Damn granola Topanga Canyon crowd came down from their tree houses in the hills, put on their Birkenstocks and Tie-Dyes, loaded up on soy chai lattes, and blocked PCH two evenings in a row.
Yesterday it took me a friggen HOUR to go 2 miles on the way home. Same shit today; not quite as bad but it took me 1.5 hours to go 25 miles where it's normally 45-60mph all the way.
I'm trying to figure out who I can write a nasty letter to and make sure they all got arrested and/or beaten and/or run-over.
They were actually gone by the time I got to their spot, otherwise I might have stains on my bumper now.
Sorry for the rant. After working all day this is crap I REALLY do not need and won't tolerate on public roads and lands that I pay a shitload of taxes to keep up...
oh man, that's when you get an old pickup truck and pretend the brakes went out.
what are people like this in the world trying to prove? what I can never figure out about people like that is this...
there are countless places in the world where they can live in total peace. no SUV's, no smog, no crime, no environmental problems. YET, they insist on living in the absolute center of the very issues they whine about.
what a bunch of losers.
OK.
what's orange and red and looks great on hippies??
FIRE!
Brian
Actually they are just finishing repaving the canyon road I drive to/from work every day. Part of the $7,000 a year in property taxes I pay most definitely goes towards road work...the LA County Dept of Transportation probably has a bigger budget than some small nations. The streets where I live are mostly in great shape; then again, a lot of them are only 20-30 years old at the most.
If these people think they are making a positive difference in the world by fucking up the evening plans of thousands of people, they are absolutely WRONG. All they are doing is pissing people off and hurting whatever cause they are trying to promote.
They should get INVOLVED in politics or diplomacy or whatever, and actually DO something instead of standing around bitching and waving banners at people trying to get home to see their families.
drive by next time and mace them out your window.
here here campbell!!!!!
but your logic for the whiners to get involved in in the political process is flawed. you see, they can't actually USE the system they are complaining about as that would make them part of the problem. the circular logic of the far left is quite interesting. it makes one wonder whether they actually want change or simply want to bitch a lot.
my brother has an old f250 but i think he is using it on the protesters in boulder co right now!!!!
Chris,
Do you know what they were even bitching about?
I love the roads in your area! We used to go harley riding up there!! Man I miss warm weather!
Getting 2 snow storms this weekend 8 more inches! (so they say) :finger2: :finger2: :finger2:
What's black and brown and looks good on a protestor?
My doberman.....
Our Mayor up here wears Birskenstocks and leads the godamned parade on the anti war protests......stoopid twat.
According to the radio they were anti-war protesters.
That is irrelevant to me - whether I agree with their bitches or not, I do not believe in disruptive, "negative" gatherings like that, deliberately planned to f* with other people. If they want to get together peacefully in somebody's back yard and hold hands while singing Kum-By-Ya, then more power to 'em.
Hey Sean -- yup, it's only 48F outside right now but it's heading up to about 70F today
I love living in the country! The last traffic jam we had here was last summer, when the neighbor’s cows got loose.
If I need reminding of how much I hate the city, I just drive to Toronto during rush hour.
We have a stretch of highway called the ‘Don Valley Parkway’, everyone calls it the ‘Don Valley Parking Lot’. Protesters love to hit it, a 10min. protest will kill traffic for the whole day.
There's a good cartoon in the L.A. Times today that kind of addresses both sides of this. It shows a protester about to get lynched by Hussein:
Protester: But you don't understand, I'm protesting against the war on Iraq.
Hussein: No, you don't understand, we don't allow any protests. What do you think this is America? :gilloutine:
Except for a couple years in Navy, I lived my entire life inside the beltway around DC. I may have seen more protests in a year or two than some have seen in a lifetime.
From the anti-war in the 60's, gays, AID's, Million Man, you name it and its been here.
The only one that really pissed me off was a couple years ago protesting the IMF and World Bank, the same group that raised hell in Seattle, the anarchists. They are truly evil people promoting the complete absence of government, disorder, and lawlessness. There should only be one way to deal with them. :gilloutine:
I must admit that it tickles me to hear you guys that live in the most liberal part of the US pissin' and moanin' because the protesters are infringing of your rights.
well, at least they (the protesters) have the balls to go out and do SOMETHING
instead of just sitting on their sorry ass watching the government piss away
several hundred BILLIONS of our tax money on a war that isn't going to help anybody.
Andy
and how is what they're doing going to help anyone or any cause? they are whiners out to make a small subset of the worlds population miserable with their childish pouting.
Balls? This requires a bit of definition.
Balls is steping off a landing craft at Omaha Beach.
Balls is popping up and shooting at these guys coming ashore after being shelled by a fucking battleship.
Balls is having the fortitude to put yourself in the position to do things like this, knowing that the only way out is:
To see it thru.
Get killed or maimed.
Balls is risking the most precious thing we have for the good of another.
I know people that have done this sort of thing.
None of them (except for a head case or 2) needed to prove their manhood by bar fighting or bungy jumping.
In my experience, committment to a cause thins out when mortal danger is involved (And the danger is recognized. Any fool can blunder into shit.). Those that "see it thru" have balls.
Maybe my stardards are too high.
My father-in-law took most of last year off work and away from the family to go run for US Senate as an Independent, against the "establishment". He was not able to pump much money into the campaign so had extremely minimal chances, but most of what was spent came right out of his own bank account, not from PAC and lobbyist money. His wife also took a year off work, unpaid, to support the effort. He gave speeches, radio and TV interviews in different towns all over the state to various audiences. In order to get on the ballot (which he did) they had to drum up 5,000 individual signatures, and validate them as legitimate registered voters, IIRC. Unfortunately the status-quo prevailed and the incumbant is still in office there.
Now THAT is what I call getting involved instead of just bitching and moaning.
I can't say I have done anything like that, yet, but when my family and business obligations allow, I will be glad to pitch in and help try to improve our country in some meaningful way.
Atleast in this country you can still protest, have you read about in Venezuala that 2 of the protest leaders were killed/arrested by the Secret Police?
I would rather have the right to protest, to air my view without jail time or worse. That's what my father fought for in WW2 and my Grandfather in WW1.
I don't like protesters blocking freeways and roads thats plain stupid and pisses everyone off without making their point.
Geoff
I vote.
Whiners who don't vote shut up and don't bitch!
VOTE!
That's the only way you can change things in this country. PERIOD.
yeah I always vote even make sure my kids vote...so I get to bitch and complain...sure would like some of that trickle down economics money to dribble my way sometime, even a few drops would be cool.
Geoff
Sir Andy,
For a guy that is a guest in Our Great Land Of Freedom you seem to bitch and complain about OUR goverment too fucking much. You seem to forget if it were not for our fathers and grandfathers fighting for your ass, you would be goose stepping to a polka instead of twistin' to the Beatles. How much less are taxes in the US than in GB?
I just had to get that off my chest before I pull over and kick some anti-American's ass. I now await your piss-ant reply.
J.P., your standards aren't too high, others are much too low! If it weren't for people with such standards the world today wouldn't be worth living in.
Hey, I thought in this great land of ours everyone could bitch and moan to their hearts content regardless of where they where born! Or has that changed too from 9-11? If so Osama made his point...................
Geoff
You all probably already knew that it's against the law to run over stupid ass protesters who block streets, but did you know they actually have a law that says you can't beat em around the head with a baseball bat? I couldn't believe it when I read that.
I gotta write a letter to someone.
I saw a sign that said "Saddam ony kills his people, it's none of our business".
I wonder iffn those protesters realize that the only reason they have the right to complain is because countless brave men went to war and fought and died so those back home could have the freedom to express themselves. If this country never went to war we would have less rights that the Iraqis.
Sir Andy,
Protesters have the right to protest, but they have to follow the law. So have a peace march, but get a permit. I have a right to get pissed off when they interupt my life and block the streets.
You need to reread my post a few times. I did not say protesters should be killed, run over with thier car or hung high. Where did you come up with this shit?
I did not say anyone has the "freedom" to kill someone who does not have the same opinion as you.
And I didn't say anything about filling your mouth with fast food.
Do you make shit up to get your point across? I guess it helps when your point is so weak.
Maybe I shouldn't have been so hard on you being that you are a "guest" and all, but I think you got a little carried away in your reply. You can't read my mind so don't assume what I mean to say.
Now how about a big hug?
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