COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A car dealership's planned radio advertisement that declared "a jihad on the automotive market" has drawn sharp criticism for its content but will not be changed, the business said Saturday.
Several stations rejected the Dennis Mitsubishi spot, which says sales representatives wearing "burqas" -- head-to-toe traditional dress for Islamic women -- will sell vehicles that can "comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back."
"Our prices are lower than the evildoers' every day. Just ask the pope!" the ad says. "Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies." A fatwa is a religious edict.
I think the guy behind this wins my next "Not Helping Things" award....
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Damn, tommy, that is just fucked up.
sadly, i haven't much to say . but I'll add to the count down.
I did have a dream where I wrote a hiku to a pink and black hat.
Okay, that's kind of hysterical.
I had very nice dreams last night. I don't remember them, and I woke up in a lot of pain (ankle and sinuses), but they made me happy.
Facial paralysis report: My brows are even less unfurrowable than yesterday. But the eyebrows can still raise, and I can still squint (I was told to get good sunglasses because I wouldn't be able to squint--that's fucked up, yo).
And I have a migraine.
I gotta teach at 10:30. Plenty of time to make cupcakes or banana bread, right?
I had another dream about cars last night (I have way more dreams about cars than about sex. What's up with that? (Usually the car dreams are anxiety-related.))
Also, what's wrong with people?
In the competitive market for "energy drinks," the aim is to advertise more caffeine, more buzz, more attitude.
Even more controversy.
The latest beverage to break from the pack is the Cocaine Energy Drink, created by Redux Beverages of Las Vegas. So far sold mostly in New York and California clubs, it will become available online, according to its Web site (drinkcocaine.com).
The drink has the caffeine of about 3 1/2 cups of coffee but no narcotics, and boasts on its Web site, "Instant Rush. No Crash!"
Drug experts and nutritionists are appalled.
"Kids get hopped up on drinks called Cocaine and Xtazy and then what happens when someone offers them a line of real cocaine or an Ecstasy pill?" said Joseph Califano Jr., president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
In an interview, Jamey Kirby, the drink's inventor, said the 8-ounce energy drink does not promote or glamorize drugs. "Kids already know what's out there," he said.
Few of the new energy drinks are healthful, nutritionists said. "Cocaine" contains vitamins C, B-6 and B-12, according to the Web site.
"Those vitamins are already ubiquitous, even in the most horrible diet. We don't need them in a drink," said Diane Radler, a nutritionist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
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I 'm going to take a shower - I expect this thread to be dead by then.
