Jamie, are you going to be driving? D.C. is my home town... I'm debating whether or not I want to go to it too. As long as I don't have work to contend with, I may try to make the drive. I can sleep in my car and park it at one of the subway stops! hahah

Matt? Are you up for a good ole American road-trip? If you buy the food, I'll buy the gas and drive the Crown Victoria. (This is a trick, I like to eat a lot)

I, for one, will definitely be looking forward to your report and interviews from this rally . . . should be quite a time.

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What time is the rally?

It'll probably be an all day thing, but I suspect he'll go into more finite details on the rally in the next couple of months.

Zulu Shabazz and the New Black Panthers will be there, too.

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We are flying 2500 hundred miles to see Glenn......

I'm going to try to be there myself. I heard this will be the last organized assembly ever allowed again in history at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. How times have changed... you can no longer picnic at the Washington Monument becuase of fear of terrorists hiding bombs under the blankets, and now no more public assemblies at the Lincoln Memorial (the D.C. government will cease approval of permits to large groups)

Very sad...

 Did Glenn ever bother to get a permit for this rally? Last I heard he hadn't even applied yet, let alone been approved. What's plan B?

I had heard this too... that said, there's nothing legally preventing everyone from showing up anyway.

If Glenn Beck doesn't get a permit (although I'm pretty sure he will), the police wouldn't technically be able to dispurse the crowd. The only one who would really face arrest would be Beck himself... and I'm sure he wouldn't really care. I also don't think they would for fear of creating a martyr of sorts... it would create a media firestorm. Far leftist liberals would be thrilled, but for the majority of America would develop aprehension for the administration. I expect it will probably go smoothly, with few problems, and the majority of the media will ignore it. It will probably go over with little fan-fare, but otherwise energize support.

interesting question since Beek is supposedly such a constitutionalist, the expression clause (or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances) doesn't say one must request a permit.  Does case law support the requirement for permits?  I would think so because it provides time for cities to prepare...more police, more portalets...emphasis on peacable

That's good Stephen, I had heard lately that he hadn't yet gotten a permit, but then I heard earlier than that, that it was signed and sealed so to speak.

For what it's worth, I think the media is going to ignore it... which is a shame.

I know Fox News will air it... which is good because most liberals watch Fox News too...

am wondering are their going to be any rallies in alabama because i can't get off work

didn't I put something in here about Beck, Barton and questionable historicity?

Nine part video at www.liarsforjesus.com and text is similar at: http://theonebestway.wordpress.com/?s=beck (see those that mention Chris Rodda)

I am a local , I can't wait. 

Jamie, please take lots of pictures!!! I'm really jealous. Despite the constant nervous laughing from MSNBC every night about it, this stands to become a pretty momentous event. I heard that every single hotel within the DC Metro Subway distance is COMPLETELY sold-out. Including the Wardmen Towers where I grew up in DC.

I'm so happy we'll have representation there, please be sure you and Stephen take lots of pictures!!!

Wardman Park Tower overlooking Rock Creek Park (RCP). 

Awesome.  I just drove Rock Creek Pkwy on the way to the National Zoo last week.  Spiro Agnew and Earl Warren and others (Ike, LBJ, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, Bob Dole, Marlene Dietrich) resided there.  Yesteryear's Watergate Hotel I guess.  I think I'd prefer the RCP view to the Potomac.  That was funny when we drove past the Watergate.  That's where the roads are all circling around each other by the Lincoln Memorial and appear to just keep feeding back into each other.  My son was freaking out because though he wasn't driving, he was trying to imagine it.  One of those rare moments that he was impressed by his Dad (which was good because that impression erased the one made earlier when I turned the wrong way on GW Pkway).  The male gene surfaced later when my wife kept saying, "What's our next turn?" and I kept saying, "There will be a sign to the zoo.  Relax."  And, for a change, I was right.

C, I can see my apartment from here. If you look at the right-hand side, the tower in the end 3rd floor (can just see it above the trees). That's where my parents and I lived. When it was re-opened as a Sheraton back in 1979, my dad was the General Manager. I lived there for something like 4 or 5 years as a child. I loved that building. I used to run around and drop stuff down the old 1920s mail shoot that connected all the floors (between the elevators). They built a newer building right next to it which is connected by a very elogant looking passageway. They saved tons and tons of old furniture. The hotel is really magnificent. When Marriot (I believe) took it over, they renovated it again. I guess it was rather 2001 Space Odyessy looking (was totally modern at the time). Now the newer building looks a bit more contemporary, rather than such a stark contrast with new and old. 

By the way, do you remember how friggin LONG the tunnel is for the subway at the Woodley Park exit? I used to be sooo fascinated by that when I was a kid.

No re: the tunnel, but do you remember cars fording rock creek to enter the zoo?  That, and the anteaters and seals/sea lions, was the coolest.

That hotel reminds me of The Shining....redrum, redrum! Heeeere' Stephen (King).

No, not really. I mean, I guess I should, but I was just a little kid back then. My parents had a 1974 Ford LTD Estate Wagon with a 460 V8 in it. I don't think they mandated child seats back then, so I spent the entire time barely able to look over the door through the window whenever we'd go anywhere.

The hotel rooms were nice though. They were certainly old, but the hotel is historic. The newer rooms on the newer wing of the hotel were very modern for their time. They would look ridiculously 80s now looking back, but I'm sure they've revised them since then.

The old rooms were always very elegant. If you stayed in a suite, it was quite common for it to have a grand piano in the main chamber of the room. These are the rooms that line the ends of those buildings (what you see on the sides). The smaller rooms are the ones you'd have in the middle.

I still remember our suite number... 2360. That was: wing #2, floor #3, room #60.

petworth.com says you could ford the creek into the 80s

District of Columbia officials had granted a permit for some 300,000.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/28/thousands-expected-glenn-beck-rally-civil-rights-leaders-protest-event/

The Rev. Al Sharpton called the demonstration an anti-government rally advocating states' rights. And Sharpton said that goes against the message in King's speech, in which the civil rights leader appealed to the federal government to ensure equality.

"The structural breakdown of a strong national government, which is what they're calling for, is something that does not serve the interests of the nation and it's something that Dr. King and others fought against," Sharpton said Saturday on C-SPAN.

"It is ironic to me that they come on the day of a speech where Dr. King appealed for a strong government to protect civil rights and they're going to the site of Abraham Lincoln who saved the union against the state rebellion," he said

truth? or fiction?

USA Today was tracking the progress of the rally throughout the event with a couple para. every 20 min or so, but they snuck this one in the article entitled Beck and Palin Honor Troops:

Update 12:40 p.m. President Obama, wrapping up a 10-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard, is also focusing on the military today. In his weekly radio and Internet address, he highlighted the formal end on Tuesday to combat operations in Iraq. "The bottom line is this: The war is ending," he said. "By the end of next year, all of our troops will be home."

Obama pledged continued support for veterans by implementing a post-9/11 GI Bill, helping veterans find jobs, and modernizing the Veterans Affairs Department. "Too many suffer from traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder — the signature injuries of today's wars — and too few receive proper screening or care. We're changing that," Obama said, calling it a "moral obligation."

You can watch the video here.