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S.F. closing torch ceremony canceled
AP via Yahoo! ^ | 4/9/8 | JULIANA BARBASSA and MARCUS WOHLSEN, Associated Press Writers

Posted on 04/09/2008 4:14:03 PM PDT by SmithL

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To: rabidralph

Very good!


41 posted on 04/09/2008 6:18:35 PM PDT by Eaker (Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test. -- Calvin)
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To: rabidralph
"That don't make no sense."

Girl, where have you been? I haven't seen you in ages. LOL, talkin' my language there. You're right, it don't make no sense.

42 posted on 04/09/2008 6:18:37 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: caseinpoint
The Olympics are getting more and more political each time it is held. Time to scratch the torch running anyway.

I have a hope that one year they will spend so much time organizing and running the Torch Relay, that they will forget about doing the actual Games.

43 posted on 04/09/2008 6:29:21 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy
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To: BGHater

There were plenty of reds out on the streets and they seemed a lot better organized than the oposition. I didn’t get to see the torch and associated protests at lunch time but I had to walk about a block down Market Street about 2:30 and saw the demonstrators coming up Market to wherever they were going. Somebody (the City government or some other communist front organization) had handed out cheap plastic US, Olympic and commie Chinese flags. About 80% of the people I saw were carrying them. The other 20% were the “Free Tibet” crowd and a few ROC supporters protesting something.

I heard one Taiwanese guy who’d gotten hold of a set of flags say he was going to take his commie flag home and burn it in front of the family. I like the Taiwanese.

The “Free Tibet” crowd were the usual have-demo-will-travel suspects from the East Bay, including the usual mix of sixties retreads; shivering in tie their die t-shirts (it was about 55 with a good breeze) and lots of little white kiddies with dread locks, body piercings and tattoos. No doubt playing hooky from school. Once again public transit is the enemy of civil order - I doubt any of those clowns could operate a motor vehicle.

I don’t like the PRC but the “Free Tibet” crowd definitely needs to get a better rent-a-mob.


44 posted on 04/09/2008 6:45:44 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: WVNan

Hi, Nana, I have been keeping low. Been busy with work and other projects. How are you holding up? Were you one of the IRS ladies who won the lottery a couple weeks ago? LOL!


45 posted on 04/09/2008 6:54:53 PM PDT by rabidralph (Hillary is the MSM's Bimbo Eruption.)
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To: Eaker
Can't take the credit. I found it at tibet.org
46 posted on 04/09/2008 6:56:32 PM PDT by rabidralph (Hillary is the MSM's Bimbo Eruption.)
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To: rabidralph
Ha! I don't think so. I'm like the guy who complained to God every day about how bad his life was going. He prayed when he couldn't make payments on his car. "Lord, I've been a good person, but times ara bad, please let me win the lottery." Then the bank forclosed on his house. "Please Lord," he prayed, "I've been a good Christian all my life; please let me win the lottery." The last straw; he lost his job. He prayed, "Lord, this is awful. I'm as low as I can go. Please, please, let me win the lottery." Finally, this booming voice comes from above; "Son, son, buy a ticket."

like you, my life is too busy for freeping much any more. I pray that you are well and happy. God bless.

47 posted on 04/09/2008 7:36:02 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: SmithL

Participants of the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco pose for a group picture during closing ceremonies on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. After the torch parade was rerouted and shortened to prevent disruptions by massive crowds of anti-China protesters, the planned closing ceremony at the waterfront was canceled and moved to the airport. The flame was put directly on a plane and was not displayed. (AP Photo/John Storey)


48 posted on 04/09/2008 8:21:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: bill1952
The picture is worth a thousand words, and the Tibetans could have no worse advocate.

Plants, bub. They're not just for gardens anymore.

49 posted on 04/09/2008 8:38:06 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil......" Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google)
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To: caseinpoint
How much this little demonstration will cost Californians is probably mind-blowing.

Oh, come on! It won't cost Californians, nor even San Franciscans, a dime...the GOVERNMENT is using their money for it. <|;-D

50 posted on 04/09/2008 8:47:00 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: mewzilla

“According to CNN, those thugs were Olympic committee officials.”

Other information indicates they are Chinese military in blue track suits.
I would rather keep the ChiCom thugs out of our country..


51 posted on 04/09/2008 8:53:34 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
I don’t like the PRC but the “Free Tibet” crowd definitely needs to get a better rent-a-mob.

Hard to compete against the cash available to the PRC Embassy for mob rentals...especially when so much of the indigenous mob material are Red anyway.

52 posted on 04/09/2008 9:02:07 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: ApplegateRanch

True.


53 posted on 04/09/2008 9:07:54 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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