That's bananas! 
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Learned a long time ago when I drove a truck with doubles or triples not to lok in the mirrors, you do not want to know what is going on back there. "wiggle wagons" are a trip to drive, key point is to ensure tractor is always going faster then trailers.

The couple times I looked back at the trailer this trip and seeing it 'dancing' in the lane as it bounced along our fine highway system I shuttered and went on not looking back.

Now reflecting on the 'street people' comment, I can not believe that these people were actual SEIU union members, and they were a diverse group. The state of cleanliness was an issue, where the t-shirt was the only 'presentable' piece of clothing on many. I just feel the organizer just rounded up these people off the streets, issued them a t-shirt and a bus seat. THe claims from this event come no where near matching the evidense of numbers, and having to ship in numbers is in itself a questionable political act.
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Originally posted by Tical3.0 Tical3.0 wrote:

What, no Big Mac?
 
Nothing beats 99 cent Sweet Teas. Nothing.
 
 
 
maybe arnold palmer, but thats not at Mickey D's
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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

Learned a long time ago when I drove a truck with doubles or triples not to lok in the mirrors, you do not want to know what is going on back there. "wiggle wagons" are a trip to drive, key point is to ensure tractor is always going faster then trailers.

The couple times I looked back at the trailer this trip and seeing it 'dancing' in the lane as it bounced along our fine highway system I shuttered and went on not looking back.

Now reflecting on the 'street people' comment, I can not believe that these people were actual SEIU union members, and they were a diverse group. The state of cleanliness was an issue, where the t-shirt was the only 'presentable' piece of clothing on many. I just feel the organizer just rounded up these people off the streets, issued them a t-shirt and a bus seat. THe claims from this event come no where near matching the evidense of numbers, and having to ship in numbers is in itself a questionable political act.


Ah.  Also, I agree that rounding up and shipping in is questionable.  The original post came across a bit differently.


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Right, because everyone at Beck's rally(which people actually knew about) were from D.C. No one got on a bus together to go.

You still failed to mention how being short on cash is a problem.


Edited by jmac3 - 07 October 2010 at 7:37pm
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Originally posted by jmac3 jmac3 wrote:


Right, because everyone at Beck's rally(which people actually knew about) were from D.C. No one got on a bus together to go.You still failed to mention how being short on cash is a problem.


It goes back to our protestant work ethic which is the foundation of capitalism and all that is great in this nation...?

Essentially, it means that God does not favor them.

(I'm not saying I agree or disagree, I'm just saying that this is the Christian belief).
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You're definitely reaching on that.

Unless you mean hardcore right-wing Christians.

In that case, they may actually believe that. I don't know.
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It amazes me how the youth here is all ready to pile on any right cause or mention, but readily go to the defense of the left.

News media has mentioned that this rally was a contrived event, where to fill numbers the 'machine' drafted people to fill the busses and the event. The numbers could not have come close if this was a transport yourself event. Yes Beck rally mambers took busses, but were not 'drafted' given a t-shirt and sent.

And the penny pinching at the service plaze was to me an unjust act by the 'recruiters' of the left who put them on these busses, and did not really care about the logistics of feeding these people, one the video and arguements were presented, these people were no longer an asset and basically abandoned by the 'Union' the supposedly they represented, and the Democrat party (with the assistance of the Socialists and Communist allies) who just used them.

It is not difficult Jmac to make this claim if you too also saw this first hand. These people were 'Union' members as much as I am a polititian. The level of personal hygiene and dress other than a clean SEIU t-shirt was a fact not an assumption. I actually felt sorry for the bus driver, the ambiance on that bus must have been unique. I should have took a picture but you woulsd have claimed it was shopped, so carry on.

The picture that compares the events, the trash left by the 'left' rally as compared to the Beck rally is now a pictured and documented fact, and the signage from the American Socialist Party, and American Communist Party is also a documented fact, but only the one or two 'Tea Party' wacks with questionable signage get coverage as a 'representation' of the 'Tea Party' movement.

Why did I not give something? I payed taxes and still do, so I already have, how the government and these individuals spent these monies, that is the social issue we are facing..
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