"Civil War"? Really? You mean I finally get a chance to shoot Republicans?

Actually, using intimidation (the real reason people protest) to influence what should be political discourse founded on rational debate is characteristically communist. Communists do not believe in debate, they believe in revolution.

Protesting a legitimate party convention serves no purpose other than intimidation. Thousands of people marching together only says one thing: Today we are a mob, but tomorrow we can be an army. Keep that in mind while you do your politicking.

I believe public protests, particularly in election season, should be banned as being insurrection. They disrupt the political process tremendously and adversely impact the people's decision making process with the imposition of fear.

In any event, such behavior is leading us down the path of civil war. The fact that democrats continue to cherish these intimidation tactics, even when they control Congress once again, proves that this conflict is more ideological than political. As we see every day here - Democrats truly believe Republicans are evil. Electoral victory is not enough. Only when Republicans are no longer part of the political process will these freaks and misfits, products of our insane educational cabal, be satisfied.

Those phone booths were quite the tourist photo op this weekend. Every time I walked by, which was often, there was some girl pretending to speak into the receiver for a camera.

Nice Picture.

Ugh. Yes, of course nothing needs to be done about drivers in NYC. All is fine. Just make sure you stay out of their way. Which means everywhere.

Finally they got Gehry to redesign the phone booths.

Re: "Pre-RNC insantiy: I-Witness Video, a group of independent video journalists in the Twin Cities for the convention, have been detained by the police (video)."

There is quite a Soviet-style intimidation scene going on in St. Paul / Minneapolis. The MSM are studiously ignoring it, but you can find some notice of it on Salon

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/index.html

I don't know if I would call it insanity. Apparently the FBI are involved, and it looks to me like they're seeing how far they can go.

RE: "pedestrian fatally struck"

Isn't leaving the scene of an accident a crime? If the guy was a professional driver, I'd think he'd have been more aware of a pedestrian in the roadway so I hope he's not using that as an excuse. "Death Race 2000" really was prescient.

They aren't going to do anything about this USPS Day Player killing an old man. Car and truck drivers are expected to be responsible only to other cars. Never pedestrians.

Neither rain nor sleet nor septugenerians in crosswalks...