Posted on 09/05/2011 8:34:24 AM PDT by EveningStar
SAN FRANCISCO Melody Studebaker stands solemnly outside the Fort Mason Safeway grocery store, along side her long term partner, Henrietta...
Studebaker, 62, and her partner, 60, are picketing the Safeway store this beautiful morning to draw attention to a most ugly practice within it. After a lifetime of witnessing the use of grocery store checkout line dividers, Strudebaker and her partner have had enough...
(Excerpt) Read more at duhprogressive.com ...
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I am assuming this is humor, right?
:)
YES this is silly satire.
I’m more annoyed by the lack or inaccessibility of the darn things when you want them.
More like stupidity.
“California State Assembly Member Nancy Skinner (DBerkeley) who last week proposed the Checkout Line Integration Act (AB 909) in the State Assembly, which would ban the inanimate objects in all grocery store lanes in California.”
If this is all they have to work on, I think we can successfully change to a part-time congress and half the cost.
Ya know, I thought I was reading satire.
Then I saw the picture of Melody Studebaker, who looks like the grill of a ‘49 Commander and had second thoughts.
This may not be satire. And it is California!

Old, ugly lesbians and old, ugly Democrap women look the same. Wonder why?
Maybe California should do away with highway dividers too! That way everybody can drive in any direction they want!
I think it is well-written satire, but this being California, who can really tell?
Now, if the article said Gov. Brown was going to tax the dividers, then I'd believe that the article was true.
If it ain't humor, it's gonna be...
an issue i finally agree on with the left but for totally different reasons. i hate those dividers but only because they make people weak, they use them to “defend their turf” when they could just be vigilant and keep an eye on their own stuff rather than depending on a stick to defend their noodles and canned peaches
This is the dumbest, morst ignorant, stupid....oh....San Fransicko?
Now I understand.
Nope.
Just another good illustration why California is totally whacked-out and liberals/progressives need to be powerless.
The problem with writing satire these days is that the Left is so crazy that you really can’t tell where satire ends and the sad, sad truth begins. Or is it the other way around?
Congress should pass a law that mandates that a code phrase be placed in any satirical story making fun of liberals. For example, the law could mandate the phrase “green Smurf” be used in every satire.
But, then the damned liberals would decide that Smurfs are not Earth-Friendly ENOUGH and want to see them add Green Smurf to the cartoon and then we have to pass a new law!
It’s just spinning out of control folks!!
I am assuming this is humor, right>
Any city other than San Francisco and you would know the answer right away. But with San Francisco, you need to do a double take to to make sure it is humor.
Oh. Wait....
Useful Idiots in full exposure - Vintage California.
For satire to qualify as such, it must be, in some way, distinguishable from reality...:)
Well, let’s see this thread was started by John Semmons, so it’s not REALLY GOOD satire!
Nowadays, to have some kind of indicator of satire I usually look for something outlandish like Republicans eating unborn babies or something like that, but when it’s coming from places like the Huffington Post, even then
Only in California. I swear.
As I told my wife, she had been rode hard, and put down wet—pissed off at life more than likely. I would be too, if I lived her life.
LOL, what I MEANT TO SAY was that this thread was NOT started by John Semmons!
“I’ve seen the pain on a Muslim kid’s face when they see some ugly plastic stick of repression keep their hummus from some gay man’s arugula and amyl nitrite —I’ve seen all...I say: I’ve seen it all, I tell ya’!”
LOL. But don’t those bars keep those pork and other non sharia compliant foods separate from the infidel’s? One wouldn’t want to offend them.
And Maxine Waters will soon introduce this law in the US Congress.
Liberals are so damn crazy it might be time to lock them up if they even say they are liberal.
They were put in to try to take some of the cuss out of customers who would otherwise have to alert cashiers when their order ended so that they don’t get an item they don’t want run go their order from the next order. With today’s customers yakking on cellphones it would be ludicrous to take those bars away.
Since it's California, it needs to be asked!
Pretty funny stuff, great satire
I didn’t really understand what they were talking about until I read the entire article and saw the pictures.
Obviously, these people have never heard George Carlin’s routine about “my stuff.”
Take cucumbers for example. If I am in a grocery line with a gay couple, and we both have cucumbers, it is is only through the use of dividers that I know where mine has been.
They can have my divider when they pry it from my cold dead hand.
This sounds like two postmodernistic lunatics with their cultual relativity and pluralism have been let out of the asylum.
I almost fell for it, but I had to do a Google search of pending legislation first to make sure it was not reality. The Checkout Line Diversity Act is sane compared to a lot of stuff that does pass in Cali.
run go => rung to
Obviously, just another liberal attempt to get somebody else to pay for someone else’s food. It happens every time I’m in a grocery store when I don’t use a checkout divider. The clerk always reaches for the next person’s groceries to put on my bill.
Duh, is right. I can’t believe that all Americans aren’t outraged by this practice of keeping our groceries segregated and NON diverse.
I’ve almost finished my grant application seeking funding for the study of this horrendous travesty.
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I don't know, all the other stories seem legit to me.
Duh, is right. I can’t believe that all Americans aren’t outraged by this practice of keeping our groceries segregated and NON diverse.
I’ve recently submitted my grant application seeking funding for the study of this horrendous travesty.
To heck with them! they have no right to over regulate a free economy. Just say no! Get some guts you business people. THey won’t even give me plastic bags at the local grocery store but now have to charge me for paper bags. Stop these idiots now! How far are you going to let them go in destroying our jobs?
I’d like to see self washing and drying conveyor belts. Set a cardboard box where someone’s ice cream had been, and it sticks to the belt.
My favorite line from the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, which opened in 1950--"I hope you get stabbed by a Studebaker."

1950 Studebaker
How have we lived so long without understanding how evil these "dividers" are? Now--being sufficiently outraged and ashamed of failing to be "one with my neighbor"--the next time I'm in line at my local grocery store I shall remove every divider that separates my items from those of other people in line, and let them pay for them!
What the hell is a checkout lane devider?
Absolute jackass.
“I usually look for something outlandish...”
It was the ‘underwater origami’ thing that convinced me it was satire. But I could believe there are lefties who actually think this way.
I only wish this was real. Banning inanimate objects from the grocery checkout lane is a good thing for libtard California, for it would ban food and beverages from being purchased (they are inanimate object, after all).
So, that would, in essence, starve out the entire state... cleansing it of all the libtards. After the last one died, we could then move in and reestablish a functioning, non-libtard state.
OK then. I guess I should stop using tampons because they are a reminder of the division between men’s bodies and women. I’ll just bleed everywhere now and make us all ‘one in the world’.
That’s a funny, funny post, EveningStar. Thanks for bringing a smile to this ugly-looking (but not as ugly as your article’s character) face!
” Old, ugly lesbians and old, ugly Democrap women look the same. Wonder why? “ because of to much hate ?
Hehe...
It’s a 20th century invention. Don’t worry about it.
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