If we were to have a HUGE DU blowout - what's the best location?

Let's not say Washington for symbolic purposes.

I'd say Northern California in January.

Or, Dr. Wierd's house, but the new baby should be sent to Grandmas. :evilgrin:

Awesome!

Plus, there's always a sale on tickets to Vegas.

The place makes me grind my teeth. Seriously. It's creepy as hell. But taken over by a few thousand DUers, it may be the perfect place!

1. Voted for Kerry overwhelmingly
2. BIG union town
3. Not afraid of things sexual
4. Atheists - and everyone else - welcome
5. Very few regressive laws on the books
6. Not a big fundie destination
7. There's lots to do 24/7
8. Cultural institutions are on the rise
9. Lots of women involved in the political scene
10. There's life beyond the Strip - family life

which is all I have ever done, and that was several years ago as a broke hippie traveling in a van with other broke hippies who wanted to take advantage of the buffets. And to take a shower ;)

my brother, sister in law and two nephews! It's a cool town. And relatively inexpensive, barring the top priced hotels. You can still get a room Sun-Thurs for less than $50 most places, and eat as much as you want at any one of the buffets.

Or New Orleans. I say we need to drown our sorrows.

I'd go for New Orleans. More centrally located for both East and West and an awesome place.

Dian

Just accept that Vegas has absolutely nothing to do with reality and it's fine. Fun, even.

For a variety of reasons. :thumbsup:

I thought that was a repub sort of place. Guess gambling just doesn't turn my crank(except the ponies). Now Key West, that's my kind of party, at least it was 25 years ago. Guess I'm just an old fart.

'Nuff said.

but I just have a hard time seeing myself having a good time in a place dedicated to greed, commercial excess, cheesiness and did I mention greed? It's the last city in this nation that I'd want to visit. Now the desert, rattlesnakes and vigaroons, I can hang with that. Different strokes.....

won't go there because of all the "sin" going on there. They hate anyone else having fun. :evilgrin:

I got used to being away from the "excitement" when my brother and his family moved there in 1989. There is definitely a lot of life beyond the strip and downtown there. In fact, it's downright civilized. Of course, about 1 in every 5 works for one of the casinos in some capacity, but the money is good, and as someone pointed out, it's a big union city.

Set up a Vegas get together and I'm SO there :D

there is always SOME sort of massive discounting going on.

LOVE that town.

It's centrally-located, and you can fly there cheap.

I'll add that it's a beautiful city, and that I'll be there in July for my neice's wedding.

looking pretty good right now.

It would drive the right wingers nuts :evilgrin:

Or at the very least, the Bay Area.

Can we tour the pig farm :shrug:

Even if he doesn't own pigs I'm sure the ranch stinks because of all the BS that comes out of there :D

why should they have to travel at our expence to keep tabs on us ??? the blow out must happen,someone find the cheapest place to get to and stay at,we need a large ballroom that can be hosed down when we leave.

:shrug:

food,dancing,drinks. i heard us Duers are wild and crazy party animals what with our Satanic rituals and progressive anti American values.

I already live in SF and have a teeny tiny travel budget.

NY. It's very accessible, but expensive and far for some.
Chicago is very accessible but not fun.
Denver, same as above.
Seattle. Same as NY.

Those are the top of my list.

What on earth are you talking about?

It's ugly. And there's never anything to do.

World class museums? Forget it.

Fine dining? I'm sorry. You'll have to go someplace else.

Shopping? We don't even have a Wal-Mart.

I sure that to someone like you, you being from Indiana and all, Chicago might seem like a very exciting place.

But it's not.

:eyes:

;-)

n/t

between the CUBS and cards.....


I can see why you may want to avoid MO (if you are encouraging Blue State tourism) but remember St Louis City and St Louis County are islands of blue amidst a sea of red.

Both St Louis and Chicago are central and easily accessible by plane.

however HEyHEy, every time I see your posts with the polar bears it reminds me of one of my favourite songs: "Hey, wir woll'n die Eisbärn sehn... unser Leben ist so leer ohne Bär..."
(Translation: Hey, we want to see the 'ice-bears'... our lives are (so) empty without bears...)

This is a song by the Puhdys, one of the leading East German rock bands of the 60s, 70s and 80s; and they are still around today. It symbolised how they wished how people could be allowed to travel about freely and live in a world without walls.

:toast:

:yourock:

A place with affordable hotels and great restaurants and museums. A city with easy to use public transportation. A place with fantastic architecture and lots to see and do.

A place were the Republican Party doesn't even really exist.

Oh forget it. There's no place like that. Anywhere.

:-)

I know a place. CHICAGO!!!

But no one would probably like it. There's nothing to do there. :hi:

...and we're all a bunch of crashing bores, don't drink, don't like to eat, don't like to party. Stand around praying all the time.

:hi:

Loads of fed-up folks and oldtime Dems. Goodtime guaranteed.

Let's see now...who might show up? hmmmm...

Molly Ivins? sure thing
Ann Richards? why sure
Willy Nelson? of course
Kinky Friedman? oops

We have a foursome...

Play ball!

No better place on earth!

I'm on a Texas boycott. The state where Kennedy was killed and where Bush's political career was launched is not a place I will spend tourist dollars. Even if Austin is blue. Hell, I'm in blue Columbia, the capital of red SC and I want to get away to blue paradise.

Starve the red beast(s)!

swept in with an influx of outsiders.

We are an occupied territory. Surely you don't hold that against us?

Geographic Center of the 48 States

Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States is located just north and west of Lebanon, KS, adjacent to a pasture and overseen by a friendly-if-nonplussed herd of cows. The Center is a small grass patch containing a 10 ft. high stone podium and flagpole, on which U.S. and Kansas flags fly. A small plaque on the podium informs visitors that a government geographic survey in 1898(?) established this spot as the center of the continental U.S.

I fiugred it be easiest for all.

The one city in Bush's home state that went for Kerry, plus IT ROCKS. There is plenty to do and see, great music 7 nights a week and all things considered, is a pretty damn cheap place to visit.

There are always good flight packages, competitive hotel accommodations, and plenty of cheap eats and drinks. The airport being right in town makes it easy too. Even a modest sized group also ought to be able to get a convention rate in a hotel.

It's a hell of a town!

the hub of the known universe.

but damn, is it expensive!

I know no one wants to come to Cleveland..lol. That would be the easiest for me and after everyone stopped saying "Johnnie who?" I could just drive home...:).
I would like to go to some huge blowout if it is planned and Chicago would be cool. If we had it here in Cleveland, I could spare a bit of room for some people....just sayin......

I bet someone would be willing to give a hotel discount :)

but not in January

Give the largest red state (percentage wise) something to complain about! Anyway it's quite a beautiful state.

Let's put a little bit of blue in this red city.

Think 'centrally-located'.

:D

So we can turn it into a demonstration against the president.

It has it all, and then some.

The Strip et al is bearable for a day or two, but it's also (away from all that madness, though poker machines in every convenience store and gas station is a constant reminder of where you are, the Las Vegas Valley is a surprisingly normal SoCal-like place. And the desert and mountains nearby are very nice.

Cheap to get to, good food (cheap, still, if you know where to go), and home to pretty much every form of entertainment known to humankind (people-watching most definitely included). A den of iniquity and excess presided over by a surprising number of Mormons (hey, they know where the money's at), it's as much a contradiction as the United States itself.

And, no, this is not just because I want to see NSMA in a bejeweled jumpsuit...

Even better symbolism than Washington and even better restaurants. And I can put you all up! (Well, OK, not all - like maybe... one or two.):P