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May Day event features puppets, people, a parade
Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^
| May 5, 2003
| Nolan Zavoral
Posted on 05/05/2003 8:11:34 AM PDT by jdege
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:39:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Courtney Dicmas showed up with her tenor sax on the streets of south Minneapolis on Sunday and took her place among the people and puppets that became the 29th May Day parade.
For a mile they marched through stiff winds and cold, winding up at Powderhorn Park, where hundreds of spectators sat huddled under umbrellas and welcomed spring -- spring? -- to the Twin Cities through the good offices of the sponsoring In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: communistholiday; communists; indoctrination; iseepuppets; maydayparade; mccarthywasright; minnesota; puppetparade; reddupes; redmenace; redstartribune; socialists; stalinsusefulidiots; theredmenace; usefulidiots
The pink-sweatered crowd was there, shouting chants against the NRA.
They've lost the vote, the shall-issue bill has become law, and they still haven't figured out who it was who was pushing for the bill. Hint - it wasn't the NRA.
It's no wonder they out-spent us 10-to-1 and still lost.
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posted on
05/05/2003 8:11:34 AM PDT
by
jdege
To: jdege
FReeper Miss Marple has a Puppet Index that seems to reflect the idiocy of certain parades fairly accurately. The more puppets, the more idiocy. I don't know if it's a linear or geometric function - gonna have to get some FReeper statisticians in on that one...
To: jdege
"I mean, where else do you get this many people working together?"Commie forced labor camps....hmmm... they all seem to love the UN don't they..I'm sure they will love it when some blue helmet kicks down the front door and shoots their children, after all that person would be "just following UN orders".
To: Behind Liberal Lines
How was May Day in the City of Evil?
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posted on
05/05/2003 9:02:29 AM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: jdege
Happy Cinco de Mayo!!
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posted on
05/05/2003 9:35:40 AM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Freedom is not Free - Support the Troops!)
To: jdege
Happy Cinco de Mayo!!
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posted on
05/05/2003 9:36:28 AM PDT
by
SwinneySwitch
(Freedom is not Free - Support the Troops!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest; LibKill; gaspar; bentfeather; NativeNewYorker; drjimmy; Atticus; ...
How was May Day in the City of Evil? Apparently quiet. I think the local lefties (like Paul Glover, who links to this site--Hi, Paul) were too busy organizing their Frenchfest the night before.
Ithaca is the City of Evil.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Recall that the historic derivation of the modern MAY DAY distress call is the French phrase "m'aidez" which translates as "help me".
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Apparently quiet. I think the local lefties (like Paul Glover, who links to this site--Hi, Paul) were too busy organizing their Frenchfest the night before.
hehehehehehe bump
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posted on
05/05/2003 10:31:15 AM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(I am a night person!! What am I doing up???)
To: Billthedrill
The Marple Index:
The idiocy of a demonstration is directly proportional to the ratio of puppets to participants.
Complete idiocy would score a 1. Partial idiocy would be in decimals as expressions of fractions.
Republican demonstrations score 0, because we do not use puppets. Large demonstrations with a few puppets would score in the .002 to .1 range.
Once you get above a Marple Index of .25, there is no point in listening to anything the demonstrators have to say, because they are total idiots.
To: Miss Marple
Once you get above a Marple Index of .25, there is no point in listening to anything the demonstrators have to say, because they are total idiots.I agree with your point, but how do you distinguish the costumes at FR events (Dr. Raoul)from puppets? Isn't is a distinction without a difference?
BTW, I think the puppet/leftist conection has something to do with the "Bread and Puppet Theatre" based somewhere in Vermont -- they've been at the "artistic" center of leftist parades for decades, and perhaps are responsible for the 'institutionalizing' of puppets as the face of leftist political theatre.
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posted on
05/05/2003 10:58:33 AM PDT
by
WL-law
To: jdege
A parade of morons - speaking of "peace and children," while celebrating "May Day" and an ideology that slaughtered 100+ million people in the last 100 years.
The freaking paper mache puppets have more common sense than the dance-school dropouts working them.
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posted on
05/05/2003 11:04:28 AM PDT
by
dead
To: WL-law
Dr.Raoul wears a costume. That is not a puppet.
Puppets (as made by the left) are just plain creepy. Plus they spen hours in papier mache constructing them, when they could be occupied with gainful employment.
Puppets are a leftist indicator, and there is no comparison to Dr. Raoul.
To: Miss Marple
CHeck this out.
http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/index.html
Leftists, yes.
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posted on
05/05/2003 12:54:02 PM PDT
by
WL-law
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Did you make any calls and/or E-Mails and/or visits to let Ithaca officials know that your No Means NO?
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posted on
05/05/2003 8:15:12 PM PDT
by
Publicus
To: NativeNewYorker
tres interesting. Thanks for info. I love learning about the origins of words and names.
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posted on
05/05/2003 8:17:05 PM PDT
by
Publicus
To: jdege
''feasted on the passing morsels of papier-mâché and humanity.''
words escape me on the idiocy of the writing. I guess canabalism is alright as long as it is part of a high fiber diet.
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posted on
05/05/2003 8:24:35 PM PDT
by
LauraJean
(Fukai please pass the squid sauce)
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