Hey, look on the bright side, capitalists and freedom fetishists: at least they were wearing masks and carrying baseball bats.
Because from the sound of things, you’d half-expect them to be wearing crowns of thorns and dragging around giant, biodegradable crosses carved out of extra-firm tofu.
And that would just be plain silly.
(h/t Banedad)
Kristallnacht for SUV drivers.
What’s next, internment camps for Chevy owners?
This could be an interesting battle between those (union workers) who deface foreign made cars (or is that just a Detroit thing) and eco-thugs who destroy SUVs.
OT: I think I’m depressed by this, despite it being the proper outcome.
The Plame/Wilson lawsuit against various administration players has been summarily dismissed.
Of course, it’s just possible the story’s inaccurate in some way.
Not that it would be the first time the econuts have committed vandalism, but it also wouldn’t be the first time someone trashed their car on purpose.
I was just going to say that I read a book called “Ecotopia” in a poli-sci class way back when. Fairly standard socialist claptrap about a region of the U.S. changing their ways and becoming more one with each other and the environment.
However, I just read the blurb about the captcha. Apparently, the words shown are scanned from old texts, and when we type in what we read it as, we’re helping computers to translate the images into the correct text. Way cool.
Braking news:
“WASHINGTON (AP) A judge has dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame’s lawsuit accusing Bush administration of leaking her identity”
VIA Lucianne.com
re: PLAME.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(wheeze)
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(wheeze cough cough)
OOOOOOOOO LORD HAVE MERCY
Just a disgusting turn for folks who believe the environment is of utmost importance. I wouldn’t buy that car either, but attacking it? How ludicrous. Does a lot of good for their movement. Hell, the Competitive Enterprise Inistitute couldn’t come up with better propaganda than this.
As for the Wilson/Plame suit, it never had a chance. The President and Vice President can’t be held civilly responsible for their “official” business.
Although I agree with Pablo, it would have been VERY entertaining.
Rosie thinks it’s another false flag operation from the Bush Adminstration.
Google it!
Talk about weenies. Gareth Groves is a 32 year old guy living with his mother whose “dream” car was his Hummer. He reminds me of a regular customer of a restaurant I worked for in Charlotte, NC during the early eighties. The guy looked kind of like David Vitter and would come in every night, order a steak tartare (cooked for ten seconds) and then spend the rest of the night getting loaded without saying a word before his wife took him home. Over time, I realized that the raw steak was the only expression of any kind of personality this poor guy had.
It looks like something similar is the case with Gareth Groves. If living with your mom doesn’t say “I’m a man” to other guys, owning 8500 pounds of macho metal certainly does.
That doesn’t mean that the two guys who attacked Gareth’s car beast should be able to get away with their hate crime. Weenies have rights too even if they are right-wing warmonger types.
Here’s where Jeff G would put in a clever-sounding but wholly irrelevant pop culture reference.
Let me think.
How about “And didn’t Elvis drive a Hummer in Viva Las Vegas?”
Sliding further down the slope.
Apparently bashing a hummer is a hate crime……..
tw: deluded augus, it sure has Ric pegged
Had I arrived a couple hours earlier, I would have theorized “And here is where Professor Caric will be unable resist the chance to display his intellectual lightweight credentials in another juvenile analysis worthy of the sort of charlatan who conflates projection and ad hominem with intelligence.
Just so long as it suits his political narrative, of course.”
Unfortunately, like so many other things in my life, timing is everything, and I can never get the hang of it.
And, in this theoretical past, HERE is where I would have corrected myself, saying something like “worthy isn’t the right word. I should have said ‘characteristic of the sort of charlatan…'”
Apparently, whether or not one is chronologically correct, poor word choice remains a constant.
That’s quite an assumption you’re making there, perfessor. How do you know what his politics are, and what difference would they make? Do you think that only right-wingers drive Hummers? Have you ever been to Hollywood? And how do you know the nature of his homestead? Did it occur to you that it might be his house and that his mother lives with him?
Some fucking scientist you are. You make me want to scatter a bunch of conclusions around, just to watch you jump to them.
ric;
For a man with a serious education, you sure are unserious.
Not funny either…
Psychoanalysis on the basis of raw meat and conversation observed in a restaurant? Paging Dr, Phil…
But we are proud of you for getting out more. You know, meeting ‘thugs and weenie people, expanding your cultural universe.
With the sure knowledge that, thankfully, cancer is not contagious…
FOR THE WEENIE MULTICULTURALISM!
Many people get degrees, fewer actually get an education.
If they wave so much as a candle at my steak tartare I would consider it vandalism. The thugs.
Of Interest…
Valerie Plame’s civil lawsuit filed against Vice President Cheney, presidential adviser Karl Rove and others for allegedly leaking her CIA identity to the media has been dismissedâ€â€if only for jurisdictional reasons. Of course, not everyone is happy…
I wonder what the Professor would make of all the blacks who drive Hummers. Weenie men? Or wishing to compensate with a “power” car for years of being held down by The Man?
Or maybe they just need a place to store all their pit bulls?
I also have no doubt Professor Ric is one of those “theorists” who believes that the size of a car is used as a stand-in for some perceived physiological inadequacy.
Which of course explains why all those old women drive around in giant Lincolns: they are upset with just how tiny their ancient clits are.
I’d be willing to bet that two sleazebags with no respect for the rule of law will have a much more deleterious effect on the environment than one used Hummer.
Kudos to the neighborhood lady who saw it for the ugly incident it was, no matter her personal feelings about the car.
And does anyone believe he’s not going to have that car repainted (or at a minimum, wet-sanded and buffed) and the tires and windows replaced? What’s the environmental impact of the vandalism?
TW: lose specimen. Looks like Ric did as soon as he read about this.
Perf. (Self-)Caric(ature) seems to have misunderstood somebody’s mischaracterization of this site.
It’s not “weenie”-slapping, Perfessor. It’s cock-slapping.
I’m pretty sure you can’t commit a hate crime against an inanimate object,perfesser. The vandals did destroy private property.I don’t know to what dollar amount the destruction amounts to, but the perpetrators essentially stole the use of the vehicle from the owner.
it’s America, perfesser. Any auto owner whether they own a Hundai or a UNIMOG should have a reasonable expectation of not having their vehicle molested when parked legally on a public street. The perpetrators are cowards.
tw; indemnity person Good luck with that.
Sheesh, Caric, could you have written a less vapid comment?
The mad Professor can ascertain a person’s psychological background and his political affiliation from his persona and the amount of heat he likes to have applied to his dead cow prior to eating. With such abilities, why are his skills being all bottled up at some small eastern Kentucky university. I could use somebody with skills like that to help me out at the Hold ‘Em tourney I am playing in this weekend.
Ric Caric – pussy. I shit you not. Look in your dictionary.
Jesus, PW is at it again! The Professor agrees with most of you (although you are offended by his weenie-characterization of the 32 year old guy who lives with his Mom) and most of you take issue with the “hate crime” reference. Do you they attacked the car with love? Or, are your political beliefs so hard-wired, you reflexively take issue with anyone who types the words “hate” and “crime”?
This comment is directed toward those who are fixated on the words “hate crime” in the Prof’s post. Personally, I hesitate to call anyone a weenie, just because he lives with his Mom. It generally takes one more sign of dorkiness to get called a dork in my world (pablo, have no fear, you still qualify)
No lil’tim. you both seem to have completely ignored the fact that it as private property that was destroyed. Other peoples property is not yours to make you political statements upon, in , over etc. Who’s property it is. What the property consists of is immaterial. It Did Not Belong To Them. No matter how outraged by its existance.
Fortunately I’ve taken to buying my irony meters in bulk at a dollar store.
McGehee – My irony meter just short circuited. Any extras ?
Way to generalize, timb. Caric agreed the act was improper; he just looked to be grooving on the Schadenfreude a little much for my taste. So he can’t quite bring himself to the conclusion that Hummer owners are outlaws. He has my hearty congratulations.
TW: shall grind. 1500 grit, then 2000 to take out the 1500 scratches, then a good buffing. Unless it’s down to the metal — then all bets are off.
timb – This pussy professor is able to ascertain the political tendencies of a person based on the way he liked his steak cooked, the fact that he did not speak much, and that his “dream” car was a Hummer? Do they teach psychic ability in Womyn’s Studies?
Shut up, Timmah! Adults are talking.
His mother’s 70. We have no idea of the state of her health (or his, for that matter). It’s quite possible he was caring for her, which is hardly the trait of a “weenie man”. Pretty close to the opposite, IMHO.
And, hell, he was probably able to afford the Hummer because he wasn’t paying for his own housing. Sounds like he has his priorities; I may not agree with them, but he’s an adult and it’s no one else’s business.
That is a pretty sharp Hummer, though I prefer the original, with the rear bench seats that face each other.
Different people have different ways of dealing with self-esteem issues, I see. I’ll grant you that a Hummer costs more to insure than “Hey, I’m superior to guys who live with their mothers!”
TW: bigoted Durango. Now the hate-crime investigation’s getting somewhere!
I guess I can understand why the Hummer has become the symbol despised by so many, since its origins are born of the military-industrial complex. But, as far as gas efficiency goes, there are much worse. The H3 actually gets pretty good mileage, all things considered.
TW: bigoted Durango. Now the hate-crime investigation’s getting somewhere!
My guess is the Durango got tanked on E85.
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