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.
Louisiana weather.
If the wind blows in from the North the temperature will go down rapidly.
Variations of 30 degrees in a span of a few hours are not uncommon.
Looks good for the next week though, a low of 45 on Saturday night, but in the 70s in the daytime.
Had no idea Trump was in BR, figured he would be in SC.
Trump has been putting money in my pocket since I was 18 years old.
Has created jobs numbering in the hundreds of thousands range.
NO MORE CUSTOMER SERVICE JOBS OUTSOURCED TO INDIA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
These are jobs teens, stay at home moms, and welfare cases should be doing.
Go LSU!!
Here’s here now....
How many people here?
Crowd getting excited now! Here we geauxxxxxxxxx!
lol we have over 500 posts?
Here he is!
This is going to be seaux good!
I can’t believe how big my smile is when he walks on stage!!
Trump strolls out freakin’ cool as a cucumber!
Love it.
And Reagan NEVER "used" religion for his own benefit and NEVER "PREACHED AT US" !
Notice how he does not have one of those silly signers on the stage?
At least 10 of them.
No, not paid disruptors - too obvious and too rough around the edges. Crude.
They’re just disagreeable, miserable people in their truly boring, lonely life’s.
I’m glad he made it. The place is packed!
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
All right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re doing what we can
But when you want money
For people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be all right
All right, all right
My chickadees don’t even fly away when I go outside!
They know who fills the feeders!
LOL
Do you get the little nuthatches up there?
They are very cute and comical.
It’s fun isn’t it? I can’t remember when I pulled for a candidate this hard.
Trump says 5,000 people outside waiting to get in!
Wonderful—great crowd—truly on fire
—rocket propulsion!!!
He has so much fun with his crowds.
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