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Vice president's visit brings out protesters along East Beltline
The Grand Rapids Press ^
| Tuesday, July 01, 2003
| Joe Snapper
Posted on 07/01/2003 11:57:59 AM PDT by FourPeas
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Cry me a river.
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posted on
07/01/2003 11:57:59 AM PDT
by
FourPeas
To: FourPeas
Walk it off.
I'll say one thing. For the relativly small amount of democraps in Kent County, they certainly make themselves known.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:00:43 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(Liberals - "The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked")
To: Dan from Michigan
Having a few well placed people in The Grand Rapids Press helps.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:03:29 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
To: FourPeas
"A single parent with $1,000?" asked Hobson, who has a 6-year-old son. "Let me see. Sure, that would be school clothes, lunches and all his field trips this year."I agree. You spend your money the way you want to and let everyone else do the same.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:07:21 PM PDT
by
SC_Republican
(mmmm....FOOTBALL)
To: FourPeas
"A $1,000-a-plate dinner? When people are hungry?" Hansen, spokeswoman for Women in Black, an otherwise non-vocal, international peace movement, asked with disgust.
According to their own website, The Women in Black are supposed to protest in silence.
I would like to invite Sister Barbara Hansen to STFU.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:12:06 PM PDT
by
dead
To: FourPeas
"A $1,000-a-plate dinner? When people are hungry?" Hansen, spokeswoman for Women in Black, an otherwise non-vocal, international peace movement, asked with disgust.
According to their own website, The Women in Black are supposed to protest in silence.
I would like to invite Sister Barbara Hansen to STFU.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:12:10 PM PDT
by
dead
To: FourPeas
80 is BS.
It was more like 35 tops when I went by.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:12:12 PM PDT
by
visagoth
(If you think education is expensive - try ignorance)
To: FourPeas
"A $1,000-a-plate dinner? When people are hungry?" Hansen, spokeswoman for Women in Black, an otherwise non-vocal, international peace movement, asked with disgust. Then why wasn't she at a homeless shelter helping to feed them?
"The Republican administration is not adequately funding people with mental heath concerns," she said between applications. "Health care is for everyone."
Maybe she should talk to the lady above. The money spent on the sunblock could have gone toward hungry people.
Kent County Democratic Chairwoman Lupe Ramos-Montigny was passing out yellow protest placards depicting a baby carriage and the words, "12 million children left behind." She bent the leftovers into a bonnet to dodge the sun's rays.
Uh huh. And where were these cries during the Clinton admin? Surely there were millions of child left behind then.
Our goal is not to raise millions of dollars. Our goal is to continue raising the bar" on education and health care.
No, your goal is to punish the successful and reward the lazy.
"You know that this is totally a rich people's thing," she added. "People should have a very difficult time swallowing that thousand-dollar luncheon."
Hell no! From what I hear, the luncheons at the Meijer Gardens are incredible. Perhaps if those in attendance took their leftovers to the lady complaining about hungry people, everyone would have been happy.
Folks, this is proof that the liberals have hardly any issues to run on in 2004. They can only run against something, and anyone with common sense can spot the desperation of a party walking the plank.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:19:36 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Thank you to all our brave soldiers, past and present, for your faithful service to our country.)
To: rintense
You shouldn't spend that money on political parties, you should "give" it to us. Isn't that what they mean? They want a country where everything is given to them so they can stay home and watch Gerry Springer, Jenny Jones, and eat Twinkies. Now thats what I call Utopia!
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:30:01 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Living History $1.00 at your local Dollar Store by December.)
To: Bringbackthedraft
Exactly! Nothing breeds sloth more than entitlements. This whole mindset of 'we are owed something' is a liberal created mindset. Like I said, punish the successful and reward the lazy. That should be the Democrats new slogan.
Of course, they don't realize that it is the DONORS right to do what they want with their money. Free will is something they'll never understand because they want to impose their will on others.
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Thank you to all our brave soldiers, past and present, for your faithful service to our country.)
To: rintense
No, your goal is to punish the successful and reward the lazy. Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee! So we can burn down our city and get more money!
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posted on
07/01/2003 12:46:28 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(Liberals - "The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked")
To: SC_Republican
Couldn't agree with you more! If we want to give a 1000k donation to the Vice-President in an effort for a Bush-Cheney 2004 victory, thats our choice. If the liberals want to spend the same kind of money on pot, booze, hookers, and porn, than thats their business.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:07:43 PM PDT
by
PeaceCorpsGuy
(Liberalism is corrupting our society!)
To: FourPeas
We stand in silence," she added as six darkly attired women kept mum along East Beltline Avenue NE just north of the Int. 96 interchange. "The black speaks." The left is so good at street theater. And little else.
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posted on
07/01/2003 1:10:20 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: FourPeas
I don't remember this group raising a stink when either of the Clintons were headlining their $1,000-a-plate dinners.
To: FourPeas
"A $1,000-a-plate dinner? When people are hungry?" I'm hungry right now. Maybe if I whine long enough, some Republican will buy me dinner...
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:30:23 PM PDT
by
telebob
To: SC_Republican
Re your Post No. 4. I wonder where Hobson's father of the child is. I think he should be paying for his child. Hobson was dumb enough to get pregnant while unmarried - ergo we have one dumb broad looking for handouts.
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posted on
07/01/2003 2:55:12 PM PDT
by
maxwellp
(Throw the U.N. in the garbage where it belongs.)
To: FourPeas
This is a great example of biased reporting/writing. NOT ONCE is there a note that $1000-a-plate political fund-raising dinners are not uncommon in either party. These women are stupid and so are the Grand Rapids readers who don't realize this fact & swallow this guy's story as written.
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posted on
07/01/2003 3:36:14 PM PDT
by
PLK
To: Dan from Michigan
I bet I pay more in Federal taxes than that whole protest alone.
hmm, if we were a true plutocracy, I get the same voting power as them. :-)
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posted on
07/01/2003 4:13:55 PM PDT
by
WOSG
(We liberated Iraq. Now Let's Free Cuba, North Korea, Iran, China, Tibet, Syria, ...)
To: maxwellp
It is possible the protester was once married and then divorced.
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posted on
07/01/2003 4:15:18 PM PDT
by
WOSG
(We liberated Iraq. Now Let's Free Cuba, North Korea, Iran, China, Tibet, Syria, ...)
To: PLK
Oddly enough, for a fairly conservative area, The Grand Rapids Press still leans to the left. Conveniently ignoring such a fact is par for the course in The Press.
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posted on
07/01/2003 4:27:30 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
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