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Impeach Obama Rally Causes 10-Mile Traffic Jam
[Update: Source + link changed from blog to original publisher:] The Examiner.com ^ | June 9, 2013 | The Examiner

Posted on 06/30/2013 8:49:15 PM PDT by Windflier

Edited on 07/01/2013 10:29:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: ThomasThomas

My response was based on the comments of other posters who live in SD and said it wasn’t any slower that day than on any other day (of the week, I assumed).

Maybe SD is different, because my experience on my local highways and byways is that any time around lunch is usually a traffic nightmare.


61 posted on 06/30/2013 11:00:07 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Steelfish

This is how effective protests work

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3037647/posts


62 posted on 06/30/2013 11:00:56 PM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: Windflier

I just saw this thread and was going to ping you to it!


63 posted on 06/30/2013 11:01:17 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: bray; Windflier
How can people on an overpass cause a traffic jam?

Although I have made the claim that the RALLY didn't cause the jam, I think the word 'jam' should be defined better. My concern was that the media tried to make it sound like it completely stopped traffic. I think it was more like when there's a police car on the side of the road giving a ticket. Traffic slows a bit, backs up for a ways, but it isn't stopped. If it was a 10 mile backup, how much of a backup does it have when there is no RALLY going on ?

I was told that traffic was passing through at a pace that wasn't beyond the normal 'extremes' of any other day.

I still don't think it was as bad as they are trying to portray. But... if I'm wrong, isn't that a GOOD THING ?

64 posted on 06/30/2013 11:07:33 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dragnet2
Government dumping in tens of millions of illegals, Muslims and assorted foreigners from all over the planet, not only divided the once united, but ensured your electoral process was undermined and compromised while Americans were busying caving in and being brainwashed in govenrment schools.

You get second prize for the Most Truthful, Most Intelligent, and Most Accurate Statement of the day. You would have gotten first prize, but you misspelled one word.

And KUDOS on the lack of profanity.

65 posted on 06/30/2013 11:13:02 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Windflier; Proud2BeRight
what sort of channels there are for folks who aren't on Facebook.

I heard there's a thing called Google. Don't know if it works, though.

66 posted on 06/30/2013 11:16:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: UCANSEE2
You would have gotten first prize, but you misspelled one word. And KUDOS on the lack of profanity.

I would have given you the best response of the day, but you failed when you acted as though you were the chief of spelling police and president of the local homeowners association. Stop being such an azz. .

67 posted on 06/30/2013 11:24:00 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: WildHighlander57; Kickass Conservative
Wait a minute. Don't trust me. Heck, I don't live in SD.

Get some more input before you just accept what I said. I tried to convey that I got it from someone who SAID they were familiar with SD traffic. That's called hearsay in court, and for a very good reason.

There's a poster on here who says it's not backed up at that time of day.

Maybe it was the way I worded it and my view of the word 'jam'. For instance, traffic in California , in general is totally different from traffic anywhere else (on the planet).

Let's agree that the RALLY probably slowed down or backed up traffic more than normal, but no more than a police car on the side of the road. Assuming that it did, that just meant more people had a chance to see it without crashing into other cars.

Drivers got an education without a punishment, how bad could that be ?

My concern is that the media tried to make it look like a bad thing, because of WHO/WHAT the Rally was about.

68 posted on 06/30/2013 11:28:49 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

People forget CA was solidly “R” for decades. Gave us Ronald Reagan...

This traffic stop protest seems too much like a liberal tactic. Conservatives actually head to jobs or church.

You can make a political point without holding up traffic for hours and annoying even those who support you.


69 posted on 06/30/2013 11:32:20 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: CottShop
Let this becomes a brush fire across the nation.

And while that's going, the TRAYVON JUSTICE LEAGUE will be burning the houses, and the Muslims will be burning the churches, and There'll be a hot time In the old town tonight.


70 posted on 06/30/2013 11:36:02 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dragnet2
but you failed when you acted as though you were the chief of spelling police and president of the local homeowners association.

And when was this ? You mean the Spelling Nazi and Town idiot comment ? Was that on this thread?

71 posted on 06/30/2013 11:39:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: UCANSEE2
" what sort of channels there are for folks who aren't on Facebook."

I heard there's a thing called Google. Don't know if it works, though.

I've looked through a couple of pages of results, and have yet to find any contact data for the Overpasses group, other than Facebook.

After I posed the question about this on the DFW area group, a couple of folks chimed in about building websites for the group. Maybe someone will chime in with good contact data for state coordinators and such.

72 posted on 06/30/2013 11:47:52 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: TLI
Could you ping me with some info if you find some as well?

Will do!

73 posted on 06/30/2013 11:48:53 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: little jeremiah
I just saw this thread and was going to ping you to it!

Heh....thanks!

74 posted on 06/30/2013 11:50:21 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: TigerClaws
This traffic stop protest seems too much like a liberal tactic. Conservatives actually head to jobs or church.

Yeah, that's been working just peachy keen for us since Obama arrived, hasn't it?

75 posted on 06/30/2013 11:52:31 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

It was meant as a joke. I didn’t know if it would work, as I said.

But I appreciate you finding out and passing on that info.

I learned one more thing today.


76 posted on 07/01/2013 12:14:13 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dragnet2
Stop being such an azz.

Even if I was a complete azz, I could never hold a candle to you, dear brother.

77 posted on 07/01/2013 12:22:17 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Windflier

I used to live in Carlsbad, just off Tamarack, until the mid 90s when we moved to Arizona. Way to go, Teapartiers!


78 posted on 07/01/2013 12:22:59 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: dragnet2
I would have given you the best response of the day, but....

you don't know how to take a compliment?

79 posted on 07/01/2013 12:24:47 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dragnet2
and president of the local homeowners association.

Oh.... by the way. The other tenants wanted me to ask you... You always put "BS" at the beginning of your replies. Are those your initials, or what ?

Most posters put their initials at the end. FYI.

80 posted on 07/01/2013 12:29:56 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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