30K thousand people at Madison... read that again

[nadinbrzezinski]

30K people...

People who did not go home, people who slept in the State Rotunda.... it HAS started folks... we are now at the leading edge of this.

[TomClash]

1. Amandla Awethu

Power to the People.

[bbinacan]

2. What is Madisson? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Madison Wisconsin

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. The capital of Wisconsin.

I'm smarter than a 5th grader. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yes yes, you are

[malaise]

13. LOL

:rofl:

[bbinacan]

27. Barely,

the op posted Madisson. I was poking fun. Lighten up Francis.

[taterguy]

3. Read it three times but I've never heard of Madisson

I understand there's some happening in Madison, WI though.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Ah cute, spell flame

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979060572

[bbinacan]

28. Very fun.

:popcorn:

[tabatha]

4. Hopefully, people are beginning to regret

the 2010 shellacking.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. THey are

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Nadin, excuse me, but the word "they" does not have two capital letters at the beginning

Please quit confusing the less literate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Well I could also spell it like this htey

:-)

[rhett o rick]

49. He did it for emphasssis. nm

[tabatha]

23. Yep, the shellacking was because

people were fed up, they did not understand who was at fault.

They are beginning to understand that the shellacking was backwards.

[Alamuti Lotus]

10. this is bipartisan "business as usual" and not anything to do with 2010...

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Up until this becomes loud

then one of the two (I am betting the usual suspects) will get behind the people... and follow them. We are at that moment now.

Of course what side are you on should be the hymn of this.

[socialist_n_TN]

12. That's good, cause that's what it will take.........

I mean this has got to carry on until Scott Mubarak capitulates. THEN he needs to be recalled.

One thing I have noticed. In the reports I've read RE: crowd size, it's gone up every day. Monday it was 10k, yesterday 15k, and today it's 30k. Now THAT'S what's encouraging. It's not waning, it's actually getting BIGGER.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. It will expand beyond WI as well

This has started... and I am sure Gov Walker was taken by surprise... it will expand. NJ, TN, and FL are next.

[robdogbucky]

16. Kentucky, Ohio, Bahrain, Lybia, Yemen.... n/t

[Generic Other]

18. The Odessa Steps moment (Battleship Potemkin)

seems to come nearer every day.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. I am not sure I want an Odessa moment

to this day THAT navy is not trusted by the way.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. AND it has not stopped at one day of protest.

Which is so key..to keep on and on and on.

Oh, did he call out the Guard yet??

[socialist_n_TN]

34. I don't think so dix..........

Not yet, but if this keeps on, he'll either call out the guard or capitulate.

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. Well, he made a threat, 30,000 people called his bluff then, looks like.

Should be the whole state.
Pushback is good to see, tho.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Been trying to track what happened wiht the guard

since he did brief them. I suspect a commanding officer or two refused orders. They had a little problem... many of the guardsmen are in the streets right now.

[Brickbat]

15. Thirty thousand, not thirty thousand thousand, which would be thirty million.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Read the OP again, I said 30K

I have no fugging clue where you are getting the other number, but that's ok... I seem to have really nasty fans.

[Brickbat]

22. I'm reading the subject, which you encourage people to read more than once:

"30K thousand people at Madison... read that again"

So I read it again, thinking, 30 million was probably wrong, which it was. Thought you might be interested in that, but apparently not.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. This is the largest protest, LABOR protest

in a generation.

[Brickbat]

30. I'm assuming you're not counting strikes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. lemme see, 30k in the streets is not large

and strikes are critical, but this is closer to the great marches that led to silly shit like yes, labor organizing. This is the scale of this. Those included strikes, and I am waiting for at least regional strikes to be called, if not outright national if this develops the way they have in the past.

Of course I am paying close attention to this... perhaps, maybe, this will be the true beginning of THE fight we have lacked for at least twenty years.

[liberalhistorian]

45. If you pull the huge stick out

of your ass, you might feel a bit better. Sheesh.

[dpbrown]

47. It says 30K thousand, which the response correctly cites as 30 million

Probably just a teensy bit high, even for a Madison protest event.

:-)

[vssmith]

48. I understood what was meant and so did everyone else

[bigwillq]

19. K and R (nt)

[lonestarnot]

21. Fucking excellent!

[thaddeus_flowe]

29. Kenya Dig it?

Yes We CAN

[drm604]

33. 30K = 30,000

So 30K thousand = 30,000 * 1,000 = 30 million. I don't think that's what you intended.

But 30,000, which I think is what you meant, is very impressive.

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. 30K I asked you to read it again

this is the LARGEST labor strike in a generation.

[drm604]

41. You didn't ask me to read anything again.

This was my first post in this thread. Maybe you confused me with someone else?

I was simply pointing out an error in your subject line. 30K thousand = 30,000,000 which is obviously a mistake.

I wasn't arguing that 30,000 isn't large. I'm on your side. Just pointing out what I found to be a humorous error.

I think 30,000 is fantastic. I love it. I'm all for it.

Sorry if I upset you. :hi:


On Edit: I think I see what happened. You confused me with Brickbat who pointed out the same error.

[Brickbat]

42. It is NOT the largest labor strike in a generation.

A sick-out is not a strike, and if you are counting strikes, this is not the largest.

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. Will see

If this is the largest and most important action or not...

Whatever.

[tblue37]

43. Nadin, people keep asking YOU to read your own subject line again, but you keep arguing with them

and even saying one time that someone is being "nasty" to you. No, they are not. Except for the colored fonts to highlight the important parts, this is an exact copy-paste of your subject line:

30K thousand people at Madison... read that again

K is an abbreviation that means one thousand, so 30K ALREADY means THIRTY THOUSAND. When you say 30K, you are saying thirty thousand. All done.

But you did not say 30K. You said 30K THOUSAND.

Believe it or not, I am not trying to be particularly obnoxious with all the bolding, italics, oversized fonts and different font colors. I am just trying to get your attention. Two other posters have pointed out to you that your subject line says 30K thousand, one poster trying to explain it more than once, and every time you come back with the same retort that 30K means thirty thousand. Yes, of course it does. That's why you do not need the "thousand" after it.

I must assume that you simply have not actually gone back and looked at your subject line, and that you therefore do not even realize that you have BOTH the "K" and the "thousand" there rather than just the "K", and that that is why you are so annoyed with the posters that keep trying to tell you that you made a mistake. You seem to think that they think "30K" means 30 million, but that is NOT what they are saying. They are saying that 30K thousand = 30 million, because 30K thousand is what you have in your subject line, NOT "30K."

Obviously it is too late to edit the subject line, but you could add a reply to the OP and maybe even to the two posters who tried to tell you about it, acknowledging that you did write 30K thousand, not 30K, and explaining that the "30K thousand" was just a typo that happened because you were so excited about the 30,000 people who were protesting.

[Luciferous]

37. K&R If they keep this going through the weekend, I may have to

make a trip up there :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

40. Make your reservations

it is not stopping. If I could I would.

Then again I'd better keep my money for when it comes HERE.

[jannyk]

38. Go Wisconsin!!! k&r!!

[Obamanaut]

46. One might think that someone who sits around "editing... for Asimov"

would have noticed the "...30K thousand..." OR paid attention to the other posters who pointed out the error. Nah!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=417829&mesg_id=417829

“…Now I am in the process of editing a short story for Asimov...”

[rhett o rick]

50. I would like to relay that. Do you have a link? nm

[ShadowLiberal]

51. Wisconsin should recall it's governor if he doesn't get the message from these protests