This Ohio Tea Party group “COAST” (note: Ohio geography fail) would on a normal old wingnut day probably tweet something less terrorism-y and more creative like, “Hitler had sex with dogs on public streetcars, THEY SHUD B DEFUNDED” but, eh, they had to tweet something to celebrate this weekend’s 9/11 holiday tradition of 9/11 political point-scoring. It’s practically in the Constitution, is the thing. So “public transportation projects are possibly more horrifying than 9/11″ will fit the bill, sure! Then it gets a little confusing, because this teabagger group is not actually advocating socialist streetcar money go back to the socialist firefighters, because GOD FORBID. They are merely pointing out that everyone in Cincinnati will die engulfed in flames while other people get to ride around on commie streetcars. We can almost hear those 9/11 tears in Ohio!
The local NBC affiliate WLTWÂ reports:
Cincinnati has been unstaffing, or browning out, some engines or units on a regular basis since 2009 due to budget cuts. At the same time, the city has been working to create a streetcar program that may cost as much as $128 million.
COAST opposes the streetcar project and says the money should be spent on the deficit or to reduce taxes. The city says the streetcar money comes out of funds that can’t be moved to the budget.
This is the most terrifying 9/11 story we have ever read. [WLWT/Twitter]
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What can Brown-Out do for you?
Teabaggers are so chokeable.
Civility, be-atch.
Eh.. I almost always mean it figuratively. …except for Limbaugh, I do want his organs to fail.
I'd rather have the kiddies play trampolines on Uncle Rushbo until his organs liquefy, but "fail" could work, too.
Um, with that amount of lard and rage circulating his veins, its a question of not if, but when!
Hopefully, he's not too big to fail.
By "chokeable" he meant "targeted neck-huggable".
I too would like to neck-hug the Tea Party, in a very targeted, specific way, to show them how much I love and respect them.
You mean like WI Chief Justice Prosser the Tortious? Or perhaps, after his neck-hugging of a fellow justice, the Torticollitious?
Never forget… your transfer ticket.
False equivalencies 'r' us, says the Tea Party.
Oh no, the streetcars may make it somewhat easier and cheaper for Cincinnati residents, particularly the poors, to get to and from work; how horrific! Everyone should just drive everywhere, and if someone can't afford a car then by Free Market principals they should walk ten miles to and from work every day if they have to; or just politely stop working and starve.
Haven't you heard? Cheap mass transit makes it possible for the poors to rob the suburbs. A friend of a friend told me.
There is no public transport near our home, which is in a lovely, isolated little pocket of a town. Friends came to visit right after we bought, and said, "Oh, look, you can't take the bus here. That means you won't get *those* people coming up here to steal your shit." I gave them my best *those* people look, with no result. The shamelessness has gotten all out of proportion with these yobs.
"COAST opposes the streetcar project and says the money should be spent on the deficit or to reduce taxes."
Spend money to REDUCE taxes. God damn, I love this fucked up country.
Note that they DON'T propose spending the money to restore the fire houses.
So while it's "worse" than 9/11, it's even more worser to pay taxes for essential services. Crazy teabaggers are crazy.
Teabagger Nirvana is to have your credit card ready as the fire trucks pull up. Better have a high limit!
But having a streetcar pull up is a bad thing. Go figure.
And hope the charge goes through on the first attempt…
No, of course not. That would be soshulismistic.
Cut taxes, buy more bombs. It's the American Way!
This is good news for Blanche Dubois.
Stella…!!!
♪♫Can't you feel me yell-a, you're puttin' me through hell-a, Stella, Stell-a!♩♬
A Streetcar Named Teabagger
In that play, there's no streetcar and there hasn't been desire since the Reagan administration.
Kind of hard to have any desire when one hasn't seen their genitals since the first days of the Clinton Admin.
A Street
carWhore Named TeabaggerFIFY. NNTT.
A Streetcar Named No Fire… Companies
"And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this–kitchen–candle. "
Blanche was positively prophetic.
COAST has always relied on the kindness of strangers.
More likely "on the strangeness of kinder."
These strangers are not likely to be very kind…
this is simply just news for Blanche Devereaux. neither good nor bad.
The $128 million could be put to much better use simply by converting it to $2 bills and firing it through a sewer pipe into the Ohio River.
Al Qaeda and the streetcar of death–Worse than the remilitarization of the Rhineland!
Next those Muslins will be indoctrinating our kids with Abdullah The Tank Engine cartoons.
My least favorite of the Harry Potter series.
Can Republicunts/Teatards get any points across without mentioning 9/11, Hitler or Jeebus?
No.
And Reagan. Always fucking Reagan.
The "Conceptual Reagan" not the real Reagan. Just like the "Conceptual White Nordic Jeebus" , not the brownish looking fuck indigenous to the region.
If the REAL Jeebus ever showed up, they'd be calling the cops on his Jewfro'ed hairy black ass in no time flat.
They could always mention it is the result of Obama and his radical agenda and failed policies.
I refudiate!
Counting the days until Baggers start hijacking streetcars and driving them into browned-out fire departments in a fit of confusion.
COAST opposes the streetcar project and says the money should be spent on the deficit or to reduce taxes.
So they don't care if you burn to death, just cut taxes or reduce the deficit? What an upstanding group of Xtain warriors!
Hearing teabaggers wax patriotic on September 11 or July 4 is a lot like hearing deadbeat parents brag about the kid they don't support.
Joe Walsh!
Dad?
Maybe Cincy is just overserved by fire departments, and they don't need as many as they used to. When's the last time they had a really big, cataclysmic fire?
Hell, the river hardy even catches fire anymore.
Fucking EPA.
Forgot the riots, what, 10 years ago?
They hate this whole concept because it involves the word brown….fucking racists!
They lost 17.5% of the fire companies? I'm curious about that .5% Do they have a firetruck that just doesn't have wheels or something? Oh God, does their dalmatian not have hind legs?
The Dalmatian dog lost half of his spots.
They were dark spots, so that's perfectly OK with the 'baggers.
Mighty white of ya, Biely. Oh, wait, no, that's the dawg. OK, then.
I guess they say it is true. Nothing is certain but death and taxes and dipshitty things written by Teabagger botards who are too fucking dumb to understand how gubbiment works.
It takes an incredibly stupid person to complain about the government yet want to get elected and have the taxpayers foot the bills.
Also a hypocrite.
That would also require an understanding of "irony". Which, to teadickulists, is like rain, on your wedding day.
I think it takes a clever person to realize that there are incredibly stupid voters who will put you in office and foot your bills, because they hate government. The trick is to pretend that you're equally stupid. Even if you're a millionaire leech, bleeding government programs and subsidies for profit, they think you're one of them.
What about the one that was pitching a fit because his government paid health care wouldn't kick in for 30 days.
Why does a street car make the lights at the fire station flicker?
The "brownout" is the signature move at Tom Coburn's C Street Sexytime Complex.
An attempt to San Franciscanize the citizens of Ohio–turn them into fabulous, streetcar loving young men with washboard abs.
Where the word brownout is more likely used in casual conversation regarding Fleet enema's than in a reference to electricity.
I'm movin' to Ohio soon … gonna be a washboard ab tycoon …
Movin' to Ohio soon, gonna be a tashboard wab flycoon….
Probably develop a taste for Rice-A-Roni too.
I hear it's the San Francisco Treat!
Honey, I know her, and she has the tackiest taste in shoes.
This Ohio Tea Party group “COAST” (note: Ohio geography fail)
I feel compelled to point out there is lakefront property in Ohio…
Nobody refers to the "Lake Erie Coast".
These tools need a different name and acronym.
"Stupidly Hindering Ohio's Return to Excellence" works well.
Spelling it Ahia makes more sense, here.
No, they call it the "North Coast" and they are very serious about it.
I grew up in buffalo, which is on the West Coast of NY state. Of course, I am the only one on earth to call it that.
There is a brewing internecine war on the shores of Lake Michigan, where Western Michigan University has its Third Coast Digest literary quarterly and Milwaukee has the Third Coast Digest ( formerly Vital Source ).
Yes, but it IS in Ohio and therefore…
Lakes have shores, oceans have coasts.
she sells sea shells by the lake shore?
Lake Shore Drive, Pacific Coast Highway, it helps you remember.
As a Michigander, this is actually very serious business. We have shores, the ocean has coasts (though, they can have shores, as well, but we can never have coasts). That never stops Grand Rapids from trying to market itself on the "Fresh Coast" or West Coast (of Michigan) or Michigan's eastern shores from marketing themselves as the "Sunrise Coast."
3% of FDNY died 10 yrs ago by terrorism.
Teabaggers spout out illogical comparisons in an attempt to convince the mildly to severely retarded to vote for people that hate government so much that they’re willing to trash this country into 3rd world status. Which is worse?
Hey! This is fun!
I guess the healing process is complete when someone can say 'worse than 9/11'.
Dubya made things worse in pretty short order … whole lotta healing we got out of that.
Tell me what happens to *him* after you two meet, Biely.
Judging isn't my department, and old Pete is a softy when it comes to the mentally disabled, so he may get off on a Section 8.
On the bright side, my contract with Karl Rove is valid and enforceable. That's according to my army of lawyers. (I have twenty divisions.)
*sigh*
Well, at least I can look forward to KKKarl getting his just deserts.
You wouldn't want to make a lonely soul happy by disclosing *his* fate, wouldja?
That's according to my army of lawyers. (I have twenty divisions.)
I've heard your 13th are complete badasses: The More Core Division
Then watching Team America; World Police should be a deductable medical expense?
And you wonder who keeps sending Jean Schmidt back to Congress?
~
That would be my neighbors. Most of them say they are liberals but when it comes to voting time, boy do they love her. Her husband was a patriot!!
Ohio–the weird opposite land of the world.
Sweet Christ. Sure you don't want to move?
Back to a blue state please! Are you hiring?
I wish, toots. Although there do seem to be a few more job openings in this fair state, of late. Are you keeping a close watch on job ads in blue states?
Now I have that stupid song from 'meet me in St. Louis' in my head.
fucking baggers.
♪♫ Bang, bang, bang went Rick Perry / Dingbat, dingbat, dingbat we all yelled…
"St. Louis is in Missouri – why would a story from Ohio get that song in fuflans's head?"
"Wait – it's a song about a trolley …"
"Clang clang clang went the trolley – oh shit now it's in my head!"
Isn't it a little early to have yourself a merry little Christmas?
There are a thousand ways to make a shit sandwich,
but each is still a shit sandwich.
Where I live, "brownout" means annoying loss of power on a rolling basis. Who knew that in Ohio it means "die horribly in a fire and/or massive building collapse?"
(in best judy garland voice) "Clang clang clang went the 'bagger,
blab blab blab went his words
down down down went our cities
as services were turned into turds."
If you have to ask which is worse—- you are too fucking stupid to actually be tweeting, and that's a low threshold for stupid.
But if the trolley doesn't clang clang clang, how will my heartstrings go zing zing zing?
Yes, this is taxpayer-supported romance. So what?
'gocoast' here's what I think: losing 3% of the nyfd is, in fact, worse than spending some civic money.
But it's socializms! I guess that's just what you get from a town that names its baseball team the "Reds."
I got your brownout right here, COAST. Pardon me while I bend over and drop my pants.
Wouldn't they take that as an invitation?
Al Qaeda is cheering their Streetcar Ohio victory in the streets!
Who gives a fuck what these assholes oppose? They oppose everything. Jesus, what a fucking load of killjoys. Shut the fuck up, 26%-ers.
Somalia has no streetcars, and they get along just fine without them. And their taxes are low – what more proof do you need?
And they still have browns out.
Nice.
Precisely. They're knee-jerk reactionaries. If Obama proposes it, they oppose it. If anyone to the left of Attila the Hun proposes it, they oppose it. They oppose everything, just on GP. They hate the whole fucking world, they want an end to education (but not to war), to privacy, to choice, to peace, to anything that makes life worth living.
They're less than one out of every three of us, and yet they exercise such inordinate power over our current fate that I'm tempted to go all Diamanda Galas on their asses and organize drive-by slappings for the lot of them. Daily. Smack! What's your position on taxes? Smack! What? Smack! Sorry, I didn't get that. Smack!
Et cetera ad infinitum ad nauseam.
We just need to convince them that voting is soshulism, and then our elected officials will have one less obstacle to doing the frickin' job they were elected to do.
The proper equation is right wing wrongful wars lead to deficits lead to firefighter "brownouts". But then one wouldn't be "supporting the troops".
I'll reserve judgment until I hear Santorum's stance on brownout.
ZOMFG ELEBENTY!!!!!
Someone needs to take a bat to the side of these dipshits heads so they will forever know the the difference between terror and and public policy.
This would never have happened if James Tafficant were still in Congress- he would have just sucked up all that money and spent it on hookers and blow or something.
Beam me up.
A better wig?
You know what else is socialist? All these fucking paved roads paid with public dollars. How people die on our communist highways every day?
You know who else had a Nationalist Socialist Rail Service?
Lionel?
OK, I'm here to say "Hitler!"
What's the prize?
But did his trains run on time?
Nobody talks about the Tripartite Train Treaty, but all four signatories — Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan — were famous for getting their trains to run on time.
Oh, but KBJ, you missed the update:
A local anti-tax group member has apologized for an "indelicate tweet" comparing Cincinnati's streetcar project and 9/11.
Why, fiddle-dee-dee and pull down the portiers, my dears. I do believe this teabagger has come over with a fearsome case of the vapors and needs to be administered some smelling salts and a glass of the "remedy."
If they have the Vapors, are they turning Japanese? I really think so…
Oh no! There goes Tokyo.
The Japanese have trains.
The Teaturdtards are untrainable.
And the concept of shame.
The vapor I associate with wingnutted Teatards is hydrogen sulfide.
OMG. You mean there actually may be a teabagger out there who might, just might, have a ghost of a conscience? I am flummoxed.
More a sense of being tired of public humiliation for writing something so incredibly stupid and insensitive I think.
Oddly enough, I think there are actually one or two who honestly think that the entire Movement is not racially motivated.
A Streetcar Named Indelicate?
FTW.
Those politically-correct cowards! They're not true Teabaggers at all!
Where's Jerry Springer when you need him?
Hell, where's Jerry Leiber when you need him?
Hell, where's Jerry Lewis when you need him?
Hell, where's Shari Lewis when you need her?
Hell, Where's Huey Lewis when you need him?
Well the creater of the Jerry Springer show is a Repuke running for Anthony Weiner's seat.
Which is worse, they ask. I dunno, until I see some tea baggers have to jump out of a burning high-rise and tumble to the streets of New York like starfish, I have nothing to compare it to.
That seems excessive. I would be satisfied if they did that in any city.
Hasn't NY suffered enough?
You know, something just occurred to me, thinking about the jumpers, because everyone thinks "god, what must go through your head, how horrific must it be, to be forced to make that choice, to decide to jump." But you know, those windows were crowded with people, and those rooms filled with smoke, and there must have been a struggle, a panic, to get to the clean air at the window, and the one thing noone ever says is, well, that many or most of them were probably pushed out the windows by the panicked struggle of those behind them to get some air.
We'll never know.
Jesus, no.
Many went out holding hands, and few if any were waving their arms around in panic. The most common observation is that they seemed calm and resigned. Burning to death vs. death in a millisecond … not a hard choice, once you've had time to think it over.
This tread is mega-lulz!
Thank you.
What pissed off the Teabaggers this time, was the Streetcars had no access for their Hoverounds.
I am convinced that this whole tea-party thing is the result of a bet between the Koch brothers, just like in Trading Places. The Koch brothers have a $1 bet between them over whether they can cause the complete collapse of western civilization and onset of a second "dark ages,' by encouraging a completely insane, civic luddite philosophy through this ignorant rabble of "tea partiers." At the end, as the flames lick the sky and the cannibal bands scour the land for their human prey, one of the Kochs will turn to the other and say "well, I guess you were right, civilization has collapsed, you won this one," and he will hand the other a dollar bill.
I wonder if the winner will take that one dollar down to the church and put it in the collection…..nah.
Have they already gotten to the part where one brother turns to the other and says "Don't be silly, I would never really let a n***er run our country"?
I have been saying for years that the Koch brothers were the model for the evil Duke brothers in my favorite movie of all time, "Trading Places."
BTW, here's a list of Koch brothers products to boycott. Ironic that two of the biggest assholes in the world are in the TP business:
AVOID KOCH BROTHERS PRODUCTS:
Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkins
Georgia-Pacific paper products and envelopes
All Georgia-Pacific lumber and building products
It's worth having one of these in every conversation where the Kochs come up, honestly. The good news is that the Kochs don't have a monopoly on the "filling our landfills with paper waste" sector, so there's a couple of reasonably ethical (insofar as filling our landfills with paper waste is ever ethical) alternatives. Scott Paper/Kimberly Clark, for example, are pretty decent.
Sounds like the plot of Lost, to be honest.
A streetcar named "On Fire"?
Heck of a job Brownoutie!
OK, so when we build teabaggers the amusement park we strand them at, we don't include trolleys and only give them the rusty fire trucks.
Can't the firefighters ride the trolleys to respond to 911 calls? It's called multitasking Cincinnati.
Building a streetcar would create jawbs. Therefore, no streetcar. Simple really.
These people would be pretty pissed if you cut off funding for the roads they drive their huge SUV's around on. And stopped killing brown people to take their oil to allow them to drive those SUV's. And while were on the topic, SUV is just another word for Station Wagon no matter what they say.
I am sick of paying through the nose to fund your car addiction douche bag.
Errol Morris and Miller High-Life beer totes argee with you on the SUV thing.
What's happening here in Cincy is that this is the 2nd time that a Streetcar has been proposed and it has major backing from most city officials and most people who live in the city limits (browns, blacks and poors). but every time, someone gets a petition and it goes on a ballot for people who live in the 'burbs (mostly white, mostly middle to upper middle class) and they vote no so we can put money to beautify the fucking I-75 corridor.
Blargh.
Honey, count your blessings. At least you don't live in Utah.
To be fair, are the streetcars designed to accommodate Hoverrounds? That could change the vote.
False equivalency or outright ignorance: which is worse?
I see what you did there.
Its a hobson's choice is what it is; or a Sophie's Choice, or is it Tasters' Choice?
Or Tashard Choice?
So the “logic” here is that all spending is treason but some spending is extra special treason. Nice to see the Tea Party developing some nuance.
Given yon teabaggers' astounding levels of stupidity, they'll read that as "new azz," I'm sure. They might even prise themselves off their hoverrounds long enough to inspect their caboose.
Brownout is the stuff you use to clean the santorum off your genitals.
So was building the trolley station an inside job?
The Jews did the trolley.
(!!!!!!1!!!!11!!!!9!!!!11!!!! optional)
3,000 jews didn't ride the streetcar. It can't be a coincidence.
Right. I keep forgetting about dem Jooz.
Because you know, god forbid we should have both public transportation and firefighters.
Sue, this isn't Bartertown girl, get real!
Tacky tweet. Tacky.
Why would Right-Wing Ohioans hate street cars?
Fewer drivers… fewer licenses… fewer voters… at least in your fucked up minds.
Man they don't even get their own ideas…
You people(?) need to start paying me… enough so I can dodge paying taxes.
please let the next tweet be something like "A Streetcar Named DeFunded" or "A Streetcar Named Socialism" or "A Streetcar Named Terrorism!"
"A Tweetcar named somethingsomething"…
The citizens of Cincinnati are understandably sensitive on the topic of mass transit, as they built a subway that never turned a wheel or took a token. Sayeth the Wiki:
Wouldn't want that to happen again!
On the other hand, the Bengals won.
You wouldn’t expect Bangladesh to even have a team in the NFL, let alone win a game now and then. Go figger!
Well, it was the Browns. It's not like it was a REAL team or anything like that.
Well the majority of NFL players are African-American but it really sounds racist when you put it that way.
You don't live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati!
True. Those little guys would never even make it in.
Well yeah … with no subway, they got all those taxi driver jobs.
I don't like the way you say "subway," Biely.
Well the did dig the tunnels but the incoming Republican administration killed the project in what, 1920? Then the GOP brought us the Great Depression, so, of course you couldn't build it them because Jawbs! The City has been screwed ever since. One of the most racially hostile spots in the world, outside maybe Gaza,
Good thing Christ-he's-huge Christie got ahead of the game, and didn't let the tunnel get dug in the first place. That's real leadership!
Spit-roasting or hot-skillet rendering? Inquiring minds want to know.
Too medieval.
We're thinking of tunnelling. A very long-term project.
So there is a vast, abandoned subway network beneath the city of Cincinnati? Is this the abode of the Lizard People?
Wimpy Wonkette never answered the tweet. Admit the spending disagreement is worse than 9-11.
Memo: Streetcar determined to strike U.S.
OK genxr – you've covered your ass. Now get out of here.
I do wonder what the psychology behind this weird opposition to building public transportation from the wingnuts is. Expanding transit has only positives, no negatives; there's no good reason to hate it.
There's two main possibilities I can think of; that they just reflex oppose public transit because liberals support it; or that they're afraid that it'll make it easier for black people to come to their neighborhoods, as a Georgia bigot opposed to expanding a train line admits here:
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/15449139/art...
"A real concern I have, and I think many, many people in Cobb County have with this whole idea of light rail coming in here is this backdoor way of trying to get MARTA into Cobb and then bringing all the crime that currently lives in Fulton.”
Well of course they don't want the Coloreds being mass-transited right into Sprawlville. But here's the real fear: you're a high-disposable-income exec who lives in some exurb like, say, Marietta, but you work at Coca-Cola in downtown Atlanta. Now then, do you want to see your cleaning lady whizzing by you southbound on mass transit on the median of the I-85 on her way home to College Park after cleaning your five bathrooms while you're stuck in traffic in your BMW?
I didn't think so.
Both of them Katie.
Wow, I bet all the DC-ites that have to watch hoards of scooters and shouty old white people take over their METRO probably feel just the same as the asshole racist in Cobb.
When I once visited Atlanta I was told MARTA stands for Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta. But there is no racism in the South anymore, how dare you suggest such a thing, you damnyankee.
This is basically the main reason (racism) that Detroit is just now getting its streetcar system back after decades. God forbid the blacks can get to their jobs north of 8 Mile without having to transfer three times on a bus and end up loosing their jobs for being late so often.
"Which is worse?"
Looks like all those teachers were wrong – there actually is such a thing as a stupid question.
These jackholes have actually been around since long before the Tea Party. They formed in the 1990s to fight against school taxes, but have become completely obsessed with opposing any attempt to improve Cincinnati's public transportation system. Because mediocre public transit has helped make Cincinnati the paradise on earth it is now.
Before their little 9/11 thing yesterday, they were tweeting repeatedly about how people who ride streetcars smell bad.
Their founder, Tom Brinkman, parlayed his opposition to educatin' the poors to a job as an Ohio State Rep. (My parents' rep, in fact — yes, they had Brinkman at the state level and Mean Jean Schmidt federally). I once saw him at the Einstein Bros. Bagels across the street from the Ohio Statehouse chatting up a nubile young lady. I assume they were discussing why streetcars will kill us all.
I miss Buzz Lukens. At least he luved the poor Black gurls.
Brinkman rallied against a tax levy for the Cincinnati Zoo, a world-class zoo, because he is a dick.
Also, I participated in a 5k that passed by his house. He stood next to a "Brinkman for (Whatever)" and waved. I flipped him off.
Which is worse? WHICH IS WORSE?? WHICH IS FUCKING WORSE??!!
Haven't been to Cincy since the 60's. Nothing there to go back for except maybe to get the gang together and give them a #6: you know, where we ride in a-whomping and a-shootin and stampede all the women and rape all the cattle.
No, you rape the shit out of the women at the Dance after the old #6.
Right! Well, it HAS been a long time.
For some horrible, as yet undeciphered, reason, I can actually visualize you doing that.
There was video?
Ye gads, I hadn't thought of that. I'll check.
PLEASE, don't!
Instead of wasting money on a fire department they should just give everyone in the city a hose.
And instead of having fire hydrants on every corner and a water department and dams and reservoirs and pipelines and treatment plants, property owners should be required to build their own ponds or tanks of water.
And instead of having fat police riding around eating doughnuts in gas-guzzling socialist squad cars, everyone should just have their own guns….
Oh, never mind. Already done!
I believe it's called "Detroit".
'Scuse me while I whip this out …
"Booger", sayeth Johnnie Fever.
3% vs 17.5%
17.5 is a higher number, according to math. All right people, the thinking stops, right now!
So much bigger in fact, that surely 17.5% of a crappy little Cincy-sized thing MUST be bigger than 3% of a really huge NYC-sized thing. It's math, duh.
What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
You have swallows carry progressivley lighter coconuts, then extrapolate to zero. That's how they do it at CERN.
You'd be amazed at what *else* they get up to at CERN.
Disclaimer: Yeah, it's from my blog. I wasn't about to go scouring YouTube to find it. It's still awfully cute, though. I want the search for the Higgs Boson to be documented musically.
Fun fact: All of Cincinnati is 3% of a NYC-sized thing.
As Ron Paul explained it, FEMA makes people think they can live in risky areas because the government will bail them out. The same could be said about fire departments making people think they don't need to be careful with matches and cooking and wiring. In Paul's world, shutting down the fire department is a good thing because it makes people responsible for their own fire prevention. Well done Cincinnati!
Remember, there would be no building or electrical codes, either, so you might as well get rid of the fire department, they'd never be able to put out all the fires in the code-free buildings anyway.
Senator Vitter has the brownout covered. No need to panic.
The 10th Anniversary of 9/11 changed everything.
Just some fast facts, then snark. The money isn't to pay for the streetcar. The funds have already been appropriated for that.
Here's another fun fact: on the ballot right now is whether or not to build the streetcar and if not, to deny the ability to even talk about building public transportation for 20 years. I love Republicans! Keep the blacks, the poors and the browns downtown, which is dying and move all the jerbs to the 'burbs. Yum yum.
Is a "brownout" like a Cleveland Steamer? But this is Cincinnati…..I haz a confuze.
A cincinnati brownout is when you jerk off on their chest and shit on their face. Also. that's what COAST is.
Not to be confused with the Alabama Hot Pocket.
Post fail for not following "brownout" with a David Vitter comment.
COAST is an anagram for TACOS.
Sorry, that's as far as I got. Now I'm hungry and going to lunch.
Is September 12 now officially the 9/11 Boxing Day, the British day-after-Xmas when the servants and states like Ohio get to nibble on the 9/11 leftovers and pity?
Peace-loving streetcars: refudiate the mass transit extremists on your tracks.
Kynda freekish to somehow relate this to 9/11. And it shows a pretty profound misunderstanding about how budgets work in government, as there is a box for public works projects, and a separate box for maintaining emergency services. Obviously, the council or whatever decided there was something to be gained by the snazzy streetcar (which I think are awesome, wish we had one) and that maybe the fire departments were not needed.
"BROWN Out"? BROWN Out? That's suspiciously *coloured,* isn't it?
Rudy Guilinani's says "That's not how you do it!"
75% of the passengers on the Titanic drowned in April 1912. 100% of teabaggers think Jesus overturned the moneychangers' tables at the Temple because they weren't selling their acquired debt as CDOs based on tranches of unsecured loans. Which is worse?
"Died by terrorism" I have to let that roll around in my brain for a bit. Died by terrorism.
Killed by death.
Nah, it's never like they had trolleys in Cincinnati in, say, 1905. Damned turn-of-the-century socialists. http://www.shorpy.com/node/8092
Nor did they ever have really strange hill-climbing trolley-like things just to help people get home in Cincinnati. http://www.shorpy.com/node/10694
Bunch a damned communists. No wonder Taft lost in '12.
There was also a Mt. Adams incline, making 2 in the city. It's my understanding that the auto/oil industries leaned on cities to get rid of their streetcars because, you know, capitalism. Don't know if that's true but it wouldn't surprise me.
Definitely happened in LA; the "Red Car" subplot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit was pretty much taken from historical fact: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_stree... ("In 1949, Firestone Tire, Standard oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, General Motors and Mack Trucks were convicted of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to local transit companies …The corporations involved were fined only $5000.")
EDIT: Originally typed "Roger Rabbi." I'd watch that movie.
Well, what does Les Nessman have to say about all this?
THEY'RE BOMBING THE PINEDALE MALL WITH LIVE STREETCARS!
Geezus, is it just my age, or what? I read that as PINEAPPLE MALL WITH LIVE STREET CRABS.
I don't even want to think about what STREET CRABS might be.
As a liberal, a supporter of quality public transportation and good public works projects, and a resident of Cincinnati, I'd like to point out that the street car will do none of the wonderful things others have suggested. It won't make it easier for the poor to get to work and it won't get any SUVs off the roads.
The "street car" is a boondoggle. It's not quite the bridge to nowhere, but it's not to far off. The problem is the opponents have come up with ballot language that prevents the City from EVER funding any form of public transportation, for all eternity. So now we progressives are forced to vote for something ridiculous in order to not prevent future good development. This is Cincinnati politics in action.
(note: Ohio geography fail)"
Lake Erie.
/pedant
(Not that Cincinnati is anywhere near that.)
Ohio River! Nice and brown.
This was a very difficult question. After thinking about it for a long time (less than one second), I still have to vote that the terrorist attack by jetliner on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is worse than Cincinnati's streetcar crisis. Also, the Browns lost yesterday. Coincidence? I think not.
Nah, the Browns always lose. I think their fans have grown to like the ridicule that is sure to follow stating "Im a Browns fan". No co-inky dink there.
In the Teabagger fever dream, being downsized is the same as a death sentence.
And we've already seen how much they love death sentences.
What do expect from people that live downstream from Pittsburgh?
That might explain Kentucky, which is downstream from both Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.
As a liberal, a supporter of quality public transportation and good public works projects, and a resident of Cincinnati, I'd like to point out that the street car will do none of the wonderful things others have suggested. It won't make it easier for the poor to get to work and it won't get any SUVs off the roads. This particular project is a boondoggle, nearly the equivalent of the "Bridge to nowhere." Unfortunately the teabaggers have written a ballot proposal that would forever and always ban any City involvement in any form of rail public transportation. This will force progressives to vote in favor of a poorly imagined project. It sucks.
Nah, pretty sure 9/11 was still way worse. And not just because Cincinnati has something like 3.5% the population of New York, but also because those firefighters lost their lives, instead of being furloughed.
But thanks for playing, Ohio dickbags!
I'm pretty sure the Ohio teabags just hate these strategic undestaffings because they're Brown.
Also, note the hot inconsistency there:
So, if this teabag group had its way, there'd still be understaffings, and in fact more frequent and greater understaffings, because they don't actually want the streetcar funding to go anywhere else. 9/11s forever!
Eh, technically Ohio has about 100 miles of coastline on Lake Erie. Say what you will about Lake Erie but it is still technically coastline.
Never mind that businesses are snapping up real estate along the streetcar route, or that it will connect the University of Cincinnati and uptown business district with the riverfront and downtown business district. Taxes!
If the teabaggers care about the firefighters so much, why did they all back Kasich's SB5 stripping firefighters and cops of their barganing rights?
Oh yeah, socialism.
You know, this reminds me of something I Proposed, Modestly, to a friend a while back. Basically, we need to come up with a way to characterize inappropriate hyperbolic outrage quatitatively, to ensure our continued dominance of the field of outrage technology, so that we can Win the Future. Thus, I propose a new unit of measurement: the 9/11.
The 9/11 is a standard unit that enables us to characterize the ratio of outrage appropriate to a situation to the level of outrage felt. There are actually two different 9/11s: standard and Imperial. The imperial 9/11 pegs itself to the ratio of nationwide outrage warranted to 9/11 to the level felt over that attack. However, it's fallen out of disuse, because the value of the Imperial 9/11 has deprecated appreciably since early 2003, from its original value of, ironically enough, 9:11 (or one Standard 9/11), to its present value, which is somewhere near 3/29.
As far as usage goes, the 9/11 uses an exponential scale: for example, if something is said to be "worse than 1000 9/11s", this would mean it has a Derived Outrage Quotient of less than (9/11)^1000, or 7.07*10^(-88).
Any questions, class?
Is this gonna be on the test? If I fail, you're just like Hitler.
*beats head against wall* Can it be Cocktober yet?
Where's Huey Long when you really need him?
Where's Long John Silver when you need him?
Long Dong Silver is in Associate Justice Thomas's Top Five.
Hell, where's Shelly Long when you need her?
We're calling it "shock and awe". (After a million years, he'll still be shocked by it, which is pretty impressive if I do say so myself.)
I'm doing everything I can to *not* be present at the event, but if I am, I'll still enjoy. Insofar as anyone gets "enjoyment" at all in your presence, of course.
Tunnelling *into* Christie?
I'm off to church. BRB.
Where's Mary Shelley? Tell her to come get her monster…
Can you two get a room?
Srsly. Would YOU want a room with Biely in it?
I'm trying to avoid the guy, not just in this life, but in any hereafter. It's not *my* fault he has such exciting scenarios planned for my most-hated people.
Biely always gets the best, I mean, worst. And I mean that in the best way.
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