Showing posts with label highway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label highway. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Florida city decides to rename Old Dixie highway to President Barack Obama highway. Oh this will not go over well.

Courtesy of the Washington Post:  

Old Dixie Highway is no more in Riviera Beach, Fla. Instead, motorists are driving on President Barack Obama Highway. 

Riviera Beach officials renamed the portion of the highway in their city limits, and the new sign carrying the name of the nation’s first black president went up Thursday. Old Dixie, officials said, paid homage to an era that glorified slavery. 

The name was “symbolic of racism, symbolic of the Klan, symbolic of cross burnings, and today we are stepping up to a new day, a new era,” Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters told WPTV on Thursday.

One elderly lady claims to have seen a cross burning on this same highway. Some how I think she might get the opportunity to see another one.

But this is a good thing.

After all I it is well past time for Florida to start moving into the future and leave behind their racist past. I mean screw those old racists anyhow.

Having said that I hope the city has invested in a whole lot of back up "President Barack Obama highway" street signs, because you just KNOW the first dozen or so are going to be vandalized or stolen.

After all, this IS Florida.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Palin-bots come up with the lamest, and possibly most dangerous, protest ever!


Apparently these paint chip eaters have decided that the best way to support their retarded leader, and really stick it to that Muslim in the White House,  is to take their cars out onto our nation's highways and suddenly pretend to run out of gas. Then they are planning to pull over to the side of the road and sit in their cars honking their horns like imbeciles for up to an hour.  Brilliant isn't it?

I know, you think I MUST have made this one up.  However such is not the case, here you can see for yourself by visiting this  crappy little pro-Palin blog that has not yet recognized that their idol is a laughingstock:

Here is what is planned:

• Sunday, March 13th, 2011 – 4 PM Eastern, 3 PM Central, 2 PM Mountain, and 1 PM Pacific time;

• We want everyone to get into their cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs, Semis, box trucks, and any other vehicle, and drive to your nearest highway or main route;

• Don’t go far, just enough to get in a safe position to pull over to the shoulder, and park, engine running, headlights and flashers on;

• Why? To take a cell call, or make one or several. After all, law enforcement recommends that you pull over to the side to take your call or text.

• Once pulled over to the side, place calls or texts to your friends, take pictures, send tweets, flood Facebook with messages and photos, along with several million others on other highways across the land.

• Stay one hour if you can, get your friends to do the same, line up all your vehicles in a safe manner as far off the side as you can, and hit your horns.

• One hour gives the media a chance to react, a chance to get footage. Imagine the traffic reports!

Yes just imagine the traffic reports. "Uh this is chopper 91 reporting on some ruckus occurring on I-5.  It looks like a bunch of cars have pulled over to the side of the road all at the same time and started honking their horns.  It is so idiotic that my guess is they are Sarah Palin supporters. I suggest that the police call the tow trucks and send the bill to Alaska."

But don't worry the simpleton who thought up this little gem does not want the low hanging fruit to do anything unsafe (You now like suddenly pull over and park on the shoulder for no good reason.), so he has offered a few guidelines.

• Be respectful, and patriotic to a fault; (What?  There is a limit to how patriotic they can be? That is not very wingnutty of them.)

• Be courteous to your fellow “Stoppers”; (Catchy name, "Palin stoppers." Hey that sounds like MY job!)

• Do not do anything illegal, and do not get out and walk, Observe and obey all laws; (You mean like the law that says "never stop on the shoulder of the highway unless it is an emergency?")

• Be the PATRIOTIC icon of virtue that you are! (Because NOTHING says "patriot" like putting yourself and your fellow Americans in danger don'tcha know.)

You know the really funny part of this is that only about a few dozen or so people are ignorant enough to actually do this, which essentially means that nobody will even notice.

But if, on March 13th, you happen to see a car stopped by the side of the road waving and honking like a crazy person, don't bother stopping and trying to help. They are most likely a Palin-bot and there is simply NO help for those people.  Believe me, I have tried.

(You can also read Wonkette's very funny take on this story.)