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News Westboro Faggy Fags Apparently Cancel Plans to Picket Powell Funeral
Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:35 AM
From the ceaseless conveyor belt of shit that is Margie Phelps's Twitter feed:
The Phelps family is basically a human centipede.
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Occupy Seattle's hopes for that publicity-grabbing counterdemonstration they were planning have been dashed!
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They never had this on their picket schedule so my guess is that this was all publicity and they never had any intention is coming. Nothing new for them.
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Do they pimp out their women-folk in order to afford all these short-notice family trips? Man, I'm haviung a hard time finding a decent rate on a summer flight to Boston, and these guys don't bat an eye at flying a dozen of them all over the country within a few days.
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@6 They make their money from suing people who attack them, which is why it is better to just ignore them.
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@8 Thank you. I don't speak twitter either. It's like some fucking Newspeak far worse than anything Orwell ever dreamed of.
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Our hopes were not dashed. We are all very very happy that they aren't going to show. Thanks for being gloomy, though.
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Good. Can we stop reposting their PR feed in the future? I do like to know what's going on in my area, even the unpleasant stuff, but this hate group receives (at least) tens of million dollars of advertising to spew their "message" for free every year.
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@6: "Do they pimp out their women-folk in order to afford all these short-notice family trips?"
They send out their low-level parishioners with a few bucks for McDonalds. It's a very cheap operation. They also announce more pickets than they do, depending on who bites and how angry the local populace gets. I'm sure they'll turn out in force for Paterno's funeral.
They send out their low-level parishioners with a few bucks for McDonalds. It's a very cheap operation. They also announce more pickets than they do, depending on who bites and how angry the local populace gets. I'm sure they'll turn out in force for Paterno's funeral.
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@14: Ah, thanks. They must really be relying more on retweets these days (or realized that Paterno wasn't universally loved by all), Twitter really is an amazing tool for bullshit PR.
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The chances are that I will ever look at at a Westboro Baptist /Phelps Twitter feed have dropped to 0.000000000000000001%.
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God I hate Twitter. This is all incomprehensible to me, and I don't think it's the fault of the talking turd from WBC. Glad to see I'm not the only one, though.
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"vanilla pudding or asparagus? ". about a year ago or so i was in a town in wyoming called gillette , and these douche bags were coming to do their crap at a young marines funeral . well the town got wind of it and met the plane at the airport , when i say the town i mean about 8,000 people took the day off of work . well needless to say no one got off that plane , and the group lined the streets the whole way to the graveyard . had they gotten off the plane we never would have heard of them again as the town motto was "shoot , shovel , and shut up " o the things that could have been . sigh .o yeah wtf is twitter ?
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