Knute Berger posted up a list of Six Things You Cannot Say in Seattle.
It’s a pretty good list, though it could be whittled down to five, because #5 is a rather large exageration.
I’m going to excerpt #6 because it is absolutely true.
There is no surer ticket to the Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane than to make this declaration in Seattle today. Republicans haven’t been a factor here in 40 years. Most people in Seattle have never met a Republican, let alone voted for one. To admit to being a Republican is to declare war on the sensibilities of the recycling, biking, companion-pet-owning, suburban-hating loners you live among. If you are not involuntarily committed, you will be advised to move to Bellevue, where you can speed the way toward planetary death with your own kind.
Not only is this absolutely true, you can stake your weeks pay that not only have most Seattlites never met a Republican, they wouldn’t know a Libertarian if one walked up and offered them a puff off a joint at Hempfest. The absolute worst part about this factoid though is that, without prompting, they will tell you all about why R’s and L’s are so horrible.
Seeing as how I grew up and live here, I know quite a number of Democrats, leftists, liberals, progressives, marxists, radical socialists, anti-zionists and anarchists (aka: the people I write about here at RNS) who are pound to be labelled as such. If I swung dead cats, I wouldn’t be able to do so without hitting one.
One of the reasons I put all those stickers on the back of Buddy the Jeep is because, well, it’s nearly seven feet tall, and I figured that if I’m going to stand out in the cityscape like that and piss people off slightly, I might as well go ahead and go all the way with it.
UPDATE:
By request. Clicken to embiggen.
I dunno, Phil. You might be living in the wrong place in the Sound region.
After all, didn’t NASCAR think that there were enough rednecks up there to propose building an expensive racetrack and holding regular Cup races up in the Sound region?
They have rodeos up there as well, and all those 4X4 clubs can’t ALL be composed of Commies.
You have to have faith if you want to believe that the Great Un-Do will work. I have faith.
I’m starting to warm up to your idea.
I’ve always been wary of anyone so proudly wearing their political leanings on the sleeve, and I’ve certianly never been much of a Jeep fan, but the ‘rub the salt in their open wound’ treatment is beginning to change my mind, especially since it’s not so much salt anymore that we’re going to be pouring, as it is battery acid, feces, dirt and other assorted bodily fluids.
I’m looking for an XJ or first-gen Bronco, and taking queues from Project Buddy.
The NASCAR track was a dumb idea. It was going to be very south and very west of Seattle, and their estimates included their hopes of getting folks to drive here from NorCal and Montana.
I’m finding that you cannot go wrong with an XJ. CJ/YJ capabilities at 1/3 to 1/2 the entry costs. If there are any questions I can answer for you I will do so, IR.
anarachists? Is that the promotion of chaotic spiders? 🙂
Anyhow, it’s bad over there. I’m on the dry side of the state fortunately, but I have a friend who was over there visiting her son at the hospital. She went to a local grocery store for 10 minutes and her suburban with pro-2a stickers was keyed.
Keep a close eye on the jeep!
Tom: An Anarachist is against rule by spiders.
The track was heavily promoted in Oregon as well. We used to have some Craftsman Truck races at the old Speedway, but when it closed (due to being unable to come up to code with no credit line), the only NASCAR action is now down in Douglas County (Roseburg), where they have a NASCAR sanctioned race once a year in sportsmen class, I think.
There was even brief talk of putting the new 1.5 mile track here in Portland, but the city commies never signed on (never looked at a NASCAR balance sheet, apparently) so it died a quick death.
There’s not even any open-wheel racing of note anymore at Portland International Raceway. We used to have at least one CART race here a year, but when CART died, we didn’t get an IRL race to replace it. The track is mostly an SCCA venue now, with some drag racing (grudge racing mostly) on the home straight. It is a great sports car track, and we did have the NASCAR Cup racers here for a road course race once in the ’90’s, but they didn’t come back.
One of the boomershooters, my neighbor Mike in #76, has raced at PIR (and won!) in some sort of a GT car.
Pix of the back of the Jeep, plz.
Those damn spiders with their multiple legs. Always goin on about how heavy their shoes are and why people are whacking at them with magazines and newspapers.
Man, fuck spiders!
And fuck anarchists too. (fixed)