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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:43 PM
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Here war on. Christmas is coming, better watch out better not shout
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 11:47 PM by lonestarnot
better not pout... FW Blogger is coming to town!


Blue dem angel, of course...but camera didn't capture well. and as I told babylonsister who went to bed after I froze my ass taking the pic, the camera didn't capture the blue light well, and the elephant piss is frozen.

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For PaisAn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:46 PM
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1. What a great sign
That will be my next protest sign.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:48 PM
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2. Woohoo. E J Montini wrote a column and my (our) sign was in it!
No brag, just fact.
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For PaisAn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:53 PM
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3. Who's E.J. Montini?
and do you have a link to the column?
It's not bragging when it's that good and true, great job.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:55 PM
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4. Damn, no link. He writes for the AZ Republic in Arizona. The column
was written the day after bushilter protest last month. May still have it in my email. I will check.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:57 PM
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5. Here's the article. I'll probably get in trouble for posting all of it
Here's a pretty good article from The AZ Republic:



Gourmet 'crow' served with style for $1,000 a plate
Nov. 29, 2005 12:00 AM
They could not have selected a finer street corner on which to stage a political protest. Not simply because it is easily accessible and quite busy but because it's so . . . chichi. The intersection of 24th Street and Camelback Road is so ostentatious that protestors didn't need to gather there. The ritzy location proved their point for them. Still, since they showed up, so did I.

They came because U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl was hosting a dinner with President Bush. The two men, along with a gathering of their closest well-heeled friends, were set to enjoy a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising meal for Kyl on Monday at the Arizona Biltmore Resort Spa.

Before that happened, however, a crowd of sign-carrying citizens gathered in the late afternoon at 24th and Camelback to protest the war in Iraq, the president's immigration policy and, finally, Kyl. The senator was singled out in a pre-protest news release as "a willing accomplice in the Bush administration's plan to remake America into a playground for the rich and powerful."

Of course, 24th and Camelback has all around it some of Arizona's most opulent high-rise condominiums and office buildings. It is just south of the Biltmore. And it is the location of Arizona Biltmore Fashion Park, a collection of fine restaurants and high-end shops.

As much as any single location in Phoenix, this intersection is designed to demonstrate beyond any doubt that America is a playground for the rich and powerful. Not only do Kyl and Bush apparently believe this, but they embrace it. They celebrate it. By their choice of the Biltmore and the price of their meal, they flaunt it.

So the protest went ahead. I arrived early enough to find a seat outside the Coffee Plantation, which not only produces wildly overpriced beverages but also is within view of the street corner where protestors first congregated.

Among them were Pam Russell and John Dale of Prescott. The couple stood on the northeastern corner, near the valet parking section of the shopping center, holding up a sign that read, "You can't be all you can be if you're dead."

"We have been wanting to be part of a protest for some time, and this really was our best opportunity," Russell said. "I only hope that this kind of thing catches on."

As Dale explained his reasons for opposing the manner in which President Bush has dealt with the United Nations, the driver of a car who was stopped at a red light began shouting "Go home" to the protestors. To which one responded, "We are home!"

Of course, neither the senator nor the president heard this. Perhaps by then they were exchanging pleasantries with their guests, who I suspect were careful to avoid the topic of Kyl's recent lukewarm support for his powerful benefactor.

Days before the president was flown into town as the main attraction at Kyl's fund-raiser, the senator was asked if inviting a relatively unpopular president to town might be a political risk.

"I don't know," Kyl said.

Then, as if that weren't unenthusiastic enough, the senator added, "I would never be so disrespectful as to suggest that he's not welcome in my state."

I overheard a couple of protestors discussing this, causing one of them to wonder out loud if $1,000 a plate was the going rate for a gourmet feast of crow.

Still, as protests go, it was most civilized. Exactly as one might expect at such a haughty locale, particularly when much of the Biltmore's valet parking lot was occupied by police cruisers.



Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com
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For PaisAn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:00 AM
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7. Thanks
and let's keep hounding these murderers everywhere they go. It may not stop them but we can at least irritate them as much as possible. .:evilgrin:

There has to be some accountability demanded of them.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:05 AM
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10. Chasing them to the ends of the earth and never letting up!
Here's to it!:toast:
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For PaisAn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:05 AM
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9. Found a link you can use in the future
So you won't get in trouble for posting the entire column.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1129montini29.html
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:06 AM
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11. cool. Thanks. But then the poster would have to do a search. People
are lazy. I gave E. J. credit.
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:35 AM
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13. Congrats on grabbing the spotlight for a moment there!
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 02:38 AM by dxstone
And KUDOS for your brave and determined efforts!

Biggest problem as far as protest signs go: President Shaky the Clown can't read... he doesn't even recognize his own name!
He DOES like the ones with pitchers, though...

Still, we're really not trying to reach HIM, anyway...

Edited to add: Such efforts MUST be rewarded! K&R!



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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:50 AM
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20. Thanks DX Stone. The illiterate can do wonders with pictures, hence
yellow pissy elephant, pisses at the mere thought of being shipped off to war.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 11:59 PM
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6. Here's the sign
They are very biiiiig signs. We use banner style signs. www.freewayblogger.com

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For PaisAn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:01 AM
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8. Love it!
thanks
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:37 AM
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12. Goodnight and Goodluck.
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:16 AM
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14. YOU ROCK!!! Lon
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:40 AM
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15. Right on Keith.
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:11 AM
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16. K & N. Great job, lonny!
We'll hound that war-mongering clown to the edge of the earth. In fact, we are!

You have a good columnist there, too.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:35 AM
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17. LOL, good columnist there?
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:38 AM
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dupe
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 08:38 AM by katinmn
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:38 AM
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18. Yeah! This guy:
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:45 AM
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19. Yeah.. E. J. here but want more like him!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:18 PM
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21. Kick one time for the effort of freezing my ass to take the pic!
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:57 PM
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22. Ok, when you say "freezing" what do you mean? 50 degrees?
Ha.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:06 PM
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23. No... LOL anything below 70... I'm a desert rat remember?
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 09:04 PM
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24. Yellow Elephant Kicker!
Nice Signage!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 09:29 PM
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25. Piss and all!
They're some pissers alright!
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