Here comes Bush.

Griff · 08-16-2004, 07:25 PM

Now we've all got a ticket!

xoxoxoBruce · 08-16-2004, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Now we've all got a ticket!

Yeah but it won't do you any good, because the address is wrong.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-18-2004, 02:54 PM

After the dogs discovered two guys had firecrackers in their toolboxes, the plant was declared safe.
5000 employees @ 3 tickets each plus a bunch of local, politically connected people, should be between 15k and 16k. Boeing says around 7800 but the guards tell me closer to 6000, showed up.
Among the conspicuously absent was Boeing's CEO.
Well, at least Bush hires the handicapped. All the young fellows with him wear hearing aids.

cowhead · 08-20-2004, 11:26 AM

I was wondering something, when bush spoke in Topeka... they made people who were showing up sign 'loyalty' oaths (or something to that effect) to promise not to cause trouble during the 'festivities' I was wondering if you had to or anything like it? (the people I mention are more in the die-hard repub camp.. and were a bit taken aback by this)

xoxoxoBruce · 08-20-2004, 03:19 PM

Cowhead, any employee doing anything "political" (at a campaign speech????) could be fired, per Boeing policy. I could be fired for wearing a campaign button on Monday, although they would probably just tell me to get rid of it or go home. Everyone else was screened pretty closely but I don't know if they had to sign anything. I felt it was best for me just to avoid the situation.

I haven't made up my mind yet, and probably won't until the election, but I dislike being forced into anything and this was definately a love him or leave rally.

LabRat · 09-03-2004, 12:40 PM

Well Brucie, the big man is coming to my neck of the woods, so it's my turn to whine about what a pain it's going to be to get home from work today.

http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art...391&cat_id=123 I was surprised that the road going around the park wasn't already closed this morning when i went by at 6:30. Needless to say I'll be taking the LONG way home tonight, like 20 miles out of my way to totally bypass this area of town.

cowhead · 09-03-2004, 12:57 PM

thanks Bruce... I was just curious about the whole thing..

Bushy won't come with in a stones throw of here.. well okay he went to Topeka.. but that's not saying much ( I live 20 some miles from there and I wouldn't go there unless you paid me.. ). although I was suprised (pleasantly) that Edwards came back here after the Kerry/Edwards train blew past us in the night, although of course I had to work the next day so I missed out on all the hoopla, but one thing about that, there was little police/Secret Service presence there, mayhap no one in my little town wants to ice the guy.. and I really ought to go off on limbaughs little remarks, although it doesn't seem really worth it.

and as a side note if Kerry had stopped here in Lawrence he would have been the first contender since Johnson to stop here in our little 'liberal' oasis here..

08-16-2004, 07:25 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Now we've all got a ticket! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-18-2004, 02:54 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The morning after After the dogs discovered two guys had firecrackers in their toolboxes, the plant was declared safe. 5000 employees @ 3 tickets each plus a bunch of local, politically connected people, should be between 15k and 16k. Boeing says around 7800 but the guards tell me closer to 6000, showed up. Among the conspicuously absent was Boeing's CEO. Well, at least Bush hires the handicapped. All the young fellows with him wear hearing aids. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. Last edited by xoxoxoBruce; 04-07-2007 at 06:00 PM.

08-20-2004, 11:26 AM	#4
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	I was wondering something, when bush spoke in Topeka... they made people who were showing up sign 'loyalty' oaths (or something to that effect) to promise not to cause trouble during the 'festivities' I was wondering if you had to or anything like it? (the people I mention are more in the die-hard repub camp.. and were a bit taken aback by this) __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

08-20-2004, 03:19 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Cowhead, any employee doing anything "political" (at a campaign speech????) could be fired, per Boeing policy. I could be fired for wearing a campaign button on Monday, although they would probably just tell me to get rid of it or go home. Everyone else was screened pretty closely but I don't know if they had to sign anything. I felt it was best for me just to avoid the situation. I haven't made up my mind yet, and probably won't until the election, but I dislike being forced into anything and this was definately a love him or leave rally. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-03-2004, 12:40 PM	#6
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	Well Brucie, the big man is coming to my neck of the woods, so it's my turn to whine about what a pain it's going to be to get home from work today. http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art...391&cat_id=123 I was surprised that the road going around the park wasn't already closed this morning when i went by at 6:30. Needless to say I'll be taking the LONG way home tonight, like 20 miles out of my way to totally bypass this area of town. __________________ Strength does not come from how much weight you can lift, or how many miles you can run. It comes from knowing that you set a goal, and rose to the challenge. Strength comes from within.

09-03-2004, 12:57 PM	#7
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	thanks Bruce... I was just curious about the whole thing.. Bushy won't come with in a stones throw of here.. well okay he went to Topeka.. but that's not saying much ( I live 20 some miles from there and I wouldn't go there unless you paid me.. ). although I was suprised (pleasantly) that Edwards came back here after the Kerry/Edwards train blew past us in the night, although of course I had to work the next day so I missed out on all the hoopla, but one thing about that, there was little police/Secret Service presence there, mayhap no one in my little town wants to ice the guy.. and I really ought to go off on limbaughs little remarks, although it doesn't seem really worth it. and as a side note if Kerry had stopped here in Lawrence he would have been the first contender since Johnson to stop here in our little 'liberal' oasis here.. __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

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