Amy Haight sends this photo from Winchester, Kentucky. We're guessing these people are not in our nightly demographic. Although.
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:38 PM EST
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That is just UNBELIEVABLE. And NOT in a good way.
Oh, I believe it...I've encountered plenty of people like that. :-(
I like the "LOVE" sign by the driver's door, it goes so well with the loving message splattered all over the rest of the van.
Some interesting recurring themes on this van. I'm guessing...
Evangelical Republican tobacco farmer?
(with relatives in the floral and bumpersticker industries)
....chuckle.....It seems as though some folks are pathologically inclined to draw attention to themselves, especially the ones who have nothing worthwhile to offer.
Oh dear, I feel so sorry for that van.
I have been upset with the literal vilification of smokers in general but come on... we have no right to smoke inside a restaurant, no matter how good the ventilation system is.
It's people like this who give attention to the voices who say that all smokers are inherently evil bastards who will puff in your face, smoke you out of a room, and litter all over the place.
I prefer to be considerate...I smoke in distant areas, never in an enclosed area (with the exception of airport smoking rooms -- a literal godsend), and never when someone is in my car. I suppose my only exception would be bars -- I hate to say it but, the owner of the establishment should be able to decide, not the state.
Smoking is a personal choice that should be respected whenever it can be. But with that said sometimes consideration for other people needs to be considered. I am allergic to cigarettes/cigars (although I cannot point to exactly what it is I am allergic to; just know if you smoke around me it causes a reaction). If someone smokes around me it causes my throat to close, my face to turn read, my breathing to slow, my eyes to water, and me to cough uncontrollably. It causes my nasal passages to swell and me to get stuffed up. It's unpleasant to say the least. I prefer it if people don't smoke around me because of the reaction my body has, but I don't want to necessarily prevent you from smoking. If you want to do it, it's your right. I just ask that you try to find a happy medium to where you can be happy and I can too.
It's terrible that you have an allergy, but I don't think people should steer clear merely because you're allergic... they should merely out of respect.
Smoking is a choice, and there's no reason that I can't simply walk a little further away to be courteous.
You should check out their website... www.hosanna1.com ... it's even more bizarre. They refer to this as "the most beautiful art car in the world."
This gives art cars (and dog show people) a bad name... sigh.
Their concept of "beauty" is clearly dependent on Ideological Soundness/Theological Correctness.
oh, dang... my link went away. it's more than worth checking it out:
www. libertyvan .com (remove spaces, but you already know that...)
http://www.libertyvan.com/
So now I'm confused regarding the www.hosanna1.comwebsite....they are dog breeders who believe if you get rid of the ban on smoking it will generate income? Wow
Remember, it isn't Prop 13 that killed the CA budget...it's not allowing folks to smoke!
The Ten Planks- Communist Manifesto (as far as I can tell from the picture):
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rights of land to public purposes. (Implementation of property taxes)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax (Implemented in 1913)
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance (Death tax)
4. Confiscation of all property of immigrants and rebels (can't make out the text...so these people are anti-immigration reform?)
5. Centralisation [sic] of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and exchange monopoly (Also implemented in 1913)
6. Centralisation [sic] of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. (THIS IS BEING WORKED ON RIGHT NOW! then can't make out the rest of the text)
7. Extensions of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, cannot make out the rest but apparently it has something to do with the USDA and the regulation of farms
8. Equal liability of all labour. Establishment of industrialised armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination [sic] of agriculture with manufacturing industries; can't make out the rest but it has something to do with population distribution
10. Free education for all children in public schools (FEDS NOW CONTROL ALL LOCAL SCHOOLS AND MANY PRIVATE SCHOOLS VIA DEP OF ED). Abolition of children's factory labour in it's present form. Combination of education with industrial production [sic]. (FED. SCHOOL TO WORK program) (Many know(or perhaps it's knew?) if they controlled the minds of the children, THERE WOULD BE NO OPPOSITION TO THE STATE.)
Other quotes I find interesting:
- THERE IS NO BOOK OF MORMON IN THE HOLY BIBLE
- SPEAKING THE TRUTH in LOVE EPH 4:15 next to a very pretty thing of flowers
- GOD BLESS OUR TRUCKERS!!
- POLITICAL DISSENT IS NOT RACISM! (Although Obama believes it is!) She's met the President? Cool
- I AM AFP!
I find it very disturbing that most, if not all, of her slogans rely on all capital letters
The site just proves that in some cases dogs are FAR more intelligent than their owners.
those poor dogs need an exorcist.
You should be able to lunar. You have both seeded links and been a member since 2008 (more than 1year) which meets the requirements to seed links w/o direct intervention from newsvine. All I can suggest is to write to newsvine and tell them to remove the cap so that you can posts links (as this limitation shouldn't be on your account anyways).
what's odd is sometimes it will post them and leave them, other times it will post them and they will be gone ten minutes later, sometimes it just won't let me add the link at all. seems to be very erratic! I'll try writing to them to see what's up, thanks for the advice.
In the meantime, if anyone has the patience to copy/paste and remove spaces...
tinyurl. com/ 45zmuqb
www.tinyurl.com/45zmuqb
yay, thanks, MM! see what i mean? those dogs have been brainwashed!
(i wrote a note to newsvine -- will see what they do/say. thanks again!)
All I've got to say here is: OMG.
Was this parked next to the crack cocaine van?
It's so pink and pretty; who knew that tobacco lobbyists could be so stylish.
Umm, shouldn't the driver be given some kind of ticket for covering up their windows, restricting the driver's vision? I guess they figure that the guy has to be pretty blind in the first place to believe in the stuff he has plastered on his van. Being a right winger, I expect he'll cover up the windshield next, have an accident, then blame it on lefties that forced him to put the stickers on in the first place.
the more you look at that website, the scarier it gets -- they cover more paranoid "tea party" territory than I ever knew existed. i'm going to go bleach my brain now... :oP
I'm sure those people will get away with restricting vision out of the vehicle precisely because they are right-wingers.
Sadly for us, as long as there is visibility through the front visor and the two front driver and passenger windows, it's legal. As someone who's done her own share of vehicle decoration in the past. (See my old workplace as an example)
If they should ever change their minds, they'll have to sell the car to another ultra conservative.
Gee, they should tell us how they really feel.
If this guy got a ticket for having a restricted view, he'd
scream bloody murder about "government overreach," and
the horrors of living under socialism.
Gives new meaning to the words "restricted vision" !!
Mom? Dad? When did you move back to Kentucky?
This person must have set some sort of Guiness Record for being wrong about so many things at one time in one place, a record formerly shared by George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.
ZING!
In how many languages can we say, "nut job"?
I bet the van owners couldn't spell "nut job".
The random hearts scattered around the vehicle are rather amusing. They hate everything, but they hate with love?
I'm especially loving the hearts with the big rainbow behind them . . . 'cause, you know, it's kinda gay. . . . Hmm.
I guess they were cruising around in it on Valentine's Day and wanted to be festive. Maybe they'll start putting Shamrocks on it for St. Patty's, and Easter eggs and such for Easter...or a big statue of the Easter Bunny with a cancer stick in his mouth.
And I spotted the word LOVE in a couple of places in sort-of '60s lettering. That and all the hearts would make me think this was all meant to be ironic except that people like this don't understand what irony is.
David Koch's limo.
They couldn't use spell check?
Koreckt spalleng iz fore eeleatustz.
Gotta love single issue voters. Grandma Lynda Farley does realize Obama is a (former?? cough, cough...) smoker too, right?
Um, last I checked, that's really not how you spell "believe." But I have a theory that when right-wingers BREAK OUT THE ALL CAPS, all spelling bets are off. (Which is pretty much all the time, actually.)
All the flowers on the top mean that this car is taking conservatism to its final resting place.
I'm guessing from the signs that they really, really, really love to smoke, and really, really, really hate Mexicans. Would they like a Mexican if they smoked?
... probably only if the Mexican was on fire...
"Confuse a liberal / use logic and facts"
facepalm....
Her logic < liberal logic
Her facts < liberal facts
You're forgetting that "liberal" is worth -10. ;-)
surprise; conservatives are obsessive, delusional, and tacky (and quite possibly scofflaws, given the covered windows).
I'm sorry everyone, but I really want that van. It's AWESOME.
Really? I'd rather have these:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Joshua_Tree_-_Love_car.jpg
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/es/ca/es_ca_solano_1_e.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/i/3911ad21f17c459fad19f3dfr8.jpg/sr=1
http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/50500/Shoe-Car--50806.jpg
Show me all the cars you like; I still want the crazy van.
Fair enough Jacq =)
This reminds me of the label on Dr. Bronner's soap (although compared to the above example, ol' Dr. Bronner seems completely sane).
This car actually combines two things, a bunch of slogans that we (or at least I) disagree with, and a certain kind of bad design sense.
It made me think of a web example of the second, without the first: http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm
(It's just one of those cases of being so damn bad, I have to share it.)
My eyes...they burn, they burn!
When I was first starting out in graphic/web design, I made some real whoppers. But I've to got to turn in my crown, 'cause I couldn't do this badly if I sat down and worked for weeks.
CrowMeris: Yes, it takes a perverse sort of "talent" to produce something like that vehicle.