I'm aware that most of TW would like to see protesters of any kind sprayed with flamethrowers, which means I would be a coward if I didn't post a little show-and-tell about my experience the last 10 days.
Standard crowd shot that you've probably seen lots of already. This one was cool, because you're not supposed to be where I was. A POLICEMAN asked me if I wanted to run up the Capitol steps and shoot from up there, for a minute.
Crowd was all around the Capitol, and down the rays that feed into the square, 360 degrees. CNBC said there were 100,000 people there on Sunday, FOX said ~70,000, and I'm sure the real number is in there somewhere.
Mary standing way too close to a smoker. I scolded her for this; I'll admit my aversion to cigarettes borders on pathological, I'm not sure why.
With that scar on his very handsome face, I'm pretty sure this fireman doesn't have many problems finding sex partners. Just kind of interesting, as he has a Village People w/ Troll look going on.
Marching. I can totally understand why Scottish clans went to war beating the drums and blaring the pipes. On television it's one thing, but in person it gave me goosebumps and a lump of awe in the center of my chest as they approached.
What, no job interview today?
There were a few of these types walking around, but not many. .I saw maybe five. But it would be misrepresenting and very foxnews-like to show only the kind of protesters that I think will further my own agenda.
Speaking of that, the Tea Party was there also, I know this because I looked for them, couldn't find them, and finally had to ask a cop where they were. Here they were, all three of them.
Again, to be "fair and balanced" I should point out a couple of things. One, the people behind, and the guy in between the 2 women were trolls. The people behind just followed them everywhere, chanting stupid shit, but that bald guy was kind of funny- His sign on one side said "Americans have to many rights already!" and on the other said "Teechers are greedy!" He followed them everywhere and made sure that when any kind of media took their picture, he and his sign were in it, lol.
That woman did NOT like me taking her picture btw. She said a bunch of shit to me as she went by, I wasn't really listening.
Some bigwig from the Menominee Reservation getting interviewed. Not very many skins at this rally, which makes sense, as not many have union jobs. And by union jobs I mean just any kind of job.
These guys tried to include children that were in the rally as much as possible. Wherever there were children, there they were, hanging out with the kids.
My sign says "fight for working families," which looks really stupid when compared to the creativity of these nerds. The guy with the white circles on his hat had a sign with Chris Hansen saying "Governor, why don't you have a seat over there?"
I'll close with a couple of points with bullets--bullet points make your statements WAY more credible, btw.
News article without much bias in it--pretty much facts only: In Wisconsin, the real struggle is over power
Even if you're diametrically opposed to everything I believe, I hope I at least made it interesting for you. If not, please feel free to go sodomize yourself with a toilet brush.
Standard crowd shot that you've probably seen lots of already. This one was cool, because you're not supposed to be where I was. A POLICEMAN asked me if I wanted to run up the Capitol steps and shoot from up there, for a minute.
Crowd was all around the Capitol, and down the rays that feed into the square, 360 degrees. CNBC said there were 100,000 people there on Sunday, FOX said ~70,000, and I'm sure the real number is in there somewhere.
Mary standing way too close to a smoker. I scolded her for this; I'll admit my aversion to cigarettes borders on pathological, I'm not sure why.
With that scar on his very handsome face, I'm pretty sure this fireman doesn't have many problems finding sex partners. Just kind of interesting, as he has a Village People w/ Troll look going on.
Marching. I can totally understand why Scottish clans went to war beating the drums and blaring the pipes. On television it's one thing, but in person it gave me goosebumps and a lump of awe in the center of my chest as they approached.
What, no job interview today?
There were a few of these types walking around, but not many. .I saw maybe five. But it would be misrepresenting and very foxnews-like to show only the kind of protesters that I think will further my own agenda.
Speaking of that, the Tea Party was there also, I know this because I looked for them, couldn't find them, and finally had to ask a cop where they were. Here they were, all three of them.
Again, to be "fair and balanced" I should point out a couple of things. One, the people behind, and the guy in between the 2 women were trolls. The people behind just followed them everywhere, chanting stupid shit, but that bald guy was kind of funny- His sign on one side said "Americans have to many rights already!" and on the other said "Teechers are greedy!" He followed them everywhere and made sure that when any kind of media took their picture, he and his sign were in it, lol.
That woman did NOT like me taking her picture btw. She said a bunch of shit to me as she went by, I wasn't really listening.
Some bigwig from the Menominee Reservation getting interviewed. Not very many skins at this rally, which makes sense, as not many have union jobs. And by union jobs I mean just any kind of job.
These guys tried to include children that were in the rally as much as possible. Wherever there were children, there they were, hanging out with the kids.
My sign says "fight for working families," which looks really stupid when compared to the creativity of these nerds. The guy with the white circles on his hat had a sign with Chris Hansen saying "Governor, why don't you have a seat over there?"
I'll close with a couple of points with bullets--bullet points make your statements WAY more credible, btw.
- Workers in America have the right to form unions that will collectively bargain for contracts. Some workers are happy without unions (Coors beer for example), but they are always free to form one if they wish. This bill would make it law that the unions in which state employees are members would not be allowed to collectively bargain.
- Three years ago the deal Wisconsin made with its state employees was simple: Accept lower wages than you could get in the private sector now in return for better pensions and health-care benefits when you retire. That was a different governor--this one wants to retract that deal.
- The Unions offered to give everything the governor is asking for monetarily (pension, benefit contribution), he flatly denied it, which makes this bill completely about power and politics, not money. I know most of TW doesn't like labor unions, and I'm willing to listen to the reasons why but only from those people that know what they are talking about. Case in point: Jomo believes principals and superintendents belong to the NEA. He's welcome to engage as soon as he's learned at least a little bit about how the world works.
- During the phone-conversation Walker thought he was having with David Koch, he said that "we had thought about" sending agitators into the rally. This is a state governor that said he considered hiring thugs to turn on his constituents, because it could have moved his agenda forward.
News article without much bias in it--pretty much facts only: In Wisconsin, the real struggle is over power
Even if you're diametrically opposed to everything I believe, I hope I at least made it interesting for you. If not, please feel free to go sodomize yourself with a toilet brush.
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Nice pix too