HAIGHT SPEECH

To the Santa Clara County Sheriff and the Santa Clara Police Department,

Dear Sirs:

THANKS A LOT FOR WARNING US THAT THE ENTIRE FREAKIN’ BLOCK AROUND MY BUILDING WAS GOING TO BE CLOSED BY THE POLICE THIS MORNING, AND FOR CLOSING THE FREAKIN’ ROAD I DRIVE DOWN TO GET TO WORK.

/sarcasm

Apparently Bush is speaking this morning in the Santa Clara Convention Center, which is in the same lot as the building where I work, and right next to it. I had to solve a puzzle to figure out how to get into the building today.

Ok, the police horses are cool.

BUT IT’S ONLY BECAUSE I LIKE BUSH THAT I PUT UP WITH THIS!!!

UPDATE: About 60 protesters have set up shop on the other side of the street. I can’t make out what their signs say from here (5th floor), but my coworker says they are shouting “Bush, Bush Go Away!”

So of course the police have closed the road, screwing up traffic even more. Dude, there are police in our parking garage.

Good thing I can walk to lunch.

UPDATE 2:00pm: Note to self – when you leave the building to go to lunch, make sure to ask if the police will let you back in.

So I hung out on the corner for an hour with the anti-Bush protesters, and a few pro-Bush folks. They gave me a Bush/Cheney ‘04 bumper sticker. Cool.

One woman was holding a sign that read “2.3 million jobs lost under Bush, time 4 a change”. I read the sign aloud and then commented, “including you apparently”. She said no, she had a job, but her son, brother, etc. did not. I said, “Why is that Bush’s fault?” She replied, “I don’t want to argue with you. I’m happy protesting like this.”

Spoken like someone without a real argument. But I was genuinely curious, which is why I asked.

My favorite protester was the guy in the black aloha shirt with marijuana leaves all over it. His sign read, “Medical Marijuana Is Not Terrorism”. Now that I can support.

And there was a guy there proudly displaying one of these flags, which you can buy from Adbusters:

The guy holding this flag commented, “I’m kinda sorry to see Apple on there, as a dedicated Mac user myself.” So corporations are okay, as long as they have a hip, progressive image and you happen to personally like their products? Just another hypocrite.

Personally what I find amusing about this flag is the presence of both the Windows logo and the Internet Explorer logo, which are both Microsoft products. I guess Microsoft is doubly evil so they had to put it on there twice.

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