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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 07:12 PM
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will be in DC/NY April 24-30 with 8th graders...What is typical weather? any cool happenings?
a great protest on the capital steps would be an awesome lesson in civics...
gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 07:44 PM
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2. 8th Graders? I'd be asking where the best bars are located.
Have fun!
Somehow one suspects the plagiarizing greedy thorn primitive won't need to ask where the best bars are located; like the Bostonian Drunkard, the plagiarizing greedy thorn primitive probably knows without asking.
leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 07:53 PM
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3. Light jackets, comfortable shoes and prepare for lots of walking.
in search of sanity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 07:59 PM
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4. Don't forget umbrellas or jackets with hoods.
greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 08:01 PM
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5. rain?
uggggggg
so not really short weather yet right?
It doesn't take much vocabularial analysis to see the plagiarizing greedy thorn primitive's been drinking while posting.
n search of sanity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Mar-27-08 08:45 PM
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6. Shorts?
No. It's still just spring, not yet summer.
Okay, now franksolich has a funny, concerning lessons in civics and protest.
I was in Kiev, Ukraine, in early May 1995, when the Impeached One and Messalina Agrippina paid a call there, on their way back home from visiting Russia.
I wanted to give students of mine a lesson in free speech and expression.
The Impeached One and Messalina Agrippina were scheduled to motorcade down the main avenue of Kiev, and the Ukrainian government wished to give them a good time. The problem being, Ukrainians, plagued by incessant inflation and shortages and stress ubiquitous in socialist paradises of workers and peasants, just weren't that interested in American politicians.
This is a step ahead of the story, but one of my Ukrainians actually eyewitnessed a CBS cameraman offering Ukrainians packages of Marlboro cigarettes (the fake ones, made in Poland) if they would just stand together for a couple of minutes, holding up a WELCOME BILL banner so he could get a picture for Dan Rather to use.
Anyway.
The afternoon of the visit, I took the metro to the center of Kiev, with a large hand-made sign, DOLE IN '96.
Now, I can't hear, and had no idea what was going on; the metro was jampacked, just jampacked, with angry people, carrying signs of their own. The hammer-and-sickle at the time (perhaps it still is) was banned in Ukraine, and it wasn't until later I learned these thousands of other protestors were "ex"-Communists.
We all got off at the proper place, and started going up the escalators, packed like sardines.
As the front of the crowd reached the top, suddenly the Ukrainian police, secret police, and army started pushing people back, down into the bowels of the metro station. There was some, uh, violence, and many people were bloodied, and apparently a couple of hundred arrested.
Down inside the station; no one ever got out to daylight, the main avenue.
CBS news reports showed an enthusiastic, albeit very sparse, crowd of Ukrainians greeting the Impeached One and Messalina Agrippina up outside.
Anyway, as we were shoved backwards, and it was obvious the police and the army were arresting people, I thought, "Oh, my. I could just see the headlines in the
Omaha World-Herald: NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN, DOLE SUPPORTER, ARRESTED AT PRO-COMMUNIST RALLY IN UKRAINE."
