Police authorities in Maryland and Virginia reported no major incidents Friday as a result of the much-talked about truckers protest around the Beltway. Drivers of tractor trailers had said they were going to drive slowly to block off parts of the Beltway to protest excessive government intrusion.
There were police reports of about 30 tractor trailers with American flags and signs for their protest — “Truckers Ride for the Constitution” — driving at the same speed as the rest of traffic on the Beltway in Friday morning’s rush hour. But by mid-day the truckers appeared to have broken into smaller groups amid already-heavy volumes of traffic and rain showers on a holiday weekend.
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Given there are roughly 200,000 to 250,000 vehicles daily on the Beltway — with roughly 10 percent of them being tractor trailers, the protestor group was going to have to do a lot to stand out, according to David Buck, a spokesman for the Maryland State Highway Administration.
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Guess who else showed up to protest the Government shutdown?
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This is bad.
U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world
By Xinhua writer Liu Chang
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You have no idea how pissed I am about that little publicity stunt of Palin and Cruz. My Grandpa (a WWII vet) helped work on that memorial and they treated it in that manner! They completely disrespected him and the others who dedicated time to create that memorial.
Walmart workers phoned their corporate headquarters to ask how they should handle all the shoppers with unlimited, government-funded spending limits, and were told to keep the registers ringing.
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You have no idea how pissed I am about that little publicity stunt of Palin and Cruz. My Grandpa (a WWII vet) helped work on that memorial and they treated it in that manner! They completely disrespected him and the others who dedicated time to create that memorial.![]()
I was just agog at what happened yesterday. Imagine for a moment -- just one moment if that was US under the previous administration. Imagine for one minute of that Happened in August on the 50th anniversary of the MLK march.
I was disgusted.
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Hi all.
I did trade some messages with Mondo over the weekend.
He is not dead; he's merely resting.
His plumage is also quite remarkable.
Quote by Raine:Well deserved rest, indeed.Quote by TriSec:
Hi all.
I did trade some messages with Mondo over the weekend.
He is not dead; he's merely resting.
His plumage is also quite remarkable.
According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange, Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as “leverage†for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a “conscience clause†— allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds — and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
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House Republicans have found a new hostage to take in the fight to prevent a government shutdown: contraception.
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Hi all.
I did trade some messages with Mondo over the weekend.
He is not dead; he's merely resting.
His plumage is also quite remarkable.
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:Grunt:
I came in contact with water that Florida Dept of Health says has flesh eat bacteria in it over the weekend. I still have all four limbs. Dear Florida that acronym for the Health Department needs to be changed. DOH does not inspire confidence.
I just went through something called "consent to call" training. New FCC regs about calling cell phones with auto dialers. Thanks Obama!
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The USA is #1!!! At what, I often wonder.
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Certainly not basic life skills
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The USA is #1!!! At what, I often wonder.
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Certainly not basic life skills
Not only did Americans score poorly compared to many international competitors, the findings reinforced just how large the gap is between the nation’s high- and low-skilled workers and how hard it is to move ahead when your parents haven’t.
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:Grunt:
I came in contact with water that Florida Dept of Health says has flesh eat bacteria in it over the weekend. I still have all four limbs. Dear Florida that acronym for the Health Department needs to be changed. DOH does not inspire confidence.
I just went through something called "consent to call" training. New FCC regs about calling cell phones with auto dialers. Thanks Obama!![]()
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:Grunt:
I came in contact with water that Florida Dept of Health says has flesh eat bacteria in it over the weekend. I still have all four limbs. Dear Florida that acronym for the Health Department needs to be changed. DOH does not inspire confidence.
I just went through something called "consent to call" training. New FCC regs about calling cell phones with auto dialers. Thanks Obama!
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The USA is #1!!! At what, I often wonder.
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Certainly not basic life skills
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Speaking as we were about the teabaggers protests, there is a meme making the rounds of conservatives in which they discuss how shameful it is there are "riot police" abusing WW II vets. Problem is the "riot police" are wearing bike helmets. That's because they are bike cops you morons!
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Mala, Scoop did you get your zombie on last night?
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Mala, Scoop did you get your zombie on last night?
I have recorded but caught Talking Dead after, they had Nathan Fillon on (swoon) so I kind of caught the gist of a new threat. Can't wait to watch later!
Quote by Raine:Asshats would crap their pants if they ever saw riot police.Quote by Mondobubba:
Speaking as we were about the teabaggers protests, there is a meme making the rounds of conservatives in which they discuss how shameful it is there are "riot police" abusing WW II vets. Problem is the "riot police" are wearing bike helmets. That's because they are bike cops you morons!
I actaully would have been fine if Riot police had shown up and take care of those assholes who attacked the bike cops in front of the white house.
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Regarding our trucker's "protest"...
Northern-tier bloggers will be familiar with a winter traffic phenomena known as the "Conga Line". Sounds like one of those would have been more disruptive than the few extra trucks out on the Beltway this weekend.
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Mala, Scoop did you get your zombie on last night?
I have recorded but caught Talking Dead after, they had Nathan Fillon on (swoon) so I kind of caught the gist of a new threat. Can't wait to watch later!I wish I didn't hate zombies and vampires so much.
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BTW:Nice to see you Mondo!
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BTW, Tri -- your post on saturday was brilliant. Absophuckin-brilliant.
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Regarding our trucker's "protest"...
Northern-tier bloggers will be familiar with a winter traffic phenomena known as the "Conga Line". Sounds like one of those would have been more disruptive than the few extra trucks out on the Beltway this weekend.
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The U.S. National Park police are working on a skeleton crew, trying to prevent vandalism and theft. They need our respect and should not be called riot police.
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So Raine, am I to take it that you too are under the spell of one Nathan Fillion?
Quote by Raine:I was under his spell when he played Vicky's son on One life to Live about a billion years ago. (I was a OLTL fan girl)Quote by wickedpam:
So Raine, am I to take it that you too are under the spell of one Nathan Fillion?
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He played Joey Buchanan. I was sold... and yes this is Soap opera nerdness: