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WRITTEN BY STUART ESKENAZI PHOTOGRAPHED BY AARON HUEY POLARIS IMAGES Walking Across America In street preachers, frat boys and family men, an itinerant photographer found the kindness of strangers Huey takes his first steps of the walk on Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, Calif., in shoes he spray-painted gold to slip into the superhero mindset. Near the Arizona-New Mexico border, Cosmo rests. Huey resorted to duct tape to protect Cosmo�s paws after the $40 doggie boots he bought wore out in two days. Huey steps onto the sands of the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island, N.Y., marking the end of his 3,349-mile trek. AMERICA, IN ALL its glory, love it or leave it, started revealing itself to Aaron Huey along the highways and byways of the desert Southwest. A man in blue overalls, his fingers stained orange from cigarettes, sits across the counter from Huey at some small-town café in Arizona. He uses a walker, outfitted with tennis balls at the base of the legs. His baseball cap says "Old Fart." A boy with a metal halo screwed into his head shoots a BB gun in his front yard. As his dog barks, his mother stands on the porch, watching Huey, hands on her hips, palms out. Eight kids in the flatbed of a white truck, covered in blankets, drinking half-gallon sodas. A roadside banner, duct-taped to three broom handles, proclaims "Jesus Saves" in faded blue ink. A waitress wearing a Harley Davidson T-shirt — and not for the sake of irony. Cherry pie and ice cream. Purple mountains majesty. It's January 2002, four months past September 11, and most everyone still is walking around in a daze, trying to figure out the meaning of it all. At a time Americans are searching for impossible answers to complex questions, 26-year-old photographer Aaron Huey laces up his hiking boots and leaves behind a great life in Santa Fe, N.M., to walk across America. Southern California to New York City — 3,349 miles in 154 days. A journey into the unfamiliar, it is Huey's trip outside his comfort zone. His objectives for each day: Walk 30 miles, eat, meet people, take photos, write in his journal, find somewhere to sleep. His goal for the trip: Experience America without the clutter of life's daily distractions, free of the judgments and preconceived notions that prevent us from really getting to know people. Ever enterprising, Huey has secured supplies for the walk from sponsoring companies, such as Leica and The North Face. Still, he sets out with little more than a toothbrush, some beef jerky, $200 in cash, a credit card and a harmonica. No cell phone. He brings along his favorite shirt, the gaudy one with the Hindu deity Ganesh on the front. He also takes a cowboy hat because cowboys personify the myth of the American hero he fancies. His dog, Cosmo, an irresistible malamute-wolf mix, will provide company and assistance for the long walk ahead. She will pull a wheeled cart that Huey has decorated with flames on the sides. The absurdity and audacity of the odyssey will help attract people to Huey, lower inhibitions and break down most barriers. "Your belief system saturates the space around you," says Huey, in Seattle, reflecting on his walk across America nearly three years after it ended. "On the walk, I was an anomaly. Because I didn't fit anywhere, I fit basically everywhere." AND SO BEGAN another adventure for the self-confident, self-styled explorer with the bushy sideburns who first started questioning everything around him while growing up in the secluded foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. In school, Huey was one of those gifted kids the rest of us admire and resent at the same time. He ran cross-country, played the lead in school plays and made a name for himself as one of the best student artists in Wyoming. After high school, he landed in Slovakia as a Rotary Club scholar. Rather than settling on the school he was placed in, he found an art academy where he studied ceramics and stone sculpture. After school adjourned, he set out on a three-month trip across Europe, sometimes spending the night on rooftops or in doorways. Enrolled at the University of Denver, he took part in another exchange program, this time in London, then returned to Slovakia his senior year, again finding an excuse to explore. While traveling in Turkey, he met a Kurd who escorted him into Syria. In Damascus, authorities harassed Huey, suspicious of his camera. Huey's knack for making friends opened the door to Taliban religious schools on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 1999. During his travels across South Asia, he met a French guy who had secured a Taliban visa in Afghanistan. Together, they visited the refugee camps, where Huey befriended a tribal leader. With him as sponsor, Huey photographed the orphans at the schools for a week and a half. "These were all chance meetings," Huey says. "Just like the walk, I had no clear path and nothing prearranged." Huey's camera also has shot anti-American protests in Iran, ancient temples in Burma and tribal families in the remote Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic.All of his experiences helped establish, then reinforce his world view. The walk across America would challenge it. He no longer could dodge the suburbs he'd always thought more deserving of bar codes than names. He had grown cynical of the nationalism in post-9/11 America, believing that the image of the flag had been co-opted. And he was a devout agnostic. On the walk, though, Huey would find himself staring into the face of Jesus, etched into the bathroom mirror of a Mexican restaurant. Looking into that mirror, Huey no longer could deny that Jesus was in him and he was in Jesus. An evening in Carnegie, Okla., proved eventful. After a friendly cop invited Huey and Cosmo to spend the night in an empty jail cell, he found out that the officers were working security at the high-school prom, so he tagged along. He would depend on the kindness of strangers, and many took him in, offering a safe place to sleep — an empty jail cell, the local firehouse — and whatever they could offer in sustenance, be it an egg sandwich, red and green pistachios pulled from a sweaty pants pocket or a couple of Bud Lights. "Without hesitation, these people brought me into their homes," Huey recalls. "They gave me access to their whole world, with no conditions. It was all open — any closet, any cupboard — for as long as I needed to stay." Some of those Huey met along the way thought the kid could use a good haircut, like Phil with the sideways teeth who was certain Huey was a Red. On a single day in Texas, three different strangers handed Huey a copy of the Bible. Women at truck stops fell victim to his charms — he looked 18 and vulnerable — and ministered to him, as mothers do. While Huey is an agnostic, he could not ignore Jesus during his walk. At a Mexican restaurant in Borrego Springs, Calif., Christ's image was etched on a bathroom mirror. He would find wisdom in odd places. "It could come from a guy snorting Ritalin in his trailer house," says Huey, recalling a tree trimmer who showed him hospitality in Missouri. "I went into the walk as another adventure, and it became obvious right from the beginning that it was going to be about the learning more than the adventure." He attracted his share of eccentrics and amateur philosophers, but also those wanting to live vicariously through him. People opened up, sharing stories of regret and risks not taken. After Huey spoke to a Sunday-school class in Oklahoma, the teacher confessed that what he really wanted to be doing with his life was to be on the road in a trailer with his wife and kids. A FEW DAYS after starting off from Encinitas, Calif., Huey profits from the kindness and wisdom of Gabby, a biker with a long white beard, a wheelchair, a big-screen TV and a wife who thinks America should blow up all those other countries. Gabby invites Huey to camp in his front yard, next to a shed and two beat-up old Fords. "If everyone would ask themselves honest questions about their day, about their life, about the decisions they make, and give themselves truthful answers, they would stop stumbling," Gabby tells Huey. Nina, an extroverted and eccentric street preacher who reached out to Huey on the walk, lays hands on a woman during a Baptist revival in Thermal, Calif. Six days into the walk, Huey's Achilles is a sore heel. For four hours, he rests inside a café on the Salton Sea in California's Mojave Desert, pondering whether his epic journey is going to end before the first chapter. That's when Nina, a 70-year-old street preacher and missionary for the homeless, invites herself to his table. She stands barely 5 feet tall, but everything about her is either large or loud — her massive white wig, the "Jesus Saves" ring stretched across her finger, her booming voice, the purple eyeglasses with rhinestone studs. Nina waves her arms wildly and points her finger as she goads Huey into debating her on morality in the schools. Then she invites him to spend the night in an RV parked outside her house. Huey never would have guessed he'd have such a great time with a bunch of former frat boys at their party house in Canyon, Texas, but Big Pikey — with a little help from his friends — showed him the way. Actually, the mobile home is a mobile church with an altar featuring a huge cross and an embroidered banner decreeing "Jesus is Lord." Over fruit and tea, Nina finishes telling Huey her life story — born in England, abused as a child, ran away from home as a teen, worked as a journalist in Cambodia before the war. She feeds off her own drama, and Huey's. "She said she was always flipping through Proverbs in her mind, like a Rolodex, and she came upon the one about the good Samaritan. She thought of it as her duty" to put him up. Two weeks later, Huey and Cosmo reach Salome, Ariz., a desert town where people are hesitant to give their real names. Huey meets Bill, whose real name is Larry. He is eating unpeeled raw potatoes out of a sack. He tests Huey before confiding in him the most important event of his life, the day he was visited by an angel — a 20-year-old punk-rock girl with red-spiked hair and tattoos, dressed in studded leather. Somehow this girl, this supposed angel, knew Larry had planned to kill a man that night and she talked him out of it. Changed his life. In Fairgrove, Mo., Huey captures a junior-varsity girls� softball team practicing its version of the great American pastime. In east St. Louis, Mo., sisters share a playful moment as boys joust behind them in the street. Huey meets his own angel a few days later in Buckeye, Ariz. Dressed as a gas-station cashier, she hands him a wallet-sized plastic card with a floral border and an inspirational message printed on it: "Believe in yourself, in the power you have to control your own life, day by day. Believe in the strength that you have deep inside, and your faith will help show you the way. Believe in tomorrow and what it will bring — let a hopeful heart carry you through, for things will work out if you trust and believe there's no limit to what you can do." IN THE TEXAS Panhandle, a circle of college-aged friends who are mostly fraternity-house dropouts and soccer teammates host Huey at their apartment — a party house with walls covered in photos of them doing fun things and doing them all drunk. Inspired by their ringleader, Big Pikey, the guys party into the wee hours, teaching Huey drinking games, eating chili dogs, dancing on tables and singing the same U2 song over and over, arm in arm, as loud as they possibly can. Five cases of Natural Light help fuel their bliss, but doesn't necessarily create it. "They were so happy, they were like a bunch of little kids, unaware that there was anything to be afraid of in the world, or be anxious about," Huey recalls. "They had found a group of people they liked to be with, and life for them was simple. I tried not to analyze whether these were guys I would want as my roommates or people I would want to work with. I tried to stay in the moment, appreciating what I was seeing. I was with these kids who were blown away by their own happiness, and it made me really happy, too. I didn't care how they had gotten to that point. It was enough that they had gotten there." Huey jots down in his journal a lesson from the evening: "Men are separated by so many petty things." Members of "The Aces" street gang hang outside a liquor store in East St. Louis, Ill. While Huey easily integrated into many different social scenes, he found African-American street life difficult to penetrate. Later in the walk, on the streets of East St. Louis and Cincinnati, a very different group of kids, African-American, wouldn't invite Huey in. "They wanted to play this game — them in the gangster role and me in the role of meek, white, well-to-do 20-something. I tried hanging out with them several times. A few kids would start communicating with me and then a few others would refuse to engage, step back and rile everyone else up. And it would almost get violent." Veiled threats were made, and, sensing a mob mentality, Huey decided to leave, resigned to the truth that some walls might never come down. IN VERSAILLES, IND., population 1,781, motel owner Hank Graves invites Huey to join him and other townfolk at the VFW hall, where all are preparing for the annual Memorial Day parade. The ceremony is huge, with bands, baton twirlers and disabled veterans who cry during "Taps." Baron Hill, the local congressman at the time, gives a speech about September 11 and the roots of democracy. After the parade, everyone returns to the VFW hall, where they sit around for two hours and watch a video of what they had just experienced — but this time, they get to experience it with a beer in their hand. From there, they retreat to a park on the edge of town for a picnic and barbecue. A couple invites Huey to give a short speech. He stands on a picnic table and thanks the veterans for taking in a stranger and making him feel like part of their family. He relates how the walk has expanded his definition of the family of man. "I didn't mean it to, but the talk eventually turned a little political," Huey recalls. On Memorial Day in Versailles, Ind., a baton twirler participating in the town�s annual parade stands respectfully in front of a veterans' graveyard. When Huey ventured to the Afghan-Pak border in 1999 to photograph Taliban schools, among the first people he met were boys playing soccer on the grounds. He watched them laugh a lot and enjoy the company of classmates. Like any students stuck in a regimented environment, they broke rules, sneaking out to play drums, which was banned by Taliban law. There were many things about the boys that reminded Huey of himself, or of friends. He shares that thought with the Versailles vets. "I said that we needed to remember that there is a little bit of us in all of these people, even as we're bombing them. I didn't know what kind of reaction I was going to get. I actually was kind of afraid as I was saying it. But they were very open to what I was saying. They applauded. I came down off the picnic table and a couple of these VFW guys came up and hugged me, and I had really not expected that." In the heartland of New Holland, Ohio, heartfelt affection is on display along with Americana during the town�s street fair, Deer Creek Dam Days. AS HUEY CALLS his father at a gas-station pay phone in rural Ohio, three children ages 6, 4 and 2 are petting and playing with Cosmo. Five minutes later, the children's parents, Jeff and Tricia Flickinger, are loading Huey, Cosmo and the dog cart into the back of their Suburban and heading to the family's big white farmhouse, the one with the trampoline in the back yard. Huey ends up staying with the Flickingers for five days. Three years after the fact, Jeff Flickinger still considers meeting Huey at the gas station a form of destiny. "There was a big storm coming," he says. "Aaron and I started talking, and he was telling me about his walk across America. I'm realizing in a very short period of time that he was doing something extraordinary in his life and that I wanted my family to be a part of it." Huey and Jeff Flickinger spend a lot of time talking about politics and religion. A Desert Storm veteran, Flickinger tells Huey about how he returned from the war to a divorce and a dying father. He relates his spiritual journey, which dabbled in Buddhism but accepted Messianic Judaism because it provided the answers he sought. He relates the stresses of working as a paramedic. Flickinger enjoys the conversations, the depth of which he cannot always find in southeast Ohio. He sees a lot of himself in Huey, in spite of their obvious differences. Both are constantly searching for life's deeper truths. Jordan Flickinger, 6, plays the violin in the home-school classroom of her family's farmhouse in rural Ohio. The Flickinger family opened their home and heart to Huey for five days. The Flickingers teach their children at home and have converted a section of the farmhouse into a classroom. Huey has a picnic in the room with the kids and notices that Tricia Flickinger has written "Mommy loves her family" across the blackboard. "Loves" is emphasized in pink chalk. The couple asks Huey to teach art to their children. Tricia Flickinger rolls a 12-foot piece of paper onto the porch and lays out crayons and paint so they can draw a mural. The youngest walks barefoot across the wet paint, putting her stamp on the artwork that way. The oldest titles the finished mural: "All the Trails That All the People Took." "I want my children to see good things and know good people," says Jeff Flickinger, explaining why he invited a stranger into his home. "You'll never know what you can learn from someone unless you are willing to open up your heart and mind. But if you never allow it, if you don't dwell from that place of love and openness, you'll never know what's around the corner. As a storm approaches their farmhouse near Somerset, Ohio, Jeff Flickinger lifts daughter Jessie toward the clouds. Flickinger enjoyed deep conversations with Huey and had him teach art to his three children. "With Aaron, I'm glad that I allowed myself and my family the experience to get to know him. And I hope more people would strive toward the type of thing he did — to step out of the old paradigm and see a lot more things beyond the standard fare we get ourselves trapped within." HIS ODYSSEY long over, Huey has settled on Seattle as a place to settle. Now engaged to be married, Huey, his fiancée, Cosmo and a black lab mix live on Capitol Hill in a corner unit of a vintage brick apartment building that sports a pleasant view of the city. He is in the throes of another ambitious photography project that satisfies both his creative urges and political objectives, gently finessing his way into the lives of those grieving for loved ones killed in the Iraq war and photographing the poignant images of their loss. Since the walk, Huey has returned to Salton City twice to visit Nina because, well, she's a photographer's dream. He also keeps in touch with the Flickingers, mostly by e-mail. But make no mistake about it: Aaron Huey has returned to his comfort zone, surrounding himself with people who are a lot like him. "I want to be able to sit down with people and not have arguments," he says. "I want it to be a little easy. It's really hard going into people's worlds that were so foreign to me. I tried to go to the table ready to make adjustments to my view of reality with everyone I sat down with. But it took a lot of energy to stay that open-minded." Stuart Eskenazi is a Seattle Times staff reporter. More photos of Aaron Huey's journey can be seen on his Web site at www.aaronhuey.com. |
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I hate to do this to youguys who live in colder zones. I was doing some cleaning outside today and i came across my lilac bush which is leafing out. Lilacs are really sad things in my zone, its not cold enough. They bloom, but because there is very little winter chill, they bloom weakly. either way, i should be smelling lilac blooms by the end of January.
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Well guess what. I was trimming by plants today and noticed the top of one of my lilacs started to leaf out too!1 And I live in New England. Now I am wondering if that spoiled the chances for flowers on that shrub for next year? Plants are something ha. They are always pullings suprises on us! |
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Hi Everyone! Happy Weekend! :o) Our family set our alarms and went to the annual community center yard sale today. Bought lots of treasures including a few blue wine bottles for a dime a piece. One can never have too many blue bottles! LOL Bought an ugly old lamp with glass crystal teardrop prisms on it. The lamp was $4 but there were over 50 prisms for the windchimes we make! Purchased these tins in the picture for 25 cents a piece. Isn't the BIG one cool? An old candy can. Can't wait to plant it up or use it in my work area in the garage! :o) Bear Hugs! Kirk |
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The tins were a great buy. I especially like the big one with the handles. I'd use it for a trash can in my workshop. |
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Great tins. Lvoe the animal crackers one! I too would like to see the lamp. Kathy |
I'll try to get a photo of the lamp. We removed the crystals and gave it to our daughter earlier in the day to sell at a friend's garage sale this weekend. :o) We work quickly! I can definitely get a photo of the prisms though. :o) |
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Sounds like you had a very good day. Marylee |
That candy tin needs to be at eye level in garage so you or whoever comes in says"Oh, what a neat old candy tin!" Americana at it's best! I used to have the animal cracker 1 around here. I have a "Betsy Ross"(she sewed the American Flag)tea tin, size of the Shilling spice containers when they were tin. But it was made so when the tea was gone the lid that was oval on top & you pried off like the old spice cans, well, it had a slot 1 1/2 in. long so that you could save up your money in your "tea" bank. I've only seen repos not the real thing since I got mine. The Bokar or Eight O'clock Coffee tins are repos & $10 is what son paid for each! Cute but not quality of real thing. I love the Lipton tea tin, that's great! I want to see the prisms too! I had a ball at an estate sale this morning.(man isn't dead just moved up north so family could take care of him) Brass owl bell($1) & potbellied stove($2) with whole in top OK as will look great on BBQ with plant on it,11 in. tall. Also a railroad spike dog!(50cents) Most of other stuff was just practical stuff. Love the good sales tho & you did great today! Jan |
Oh PLEASE don't plant that tin.... remember the birds you got and scraped the paint off to find it was a treasure?? those cans could be a treasure too... A lot of old time war memories there for some... the sweet , tea, and koolaid tin could be worth a lot to someone. Have seen them priced for 5 bucks and up at some malls, You made quite a haul and now the lamp is getting more interesting :) geeme |
- Posted by purplemoon z9 Phoenix (My Page) on Sat, Aug 13, 11 at 20:34
Yep, those are some neat tins...especially that big one. Don't paint it, as geeme said. It has history and character, and might even be worth something to a collector. So Mr Tin Man, you are really hitting a lot of jackpots on your treasure hunting lately! I keep thinking I should move to Washington, especially when its hot as H--- here for half the year. hugs, Karen |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 14, 11 at 18:12
Definitely some good GJ goodies there! And a steal on the lamp w/prisms!!! WOW! You'll be busy 'wind-chiming' for awhile this Winter! And if it were me, I'd go ahead & 'plant' that ol' candy one...some Fall Mums (yellow or orange or burgandy) would looks awesome in it on your porch area! TFS, Kirk! Great bargain $$$! Jeanne S. |
- Posted by purplemoon z9 Phoenix (My Page) on Sun, Aug 14, 11 at 21:03
Ooops, just saw I typed 'paint' instead of plant. Anyway, maybe you should do like me, plant SILK flowers. No watering and weather doesn't kill them. LOL. (actually its ME with my black thumb who doesn't kill them. Tho summers here are hard on real ones too.) hugs, Karen |
You do seem to find the best stuff! I like the idea of a plant in the can, but I would use one already in a pot to keep the can in better shape. As clever as you are, I'm sure that was already the plan. I think it's cool that you found a chandelier with lots of prisms! I will have to keep my eye out for those for the prisms too. I don't make wind chimes, but I know I've wanted prisms for something! LOL! |
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Anderson University Graphic Design Students Win Regional ADDY Awards
Five Anderson University graphic design students, for the first time in AU history, took top ADDY awards at the regional competition, which was held in March in Austin, Texas. The winners were selected from applicants from hundreds of colleges and universities in a region ranging from Texas to Virginia. The ADDYs, which are sponsored by the American Advertising Federation, honor excellence in advertising in an effort to cultivate high creative standards in the industry.
Pictured (left to right): Angela Cox, from Williamston;Kristina Connell, from Lexington; Stephanie Wilson, from Anderson;Savannah Jane Springer, from Fletcher, N.C.; Andy Adams, from Greer
Anderson University's winners were as follows: Savannah Jane Springer - Best of Show Award, Gold Award, Silver Award; Andrew Adams - Gold Award, Judge's Choice Award; Angela Cox - Silver Award; Kristina Connell - Silver Award; and Stephanie Wilson - Silver Award.
Two of the students—Savannah Jane Springer and Andrew Adams—will compete at the National ADDY Award Competition in Arlington, Va., on June 6. Dr. Timothy Speaker, assistant professor of art and event coordinator for AU students, said, "Though it is an honor to win at the local level and move on to the regional competition, the fact that AU students won eight ADDY Awards is amazing. To additionally receive the two highest prizes, the coveted Best of Show and the Judge's Choice awards is truly a blessing. The hard work and diligence of our faculty and students at AU prove that we are a world class fine arts department, able to compete with any program nationwide."


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Owning Up to Racism
Last week, actress Stacey Dash tweeted her support for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. And unleashed a firestorm, including AP coverage — "Do Black People Support Obama Because He's Black?"
On Twitter, she was called "jigaboo," "traitor," "house nigger" and worse. . . .
The theme of the insults: A black woman would have to be stupid, subservient or both to choose a white Republican over the first black president.
It might behoove Twits (those who use Twitter?) to take a breath every now and then and not immediately type out the first thing that comes to their heads. Especially if they're racists, like those who tapped out these vile attacks on Ms. Dash.
What should the president's skin color or her skin color have to do with whether she chooses to support Obama or Romney or whomever?
Funny, while attacking her for being stupid and subservient, this "progressive" beat-down crowd is upset precisely because Dash is smart enough — independent enough — to think for herself, refusing to be subservient to them.
It's scary that this sort of racism is so blatant, even after the long and difficult progress made on civil rights; scary, too, that today a black person can be "high-tech lynched" online for thinking and acting and speaking in ways not somehow assigned to his or her race.
Slavery is long over. The laws that made blacks second-class citizens have been repealed. So, why do some progressives think they own blacks?
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This card provides HHonors Silver status and a fast track to HHonors Gold status if you have four stays in the first 90 days of card membership. However, I think it is the sign-up bonus points and statement credit that would be most interesting to the majority of folks.
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Hi all, Hopefully I will not get flamed for this post and hopefully it is not off topic... if it is, I apologize, but this seems to be something that any of us living in old homes will have to contend with at some pint. My neighbor (structure as close as 10 ft away) is using a grinder-type device to remove the lead paint on his home, back to bare wood. Our homes are all around 80 yrs old. I don't necessarily see dust going everywhere but at the same time it isn't being reclaimed and it has to be going somewhere. We have a six year old and also my wife is pregnant and we already asked the doctor whether we should be concerned and the the reply was "only if you're eating the dust." OTOH, the painter that did our house recommended that if my wife was pregnant at the time that she relocate while they were scraping off the old paint. I am wondering what "ground truth" is on this. I am thinking my wife should be tested for lead the next time she goes back to the doc just to be sure. I would think the neighbor should be more worried, even though he is wearing a respirator, all this stuff is going into his soil and so forth. But I wanted to get your experiences as another data point on realistically what our exposure might be. |
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DIY work? The RRP rule doesn't apply but it doesn't make grinding off lead paint any less stupid. They need to be following this, or using a different method entirely. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Renovation, Repair and Painting Program: Do-It-Yourselfers
I wouldn't be happy about it, and if you are friendly with your neighbor, I'd suggest giving him some literature about safer methods. But at the same time I think the risk is relatively low if you're not standing there breathing it in; just keep your windows shut tight, and maybe put a tarp over the yard between your houses. I know neighbors aren't always open to reading pamphlets about lead-safe practices. Is he almost finished or just starting? Can your wife and kid stay with a friend until it's over, or is that impossible? I think once it rains the airborne danger is pretty much over. A lead test might be a good idea. An iron-rich diet can also help prevent lead absorption. Good luck and try not to panic! |
- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Wed, Mar 19, 14 at 10:08
If his lead dust is contaminating your property, you have a good case for a cease & desist order; start shooting video. You can follow up on the C&D with a lawsuit to make him pay for the decontamination process. His right to strip his paint ends at the property line when it starts to harm you. Casey |
Check with your local (or state) clean air or environmental organization. Large scale removals like you are describing are often regulated. If so, they could step in and control just how/whether this proceeds and make sure that any further work is done more safely than what you are describing. |
Thanks guys, this is a DIY. Long term project, has been at it for weeks and at the rate of progress it is going to be a long time yet. I don't want to be a jerk neighbor if it isn't warranted. Otherwise one thing leads to another and before long everyone is calling code enforcement on everyone and that kind of thing. OTOH a fence being an inch over a line or watering on the wrong days is one thing, poison control issues are another. I have honestly not seen any evidence of paint chips, dust, etc. on our property yet. I do think that keeping the windows shut and avoid unnecessary outdoor exposure while he is working are smart things to do for now. Since my wife is already getting lots of blood tests from being pregnant, I'm sure it is a matter of them just ordering a lead screening the next time they draw blood. I am overly cautious, admittedly, but you hear so much about the dangers of lead paint. I appreciate your comments. |
irun5k- I don't think you are being overly cautious, and I have worked in this area for many years. Two things I will point out: Lead Screening test: First of all, if you do get such a test, what will you do with the results? You can probably detect some level of Pb in most people, so what do you decide is a safe level, and how can you determine -- if she tests positive for Pb -- whether that is a background level or has increased recently due to exposure resulting from your neighbor's activities? You should also be aware that the exposure of young children and developing fetuses to low levels of Pb can be more serious for them in terms of long term deficits than it is for full grown adults. Exposure on your property: At this point, the exposure you are most likely to get is an invisible one: airborne, very small Pb dust particles. Just because you can't see anything much doesn't mean that you don't have an exposure. You're doing the right thing by keeping the windows shut and spending little time outdoors, but your furnace and normal infiltration are bringing in outside air, and you can also track lead dust into your home on your shoes. And for the long term, you need to be aware that, if your yard is getting gradually contaminated from lead dust, it is not a great place for a child to be playing. You're being responsible and I am not trying to alarm you, but your concern is warranted. If you are not willing to check into what local codes may govern what the neighbor is doing, or to get him to do this safely, maybe you can at least ask him to call a hiatus for a couple of months until the baby is born. |
- Posted by Trebruchet (email@example.com) on Fri, Mar 21, 14 at 10:51
Your neighbor needs to "tent" his work and properly dispose of his hazardous waste. You're not being a jerk by insisting he do so. He can switch methods if he chooses. |
There are a number of issues here. The first is the health of you, your wife, young child, and unborn child. But there is also the issue of neighbor relations. Could you 'do stuff to him' to make him comply? Undoubtably. There are grinders made with attached vacuums which are very good and in fact made exactly for this kind of work and for the purpose of containing lead paint dust, I used one a few years ago. Consider the costs both legal and social of 'doing stuff to him' and consider the cost of gifting him with such a vacuum. Should it be his responsibility? Sure. But are you trying to win, or are you trying for safety? Our system in general is adversarial, but it is amazing sometimes what taking the first step can do. |
This post was edited by lucille on Fri, Mar 21, 14 at 11:07
- Posted by Trebruchet (email@example.com) on Sun, Mar 23, 14 at 9:43
Have your lawyer rat him out to the authorities. After they leave, you can go over and "commiserate" at the government overreach. Maybe offer a suggestion or a tool. |
The problem with ratting is that unless there are particular local rules, it is not illegal for homeowners to do their own work as far as the removal of paint. |
- Posted by Trebruchet (email@example.com) on Thu, Mar 27, 14 at 7:10
lucille: The removed paint contains lead which is hazardous waste. Removing it improperly and contaminating your neighbor's property is illegal everywhere. |
Please cite the law you reference. I understand that the paint has lead, but for civil remedies one would need proof of contamination. Perhaps I have not kept up, but I was unaware of any federal legislation 'illegal everywhere' that prohibits homeowners from removing paint from their own homes. My point is that I believe the neighbor's action unless there are some local statutes, is not 'rattable'. Which is why I made my previous post saying that gifting the neighbor a vacuum made for such work (or even a vacuum/grinder set), may be the easiest fastest way to solve the problem. |
This post was edited by lucille on Thu, Mar 27, 14 at 9:20
As pointed out above, check the rules and regulations in your jurisdiction. Maryland, for instance, bans exactly what your neighbour is doing--grinding off lead-based paint. (Unless, presumably, all the paint on the house is pre-1978.) And anyone removing lead paint has to be licensed. |
lucille- You are correct that there is no uniform federal law governing what individuals may do regarding lead removal on their own homes. However -- similar to the example that worthy provided above -- there are many, many state and local environmental authorities that restrict lead paint removal by untrained/uncertified individuals, especially when it involves home exteriors, since it can involuntarily expose others than just the homeowner's family, and because it can directly contaminate the environment. Even if a municipal area does not have explicit lead regulations, this type of problem can often be addressed through existing hazardous waste regulations. |
- Posted by cold_weather_is_evil (My Page) on Thu, Mar 27, 14 at 14:17
What did the health department say when you called? |
Worthy, I did find some Maryland law which concerns rentals but not preventing homeowners from doing work on their own homes. There is a small part of the law dealing with enforced abatement but it does not pertain to this situation as it stands. When one takes a close look at a lot of statutes having to do with lead testing, abatement, and paint removal, it seems as if homeowners working on their own homes that they live in are not included in the scope of such laws. |
This post was edited by lucille on Fri, Mar 28, 14 at 7:23
- Posted by christophern (My Page) on Fri, Mar 28, 14 at 3:58
quote" Maryland, for instance, bans exactly what your neighbour is doing-- Not true |
quote" Maryland, for instance, bans exactly what your neighbour is doing-- Not true Woops! Correction accepted. It was a Rhode Island publication I was quoting. |
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The tragedy of those pop-up Halloween costume shops—besides, you know, their November 1 death sentence—is that everything in there's so cheap and disposable, and yet it's so sneakily expensive. You don't realize it until you get to the front of the always-too-long checkout line and hand over a tube of face paint, a plastic wand and a scratchy felt dress, and the register reads $67.84. But at that point, you're too exhausted to fight back.
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The Fragrance of the Rose
The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: "Those who know, do not say; Those who say, do not know." When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?" All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, "Put it into words." All of them were silent. from One Minute Wisdom by Anthony DeMello Keep your thoughts positive,
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I like both quotes, but especially Gandhi's. |
As I was reading the 2nd one I didn't even have to see who said it. That man was amazing and he sure hit the nail on the head with this one,in a way that cuts through all the crapola and gets right down to it. I guess that was his style though.I sure would have liked to sit down with a cup of darjeeling tea and chatted with him |
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Havens didn't want Vicenec there. He was worried Brewster might pull something, he says, maybe try to rob them, so he decided to go alone. The guy kept calling, pushing for a meet. At close to half-past five in the evening, Havens pulled off I-70 and headed into the SuperTarget lot.
Brewster had said he'd be in a blue Blazer behind the store. Havens spotted the Blazer -- which, behind tinted windows, actually contained two police officers -- backed into a spot in a tight corner of the lot. He made a wide turn and was in the process of pulling up next to the vehicle when the two designated pin cars, a Silverado and a white K2500 pickup, moved in. Other DMATT vehicles sealed off the perimeter.
According to multiple officer accounts given to shoot team investigators that evening, Havens reacted before the pin cars could reach their intended position. He put the Audi in reverse and backed into the Silverado, then shot forward, ramming the Blazer on the passenger side. The lot was icy, but the all-wheel-drive Audi had surprising traction, actually pushing around the larger vehicles attempting to box it in.
"He was going back and forth, hitting their car, my car," Arvada SWAT officer C.J. Bickmore, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the Blazer, told investigators. "I bet he hit our car three to four times good."
Colorado State Parks investigator Brian Sandy, who was driving the white pickup, responded by T-boning the Audi, driving it back into a snowbank. Thinking the suspect had been pinned, Sandy and his passenger, case detective Bill Johnson, hopped out of the truck and headed toward the Audi, planning to smash the windows and use a taser on the driver.
Sandy managed to smash the passenger window with a crescent wrench. But the Audi began to spin out of the snowbank, even as other vehicles arrived to try to complete the pin. It fishtailed around nearly ninety degrees, until it was now parallel to the Blazer, facing outward, its right front wheel hung up against the side of the white pickup.
Johnson, who had set out for the driver's window with taser in hand, was now in front of the lurching car, trying to keep his footing amid the ice and slush. Backpedaling and sliding, yelling at the driver to put the car in park, he found his exit cut off by another undercover vehicle, which had pulled up behind the pickup.
"I'm about ready to hit the ground, and this son of a bitch is about ready to run my ass over," Johnson told the shoot team later that night. "I got no place to go."
The Audi was rocking against the side of the pickup, its engine racing, back wheels spinning in an arc. If the right front wheel broke free of the pickup, Johnson was directly in the car's path.
"The first thing I thought is, 'I got a front row seat...I'm gonna watch Bill Johnson get killed,'" Bickmore recalled. "The car is now, I would say, no more than five feet from him, and all four wheels are squealing."
Johnson shifted his taser from one hand to another and drew his Glock. He fired into the Audi nine times, emptying the magazine. He went to reload and dropped the fresh clip on the ground. The car was still rocking back and forth, engine racing, tires spinning, but it seemed "pretty obvious" to one of the officers "that it's not being driven really at this point. It's like the accelerator is stuck, but it's still trying to move."
Other officers surrounded the Audi, smashed the windows and turned off the ignition. Havens was lying slumped in the driver's seat, bleeding heavily and screaming that he couldn't move. His right foot was jammed on the gas pedal, his arms limp at his sides.
Havens denies ramming any of the cars. He claims that the Silverado hit him from behind, forcing his car into the Blazer, and that after he was struck by the pickup he lost control of the car entirely.
"I never had a chance to run," he says now. "As soon as I pulled into that parking lot, they hit me. I only had one arm, and after they hit me I couldn't move my right arm at all. I couldn't put the car in park. The steering wheel was going all crazy.
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His version is contradicted by the accounts of half a dozen police eyewitnesses. At least two of those witnesses, including Johnson, say they made eye contact with Havens as he was ramming cars, spinning around, looking for an escape route and ignoring their orders. But other accounts leave some doubt about the exact sequence of events -- whether Havens was still in control of the car after getting rammed by the pickup, for example, or whether it was the bullets that finally stopped him.


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Just minutes after opening its doors, the new Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin lost one of its most recognizable figures. A man shoved aside two security guards and ripped Hitler's head off.
This time around, Adolf Hitler's stay in Berlin was considerably shorter than his first stint in the German capital. On Saturday morning, just seconds after the new branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum opened its doors for the first time, a visitor brushed aside two security guards, jumped over the desk at which Hitler was sitting, and tore the Führer's head off.
The man, a 41-year-old from the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin, was just the second visitor to enter the museum. "Never again war!" the man yelled as he attacked the wax figure.
"There were two security guards there, but they couldn't prevent the attack," said Natalie Ruoss, a museum spokeswoman, shortly after the incident. According to the police, one of the guards tried to stop him but the man was able to throw him to the floor. The attacker stands to be charged with assault and property damage.
The museum, located on Unter den Linden not far from the Brandenburg Gate -- and just a few hundred meters from the World War II bunker where Hitler committed suicide in the final days of the war -- remained open after the attack. The headless Hitler, however, had to be hauled away.
Initial reactions were more of bemusement than surprise. "It is more a work of art to rip Hitler's head off than it is to present him in the first place," said Frank Zimmerman, a Social Democratic parliamentarian from Berlin. Henryk M. Broder, a reporter and commentator for SPIEGEL, said wryly: "Finally an attack on Hitler was successful."
Whether the 200,000 wax dictator makes a return depends on how bad the damage turns out to have been, said Ruoss.
Even prior to Saturday's opening, the Hitler figure was controversial. Many thought it tasteless that Madame Tussauds intended to include him in an exhibit that presents many famous and influential Germans from history. The museum, for its part, claimed that, like it or not, Hitler was a major part of Germany's 20th century and thus belonged in the exhibit. Curators promised to present Hitler in such a way as not to glorify him -- and had him sitting behind a heavy desk as he would have looked in his bunker not long before his death.
That Hitler had such a brief stay in Berlin comes as something of a surprise. A Hitler figure in a museum in Hamburg hasn't been touched once in the decades it has been there. The museum there, called the Panoptikum, also has wax figures of Hitler's propaganda guru Joseph Goebbels and the outsized Nazi air force head Hermann Göring. Resistance activists like Hans and Sophie Scholl are also on display.
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March 06, 2005
Moore grist for the mill: Plump Pundit a Portly Pariah!
McQ of Q and O seems to be having a good time with a recent SF Examiner article by Kathleen Antrim on the decline of Michael Moore's star among the Hollywood left. (McQ titles his post "Moore in eclipse on the Left Coast." He needs to proofread more carefully; clearly he meant to write "Moore CAUSES eclipse on the Left Coast." *rim shot*)
Proof that Moore's in the waning phase: The article starts with fat jokes. Why, the nerve, to criticize a major artist just because he happens to be endowed with abundant avoirdupois!
First, Michael Moore threw his creative weight and his celluloid into defeating President Bush's re-election.
It continues with delicious, hateful gossip from Moore's ex-manager:
[Moore's former manager Douglas] Urbanski feels no compunction in talking about the only client he ever fired. In fact, he fired Moore with a 10-page letter.
"A more dishonest and demented person I have never met," Urbanski wrote me in an e-mail, "and I have known a few! And he is more money obsessed than any I have known, and that's saying a lot."
Urbanski believes that Moore hates America, hates capitalism and hates any normal concept of freedom and democracy.
My goodness! Where on earth does he get that idea?
Many blame him for provoking conservative voters and contributing to John Kerry's defeat in the presidential election. He's become the No. 1 favorite target of leftists.
"In certain [Hollywood] circles he is a shutout," Urbanski said.
I've had mixed reactions to Moore's fall from grace, which I had noticed even before Nov. 3.
My first reaction was:
Thank God, they're finally realizing this guy is nothing but a one-note fake-populist polemecist, pitching his tired schtick only to the faithful (and Osama Bin Laden).
My second reaction was:
Oh, no. They're realizing that their ham-fisted demonizing isn't working at the polls. What if their politics stay the same, but their tactics become more subtle? What if the Nancy Pelosi/Ted Kennedy/Barbara Boxer wing takes over and somehow learns how to hide their message well enough to win elections? God help us all!
My third reaction was:
Hey, they haven't stopped their ham-fisted demonizing at all! They're just doing their usual thing — putting all the blame for their defeat on the shoulders of one person, who will be marked as a pariah. As long as they're focusing on Moore as the problem, they won't change their philosophies or tactics or attitudes. They'll find another champion, another non-beautiful outsider, someone else they can cheer and then exile when the next election doesn't go their way. Just keep focusing on the messengers, Hollywood. Never examine your message. That's it. Keep making EtherPundit a very happy girl.
Posted by EtherPundit at 08:57 AM | Comments (2)
February 23, 2005
Michael Moore porn titles, revisited
Some of you may recall, possibly with an involuntary cringe, the Michael Moore Porn Titles post from a while back. A missive from Confederate Yankee reminded me that I should update the list. Since I first posted, I've realized that several of Moore's titles are porn-worthy just as they are:
TV Nation
("Captain Haddock" had posted "TV/TS Nation" in the comments of the first thread, but I think it's even better just as Moore wrote it)
Pets or Meat
The Big One
.... and his upcoming opus on Big Pharma,
In the original post, I asked for more ideas, and Captain Haddock had another good one up his... uh, up his sleeve:
Will They Ever Thrust in Us Again?
Mick McMick, in the comments, switched the assignment around and changed the titles of classic porn films to suit Moore instead:
I Am Curious: Pinko
Behind the Green Party
Insatiable (Good one, Mick!)
And here are the originals:
Rogering Me
Fahrenheit 9.11"
Boweling for Columbine
Canadian Makin' Bacon
Dude, Where's My C*nt?
I'll open up the floor to additions one last time, in case this exercise gets anyone's juices flowing.* Add your titles in the comments.
*I meant creative juices, perv!
Posted by EtherPundit at 08:40 AM | Comments (3)
January 21, 2005
Friday Night Indiscretion: Michael Moore Porn Film Titles
It's Friday night. We've all had a hard week. Some of you are drunk.
What better time to trot out... the Friday Night Indiscretion?
Tonight's ill-considered foray into absurdity:
What if Michael Moore made pornos? What would their titles be?
I've come up with a few:
Fahrenheit 9.11"
Boweling for Columbine
Canadian Makin' Bacon
Dude, Where's My C*nt?
I know someone out there can do better. Any ideas? Add them in the comments thread. If I get some good ones, I'll publish a new post next Friday collecting them.
Update: I should have made it clear that these would be films Moore would direct, not star in. I apologize if the image of Moore actually performing in such a movie has caused anyone irreversible psychosexual setbacks.
Posted by EtherPundit at 08:36 PM | Comments (9)
January 08, 2005
My job is secure! Thanks, Michael Moore!
I posted earlier about all the good news that seems to be floating around these days. Maybe it's just me. Maybe now that the unrelenting, oppressive Bush-bashing of everyone in my daily life has stopped, my spirits have permanently recovered. Maybe I'm still high from the election. Maybe I've learned not to let the bad stuff get to me so much.
In any case, news like this is just too good to ignore. As you probably know, Michael Moore, the man who loses elections for the Dems even as he wins awards for himself, is making a movie about the pharmaceutical industry. Moorewatch predicts a flop. Me, I'm rubbing my hands together, waiting for Mikey to work his patented magic. You know, that trick he does? Where he sprinkles some legitimate gripes with the pixie dust of conspiracy theories, until everything is all contaminated with the aura of kookitude? And the signal-to-noise ratio renders it nearly impossible to distinguish between sane critique and loony rant? And Mikey's intended victim is protected, as all criticism starts to blend into one annoying, whiny, accusatory buzz? And all critics of Mikey's putative target start to resemble ill-tempered androids programmed with prefab outbursts from the Moonbats-R-Us Talking Points Generator? That magic trick?
Do it again, Mikey! Do to the pharma industry what you did to Dubya! You see, Michael my dear, like so many others, I work in an industry whose health depends on the health of the pharmaceutical industry. (You'd be surprised how many of us there are! And how much we want to stay employed!) And I just know that once you work your many-chinned magic on Big Pharma, my job security will be guaranteed. Just like W's.
Oh, but there's one little thing, Michael. I'm grateful for all you've done, but you're so mean sometimes. You've made at least one little girl cry.
I think you should kiss her tears away and make it all better.
Posted by EtherPundit at 10:49 PM | Comments (1)
December 08, 2004
Weird Kinky Sex
Well, the good news is I found out by looking through my referrals that my site is currently 26th of approximately 257,000 that appear when you Google for weird kinky sex. (How did that happen? It's like... it's like Google is reading my mind! I knew it! -- I never should have taken off my tinfoil beanie. Damn thing just got too sweaty...)
The bad news is that Michael Moore's site is 24th on the list. Could some anti-porn activists be hacking Google, inserting dreadful buzzkills to deter porn-seekers? 'Cause that's gotta feel like a bucket of ice water in your lap when you're searching for weird kinky sex.
Unless you're a lot kinkier than I care to imagine.
Posted by EtherPundit at 10:11 PM | Comments (3)
November 29, 2004
Thank you, anonymous Google-searching person
Most of my hits from searches seem to come from the Bangbus post of a week or so ago. It's probably too much to hope that any of the Bangbus searchers stick around to read any of this blog's other content.
But my favorite search to date is this beauty:
Michael + Moore + Loser + And + Liar
Anonymous Google searcher, whoever you are, I hope you found what you were looking for here.
Posted by EtherPundit at 10:13 PM | Comments (1)
November 14, 2004
Moore's new propaganda masterpiece needs a title. Can YOU help?
KorlaPundit has picked up on my post below about Michael Moore's new project. He's asking for suggestions for names for those new proposed anti-Bush and anti-Blair projects, and he's got some good ones already. Help him out if you're so inclined. I've contributed a few myself.
Hey, anything to help the cause. Go, Mikey, go!
Posted by EtherPundit at 10:15 PM | Comments (1)
November 13, 2004
Suggested title: "Tony B-LIAR, Prime MONSTER of Great BOUGHT 'N' paid-for."
[whispering] Jesus, thank You so much for Your merciful intervention. I was already starting to worry about the midterm elections. I'm ashamed to even admit that, in the face of all Your bountiful gifts this month. (Thanks for the Arafat thing, by the way. I almost forgot to prostrate myself before You in gratefulness.) But now that Michael Moore is back on the job, I can stop worrying and relax, knowing the Republican majority will grow under Your watchful ministrations. Thank you, Lord.
[whispering even more softly] Oh, and Jesus -- or Buddah, or Yahweh, or Allah, or whatever your name is -- don't tell anyone I'm an atheist. I want the Dems to keep their useful illusions that only "Jesusland" voted for Bush. That really helps us out.
And now that I've had my conversation with whatzisname (or is it whatzername?), I have a question for the truly omnipresent one, Michael Moore himself. (Omnipresent not in the spiritual sense, but because his massive girth seeps uncontrollably into every corner, crevice, and crevasse.)
Mikey, dude, wasn't your next movie going to ream Bush's faithful poodle, Tony Blair? Do you not remember telling Reuters, "Blair knows better. Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"
The British election is looming ever closer. You've never let us down before, Mikey. Better get cracking!
Posted by EtherPundit at 08:12 PM | Comments (4)
November 07, 2004
Now it can be told: The real mastermind behind Bush's election
It wasn't Karl Rove. Oh, Karl's a crafty one. But he didn't clinch it.
Just for fun, just to keep the post-election euphoria going for another few hours — let's savor the plump, porcine presence of the real Bush re-election mastermind one more time.
Anyone recognize that poor dowdy sack o' misery sandwiched between the peanut farmer and the fat-farm refugee? She's probably still trying to scrub off the loser stink.
Okay, okay. I know I shouldn't be gloating. I know it's wrong. I haven't posted yet about how I've felt living as a deeply closeted libertarianish Bush booster for the last four years in the darkest heart of liberal New York. I haven't told you how profoundly bullied I've felt inside. But I can tell you this: I've been flying since Tuesday. Every other brownstone in my neighborhood still sports a large "We the People say NO to the Bush Agenda" rainbow flag draped across its front. How can I not rejoice (inside, of course, only inside)?
I've been on vacation all week. I could barely stand the Bushitler hubbub at its steady bubbling-under pre-election levels, let alone at its climax. Tomorrow I go back to the office and face the parade of long-faced mourners traipsing through my path. "Tsk," I'll say in a too-resigned-to-really-care-anymore way when my bosses curse the fates, the Fox News Network, and the Diebold Corporation.
Inside, deep inside my closet, I'll laugh just a little. It feels so good, and I owe myself a little relief.
"Heh" is a trademark of the Instapundit International Sinister Rightwing Consortium.
Posted by EtherPundit at 10:57 PM | Comments (2)
I could have told you, Michael: This world was never meant for one so beautiful as you.
Michael Moore has finally broken his post-election silence with a post on his website. Apparently his followers have more than one thing in common with lemmings; he seems to suspect that they may be on the brink of committing mass suicide.
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, "always look on the bright side of life!" There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
He then lists 17 rather forlorn reasons for his followers to continue living. Powerline has enlisted the blogosphere's help in countering these arguments. I've read Powerline religiously throughout the election season, so I feel duty-bound to answer the call.
I'm a bit ambivalent about encouraging Moore's followers to go ahead and, "in the words of Monty Python," shuffle off their mortal coil, run down the curtain and join the bleedin' choir invisible. Oh, the Moorians are annoying, it's true, but it's my opinion that Bush couldn't have won the election without the Dems' warm embrace of Moore at their convention and Tom Daschle's literal embrace of Moore may have lost him just enough votes to end the career of everyone's least favorite hatchet-faced obstructionist.
So it is with great regret that I say: Michael, thanks to you and your followers for helping the GOP to victory. But your work here is done, so to counter your "17 reasons not to slit your wrists", I offer you:
- Be honest: Is life worth living under a Bushitler regime? Think of it: The Chimp's smirking mug leering at you every day for four years… every day… and remember, dying only hurts for a minute. I'm just saying. (Every day! Even on NPR, you'll hear his voice when they do the news! And on Morning Edition! Even on All Things Considered!)
- No more earnings to be taxed to fund fictitious wars fought by fictitious presidents.
- It'll definitively answer the question: "Bush lied; Who died?"
- It will show solidarity with the poor downtrodden Palestinians, whose highest goal in life has always been suicide in the service of defeating the Zionist war machine.
- If suicide is accomplished with firearms, it will serve to reinforce the thesis of Bowling for Columbine: Those craven Americans sure are obsessed with guns and killing.
- Fuel for several years' worth of moonbat conspiracy theories; doesn't it seem a bit too convenient that Bushitler's sworn enemies should all start killing themselves at once?
- Sudden demand for body bags would further increase petroleum prices, reinforcing the absurdity of Bushitler's war for cheap oil.
- Won't be around to feel the pain when Castro and Arafat depart this earthly plane. (Hurry Arafat's in the departure queue!)
- It's the only way you can crash the Pearly Gates and get that hostile ambush interview with God.
- You can found a new PAC to support the mass suicide: PassOn.org.
- Must die soon, or Dan Rather won't be able to cover your death.
- Help George Soros make back some of the money he lost backing Kerry give him a heads-up before you do it and he can game the dead pools.
- If you work quickly, you'll have time to prepare a place in Hell for the soon-to-arrive hordes of heroic Fallujah "Minutemen."
- You'll be right at home in Hell. It's a blue state.
- Shoo-in to have special montage created to honor you at next year's Cannes, to the tune of a melancholy rendition of "We Shall Overcome."
- You'll still be able to vote, especially in Chicago.
- Two words: President Giuliani.
(A new blog, IgnoreMoore, has countered Moore's list with a point-by-point Fisking, in the unthinkable event that anyone finds the above list insufficiently persuasive.)
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