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    Posted: 18 September 2010 at 2:21pm
  Sincesome of us have decided to go to this thing, I figured I would branch this off into its own thread with travel and meeting info.Thread will be updated as certain details are worked out.

Dates: Friday, Oct 29; Saturday, Oct 30th.

Recommended Hotel: TBA(depends on what type of prices I can get from priceline, I have stayed in the Hyatt Regency Crystal City before for less than $70 a night, so I am leaning towards that: http://www.crystalcity.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp

Meeting Point and Time for Friday: TBA

Plan of stuff to do: TBA

Meeting Point and Time for Saturday: TBA

Plan of stuff to do: TBA(I want to go bar hopping again after the rally)

List of attendees:

Confirmed:

Snake

Possible:

High Voltage
jmac3
tallen702
benji

Post here if you plan on coming, and I will add your name to the list under either confirmed or possible. Also feel free to post ideas for activities and hotels.


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I'll be around most likely.
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snake6, Oh, hah, you meant this thread....

We will see how it does on its own staying up on the front page.



Man, this would be awesome to go to but for me it isnt going to happen.

For those that saw this thread locked for a second, I apologizes, it was an accident. For some reason my phone caused me to press the wrong button. I meant to sticky the thread.

I opted to sticky the thread for now until the event since there is some legit interest, plus snake was nice enough to ask for peermisssion, first. Enjoy, folks.

The sticky czar can overrule me if he so chooses.







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I'd love to go. I'll try to see how much cash I can save up.

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I want to go definitely.  I know now gas isn't all that much so it is a possibility.
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I can't believe that all you kooks are going to a rally. Blinded by some calling, or political belief, weighing in on a far corner of politics, the hyprocracy of it all. Too many of you are falling for the Comedy (there is a metaphor)Channels slant on real news, again the hyprocracy. Next you will be carrying signs and pretending you are a real political force, the insanity of having a belief or faith in anything anymore.

It shows again the hyprocracy here, Glenn Beck entertainer=nutjob, Comedy Centrals nutjobs are meaningfull. Jeeze what has America come to.

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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

I can't believe that all you kooks are going to a rally. Blinded by some calling, or political belief, weighing in on a far corner of politics, the hyprocracy of it all. Too many of you are falling for the Comedy (there is a metaphor)Channels slant on real news, again the hyprocracy. Next you will be carrying signs and pretending you are a real political force, the insanity of having a belief or faith in anything anymore.

It shows again the hyprocracy here, Glenn Beck entertainer=nutjob, Comedy Centrals nutjobs are meaningfull. Jeeze what has America come to.

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Wait... I'm sorry, does OS think that any of us are going to see this for a political reason? Because I'm simply going due to the fact that it'll be a chance to see John Stewart and Stephen Colbert in person. The only message that will be sent is that those two comedy goldmines have larger audiences than any of the politically motivated whack-jobs on either side of the cable news aisle.

I can't tell you how many times John Stewart has reminded the nation that he's not a news anchor and that the Daily Show is a parody. If you think any of us take what we see there seriously, then you've proven yourself to be the exact kind of nutjob you were just preaching against in your post. Talk about hypocrisy.....

Oh, and Snake. If you didn't see the earlier post, I'm not going to have a restaurant that will be open by the 30th. I'll be getting ready to open my new one which is 45min from DC.
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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

weighing in on a far corner of politics

LOL

Obviously you missed Stewart's announcement.  Here ya go, worth a watch.
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No I know it is not for political reasons, but if I mentioned I was going to the Beck event your conclusions would have been?

Enterttainment is where you find it, and I love reading Becks books.
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The difference is that Beck is completely serious.  Stewart and Colbert are satire.
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Originally posted by GroupB GroupB wrote:

The difference is that Beck is completely serious.  Stewart and Colbert are satire.


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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

No I know it is not for political reasons, but if I mentioned I was going to the Beck event your conclusions would have been?

Enterttainment is where you find it, and I love reading Becks books.


USAF went to see the Beck/Palin rally, but I don't think he's a nut job (well, not for that reason at least...) However, he refrains from spewing the rhetoric that you do. See, people's opinions of others are often formed from a mishmash of factors. If person A spews anti-obama, anti-bailout, pro-Palin rhetoric which mirrors that of Beck or O'Reilly and also attends a Beck rally, then yes, I'd assume that he was fringe right. If someone simply went to the Beck rally without spewing such rhetoric, then no, I would not assume that he was a right-wing nut job. The same can be said of any situation. Do you have people who are anti-Republican, anti-war, pro-Obama, "where's my free money" whack jobs attending anti-war rallies and whatnot? Yes, and because of the combined stances they have, can you rightfully assume that they are on the fringe left? Of course. But can you assume that anyone attending an anti-war rally is a fringe-left nut-case? No. They may simply not want our country involved in a war.

So, the lesson here is that if you paint with too broad a brush, of course the results will be slanted, but if you take into account the multiple actions a person takes, and the beliefs that they hold, you can narrow the picture down much further.
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Sticky stands, as long as the political bullcrap goes away and the original intention of the thread comes back to life. We'll not have a political crapfest stickied on these boards. 
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That being, said, I am going to check my schedule and see if I can make it.
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I've got two bedrooms and an extra air mattress for those on a shoestring budget. Erin and I are moving Oct. 1st to within a 2 mile walk to the Huntington Metro station.
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Wish I still lived in Dahlgren so I could visit. Hope you guys get a good turn out.

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Originally posted by Reb Cpl Reb Cpl wrote:

Sticky stands, as long as the political bullcrap goes away and the original intention of the thread comes back to life. We'll not have a political crapfest stickied on these boards. 
Thread doesn't appear to be very sticky, as it has already fallen.
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