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Is 'Keep Off the Grass' Elitist?
NY Times ^ | 8.29.2004 | Alex Williams

Posted on 08/28/2004 3:37:52 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick

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1 posted on 08/28/2004 3:37:52 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
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To: NYC GOP Chick

I see no reason for dems to trample the crap out of the green. Let them march in the street and dodge Jamacian cabbies who never touch their brakes.


2 posted on 08/28/2004 3:40:22 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: firebrand; Tabi Katz; lavrenti; NYCVirago; Cacique; rmlew; Oschisms; hellinahandcart; sauropod; ...
"It's a people park; it's not a mayor's park or a park for the Central Park Conservancy," said Bill Perkins, a city councilman from Harlem who fondly recalls the "be ins" and "happenings" on the Great Lawn in the 1960's. "We're on a slippery slope when we start saying that the rights of grass trump the rights of the people to protest."

What a stupid socialist simp! Yes, it's for the people -- the people who live in NYC and pay taxes in NYC! It's not for a bunch of smelly, doped-up out-of-towners to come in and destroy with their stupid riots!

These turds have no rights to be making demands on us and our wallets!

3 posted on 08/28/2004 3:40:54 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Kerry is a Sitzpinkler!)
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Are you staying in the City for the Convention or seeking shelter in a saner location?


4 posted on 08/28/2004 3:41:23 PM PDT by Rebelbase (John Kerry, sign form 180 .)
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To: annyokie

These days, it's more like Muslim drivers.


5 posted on 08/28/2004 3:43:11 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Kerry is a Sitzpinkler!)
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What these people don't get (or refuse to get) is that when events (such as the marathon mentioned) take place at the park, the events pick up the tab for clean-up and damage to the lawn. No way the anarchists would do that. It'd be up to the taxpayers. THAT is the real point.


6 posted on 08/28/2004 3:43:29 PM PDT by EggsAckley (........."YO" is "OY" spelled backwards.........)
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To: Rebelbase

I'm a volunteer at one of the "priority" hotels.

Of course, I'm going out of my way to avoid these miserable miscreants.


7 posted on 08/28/2004 3:43:44 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Kerry is a Sitzpinkler!)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

I haven't visited the Holy City of New York since '94. They were Haitians and Jamaicans back then. No brakes, but free with the hand gestures.


8 posted on 08/28/2004 3:44:55 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: annyokie

It's the Muslim cab drivers who seethe and mumble that worry me.


9 posted on 08/28/2004 3:47:30 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Kerry is a Sitzpinkler!)
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Please give us an insight ala Vanities to any observations of note while you are volunteering, please! :-)


10 posted on 08/28/2004 3:49:01 PM PDT by Rebelbase (John Kerry, sign form 180 .)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

We had them in SF some many years ago. I know you do, but warn newbies to town to stay away from the jitneys.


11 posted on 08/28/2004 3:49:02 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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"We're on a slippery slope when we start saying that the rights of grass trump the rights of the people to protest."

Haven't the left been telling us for years that the environment is more important than human beings?

12 posted on 08/28/2004 3:50:53 PM PDT by Libertarian444
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To: Rebelbase; annyokie
Please give us an insight ala Vanities to any observations of note while you are volunteering, please! :-)

sure, but first I'm trying to figure out WTF this sign (the one on the white paper) is all about?!


13 posted on 08/28/2004 3:52:16 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Kerry is a Sitzpinkler!)
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"We're on a slippery slope

Hmmm, someone must have just watered the grass.

when we start saying that the rights of grass trump the rights of the people to protest."

Did anyone remember to submit an Environmental Impact Statement to the EPA to check that out?

The landscape has rights, too," she insisted.

Right on!!! lady.

Ohhh the irony of it all ROTFLM( | )O!!!

14 posted on 08/28/2004 3:54:58 PM PDT by ancient_geezer (Equality, the French disease: Everyone is equal beneath the guillotine.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

That does indeed merit a WTF? Maybe they forget that they aren't allowed to unionize?


15 posted on 08/28/2004 3:55:44 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

That's an enigma, GOP Chick. I think we need a decorder ring to crack that one.


16 posted on 08/28/2004 3:56:06 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Considering the park is looking the best its EVER looked, I think the Conservancy/Parks Dept should be commended and keep doing what they haave been doing. Limiting restricting damagin usage and allowing for grass down time as required.


17 posted on 08/28/2004 3:56:42 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: HitmanNY

Or some major drugs!


18 posted on 08/28/2004 3:57:11 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Kerry is a Sitzpinkler!)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

That on goes right past me too. Poor Starbuck's workers. Maybe the realize a career in lattes just doesn't have the glamour of years past?


19 posted on 08/28/2004 3:58:54 PM PDT by Rebelbase (John Kerry, sign form 180 .)
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Maybe the "Genghis Khan-like" hordes should have obtained permission to camp out on "elite" Cape Cod....
Cape Cod is protected as part of the National Seashore. Development is regulated, but the feet of humans and the rise in sea level due to global warming are still causing destruction on the beaches of the Cape. .... It takes as few as twenty human footsteps to destroy the beach grass Amophila breviligulata

20 posted on 08/28/2004 4:00:56 PM PDT by syriacus (Kerry lied, while honorable men died. Benedict Arnold REALLY was a war hero before he was a traitor.)
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