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Thu May-20-10 07:34 PM
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Wisconsin bar burns Obama effigy with duct tape wrapped around its neck as crowd laughs and cheers. |
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Thu May-20-10 07:39 PM
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1. hmmm, I hear country music in the background. no need to see any more. n/t |
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Thu May-20-10 09:08 PM
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country music, booze, racism...not a good mix lol
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Thu May-20-10 07:44 PM
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2. I just got my dues statement. Oh wait, wrong bar. The |
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Wisconsin Bar not a Wisconsin bar. I will have to watch the vid and find out where this is. I have some ideas....
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Thu May-20-10 07:46 PM
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3. West Allis? That surprises me. I was thinking a redder part of |
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the state than Milwaukee County.
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Fri May-21-10 09:24 AM
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29. Milwaukee CITY is liberal |
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the county is rather conservative.
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Thu May-20-10 07:49 PM
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4. Here's their phone number |
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Edited on Thu May-20-10 07:54 PM by Joanne98
Yester Years Pub and Grill Inc. 9427 W. Greenfeild Ave. West Allis, Wisconsin 53214 414-476-9055
Yester Years Pub and Grill features Milwaukee's best music and unbeatable drink specials. Yester Years Pub owner Karen Schoenfeld first opened Milwaukee's favorite nightspot in 1978. The NASCAR decor is inspired by Karen's many road trips with her friends that race in the NASCAR Sprint, Nation Wide, and Cart Series. Come in and see the many pictures Karen has taken of the Drivers from today and yester years. She combined a unique atmosphere, like no other. Yester Years offers a mix of Live music and DJs spinning great dance music with a large dance floor. Let's not forget to mention Karaokee on Tuesday nights. We have a diverse selection of Domestic, Imports, Microbrews, Speciality Drinks, Martinis,and a numerous variety of cocktails. For your SPORTS viewing pleasure, multiple TV's and large plasmas are located through out our 6,000 sq. ft. party palace. Complete with 3 pool tables, 3 dart boards, video games, and pinball.
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Thu May-20-10 07:57 PM
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Thu May-20-10 08:39 PM
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11. Thank you, they need to be held accountable for their Assholiness. |
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Thu May-20-10 07:54 PM
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5. Confederate meth heads business as usual. |
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Thu May-20-10 11:12 PM
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22. Confederate meth heads business as usual. |
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They'd have to be on meth to think Wisconsin was a Confederate state!
Please note this is not the South....again.
We have enough problems without getting blamed for everyone else's.
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Thu May-20-10 07:57 PM
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6. Cheeseheads ugh, and the bar is called |
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Yester Years which I am sure they all wish for .....no progress desired...how cheesy
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Thu May-20-10 08:55 PM
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16. Yesteryears - like pre-Civil Rights Act |
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That's what they're REALLY yearning for.
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Fri May-21-10 01:58 PM
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33. Bill Maher said it best. They long for the Land of Cotton... |
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...because they didn't have to pick any! :rofl:
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Fri May-21-10 09:30 AM
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30. hey! most cheese comes from DANE COUNTY |
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we'd elect communists if we could.
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Thu May-20-10 08:20 PM
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8. burn their ass. and those that say any publicity is good publicity.... not |
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never agreed with that. i think the owner isnt too happy about this. i hope that ... oh, repercussions are had.
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Thu May-20-10 08:32 PM
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10. I say burn an effigy of Karen Schoenfeld. What's good for the goose |
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Fri May-21-10 12:47 AM
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I don't think the owner was the one who did the burning. Perhaps she's spent all day putting out fires (pun intended), and hopefully firing the ass (pun not intended) of the bartender who was the one who did the burning.
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Thu May-20-10 08:42 PM
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12. I'm soooo glad I don't live there anymore. nt |
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Thu May-20-10 08:45 PM
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13. Didn't some drunk guy just making stupid "burning bush" wisecracks |
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in a bar get a jail sentence during the Bush junta years? And I don't recall him burning anything.
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Thu May-20-10 08:50 PM
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15. Here's the story: 37 months prison time |
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Thu May-20-10 08:49 PM
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14. Obama keeps reaching out to the right wing |
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and it just makes him appear weak and hated even more.
Meanwhile he fucks over the liberals and progressives who worked to get him elected and now we are pissed.
What the hell is he thinking?
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Thu May-20-10 10:04 PM
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20. This doesn't represent the Republicans in my opinion, though its winning politics :-) |
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The funny thing is, these batch of Republican voters can barely wake up in the morning let alone show up to vote.
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Thu May-20-10 10:18 PM
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21. Oh they vote! They make thier sons go with and pick up granny on the way eom |
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Fri May-21-10 08:05 AM
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26. I'm afraid that this *does* |
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represent the views of the Republicans in the West Allis & Waukesha area. Rabid right-wing folks on Milwaukee's perimeter.
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Thu May-20-10 09:23 PM
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18. What a bunch of savages... |
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Thu May-20-10 10:02 PM
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19. Free speech... BUT.... I'd love to see them surveyed as to what they watch or maybe read.... |
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Of course... they're all sitting around drunk in a Wisconsin dive bar so I'd guess they're all just a bunch of drunks.
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Fri May-21-10 09:17 AM
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27. don't people have a right to watch or read whatever they want too? |
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I think it's more than disgusting.
But I don't know why there's an investigation.
Burning someone in effigy is an expression protected under the first amendment.
Yes... people are free to be pathetically disgusting.
(But I do wonder about an open fire in a bar.... wouldn't that break some kind of health code, or something...?)
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Thu May-20-10 11:54 PM
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23. Hate to see this sort of ass-hole-y-ness get air time... |
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Hey folks...there are a LOT of teabagger mentality fools in this country. Do we have to cover every story of a dumb ass move by each one of them? This is nuts.
Let them burn an effigy. It says a LOT for their mental state. Quite frankly, I don't give a damn. I'm sure there a few idiots burning effigies of the clown in the White House before this President.
As for looking for "racial motivation"...that's a stretch. Do we have to assume everyone who hates President Obama and the liberals is a racist? I don't really think so.
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Fri May-21-10 12:42 AM
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24. If the SS is investigating THIS event |
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why the hell haven't they investigated all the other threats, or at the very least all the OVERT threats? There IS a lot of overt threats which have played out, and sometimes I think there is a message that these people can get away with almost anything they do.
The one that pisses me off the most is using bible verses as a signal to potential assassins--this was big about 7 months ago, and there were tee-shirts, mugs, mousepads, and plenty more that said essentially, "the bible says it's okay to kill the president."
I know that the SS is spread thin right now, but hell--hire new agents!! Even if they have to have agents from other agencies to come in and help, that would work too! Are we prepared to become active ourselves in reporting any threats we hear about to the SS? I would like to think we would. Putting teabaggers, freepers and generally disgusting morons on notice, where they would not be able to carry out any more threats, veiled or otherwise, would help to separate the instigators from the followers, I would think, and delineate whether something is a threat or the far right fringe of free speech.
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Fri May-21-10 10:19 AM
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Is this a slap in the face to American pride and tradition? Yes. Is it un-American to burn an effigy of the President? Yes. Do they have a right to do it? Yes, yes they do. Don't try and act as if liberals didn't do the same sort of thing with Bush when he was in office. I'm not some spamming conservative, I just think people can do what they want as long as its not hurting anyone else. Its just too bad the media LOVES this type of junk even though its just sensational and stupid. I also wouldn't have minded if that whole place caught on fire and burned to the ground.
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