Tuesday, September 27, 2005
hemp and CS
My, I was in a bad mood last post. Good thing I'm a hermit. And naw, the gals never catch any knots, they're my keepers!
Watched more teevee than usual over the weekend, a whole half-hour each day. Saw the alledged news mostly for the Rita coverage and also to see how the protest was going. ABC (Saturday) had no mention I caught and CBS (Sunday) gave it less than 30 seconds. Seems there is a bit of a dispute about the turnout with probably more photo-blogging sites than attendees! Michelle Malkin has some comments and links to the usual suspects. Looking through a bunch of the photos sure shows a hell of a different demographic than during the 'nam protests. I lived in the D.C. area most of '68, all of '69, and 10 months of '70 whilst being 18, 19, & 20 and since my favorite politician was Barry Goldwater (Gen. LeMay woulda made a hell of a SecState), my sympathies lay elsewhere! "Lay" is the operative word and I DID attend a few of those shindigs. Woodstock without the rock. Pot, poontang, and psilocybin with close to half of the attendees chasing 'tang and close to the other half being 'tang! Lots of young folk sitting in circles passing the pipe and gallon jugs of cheap red plus psychoactives that probably still don't have names. Since I used to be an occasional volunteer at a free clinic, there was exactly ZERO interest by self in participating (well, maybe some hemp now and then!). The kids coming into the clinic at any time were in there for 2 primary reasons, clap of various kinds and bad trips. Lord have mercy was that place filled with trippers during the protests!
The vast majority of the 'nam protestors were young folk with far more objection to the draft than the war. It appears the "vast" (vast doesn't seem to fit) majority of this batch, well, you've seen the pics. Guess the penicillin didn't work way back then! It seems even al Zark was offended! That linky goes to Iowahawk's latest keyboard-dampener.
I found a couple of good shots from the 2003 SF dems here and here. You may feel a need to go take a bath after.
If you have a high-speed connection, a local talk show host made a couple of home videos of the "protest" in Ocala last weekend. The first link is 42 MB and 5 minutes, the second is 182 MB and 22 minutes.
Peace Rally in Ocala
Last for the moment is Pat Santy's post about the antiwar protestors that is highly worth taking time to read.
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Time to get back to my hateful task of editing and migrating 114 pages of fractured HTML from one dicked-up host to another that seems to be marginally better.
Watched more teevee than usual over the weekend, a whole half-hour each day. Saw the alledged news mostly for the Rita coverage and also to see how the protest was going. ABC (Saturday) had no mention I caught and CBS (Sunday) gave it less than 30 seconds. Seems there is a bit of a dispute about the turnout with probably more photo-blogging sites than attendees! Michelle Malkin has some comments and links to the usual suspects. Looking through a bunch of the photos sure shows a hell of a different demographic than during the 'nam protests. I lived in the D.C. area most of '68, all of '69, and 10 months of '70 whilst being 18, 19, & 20 and since my favorite politician was Barry Goldwater (Gen. LeMay woulda made a hell of a SecState), my sympathies lay elsewhere! "Lay" is the operative word and I DID attend a few of those shindigs. Woodstock without the rock. Pot, poontang, and psilocybin with close to half of the attendees chasing 'tang and close to the other half being 'tang! Lots of young folk sitting in circles passing the pipe and gallon jugs of cheap red plus psychoactives that probably still don't have names. Since I used to be an occasional volunteer at a free clinic, there was exactly ZERO interest by self in participating (well, maybe some hemp now and then!). The kids coming into the clinic at any time were in there for 2 primary reasons, clap of various kinds and bad trips. Lord have mercy was that place filled with trippers during the protests!
The vast majority of the 'nam protestors were young folk with far more objection to the draft than the war. It appears the "vast" (vast doesn't seem to fit) majority of this batch, well, you've seen the pics. Guess the penicillin didn't work way back then! It seems even al Zark was offended! That linky goes to Iowahawk's latest keyboard-dampener.
I found a couple of good shots from the 2003 SF dems here and here. You may feel a need to go take a bath after.
If you have a high-speed connection, a local talk show host made a couple of home videos of the "protest" in Ocala last weekend. The first link is 42 MB and 5 minutes, the second is 182 MB and 22 minutes.
Peace Rally in Ocala
Last for the moment is Pat Santy's post about the antiwar protestors that is highly worth taking time to read.
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Time to get back to my hateful task of editing and migrating 114 pages of fractured HTML from one dicked-up host to another that seems to be marginally better.
