Although I’m not sure I believe the press releases touting “thousands” of attendees at the big environmental rally outside the EPA hearings (the hearing, one of two in the nation, was to address the EPA’s recent ruling that global warming pollution is a threat to public health and welfare), what the crowd lacked in numbers it made up in giant nylon puppets:
I don’t know what the message was supposed to be (only giant sun-umbrellas will protect our lighthouses and Amtrak trains from global warming?) but it was definitely attention-getting.
As was this person dressed as a shiny (and ENDANGERED?!?) fish:
If you look carefully at that photo, you can almost make out the scraggly multi-person polar bear getup in the background—one of two polar bears in attendance. I saw a surprising number of people go up to it and apologize.
Candidates for local offices turned out in abundance, including county exec contenders Larry Phillips (who spoke onstage) and Dow Constantine (who didn’t.) At one point I ran into mayoral candidate Mike McGinn, whose supporters were gathering signatures; if they collect around 1,600, McGinn won’t have to pay his filing fee. When I asked McGinn about it later, he said it was an “experiment … We figured, let’s do a little trial effort and see if we can save a little money by collecting signatures.” (McGinn has a little less than $19,000 in the bank). He said he didn’t know how many signatures his supporters had gathered. “My job today was to meet as many voters and pose for photos with as many people holding goofy puppets as possible.”
Mission accomplished, sir. Mission accomplished.
Hey look, ECB. Nobody gives a shit.
The other polar bear in attendance would be Mr. McGinn, I presume.
why do all our mayors gotta be fat?
Nice bee.
Why? Cause we rule.
Nice fire boobs picture one!
Jesus, I actually agree with Mr. Poe on this one. That’s a scary thought.
Nobody cares about that either.
Maybe nobody cares because most of those pics are horrible and distracting.
Or maybe it’s just sunny outside and everyone wants to be elsewhere?
Why are there breasts with red and orange sperms on them? That confuses me.
I was there and estimated the crowd at about 300.
I just have to vent. I can’t fucking stand meat eaters and the way you push your immoral and unhealthy practices on others. I’m vegan, and all I want is for people to respect our choice to not eat meat, but no. Every time we go a restaurant and everyone else is eating meat, we get ostrichized. FUCK YOU lard bags, all of you are candidates for strokes and heart-attacks, sitting on your computers jerking off and getting fatter and fatter. Look at my face, make you hard nerds? Will as long as you eat meat you’ve never got a shot at touching a girl like me. And guess what? When I eat, I don’t have to commit murder to fill my belly. What is your rational? It’s okay to mutilate and eat animals cuz they are less intelligent? Would you mutilate and eat a mentally challenged person? Think of the starving people in Africa that could have been fed with the produce that was used to fatten your fat, pot-bellied cows. I hope you all rot in hell. I want you to watch this video: http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/f-kf…. If you have a shred of decency, you will see my point, but if not, when you’re touching yourself tonight thinking about a girl like me, why don’t you just do the rest of the world a favor and rip your dicks off. Jerks.
Boy, 13, you’re really a piece of work, you know that? Between your strident, self-righteous attitude and your obvious conviction that your poozle is the pot at the end of the fucking rainbow, I’ll bet you’re a real joy to be around. Frankly, darlin’, I wouldn’t fuck you if you were the last woman on Earth.
Now excuse me while I go eat some meat.