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20th, 2005 |
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6:38pm
sugar induced coma
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5:23pm
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4:50pm
funny how the news differs so greatly
here:
http://dc.indymedia.org/
than on CNN.
here is some of it:
The Razorwire: breaking news
3:45 Coffins carried by protestors are burning;
3:44 At least 30 riot-police at 14th
and Pennsylvania; stand-off between
police and protestors; whole area is filled with pepper-spray and tear-gas;
16
mainstream journalists observed getting sprayed by police with pepper-spray;
3:38 Police now sending reenforcements to 15th and H street;
3:33 Police reporting that one of
two officers injured at 14th and
Pennsylvania has a broken arm;
3:32 Protesters are pushing through gates at 13th and Pennsylvania;
3:31 Two women arrested at 13th and Pennsylvania;
3:20 Police snipers appearing on rooftops around 14th and Pennsylvania;
3:20 Two officers reported injured
at 14th and Pennsylvania; mainstream
journalists being hit and pepper-sprayed by police;
3:18 Pepper spray and tear-gas directed
at protestors at 15th and
Pennsylvania; at least 50 injured protestors; reports from police of "chest
pains" in protestor; mainstream media journalists being hit with pepper
spray;
reports of bleeding from injured protestors;
3:18 Three sections of fence on inaugural
parade route now broken down by
protestors; fence blocking off parade route has collapsed; protestors battling
police in streets; police still responding with pepper spray and tear gas;
3:15PM: Much of the first 3 blocks
of Pennsylvania has a significant
anti-Bush presence, hard to pick pro-bush demonstrators out of some segments.
3:14 Presidential motorcade slowed down at request of police;
3:13 Police send a request to the
Bush motorcade to slow down the motorcade
at 5th and Pennsylvania, as major street battle rages between protestors and
police at 14th and Pennsylvania;
3:13 Tear-gas being used in street
battle between protestors and police;
3:12 Bush motorcade is speeded up to get beyond the protestors on parade
route;
3:11 Bush motorcade passes massive grouping of protestors on parade route;
"Fuck Bush!" can be heard live on CNN as protestors out-shout Bush
supporters;
3:05PM: Spot in the fense near 14
and Penn, near Willard Hotel, where
they've rattled the fense, gotten it knocked over or bent over twice, MPD
pepper
spray. Extra police are being deployed to this area.
2:57PM: Unconfirmed reports of 4 arrests at 8th and D NW
2:56PM: Pepper sprayed anarchists at 11th and E NW
2:52PM: Protesters at 14th and Penn
have been "contained" -- surrounded by
the police, according to one call.
2:50PM: Some anarchists at 14th and
Penn are trying to pull-down barricades,
break through check-points. Check-points are being closed-down by the police.
Protests at 16th and H going well. (20 people laying on ground)
2:33PM: Flags being burned at 14th
and Penn. Some callers report there has
been a fight of some sort between anarchists burning a flag and a Bush-supporter
trying to take the flag from them.
1:50PM: Possible splinter group heading
from D & 7 to Capitol area. Riot
police lining the streets at Penn & 14th and maybe 1,000 anti-bush
protesters in the area there.
1:45PM: Police car at Counter-Inaugural
space has left, what appears to be a
plainclothes cop is still hanging out by the front access.
1:43PM: "Gas" at 7th and D NW being passed out [to police], say some.
etc etc...
rumours of trains shut down according to blackmoth
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i also think it's disgusting
that they spent 40 million on this event (NOT counting security costs)
info here:
Inauguration:
Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartless
A look at this week's festivities by the numbers:
$40 million: Cost of Bush inaugural ball festivities, not counting security costs.
$2,000: Amount FDR spent on the inaugural in 1945…about $20,000 in today's dollars.
$20,000: Cost of yellow roses purchased for inaugural festivities by D.C.'s Ritz Carlton.
200: Number of Humvees outfitted with top-of-the-line armor for troops in Iraq that could have been purchased with the amount of money blown on the inauguration.
$10,000: Price of an inaugural package at the Fairmont Hotel, which includes a Beluga caviar and Dom Perignon reception, a chauffeured Rolls Royce and two actors posing as "faux" Secret Service agents, complete with black sunglasses and cufflink walkie-talkies.
400: Pounds of lobster provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the exclusive Mandarin Oriental hotel.
3,000: Number of "Laura Bush Cowboy cookies" provided for "inaugural feeding frenzy" at the Mandarin hotel.
$1: Amount per guest President Carter spent on snacks for guests at his inaugural parties. To stick to a tight budget, he served pretzels, peanuts, crackers and cheese and had cash bars.
22 million: Number of children in regions devastated by the tsunami who could have received vaccinations and preventive health care with the amount of money spent on the inauguration.
1,160,000: Number of girls who could be sent to school for a year in Afghanistan with the amount of money lavished on the inauguration.
$15,000: The down payment to rent a fur coat paid by one gala attendee who didn't want the hassle of schlepping her own through the airport.
$200,500: Price of a room package at D.C.'s Mandarin Oriental, including presidential suite, chauffeured Mercedes limo and outfits from Neiman Marcus.
2,500: Number of U.S. troops used to stand guard as President Bush takes his oath of office
26,000: Number of Kevlar vests for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that could be purchased for $40 million.
$290: Bonus that could go to each American solider serving in Iraq, if inauguration funds were used for that purpose.
$6.3 million: Amount contributed by the finance and investment industry, which works out to be 25 percent of all the money collected.
$17 million: Amount of money the White House is forcing the cash-strapped city of Washington, D.C., to pony up for inauguration security.
9: Percentage of D.C. residents who voted for Bush in 2004.
66: Percentage of Americans who think this over-the-top inauguration should have been scaled back.
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more:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_dubya.html
links/headlines for January 20, 2005
UPDATE: DC protests turn violent!
DC Protests: BBC news 24 tv shows cops pepper spraying people
PHOTOS FROM DC PROTESTS!
Homeless Mostly Invisible as Washington Celebrates
Inauguration: Lifestyles of the Rich and Heartless
InaugBlog
The protesters in DC
Protesters Target Bush's Inauguration
It's no time to throw a party like this
World fears new Bush era
4:02pm
kate bush to release a NEW cd in 2005!
i'm listening to the rest of the tori songs.
3:39pm
still catching up on stuff. lots
of email, anacam biz, some cleaning, some phone calling.
now more cleaning, then maybe a bath and eat something.
and then tackle the pluckyfluff hat which is stumping me a bit, but i'll work
it out.
it's hard for me to work with only a specific amount of yarn..no more and
no less.
i'm used to just working on things how i work on them and letting them grow
and be what they want...and then if i need to add more yarn , i do.
but this one, i cannot add any extra yarn to, and it's not really enough yarn
to make the hats i usually make.
so i'm having a difficult time in making it be a unique shape, yet still have
enough yarn to do that.
and i'm not sure i am liking it so far, and that is stressing me. and so i
am just really thinking hard on how to make this puzzle work.
i'll figure it out...but it's taking me a bit loonger than i thought it would
because of these complications.
i forgot today was inauguration day.
i tried to block that out.
last night on nightline they poo-pooed any "conspiracy theories"
that the election was stolen again. having a good old laugh about it and all
us silly "diehards" and "conspiracy theorists".
whatever.
just because you laugh at us on tv doesn't make us wrong.
we know what's up and you won't silence us forever.
like the saying goes, "you can fool some of the people some of the time
but you can't fool all the people all of the time".
someday your jig will be up and your karma is gonna come smacking down on
you HARD. just a question of when.
2:35pm
i'm trying to get caught up on things
today.
and best buy called and my camcorder is back from repair.
i hope this is time it is actually truly fixed.
and when i get it, i really wish i could say ana2 is NOW going to have a cam2,
but when i go get the cam, i have to bring the one i am currently using to
get fixed too, now, because the viewfinder on it has gone very very dark.
at least it doesn't show up in the cam pictures....but if i want to look into
the viewfinder to frame a shot or tell what i am even
shooting at, i can't even see anything, which makes it difficult to make cool
photos if i am using the viewfinder to make them...which 75% of the time,
i am.
they just don't make camcorders like they used to.
1:28pm
1:07pm
mouseovers:
11:42am
my radio station back on!
i cancelled my radio station MONTHS ago at live365,
but i saw i still had a book mark for it and clicked on the bookmark just
because i wanted to go to live365 but was too lazy to type it in, and lo and
behold my station is back up and running!
http://www.live365.com/stations/anavoog
WTF???
i KNOW i cancelled it. i know that
i received an email from them that said i did cancel it. and i know that it
WAS gone when you went to that URL!
so WHY is it back up and i better not be still being paying for this!!!
i don't think i saved the cancellation email, just because this was MONTHS
ago and didn't think i needed to. but maybe i did...i will check.
weird, well, i just checked my bank
statements and i'm NOT being billed for this so....
heck...there you go...my radio station up for free on live365.
go listen until they figure out their mistake , i guess!
+++
amazingly beautiful stuff!
http://www.gianfrancomeza.com/
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http://www.mytwindressforms.com/
this is what i neeeeeeeeeeeed!
someday when i have the $ to buy 2 of these (one dress form, one pantsform)
and the $ to fly to ventura, california so they can make a cast of my body
i am SO THERE.
goshdarnit. i need one of these so much!
and no, i really time have the energy to make one myself and track down all
the ingredients myself and then make one as perfectly and as nice looking
as the ones one this site. oh wait, cool, they have kits that have all the
ingredients in them (except the foam). argh, i just know i wouldn't do a very
good job in making one, tho, and i want mine to be perfectly done.
but if anyone knows who makes custom dress forms that are nearer to me (minnesota)
let me know, please :)