Another note left on my windshield yesterday

[Ian David]

Last night, while my family and I were having dinner with a friend at Christo's restaurant in Brockton, Mass.



The parking lot for the restaurant abuts the one for a giant Fundie church, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's where it came from.





See prior threads:

Notes that have been left on my windshield
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1776172

I got a nice note on my windshield today!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=6137036


Prior notes:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. Ugh. You're sick?

Sure doesn't say much for people who leave notes on other people's windshields.

What's next, knock 'n run and a flaming bag of dog poo? :eyes:

[w8liftinglady]

5. it's typical behavior of people with no defense

Like I said below...they are cowards.

[Blue Belle]

91. I love that picture...

The soldier petting the kitty... it just says so much.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

103. Yup.

Never there after they leave their lil notes are they??

Bugawk. :D

[MethuenProgressive]

17. I like the note from NH!

[spooky3]

45. complete with Freeper spelling

librals

[joeunderdog]

87. I think I caught what you have.

Bush makes me wanna :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[w8liftinglady]

2. Neocons in Texas are cowards.

the back of my car looks a lot like yours...with 4 exceptions
1."My son is in Iraq-enjoy your freedom"
2."Freakishly muscular driver hates tailgaters-if you tailgate me,I'll eat you for lunch"
3."Yellow ribbons don't stop bullets-support body armor for all soldiers"
4."Have your (Republican elephant) spayed or neutered

plus the stickers you have.I find that the "W" stickers fall way behind,and will not drive near me.What's up with that?

[Ian David]

4. I updated my OP with a more recent photo. I also have this on my door:

Mom Wants Dead Son Off Anti-War Shirt
Topic started by Omaha Steve on Jul-21-06 10:23 PM (92 replies)
Last modified by Robb on Jul-28-06 11:31 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2405717

[w8liftinglady]

8. lol..I have "Don't blame me-I voted for the smart one"

[Ian David]

13. That's cool! I have to get that one! n/t

[Jamastiene]

70. 3."Yellow ribbons don't stop bullets-support body armor for all soldiers"

I would like to get one of those stickers. Where did you get that one?

[wicket]

3. Nice stickers!!!

Sorry this crap keeps happening to you.

:hug:

[unpossibles]

6. well, you know, the very idea that people should live in peace and have equal rights

IS pretty sick.... It's so sick, it's hard to imagine.

Ah, for the good old days what never existed, when I could die from a cut and children worked 12 hour days! :eyes:

</sarcasm>

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

42. Living in peace ?

Yes, it is sooo sick. :sarcasm:

I remember hearing about a guy named Jesus who wanted us to all love each other. I wonder if the folks at the Fundie church remember that ?

[Springster]

7. Are Toyotas union-made? n/t

[Ian David]

10. Yes, Toyota is unionized. However...

Toyota Motor Corporation

Toyota Motor Sales, USA receives a perfect score in the 2005 Human Rights Campaign Report Card
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s fourth annual report card — the Corporate Equality Index — rates Fortune 500 and other major companies on a scale from zero to 100 percent on seven key indicators of fair treatment for GLBT employees. Indicators include policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as well as equal health care benefits. Toyota is one of 101 firms with a perfect score.
http://www.buyblue.org/node/5564

Toyota terminates the services of two union leaders
January 17, 2002 Kirloskar Motors in Bangalore entered yet another bad patch, with the employees launching an indefinite strike following the termination of the services of two union leaders.
http://www.buyblue.org/node/6115

Toyota union busting
Feb 18, 2006 Toyota has a pretty impressive array of union busting campaigns, especially this one in the Philippines.
http://www.buyblue.org/node/6114

More:
http://www.buyblue.org/node/2026/view/summary



Also:

Toyota proves union-resistant
Pro-union workers at Toyota say they will continue the organizing drive, noting that signed cards remain valid through this November. ...
www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/18/biz_biz1toy.html

Toyota union to call for lower wage hike in spring. Japan ...
Toyota union to call for lower wage hike in spring. from Japan Transportation Scan in Business & Finance provided by LookSmart Find Articles.
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1915/is_200202/ai_n6789762

Toyota's Union Wants Wage Hike
Business and industry in the economic powerhouse of Japan.
www.risingsunofnihon.com/2006/12/toyotas_union_wants_wage_hike.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. Can you not put bumper stickers on non union made cars?

Just what is your point here?

[donheld]

28. Only non-union made stickers

:shrug::evilgrin:

[proud2BlibKansan]

59. Is there a penalty?

[Ian David]

69. Teamsters come and confiscate your carpet-dollies and duct tape. n/t

[GoneOffShore]

71. How many teamsters does it take to change a lightbulb?

Three, youse got a problem wit dat?

[proud2BlibKansan]

72. That sounds scary

:scared:

[w8liftinglady]

9. Damn-and this is Massachusetts?

[Ian David]

12. Brockton is a special case

1) We have a couple DINO-bigots for State Rep and State Senator (Christine Canavan and Bob Creedon).

2) Brockton has been plagued by parasitic fundie churches. They buy up closed storefronts and bus in wingnuts from all over the state. Other churches buy the property and just sit on it for a while and re-sell it when the real estate market goes up, without improving the building. Of course, being a church, they don't pay taxes.

So, the end result is much of Brockton is frequented by far-right evangelical nutbags who contribute nothing to the town (particularly no tax revenue) but their cars and vans contribute to the wear-and-tear and traffic on our streets. Okay, sure, they keep IHOP and Old Country Buffet in business, but otherwise they're just a burden.

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. I lived in Brockton for two years.

I must have been there before the fundie invasion. Thank heavens! You have my sympathies.

[soothsayer]

11. Wow, people are really kooky! Love your stickers, btw.

[w8liftinglady]

14. this place has magnetic stickers.I have purchased a few from them..

http://stampandshout.com/
like this one..

[Blue Belle]

94. That is a great site!

I've already got three magnets in my shopping cart!

:)

[barbtries]

15. sad. "you are

"sick?" "unamerican?"

were right wingers even raised in the united states? the land of free speech? it was a dark day when i overheard gw saying if you're not with us you're with them - whioh at the time i could have sworn was the single most unamerican statement i had never even dreamed i would hear coming out the mouth of a president.

it's another example of the phenomena that has been growing more pronounced through these years of the curse of the gw administration. it's like this these days:

up is down, war is peace, black is white, night is day, supporting troops is throwing them under the bus and caring for them is making sure nobody ever sees a coffin on their television set. reality is fake and perception is everything; the sage is an idiot, treason is an inconsequential misdemeanor, murder is humanitarian, hot is cold, wet is dry, freedom is rendition, democracy is fascism, graft and corruption are an honest day's work, naked is clothed, elephants are invisible, i mean it is just insane anymore.

but he'll give our wings dream. and leaving you insults and obscenities is polite discourse....

i mean this world is upsided down and wrong anymore.

[terrya]

16. Assholes.

:grr:

[ehrnst]

18. Looks like just about every car in my UU church parking lot!

Including the fact that most are Prius'...

Keep on keeping on!!

[kikiek]

25. I love the people I have met at UU. They make the world a better place.

[Pacifist Patriot]

33. That makes my heart glad.

:)

[eppur_se_muova]

61. You haven't encountered any of THESE extremists, have you?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/08/DDG27BCFLG1.DTL

:evilgrin:

[kikiek]

75. Extreme? In what way?

[eppur_se_muova]

80. ummmm ... did you go to the link ?

It's a thoroughly facetious story.

[kikiek]

81. yea I read it. I was being facetious too.

[SheilaT]

19. If you asked my advice

I'd tell you to have no more than two or three stickers on your car at one time, and change them out every month or so. In my opinion, you dilute the message with too many of them. On the other hand, with only a few, you don't often get responses from others, and it's the responses that make it worthwhile.

But of course you don't need my advice, and what's real interesting is that my having a bunch of them you elicit lots of responses.

At the moment I have no bumper stickers on my car, but my personal favorite, several years ago, was one that said "He wasn't elected on September 11th either".

What never fails to amaze me is how many people find it necessary to criticize your political opinions.

[freeplessinseattle]

20. Yes, you're sick of the BS Buscho admin!

who can blame you?

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. I saw a lady with a bush/cheney sticker last week

She pulled up next to me in a parking lot. I asked her "How's that working for you?"

[kikiek]

26. Haha that is funny! I love it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. If she is rich and has no loved one/s in Iraq or Afghanistan, probably real well.

Selfish and self serving, but I doubt she cares.

[proud2BlibKansan]

60. She was driving a junky old clunker

[kikiek]

22. Peace! Equal rights! Free Speech! Democracy! You sick sick American! Just what do you think

this country stands for?

[TlalocW]

24. You're not sick

You're just lazy. C'mon, with a little bit more preparation and work, you could have gotten 20 more stickers on your bumper easy! :)

TlalocW

[quinnox]

27. lol

This is great! LOL I love it, more Democrats should be "in your face" with their stickers just like some of the right wingers are with their wearing thier flag all over their cars.

I guess some of the Bush-bots just can't take it when they see a patriotic American exercising their free speech rights and that is opposite of their own.

[cascadiance]

29. Here's what the middle of my bumper looks like now...

Haven't had any complaints yet, but have had some folks in another car give me some nice compliments on it a few weeks ago! I like the progression implied. Thinking about getting a decent Gore/Feingold sticker to put on the right side to "complete" the cycle now.

[unhappycamper]

30. Wanna swap your yellow ribbon for one of these?

http://veteransforpeace.org/store.vp.html



It's a little project of mine.

I ran out of of ribbons & had to order some more - with any luck they'll arrive this week.

[Ian David]

39. I appreciate the sentiment, but I feel compelled to keep the plain yellow ribbon

It's a symbol that the Bushies feel belongs solely to them, and it's a shorthand that they seem to think they understand.

But maybe I should get one that says, "Support Our Troops-- change their bedpans once in a while."

[Pacifist Patriot]

32. LOL! "Marraige" I love it!

As if anyone needed proof it was a Freeper-type. Can any of them spell?

[Tess I Guess]

34. Bumper Stickers

I loved your bumper stickers.. unfortunately in this red state, I can't have any of them. I happen to like my unscratched, unbashed, untorched car...

[TlalocW]

35. I think I repeat this more than anything else

But that's okay because not everyone sees every bumper sticker thread.

Go to a sign company and have them cut up a piece of their blank magnetic material that they use for car signs to fit your bumper stickers. Put your bumper stickers on these, and the magnetic materials + stickers on your bumper when you drive. When you park, take off them off and throw them in the trunk. No more sitting target. Plus, I've heard that they can trap moisture and cause rust if left on too long like those yellow ribbon ones.

Unless you have as many as IanDB1, it shouldn't take but a few seconds. :)

TlalocW

[Ian David]

40. I delibrately park where the stickers will be seen

I like to get to the mall early and park directly in front of the National Guard recruiting office, for example.

The last time, someone took my "Bush Lied They Died" sign off my door and threw it under my car.

I guess they were afraid it was bad for business.

[dkofos]

36. It might be time to dress up the car

and piss off some texans.

[go west young man]

37. Great stickers!

I live down in Brunswick, Georgia and have a few stickers on my car. One says "Stalin had Pravda, Bush has Fox" and you wouldn't believe the reactions I get. I'm pretty sure most of the fundies that see em don't know who Stalin was or how it relates to Fox but it sure is fun watching their faces while they try to figre it out! This is the land of "W" stickers and "Jesus Loves You" types.

[intheflow]

38. Are flaming hate notes hate speech?

I would say yes. I'm glad you're documenting these notes here on DU. That way, if something happens to your car one of these days beyond these creeps just leaving notes, you'll have some investigative and hopefully prosecutive evidence.

You may also wish to give your car a good wipe down with garlic oil. that should help keep these freaky vampires away!

Good luck, IanDB.

[Ian David]

41. Local cop said that the particularly nasty note would be investigated as a hate crime, but...

I consider it fair use of their free speech.

He didn't advocate violence... unless you consider moving to Canada (and taking a Mexican with you!) to be violence.

And considering all the hundreds of leaflets I've left behind on other people's windshields, it would have been hypocritical for me to whine about it.

. . .

[Ian David]

44. See also: Recent Encounters with Republicks-- they're getting ugly

Recent Encounters with Republicks-- they're getting ugly
Topic started by IanDB1 on Aug-23-06 03:17 PM (46 replies)
Last modified by kdpeters on Aug-27-06 02:58 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1968922

[lectrobyte]

43. You rock! One question, what's the blue and yellow sticker beside

the Bush Lied Thousands Died mean?

[Ian David]

48. Thanks!

The Blue and Yellow sticker is from The Human Rights Campaign

http://www.hrc.org/

And you can't see the whole thing, but on the far left is a sticker that says, "Another Armed Liberal."

[lectrobyte]

56. Thanks. I like that "another armed liberal" one too.

[graywarrior]

46. Brockton.

Figures.

Move to Swampscott.

[Catherine Vincent]

47. LOL! You are sick!

I love it! :hi:

[Ian David]

49. Today's top search on CafePress: "Troop Surge"

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/Troop%20Surge%3C/font%3E

However, it doesn't return any hits.

"Surge" does:

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/surge/-/x_0/y_0

[walldude]

63. At least they spelled it right.

Why is it that when I see a W-04' sticker I just think to myself, poor deluded ignoramus but when a freep sees a progressive sticker they feel the need to write a note and stick in on your car? Is it some kind of brain malfunction?

[Ian David]

68. They hate us four are freedums. n/t

[geardaddy]

65. There sure are a lot of McCain 08 designs

under "surge"

:shrug:

[cgrindley]

50. You're sort of inviting comment

I have three bumper stickers... I hate your god(s), Bring the troops home, and a metal Darwin fish.

The first two are magnetic ribbons I made at supportyourribbons.com I highly recommend their site. I used to have a Ned Lamont bumper sticker, but removed it after he lost the election to that traitorous asshole.

Like you, I get the occasional note. Usually telling me that Jesus still loves me regardless of what I think about him.

But I wouldn't have those ribbons on my car if I either a) feared anyone or anything, or b) didn't want to provoke a response from the various demographics I am deliberately offending. The occasional note doesn't mean anything. Even the occasional hate filled note doesn't mean anything. So what if you've offended some rightwing nutjob? In good faith, you hardly could have expected otherwise.

There are two unrelated observations: a) a few things on the back of your car are attractive, but too many just looks ugly, and also makes you look a little nuttier than you probably are; and b) if you were honestly thinking that rightwing nutjobs wouldn't respond to your provocations, well... maybe you should take all that stuff off your car.

[Ian David]

52. I have absolutely no problem with them responding at all. n/t

[vireo]

51. I saw an amusing homemade sticker today

"You're all sheep"
:rofl:

[xchrom]

53. that poor annonymous note writer --

just surrounded by ''sick'' people there in massachusets.

every day must be a bad day for them with kennedy and kerry as their senators.

and then to top it all off -- there you are driving around with your ''dangerous'' stickers.

[GreenPartyVoter]

54. Dang! I WUV ur bumperstickers. And I hope you can catch these idiots in the act

although maybe just take a picture of them when they dunnu you are looking. I am afraid they might really hurt you, hon! :hug:

[Ian David]

55. The one thing we cannot afford to be is silent

I practically cry with joy every time someone with Veteran license plates honks at me and gives me a thumbs-up.

[GreenPartyVoter]

57. Yah! That must make it all worthwhile :^D

[Jax]

62. Well if you are sick IanDB1

I hope I catch what you have!

:yourock:

[Megahurtz]

64. LOL! That's Funny!

Pissing Off the Freeps! :rofl:

They are sick judging from their reactions.
Better carry some Pepper Spray or something and watch your back!

Holy Crap I don't trust those Freaks.

[file83]

95. Me too - LOL!! That Toyota Hybrid w/ all those liberal stickers ===

FREEPER's WORST NIGHTMARE!!!
:rofl:

I Love it.

[geardaddy]

66. It's funny how the "marraige" (sic) note

also talks about "f*cking your liberal ass"

Hmmm.

[Ian David]

67. Conservatives are always obsessed about putting things in people's asses. n/t

[B Calm]

73. I think you might be getting their attention, maybe one more sticker

will do it! Ha ha ha, I love it! Thanks for your patriotism!!

[jollyreaper2112]

74. I stick notes like that on windshields

But it's only when they're big W supporters. It's not confrontational, I just write something like "So, Dubya...how's he workin' out for ya?"

I don't normally think Carlos Mencia is funny but he had a good bit about translating the hidden meaning of bumper stickers. A W sticker means "Help! I don't know how to get this fucking thing off!"

Incidentally, don't you find it cute when conservitards censor their own swears? Because God doesn't know there's a "u" in F*CK.

[rox63]

84. I used to put military enlistment forms on cars with * stickers

when I saw them in parking lots. Just slipped them under the windshield wipers. But I never actually hung around to see their reactions when they came back and found them.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

99. You walk around with military enlistment forms?

Err...

[Ian David]

100. I 've put "Yellow Elephant" stickers on the enlistment forms first.

[uppityperson]

76. Nice car Ian, good job

[cap]

77. you know brockton's unions were some of the first

they started organizing the shoe factories in the 1800's

[TahitiNut]

78. It's too bad your windshield doesn't have an Ignore List.

:evilgrin:

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

79. Which sticker made them so angry? n/t

[Skittles]

97. every sticker telling the truth

all of them

[EstimatedProphet]

82. Sure would be nice to catch some shitheel doing that

Imagine walking out to your car and seeing some dumbass sticking that note on your car. I know what I'd end up doing.

[The Doctor.]

90. I know what I would do too....

Smile and say, "Hey there! How're ya doing? Are you one of those 'Jehovah's Witness' folks?"

*Stunned look* from obtrusive righty... "No."

"Oh, Okay... 'cause you seem to be doing the same sort of thing that the Krishnas and the Cult members always did when.... Oh!.... You're one of those cultists that talks about the end of the world! I'm sorry, but I really don't want WWIII to happen...."

-After that, if they have an ounce of sense they'll say, "No, just forget about it."

Otherwise I'd have such a field day with his head. :evilgrin:

[EstimatedProphet]

105. Ooohh, that's a good response!

[The Doctor.]

110. I may just buy an extra beater to deck out with anti-Bush stickers

Just to elicit such responses.

It is mind numbing to me that there is ANY one who can still support these treasonous bastards. I never pass up an opportunity to enlighten people, but there's just so much ignorance.

PS: always loved your sig.

[KurtNYC]

83. The open dot in the exclamation mark - what handwriting experts say...

Re the shape of the letters and the open dot in the exclamatiom mark Overly round writing = immaturity, dependency, lack of intellectual development, compulsive tendencies, naivete !?

Open dots are most common in the handwriting of teenaged girls.

[Lex]

93. LOL, Kurt!

Right on target.

[happydreams]

85. This is a little hard to believe....

I mean I looked at the notices and all of the words, at least those not smudged, were spelled correctly. That is highly unlikely when you have ranting repuggies doing the writing. So I looked again and BINGO!they spelled it "marraige".

Now I believe it. :evilgrin:

[ozymandius]

86. Did you ask Bill Frist for a second opinion?

[lonestarnot]

88. Notice they made it quick.

Hit and run. Love your car!

[murloc]

89. Embrace and Savor notes like that

Seriously.

First off you have to remember that the person who wrote the note knows ABSOLUTELY nothing about you.

With that in mind, anything they have to say is meaningless to you as a person.

Having said that, it does tell you something very important.

It tells you that your messages on your car are having an effect on people. Even if they disagree vehemently with your message, if they are taking the time to write a note, its having a HUGE effect on the writer (of the note).

And if its having a huge effect on the writer, then that means they have read and evaluated your message....which means that your efforts have not gone to waste. And if X number of people read and evalute your message, then its a mathmatical certainity that Y number are moved, even if slightly.

Failing all that, it pisses off conservatives, and thats always a good thing.


(edit to add: Just becareful though. Some of these freaks carry guns)

[Ian David]

101. Agreed on all points! n/t

[Cha]

92. If I saw a car like yours with all

those gorgeous bumperstickers..it would warm the cockles of my .

[NMMNG]

96. If you're sick

Please be contagious. :pals:

[politicat]

98. So give it back to them.

I have a packet of post-its and a fine line sharpie in my car, and whenever I see an older, cheaper car with W or Bob Beauprez (just ran for Gov and lost badly) or pro-war stickers, I stick a message on their rear-view side mirror. Rethuglican candidate stickers usually get "You're probably too poor to be voting with the selfish rich, and they're not looking out for your good, so why are you helping them?"

Pro-war stuff gets "I have three brothers in Iraq and nieces and nephews who have never seen their daddies. When are you going to take your turn as a soldier so that my family can come home?"

Anti-abortion stuff gets "I don't see any baby-seats, so I assume you've adopted several older, special needs children. There are kids waiting, desperately. What are you waiting for?"

We've had an outbreak of fish families on the back of minivans, but they're always a single big fish and a bunch of little ones. So I ask, "Where's the Mommy fish?!?"

Just little stuff, just to make people think. I don't care if they're angry; I want them to wake up in the middle of the night and maybe see things a little differently.

Oh... and gas pumps. Every gas pump I hit gets a stickie that says :"And we haven't even gotten started paying for the wars yet. Thanks for nothing, George. Grumpily yours, America." with an arrow pointing to the per gallon price.

Stickies aren't permanent, they do no damage, and people notice them.

I also praise cars I like with stickies.

[Ian David]

102. Here's one for the gas pumps

I've also left this on SUVs


Thank you for your patronage!

[Clark2008]

104. I like your stickers, but could the latest note mean something

else?

You have a Prius - not an inexpensive car - and you've pretty much ruined the trade-in value by sticking things on it. Maybe the person was an uber-capitalist and thought you were "sick" for ruining your investment.

LOL!

Just a thought.

:hi:

(Sorry - my mind is on a different plain today. :7 )

[librechik]

106. ooh--and it's a Prius--that must really set them off

your gas bill is infinitesimal compared to theirs!

[noonwitch]

107. At least it's a non-destructive way for them to express themselves

they didn't mess up your car, let the air out of the tires, smash your windows, etc.

[Ian David]

108. Today, I was driving along the highway, and a college kid pulled alongside me...

and waved a sign that said, "FUCK BUSH!"

It always makes my day.

[Quantess]

109. He said he wants to......

"F*UCK YOUR LIBERAL ASS".
Guess he's gay, then. I wonder if he's a homophobe, as well?
:think: