30 October 2008

beside being batman-villain-like creepy

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A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.

I feel compelled to remind you again that Indira Gandhi did this sort of thing back in her dictatorship of India back in the 1970s. She bussed into her political rallies throngs of starving people on the promise of lunch so that the world would think from the photographs that she was popular. That was, of course, before her own guards assassinated her....

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