Post-election, Bay Area artists raise the distress flag

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[Sofa King]

"We live in a country that's in a shroud of ignorance."

Yes, that's because morons like you are too busy shooting off their mouths to ever learn anything.

[Paul Atreides]

The left only cares about destroying the Three Cs:

Conservatives

Christians

Capitalists

They don't even mind if they have to go in league with terrorists to do it.

BTW, I'm sure that Alan Colmes could explain away Fat Mike's hatred.

[Paul Atreides]

Wonder why the people who don't want to go to war are calling us isolationists?

Wonder why the people wailing about 100,000 Iraqi dead and the "unjust war" are the ones wanting to murder their fellow citizens for exercising their rights to vote?

[American_4_Ever]

I don't know what this freak is doing in San Franfreako but he is a member or lead singer of the crappy, old political punk band NOFX. This group of rejects made a song bashing Reagan in the 80's and are on the "Rock Against Bush" CDs. They are way past their prime and are the ones who created punkvoter.com, a site for punk rock freaks to vote (for Kerry). But the election is over, so its now irrelavant. But these kind of slime shouldn't even be allowed to vote!

[yooling]

Found listed as donor to a 527.

Fat Wreck Chords

200 Folsom St.

San Francisco, CA 94119

[sergeantdave]

Well, seeing as how Fat Mike is a failure... maybe he can write a new song, with apologies to Mr. Bennett, titled "I Push My Cart in San Francisco."

[Sofa King]

Green Day used to rock. After Nimrod, they just don't seem to know what to do with themselves.

[mplsconservative]

"Who the heck is Fat Mike and what's he doing in San Francisco?"

I sure don't know who he is, but I really DON'T want to know what he's doing in San Francisco. TMI, LOL

[Hardastarboard]

homophobic, flag-waving, God-fearing, gun- toting, uneducated, isolationist, ethnocentric rednecks

Unfortunately for this moron, while I fit much of the description, I am definitely not homophobic, and I am very well educated. I have more education than this brain-damaged weasel could get in six years.

[DB]

"When I see a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on a car, it's time to slash their tires"

Strange... When I see Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers I smile...

[SquirrelKing]

Fat Mike is not a happy man. "When I see a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on a car, it's time to slash their tires," he says.

Gee. I thought fat people were supposed to be jolly.

[reaganaut]

I used to like me first also. Oh well, obviously fat mike has missed the up and coming conservative punk movement.

[Navy Patriot]

But what if a violent crowd of these douchebags swarm me?

You are yankin' my chain right?

In case you're not, be a Boy Scout be prepared, and don't over react.

Be prepared by carefully picking where you go and whom you go with. Try to assess and avoid potential violent groups, individuals and situations. NEVER look for trouble, but always watch for it. If cornered use only the force necessary for survival, and never get angry.

Anyway, I have never seen a crowd of douchebags wearing body armor that would stop 5.56 ball.

[Bandaneira]

Some parts of San Francisco sound like they have become a cesspool of immorality. Some of the residents act like energy vortexes, sucking all good in and giving nothing out. They are malevolent, contractionary, unstable and disordered. The universe is benevolent, expansive, stable and ordered.

They should wake up.

[American_4_Ever]

No, for self defense. I won't go up to these freaks and kick their @$$ looking for a fight but I am mentioning if a whole crowd tried to swarm me because I am wearing my patriotic T-shirts. With AP, I could probably tear through them.

[farmfriend]

"When I see a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on a car, it's time to slash their tires,"

Ah yes, the city of tolerance and inclusiveness.

[American_4_Ever]

I've been to Chinatown many, many times because me and my family are Chinese and they love buying Chinese medicine and Chinese food but the people there seem to be okay. I see stores with American flags out on the front window unlike the other parts of San Fransicko.

[jonrick46]

These people are going the way of the dinosaur. To see them in their 50s desperately trying to perpetuate the Culture of Love of the 1960s is a sight to behold. That Culture of Love was never for love. It actually was a Culture of Self. They are a walking caricature of the 60s Flower People and may indeed be seen as living fossils. Every time I see them, I have to laugh.

On a more serious note, these are people who not only embrace the mindset of the 1960s, but also embrace Marxism. These people if put in power, would not exhibit their Flower People peace to all mankind thinking (which was always a facade). When they get power, they will turn into what they really were, even back in the 1960s: Fascists.

[caspera]

These people are extraordinarily solipsistic drama queens. Their laments are kind of depressing to read, but they are also kind of funny, too. The following one is great. I swear, these people are beyond parody, so you might as well chuckle what they give you. Warning: it is vulgar.

JUBA KALAMKA, rapper

A founding member of the East Bay gay hip-hop crew Deep D**kollective, Kalamka has fought for understanding between queer and black culture under Democratic and Republican administrations. He sees the election as a case study in the topics D/DC has addressed for years.

"Queerness, race, class and sexism were all issues at the front," he said. "The black gay community was right in the middle of what happened in Ohio. So much of the politicking in the black community has been about reifying straight men, but this is going to force a dialogue."

Kalamka expects tensions between conflicting cultures to intensify.

"As an individual, I have to wonder what's going to happen just walking down the street as a black f*g," he said. "Part of me wants to move to Canada, but part of me knows I'm needed here."

Yep, you're needed here, all right. We don't know what we'd do without you.