Yoo-Hoooo, Portland! Get ready for the tin-foil hatters Inaugural Protest

Counterinaugural.org ^ | 11/20/04

[dukeman]

TIN FOIL HAT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS UNITE!! - (2:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

TIN FOIL HAT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS UNITE!!

Have you ever had the discomfiting suspicion that powerful people get together and plan nefarious things such as fraudulent elections? Well, you must be one of those TinFoil Hat Conspiracy Theorists? we are constantly being advised to ridicule.

Well, we say Stand Up and Be Proud! You are invited to wear a tinfoil hat of your own design, and to carry a sign that suggests you might just be one of those TFHCT?s -- on January 20, Counter- Inaugural Day.

Join Code Pink at the Convention Center - south end, on MLK Blvd at 2:30 p.m. We'll march across the Burnside Bridge to the North Park Blocks to join up with other J20 counter-inauguralists. We even have a permit.

We'll have a contest for the best tin foil hat. Oh, and we DO care about the environment. The hats will be collected and compacted and will be sent to George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, to use as their personal body armour.

Status: CONFIRMED
Location: meet at Convention Center, south side and MLK, Portland, OR

[dukeman]

Embrace your inner nuttiness, I suppose.

[jes]

Idiots!

[dukeman]

I made a mistake with the link to the counter inaugural site. Here it is:

http://www.counter-inaugural.org/phpical/month.php?cal=Out-of-town+events

They do seem to be organized. I suppose obsessive-compulsive behavior is the hallmark of a good tinfoil hatter?

[mnehring]

I wonder how many will really show up?
From what I've heard, the Not a Damn Dime and walk out of work protests are a complete bust.

[crazyhorse691]

Interesting to see how our new mayor and chief of police handle the demonstrators. This is just the first of three planned demonstrations for today. Guess the whackos don't have a day job.

[dukeman]

I saw a DU poster over there this morning who dubbed this "Not a Damn Breath Day" because he doesn't want to breathe the same air as Republicans. Keep holding it, sir..........

[dukeman]

Here's a frustrated soul from DU:

grace0418 (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:17 AM
Original message

"Happy" Coronation Day everyone!

What are you doing to "celebrate"? I'm participating in Not One Damn Dime Day and wearing all black except for my t-shirt that says "voter fraud is not a mandate. george bush is not my president."

If you were allowed 5 minutes to address the crowd at the coronation to say whatever you want (and you couldn't be tossed in Gitmo or shot or anything), what would you say?

[crazyhorse691]

They do seem to be organized. I suppose obsessive-compulsive behavior is the hallmark of a good tinfoil hatter?

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Exactly. Their organization breaks down pretty rapidly once the protests starts which is what makes them so unpredictable.

[dukeman]

More happy thoughts from DU:

notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:17 AM
Original message

I sure hope they're good and cold

let's see how quickly the chimp gets this over with.

jdots (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:20 AM
Response to Original message

1. beep your horn when the poop gets his crown.

grumpy old fart (644 posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:22 AM
Response to Original message

2. Which President was it that caught cold and died after his winter..... swearing in? Not that Cheney would be any improvement....

Historic NY (839 posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:25 AM
Response to Reply #2

3. Wm H. Harrison..........

We could have such bad luck.

catmandu57 (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:25 AM
Response to Reply #2

4. Tyler

snarlin dick would'nt be a bargain, but he's running the show anyway, so at least it'd be honest then.
edit: my bad it was harrison, tyler took over.

notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:26 AM Response to Reply #2
5. I just want them to be chilled to the bone.

Edited on Thu Jan-20-05 11:27 AM by notadmblnd the kinda cold that doesn't leave you all day, the purple blotchy color skin cold.

[dukeman]

Oops over on DU:

OrangeOwl (21 posts) Thu Jan-20-05 11:41 AM
Original message

About the Coronation...

Why all the comments here about what's going on?

I thought we were all not going to watch.

[massgopguy]

Tsk tsk, the Notonedamndime.com web-site is up and running. By accessing the site they made a damn dime off of me. The nit wit who runs it is an IT guy, he knows the business. He and his partner were on WRKO yesterday. She could not identify Neville Chamberlain. "Got CREDIBILITY?"

[dukeman]

Up and running, eh? I thought the Bush-haters today were supposed to black out their sites in protest.

Here's more from DU:

Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-20-05 12:13 PM
Original message

Stress relief exercise...

Having a tough day? Try this method of stress relief...

* Picture yourself near a stream.

* Birds are softly chirping in the crisp, cool, mountain air.

* No one knows your secret place.

* You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called "the world".

* The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.

* The water is clear.

* You can easily make out the face of the person you're holding under the water...

There now... feeling better?

[foolscap]

These people make me want to puke! I post on an supposedly non-political message board that has a bunch of liberal or should I say progressives. (I think it's funny they are ashamed to be called liberals now. It is also amazing that they think they can hide behind a name change.) When the statement came out yesterday that the company that did the election exit polls admitted they made mistakes these people still would not accept it. They have their "smoking gun" and by God they are not going to let facts get in their way. How people get this brainwashed is what baffles me. These are people who should not be on the internet. They believe every crackpot theory that comes along and don't know legitimate news from paranoid conspiracy theories.

Being nuts would be ok if they were not so mean spirited. It astounds me that these metaphysical types who believe that their thought shape their reality can not see they are the most negative petty people on the planet. I can't imagine being in a room full of them. That would be hell on earth. Just coming across their posts is like a whiff of brimstone

[dukeman]

Hmmmm. You may not like this thread then.

[OXENinFLA]

Thu Jan 20,10:24 PM ET
A protester burns an American Flag to protest President Bush (news - web sites)'s second inauguration during a march in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) [Why is no one listening to you? Maybe cause they think you're morons?]
Thu Jan 20,11:57 PM ET
Protesters, some locked to a gas pump, sit at gas station while protesting President Bush (news - web sites)'s second inauguration, following a march in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. Police said that from 11 to 15 people were arrested during protests on Thursday, most of them at the gas station. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Fri Jan 21,12:22 AM ET
Three protesters sit locked to gasoline pumps with bicycle locks, awaiting arrest during a protest in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. At least 2,000 activists marched through downtown Portland, to protest President Bush (news - web sites)'s inauguration, the Iraq (news - web sites) war and the administration's economic and social policies. Police said that from 11 to 15 people were arrested during the day, most of them at the gas station. (AP Photo/Don Ryan )
Fri Jan 21,12:01 AM ET
A protester sits hooked to a gasoline pump with a bicycle lock as police prepare to arrest her during an inaugural protest in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. At least 2,000 activists marched through downtown Portland, to protest President Bush (news - web sites)'s inauguration, the Iraq (news - web sites) war and the administration's economic and social policies. (AP Photo/Don Ryan )

[OXENinFLA]

What a bunch of buffoons................Ping

[dukeman]

Thanks for the pics. Was it very cold yesterday in Portland? The protesters don't seem to be very warmly dressed. Perhaps the police could have hosed them down with water and let these delusional souls unlock themselves in the cold.

[OXENinFLA]

I'm still trying to figure out why they'd handcuff themselves to a GAS PUMP!!

That's just a wee bit explosive I think.

[kinsman redeemer]

Obviously these protestors should have combined their efforts.