After a speech last night at the University of Colorado, former Attorney General John Ashcroft took questions from an audience of skeptical students, professors and several war protesters. The first question, Think Progress recalls, came from a woman who asked if Ashcroft would be willing to be subjected to waterboarding. “The things that I can survive, if it were necessary to do them to me, I would do,” Ashcroft is quoted as replying.
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Several Tenleytown NIMBYs are taking to the Web to indicate that they don’t want anyone moving near their Metro stop and don’t want any improvements made to their neighborhood.
“Tenleyites are fighting for something real and important,” one blog commenter said in a recent post about the development of a school in the neighborhood. “They have a community that is anchored and integrated by public institutions. They don’t want to be Friendship Heights, where commerce is king. More power to them!”
But not everyone is convinced that the progress would be such a bad thing: “Tenleytown NIMBYs annoy me,” another commenter said. “They need to wake up and realize they live along the major corridor between Georgetown and Bethesda…not in some sleepy suburban hamlet.”
Meanwhile, amidst the debate, there have long been rumors that an entire section of Tenleytown is secretly slated for demolition to make way for a Wal-Mart.
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War protester - and professor! - Desiree Farooz tried to seduce Condoleezza Rice with bloody red hands on Capitol Hill today. But that’s no way to get in her pants.
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A new guerrilla group based in Washington, D.C. wants “all the chumps, douche-bags, yuppies, and stripey-shirt imported assholes of this town” to know that kickball is for players, not posers.
The “Anti Yuppie Kickball Guerilla Front” advocates “all ridiculous direct action and pranks pursuant to the collapse of kickball for young professionals in the greater Washington, DC area,” claiming they have sat idle for too long.
“Already they make life in our great capital barely tolerable and now through solidarity their ham-headed presence is flaunted like a fish smack to the face during any afternoon stroll,” according to the group’s Web site. “Like a sickening monochrome slime these homogenized social stamp-outs will spread influence through the Capital region until life here is indistinguishable from living inside a frat-house wrapped in Old Navy clothing all tucked inside a giant Walmart.”
Already their “agents move unseen through cursed kickball leagues and our actions are the stuff of hushed whispers, nightmares.. and hopes” They claim: “Our numbers are vast. Our skills infinite. Our power cannot be contained.”
Douche-y kickballers, you have been warned.
Will Loretta Sanchez get one of her sparkly suits dirty? Will David Vitter find another Wendy to love during the rally? Will Debbie Stabenow be forced to stop eating?
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School teacher Deborah Mayer says her world has been “devastated” by four words she uttered in an Indiana classroom four years ago: “I honk for peace.” Read more…
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reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalink“When a SWAT guy and the horse went after my daughter and assaulted her, she started screaming,” Tina Richards, an activist with Grassroots America whose son returned from Iraq suicidal, told Big Head DC soon after her recent run-in with the Capitol police.
“I put my head out the window to yell at them to leave my daughter alone and they closed the window on my head,” she recalled. “I told the transport officer of the injury, but she said, ‘I’m sure you’d like people to believe that.’” Read more…
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., president of the Hip Hop Caucus, was attacked by six capitol police today, when he was stopped from entering the Cannon Caucus Room on Capitol Hill, where Gen. David Petraeus gave testimony today to a joint hearing for the House Arms Services Committee and Foreign Relations Committee on the war in Iraq.
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reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalinkWatch riveting footage (beginning at the 4:50 mark of this video) of Tina Richards, an activist with Grassroots America who opposes the war, being arrested after defying a federal government ban on posting promotional material for a September 15 planned anti-war rally in Washington.
Related: The “Idiot Liberal” Behind Rep. Obey’s Meltdown
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reddit | facebook | del.icio.us | stumble | permalinkFriday September 7th, 2007 4:02 PM by BHDC Staff
Filed under: Naked, Government, Karl Rove, Protests
Filed under: Naked, Government, Karl Rove, Protests
So! Australians can moon President Bush all they want, and their government doesn’t arrest them, send them to jail, and force them to pay ridiculous fines!? In fact, government officials there instead would celebrate such an effort and encourage a “world record mooning attempt“?
Hmm. Joel Gardner , DC’s most famous Karl Rove mooner, had definitely better consider moving to Australia. And, girls, you’ve gotta wonder if his luscious butt would look just as nice down under.
