Would you miss it? Would you?
Posted by Duncan on May 10th, 2008
I am reminded of the scene from the second Austin Powers were, ironicly enough, Tim Robbins plays the president, and Robbins has just got the ultimatum from Dr. Evil. Dr. Evil has his base on the moon and is threatening to blow up Washington D.C. unless he gets 1 Trillion dollars!
The President: C’mon, let me nuke that bastard.
Commander Gilmour: Are you suggesting that we blow up the moon?
The President: Would you miss it?
[looks around the table]
The President: Would you miss it?
Well, after reading these two news stories ’bout the People’s Democratic Republic of California …
Code Pink members unfurled a pink banner reading “Troops Home Now” and waved signs as they began the protest, which they promised would include incantations and pointy hats for a “witches, crones and sirens” day.
“Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we’re going to end war,” Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.
A few women stood outside the recruiting center Friday with signs that read “Peace” and “Warmongers — Eating Our Children for Profit.”
A petition is being circulated that would put the measure up for a vote in November. If it passes, it will rename the city’s Oceanside Treatment Plant for the 43rd president of the United States.
Republican Party spokesman Leo Lacayo said it’s just another move from the “hate Bush crowd.”
“First of all, it’s insulting,” Lacayo said. “Second of all, it demonstrates to what lows some people will reach in order to oppose this president and the policies that have kept this country safe during his mandate.”
Virginia-born activist and ordained minister John Rinaldi, a co-sponsor of the petition who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year under his nickname “Chicken John,” said the initiative would turn “every toilet in San Francisco into basically a shrine for George W. Bush and all his great achievements in his eight years as our commander in chief.”
I ask you, if California were to fall into the Pacific, would you miss it… would you? Honestly.
May 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Let me get the family members out of Kalifornia first
May 11th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I would recommend making the split along the San Andreas fault, which would allow LA and SD to slide into the pacific, while allowing us to keep Yosemite, King’s Canyon, the Mojave desert, the Klamath mountains, etc. Unfortunately, SF and Oakland are east of the fault, and would stay withus, while Palm Springs (one of the few pockets of conservatism in Cal) is on the west side, and would slide away. So we’ll either have to modify the fault, or get the SF/Oak/Berzerkley crowd to switch places with the Palm Springers and Orange County residents. But if either of those could be pulled off, I’d never miss the rest.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Your Dr. Evil reference about not missing Califonia was amusing and quite well taken. However, these two actions are basically backfiring on the principals.
Actually, the idea of San Francisco naming a new sewage treatment plant after George Bush I found to be a creative satire and a rare example of humor from the political left. Unfortunately, this potentially viable humor newborn was immediately suffocated by the predictably tendentious BDS commentary by the resolution’s proponents, which is just another of the innumerable examples of the left taking themselves too seriously.
Of course given the effluent that currently runs out of San Francisco, they need someone of George Bush’s caliber to cleanse the outflow sufficiently that they don’t create a 100 mile dead zone around the discharge point.
As for Code Pink, the Marines know how to deal with them. Indeed, as the article note, the Code Pink actions have seen steadily decreasing attendance, while the free publicity of their actions has increased the visibility and awareness of the Marine recruiting station and increase the number of people coming in for information.
As for the witches action, the Marines established a perimeter of salt, which by all accounts proved quite effective…
For these kinds of stupidity, ridicule is far more productive than anger. Besides, getting angry over this pitiful offal is a waste of energy.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
CT,
I am not necessarily getting angry at them, just extremely disgusted. And ridicule is definitely some I wish to do to them. I loathe hippies… of all stripes…