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Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow?
John3 writes "Searching Google Maps for the Lincoln Memorial is returning the location of the FDR Memorial instead. Conservative bloggers smell a conspiracy since Glenn Beck is holding his 'Restoring Honor' gathering at the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow (August 28). Notes for the map listing on Google state 'This place has unverified edits'; so, did someone claim the listing and edit the location?"
REAL AMERICANS don't need a map to tell them where their landmarks are located. Anyone that needs to use google maps to locate this rally is a communist or socialist anyways.
Really, if a self-proclaimed conservative—a jingoistic, flag-lapel-pin-wearing, Go-America!-shouting patriot—a dyed-in-the-wool, red-blooded American doesn't know where the Lincoln Memorial is and can't remember a penny long enough to figure out what it looks like while in Washington, DC, he or she might as well give up right there and then, thrown down his or her misspelled, Obama-Iz-An-Atheest-Moslim-Commie-Crony-Of-Wall-Street-Not-Main-Street signs, exchange his or her copy of Going Rogue for a Socialist party membership card, and get in line to be shipped off to the FEMA internment camps, because some re-education is patently and sorely needed.
The Metro is a communist conspiracy. Real Americans drive everywhere and don't notice that the road are government-funded as well.
I smell a conspiracy to attempt to bring the US media's favorite vacuous ratings-boosting political flamewar to slashdot by dressing it up in a thin veil of tech.
Oh shit they're on to us. Come on guys, like we said at the last meeting of the Evil Liberals Who Hate Freedom League, you got to be more careful. Today it's the bloggers, tomorrow it'll appear in forwarded e-mails in 80 point comic sans font, then we're really screwed. Before you know it, they'll break out the ALL CAPS, which as we all know everything is absolutely and unquestionably true if it appears in ALL CAPS.
Also remember: we're forcing people to get gay married and buy health insurance, not hide the Lincoln Memorial. Stay on message guys.
It's a nefarious conspiracy, I tell you!
And if those maps come out to 99c, you'll get a free picture of it with your change!
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Even If they have the best directions in the world they still wouldn't make it to the rally in time. That Beltway traffic is ridiculous. It is a conspiracy perpetrated by the road workers.
Half of the vandals are probably Beck's own fans that don't want to be associated with that terrible president Lincoln and are hoping to get everyone to meet somewhere else.
It's only a few blocks from the friggin' FDR memorial anyway -- and its not even real blocks.
A real block? You mean a New York city block? That's about 80 meters by 270 meters-- it varies.
It's about 770 meters from the FDR memorial to the Lincoln memorial.
If you drive around randomly, you'll probably end up in a random traffic jam.
Oh, the Lincoln Memorial? It's on J St.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
meters? commie! true AMERICANS use yards or feet. you know. It takes 50 feet to cross my yard.
They can't get off the Metro at Smithsonian. They've been specifically warned (by some expert patriots from Maine) not to take the Orange Line or the Blue Line except in the safer areas of Northern Virginia. (I've read so many articles about this that I can't give you a cite--might have been Huffington Post...). The best they're going to be able to manage is the Red Line (authorized as safe) to either Metro Center or Farragut North. They're supposed to be safe on the Red line. They're to avoid the Green Line entirely. I can't remember what was said about the Yellow Line, but I think it's been marginalized. This is supposed to keep them safe, but it's gonna be a long old schlep down from Farragut North...
"Here's what's happening. You're starting to drive like your Dad..." - Red Green
Beck followers don't use iPhones. The only people with iPhones were issued them upon voting for Obama, right?
But in all seriousness, do you know a single person with an iPhone who doesn't vote democrat? Because I don't.
Turn the fuck around and go straight.
It seems a lot of them are always trying so hard (and failing so hard) at that.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Since when would a Beck fan know how to use the Google?
Now if someone were really evil, they would have had it redirect to Trinidad (the neighborhood in DC, not the island).
Turning a bunch of pasty white racists lose in one of the most violent black neighborhoods in the country could be ... interesting.
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
"it's showing how a political event can be disrupted by those who disagree with the event's sponsor with a simple misinformation"
Glenn Beck fans cannot be fooled by simple misinformation, they have no need for geographical facts, their gut instincts will lead them directly to the rally.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
They aren't nearly as bad as Linux users though, All of those guys are a bunch of nutters. Unix forever!
Make sure you buy your $699 Ed Hardy handbag, you coc...
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Wrong, his name is actually spelt "Fuckwit"
Wrong, his name is actually spelt "Fuckwit"
A common mistake, it's spelled Glenn but pronounced Fuckwit.
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
if you can't find the lincoln memorial while you are standing around confused at the FDR memorial.. you have bigger problems to worry about.
Such as being 100% certain that the president was born in Kenya?
(ZING!)
I know lots of iPhone owners who vote Republican. You should get out more.
If going out means running into more iPhone owners, who are also Republicans, I'm staying home.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"