Posted on 02/11/2016 4:59:52 AM PST by nikos1121
Thursday, February 11, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Baton Rouge, LA at the Baton Rouge River Center. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM CST.
As the "Capital City", Baton Rouge is the political hub for Louisiana, and is the second-largest metropolitan city in the state, with an estimated population of 228,895 as of 2014. The metropolitan area surrounding the city, known as Greater Baton Rouge, had a population of 820,159 people as of 2013.The urban area has around 594,309 inhabitants.
HOW DID BATON ROUGE GET ITS NAME?
The French name le baton rouge ("the red stick") is the translation of a native term rendered as Istrouma, possibly a corruption of the Choctaw iti humma ("red pole") Andre Joseph Penicaut, a carpenter traveling with d'Iberville, published the first full-length account of the expedition in 1723. According to Penicaut,
"From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called ecorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick [baton rouge], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge named the Oumas."
THE BATON ROUGE RIVER CENTER
At this time, I have no idea if the event will be in the large arena or the theater.
On a non-rally thread, some of our “folks” are having a cow over this thread:
Chris Matthews: Ted Cruz “operates below the level of human life”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3396007/posts
I keep saying Chris Matthews says, “Trump supporters look like they are having fun, Cruz supporters are in pain.
We have some very unhappy FReepers right now.
Thank you!
Lord knows we need you :)
No, his hair is not parted right. Maybe a brother or something.
We’ll easily get there.
I’ll bet there are some great pictures lingering from the Ball. Wasn’t the name of the ball something like having Clintons return the silverware to the White House?
He is kicking ass with this one. Good Rally
Funny as all get out.
Oh I remember being a young Republican. That’s how I met my husband. :)
They're kicking me out the door. They're kicking me out the door.
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I’ve got that picture on my desktop. Love it.
They bear an amazing similarity.
Lotsa bew hewing going on, there :)
Says you have got to get and out to vote.
Speech over
American Dreamer playing—you know what to do!
This is a great rally thread—now, get up and DANCE!!!!!!!
15 DAYS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
OPERATION ANNIHILATE WASHINGTONIANS.
This was a terrific rally!!
He sure knows how to get the crowds wound up!
We just need to have fun with this campaign and these rallies. Let the Cruzbots carry on with the uptight proclamations of who is the most holy.
No word yet.
Excellent!
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