than they were yesterday. Nonetheless, I did not encounter any major protests in my excursions. I walked all the down to Civic Center Park (where the protests originated yesterday), zigzagging through 15th, 16th and 17th streets. The protesters I did run into were what you would expect, generally. And there were definitely more of them out and about today, walking around the atmosphere seemed a lot more charged.

Also, don't miss the return of the Hummer protesters (check out an an earlier post of mine if you missed it), with both a funny and sad twist.

Religious/anti-abortion/anti-gay protesters

There was a confrontation between leftists and a group of religious protesters on the corner of 16th and Court. Many police were standing by in riot gear, in case something happened. The religious dudes were shouting into megaphones and a crowd of leftist counter-protesters started to form around them. Eventually one of the anti-war protesters stopped and lent her megaphone to the cause of shouting down the religious protesters.

I also finally saw the "Abortion Bus," but I won't post pictures of it, because I don't want to promote their ridiculous propaganda machine. Basically it's a giant van with disgusting photos of fetuses on it telling us all that we're going to burn in hell for supporting abortion rights. I'm surprised that it took this long to spot this one, in 2004 in Boston this group of protesters was far more noticeable, they seemed to be everywhere.

Dumb sign...



Young kid shouting down religious bigot...



Cops keeping watch over confrontation...



Guy with a cool sign...



Anti-war protesters

These were the only anti-war protesters I ran into. They were advocating third party support and not support Obama or McCain.



9/11 protesters

There was a large group of 9/11 protesters who marched by, the cops generally ignored them, which seemed to annoy the protesters, actually.



The almighty anti-Obama Hummer returns!

This was the highlight of my day so far. I saw the Hummer again, and if you look closely at the picture, you can see that they wiped out the misspelling of "plagiarize" and fixed it. It seems that perhaps they read DU, and saw my post, heh! Or that someone who can spell finally clued them in. Either way, quite funny.

The sad part about seeing them again, is that they were now posing as Hillary supporters, shouting pro-Hillary and anti-Obama slogans from the top of their ridiculous ride. I don't believe for a second that they are real Clinton supporters.



Other random cool shots

Here are a few more random cool things I ran into.

This guy was recording passersby saying "goodbye" to Bush.



Funny pic...



Obama street musicians...



So that's it, I don't know if the protests are supposed to be bigger tonight, but there was not much protest action going on this afternoon. I am heading to the Pepsi Center soon to get a seat for Hillary's speech. I'll post updates later tonight.