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Looking forward to this WSJ article, based on this epic thing. Can you imagine how many votes Olympia Snowe will win for life if her staffers go neighborhood to neighborhood giving each household a bag of rock salt for the winter? [Twitter]
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Is Olympia Snowe winning bags of rock salt the republican version of Obama winning the nobel prize?
Really, that stuff is useful up here. Precious, even, in the spring. As a protest, it rates with sending cash.
One of those small businesses that would prefer not to provide employees help with health insurance, I’ll wager.
Women’s Salt Journal?
Silly me, I forgot to invest in rock salt after Erick The Redstater’s decree.
But yeah, if Snowe has any brains whatsoever, she will make lemonade from lemons here. Or margaritas from salt, whatever.
“Apparently a small rock salt company has been sending hundreds of bags to Olympia Snowe’s office in Maine…”
…where it will be hilariously useful this winter?
This is terrible, this idea.
Let’s send tea bags to Prince Charles to protest British involvement in Afghanistan.
Can we protest this by sending underage boys to Erick Erickson?
As a counter-protest, I just send a bag of rock candy to Jim DeMint.
So RedState has hundreds of readers. That’s nice, guys. Keep up the good work.
TJBeck: Let’s send diapers to Erick and the Redstate Crew, because they are full of shit. Wait, that won’t actually work because Erick et al. ACTUALLY LIKE TO POOP THEIR PANTS.
Rock salt works better on ice than on snow. If you don’t remove the snow that covers the ice, it just burrows a hole through the snow.
In retaliation, Maine sends a rock lobster to Athens, Georgia.
“Yay RS readers” Presume the ‘R’ is for retarded?
CapnFatback: “Rock, rooock! Rock Lobstah!”
Extemporanus: Oh dang, I just sent 100 bottles of hairspray to Rick. I got him good.
And, hey, time to put my moniker to good use:
Police Chief Grady: I’m sorry about that delousing. Just standard procedure.
Farva: It’s powdered sugar.
Police Chief Grady: The lice hate the sugar.
Farva: It’s delicious.
SmutBoffin: We could send them to Senator Crapo (R-ID) instead.
CapnFatback:
Or Mardi Gras beads to New Orleans
So the WSJ just calls up RedState, just to talk? Weird.
Think of the things she could do all that salt, fill water softeners, deice roads, cure pork, make ice cream and shoot trespassers in the ass. Thanks Red State!
GDuvall: Yeah, I was thinking that that was a bit odd. I mean, the WSJ sucks, but I don’t usually assume that they don’t have anything to do, you know?
I seriously do want to see video footage of Senator Snowe’s reaction to this. Will she assume it is a heartwarming gesture from her constituents, or will she laugh and say “What a bunch of fucking idiots”?
I mean, seriously. Did it ever occur to Erick Erickson to consider WHY “small rock salt compan[ies]” even fucking exist? There couldn’t possibly be any DEMAND for this sort of product, could it?
Did the WSJ just finger Erick Erickson?
They’re happy, they think they’re making a point, let them glory in their moment. Think of it as money from their social security checks they wont be able to send to Ron Paul.
Like coals to Newcastle.
Has anyone checked to see if this small Rock-Salt company is actually owned by Erick? Or would that be far too clever and deceitful?
Didn’t fans of the cancelled TV show “Jericho” try to keep the program on air using a similar strategy? … Something about sending the execs at CBS a bunch of nuts? Well, Redstate certainly has the nuts part down pat.
Terry: I shudder to think of what might happen if New Orleans ever suffered a bead shortage. Send your beads, other 49! The elevation of the tops of our nation’s inebriated young women depends upon it!
Parallel lines of logic would compel me to send the last *president* a bag of dildos. Ya get it? Because his name was…oh never mind.
Snowe’s office really ought to write them a nice thank-you note!
Mmmm, salt pretzels.
As a protest against the Justice Department’s new memo on medicinal marijuana enforcement, Redstaters plan to send Eric Holder and Barack Obama roughly a metric ton of pot.
And please send bags of ice to Texas and umbrellas to the Northwest to show further protest.
Since she’s already pretty much all but said she won’t be supporting this healthcare thing in the future, I guess when she inevitably votes against it next time, they’ll take credit for that. Win!
Somehow I keep reading that tweet handle as “erection”. This is not altogether surprising, considering.
White crystaline substance being sent to the Senate House? They really are retarded.
“It’s better than anthrax.”
–Tom Daschle
You know what would really show those liberals in California how you feel? Sunscreen. SPF 30, and make sure it’s the kind with skin conditioner.
If there’s any salt left over after the winter, they can send her bottles of tequila and sacks of limes.
Is Olympia Snowe a snail? Does she give her uncle mashy handjobs under the table?
If I wanted to follow Erick Erickson’s twitter feed, I would have subscribed to it, joined Twitter, become Internet-proficient, and not smashed up my computer (in reverse order).
I’m thinking boxes of “Summer’s Eve” to Eric - because he’s a douche!
Extemporanus: “Confused staffers at the office of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) office reported that they had received hundreds of blow-up dolls featuring the likeness of Lorena Bobbitt in recent days.”
rev_matt_y: more like stoves and steam engines to Newcastle, I would think.
Here are some other awesome “protests” these tools should consider:
Gallons of sunscreen to reps in Florida, Arizona and Hawaii
Woolly socks to Minnesota, Wyoming and Alaska
Rain slickers to Washington, Oregon
BBQ sauce to Missouri, Texas and Louisiana
That’ll show ‘em! That’ll show em ALL!
Apparently now Red State wants to send bananas to someone next (http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2009/10/19/the-bananization-of-our-republic-continues/).
I call bullshit. No fucking way. Are there sales rankings on amazon and shit to verify it?
And who the fuck is ewe rickson? sounds like a sheep to me.
Capricatony: So wrong, and yet such a win.
A few hundred shovels would be good too. They start getting scarce once we get to December. Anyhoo- props to Erik for doing the first useful thing in his life.
Red State’s amazon link is serviced by Denny & Kathy’s Ace Hardware in St Cloud, MN.
See below, stellar_ = me.
@ewerickson Do you forsee any potential panic with right wingers mailing white crystaline substances to the Senate House? Remember Anthrax?
@Stellar_ not really. Going to state office and clearly labeled. Also large pieces, not a powder.
@ewerickson I can clearly label a cheese sandwich, PB&J. I just think you could have picked a less Terrorist Alert Level-raising material.
@Stellar_ I think that is rather mountain out of molehill-ish.
@ewerickson Time will tell. And the FBI; time and the FBI.
I am calling bullshit until there is actual proof of this.
glamourdammerung: http://twitter.com/Stellar_
“Hello, Eric? Yes, this is WSJ calling [snickering in background]..Yeah, we just wanted you to know that Maine has received one MILLIO…[no no no...shhhshh!!! say hundreds] Um Eric? Still there? Good, good…hey, buddy? Maine’s recieving, like, HUNDREDS[snickering]of bags of rock salt from,from [what? oh, okay, OKAY!] a small rock salt company. Yah. I swear. Okay, buddy. You take care now [snickering]….”
All the money these protesters are spending on rock salt and shipping may pay for someone’s doctor bills for a year…what a waste.
digibal235: Aw, now you’re going to scare him off and he won’t send anyone any more presents!
we should send something absolutely useless to this dickhead, like empty cans of hobo beans or something.
So at $3.00 a bag, thats like $750 worth of rock salt. Snowe’s people should just call the company up, tell them if they send them a check for 375 they can keep the rock salt and pocket the difference, and then put their share of the money into her re-election campaign.
Any chance RedState owns a small rock salt company?
Crank Tango: How about used toothbrushes? You know, the ones that have been used as toothbrushes, and then used for “other things.” Like getting clumped kitty litter out of the kitty’s paws, or cleaning bathroom fixtures.
Snowe could have a fundraiser now, selling bags of rock salt at half price and make a pretty good haul.
the problem child: and then send pics of where the brushes were! LOLOLOL.
In all the excitement about this exciting development, I forgot about why the Redstatetards are sending Snowe rock salt. To melt her? Aren’t you supposed to use rock salt on ice?
This is great news for Meg McCain’s tits!
At first glance I thought it said, “33 mintues ago from TweetDick” — but that made too much sense.
How about we send RedState endless bags of manure? Over and over, more and more, until their offices choke with the shit and there’s no room for them to keep creating their own?
I am so sick of those traitorous scumbags.
Or better, let’s have Snowe publicly post the names of each person that sends the salt to her, so we can just send the shit right to them and cut out the middleman.
Damn, I meant to participate in this worthwhile protest but I seem to have mistakenly sent my bags of rock salt to Erick instead of Snowe. I also seem to have mistaken ‘bags of rock salt’ with ‘buckets of jizz’. I think Erickson was still appreciative though, his gchat status mentioned that he would be saving some money on his food budget this week.
But real Americans farm or something with manure. Actually, never mind. Real Americans use fertilizer from Monsanto.
Yeah, next time they say something borderline treasonous, that’d be fun.
Oh, and they posted the article: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/19/ind-retailer-gets-spike-in-rock-salt-orders-for-sen-snowe/?blog_id=24&post_id=14137
Seriously, Snowe is going to get the last laugh on this. She’s in MAINE, where it’s icy and snowy. Heck, I’m in NJ, and my car was covered in a thick layer of frost this morning.
Lest we forget - Ewick gets a cut of every bag ordered through his link. Nice.
I should capitalize on this and get all of you to send something useful up to Michigan, since god knows we need a a lot of stuff, at the moment. Actually, even better yet, our biggest dream is that Canada will simply annex us where we’ll be half-way appreciated.
Hundreds of bags? That’s enough for each household in Maine.
Oh of coures, I always get my rock salt delivered to my door. I’m sure that company had nothing better to do than to bring the shit to her office hand-delivered, with no costs for shipping I’m guessing. Yahrite.