they had it coming to them. But in this instance, I’m on the side of the Yale barbershop harmony group:
Members of a close-harmony group from Yale University are recovering after being ambushed and beaten up while on tour in California.
Members of the a cappella Baker’s Dozen were performing at a party in San Francisco at the new year when their rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” apparently sparked taunts and threats from fellow partygoers.
As the group left the house, they were attacked by dozens of assailants, suffering scrapes, black eyes and concussions, said Connecticut’s News Channel 8.
“Besides any bruising or scrapes to the face, the main injury I suffered was I broke my jaw in two places,” one of the singers, 18-year-old Sharyar Aziz, was quoted as saying.
Clearly a case of Islamophobia.
Per Ace, Gay Patriot disagrees.
Could it be a harmoniphobic hate crime? It’s so hard to untangle these things.
I suspect this is just the progress to mob rule that is takin over in the State of Ca. I haven’t read or heard one good word about the entire state in years. It’s all downhill at the speed of a cannon ball.
Think that’s why a lot of people that built the economy of the state are now abandoning the state. Five years from now it will be a complete welfare state.
On the one hand, I can see the crappy direction my state is taking. I honestly have no idea what the governator is thinking.
On the other hand I don’t particularly want to leave.
As for the assault in SF, the video report you can watch online seems to indicate a number of causes. Perhaps the Anthem didn’t help, but the report also mentions the primary troublemaker giving them a hard time for their outfits (suits) and the special attention they drew from the local females.
I guess I, too, would be upset at a bunch of east coast ninnies taking over with the local girls. But then I wouldn’t end up behaving like a complete pussy by calling in 40 friends to ambush them.
I love that little comment about the hostess’ parents, though – “[they] were both accused and later cleared of leaking internal SFPD personnel documents during the Fajitagate debacle”.
Fajitagate! Isn’t that fab?
However, I must say, those partygoers did not sound particularly, um, non-homophobic. A wrinkle in the happy rainbow?
San Francisco, here I come,
right back where I started from…
Yeesh!
Lost Dog – that reminds me of a song… if I might.
Ahem… testing… is this thing on?… ok… check… mememe… I… I… I…
Ok –
I don’t want to get anyone mad at me, but when was the last time you heard an acappella version of the “Sta Spangled Banner” that didn’t make you want to punch someone?
At Little League baseball last year we had to stand and listen to a cd of some local karioke queen howl at the moon for 15 minutes before every game, and you wonder why the adults are at each other’s throats at these things.
“…. the LAAAAAAYAYAYAYAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAAAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAANNNNNDDDD of the FREEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEEEEEEEYEYEYEYEYEEEEEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEEEEEEEEEEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEY and the HOOOOOOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOOOME of the BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAY…etc..VE!”
What I’m saying is, they could just be really bad.
Well, if they’d broken the layout of a blog page, I’d say string ‘em up.
Present company excepted, of course.
I’ll go get the string. Good job, LMC.
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