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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:15 AM
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"Thousands"? LOL



Thousands of Indian Muslim protesters wave religious and black flags during a protest against the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush to India, in Bombay, India, Thursday, March 2, 2006. Bush's three-day visit is focused on strengthening the emerging strategic partnership between India and the United States, but some Indians believe the government has become far too close to Washington. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:16 AM
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1. We needs a crowd around the WH like that.
Or congress, perhaps.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:21 AM
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14. H1B visas for protestors?
Jobs Americans apparently don't want?
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:23 AM
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40. We've had crowds around the WH like that
Sadly though, the MSM doesn't see fit to acknowledge the events.
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iconoclastNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:20 AM
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45. We had one recently. I was there with my mom and sister.
But Hurricane RITA was more important so you barely got any reporting of it.
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 05:14 PM
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59. And every M$M 'news' channel - that way they have to broadcast
it before the crowd disperses enough for them to be able to leave their buildings and go home.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:49 PM
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61. This whole nightmare ENDS the day we can field numbers
like that outside the white house and that's the truth. I'd LOVE to be a part of that.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:17 AM
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2. Is that the same couple of thousand that showed up in DC last
September? :evilgrin:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:18 AM
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3. Worthy of a nom! Feel the love, dimson? nt
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:18 AM
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4. Hell while they're at it why not report "hundreds"?
Jesus, that's alot of people in that shot!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:19 AM
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8. Yeah I was taken aback by it
On Yahoo news photos. What is this...holy crap!! that's a lot of people.

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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:18 AM
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5. Fox News would put the estimate around 200-300.
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:20 AM
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9. and they are never wrong!!!!
:)
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:22 PM
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54. haha, yeah..."a few dozen protesters" n/t
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:19 AM
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6. 58% of Indians say Bush is "bad for the world"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1435063.cms

A total of 58 per cent agreed that although Bush had been bad for the world, he had been good to India.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:21 AM
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:19 AM
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oh the librul media has it wrong, they are EMBRACING our great leader
Don't you know Bush is the second coming of Christ? They are cheering for him, not protesting. Psh....
:)
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Jensen Donating Member (866 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:19 AM
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7. This is great but....I could only wish it was happening in America!
Where is the outrage here against this monster called *Bush?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:21 AM
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11. Maybe not on this scale but it did happen
as noted here on DU several times in both the run up to the war on Iraq and MASSIVE Kerry rallies all were reported as "Thousands" as well.
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:51 PM
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47. fabulous line
"I refuse to subscribe to the culture of victimization that plagues white males in this country. I don't believe that the poor and the powerless have organized to screw me over."
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:56 PM
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48. Thanks
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 03:56 PM by underpants
It pretty much sums up my attitude about our current state of political discourse.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:26 AM
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18. It has. The liberal news didn't tell us about it...


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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:35 AM
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28. It has happened several times as I recall
The protest at the RNC was over 700,000 people.. The pro-choice march was counted around 1,300,000 people... It does not get the news coverage it should.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:20 AM
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10. We should protest his coming back to the US
n/t
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:28 AM
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19. LOL. Yeah. Let him get stuck and spend some time visiting one of
our torture chambers. But ya know what his handlers would do, dontcha? They would screen the prisoners and brainwash some to form crowds with big excited smiles on their faces. Clapping. Holding signs. Waving flags.
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:21 AM
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13. same gang doing crowd estimates in India as in 2003 lead up to Iraq
I see. :eyes:

Great shot!
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:22 AM
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15. "Eh, 'bout a couple 'a' thousand bad apples!"
"They should be GRATEFUL towards Great Leader! After all, it's HIS economic policies that are enabling our corporations to give India thousands of American jo . . . whoops, I think I said too much . . . 'CUT!" hee hee hee."

:blush:
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:23 AM
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16. A few show up for the most hated man in the world today
LOL
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:23 AM
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17. Scores of people.
Tens, even!
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:29 AM
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21. A few disgruntled people showed up, had a picnic, played a little frisbee
and went home for a nap:).. We'd show you a picture, but the batteries died:)
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:33 AM
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24. Too funny Winky and SoCal
sad but funny
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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:28 AM
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20. Yeah, a few thousand.
At least they had to aknowledge something.

No one even knew about this one:



http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.now.org/nnt/spring-2004/march.html&h=307&w=236&sz=34&tbnid=GjTw34I6IStK-M:&tbnh=112&tbnw=86&hl=en&start=36&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmillion%2Bwomen%2Bmarch%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

A view of the March for Women's Lives crowd from atop the Washington Monument. More than one million people filled the mile-long stretch. Photo by AP/Wide World Photos.

April 25, 2004
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:32 AM
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23. Thank you and Viva La Revolution for posting those pix. nt
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:35 AM
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27. WOW
Oh yeah I remember that now. Wow I never saw that shot anywhere. Gee I wonder why.
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jhain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:29 AM
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22. about the same number of people
who showed up in Philly for John Kerry and Bill Clinton- the same number that CNN reported as 'a few hundred'.

PUH.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:34 AM
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26. as noted above
see #11 .

A friend of mine went to that. The pics were posted here on DU. The press played it down and said that it was Clinton just trying to do anything he could.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:33 AM
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25. Sure! 500,000 is still thousands!
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:35 AM
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29. Looks like tens to me
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twaddler01 Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:38 AM
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30. What a crowd!
We need this many people at the WH to impeach *!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:34 AM
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42. Meanwhile W and Pickles
spit on Gandhi's memorial. Are these petals or Iraqi blood?? The symbolism is too good since he had options


US President George W Bush (left) offers flowers at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, as his wife Laura Bush looks on, in New Delhi, on Thursday, March 2, 2006.
www.hindustantimes.com
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:59 PM
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51. 6 years ago President Clinton visited Gandhi's memorial
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:40 PM
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58. what a remarkable contrast
The thoughtful reverence of a REAL President and his daughter vs. the tacky grinning photo op monsters.
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oasis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:40 AM
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31. CNN "put it in perspective" by saying India is a nation of over a billion.
CNN newsfolk were "obliged" to inform the viewers of this each time they told the protest story.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:45 AM
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32. Yes they were
You probably saw how they also mentioned that W has a 70% approval rating there. Of course 58% somehow also think he is "bad for the world...but good to India" hell I could see that if he had that kind of record on jobs HERE the guy could probably get elected.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:45 AM
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33. I agree. The government of India has become far too close to Washington.
Those Washington insiders...
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:54 AM
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34. I'll bet George Soros paid all those people...
He's the one intigating this, right? :sarcasm:
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:56 AM
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35. Think how many protesters there's be if he hadn't brought so many jobs!
His junta and corporate pals can't even buy friends for him.

Next up: NSA wiretaps India. Agents overwhelmed by deluge of useless information and calls to take out restaurants. Real investigations being ignored do to shortage of manpower.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:00 AM
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36. Why, that looks like a Brazillian people!
Someone had to say it... it might as well be me.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:17 AM
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38. BaDum PppSSSSHHHH!
rimshot
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:14 AM
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37. That crowd is dwarfed by the crowd that held vigil outside ...
Teri Schiavo's hospice.
:sarcasm:
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:17 AM
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39. According to FOX, that crowd there is nowhere near the size...
...of the legions who flooded the square in Baghdad to watch Saddam's statue get pulled down. :crazy:
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 10:26 AM
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41. Of course not
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:15 AM
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43. Poor Fox gets fugged again n/t
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:01 PM
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53. colleagues + students watched in awe the continual replays of this on TV
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 11:20 AM
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44. oh lord
that wouldn't surprise anyone.
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dzika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:14 PM
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46. VIDEO - 'Tens of Thousands' Protest Bush's Arrival in India
broadcast on March 1, 2006

VIDEO - 'Tens of Thousands' Protest Bush's Arrival in India



Local police report that "over 100,000" people protested Bush's arrival in India. American corporate media reports say there were "tens of thousands" of protestors.

More protests are planned for the duration of Bush's visit.

http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/msnbc/msnbc_india_protests_bush_060301a_320x240.flv&width=320&height=240">
http://www.ameratsu.com/media/vid/msnbc/msnbc_india_protests_bush_060301a_320x240.flv&width=320&height=240">Video in Streaming Flash format...
Video in Windows Media format...

http://veredictum.com/node/113
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 08:44 PM
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60. Great new blog,dzika!
Been seeing lots of hat tips to ya. :thumbsup:
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Lori Price CLG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:58 PM
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49. Faux News reported that 18 people showed up for the...
demonstration... and there was (of course) the obligatory (CIA-sponsored) counter-demonstration, consisting of 200 Bush supporters, <g>.

Cheers,
Lori Price
www.legitgov.org
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 03:59 PM
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50. "Thousands" is correct for up to 999,999 people.
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 03:59 PM by ContraBass Black
:eyes:
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WildEyedLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:00 PM
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52. OMG, on CNN headline today, the mediawhore made a point of saying
"The quarter million who protested Bush yesterday dwindled sharply today to a few thousand."

I hate our "news" media.
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Burried News Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:24 PM
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55. Bush's Indian Problem - they speak English ...
better than he does.

How can they not want an American Raj?
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:27 PM
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56. so ya caught that one too!
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 04:38 PM by Veganistan
I dropped my fork when I saw that crowd. Hubby said, "sure wish we were in India today!!".

WTG George.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 04:34 PM
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57. Yeah I saw the little picture on Yahoo and thought
What is THAT oh man that sure is a whole lot of people I wonder what (clicked on pic) could make that many people (opening I read the summary) oh...yeah Bush....he can move lots of people all right.

:eyes:
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Patiod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 09:04 AM
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62. This was described by Fox as "city workers told to go to rally"
From a Bill Clinton/John Kerry rally in Philadelphia, which Faux described as "hundreds".


Damn that liberal media!
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 09:05 AM
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63. This photo was on the front page above the fold in the Columbus Dispatch
Edited on Fri Mar-03-06 09:06 AM by mtnester
and I was shocked that it was. Seriously, stunned
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