“Anything on the roadway would have to be eliminated,” David Gregg, Lubbock’s interim director of public works, said at a City Council meeting last week....
“I don’t think it was intended to go after the Buddy Holly glasses,” Mr. Gregg said of the Trump administration’s initiative. “Unfortunately, it did.”...
“It’s so unfortunate because it’s such a tasteful cross section, and people like it,” City Council member Christy Martinez-Garcia said of the Holly-themed crosswalk. “But what do you do?”
Government is always fucking with tax paying, productive people who follow the law of the land and ignore the doper shitbirds living and defecating in the street.
So what is not clear to me is exactly why a "no political road markings" regulation would target a Buddy holly memorial.
What, exactly, is making this Buddy Holly Glasses thing political? My local town has the local college logo painted on a few streets, surely this regulation won't force them to remove that.
What, exactly, is making this Buddy Holly Glasses thing political?
The NYTimes. The actual statement from the Trump administration was “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork” and the directive required removal of pretty much anything other than actual traffic markings.
Vance, The Buddy Holly glasses shouldn't be targeted for a far more important reason: the federal government doesn't have the slightest f****** business telling cities and towns what they can and can't paint on their crosswalks.
I thought those were sunglasses. I thought of Rick Astley first: https://80sheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rick-Astley-in-1987-Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up-1.jpg
he federal government doesn't have the slightest f****** business telling cities and towns what they can and can't paint on their crosswalks.
They didn't directly order compliance - instead it is the usual (and apparently Constitutionally-permissible) threat to withhold federal funding if such things are not removed.
"So what is not clear to me is exactly why a "no political road markings" regulation would target a Buddy holly memorial."
The letter was written to avoid viewpoint discrimination, so it doesn't say nothing "political": "Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter to governors urging them to keep roads “free of distractions” as part of a roadway safety initiative he announced in July. “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” he said in a statement announcing the letter."
Things are far too polarized already without fucking up the legally-mandated uniform regulatory highway and street markings with rainbows (keep in mind that at least one stripe in that spectrum of deviance honors child molsters) and dead criminal iconography. Therefore, three cheers for President Trump!
That just moves the problem one step back: with feds have no business funding local roads, either.
I like where this is going, and I will raise you... the feds further have no business collecting taxes to skim an admin fee off the top before "giving" it back to localities with strings attached.
I'd need to know more about their City Council personalities, but it does sound a bit like malicious compliance, doesn't it? Although it's small beer, the crosswalks should be marked clearly, although a little inspiration would find a way to work the distinctive eyeglass frames into the standard crosswalk stripe design.
I have an interesting vantage point on this question, from my location here in Washington State -- we are 1/50th of the states, with close to 1/50th of the population and 1/50th of the GDP.
Sitting on the center line like this, why should we need the feds to help us financially with anything? On the other hand, why should we be contributing to the less well-off states, either - - let the richer States do that.
I think that the government painting lines telling me where I can walk is more political than rainbows or glasses. I'll accept broken lines, which suggests my freedom is left intact, but that's still political.
I like where this is going, and I will raise you... the feds further have no business collecting taxes to skim an admin fee off the top before "giving" it back to localities with strings attached.
Kirk and DD,
No arguments from me on this, just pointing out that this is how it is done and how it passes legal muster (such that there is).
Massachusetts used to take advantage of the pestilence of message boards on its highways with some humor--"Use yah blinkah!"--or chauvinism--"Go Sox!" These are gone now (alas, the message boards remain), because some witless non driver in Washington found them too distracting while riding in his Uber. On the other hand, Vermont, God bless them, somehow figured out how to keep their old exit numbers (sequential) on their interstates when the previous Trump administration tried to force everyone to switch to using miles as exit numbers.
"keep roads “free of distractions”.."???? Try navigating the streets in Cambridge, MA, where bus and bike lane markings require ordinary car drivers to slalom this way and that, or face the wrath of the local polizei.
Tim said: "....when the previous Trump administration tried to force everyone to switch to using miles as exit numbers." ********** That policy began in 2009, but most states foot-dragged its implementation.
Are we pretending that crosswalk is the only Buddy Holly acknowledgment in Lubbock? Has the NYT moved on from simping for pedophiles to now running ridiculous articles on flyover country for clickbait? How far the mighty have fallen!
Kudos to the staffer who spent the whole weekend prompting AI until they finally found a crosswalk not dedicated to loony left politics. At least that fucker low on the equity pole at the Times found something to illustrate the Orange Man Bad theme the paper has run with since the Golden Escalator of ‘15.
So what is not clear to me is exactly why a "no political road markings" regulation would target a Buddy holly memorial.
I understand your confusion. The Left always lies. The headline is especially essential to misleading NYT readers. Secretary Duffy said crosswalks should be painted consistently to help drivers and pedestrians as the painted lines are intended to be. The first comment way above nailed this as malicious compliance because it is. The law doesn’t say “political art” it only restricts distracting paint schemes that may confuse drivers.
But to the lying psychotic leftists who run media it’s an opportunity to smear Trump as purging political messages from the public and sweeping up innocent rockabilly pioneers! If you detect shades of their ICE strategy in that sentence then you understand they have one playbook and causing pain and anger at fake injustice is their favorite tool.
Look how often they play that card. They want Trump dead.
Don McLean wrote and sang the American Pie memorial for rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" (J. P. Richardson), who were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on 2/3/1959 - The Day The Music Died.
A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music Used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people dance And maybe they'd be happy for a while But February made me shiver With every paper I'd deliver Bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one more step I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed bride But something touched me deep inside The day the music died
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Don't you just love Malicious Compliance?
It looks pretty ugly and poorly done to me. No loss.
Government is always fucking with tax paying, productive people who follow the law of the land and ignore the doper shitbirds living and defecating in the street.
The horror, the horror...
seems reasonable.
While i like Buddy Holly, crosswalks should look like cross walks
So what is not clear to me is exactly why a "no political road markings" regulation would target a Buddy holly memorial.
What, exactly, is making this Buddy Holly Glasses thing political? My local town has the local college logo painted on a few streets, surely this regulation won't force them to remove that.
"...Crackdown..." Snort.
I mean shouldn't these be painted on a runway threshold?
Trans progressed with exclusive judgments and Diverse labels (e.g. H, S). The Rainbow in human context is simply albinophobic.
How do they get here?
What, exactly, is making this Buddy Holly Glasses thing political?
The NYTimes. The actual statement from the Trump administration was “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork” and the directive required removal of pretty much anything other than actual traffic markings.
There are better, more culturally enriching ways to commemorate local heros, statuary in a public park, for instance, than fucking up highway and street markings that are supposed to comply to a nationwide standard nearly a century old.
Besides, those crosswalk horn rims are an absurdity pushed on Lubbock's already overburdened taxpayers by a power-mad city council. The sad fact is -- and we see its ravages everywhere we look -- city councils everywhere, even in ruby-red Texas, are havens for the real fascists haunting our politics. The reason is the tendency of many otherwise intelligent and discerning people to ignore local elections. They often fail to vote, and therefore the effective local electorate is much more looney-tunes than the local median registered voter. That's how your decent, upstanding city becomes a sanctuary for criminal aliens and grows streets painted in adoration of alphabet-soup perverts overnight.
OK, I didn't intend my link to be that long... but if it works I'll let it stand.
Vance,
The Buddy Holly glasses shouldn't be targeted for a far more important reason: the federal government doesn't have the slightest f****** business telling cities and towns what they can and can't paint on their crosswalks.
I thought those were sunglasses. I thought of Rick Astley first: https://80sheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rick-Astley-in-1987-Never-Gonna-Give-You-Up-1.jpg
What does Ezra Klein think?
he federal government doesn't have the slightest f****** business telling cities and towns what they can and can't paint on their crosswalks.
They didn't directly order compliance - instead it is the usual (and apparently Constitutionally-permissible) threat to withhold federal funding if such things are not removed.
"So what is not clear to me is exactly why a "no political road markings" regulation would target a Buddy holly memorial."
The letter was written to avoid viewpoint discrimination, so it doesn't say nothing "political": "Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent a letter to governors urging them to keep roads “free of distractions” as part of a roadway safety initiative he announced in July. “Roads are for safety, not political messages or artwork,” he said in a statement announcing the letter."
Things are far too polarized already without fucking up the legally-mandated uniform regulatory highway and street markings with rainbows (keep in mind that at least one stripe in that spectrum of deviance honors child molsters) and dead criminal iconography. Therefore, three cheers for President Trump!
Rocco with the Rickroll!
I thought of Mary Tyler Moore. CC, JSM
I went to 18th and Crickets Ave in Lubbock on Google Maps, and the glasses are visible at street level.
Not as well kept up in Maps compared to the NYT picture, though.
Kirk Parker knows not of what he speaks. Quelle suprise.
tommyesq,
That just moves the problem one step back: with feds have no business funding local roads, either.
That just moves the problem one step back: with feds have no business funding local roads, either.
I like where this is going, and I will raise you... the feds further have no business collecting taxes to skim an admin fee off the top before "giving" it back to localities with strings attached.
Kind of a roundabout without purpose
The S in the transgender spectrum is not politically congruent ("="), so they prescribed a new banner with empathetic support. So Pro-Choice.
I'd need to know more about their City Council personalities, but it does sound a bit like malicious compliance, doesn't it? Although it's small beer, the crosswalks should be marked clearly, although a little inspiration would find a way to work the distinctive eyeglass frames into the standard crosswalk stripe design.
DDD,
I have an interesting vantage point on this question, from my location here in Washington State -- we are 1/50th of the states, with close to 1/50th of the population and 1/50th of the GDP.
Sitting on the center line like this, why should we need the feds to help us financially with anything? On the other hand, why should we be contributing to the less well-off states, either - - let the richer States do that.
I think that the government painting lines telling me where I can walk is more political than rainbows or glasses. I'll accept broken lines, which suggests my freedom is left intact, but that's still political.
How is this " political?"
I am so sick of rainbow lectures on the street. F off.
I like where this is going, and I will raise you... the feds further have no business collecting taxes to skim an admin fee off the top before "giving" it back to localities with strings attached.
Kirk and DD,
No arguments from me on this, just pointing out that this is how it is done and how it passes legal muster (such that there is).
Massachusetts used to take advantage of the pestilence of message boards on its highways with some humor--"Use yah blinkah!"--or chauvinism--"Go Sox!" These are gone now (alas, the message boards remain), because some witless non driver in Washington found them too distracting while riding in his Uber.
On the other hand, Vermont, God bless them, somehow figured out how to keep their old exit numbers (sequential) on their interstates when the previous Trump administration tried to force everyone to switch to using miles as exit numbers.
"keep roads “free of distractions”.."???? Try navigating the streets in Cambridge, MA, where bus and bike lane markings require ordinary car drivers to slalom this way and that, or face the wrath of the local polizei.
Tim said:
"....when the previous Trump administration tried to force everyone to switch to using miles as exit numbers."
**********
That policy began in 2009, but most states foot-dragged its implementation.
Implementing policies enacted during the Obama administration?
Worst. Dictator. Ever.
Just paint the normal crosswalk lines, then put up a nice Buddy Holy statue in the center.
Forget Holly and put up a statue to the true troubadour to the golden spread, Terry Allen.
Get rid of bike lanes. They're a political statement about certain values.
Are we pretending that crosswalk is the only Buddy Holly acknowledgment in Lubbock? Has the NYT moved on from simping for pedophiles to now running ridiculous articles on flyover country for clickbait? How far the mighty have fallen!
Kudos to the staffer who spent the whole weekend prompting AI until they finally found a crosswalk not dedicated to loony left politics. At least that fucker low on the equity pole at the Times found something to illustrate the Orange Man Bad theme the paper has run with since the Golden Escalator of ‘15.
Well Vance:
So what is not clear to me is exactly why a "no political road markings" regulation would target a Buddy holly memorial.
I understand your confusion. The Left always lies. The headline is especially essential to misleading NYT readers. Secretary Duffy said crosswalks should be painted consistently to help drivers and pedestrians as the painted lines are intended to be. The first comment way above nailed this as malicious compliance because it is. The law doesn’t say “political art” it only restricts distracting paint schemes that may confuse drivers.
But to the lying psychotic leftists who run media it’s an opportunity to smear Trump as purging political messages from the public and sweeping up innocent rockabilly pioneers! If you detect shades of their ICE strategy in that sentence then you understand they have one playbook and causing pain and anger at fake injustice is their favorite tool.
Look how often they play that card. They want Trump dead.
Never forget Hillary’s favorite saying “The personal is political.”
Even your private thoughts are political to the loony left.
gilbar said... crosswalks should look like cross walks
Quite so. If I came across this as a pedestrian, I would be confused about the safe and legal way to cross the street.
It may be cute, but not cute enough to compromise public safety over.
Free advertising for Dr. T.J. Eckeberg.
Boat, I've always thought "Gatsby" would be be much better if George was the narrator.
If you knew Peggy Sue
Then you'd know why I feel blue
Don McLean wrote and sang the American Pie memorial for rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" (J. P. Richardson), who were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on 2/3/1959 - The Day The Music Died.
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music
Used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died
Collateral damage. Too bad.
Oh no, a Buddy Holly crosswalk will go away! It is a crosswalk, not an artist's canvas.
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