Thursday, April 8, 2010
Help welcome the Southern Republican Leadership Committee
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:33 PM
You've either been waiting for this moment, or are waiting for the moment to flee from Sarah Palin for the comfort of deep-fried strawberries: the Republican dog-and-pony show, the Southern Republican Leadership Committee, is here (hit the link for Kevin Allman's lead news story). If you're looking for a way to welcome the GOP stars that doesn't involve air-brushed T-shirts of Glenn Beck riding on a bald eagle with an American flag soaring in the distance, join the SRLC Welcoming Committee.
- The group — comprised of people from Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital, Save UNO, the Iron Rail Collective, Pax Christi and other organizations — promises "a whole lot of pissed-off, high-stepping citizenry" for its Second Line for Healthcare and Education tomorrow. "As Bobby Jindal is groomed for higher office," the Welcoming Committee's press release says, "the Second Line for Healthcare and Education is our opportunity to present a unified response to Jindal's assault on Louisiana's state hospital system & public education."
- At 5:30 p.m., second liners will convene at Lafayatte Square Park on St. Charles and Lafayette Streets and will start parading at 6 p.m. The second line will head down Camp Street to Poydras Street and eventually to the Hilton Riverside Hotel, the central location for this weekend's events.
- Besides Palin and Jindal, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Michael Steele, Rick Perry, Tony Perkins, Sean Hannity and Rick Santorum (proceed with caution when Googling that) are among the Republican luminaries in town for the quadrennial event. For more information about the protest, email srlcwelcoming@hotmail.com.
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The second line was great. Tons of direct confrontation. New Orleans bared its teeth and snarled, and the rich plutocrats shat themselves in fear.
Thanks, Lauren and D-Bloc. We posted this at Levees Not War, though we're a little late. Any good photos? Please send to LNW and we'll post. Thanks. Vive Charity! -ML @ LNW.
Look, some flea-bitten right-wing blog is linking! FYI, any out-of-town republicans reading this, I'm just sorry y'all weren't at the corner of Royal & Canal Saturday night.
D-Bloc on April 13th, 2010 at 4:34 pm # Look, some flea-bitten right-wing blog is linking! FYI, any out-of-town republicans reading this, I’m just sorry y’all weren’t at the corner of Royal & Canal Saturday night. ---------------- Grow up. I'm had left, and I think you people are despicable. This city lives on tourism, and you're biting the hand that feeds you.
Red State is conducting an investigation as I write this. This will consist of a great many right wing dingbats looking up "info" on the internets, posting it to a Red State forum and calling for people's heads. Oh, and truckload of barely legible, misspelled letters addressed to public officials.
Not entirely correct, timmy. Some of the investigation will be done by retired, independent, federal level investigators, like myself, who have access to some tools well beyond the "internets". Think of criminal conspiracy which is sort of a big gill net and not a single hook. Back in the 60's we trashed a lot of radicals with FGJ's. Their attorneys wound up owning them and, sometimes, their families. Have a really excellent day, y'all. See y'all in the camps.
D(umb)-Bloc(khead): Show your scrawny white-trash ass at a Tea Party in my neck of the woods (Worcester MA) and you won't be seen again! Course first you'll be shi**ting yourself...
Good hunting Thorne, hope you bag the limit! These fellas are plenty tough when they are beating a woman. Here's hoping these scum get several years of close encounters with a 300 lb love starved bubba when they hit the joint. I'm betting D-man is the Cell-Block bitch in under 24 hours. D-baby, please post your forwarding info so we can send you some lube now and then. Happy trails, and...those are footsteps your hearing. Ain't gonna be a woman this time though.
"This city lives on tourism, and you’re biting the hand that feeds you." Don't bother with that line of reasoning. The anarcho-trustifarians aren't New Orleanians (despite their claiming to speak for us "baring our teeth"). They're tourists themselves. They won't brag about how they were harassing the black Brennan's employees who came out to ask them to move on, telling them they should be out in the streets with the protesters instead of working for the man. Leftist anarcho-boys are homophobic, misogynist and racist, but they get away with it by packaging it as irony and in service of their revolution. Please, go home to Portland and leave New Orleanians to rebuild our city ourselves.
I cannot wait to see how all of the people involved in the beating of Allee Bautsch and Joe Brown in NO. It will be fun to hear about they are adjusting to the "solidarity" of prison life in their new postions of "prison bitches" whose trade value is measured in packs of smokes. LOL!
