quote:Anti-Republican sentiment is rising to a fever pitch here as the dog days tick down to the dreaded affair. A poll cited by the local ABC affiliate shows 83 percent of New Yorkers don't want their city to host the RNC. And many of them are planning to do something about it.
Rejecting ex-mayor Ed Koch's call to "make nice" with the party that used the deaths of 2,801 New Yorkers--most of them Democrats--for everything from tax cuts for the rich to building concentration camps at Guant�namo and Abu Ghraib to invading Iraq to enrich Dick Cheney and his fellow Halliburton execs, some groups are encouraging liberal-minded New Yorkers to volunteer for the city's squad of official greeters. Creatively altered maps of streets and subways will be handed out to button-clad stupid white men. Other saboteurs wearing fake RNC T-shirts will direct them to parts of town where Bush's policies have hit hardest. Rumor has it that prostitutes suffering from sexually transmitted diseases will discourage the use of condoms with Republican customers.
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I'd hate to be a GOP member visiting NYC when that goes down.
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Well, they mostly lived in New York so it's a statistical liklihood.
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Has there ever been civil war between democrats and republicans in any nation? Because I think the relations between them in the US have never been worse, or have they?
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I hope you mean "liberals and conservatives". As far as I know, there aren't any other countries who use those names for political parties. Or if they do, they probably don't mean the same thing.
"Other saboteurs wearing fake RNC T-shirts will direct them to parts of town where Bush's policies have hit hardest."
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quote:Originally posted by Nim the Plentiful: Has there ever been civil war between democrats and republicans in any nation? Because I think the relations between them in the US have never been worse, or have they?
U.S. history circa 1861-1865 may have been a touch worse than now.
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Oh. I didn't know the North and South were distinctly divided into Dem/Rep in that war, I thought it was simply the states themselves who fought.
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As I recall, the South was predominantly Democratic whereas the North was a mixture.
But it wasn�t a party thing as much as it was a North South thing.
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quote:Rumor has it that prostitutes suffering from sexually transmitted diseases will discourage the use of condoms with Republican customers.
Heh. Maybe a year or so from now Congress will finally throw AIDS research a bone.
Marian
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MOre likely, the infected republicans would have to hide their disease or be shunned. After all, how could they claim to be morally superior with a fatal STD?
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As opposed to what? Morally inferior rest of the world?
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