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Sunday, October 03, 2010

Yes. I thought about strafing.

Busy Work
Yesterday's get even march on Washington.  Didn't pay much attention.  Didn't even know it was happening, actually.  I laughed this morning at SondraK's rollover, and followed the link to a video where some guy said "I have here  in my pocket a satellite image blah-blah-blah"   Of course it was a lie that the crowd was bigger than Beck (the get even part).  The entire spectacle was as spontaneous as the Nuremberg rally, I thought.  Turns out, so did Byron York.  
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Organizers of Saturday's "One Nation Working Together" rally at the Lincoln Memorial are proud of their diversity.  Before the event, they predicted it would be the "most diverse march in history."  It turned out they were right. Looking around the rally, there were Teamsters Local 311, Service Employees International Union Local 1199, Communications Workers of America Local 2336, American Federation of Teachers Local 1, United Auto Workers Amalgamated Local 171, Transport Workers Union Local 100, and representatives of many, many other unions.  That's a lot of diversity. - Byron York

What did they accomplish?  The whole thing was busy work. Predictably boring.

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5 comments:

  1. rwnutjob10/3/10, 10:29 AM

    Dufus said the crowd was bigger than 9/29. Well since that was a day after the Beck event, could be. I hope they really bring out the vote on November 3rd.

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  2. DoubleU10/3/10, 12:37 PM

    I read that article, all the union workers were bussed in and paid to be there, then as typical union workers they left early before their job was complete.
    The only thing they had to do was stand there, they had absolutely no clue to what the event was about.

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  3. Kristophr10/3/10, 12:59 PM

    November 3rd is when they will bring out the vote ... all of those absentee ballots by dead people will suddenly arrive during the recounts.

    Head vote counter positions are excruciatingly important. The RNC NEEDS to be targeting all of these state posts with election funds.

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  4. Anonymous10/3/10, 1:04 PM

    I was there yesterday, and the amazing thing about the crowd was that it was about 95% white.

    As far as union diversity, the seiu was well represented, but then you'd expect them to be. They have a very high presence here in DC. The second largest group, judging by the t shirts was the uaw. They would had to have been bussed in from parts of the country where there are auto plants.

    What do the seiu and a huge hunk of the uaw have in common? Same employer.

    Thomas M.

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  5. DougM10/4/10, 3:26 PM

    It's not the size of the crowd that counts,
    it's who counts the crowd.
    (sorry, Uncle Joe)

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