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 nationâthirty 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.
Don’t mess with swamp people, indeed....Bobby Bouche’s mama will slap you into tomorrow!
You can get a ticket to any rally at their website—well at least could in Iowa. 2 Hour drive would be worth it! :) He will probably be back—and you did see him before didn’t you? :)
I’m really looking forward to taking the boys to the dog parks in their Trump shirts. Sam did however eat his Halloween costume one year.......
Maybe I’ll come down from Virginia so we can drive together!
A year or two ago - once or twice when my BIL and nephew were into it and had it on. Other than that I haven’t. I’ve seen some of them from time to time on Fox and Friends. And the daughter on Dancing with the Stars (OK, I do have to take a break from FR now and then and I love to dance).
He’s wearing Trump gear, so he got a seat behind the podium, for some strange reason ... could be part of a group and he’s trying to look, nonchalant.
Really? Donna Douglas?
There’s an Italian Chocolate Rum Cake that I’ll post for the next one. I had a lot of fun testing it out and checking on the proper proportion of rum.
Link?
Wow—How’d lady luck shine on you LOL :)
Yeah, you could be right.
LOL!
Where is that protester?
Oh, halfway to New Orleans by now........
Okay....but I’ve got my eye on him! LOL! : )
“Whatâs up with the dude in the red shirt and cap?”
Tonight’s plant? Sheesh. After last night, I wish they wouldn’t put people behind him anymore. Too distracting.
Yes, not far from Baton Rouge.
61%.
Geaux Trump!
Oh how nice; breakfast for dinner is ALWAYS fun! :-)
Oh come on!
We’re cool with that here and this is a younger and cool crowd and even us older geezers are “with Trump!”
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