Thursday, January 22, 2009

Obamaphiles trash the National Mall

"Greenest inaugural ever" via Ed Driscoll.

8 comments:

  1. I'm sure even Galilee was a little beat after the Sermon on the Mount.
    Let's try not to sound too peevish...
    Besides, think of the cleanup jobs created! Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! (Steve) Jobs!
    Gimme mantra or gimme death.

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  2. Peevish?!? How about apalled! The trash consisted of papers, cups, used hand warmers, blankets, sleeping bags, hats, gloves and on and on. Peevish?!?!? Are you telling me that those folks couldn't put their trash in their bags or pockets? What about respect for the place? Peevish!?!? BTW, those folks in Galilee prolly didn't have hand warmers and/or paper cups and prolly were a bit more reverant. Jobs? This enormous 100 tons of trash was handled by those already employed, no one got a new job. On the 4th of July, only 17 tons of trash was removed. I don't think I need to elaborate anymore.

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  3. Really.

    The snarkiness on some of the conservative sites -- Alaska Pride, Conservatives4Palin, TeamSarah.org, and of course Townhall.com and FoxNEWS -- amazes me.

    BTW, Rush Limbaugh is certainly deeply invested in his ideology, isn't he? (and that's not intended to be snarky)

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481484,00.html

    All I'm interested in is that the country stop going in the direction it'd been going in gradually, more and more, the past 8 years (and that includes the way both the 2000 and 2004 elections were won), and that we get BETTER government.

    I think we will.

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  4. Yes, anonymous: you sound peevish. Possibly you could cite any other large gathering at all that didn't leave a huge mess?
    Consider a piece of the kind of art usually confined to things like Social Security and TARP.
    Those people are taxpayers, and this is probably the only chance they'll ever have to reflect physically upon the quality of our government...

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  5. BTW, Rush Limbaugh is certainly deeply invested in his ideology, isn't he? (and that's not intended to be snarky)

    What the frak does this even have to do with the topic of this post? I mean it bares zero relation at all to anything that is being discussed. Are all leftists classless dopes addled with ADD, or just the ones that troll this blog?

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  6. Was it disrespectful to trash the National Mall on inauguration day?
    Obama supporters threw 130,000 tons of trash on the ground. The National Mall is as close to sacred as any property in this nation gets. Porta potties were turned over, Condoms littered the ground, People threw cups all over the ground. This is a disgrace! What efforts would it take for people to carry their trash to a recycle bin or trash container? Was sexual acts in public necessary?
    People obviously mistook the inauguration as Woodstock.
    Obama's Speech mentioned picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves off but his followers and supporters can't even clean up after themselves! Is this what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years? Liberal democrats claim to be greener and more environmentally friendly and they left more trash behind than the hippies who attended Woodstock did!

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  7. Was it disrespectful to trash the National Mall on inauguration day?
    Obama supporters threw 130,000 tons of trash on the ground. The National Mall is as close to sacred as any property in this nation gets. Porta potties were turned over, Condoms littered the ground, People threw cups all over the ground. This is a disgrace! What efforts would it take for people to carry their trash to a recycle bin or trash container? Was sexual acts in public necessary?
    People obviously mistook the inauguration as Woodstock.
    Obama's Speech mentioned picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves off but his followers and supporters can't even clean up after themselves! Is this what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years? Liberal democrats claim to be greener and more environmentally friendly and they left more trash behind than the hippies who attended Woodstock did!
    3 weeks ago
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    To anyone doubting my numbers were correct it was 130,000 tons and not pounds! Read a portion of the Washington posts story here.

    "Washington trash trucks hauled away at least 130 tons of garbage after the inauguration of President Obama, with more to go. National Park Service workers picked up almost 100 tons on the Mall and near the White House. "

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  8. Today Birthday and I am absolutely appalled to see such sacred grounds looking like a cyclone has hit it. I am neith Democrat nor Republican but an
    Independment. Thier is absolutely NO EXCUSE for anybody to leave their trach for somebody else to pickup. You are either TOO LAZY or TOO IGNORANT and therfore do not know any better. No more jobs were created to police the grounds, it was the parks personnel who had to do that instead of doing their REGULAR job. Come on people (term used loosely) get a grip and do the right thing. What if we all came and dumped a ton of trash in your yard, would you not be pi---- off. Well it is better to be pi---- off than pi---- on. Grow up aznd get a life and stop depending on someone else to do your work for you.
    Chet Roi

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