Your link doesn’t seem to work. I would also like a reliable cite that the numbers of prostitutes imported for Republican conventions exceeds that of Democratic ones. A reliable cite, please.
Regards,
Shodan
Me too. Straight prostitutes, that is.
I would. I drink so heavily that my urine is an accelerant.
Ridiculous! We have plenty of prostitutes in the Twin Cities area for the Republican Convention, there is no need to import any!
And more are needed for Republican Conventions than Democratic ones, because we Democrats are hedonistic, hippie, america-hating sluts, so we just hop in bed with each other, rather than hiring prostitutes. 
Some friends and I were coming home from an evening out many years ago, and we were coming down Hennepin Avenue. My friend looked out the window at the ladies of easy virtue plying their trade, and sighed, “Minneapolis, Minnesota. The only city in American where the hookers wear galoshes.”
Regards,
Shodan
Yes, it is. But it has happened many times under this administration. I’m sure people will be along with cites of examples.
These people are almost never convicted, just arrested, hauled away, forced to spend money on bail & lawyers, only to have the charges dropped eventually.
No, the Convention is in St. Paul, not Minneapolis.
There is actually a joint task force, including the Secret Service, FBI, Minneapolis & St. Paul police, etc. for security, and they have been holding planning sessions. The Secret Service seems to be the one in charge.
That has raised concerns with some of our City Council members. From past events, the pattern is that the Secret Service decides that some demonstrator is ‘threatening’, so they instruct the local police to arrest them. Then months later, the prosecutor decides to drop the charges, or they are tossed out in court. Then the arrested person files a claim for false arrest – against the city of Minneapolis (or St. Paul)!
Mostly these are settled without going to court, with the city paying for their legal cost and some monetary settlement. But this is all coming from our local city property taxes. The Secret Serviceman who ordered the false arrest in the first place is long gone from town, and the Secret Service doesn’t bear any cost for his misjudgement.
Frankly, neither of the Twin Cities (nor our State government, for that matter) can afford to pay for a lot of false arrest lawsuits right now.
Yeah, well some of them are originally from Iowa. They didn’t quite understand when they were told to always wear rubbers for safe sex.
I personally think he got off light. He should’ve been pelted with rotten eggs and bags of flaming shit. He didn’t get boo’d loud enough for me.
No. He can be booed when he makes some idiot claim or new policy pronouncement, but at the “first pitch”? :dubious: Even I think that’s going too far. And, I have stated here that GWB is the worst prez in recent memory. And, I state that again for the record.
Obviously her CAN be bood at the first pitch. And I agree with ** Diggleblop** about the rotten eggs and shit.
I was talking to my daughter’s boyfriend last night. He was at the game. He said it was an overwhelmingly loud and clearly negative.
I think it was long overdue. I too am surprised he agreed to do it, but he does like baseball.
An office or a position only deserves the respect that whomever holds it can generate.
I was shocked when (Big) George Bush was booed at the All Star game in San Diego(!), back in 1992. They seemed to know it would happen though and tried to trick the crowd by announcing Ted Williams … and his good friend George Bush. Didn’t work though. He got booed louder and longer than GWB just did, and for far less reason. That’s when I knew he had no chance at reelection.
I don’t think it’s right to boo the President like that, but if I had been at the Nationals’ game, I would have been sorely tempted.
That’s where I draw the line. Respect the field, respect the game. To hell with Bush. 
As we’ve pointed out, dissenters aren’t permitted to get within earshot when he makes “some idiot claim or new policy pronouncement.” He sometimes gets heckled in other nations. Dripping with irony, he chuckles, “I love free speech.”
I think booing a president at an opening game is pretty harmless. I would be disturbed, given his approval ratings, if people didn’t boo him.
I’m a Brit,but this is my viewpoint on the issue,as an elected politician in an non international role its O.K. to boo your representative.
If there were international diplomats there then I think you shouldn’t,its disrespect to the U.S.
If it was abroad then you shouldn’t for the same reasons.
If I disapproved of my P.M. I would Boo him ,but not in front of foreigners.
If anyone Booed the Queen under any circumstances at home or abroad whether Brits or foreigners then I would give them a F***ing good kicking regardless of the consequencies to myself .
I think most Brits would do the same but I suspect that we’ll get all the resident Brit Republicans and Anarchists telling us how they’d quite happly execute the whole of the R.F.
But thats my opinion.
Did anyone watch the video?
All I hear is cheering.
Hush, now, don’t confuse them with the facts.
I regret to advise you that your daughter is dating a terrorist. At the very least, a liar of gargantuan proportions.
Carol said it, I believe it, and that settles it.
The video? Check out the 0:37mark for the commencement of the feedback.
Mayhap thou hast found the wrong video, mon capitan.
Only cheering, indeed.
ETA: Sorry to undercut you, 'luci.