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Battle of New York Update: Blackshirts Vandalize Golf Course |
2004-08-28 |
PROTESTS TAKE A NASTY SWING IN BX. By PERRY CHIARAMONTE and JOE McGURK Vandals hacked up fairways and spray-painted political slogans on a city golf course in The Bronx early yesterday, as protesters geared up for an anti-GOP protest march tomorrow past the Republican convention site. The graffiti which included the slogans "Stop the War!" and "Politics Isn't Business" was discovered at Van Cortlandt Golf Course and on nearby lawns and tunnels, parks officials said. Van Cortland is one of the oldest public golf courses in the US and was the setting for a classic Three Stooges episode in the 30s. "There was extensive damage to holes 15 through 18," said Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe. Holes damaged by 'holes, how appropriate. Members of United for Peace and Justice which was denied a permit for a giant rally in Central Park were planning for a 250,000-strong march tomorrow to begin at noon on 14th Street and Seventh Avenue. Gotta do the conversion: 250,000 in post-modern hippy notation....hmmm....er, that's about.....lessee....35,000 in old-fashiioned Eurocentric oppressor notation. The group urges protesters to "disperse peacefully at Union Square, and then make your own way to the Great Lawn." A steady drumbeat of other protests was under way yesterday. In Central Park, 50 protesters dressed in garbage bags representing the body bags of U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq laid down on the Great Lawn to spell the word "NO." I've advocated putting protestors in garbage bags for years. Earlier, hundreds of Bush-bashing mommies many of them with children marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. "War is harmful to children and terrorists and other living things." A dozen members of the women's group Code Pink crowded into the Midtown South precinct yesterday with a banner saying "Women for peace." A cop described the protest as pleasant and non-confrontational. Bitches for burqas. |
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
#12 Striking a blow against THE MAN! I've always said it was those evil public courses that are to blame for all the world's problems. |
Posted by: tu3031 2004-08-28 7:58:20 PM |
#11 Re: Great Lawn: remember to adjust sprinkler timers. |
Posted by: mojo 2004-08-28 7:54:40 PM |
#10 its a secret but i've buried two faithful dawgs on bent par 5s |
Posted by: Half 2004-08-28 5:50:45 PM |
#9 so they vandalized a public golf course where the everyday joe can afford to play a round or two? nice. |
Posted by: spiffo 2004-08-28 12:57:53 PM |
#8 Why can't Dave Matthews' bus drive over these asswipes (so to speak)? |
Posted by: Raj 2004-08-28 12:04:16 PM |
#7 Very Funny Big Ed |
Posted by: ne1469 2004-08-28 10:15:41 AM |
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Posted by: BigEd 2004-08-28 8:52:24 AM |
#5 When you're posting the link, make sure it's the full URL, e.g. "HTTP://www.stuff.com/news/article.html". If you don't post it as a full path or include the HTML, then the link will be interpreted by everyone's browsers to be a sub-path of Rantburg, e.g. "www.stuff.com/news/article.html" will look something like "HTTP://www.rantburg.com/www.stuff.com/news/article.html". Ensure the "HTTP://" is in there to show the full path, or it will be interpreted as a relative path. |
Posted by: Dar 2004-08-28 8:24:45 AM |
#4 I blame Ashkkkroft (/sarcasm) |
Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-28 7:30:12 AM |
#3 I gave up trying to submit links like that. They get trashed everytime I have tried. I don't even submit them. www.rantburg.com is appended to them some how along with % and the number 22. Must be some Visual Basic thing. I don't know VB. Well this is par for the course, no pun intended. I wonder how many regular old democrat duffers have been deprived of their usual game on account of this anarco clowns. |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-28 7:16:00 AM |
#2 No idea. Normally, iirc, the source appears at the bottom left if it is not converted to a url, but this one converted itself to a (non-workable) link on the title bar. |
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-28 6:59:37 AM |
#1 What's the deal with the weird link on the title? |
Posted by: gromky 2004-08-28 6:49:34 AM |