Fort Bragg Speech Protest Photos #1 (28 June '05)

[Hissyspit]

Small group, at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville well away from Bush, but symbolic and attended by local media... Will post more after a while.



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[paparush]

1. Now THOSE People are Heroes n/t

[Old Vet]

2. I Agree

[SunDrop23]

3. Thanks friends!!!!

Great job y'all!!!!

[KoKo]

4. Thank you for being there...it makes a difference.

Did you see any media?

[patrice]

5. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Th

[Bleacher Creature]

6. Thanks Hissyspit

It really makes me feel much better when I see real evidence that there are still some sane people out there. Otherwise, my head would literally explode.

[Hissyspit]

7. self-kick w/ additional photos n/t

[intheflow]

12. No add'l photos posted in this link.

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[tallahasseedem]

8. Bravo to those protestors!

Someday the truth will prevail....hopefully.

[kittenpants]

9. thanks to the protestors & thanks for the great pictures.

[KoKo]

10. Raleigh News Channel 9 showed the Protest...the signs and candles

being lit. Gave it fair coverage with photos. News Channel 14 didn't mention it after the speech in their 11:00 coverage but they covered it earlier in the day.

The coverage seemed very downbeat. Channel 14 mentioned the speech and then moved on to Base Closing problems here in NC and interviewed folks who have businesses near Pope AFB who say it will close down businesses in the area.

It seemed like the media was very downbeat about the speech. No one was pumping it and they didn't show sound but showed him and the troops behind the barracade looking very somber. I thought the distance between Bush and the barracade was interesting. He must have been afraid someone would jump it before the SS could catch them and that's why there was all that space there.

Thanks for all the photo's!

[intheflow]

11. "Don't Send My Son Back To Iraq"

:cry: :cry:

Those are some powerful images. Glad to hear the local news covered it. Thanks for posting.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. God bless them

I hope that guy's son doesn't have to go back. :( You know Georgie didn't see these people. :cry:

[Hissyspit]

14. Follow-up posting of photos is here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3974865&mesg_id=3974865

[In Truth We Trust]

15. thanks from a fellow tarheel. If that is you in the black holding the

"demand truth" sign then may I say with due repspect that you are very attractive even thought he pic is fuzzy. I am too married (and in love w/ my wife) to be flirting. I am really just encouraging an attractive women with progressive democratic ideals to pursue a political office in NC. God knows we need all the candidates we can muster. Which county are you from?

[Hissyspit]

16. I'm behind the camera. And I'm a guy. I thought that woman was cute, too.

Hissyspit was my cat and she WAS female. She disappeared and my username is in honor of her. Sorry to disappoint. :P

I'm in Hoke.

[In Truth We Trust]

17. embarassed. sorry about your cat man-that sucks. I'm in Wake cty

thanks for sharing the pics but mostly for being there and protesting.

Get that honey holding the sign to run for office. Sad but in our shallow society telegenic looks are advantagious. But only if she is a real progressive.

[Hissyspit]

18. No problem.

Not uncommon. Hissyspit was years ago. I'm more upset about Weenie who was hit by a car a couple of months ago. She was the softest cat you ever felt; I'm talking softened butter. I didn't even realize she would wander as far as down to the road, as I had never seen her do it. I plant a crepe myrtle over her grave.

Thought that was better than changing my username to Weenie. Would rather throw a spitting hissyfit about the right-wing bizarro world we have been forced to live in, than to be a Weenie.

[donheld]

19. These are the troops i support

Those that try to stand up to those in power. It doesn't matter that they are kept away from *. That's not their fault.

[Hissyspit]

20. The Market House is actually the traditional center of town.

Miles from Ft. Bragg, but symbolically connected to it. There was a good amount of traffic going around it - people honking - but it is not a main throughfare, despite all roads leading to it. Apparently slaves may have been sold there in the 18th/19th centuries, among its other purposes.

[Swamp Rat]

21. kick and recommended n/t

[Hissyspit]

22. kicking for persons with 'normative' Circadian rhythms

(i.e. Don't Stay Up All Hours of the Night) in case you missed viewing them

[Swamp Rat]

23. Define 'normative'

... to an alien lizard. :D

[Hissyspit]

24. Alien Lizards don't have Circadian rhythms!

adj 1: relating to or dealing with norms; "normative discipline"; "normative samples" 2: giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" 3: based on or prescribing a norm or standard; "normative grammar" 4: dealing with or based on norms; "a normative judgment"

Often used in opposition to 'normal' which implies a CORRECT state as opposed to a relationship to the norm, a tendency. There is no normal Circadian rhythm for humans, but there is a tendency toward a norm for individuals'.

[Swamp Rat]

25. Can we set up a standard deviation, do some t-Tests and find out

the z score? :D ... I just finished a 3 hour statistics midterm... BLEH! :(

[Hissyspit]

26. We could...

or we could not, and just say we did!

:toast: :P