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Here’s my new idea for getting rid of hippies. Let’s put out this announcement: Due to increased global warming, polar bears are increasingly scared and sad. The only solution is to give them hugs. Thus, as citizens of the earth, we need to go out and hug polar bears now. So just go up to them and start hugging. They may bear their teeth, swing their paws, and roar, but that’s just polar bear for “I’m scared and need a hug!” If you are too intimidated to hug an adult polar bear, at least hug a baby polar bear then....

Luis Gutierrez is sounding like a human kazoo, demonstrating what he calls the "evilbuster breath." As the speaker's hands tent his nose and he exhales in a loud hum, few of the two dozen freshmen at Overfelt High in San Jose are smirking or rolling their eyes. After the students try this newest yoga technique and report vibrations in their noses, throats and brains, Gutierrez explains the breathing will help calm their nerves

Two people died and an estimated 19 others were taken to hospital after being overcome while sitting in a sauna-like sweat lodge at an at a spiritual retreat in Arizona. The lodge at the Sedona resort which is meant to provide spiritual cleansing is now the centre of a police investigation. In all, 21 of the 64 people crowded inside the sweat lodge on Thursday evening for the two-hour session received medical care.

This is hilarious! Do these morons have a clue how many people laugh at them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIULIJxVr7A&feature=player_embedded

Channel 11 News reporter Vince Sims said cars were at a standstill as the group converged at 37th Street and Liberty Avenue. "Our city, our streets, our park" were among chants that also included, "This is what democracy looks like." By the time the protesters hit 34th street, police in riot gear blocked the group. There is no word yet on whether they were allowed to continue. Sims spoke to the first protesters to arrive to Pittsburgh for the march. They are protesters in town from Denver and they thanked Sims for covering the story and giving the cause a...

'I Slept With My Own Father,' Reveals Daughter of The Mamas And The Papas Singer John Phillips By Daily Mail Reporter 23rd September 2009 The daughter of The Mamas And The Papas star John Phillips Has Revealed She Had A Long-Term Sexual Relationship With The Musician. [Pic in URL] In an explosive new book, Mackenzie Phillips says she was drugged and raped by her famous father when she was 19 and began a consensual incestuous affair that lasted a decade. Ms Phillips, now 49, reveals their first sexual encounter happened the night before she married Jeff Sessler, a member of...

Greenpeace is taking credit for taking climbers to the West End and Fort Pitt bridges this morning to unfurl banners stating "Danger — Climate Destruction Ahead. Reduce Co2 Emissions Now." Pittsburgh police and River Rescue crews swarmed the bridges where an estimated 20 protesters assembled. A banner was unfurled from the West End Bridge, but police intervened at the Fort Pitt Bridge to stop a simultaneous attempt there, said Mike Crocker, a Greenpeace activist who said he was the team leader coordinating the event from the North Shore near Jerome Bettis' Grille 36.

NOVATO – The '60s aren't dead. They're in an archaeological site north of San Francisco. An old commune where the Grateful Dead and other bands used to romp is being excavated and items catalogued by state park archaeologists at Olompali State Historic Park. Among the artifacts: the classic hippie beads, a marijuana "roach clip," fragments of tie-dyed clothes, and a reel-to-reel tape a Marin County studio technician has promised to try to restore. They are the stuff of memories for Noelle Olompali-Barton, who was 16 when she and her showbiz mom plunged into California's new counterculture, retreating to this once-private...

'Vegan fashion' is not an oxymoron 'Vegan fashion' is not an oxymoron: Designers with vegan convictions are creating animal-free high style. VEGAN STYLE: Vaute Couture bamboo-organic cotton velvet and vegan satin lined coat, $2,000; Stella McCartney sequin dress, $2,135 at Stella McCartney, Los Angeles. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times) Susan Carpenter They've given up eating burgers. And bacon. And anything else that used to have a pulse or came from something with a pulse. But just because they're vegan doesn't mean they're unfashionable -- only more selective. If an animal was harmed to make a material that goes into...

Obama Healthcare Logo Looks Like An Acid Trip! The logo makes a rather celestial plea for Obama’s health care reform plan. A stylized caduceus rises ethereally from the fields of Obama. Three heavenly stars grace its crown, while a faint bubble trembles above the silhouttes of expectant Americans. If Uncle Sam himself were tripping, this is probably what he would see... “Santana is going to bring a lot of joy, light, peace and happiness into a place that is basically based on illusion,” “We have to triumph, because we’re bringing the opposite of what Las Vegas is built on.” In...

For several months I hunted the elusive creature in the Santa Cruz Mountains without any luck. A couple of times I spotted Bigfoot, but I paid no attention to him. I was searching for a being much more rare. Finally, late one afternoon, I caught sight of him through my powerful binoculars. Knowing of his deep aversion to captivity, I spent all night rigging an elaborate trap for my prey. I rolled an old VW bug into the brush and spray-painted it with colorful psychedelic designs. Then I baited the trap with liberal sprinklings of oregano in the front seat...

Screw Woodstock. Really, I mean it. If you're my age -- I was 9 when the three-day concert took place -- you noted the 40th anniversary of the key event of our culture's endless 1960s nostalgia by thinking, "Gee, have I really been listening to these goofs celebrate themselves for only 40 years? Because it feels like 400." Doesn't the self-regard and self-significance make you want to vomit? OK, 400,000 people gathered for a rock concert and didn't kill each other -- big flippin' deal. Ten years later, in 1979, 1.2 million people showed up in Grant Park for a...

ROOSTING CHICKENS? They’ve been called a “mob.” They’ve been called “passionate Americans exercising free speech.” One TV journalist even called them “veterans of World War 2 and the Great Depression.” So, ever curious, I broke out my calculator and did a little math. If you stood in a bread line in 1933, then you were probably born in the 1910s or before. If you landed on Omaha Beach in 1944, then you were most likely born in the early 1920s or before. You’re pushing 90 or 100 today. You’ve already escaped the Grim Repaper so many times and seen so...

VFW: Woodstock Wasn't the Only Thing Happening 40 Years Ago By Colleen Raezler (Bio | Archive) August 12, 2009 - 13:47 ET    While some in the media have been dusting off their love beads, bell-bottoms and broomstick skirts in an effort to wax nostalgic about Woodstock, the VFW has reminded its members that the world did not stop for those four days in August 1969. In fact, for 109 American soldiers, the world ended that weekend.VFW Magazine honored those soldiers in the August 2009 cover story, "While Woodstock Rocked, GIs Died." Much has been made over the "half...

Woodstock promoter Michael Lang has dropped plans for a 40th anniversary concert. Asked why he abandoned the pursuit for a third anniversary concert celebrating the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Lang simply told Rolling Stone, “Money. No sponsors.” Lang, one of the four partners to stage Woodstock in 1969, had wanted to hold a free concert in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to coincide with the anniversary in mid-August. Those plans were postponed after he failed to find sponsors to cover the $8-$10 million cost. He then turned his attention to the end of September and had hoped to hold the concert...

How did we get to this point in America? What happened that allowed for the fabric of America to become so thin? Where did all the leaders go? We got here by allowing the media to begin to distort the truth in the 1960’s and allowing them to continue that distortion for the past four decades. We have allowed the media to glorify the 1960’s to this day. And, we have allowed the potential leaders of our nation to be swept away by the tide of progressivism in our schools and systems of higher education. The aging hippies and radicals...

One Day at a Time star Mackenzie Phillips was molested by her father John Phillips, the founding lead singer of The Mamas & the Papas! That's the explosive secret the 49-year-old former child actress will reveal in a scathing memoir due to hit bookstores next March, says a publishing insider. While the publisher, Simon Spotlight, has not publicly confirmed Mackenzie's molestation admission, it released a statement saying the troubled actress would reveal a "shocking, lifelong secret." Her addictions led to the downward spiral of her career, arrests and many stints in rehab, as well as two near-fatal overdoses. "In addition...

Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill has met his own Little Big HornAcademic Fraud and pretend Indian Ward Churchill got the ultimate smackdown from Judge Larry Naves. No money, no reinstatement, nada. He even took back the $1 settlement the last jury gave him. You get a big award of doodly-squat, tonto! Thus ends the Churchill-CU Circus. Naves is a well-respected judge appointed by Democrat Roy Romer, so this will not be overturned. Even the Daily Camera, newspaper of the People's Republic of Boulder, says it's past time to kick this charlatan to the curb. Native American-Hippie Chic Here in the West,...

The tiny mouse that became a hotly disputed symbol of wasteful spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill has returned to pester House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Obama administration revealed last week that as much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay Area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse. That has revived Republican criticism that the pet project was an "invisible earmark" in the massive spending bill for Mrs. Pelosi, whose San Francisco district abuts the Bay, and epitomizes what Republicans say is the failure of...

The Rainbow Gathering and the U.S. Forest Service continue to trade charges over the festival that is expected to draw 10,000 people to a Northern New Mexico forest by Independence Day. More than 200 people so far have had to travel 240 miles round-trip from the site in the Santa Fe National Forest near Cuba, N.M., to Albuquerque to see U.S. Chief Magistrate Lorenzo Garcia ... Forest Service spokeswoman Denise Ottaviano said only six of the arrests have been for felonies — assault on a federal officer, theft of government property, damage to government property and conspiracy. Seized drugs, she...

New video from Mr. Yankovic about the Internet site Craigslist in the style of Jim Morrison and the Doors. Enjoy!

A press conference was held last week announcing Michael Lang’s Woodstock Ventures had served “West Fest, Woodstock’s 40th Anniversary” with a cease and desist for using the name “Woodstock” . After much Peace and Love an agreement was reached between the events producer, Boots Hughston and Woodstock Ventures’ Michael Lang. 40th Anniversary of Woodstock Free Concert Will Take Place as Scheduled in Golden Gate Park San Francisco, Sunday, October 25, 2009 Event: “West Fest” Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock Producer: 2b1 Multimedia Inc. and the Council of Light in association with Artie Kornfeld, the original producer of “Woodstock 1969”...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

El Marco's new photo essay exposes how the Denver Art Museum is promoting LSD and radical revolution to today's generation of children. This in-depth study uncovers how a public institution is undermining the city it is supposed to serve. The shocking history of the Psychedelic Movement in San Francisco is juxtaposed with real tragedy in today's recovery community in Denver. http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009/06/drugs-and-revolution-to-children-at-dam/

Companies: After an all-out war on oil companies from the left in recent years, it bodes well for the future to see Big Oil now recognizing the attack it's under and its duty to fight back. Witness Chevron and Exxon Mobil.Shareholder meetings can be pro forma affairs, but not for major oil companies, which have become a lightning rod for the anti-corporate sentiment gaining traction in U.S. political life since around 2006. Wednesday, Chevron was descended upon by a zoo-full of San Francisco leftists pushing rain forest sentimentalism, Burma, and other pet causes dear to the no-soap crowd. They journeyed...

Memorial Day is a special day in State College, Pa.Each year, the town's hippies, like those college hippies around the country, recall the tradition of turning their backs on the nation's fighting men and women. It's a proud tradition."My great-great-grandfather castigated those who served in the Union Army during the Civil War," said Karlton Fletcher. "Calling them, Butchers of Atlanta, for seeking to enforce the imperial will of the Republican government on the southern states and their unique economic needs."Fletcher's non-fighting lineage continued through America's involvement in the Spanish-American War and World War I. His family passive-aggressively fought for whoever...

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Run for the hills. The official Woodstock "brand" is approaching America like a big hallucination.

Phish announced a May 31 concert at Fenway Park [map] today, one of a handful of shows the Vermont-based jamband added to its summer tour.

G20 summit protesters have forced their way inside a Royal Bank of Scotland office in the City amid violent clashes with police as world leaders gather in London. Anarchists smashed windows of the building on Threadneedle Street near the Bank of England and looted office equipment and papers, throwing smoke grenades, chairs and eggs. A printer was seen being thrown out of a window as the group of protesters, many with their faces covered by bandanas, ransacked the office, despite a huge security operation to protect Europe's financial capital. Riot police have been deployed near the scene but the protesters...

Michael Lang said plans for a 40th anniversary Woodstock concert are "all speculative ideas" for now, but he hopes to bring them to reality this summer. The Woodstock co-founder told Billboard.com that his vision is "a free event...a very green project," possibly in New York City. "We want to have as small a carbon imprint as we can and use as many green techniques as we can," said Lang, who was in Austin as part of a South By Southwest panel discussion about Woodstock. The holdup? "It's got to be sponsor-driven," he explained. "It's free, but it costs a lot...

Video on site: http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/save-hippies.html

Protests greet Bush's first speech as ex-president Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:00pm EDT CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - More than 100 protesters chanted "war criminal" and flung shoes in Calgary on Tuesday, angry that former U.S. President George W. Bush was in the Canadian city to give his first speech since leaving the White House. At least two demonstrators were hauled away by police after brief skirmishes, as 1,500 business people in the oil patch city waited outside a convention center for an hour to pass through tight security and enter the C$400-a-plate ($315) luncheon. Media were barred from the invitation-only...

Stupid Hippies. Have you ever been to Whole Foods? It smells like hippies. I don't know why, but my wife always gets mad when I call people dirty hippies, loud enough for them to overhear. I can't help it, they smell bad. (Video on Site) http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/south-park-hippy-infestation.html

(Video on Site) Sure it's funny, because hippies are stupid; but past the humor, this is sort of disturbing. Look at all these people eager to sign a petition to ban something they know NOTHING about. How can anyone make an informed decision if they don’t do their research? Libs are so eager to jump on any bandwagon that they will leap without even looking. It really is nuts. http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2008/07/penn-and-teller-trick-some-hippies.html

From Cracked.com Between the hybrids, the reusable canvas shopping bags and cloth diapers, everybody's doing their little bit to save the world. Entire industries have sprang up to cater to us socially-responsible types who want to leave behind a better world for the robots to inherit once they take over. But, most of the time, making you feel better is about all it does. For instance... #5. Buying Organically Grown Food Why People Do It: Seems like a no-brainer. Organic food eliminates the use of chemical fertilizers, hormones and pesticides. Getting rid of all those nasty chemicals means healthier foods...

(Video on Site) This little clip gives you a frightening look into the minds of the far left environmentalist fringe. These are the nut jobs that keep us from building clean, efficient nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams, and domestic oil drilling. http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2008/09/hippies-wailing-over-dead-trees.html

This should probably be in the humor section but since it really happened I guess not. Click the URL link for the video of the "final assault" on the Kimmel Dining Hall at NYU that's being occupied by hippie rejects and wannabe anarchists. It's hilarious and reminds me of a SNL skit. The comments section is good for a laugh too.

So much for the revolution. Security guards on Friday dragged the last of the renegade New York University students out of a campus cafeteria where they had been holed up in protest for three days. "Solidarity! Solidarity!" the fist-pumping rebels yelled as they were ousted from the Kimmel Center. Four students tried to flee a balcony after campus cops breached their barricade. Others were physically removed - and unceremoniously dumped outside. "He picked me up by the shoulders and dragged me through the door," complained protest organizer Farah Khimji, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I was physically subdued. I was thrown to...

Thank you so much for reminding me. A day after a historic inauguration and affirmation that this is the greatest country known to man, one that provides unlimited opportunity for all; your article in the Globe today made sure that our original sin stiil hangs on us. The sin that only the martyrdom of the white male liberal and his resurrection in the halcyon days of the 60's have we been spared from Judgement Day. The sacrifice you made Bob, you and your grey haired aging hipster friends to make sure that we must never forget that black people are...

In what may be the beginning of a campaign to talk soldiers out of deploying to Iraq, 12 peace activists were fined Monday in federal court for trespassing last summer at Fort McCoy in west central Wisconsin. Members of Voices for Creative Nonviolence were arrested in August by base police at the main gate of the 67,000-acre military installation during a walk from Chicago to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. The activists said they wanted to "dialogue" with soldiers to tell them their Fort McCoy Training would leave them woefully unprepared for what they would face in...

Over at the HuffPo, a hippie-dippy writer named Stephen Mo Hanan punched up a post called "Why Save Capitalism?"In case you're wondering, yes, this is the typical short-sighted, tie-died, socialistic, Commie-symp wail-fest against capitalism, Now I'm not stupid enough to forget that capitalism is also a system that has allowed a substantial though relatively small group of human beings to amass titanic wealth and, so to speak, to capitalize on that wealth by exercising transformative power over the whole planet and everyone on it. If they were all wise and benevolent, that might be a satisfactory arrangement; they aren't, and...

and now for something completely different to help you forget that this is an election year. (and from all the ayers threads). Raw video,Octobe21/08:Tasmania,Australia, TENSIONS over the logging of old-growth forests in Tasmania have boiled over into a violent attack by timber workers, caught on video yesterday. The timber workers are seen attacking a protest car with a sledgehammer and kicking in its windows as they demand that the occupants get out. With increasing fury, more workers join in the attack, surrounding More.. the car, which was deliberately disabled on a logging road, and leaving it trashed. A 22-year-old man...

A series of Iraq war protests culminated with the arrest of 15 people on disorderly conduct charges at the gates of Hofstra University. Most of those arrested were from out of state and from New York City, police said Thursday morning. The largest crowd, about 350 people, carrying signs and shouting slogans, gathered outside the gates at 5:30 p.m. and remained for hours. Smaller groups gathered earlier on campus, in downtown Hempstead and at the Hempstead train station. About 7:30 p.m. a scrum broke out between protesters and mounted police outside the gates when police refused to allow anti-war veterans...

As Gov. Palin attempted to make a campaign speech, she was interrupted by a hippie, er protester.Click here to view the video. Palin stops her speech, looks directly at the heckler and says the following "Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest".... Visit RUF for the video and the rest of the story!

I usually post videos in the DUmmie FUnnies on weekends or late at night. However, for this VIDEO I have to make an exception because it is probably the FUnniest video I have ever seen on YouTube. It shows a bunch of tree huggers who belong to the Earth First eco group in the North Carolina forest (most likely these are hippies who live in Asheville) mourning over trees. And they don't just shed a few tears. They are flat out bawling. Their Drama Queen antics are absolutely hilarious! And that hippie chick waxing poetic over a rock is...

Antioch's gone, but its spirit lives Nonstop institute born out of demise Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:27 AM By Holly Zachariah THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio -- Jesus smiled down on Isabella Winkler as she talked to her college students about violence, passion, gender roles and French kissing. The six students in Winkler's culture and interpretation class focused on the photographs of embracing couples and paid no mind to the stained-glass image overwhelming the sanctuary inside the United Methodist Church. At about the same time, chemistry professor Kabuika Butamina was across town. He goes by only Kab. "Just one...

With a friend videotaping, 27-year-old Christopher Lenzini of Dallas took a hit of Salvia divinorum, regarded as the world’s most potent hallucinogenic herb, and soon began to imagine, he said, that he was in a boat with little green men. Mr. Lenzini quickly collapsed to the floor and dissolved into convulsive laughter. When he posted the video on YouTube this summer, friends could not get enough. “It’s just funny to see a friend act like a total idiot,” he said, “so everybody loved it.” Until a decade ago, the use of salvia was largely limited to those seeking revelation under...

You have to watch this!!! It's too weird to explain.   Click here  

This video is just too great to ignore. I'm surprised they didn't make it to St. Paul to protest with the rest of the lunatics: