Via Hot Air, “Berkeley, California, to vote on Bush impeachment”:
The municipal council in the liberal California city of Berkeley plans to give voters a say on a measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the mayor said on Wednesday.
A number of local governments across the United States have pressed resolutions urging impeachment, but the Berkeley city council’s goal is to be the first to put the issue directly to voters, Mayor Tom Bates said in an interview.
“This is basically giving the people a chance to talk, to join the debate,” Bates said. “The issues go way beyond impeaching the president. They go to safeguarding the Constitution. This administration has run roughshod over the Constitution.”
Well, glad to see the Mayor is keeping an open mind, at least.
Quips Allah, “Gee, I wonder if it’ll pass.”
Hmm. Interesting question. Let us gaaaazzze into the future, shall we…
(Image courtesy Sobekpundit; used without Jerome Armstrong’s permission. But then, his being a prognosticator and all, I’m sure he saw that coming).
Will they be using Diebold machines for their vote?
We’re thinking about repealing the income tax at our homeowners association meeting next week.
Hey, what’s 10 grand in OPM if it guarantees the MSM a blurb about another meaningless Berzerkley resolution?
Mind over Reality!
SB: seem
normal, but then…
Great idea! While we’re at it, let’s hold a gay marriage vote in Provo.
Troglodytes.
<a href=”http://atlantarofters.blogspot.com/2006/03/berkeley-city-councils-overreach.html” target=”_blank”>Well, there is precedent for this. In the past, the Berkeloids have asserted jurisdiction over all of outer space.
…load’a bored housewives, if you ask me…
all your crystal balls are belong to us!
*sigh*
Here, already.
Turing = help
I think they should spend more time doing something about their own city. Can’t they even give the flabby “Breasts Not Bombs” protesters a clean place to frolick?
Eh, at our next block party we are going to vote on whether or not to go to war with the next street over. The fact that they don’t return their trashcans to the sides of their houses as fast as we do after collection cannot go unanswered. I’ve also heard rumors that some of them don’t always pick up after their pets dookie. Which, clearly can. not. stand.
It’s amazing that you can actually get a high quality education in Berkeley.
Let the show trial begin!
TW: What’s the purpose?
No dimples in the Berkley chads I bet…..
Ah, yes, the People’s Republic of Berkeley. This is the city that voted itself a “nuclear free zone”, where strategic bombers in the city’s airspace are in violation of municipal code.
And we all know how effective that’s been.
No doubt the Berkeley AF routine patrols its airspace to enforce the no-fly rule.
What a bunch of… civic masturbation.
Sure. But in fairness, it’s tough to bring down a military jet with a hackey sack or a paper mache puppet head hurled into the sky in righteous anger.
Defense Guy,
Don’t you dare rush to war and squander the positive relations you have had with the other streets in your neighborhood. When you arrive at the next street armed with your riding mowers, rakes, and handsaws only to discover all trash cans put away and only a few leftover “yard steamers” from pre-1991, don’t blame me if someone calls you a Zionist liar.
Kudos, Berkeley. A brilliant piece of existential warfare, like a cold carp across the smug face of BushCo. For one shining frozen moment, the whole machine will stop in place, reeled back by the force of ideological purity, as the penetrating lips of Truth whisper “Gotcha” into the corpulent ear of Power.
Damn, it’s gunna be a memory to savor…
But we can only stand in awe of the bravery of those who defy the odds by trying.
Well, yeah, but that’s mainly a problem with the targeting system.
Are there any WMDs* in Berkeley?
(*Weirdoes of Mass Delusion)
This article was listed in the European section of yahoo news. Not in the US news section, but Europe news. That’s very telling.
“This article was listed in the European section of yahoo news. Not in the US news section, but Europe news. That’s very telling. “
I guess you did not hear the news, Berkely has become part of the EU
How many euros is the tuition there now?
Speak Truthiness to Power!
Damn U Dubya!
KFC Lied, Chickens Fried!
That isn’t Mellow Yellow, it’s bong water!
TW: This is the reality-based community?
From the minutes of the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission
Great ZOT, what a bunch of Intellectual Hemmorrohoids. These are obviously the leading lights of the left.
This administration has run roughshod over the Constitution.
Far better to Birkenstock stomp it into a biodegradable pulpy mass and recycle into protest placards.
Let’s make it more interesting, because this is just an empty gesture.
The city councilors all commit suicide if the measure doesn’t pass.
OK, too tough. The city councilors agree to personally reimburse the expenses for this ballot measure if it fails.
That will be the day. All talk, no action.
Now Harvard put their money where their mouth is. Of course they didn’t know it, but when they gave Larry Summers the boot, it cost them a cool $115 million.
I’d have more impressed if they said, “You know, the purpose of the university is to educate the students, not pamper the faculty. If you don’t like it, see if Yale will take you.”
That would have been impressive.
Oseaghdha, please tell me that was a parody. Because if not, I don’t think I can take any more of the reality the reality-based community is fostering.
Uh, safeguarding the Constitution?!
Gas to drive down and get your freebie abortion. $5.
Clown suit and boltcutters to go apeshit on a nuclear installation. $95. (No-bra savings. -$22.95)
Bail. $500.
State subsidized rent on your Berekely studio apartment (70’s refrigerator, meth residue in the tub, heroin addicts in the vestibule) over the liquor store. $1790.
Marxists invoking the Constitution. Priceless.
tw: Works for them.
Master Tang
Alas, no it’s not parody.
Peace & Justice Commission
I was reading some of the agenda and minutes, but had to go outside and pop off a few rounds to cleanse my soul. unfortunately, no hippies in sight.
TW: corps As in, God save the United States Marine Corps.
Despots of the world, harken and despair. The “profound dismay of the people of Berkeley” will surely lead to the dreaded “U.N non-binding resolution.”
And if that doesn’t work, then we will give your email addy to lo ping.
Kyle wrote: Great idea! While we’re at it, let’s hold a gay marriage vote in Provo.
Provo, Utah, right? Howdy neighbor!
Well, I for one, have had enough of the bungling, ineptitude of the government and have declared myself “Dictator for Life” over the one city block that I own. I have an army of one with several WWI Enfield rifles and a “small” tactical nuclear weapon I bought through the mail from some Nigerian.
Since I have “Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority”, I don’t think there will be any problems. No more taxes.
Wasn’t the name ‘Berkeley’ once associated with philosophy and intelligence?
Sadly, the name Berkeley is also associated with one of my offspring – and it’s MY fault. I often ask myself “what the hell was I thinking?” Today is one of those days.
Next, they should vote on whether American Idol sucks or not, then they can vote on whether the homouusious clause is valid or not. As long as they are holding elections about things they have no say or power over.
I find living in the Bay Area is bad enough, but at least I don’t have to live in Berkeley. I’m just over the ridge in Orinda…
…within spitting distance…
…a very convenient distance to be, by the way.
tw: …and so it’s no surprise that my dinky little house is worth nearly a million by now.
Thanks for that – now I have something to send to every Air Defense Artillery officer I know!
By God, that is good.
Can military jets be brought down with a fog of body odor and smugness?
Coincidentally enough at around the same time I also designated my backyard as hate-free zone. Where i diverge with the council is that I also designated my front yard a free fire zone. Where they are limited by their small mindedness, I have the best of both worlds. And way less hippies begging for their pet causes.
Which I would gladly give to if they could ever figure out how to negotiate the mine field.
Wowsies…
I am just the opposite…it’s all nicey in the front but as I type this I got to young ( 11 and 13) boys who begged to go hunting rats in the backyard (live next to a river and have fruit trees)…good, normal and fully public school PC trained boys…all they wanted was the peanut butter and the safety! And I am in California!!!! And really what’s mom to say? NO?
I moved out of Berkeley (after living there for seven years) a week before 9/11. I thank my lucky stars for that–I’d surely be dead by now, my head having asploded at some point.
Nothing surprises me about Berkeley, especially the City Council. Buncha yammerheads, typical city pols but out of a constituency that’s about 70% major loonville.
I left in the early 70’s, right after I saw a naked guy sitting in a tree in broad daylight, and nobody so much as looking at the pathetic freak.
Went back once, in the late 80’s and he was still there, so I left again.
SB: medical
thorazine
Major John  There was an old Playboy cartoon of a Phantom nose down in a rice paddy, as the angry crew confronts a loincloth’d farmer.
Farmer: No! No! It was not I who brought down the screaming great bird! Someone else throw rock!
Can we tell North Korea they can test their Taepodong 3 missile in Berkeley. Talk about a contribution to world peace…
Just like Cronkite with Vietnam. Once you’ve lost Berkeley, you’ve lost The Nation.
I don’t know, Tom W., but the Smug Storm on South Park was pretty specatular.
San Francisco, I afraid, has disappeared up it’s own asshole…
Eh?
*Spectacular*
::sigh::
Fascinating article, re: the bucktoothed rise (and hysterical slow-motion implosion) of the present-day lunatic left—what Ace refers to, deliciously, as “The John Bircher Left.”
Inspired excerpt:
Lo Ping… actus… Hamsher… “Pillsbury” Willis… the Broome Community College clown funny car…
… yup. And then some.
I’m all for nuking the place from orbit (it’s the only way to be sure) but only after allowing the world’s best libertarian (yes, you read that right, libertarian) late nite hot dog stand to evacuate, with all their sausages and sweet hot Russian mustard, first.
TW = There’s a special snap that you feel when biting into an all-beef, natural casing Louisiana hot link at two in the morning. Or at lunchtime, for that matter.
See, that’s a very smart way to fight terrorists. If a terrorist blows up a building in berkely, they can be arrested for hatin’ on the building.
Why hasn’t a certain Commander-in-Chimplerburton thought of this?!?!
Why don’t they do something impressive, like say abolish cancer and AIDS within the city limits, and provide all residents with a million dollar annual income.
Jackals barking at the moon, while the caravan moves on.
I wasn’t aware that the Clown Car from my old alma mater had such wide renown.
Come on guys, it’s Berkeley, America’s creamy nougat center. I’d be dissapointed if they didn’t vote to impeach Bush.
Yeah, it’s Berkeley, but you gotta wonder if they’re at all concerned that Kim has a missile that can ju-u-ust about reach them.
Also gotta wonder if they even know.
Nougat is made with nuts?
Just like Cronkite with Vietnam. Once you’ve lost Berkeley, you’ve lost The Nation.
+1 MayBee.
Nut-paste, butter, sugar …
Oh, they know.
Thing is, they approve.
I’ve always wondered what nougat was. Seriously, what the hell is that wonderful stuff made out of? It’s nougaty good. Learn something new every day.
At least, I do.