nt.

and the million citizens going with open carry.

maybe it turned out to be like the truckers, a mere figment of an undone potato

They came to shut down DC on a day when their idiot buddies had already shut down DC. So they managed to make traffic in DC slightly less good than the very best low-traffic days DC has seen in fifteen years.

It's a classic example of one disruption canceling out the intended purpose of a parallel operation. Like taking over a television station just after your own side blew up the power grid.

What it means to me is that there are now numerous disparate groups who have all figured out how to mobilize conservatives (mainly through fear, of course). These groups do not yet coordinate their operations among themselves because the puppeteers are all in competition with one another. The leadership of these various groups all seek material gain for themselves as a primary objective, and opposition to us is merely a subsidiary ruse to keep the money flowing in.

Greed can be profitable, but it's decidedly lacking in actual conviction.

the gun nuts' demonstration?

http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Armed-gun-rights-activists-rally-at-the-Alamo-4909229.php

I bet I can guess who showed up...

chatting with him on another thread this morning...

Doesn't get any better than that!

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Armed-protesters-arriving-at-the-Alamo-for-4909381.php#photo-5341667

On edit: anyone who has visited the site of the Alamo knows the actual Alamo area is relatively small, so it's not really looking like "hundreds of protesters" to me.

snip-

Update 3:05 p.m.

Police have threatened to cite remaining protesters who are armed for a violation of city ordinance that bans weapons in city parks. Police did not enforce the ordinance during the demonstration, but told a small group of armed protesters who declined to leave they would be cited if they stayed.

“How do you even sleep at night,” one protester asked an officer during a five-minute standoff that gained the attention of a small crowd.

The protester labeled the police “tyrants with badges.”

-snip

From the linked article:

"Featured speaker Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a candidate for lieutenant governor whose General Land Office oversees the Alamo, approved the use of the Alamo grounds for the event. Until 2011 the Alamo was overseen by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, which limited demonstrations at one of the state's most recognized landmarks."

I've got no dog in the fight. Take a breath.

Jerry Patterson seemed self serving.

update at the time. And yes, he seems that way, on edit.

Thanks for the collecting the pics...

October 18, 2013 18:44 GMT
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Associated Press
... Demonstrations were not allowed when the mission was overseen by a historical association. But the site was taken over by the state in 2011, and Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a gun rights advocate, decided to make it available. Patterson says the Alamo is an appropriate place to defend individual rights, but leaders of the Alamo Defenders' Descendants Association say it should be treated as a solemn memorial to those who died.
http://www.cbs12.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/32f9d7c7-www.cbs12.com.shtml

protesting the hundreds of people standing on the plaza where Mission Indians are buried. “These people that love the Second Amendment, that are law-abiding citizens who respect this country's laws, they should not be trampling on a Native American cemetery,” said Ronald Rocha, 72, a descendant of Mission Indians ...
Armed protest at Alamo ends quietly
By Jason Buch, Kolten Parker
October 19, 2013
Updated: October 19, 2013 3:20pm

I think that should cover it.

cold dead hands.

Ha ha. "Fire, crackers."

That sounds like a command the leader of the march might shout out.