Great photos here....

[Gabi Hayes]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/

this one won't let me cut and paste the URL from properties, so please click....I love this one, "The littlest protester"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/46285487/in/photostream/

scroll down to #259_5984 for the photo I'm talking about


I haven't seen a better collection of protest shots than here, not to mention his other stuff, much of which is compelling

[Carolab]

1. I love this sign.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/46286046/

God, the idiot who is holding the sign "Hippies smell" and then "eat all the hippies"...what is his PROBLEM?

If we all smell, they why would you want to EAT us?

[Gabi Hayes]

3. ha...me, too! I almost used that one in the header, but that

little kid with his tongue out......

he also has an excellent shot of the "No Iraqis left me on a roof," or whatever it said

I just found his stuff on my flickr.com page when I opened it today.

[lady lib]

5. Love it, too. ((Grin)) and ((Sigh))

eom

[Gabi Hayes]

8. he looks like a Dianne Arbus subject

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/46278087/in/set-1003962/

I guess you have to go to the slideshow and look for the specific number on these:

259_5938

eat the hippie guy

there are, what, about three "hippies" out of all the protesters?

these people are seriously demented

[Carolab]

9. They think we are all "hippies". They are so seriously stupid. n/t

[TahitiNut]

12. Hippies may smell, but he STINKS.

If he could smell, he'd smell that piece of shit in the Offal Orifice.

[ForrestGump]

15. Maybe he meant that hippes smell GOOD. As in appetizing. Especially

with fava beans and a good chianti.

Slupslepslopslepslup... (supposed to be the Hannibal Lecter lip-licking thing)

[Carolab]

17. Or, wait! He meant we have excellent olfactory skills!

So we are able to catch the "new world odor".

[Gabi Hayes]

20. new world ordure?

[Carolab]

21. LOL.

:toast:

[ForrestGump]

24. *rimshot*

:D

Now you're talking scents...

[Kurovski]

2. Very nice! thank you, and recommended.

Quite a few shots there.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. yep....this person has to be a pro

did you see his other sequences from around DC

I lived there for fifteen years, and they're giving me a serious case of homesickness

[Kurovski]

13. I haven't yet, but I do feel the same when I see pics of Chicago

So I understand that one.

There are over 3,000 photos on that site! I'm still on page 15.

I came back to see if you hit greatest yet. C'mon folks, you have to check this out!

[Straight Shooter]

6. Progressive kids are the cutest.

Thanks for sharing.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Wow! Great pics!!!!!!

[fooj]

10. Thanks for sharing these!

I voted for Kerry and all I got was this lousy Orwellian Nightmare

Loved that protest sign! The little one was a keeper, wasn't she?

Power to the people!

Peace.:patriot:

[Kurovski]

18. Hey there, fooj!

did you see the "Jail to the Thief" sign? :hi:

The hits just keep on comin' with every page of that site!

[fooj]

22. These pictures make me smile.

B-)

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Nice pics

I love the photo of the three (very hot) policemen on the fire truck smiling and they seem to be laughing at something. And I like the Kerry sign too and the Orwellian nightmare. Too true! The one of the little girl with her mother is so cute! They both look happy. :) Oo a reformed republican! Yay! There are some really great and creative signs!

[FreedomAngel82]

14. I saw some of the freeper photo's

and I love how they're all just lazing around and stuff. Very small in numbers. Ugh, they so get to me. *sigh*

[Kurovski]

16. 256_5650 is a keeper.

And I bet there're more where that came from.

as usual, some of the freeps are an unintentional vision of hilarity.

[Gabi Hayes]

19. which one is that, please?

I dunno why flickr isn't allowing direct cut/paste, not to mention links to specific photos....

also, I strongly urge everybody to just sit back and do the slideshow of today's photos

try this. you can adjust the timing of the show; stop, pause, etc.
I'm pausing now to let all know to try this. very heart-wrenching beginning, at Camp Casey/DC

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/sets/1003962/show/

[Kurovski]

27. The "Furious George" monkey. The sign reads: "Seldom in Doubt.

Always Wrong"

The protest photos end on page 27.

The crosses beneath the Washington Monument got to me.

I dunno, some of those freeps looked like undercover guys to me. I'm telling you, I got a couple in my family.

[Gabi Hayes]

28. thanks....I saw that one during the slide show

and that picture of the monument dominating the field of crosses is wrenching, as are several of the boot shots

I think I'll contact him and see if he'll allow direct links of some of these pictures.....they need to be seen as referenced

[Kurovski]

31. That's a great idea.

Some of those shots are spectacular.

The woman with her children in front of the WH, just to name one of many.

And actually seeing the word "impeach" on a sign in front of the White House at long last is a bit cathartic, to say the least.

We've been plugging away here at DU for quite some time.

[Gabi Hayes]

32. I've been here for a long time....several incarnations

I know what you mean

I started torturing myself with the "forbidden knowledge" over six years ago at Salon TableTalk, and it's been an enlightening, troubling, frustrating, exhilarating experience ever since

[Kurovski]

40. I think you're missing about 20-30 other adjectives, but brevity is

important when posting. :-)

[Gabi Hayes]

23. going through the slide show....so many excellent signs

Greedy
One
Percent



Born Republican
Age 55
Started to Think

[jmatthan]

25. And here

http://jmpolitics.blogspot.com/2005/09/baghdad-moment-washington-moments.html

[Kurovski]

42. I'm coming up with "not found", is the link off?--n/t

[jmatthan]

46. Go to

http://jmpolitics.blogspot.com

It is still the first story at this link.

[Kurovski]

49. Nice juxtaposition.

Or comparison, or whatever you call it.

I remember there was another staged "pull-down" of a Saddam statue at the same time, only Chalabi's pals and what-not couldn't be in two places at once so that photo-op had maybe 5 Iraqis present. Saw it on the TEEVEE.

Remember when the troops put up the American flag over Saddam's statue, then quickly replaced it with Iraq's? OOPS! "But we're not occupying your land, or nuthin' like that, Iraq." :eyes:

[jackster]

26. my god, do these righties have a clue?

those signs either made no sense or were just ridiculous

LAME!

If this is all they could muster, we MUST be winning!

[Kurovski]

29. Some do.

They were the ones carrying the "Republicans for accountability" and Impeach Bush signs. :-)

[Gabi Hayes]

30. lookee here...thumbnail set of all 200+pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/sets/1003962/

[Kurovski]

33. Two more votes to the greatest page, shake 'em out DU!

I'll buy you a beer after you come out of the voting booth! :toast:

(Sorry, old Chicago tradition.)

[Gabi Hayes]

34. where'd you live? I lived in Homewood til I was sixteen.....

then, Arlington Heights

lived on Sheridan Road (last block in Chi) for a year, before going back to school

[Kurovski]

37. I grew up in "the Bush", in South Chicago.

lived most of my life in Chicago. Lincoln Park for around 17 years.

I was very near where you grew up for about eight years. Still have friends on Cowing Crt.

[Gabi Hayes]

38. Ha....Cowing Court!

Willow School!

Cowing Court....never thought of the implications til now

[Kurovski]

41. If we could have cowed the supreme court in 2000...

oh well.

I think it was actually a path for cows when it was farmland.

I used to take two of my nephews to Willow to use the playground when I'd babysit.

One is at HF now.

[Gabi Hayes]

44. holy moly.....I went to Willow for six years...I lived kitty corner from

baseball field south of the ice skating pond

went to HF for two years

heard enough?

sigh

EDIT: which playground, the east one (tiny, with stones/no sand), or the west one, with monkey bars, swings, slides, etc?

I had my little finger crushed while playing American Eagle by big, fat John Harper when I was five or six

PS....the Supreme Court cowed the cowardly dems, who went along with the herd and let the pugs bull their way into the WH!

[Kurovski]

52. Swings and slides. we used to run the nearby hill (or slope) as well.

This is turning into a "lounge" type post, but I have Friends in Arlington Heights as well. Not as familiar with the area, but there are a lot of great restaurants there.

[Gabi Hayes]

39. dupe....Belkin message jumped in

computer acting up

[Contrary1]

35. This guy wouldn't have a clue as to what a Hippie was all about:

[Gabi Hayes]

36. HEY!!!! how'd you DO that?

so far, nobody's been able to even LINK to a specific photo

thx

[Contrary1]

43. I'm no expert, but...

if you copy the photos as they are, without enlarging them, they are jpg images,
and can be copied. Once you enlarge them, they become gif, and you can't. :shrug:

The littlest protester:

[Gabi Hayes]

45. EDIT....I see how you do it, now.....you have to

set it so you have five pictures per page, then copy the jpg from the smaller photos, which is a shame, because they lose most of their impact with the relatively small size

so much better in larger format

thanks for the direct linkage, though!

[mr blur]

47. "Hippies" are sure looking odd these days -

they look just like your neighbours, your children, your parents, your grandparents...

[Gabi Hayes]

50. television, anyone?

interesting website

[Gabi Hayes]

48. "Imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"

from this...


to this?


you really need to go to the enlarged picture of the park police boot...it's beautiful, and chilling, photo #258_5849

[texpatriot2004]

51. Thanks for sharing these powerdful images. n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

53. yr wlcm.....as I posted earlier, it was serendipity. the photographer

just dropped his file onto my page, out of the blue

some very interesting pictures in his other files

[Gabi Hayes]

54. from two...into one

from these




to this

[Gabi Hayes]

55. again....these thumbnailers don't do the larger ones justice...nt

[wickerwoman]

56. This one made me laugh out loud.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/46218992/

"Enough War Little Man"

:-)

Thanks for this site, Gabi. Exactly what I was looking for.

[hippywife]

57. These really are the best

I've seen so far. This guy did a great job! Thanx for posting them.

[YOY]

58. Love the Pics

The little girl with her mommy was great!

Love the freeper pics. I wonder if the thought that "Hey, most of these people aren't hippies." went through the dork's head as he held the "Eat the Hippies" sign aloft.

Cretins

[BlueEyedSon]

59. kick, nominated, wow!

[dumbshrub]

60. Typical freeper sign

I haven't made it through all the pics yet, but I noticed yesterday by the smalll group of freepers this sign, "liberals allways pull out early." And that's the way it was spelled.
:dunce:

[BlueEyedSon]

61. They are such HUGH MORANS!

[leesa]

62. These are excellent photos. Thanks

[jarnocan]

63. adding a few pics but on son's computer

-which isn't set up like my own.
http://jarnocan.blogspot.com
Just thought this lady was awesome, as were so many great peoeple!

[IndyOp]

64. The slideshow link -

You can set the pics to flip through the stack quickly...
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/sets/1003962/>

[Gabi Hayes]

66. you can also use spacebar or right arrow to click through manually

let pointer go to top, then hit "pause" on control bar that appears.

start manual click after it pauses

[Kurovski]

65. Kick--n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

67. found some other protest pictures of his, from April, last year

here they are, over fifty from an abortion rights march

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/archives/undated/2004/04/detail/