Posted on 08/01/2012 12:18:06 PM PDT by servo1969
Today is “National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.”
After intolerant and First Amendment-hating Chicago politicians blocked Chick-fil-A from building a restaurant, former Governor Mike Huckabee announced his support for the restaurant chain and its Constitutional right of free speech. He declared today Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.
Allen sent this picture from west county St. Louis.
Allen added: People are standing in line 100+ deep to go inside. The lines go out and around the building. Two lines of drive through cars are around the shopping center.
St. Louisans also came out in huge numbers to show their support for the First Amendment.
The lot was jam-packed…
(Mike took these photos in Chesterfield, Missouri.)
The line goes around the block.
The line of cars wraps all the way around to the main boulevard, where the line still continues.
The surrounding streets and parking lots are packed.
The restaurant is full and the line goes out the door.
Normally, with this crowd volume you would expect short tempers and bedlam. That’s not the case today at Chick-fil-A. While the surrounding restaurant chains are empty, the people in this line are happily making a statement, talking to each other with smiles on their faces. They’re patriots taking a stand against a gross violation of our First Amendment right. And they are doing it in 100 degree temperatures.
Any bets if this will make the MSM tonight?
If you have more photos please send them in!
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Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) bought Chick-fil-A for his office staff today.
Here’s a photo from Texas.
Ruth Wendelken sent this from Texas: This is at 11:15 at the Los Colinas Texas Chick-fil-a. Notice the line is three cars wide around the building. The line of foot traffic is huge. Notice the sign of 315 cars served at that time. Now in center line. Its a great day for Freedom of speech. Take that Boston, Chicago and San Francisco!
Obligatory liberal sneer: "What are all these women doing in line then?"
A. Eating a meal with their boyfriend / husband.
Cheers!
Report from Olathe, KS: Traffic at 11:50 am backed up for 1/4 mile, people lining up outside Chick Fil A. At 2:30p the traffic had lessoned but the hustle and bustle around our Chick Fil A meant at least a half hour wait before even reaching the parking lot. People milling about, parking in lots across the street from the restaurant etc... At 5:50pm traffic once more jammed for about an hour wait and tons of people were all over the place, very orderly and having a great time. All other fast food places were lonely including Sonic where I eventually wound up. :(
Today has been epic to borrow a phrase from Charlie Sheen. I sincerely hope this repeats itself in November. We need a win after the Supreme Court went Socialist with their ObamaCare decision.
Sounds like what we encountered too! Loved the feel enough to go back out there again....soon. And the closest one is over 30 miles!
“Chick-fil-A should give notice to all the towns, cities they are located in who are of a liberal mind set and leave those areas and move to more conservative areas.”
No no! No! Nooooo!!!!
How are we to know that he's 'changed', unless he shows us in some way? Are we supposed to just take his word for it?
If his campaign rhetoric is all the proof you need to convince you he's 'changed', then so be it. I've heard plenty of words out of that man, but haven't seen diddly squat for actual deeds that could back up his alleged conservatism.
Hanging tough with the Tea Party from Day One would have gone a long way toward truly establishing his conservative/patriotic credentials. It wouldn't have cost him anything, and would have been a lot more convincing than millions of dollars worth of campaign ads, stump speeches, debate performances, etc.
But he didn't do that. In fact, he never once broke bread with the Tea Party, and has mysteriously kept his distance from what has quickly become one of the most significant political movements in our nation's history.
Why?
I did not make it, I worked 14 hours straight today no breaks. I wanted too(made it last sat).
I just want to say that these are people with jobs, not some OWS types who hang around smoking pot all day.
Hard working people that had too take time off from work to support Chick-fa-la. That says a lot!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/01/1115881/-I-Unfriended-two-today-over-Chik-Fil-A
Daily Kos “Ratting” Terrorism (incase any of these buggers actually try this). I have this copy and pasted as a word document (along with the hyper-link). I think the police might actually want to see this, if anyone tries this:
DKOS Pseudonym: G2geek: “what to do about this: the Just One Rat campaign!(2+ / 0-)
Progressives! Do you give a rat’s ass about equal rights? How’bout the whole rat?
Join the Just One Rat campaign!
It’s nonviolent! It’s fun! It’s probably illegal but so are sit-ins!
Go to your local pet shop. Buy one rat, the mangey gray ones they sell for cheap, as snake-food for people who have large snakes.
Get some kind of small container with a way of having fresh air. A can for tennis balls might work, if you punch holes in the lid. A previously-used Chik-Filth-E bag might be perfect for the job because you can leave it under the table with the top almost entirely unrolled, so the rat can escape on its own.
Go into a Chik-Filth-E during dinner hour, when lots of homophobes will be taking their families out to get salmonella. Keep your secret rat container carefully concealed. Choose your seating tactically. You want to be in an area where no matter which way the rat wants to go, it has to cross an open area where people will see it. Be sure you’re not sitting where any obvious cameras can see you.
When you release the rat, don’t be the first to spot it. Let someone else spot it. As soon as you hear someone say “eek a rat!” or similar words, you can say “Eww I think I’m gonna’ be sick” and exit. Or you can exit early, before anyone else sees the rat.
It’s even more fun if you have an accomplice who came in at about the same time as you, but showed no sign of knowing you, and who sat somewhere else that had a commanding view of the entire room. Your accomplice can stay behind to take cellphone video of the rat and the other patrons’ reactions, and can also serve as a witness that the rat came from somewhere other than the area where you were sitting. For example, “I think it crawled out of the trash can over there...”
All it takes is ONE rat in the middle of a crowded dinner hour, to make all kinds of merriment that will last and last. “
1994: Mitt Romney was 47-years-old and he had been a Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board member.
“...gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way...” -Mitt Romney, 2007
There is no excuse for a man his age handing over boys to homosexuals. Ask anyone at Penn State how that turns out.
That is one reason that I waited until 3 to go CFA... I did it so that the people trying to get in and out on their lunch breaks could do so.... Plus I wanted cfa to be busy at even a non busy time, so that’s when I went.... Even at 3, it was busier than I have ever seen them even on a Saturday rush hour
We went twice today. Did our part. Everyone there was declaring their support for traditional family values. The libtards don’t have a clue what is happening to America with the media just turning a blind eye and all their fake polls.
Bunch of people are going to be in shock in November. Just look at us in Texas getting Cruz as our Senate nominee.
This is the way that the Tea Party and the right wing protest. Contrast this witht he OWS meatheds and their violence and the union thuggery Dems in Wisconsin.
Godspeed
HoA
I boycott the msm everyday, don’t even watch Fox’s shemp smith though I will watch the panel on occasion.
America Rising!
Like the Japanese Admiral the day after Pearl Harbour....and we all know how that turned out.
Chick-fil-a is going to do more business in the 30-day period following that declaration than they will the other 11 months of this year combined.
This is one of those from left field things "where the heck did that come from?" that knock the political oracles on their a$$es.
Yep
the soldiers at JBLM would keep a Chick-Fil-A busy from whenever they chose to open until whenever they chose to close. And that's before adding any civilian traffic to the mix.
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