Newest political pet peeve
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Topic: Newest political pet peeve
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Subject: Newest political pet peeve
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 8:47am
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.....Those stupid little roadside campaign signs. I absolutely hate those things. First, they're nasty little eyesores. Try taking a nice little autumn drive through the Castkill mountains and amongst the foliage there's 17,000 of these idiot things for local and national elections. What bothers me more than people having them on their front lawn are the ones you see off the side of the highway- as if I need to be reminded of whose running. Then you get to an intersection and there's one for every political candidate from every party for every level of election. Second: they might as well have a bull's eye on them for vandals. I was just reading the local paper and came across a 'letter to the editor' from a woman who condemned some kid for running over one of those signs. She didn't mention her political affiliation, and I don't care. I got a laugh though when she used terms like "violation of 1st amendment rights" and "un-American" The vandalism isn't always politically motivated either. Sometimes its just kids being stupid. Hell I remember a few years back I stole one because it said "Hooker for assembly" I haven't got a flippin clue who 'Hooker' was, he wasn't even running in my district. That had NO political motivation whatsoever. They seem to be more trouble than they're worth, and they're annoying as all holy hell. /idiotic little friday morning rant. ------------- ? |
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Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:02am
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Yea, it does get kind of old. I see a lot more signs for McCain/Palin than Obama/Biden but I guess that's what I get for living in Southern Missouri. My parents have some out in there front yard and it's whatever, that's their thing. My roomate and I don't have any, but that may be because we have different political views. A couple of my friends actually alomst got arrested in 04 for setting some on fire. Ahh good times.
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist." 
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:12am
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Peter Frampton put out cameras to catch the guy taking his Osama signs... Too bad the guys "borrowing them" wears a ghilly suit... http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS0108 - http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NE WS0108 |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:18am
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What bothers me is that people are getting so bent about these things getting stolen, vandalized. It's happening on BOTH sides. I've seen Bush/Cheney signs sliced to ribbons, I've seen Hillary signs paintballed... but like I said, most of the time I don't believe its politically motivated...they're easy targets for juvenile stunts. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:26am
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Run over or steal an Obama sign, and that's bad news. Do http://cbs2.com/local/Sarah.Palin.Effigy.2.852046.html - this and its okay. http://smoothstoneblog.com/2008/10/palin-effigy-good-obama-effigy-bad.htm - Even better Granted, an Obama effigy might have some connotations that go beyond politicall, but wow, so much for fair play here. I'm cranky today. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:43am
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I should put a bunch of Obama signs in my front yard to
piss off my parents. They're in VA until next week, and I'm going home for the weekend. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Zata
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:44am
| In my local paper, people have been crying about their signs being stolen and stuff. I agree, who cares. I really doubt signs are gonna sway an undecided individual to vote for one person over another. And ya, they look bad too. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 9:54am
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signs make really great target stands at the range once the election is over. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:10am
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oh christ: ""They are frustrating my attempt to use my First Amendment right to speech and political speech is supposedly the most protected," Frampton said. "It bugs me that people are breaking the law because it bugs them so much."" Also Reb, to the hanging effigies. Kentucky and California are two different places I'm pretty sure. If someone in Kentucky thinks it's bad enough to pull the Obama one down how does that mean: "This is just an example of the new police state under martial law which is all that you will see if THE Not to mention the hanging Obama was on a University of Kentucky campus. Palin's was made by the homeowner and put in their yard. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:13am
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Gawd don't get me started. A couple of my neighbors have started a signage war to see who has the most signs. It stopped being ridiculous about a week ago - now it is just embarrassing. ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Reb Cpl wrote:Posted By: AoSpades
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:15am
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lol -------------  |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:16am
YES!!!!! I like that idea Tallen! 2 kids were arrested for vandalism and trespassing on my block for destroying McCain/Palin signs and get this, these 2 did it right in front of the cop, he was sitting on the corner filling out paper work and watched them do it. Not the brightest crayons in the box... ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:24am
Different places, sure, but my point is that you can't scream and yell that stealing signs is so horrible when people in your own camp are hanging effigies and such. I'd be 'Un-American' to run over an Obama sign, but there isn't anything wrong with lynching a Sarah Palin doll? Its the mentality, not the location that needs to be questioned. ------------- ? |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:36am
I wasn't talking about the signs. I was talking about one of your links. Two kids got arrested for hanging an Obama. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 10:40am
I'm talking about the mentality of narrow minded political motivations. Two kids get arrested for hanging an Obama. Hang Palin and you can call it artistic. Different places? Yes. Sure, but my point with the links was to build on my irritation with people getting bent out of shape over a sign. Hanging effigies is happening around you, regardless of if the person gets arrested or gets off with a warning after calling it artistic- and you're complaining about a road sign. ------------- ? |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 11:22am
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Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 11:24am
Oh, whoops, I must have had a typo... |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 11:40am
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I like them.
They are a good sort of parameter to know which parts of which town I work in support which candidate. Then again, I am weird too. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 11:47am
I'll give you that. But what about the ones randomly stuck on the shoulder of a main road with no idea to whom they belong? Residential use is one thing, but as I clip down the main road and see "McCain/Palin" stuck in the ground in front of the trees, It just angers me. ------------- ? |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 12:05pm
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The ones I see like that out in the sticks, are always Obama signs. I figured they were "lost" and hoping someone would "give" them a free house to sit in front of. ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 12:08pm
I'm sure you had a typo.... Maybe I should believe that. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: Uncle Rudder
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 1:21pm
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I can speak personally that when I was in high school my friends and I would steal signs from both political parties and swap them. Leaving Bush signs where Gore signs were previous located and vise versa. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 1:35pm
 Pure win (even if it is illegal.*)I've had a few random signs for local elections show up in my yard. I was just tossing them in the garage to throw away later, but I think I will save them now and take them to the paintball field for targets when I get a chance. (Good idea Tallen.) *In no way should this be considered endorsement of this behavior; I just find it amusing. ------------- 
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 1:44pm
I thought that tactic was worn out already. I mean, I don't know about you, but I heard this guy's middle name is Hussein. I bet he is Arab. |
Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 2:39pm
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Me and a bunch of friends were bored so we went around taking all those signs, we got around 300 in the end. The ones on the side of the road that is, not off peoples lawns. Stealing is bad. edit: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/748032.html - this just happened by me a few days ago. He actually called the radio station and asked what to do about his signs, that is what they recommended. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 2:48pm
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Blah Blah blah, rhetoric rhetoric, partisan partisan partisan, Sarah Palin is the Devil, Plumber Joe is dumb, blah blah, no experience, yakkity yakkity, Biden cries crocodile tears, blah blah.
THIS is what concerns me. Candidates that don't fully understand the very REAL threat of Zombies! 
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 2:59pm
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BOunty, awesome story
------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:31pm
| What really sucks about all those political signs is when they are still littering intersections at Christmas. |
Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:37pm
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That IS distressing. Do we have good info on McCain's position on zombies? ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 3:50pm
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*insert McCain wife joke here* -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 4:21pm
As far as I can tell, he IS one. Seriously though, Zombies are all throughout politics, how else can you explain the lack of brains? ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 31 October 2008 at 4:24pm
| so you advocate voting for a zombie rather then someone who wants to free them? |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 12:22am
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Please tell me you arent from cincinnati FreeEnterprise
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 2:18am
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The other problem, those roadside signs ae never gonna get taken down. They will be up for a few years, until a plow blasts them over.
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 12:00pm
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in my old town (in canada)a guy was running for Premier and his name was Dick Ducet. There was a billboard with the guy's name and a life-size picture of him on it and some kid drew and made a *male organ* out of his forehead. That was pretty epic. My sister was driving at night when she first saw it and she saw someone dressed in all black standing still as he could in the hedge beside the picture. |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 12:19pm
Because the "B" is so close to "S"... ------------- 
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 1:23pm
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Meh, it worked as a legitimate excuse in NY when someone did that.
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 1:35pm
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Not to hijack the thread, but my newest political peeve was born last night when I got a pro-McCain call in the middle of relaxing and watching a DVD. I hate telemarketers so I handled it in the most mature way I could. Annoying Phone Dude: "I'm calling on behalf of John McCain because I am truly afraid of what would happen if Obama was elected because . . . " Me (interrupting):"I'm a lifelong Republican; but I detest telemarketers so much that I'm going to vote for Obama just because you called and annoyed me." (Which was immediately followed by hanging up the phone.) -------------
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 2:18pm
Very mature. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 2:51pm
If you knew what maturity was, that might have been insulting. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 8:41pm
Damn. Beat me to it. I seriously scoffed when I read that. FE, you should work for Fox News. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 01 November 2008 at 8:48pm
Yes, because Zombie McCain will at least let me keep my firearms to shoot at other zombies with. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 02 November 2008 at 12:16am
But Obama will take shovels from the rich and hand them out to us bitter clingers after we fill out some simple forms and pass a background check. Besides, socialized medicine will make those insanely costly copays for "zombie bit my brain" ER visits a distant memory. ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 02 November 2008 at 8:46am
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shovels? yeah, i think i'll stick to guns thanks.
and i'm pretty sure that if you got bit, they wouldnt let you into that hospital, because then you would become a zombie yourself.... maybe thats his plan, he can save money on health care by making everyone zombies Mccain '08! |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 02 November 2008 at 10:44am
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http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/22/is-palin-the-top-suspect-in-slain-bear-found-with-obama-sign/ - THIS is how people in NC handle those signs. Happened at one of our rival schools.
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Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 02 November 2008 at 11:12am
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Meh. Everybody knows that chainsaws are far superior against zombies than guns. Cricket bats are pretty good too. ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 02 November 2008 at 11:28am
Moron This is the single minded stupidity that bothers me about some liberals. Just because the woman is a hunter and eats moose doesn't mean that she's got 'disdain' for wildlife. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 02 November 2008 at 11:42am
So are the LP versions of the Batman soundtrack and Dire Straits. -------------
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Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 2:09am
truth. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 9:18am
I don't think a chainsaw is a good idea. Max Brooks advised against the use of chainsaws for 4 reasons, spreading the Solonum virus to yourself, the noise attracts more Z's, and they are unreliable in a hurry and run off of gas making it difficult to refuel in a hurry when you run out of fuel. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 10:16am
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Good point. In that case, also consider the lawn mower and blender as viable alternatives. ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:31pm
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lawn mower? blender?
i hope you can come up with some better ideas then that before they come after you.... i mean what are you gonna do, pick up a push mower and drop it on one of thier heads? then you can use the blender to make yourself a nice dacqueri(sp?) |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:35pm
and while the Z's are eating you, the rest of us will escape and dispose of your undead, blender wielding self at a later date. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: gh0st
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:43pm
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More and more I hear people not voting for Obama SOLELY because of his 'Muslim background' and 'terrorist-sounding' name. I don't get it at all. I can't believe people are that stupid. That's the only accurate wording I can think of: stupid. It's a great display of childish ignorance when you assume, even if the guy was a full-fledged Muslim, that he's a "terrorist". -------------  |
Posted By: Tical3.0
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:47pm
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I stole one of them signs once. Only because it said Willy Woo for You. ------------- I ♣ hippies. |
Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:48pm
I wouldn't vote for Obama if he were the last man on earth. :) ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:49pm
no dude, you dont know what your talking about, its true, look, i have "proof"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/did-you-know-that-senator_b_74710.html - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/did-you-know-that-se nator_b_74710.html |
Posted By: gh0st
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 12:59pm
I don't care at all, buddy. ------------- |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 1:03pm
------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: adrenalinejunky
Date Posted: 03 November 2008 at 1:04pm
him being the last man on earth would make it rather difficult to vote for him, since you wouldnt be here to vote :) |