I don’t even know why I bitch anymore. I should just approach my dealings with Atlanta’s rickety mass transit system as a Zen master and accept my fate as inevitable. Anyway, my boss and I were returning from North Georgia where we ran a public meeting, and he dropped me off at the East Lake MARTA station around 10 p.m. I was destined for the GDGF’s place in Midtown. The wait for a westbound train was reasonable, and I hopped it to the Five Points station. When I arrived, madness was waiting for me.
I waited at least 30 minutes for the northbound train. The delay led to a bottleneck of aspiring riders, seen in this photo (taken with my Motorola e815 camera phone, which apparently doesn’t exist anymore):
To top it off, there was a Christian youth convention in town with competing factions standing on opposite sides of the station, singing to each other in piercing voices:
“God is great!!!! Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!! God is great!!!!! Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!”
God clearly hates you, I thought to myself, if he placed you at the mercy of MARTA when your captors let you out of your cages.
The train finally lurched into boarding position after an interminable wait, bursting with riders from previous stations. We were packed in like six-footers in the back seat of a Mustang, and shoved off after another delay.
I muttered blasphemy the entire ride.
Conductor: “Arriving at Peachtree station…”
Me: “Goddamn MARTA, always late, never reliable…”
[ . . . ]
Conductor: “Arriving at Civic Center station…”
Me: “Stupid goddamn Christians, singing all the goddamn time…”
[ . . . ]
Conductor: “Arriving at North Avenue station…”
Me: “Jesus Christ, what a goddamn nightmare this has been…”
[ . . . ]
Conductor: “Arriving at Midtown station…”
Me: “Dripping Christ on a stick…”
[ . . . ]
Conductor: “Arriving at Arts Center station…”
Me: “About goddamn time!”
I probably spoiled someone’s trip, judging by the glances I received. While there’s no love lost between Jeebis, his followers, and I, I still feel bad on karmic principle that I directed my anger somewhere other than its direct source.
Hahahaha.
HAHAHAHAHA.
I’m using that line sometime soon. Stupid Goddamn Christians, singing all the time…
Hahahaha.
You’re kidding yourself if you think you’ll ever be anything other than the Antizen as opposed to the zen master.
Annoying as the singing, fake cheeriness and optimism is, you could have been blown up.
Lush if you think that a bombing is going to happen on MARTA I ‘ve lost any respect I might have for you. Al-Qaeda does not thing of Atlanta as a problem or target. Hell if they every used it then they might feel sorry for the MARTA riders across the ATL area. Lush you fell for the media ploy that were all going to die by Anthrax and everyone doomed if they leave the house. You were one of those assholes that bought plastic and tape for the windows weren’t you.
I am sorry to rant, but I hate this feeling in America that were going to be bomb at ever social event.
I think your train of thought derailed my friend. The connection was trains and religious nutjobs. Make no mistake, I don’t think that anyone of importance cares, or should care, about Atlanta…nay the entire state of Georgia.
No Lush you are the derailed one. You think that anyone that has an outward show of faith is a “nutjob.” You really put Christian youth that are excited about what they believe in the same catagory as train bombers and people that fly plains into buildings. You are insane. People that were happy and excited about their faith is what gave you the freedom to talk shit about them all the time. America was founded by people who believe not too much differently than the rowdy teens at the MARTA station.
People love to shit on Christians. I am not sure why. America is more ready to accept Muslims and Buddists than they are ready to accept Christians. Tell me at its root what is wrong with Christianity? Tell me (other than causing a delay) what was wrong about what these kids are doing at the MARTA station? They weren’t offering the purple kool-aid, and if they were they weren’t forcing anyone to drink it.
The singing, man, the fucking singing. If they want to sing in their church, that’s fine, but when they do so at that volume outside their own building they are forcing me to listen to it, and open themselves to all the hostility and ridicule I can muster. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be free to do it, but it’s rude. Neither they nor you should be surprised when I pay back that rudeness ten-fold.
Jesus Christ you’re an idiot. Rusty, how the fuck did you collect these retards? It was sarcasm. Sarcasm used against this anti-Christian sentiment that so many people have. These same people often want us to be all p.c. about every other religion, i.e. Islam.
Plain and simple. He could deal with these optimistic, cheery Christians on the train or some fucking people who would want to blow him up on that very same train. I choose the Christians despite my problems with them. Your point exactly.
You sir are a fucking moron. Read between the lines. I don’t want to have to dumb everything down to cater to your intellect.
It’s time for a new format Rusty. This current one is attracting too many fucking dumbasses.
Lush,
I’m mulling putting one together at the beginning of next year. I don’t have enough time to do the coding and shit right now.
…and oh yeah Two Youtz, I didn’t fall into the trap of letting them scare me. But then again this happened
Now the story is very pc. There is very little to find out about the event. This is the extent most of the new organizations did on the story. Now, how likely is it that a young Muslim male built a bomb and just committed suicide outside of a packed college football stadium?
I have heard uncomfirmed reports that he was denied entrance to the stadium at least three times. Common sense simply says that if one wants to commit suicide, they don’t make a bomb and do it outside of a packed football stadium. Sure, you could say that he wanted to make a statement, but please. The fact that this story doesn’t get the attention it deserves is what bothers me more.
I found this after a little digging on national security blogs: “…2 October 2005; 11:50 p.m.: Law enforcement sources close to the Northeast Intelligence Network have confirmed that search and seizure warrants were served today upon the residence of the “suicide bomber, 21-year-old Joel Henry Hinrichs III of Colorado Springs, CO, who was a resident of the Park View Apartments on campus. Speaking strictly “off the record,†the officials stated that they recovered “a significant amount†of Islamic “Jihad†type literature, some possibly written in Arabic, along with the suspect’s computer. Some of the documentation included material on how to construct bomb-making vests.
Further reports by the same officials indicated that the bomb was detonated prematurely when the suspect was either arming a bomb vest or backpack, which contained TATP, a homemade explosive. TATP (triacetone triperoxide) is a very potent but relatively easily manufactured explosive compound that was used in the July London bombings. It is important to note that TATP has been cited in numerous Jihad bomb-making manuals.
The same officials, requiring anonymity as the investigation is ongoing, continued to confirm that “other un-detonated explosive devices were found in the area cordoned off by police and federal officials.†Those devices WERE NOT DETONATED, but carefully confiscated for further forensic testing. Initially, information provided to the Northeast Intelligence Network suggested that that the so-called “suicide-bomber†was attempting to attach bombs to the buses parked in the area when one of the bombs detonated prematurely. The investigation has expanded into the possibility that others might have been involved. …”
So if it could happen, but fail, in Norman, Oklahoma…it could happen in Atlanta. It’s only a matter of time. All of this is irrelevant to the subject at hand though. I made my point clear in previous posts. That point being that you are all a bunch of fucking dumbasses.
Oh yeah, he attended the same fucking mosque as Moussaoui.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46681
If it can happen in Okalhoma, it can happen in Atlanta.
Baby Evil said:
Um…you’ve got to be kidding, right?
This is probably the most Christian nation in the Western world. If some people feel occasionally annoyed by Christians, it’s because they are constantly shoving their religion in other people’s faces. Screaming their “Jesus Loves Me” songs on the MARTA train is a less malignant case of Christian obnoxiousness than other things (like trying to pack the Supreme Court with fanatics).
Yes, Joseph, of course he’s kidding. He’s just trying to raise people’s hackles. Don’t take the bait, ’cause he’ll just use it as a chance to come back and shit all over your sexual orientation. (Which is so original.)
You see Rusty, this is why I don’t stir too much shit up on your website. It comes to nothing. You either stir shit up and people get it and take part in the fun, or they don’t get it and react. Either way it’s fun.
Here though you have a bunch of self-important, pseudo-intellectual pussies that don’t want to go toe to toe with someone for fear of getting their ass kicked. Some may actually be pompous enough to think that it is beneath them. Most are delusional and think that the Internet is actually something more than entertainment. They think that it’s actually a place where one can come for information and intellectual discourse. Pfft
Oh, man, every time Lush raises shit on your site, it just makes me want him to make an honest woman out of me and bear him a hundred babies, all of which we’ll name Lush Jr.
Seriously, Lush, I think you’re a-ok.
Would you still think so if you knew I was naked from the waist down right now and touching myself in plain view of anyone that might choose to walk by my window?
Hey, Rusty, I have that phone too. It’s not discontinued; Verizon pulled it off their site for like 48 hours back in July.
I managed to scam a pair of e815s for the wife and me for $50 each, after rebate. Those guys at the kiosk didn’t know what hit ‘em. Very good deal for a very good phone. I have the USB cable that’ll let you hack it and get free pix messages, if you’re interested.
Yes, I am very much interested. I’ll be e-mailing you shortly.
Consider taking the #10 bus from Five Points to Arts Center station on future trips. Doesn’t take that much longer than a train when the train is on time, probably faster when there are delays. Plus visiting tourists don’t know about it so they are guaranteed not to be along for the ride.
Lush,
That’s called building a solid alibi, and I could never find fault with that. I think not enough people spend time building solid alibis. I cannot over-emphasize the need to build solid alibis.
I thought your comment about the Atlanta logo was very good and observant. I heard it cost Atlanta $500,000. I think they could have hired a first grader for free and had better results.
Yes, just copy the Lucent logo - serpent chasing it’s tail …….
“If it can happen in Okalhoma, it can happen in Atlanta.”
I was not living in Atlanta at the time, but from reviewing news reports, I’m pretty sure that Atlanta has already (and recently) suffered from terrorist bombings. The bombings were performed by that good Christian fellow, Eric Rudolph, back in 1996 and 1997. Good thing no one told him that gays and pregnant women (that don’t want to be) ride MARTA.
Lush - i feel so sorry for you…. to be that dumb in your views, you must lack social inteligence. what happen man? honestly, reading your thoughts has now made me realize that i just came across a complete moron. you must be a democrat! anyways i don’t care what you write back i probably won’t even check back on this thing, but after reading the most dumbest remarks i have ever seen i just had to write something… peace out honky