Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? 650
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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?"
True patriots (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:True patriots (Score:4, Funny)
Beck's Sheep Can't Find the Lincoln Memorial? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:The answer? Simple (Score:5, Funny)
I smell a slashdot conspiracy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Beck's Sheep Can't Find the Lincoln Memorial? (Score:2, Funny)
I bow humbly before your prowess, oh mighty one.
Also, you tied for Most Unnecessarily Hyphenated Words Intended Solely to Make You Look Smart.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:They must have it in for Jefferson too (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If you cant tell the difference.... (Score:5, Funny)
And if those maps come out to 99c, you'll get a free picture of it with your change!
Re:True patriots (Score:5, Funny)
Re:True patriots (Score:3, Funny)
DC Traffic (Score:2, Funny)
Re:True patriots (Score:5, Funny)
End of the National Mall, west of the Washington Monument.
As soon as a read this I realised I already knew it from somewhere, despite being having never set foot in the US.
Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:This is bad (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Not a problem (Score:4, Funny)
If you drive around randomly, you'll probably end up in a random traffic jam.
Re:If you cant tell the difference.... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, the Lincoln Memorial? It's on J St.
Re:This is bad (Score:4, Funny)
meters? commie! true AMERICANS use yards or feet. you know. It takes 50 feet to cross my yard.
Re:The answer? Simple (Score:3, Funny)
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...
Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:The answer? Simple (Score:3, Funny)
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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Use the Google? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? (Score:1, Funny)
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.
Re:You need directions? (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Really? (Score:1, Funny)
They aren't nearly as bad as Linux users though, All of those guys are a bunch of nutters. Unix forever!
Re:Ed hardy handbags (Score:3, Funny)
Make sure you buy your $699 Ed Hardy handbag, you coc...
Re:True patriots (Score:4, Funny)
At least you weren't evolved from a panda.
Re:Typo (Score:2, Funny)
Wrong, his name is actually spelt "Fuckwit"
Re:True patriots (Score:2, Funny)
And the President said the US had 58 states and he'd been to 57 of them when he was running for the office. So lets not get too judgmental.
Re:Typo (Score:4, Funny)
Wrong, his name is actually spelt "Fuckwit"
A common mistake, it's spelled Glenn but pronounced Fuckwit.
Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? (Score:5, Funny)
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!)
Re:True patriots (Score:4, Funny)
End of the National Mall, west of the Washington Monument.
As soon as a read this I realised I already knew it from somewhere, despite being having never set foot in the US. Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
True, but I remember that area as crawling with super mutants. I would recommend that anyone going to the Lincoln Memorial to take along at least a chinese assault rifle, or prefereably stop off at the Museum of American History to pick up Charon and give him a minigun.
Re:True patriots (Score:1, Funny)
What the holy sweet fuck is a mashup artist.
Re:Politics aside, wtf is wrong with Google? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:True patriots (Score:3, Funny)
You seem to have a Strange Love for your PBF.