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POT OF CRAP AT END OF RAINBOW
“The Rainbow Family are the dirtiest people on Earth,” commenter paulris recently noted. “Some of them rented in the house behind mine. It was so disgustingly filthy, I bought the home so that I could kick them out.” The US Forest Service probably wishes it could do the same:
Now that the Rainbow Family is wrapping up its annual return to nature, the U.S. Forest Service is examining what it will take to return their campsite to its natural state.
Forest Service spokeswoman Denise Ottaviano said aerial photography of the countercultural campers’ 4-square-mile settlement in the Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District of Routt National Forest revealed “40 to 50 miles” of newly improvised trails requiring restoration in the visitors’ wake.
“It’s shocking,” Ottaviano said. “Now there’s just this enormous trail system” in a previously pristine area ...
Another legacy of the gathering, according to Ottaviano, will be cars and dogs. She said the Forest Service is anticipating a number of broken-down or stolen vehicles will be left behind, and said that 20 to 30 lost or abandoned dogs have been rounded up.
Why do they despise nature so? Meanwhile, employees at alternative energy company Plug Power proclaim their faith after viewing Al Gore’s holy movie:
“I was quite moved,” said Charlie Mirella, 51, who’s worked at Plug for three years. “I have a 9-year-old daughter. I’m more concerned about her future.”
He said the movie changed his perspective about his job.
“It makes you feel like you’re doing the right thing,” he said. “It’s either a job or a mission. It switched today to the second.”
Kathy Johnson, 54, said the movie was great.
“It’s something more people need to hear and take action to,” said Johnson, who’s worked at Plug for seven years. “It’s not political. It’s a life issue. It’s not a matter of any individual company succeeding, it’s a matter of global success.”
Company boss Roger Salliant:
“This is inspirational,” he said. “We’re working on something much bigger than a job. We’re part of a mission. The couple of hours of lost work is hugely offset by the inspiration and commitment of the people.”
It’s a religion, plain and simple.
RIFF-RAFF UPDATE:
While many Rainbows patronized local businesses on their way to and from their gathering, in their wake they leave a significant mess that may offset any economic benefits. Among the costs:
The Yampa Valley Medical Center will have provided more than $100,000 in medical care that probably won’t be repaid.
The Routt County Humane Society scrambled to vaccinate dozens of dogs after an outbreak of the deadly parvovirus, and officials fear there could be as many as 200 pets abandoned.
And the Forest Service, which spent nearly $800,000 just for its incident-management team, will be left with the task of rehabilitating the land.
Numerous Rainbows are staying behind to help with site recovery, but it could take years for Big Red Park to look normal again.
Read on for alarming ferret-paralysis news.
On a serious note…...
Saillant said the movie reiterated the themes he’s been preaching since taking the helm at Plug more than five years ago.
Perhaps I am but thinking of the worse in people, but what would happen if one of his employees told him his opinions may be little more than feel good crap…..and back that up facts?
After all, a guy who forks out a lot of cash (tickets plus several hours of salaries for 231 people not in the office ain’t cheap) may have some very strong opinions about dissenting employees.
So I have to wonder just how sincere the opinions from those people are.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 09 at 11:24 AM • permalinkADMIN OT: I have discovered that there is no way to change the time stamp of comments. So… silly comments of a certain nature will simply be deleted. A certain person knows what I am talking about.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 07 09 at 11:48 AM • permalinkHippies are so filthy and yet so arrogant. A busted-up Volkswagen once parked me in at the Coop. So, even though the female of the species was sitting in the car, I had to climb around like a contortionist to get my food in my beemer. She glared at me the whole time—I realize that, instead of being dressed in organic rags and having uncombed hair, I was in business clothes and had on makeup; I was, therefore, scornable.
So I finished and squeezed around and managed to open my front door so’s I could clamber in. My door touched their rancidmobile. She opened the window and yelled, “Bitch! You damaged our car!”
A beating with a sledgehammer could only have improved the looks of the car. I said, “Sorry,” and began to struggle in. “Bitch!” she yelled, “I oughtta call a cop!”
“You go right ahead and do that. In fact, if you want, I’ll use my cell to call. Want me to?”
She said some pretty awful things but rolled her window up.
Hey, where’s that peaceful earthy crap, Princess?
Ushie — For some strange reason, I find telling dipsticks like that, “go ahead, call a cop,” ALWAYS shuts down the confrontation. Dunno why. I’ve got no worries about turning out MY pockets…“oh, look, officer, what’s that in plain sight in their back seat…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 09 at 01:23 PM • permalinkSend them the bill for the cleanup. If they don’t pay file a lawsuit and seize whatever assents they have to be sold to meet the costs. Also there must be some minor criminal violations about defacing federal property or creating a nuisance that can be used against these swine.
Sorry, calling hippies swine is an insult to pigs.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 09 at 08:34 PM • permalinkHippies were never the naturebabies their PR woulda had everyone believe. When it came to ‘getting back to nature’ we had ‘em beat - plant a garden every Spring, weed it, water it (or wait for G-d to water it), harvest it, then can as much as possible to make it through till next harvest. My experience was that most “hippies” were over-indulged city folks - arrogant brats who had more sex drive than brains & promptly called Daddy for bail money whenever Heaven on Earth got REAL. Things were filthy when they left because they don’t know or care how Life really works in a community. They’re disgusting examples of the worst a person can be.
Texas Bob, this has been a question in my mind for a long time. I never considered myself all that intelligent but I’m not an imbecile, either. I got a high school diploma 33 years ago, did ok in some college classes, have had a few really interesting jobs but my only career has been ‘Mom’ & ‘Navy Wife’—and I think the folks who listen so reverently to AlGore & his kind are just wrong in the head somehow…
Thank you for your service, I am comforted knowing there are more out there like you.
My Uncle is a funny bugger and hates hippies. we had a dreadlocked specimin walk into where my father was working.
My Uncle took one look and exclaimed “The arse end of my sheepdog has dags just like that blokes head”
Bloke left the shop….Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 07 09 at 09:29 PM • permalinkSorry, calling hippies swine is an insult to pigs.
And I’ll try not to take it personally either.
(slams inslut directory shut)Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 09 at 11:46 PM • permalinkI went to a gathering at a friend’s Saturday night and (since I was a guest) had to put up with listening to an emiritus professor and his wife blow on about how wonderful algore’s movie was and how wonderful algore was and how algore ‘really won the 2000 election, you know.’
They also pointed out that he had ‘gathered all the best scientists in the world and they all agree with him’ (not a verbatim quote but damned close).
They remind me of any given bunch of cultists you might have ever run into.
I should point out that there was a fair amount of eye-rolling going on around them that they didn’t seem to notice. They were pretty fervent. Haven’t seen anything like this since Michael Moore’s F 9-11 movie.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 07 10 at 12:29 AM • permalink(slams inslut directory shut)
Can that dictionary be bought on line, SwinishCapitalist?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 10 at 10:03 AM • permalinkI lost my ass on that house, but it was worth it. We tried to clean it up after I evicted them, but we kept getting sick. I took the back door off of it and it took my behated cat Toonce six months to kill all the rats. Finally sold it as was and some guys fixed it up and rented it to a Goth/Vampire. In case you don’t know, vampires are quiet, fastidious, and make great neighbors.
I’m waiting for PETA and all of their Hollywood sponsors to condemn this group for their cruel, neglectful treatment of animals. They are interested in all forms of animal cruelty, not just those done by KFC or research labs, right?
After that, the groups that advocate universal health care can take up the cause of the medical providers that performed what are essentially free services, right?
#20 - You’ll find it on EBay, my friend, right between the Brooklyn Brdige and the Pyramids.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 10 at 08:35 PM • permalinkUgh. Bridge, not Brdige.
Dyrtyfroth’s Syndrome.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 07 10 at 08:37 PM • permalinkTalk of the Rainbow Family, what ever happened to the Rainbow Festival back of Grafton.
Some hear say that there are still ferals wandering around in the State Forest marryheewahnaad out and never finding their way of the forest.
Either that or their Kombis have gone to the big Graveyard in the Sky for wildly painted Kombi vans, after first trying to out four wheel drive each other over the local cliffs.Never mind.
The mushroom cloud will again be rising above Splendour next week, and then there is Woodford for all the little rainbowees- they know how to breed them up.
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I’ve never claimed to be a rocket scientist, but I will claim average intelligence. I’ve always considered myself to be very much average. How is it then, that so very many Americans can be so stupid as to believe this raving lunatic? If I’m in the average middle, certainly we could expect no more than 10-15% of Americans are morons? Has the nation’s water supply been contaminated with lead? Good Lord what is the matter with these nitwits?