Could Porta Potties Derail Stewart, Colbert Rallies?
- Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:21pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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October 30th is supposed to be when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert hold their rallies in Washington, D.C. But a dispute over Porta Potties is throwing a wrench in those plans.
The National Parks Service suggests requires that the ratio of people to toilets for an event should must be 300-1. But the Marine Corps Marathon taking place the day after the Comedy Central hosts’ events has already snatched up many of the areas portable restrooms (800 to be exact), leaving rally organizers scrambling to find a sufficient number of toilets.
Complicating matters is that the marathon refuses to share (even though the events fall on different days), already telling rally organizers that the restrooms will be padlocked on Oct. 30th, despite offers from the Stewart and Colbert camps to share rental costs and clean the toilets before the marathon:
“I understand that they were having problems ordering Porta Potties, that they might have to go as far as Baltimore to get them, but I just didn’t want to share,” Rick Nealis, race director for the marathon, told the New York Times.
“It will cost me a few extra pennies [to use padlocks], but it’s worth it to know that my runners won’t run out of toilet paper,” he said.
Bill Line, spokesman for the National Capital Region of the Park Service, doesn’t think the restrooms will be an issue. In a phone interview with the Times he said the issue is nothing new: “It is common, typical, regular, ordinary for us to handle multiple events on the National Mall at any given time. Do you get that?”
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needanotherReagan
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:07pmThank you to the U.S. Marines for performing another great service for our country.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:06pmJonathon Seidl writes, “restrooms will be padlocked on Oct. 30th”
Why would they padlock Porta Potties? What is in those worth stealing?
Okpulot Taha
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w4jle
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:20pmThe Marines have observed the progressives crap all over the Constitution, Free Speech and the Socialist take over of industry and banking. These are the things Marines fight for, they do not want to share their toilets with progressive asses.
Report Post »Maybe they can get Obama to sign an executive order forcing the Marines to put up with progressives crap…
I think it is funny as heck and applaud the Marines. Semper Fi from a squid.
Okpulot Taha
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:35pmW4JLE washes his hands, “…they [Marines] do not want to share their toilets with progressive asses.”
Well, there you go, this is why Marine boys are nicknamed “jarheads”, just empty air space between their ears. You Marine boys are not thinking. Boys in a bathroom are pleased as punch to hit anything, wall, floor, their hands….
I am certain 10,000 jarheads would leave those potties in a condition fit for left liberals.
Tell ya, our world would really be in mess if not for us girls with brains.
Okpulot Taha
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NRABIBLETHUMPER
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:51pm@Okpulot Taha, you really are in your own world aren’t you? The Marines would have to use the porta-potties the day after the “liberal asses” and with the mess those “asses” left on the mall last weekend, don’t you think it a risk not worth taking?
And, you know just how much the liberal left loves our military, so I am sure that they would do their very best to leave those toilets spic and span. (And you know just how much BS and they don’t want the potties to be full of the liberal __it!)
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 4:05pmNRA BIBLE THUMPER rattles a locked potty door, “you really are in your own world aren’t you?”
Yes, sir, I am. My world does not include Porta Potties. I am smart enough to know why Mother Nature provides trees, bushes, dirt and such.
NRA BIBLE THUMPER checks his calendar, “The Marines would have to use the porta-potties the day after….”
Blah! Just a minor detail. Haven’t you boys ever been assigned to latrine duty? This is a fitting job for boys after thousands of years of you boys making messes in bathrooms for us girls to clean up.
Okpulot Taha
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Miss_E
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 4:43pmMa’am I kindly contradict your statement.
I can assure you male Marines hit whatever they are aiming for!
It doesn’t matter what they have in their hands. :D
This is from an Iowa farm girl to an Oklahoma wild woman.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 5:43pmAre you suggesting the libs do thier doody on the mall?? Get off the peyote buttons girl and reevaluate.You aren’t making much sense. GOD BLESS THE MARINES
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 5:45pmOkpulot Taha – I just want to say that I think you are nuttier than squirrel feces but have and will continue to defend your right to be as nutty as you want to be, as long as you’re not hurting anyone physically, so have fun being a loon. Semper Fi.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 7:55pmMISS E delights me with her assertiveness, “Ma’am I kindly contradict your statement.”
Now that is what I like, another girl not afraid to stand up to me! Boys sure won’t.
MISS E is amusing, “I can assure you male Marines hit whatever they are aiming for!”
Bet I can aim better and shoot farther than a big ol’ strapping Marine boy. I learned a lot from mares! Ain’t a boy yet come along who can beat me in ******* contest and I have been in many!
Humorous, makes the boys feel uncomfortable, rule in my house and the house belongs to the wife, my rule is boys have to sit down on a toilet whether number one or number two. Even have a visual sign posted showing boys how to do this. Ain‘t having my bath look like a men’s bathroom at a Texaco gas station in Laredo, Texas. Uh huh, I don’t go for that!
My boy is 101st Airborne, came home from Vietnam all shot up. He killed a lot of them over there. He is an old fashion rough and tough whiskey drinking rodeo riding Okie cowboy. He sits when the time. He knows I will kick his butt clean over the moon if he makes like an alpha male dog marking his territory anywhere and on anything.
Delights me to witness some of these Marine boys around here getting all huffy-puffy because some skinny little red skinned girl pokes fun at them. Suppose I get to their feminine side.
MISS E closes, “This is from an Iowa farm girl to an Oklahoma wild woman.”
No wonder you are so dang pretty, you are a corn fed farm girl just like me. However, can you let it rip like a mare? We should have contest, Iowa girl versus Oklahoma girl.
Okpulot Taha
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Okpulot Taha
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 8:28pmUNTAMEABLE KATE asks, “Are you suggesting the libs do thier doody on the mall?”
Why not? Left liberals are crapping all over our America.
Beyond me how people can use those filthy smelly Porta Potties. Shoot, I will not even walk close to one of those, much less grab the handle which is slimy with cooties from every cretin staggering around.
One time, only one time I looked inside one of those crappers at a public lake. Made me scream and take off running while stripping out of my clothes. Jumped right in the lake and vigorously scrubbed myself, especially my right hand which touched the handle. Made my husband gather up my clothes then drop them in a trashcan. Gross! Absolutely gross.
Park ranger gave me hard time for my running across his sandy beach, completely dripping wet nude. Told him, “Cooties, I have cooties from that cesspool crapper over there! Cooties, I have to get home and wash those cooties off me.” He let me go, I hightailed it, and my tail is big, hightailed it for our old rust bucket Chevy pickup, yelled at my boy, “Get me home, don’t touch me. Cooties! Get me home so I get these cooties off me. You hear me? Start our truck and get me out of here!” Darn cooties had me itching all the way home. Garden hosed myself off before going into our house to clean up.
Mother Nature provides trees, bushes, dirt and such for a good reason, cooties!
Okpulot Taha
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whitaker
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 2:32amyuo saw the mall after they had 10/2. They probily dont want the potties to look the same.
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 2:40amWould you want them using your bathroom?
Report Post »Spookytruck
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 1:24pmW4JLE I agree with you 100%. DE KV3C
Report Post »benicepeople
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:02pmWhy does the Blaze make this non-story the top story?
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 6:56pmAittle humor doesn’t hurt. There is true justice in the world. (grin)
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 2:38amI’m expecting these two to have jokes about no portapotties. They love to make fun of everyone. Let’s see what they come up with.
Report Post »Revotelution
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:00pmWith all the comedians and lack of toilets they could re-bill it as “Slap Sticky”
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 5:37pmha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Report Post »AZBabe
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:56pmGod Bless the Marines!!!! Semper Fi and Hoorah!!!!
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:55pmStewart and Colbert are making 7 to 8 figures!
Think about that while you’re job hunting. :)
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:30pmThat would be good inspiration for what a person can achieve. I figure that’s what you mean since you would never fault someone for being successful.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:54pmI actually thought the dumb thing we just witnessed was co opted and joined together with this dumb and dumber Idea. Guess I’m the dummy here.. :(
However, judging from the mandatory Union turnout, they‘re really gonna be humiliated on the 30th since they obviously couldn’t even get em there by paying them and busing them for free..I forgot that was scheduled for Halloween kind of.
One thing it will be if pulled off is scary, that’s for dang sure.
Report Post »Ono Nadagin
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:52pmSemper Fi!
God bless all of you and thank you for your service in protecting this country…. From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, The Washington Mall
Thank You
Report Post »BigPaulie
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:52pmGood! The Marines should tell these liberal jerks to take a hike. Semper Fi!
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 2:36amWhy should the marines allow them to fill them up before they get a chance.And besides that do you want to sit on one that some liberal sat on? Go get your own portapotty you two. If they make the whole show really short, no one will need one.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:49pmWho is jon stewart?
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:54pmNo Idea!
Report Post »SayNoToLibs
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:45pmThe spokesman for the park service sounds unhinged (see what else he says in NYT link).
Anyone else get the impression that he must be a liberal?
Report Post »inferno
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:44pmOh well. No big deal. Both these guys are already in their own toilets. Anothe problem, is that their followers would not know how to use a porta-potty in the first place. They would spend at least 10 minutes searching for the flush lever, and trying to figure out where that awful smell was coming from.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:55pmThey’d just use the memorials as toilets since we already saw the last liberal loonfest do that very thing which is on this very site for all to see.
Report Post »Jackson
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:08pmI can hear them (the libs) now: “those bathrooms sucked! The sinks inside were too low and the soap was no good!”
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:43pmperhaps these fine upstanding Marines should be rewarded with a silver star, for going above and beyond to uphold the constitution of our nation? not to mention how much I’d love to “tiger Balm” the porta pottie seats in Maryland about now.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:41pmThey better order up three times as many, because their watchers are FOS!
Report Post »LSX
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:39pmGiving another meaning to liberals being full of *crap*
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Report Post »washington dclxvi
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:37pmthey’re going to need as many port-a-potties as they can get, seeing as how they are so full of shi…
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:37pmHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL I was going to say something similar, but Angrymob made me guffaw and took the wind out of my sails! Just imagine the mess these people are going to leave!
Report Post »Steve
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:34pmJust what the Mall needs, another mess.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:33pmthis is too funny, but since the people coming are used to being knee deep in it i dont see an issue that and exactly how many toilets does 20 people need anyway
Report Post »Breaker 19
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:33pmDude, you’re in trouble!
Report Post »Miss_E
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:33pmAfter the way the mall & WWII memorial was left after 10-2-10 it‘s totally understandable why they don’t want to share.
Bravo for standing up to the cry baby elitists.
Report Post »jeanpennie
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:59pmI agree. Thank God for the Marines (and their perfectly-timed marathon).
Report Post »CarylB
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:47pmMiss Elaine–
My mother’s cousin was one of the first women Marines (she served in World War II). Thank you for your service!
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:32pmBwaaaaa Haaaaaa Haaaa….
God bless the Marines….
Semper Fi Brothers
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:54pmJust like the Marines to take a bullet for their country (in this case jumping on the media mine that will follow)! Semper Fi gents!
Report Post »Miss_E
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:14pmYa’ll do know there are women Marines right? I didn’t go to Paris Island just for the mild climate & a spa treatment.
We are rare but there are a few of us out there.
Miss Elayne
USMC MP
Semper Fi to all the hard chargers!
CarylB
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:45pmMy mother’s cousin was one of the first women Marines, serving in World War II. Thank you for your service!
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 4:14pmMiss_E
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:14pm
Ya’ll do know there are women Marines right? I didn’t go to Paris Island just for the mild climate & a spa treatment.
We are rare but there are a few of us out there.
Miss Elayne
USMC MP
Semper Fi to all the hard chargers!
Not only do I know about WM’s…I married one……
Report Post »flagbearer
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 2:42pmI join in with you, God Bless the Marines! I love you guys.
Report Post »Bobby P
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:31pmTheir followers believe “the whole world is their toilet” so why bother with the porta potties.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:10pmAfter the Marines saw how they left the Mall on 10-2-10, I don’t blame them!! Just think what those Portas would look like after they got through with them. I know without a doubt that what is “CLEAN” to the Left is a “PIG PEN” to the Marines!! No, I don’t blame them at all!!!!
Sgt B
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 10:28pmVennoye hit the bullseye. The Marines make every attempt to be professional in all that they do. The Marine Corps Marathon is Civilian run but is a reflection on the Marine Corps and they don‘t want to have the thousands of people showing up for the Marathon to have to deal with other people’s (um) stuff. Semper Fi.
Report Post »TONYR
Posted on October 10, 2010 at 9:37amThey shown that by what was left at the mall on 10/2, and the Marines know it will be left a shambles!
Report Post »Autonomous_System
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:30pmWith a person to toilet ratio of 300:1, they will only need 1 toilet.
Report Post »Michigan Vacation
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:39pmAH hahahahahahahha-
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:42pmlol! Love it!
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:44pmHa Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Report Post »ILoveGlenn
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:53pmLOL Funny
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:56pmI needed a toilet after that comment, LMAO! Semper Fi.
Report Post »angrymob
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:28pmThis isn’t a problem for his supporters; they are used to standing in it knee deep.
Report Post »solaveritas
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:40pmWhat? The Marine Marathon can’t share just TWO porta potties? (They won’t need more than that.)
No, wait. With all the supportive Media that shows up they will need two more1
Its going to be cold, and vacant on the mall that day. They really “stepped in it” this time!!!
Report Post »FreedomOfSpeech
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:43pmI live in NYC and I see progressives defecating on the sidewalk all day long. I‘m sure they won’t mind doing so at the rally. I used to find it gross but now I offer the sidewalk poopers a fresh copy of the NY Times to clean themselves up with. Everybody wins.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 2:52pmEverybody likes a circus. I’m guessing Stewart and Colbert will bring in more than potty mouth Ed did.
Report Post »cruisemates
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:07pmI’m thinking at this point they are starting to realize how much it is going to cost and they are looking for any valid reason (read: EXCUSE) to back out now.
God bless them – I really don’t think either Stewart or Colbert understands how seriously young (mostly stoned) people take them. They are poking at everyone, including actual congressional committees, and they have slobbering idiots hanging on their every word like awaiting instructions from the mothership.
Pray for the people who do not have a spiritual moral intelligence and actually think it is possible to live by your own self-aligned value system just because these comedians say it is so.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:43pmthey will also bring lock cutting devices. the toilets will not be in using condition for the marathon
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 3:53pmWho cares.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 4:13pm@Freedom Just don’t give them the editorial page to clean up with. Sh@# combined with other sh@# creates something Ajax won’t clean up.
Report Post »Compete or Lose
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 4:58pm.
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WHINEY CRYBABIES
If Stewart and Colbert are serious and not just trying to make more stupid comedy–then they should just spend their money and ship in portapoties from all over the country and quit their whiney crybaby complints.
Wah WAh Wah
RGS
Report Post »endabortion
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 6:19pmGod Bless the Marines and all our military! Can anyone tell me what is the reason for not allowing them to use the porta potties? I am glad their not,but just curious.
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 8:36pmWhy don’t they want to share?
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on October 8, 2010 at 9:45pmWhen Stewart goes into one of those porta potties, someone should lock him in and tip it over. :-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtmTALMkU4
Report Post »*************************
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 5:49amLOL! And commies are such a dirty bunch (just look at the mess after their 10-2 rally)!
Report Post »You want clean toilets? You’ve got to start by being clean Americans. (Just think of life as … The Twilight Zone … you get what you deserve.)
Peters
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 7:59amHey Colbert . . . Stewart . . . here’s a novel idea: Just buy a pair of Porta-Jons. One of your names already adorns the outside. Crap, on the other one, Steve’s, you can just put a sign over the “Jon” part. It’s a unique idea, like your humor; and it matches the true depth of your collective intellect: The Porta-Jon and the Porta-Steve.
But then, you own ‘em; you can do whatever you want with ‘em. You can travel with ‘em . . . put on a show where ever you go. Pick a street corner and set up shop. Hell, you can do your show from inside and take care of business all at the same time . . . You could probably live reeeeeally green in there in the summer months . . . Have to give up a little on the desk and the padded chair; but think of how good it would smell not having to sit in front stupid stinkn’ American people like you do now . . .
Just think of it . . . your own Porta-jon . . . Mmmmmmm, good ‘ol liberal livn’ in America. And, for sure you could get Sheryl Crow to do a guest spot . . . She’ll bring her own shovel and square of tissue just in case; no need to get a guest seat for her. You can put on a grand show singing and dancing, demonstrations of your humor and intellect, your abilities to entertain with your pants on the ground; the way most of us see you anyway . . . in your small world.
But ya know . . . on a less serious note, these two guys should really scare America into knowing how easy it is for poop culture to corrupt, to masquerade as the enlightened few simply by using humor as sugar on their excrement pies. No one in their audience really questions what the bad taste is in their mouths as they attempt to lick the creamy center that gets stuck in their teeth. They just laugh and choke it down . . . while Stewart and Colbert enjoy watching as their people enjoy the aftertastes lingering on their breath knowing their audience will take fond memories with them as they leave their shows and then as they kiss their children when they get home. These two make for great family fun . . . Add their set of matching props, the Porta-Steve and the Porta-Jon and they’re sure to make a big splash.
Check ‘em out at the Mall; but remember, it’s a BYOR event (bring-your-own-roll). And if you’re really liberal, got your head in the right place, it might even turn out to be a tasteful event. Enjoy . . .
Report Post »imerbusterit
Posted on October 9, 2010 at 6:28pmGood one!
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