The definition of a “hero” in Berkeley
Who’s a “hero” in Berkeley?
Not the Marines.
The illegally trespassing tree-sitters.
Four of the Memorial Stadium tree-sitters left their perches Wednesday and late Tuesday, leaving only three protesters making a stand against UC’s plans to build an athletic training center in the grove, UC Berkeley officials said.
But the holdouts don’t plan to give up just yet, said Eric Eisenberg, who has been part of the tree-sitters’ support crew since the protest began Dec. 1, 2006.
“Those remaining are strong, steadfast and recommitted to protecting this sacred, beautiful place,” Eisenberg said. “Obviously their supplies are dwindling and they need nutrients, but they’re rededicating themselves. We’re strong and we’re going to win.”
Three of the protesters came down to preserve more food and water for those who remain, Eisenberg said, while the fourth - Amanda “Dumpster Muffin” Tierney, 21 - came down because she was suffering from an undisclosed medical condition, campus spokesman Dan Mogulof said…
…”There’s plenty of people who want to help,” Eisenberg said. “The tree-sitters are heroes in this town.
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Wow, that doesn’t speak highly of the ‘plenty of people’.
I can’t get past the name: Dumpster Muffin. Hilarious!
It’s a mental disease called liberalism, and she is one of their heroes.
Get a life and get a job. Loser is thy name.
Is there a picture of this “Dumpster Muffin”
I would really like to see the 21 year old girl who would tag herslf with that moniker.
ROFL
I was thinking something along the same lines, AG!
It gets better: One of the treesitters, Shem (or is it Flem?) has filed a lawsuit over his treatment as an illegal tresspasser in the trees. His primary witness: Squirtle.
What a laugh riot.
“Were I like thee, I would throw away myself”, Dumpster Muffin.
Sorry, I felt compelled to borrow a line from The Bard there.
apparently, we don’t have enough to do in this country. Anything to make ourselves feel alive. What a sad, pathetic state…
Smelling her own stench may have been the problem.
On the other hand, I cannot believe someone as supposedly committed to “saving these trees” as dumpster dummy would ever leave her post.
What is the world coming to if protestors are not willing to die for their cause.
This is shameful and dumpster dummy should forever have to live with the world knowing that she was not committed enough to those trees to not give her life. If she truly cared she would still be there in her squallid nest regardless of the pain.
She is no better than the “corporate profiteers” she was only marginally prptesting against.
What a failure of a world changing protestor.
snark off……
except for the failure part…
Hey, somebody sold them those trees in the form of a carbon offset. When they found out it was a fraud, what else did you expect them to do?
H - Hallucinating
E - Excremental
R - Radical
O - Obliviot
We call that undisclosed medical condition “PSYCHO” in my neighborhood!
Southpaw,
That is pretty good - Squirtle… You cannot make this stuff up!
#3 alaskangrizzly said, “It’s a mental disease called liberalism, and she is one of their heroes.”
The Sierra Club says she has a yeast infection!
On July 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:
I can’t get past the name: Dumpster Muffin. Hilarious!
I agree, 30. Doesn’t really sound like a woman this Oklahoma redneck would care to date. I would be scare to kiss her.
Proof positive that some people have waaaaaaayyyyyy too much free time on their hands. What a bunch of morons!
tre,
I would advise against it. In my professional opinion.
JayVee,
They are what the Bible calls - busybodies.
From the Berkeley Daily Planet:
Does anyone besides me see a problem with the good doctor referencing something about Boy Scouts in Berkely as though it should be common place learning in that area?
Looking at the way the MSM glorified the protesters of the 60s, is it any wonder the new generation of liberals is trying to find something, anything to protest against? There will always be a place for the weak-minded, whether it’s protesters or martyrs, as long as there’s a perceived belief that their behavior is noble.
My sympathies go out to the Tierneys. If my daughter did this, I’d change my name and move without telling her.
You know, back home in Fly-Over country, when we had pests in trees, we resorted to the old tried and true way of non-lethal pest-removal, rocks and BB rifles.
Gimme 10 minutes, I’ll have all three of those criminals down and out, one way or another.
Here’s one, OCG.
Doesn’t she just look dazzling with the Bay Area sun shining on her unwashed face and hair? *blech*
Where’s a high-powered hose when you really need one?
Hannibal said:
Dutch Elm disease maybe. Or Root Rot.
Brain rot most likely.
Ewwwwww! Dumpster Muffin was looking even worse, when she finally descended from her perch.
Gee whiz, the intolerance meter is pegged at 100%!
Just a little moss or fungus from scooting down the tree, maybe? Was that over-the-top? Oh, well.
I think a good way to get them down is hang the Flag near them, then play the National Anthem, America the Beautiful, God Bless America, Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, etc. very loudly.
THAT should scare them away!
But, then again, that would scare everyone out of Berkley, period.
This would make for a great Stihl commercial.
Take your pick. There’s a book full of them.
As an aside, my money’s on 787.6 (Encopresis, with constipation and overflow incontinence). Might also be a clue for the origin of her nickname.
Muffins last stand (from a few days ago).
Watch the video:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/15341822/detail.html?eref=time_us#
Crazee
So if some merry prankster secretly replaced her sunscreen with Monistat, she would probably vanish!
“The tree-sitters are
heroeslosers in this town.”Dumpster Muffin is no more than the life support system for a yeast colony. Yeccch.
I see even the doctors there engage in moral relativism and hypocrisy. (No shocker really, I see it all the time in hospitals). Does it not dawn on him that dumpster muffin by her own choice and free will put herself in a tree for 18 months and self inflicted her own health condition? The police are there to secure a perimeter, if she was being “helped” off that property she was illegally invading and squatting on then it becomes fair game for the doctor to assist the patient once the security threat has been neutralized (aka she has been moved outside the perimeter). In a sane world the rule of law would prevail and she would get her hospital trip and recover from her self inflicted injuries with an IV-drip (and perhaps a hosing down to help prevent infections) while a police officer waits patiently outside her room to arrest her the moment the hospital releases her for the crimes she has committed.
No respect for the rule of law, until it concerns one of them. Then if the law isn’t followed to a tee they scream lawsuit. Deranged doesn’t begin to describe such lunacy. Any takers on once Dumpster Muffin recovers on a bet that she leaves her old ways behind her and gets a job and becomes a productive member of society? I got my money she milks the system for welfare and SSI and finds another tree to squat in while not putting a dime back into the system she is milking.
God Bless the troops that defend the Constitution and this Republic with their lives and blood spilled so that human-vermin like this have the ability to act like a complete lunatic if they so choose.
My daughter, the aspiring novelist, likes fiction. I find nonfiction politics to be much more entertaining. Here’s why.
Cal fans have had 20 months of this garbage at their stadium to hone their sarcasm skills. Pretty funny:
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=166&f=1419&t=2640517
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=166&f=1419&t=2642342
The cops probably let go so they could put sanitizer on their hands.
Yet another reason why I will never spend a dime in Bezerkeley again, eventhough I live right on the border. I bet you don’t here this line often, but thankfully I live in Oakland!
Yeah, nothing more beautiful than a creaky, makeshift tree house with an unwashed and stinky protestor in it complementing the Berkley skyline.
I hear she has a sister named Meadow Muffin chained to a redwood somewhere up north : )
Hannibal said:
The Sierra Club says she has a yeast infection!
Go Yeast!!!
…, along with latex gloves for any subsequent exposures.
Can I guess?
Amanda Tierney a.k.a dumpster muffin
Rumor has it that the family changed its name from an even less appealing surname….now, what was that name again…?
I certainly hope she isn’t thinking about some cure that would kill those yeast. After all they are living creatures and have just as much right to exist as the rest of us. Dumpster Muffin needs to see that they are safely removed and relocated to another environment where they will be free to live their lives as they choose and reach their full potential, as is the right of all living organisms.
Sounds like a perfect photoshop opportunity for Tennyson. Garbage Pail Kids —> Dumpster Muffin card.
It’s time to bring back the concept of walled cities.
Places like Berkeley, S.F., Portland, Seattle, Columbia University should be surrounded by a high wall. A moat would be a nice addition.
Dumpster muffin - Exactly how much of what substance where her perants smoking when they named her that? Why not just name her muffin diver, or big fat dyke and just lay it all out in the open? (I know, bad sonofdy)
I don’t know that we can lay Amanda Tierney’s alias at her parents’ feet. But, it does beg the question as to how she came up with that name for herself.
Not to be too technical because I am having too much fun with the name myself.. but she presumably named herself that (I know, I know
)
Her parents named her Amanda Tierney.
I watched the video showing c@& dumpster, er, ah,, dumpster dummy..
To my eye she seemed to be faking when it came to her standing or not.
Also the report she one of the warrants against her was from Southern California for THEFT.
Now that sounds environmentally friendly..
Dr. Bedard should know that elevating the Dumpster’s feet was illogical. If that was the cure for what ailed her she’d be fine, since she’d been elevated for weeks on top of a tree. Wonder how much this idiot’s parents are paying to have her go to Berserkely? A total waste. Ask for your money back.
These lefty tree-dwellers remind me of the old pillar-saints, Christian religious nuts who used to sit on pillars in European towns in the belief that mortification of their bodies would bring them salvation. Their towns were very proud of them, thinking that such crazed hermits demonstrated their piety to the world, just as Berekely is proud of its arboreal extremists.
Sometimes a second pillar-saint from another Christian sect would set himself up on a competing pillar within shouting distance and they would spend years arguing the merits of their respective creeds.
I wonder if the lack of religion in their lives leads Berkeley lefties to revert to pre-Medieval quasi-religious rituals like this hermitic tree-sitting. It’s certainly as irrational as anything the pillar-saints did.
I just hope that it is her parents footing the bill. My guess is that she received a Federal grant or loan, and we are paying for her education.
Amanda’s elusive sister, “Dumpster Diver” is still unavailable for comment.
For some reason I’m reminded of the punchline to an old joke…’put sawdust in her vaseline.’
The ’she’ in “she was suffering from an undisclosed medical condition” must be the female tree. The tree was suffering. Can trees catch herpes complex?
Pretty whitebread middle-America. Maybe she’ll take Hussein for a middle name.
*scoff*
no, but that whole issue can be alliviated if the tree gets a REALLY horrible case of termites.
Nature takes care of the rest.
firehoses. Constantly. see how long they last being soaked - from underneath and above.
What they shoulod do is cut down every tre without anyone in it (there are only 3 left) then strip every single branch off the 3 remaining trees and bore a 2 inch hole in the trucks and insert posion. Then just start building what you can arround the trees. Then the “protesters” can stay up there in a dead tree waiting for a good stiff wind, or come down.
As a Portland resident, we DO hope to get out of here someday. Please don’t lock us up with the loonies!
Did I say trucks? I mean trunks. God I need to go home and drink. 2 weeks in 88m school will do that too you.
The best cure for hippies in your trees in a shotgun loaded with rock salt.
At least they have clothes on this time.
Let’s see who can spot the first “dumpster muffin” tee shirt…
3 left? Where’s my tranquizer gun! (We’ll skip the tampoline part.).
Sister named Meadow Muffin - that’s a good one. BWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!
If she’s yeast leavened, wouldn’t that make her an English Muffin?
There’s your problem right there, Doc. This here is Berkeley, and the city council dun outlawed the Boy Scouts.
If a Dumpster Muffin has a yeast infection, doesn’t that bode well for sourdough biscuits for dinner?
Please, enough with her name. it’s not like she picked it out.
::snort::
I liked Barry F’s invocation of the Bard. How about this:
Dumpster Muffin - your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.
Dumpster Muffin - get thee to a bunnery!
Couldn’t resist.
Heros ?????? They think that these people compare to the REAL heros wearing the Uniform????? With out our men and women in the military do they think that a socialist state that B. Hussien Mohammmed Obama wants will allow them to protest?
I still say Kate and i could get them there varmitts out of them trees and never hurt a leaf.
FYI Eric Eisenberg and Ayr are the same person, so as you read the different quoted articles keep that in mind. He has quite the arrest record by now.
If you want to see a picture of him, there’s one here http://www.protestshooter.com/20080617Oaks/ with the caption “They were trying desperately to call friends and get them to come a day early.”
Ms. Muffin was in her “God Pod” (that’s what they call it) the next day which you can see here - there’s also some video at the end - http://www.protestshooter.com/20080618MoreBerkeleyOaks/
Like the NPR guy, this idiot has his own definition of a HERO.
Must have been conditioned by numerous paper awards like “Student of the Month” he got at the public school he attended.
Well, coming down from the tree (or meds) was the yeast she could do!
As long as the MSM continue to treat them as “news”, they will continue their stand. Once the MSM gets bored and moves on, it will end. Months from now, no-one will care, or even bother to remember their names. Some other idiots will have the “news”. If they think they’re making history, they are sadly deluded. The MSM will use them until something else comes along, and they will, in the end, be the losers. Forgotten and ignored.
Are these not the classic symptoms of liberalism?
Tricked ya! It’s 301.7 (Antisocial Personality Disorder).
The Dems might want to copy the Replublicans’ use of GOP and start calling themselves the APD.
No charge, guys! This one’s on me.
To borrow the words of another supposed “hero” “If you study well and work hard, you will succeed, otherwise you will be stuck on a tree”.
#81. Good rejoinder, and appropriate.
What a resume enhancer that little title is huh?
What. A. SKANK!
Only if they cut off the moonbats supplies when the court said the were illegally trespassing, not now.
I would get those portable construction lights that they use for road work and place as many as needed around the trees they occupy. Keep it daylight bright 24/7 and prevent access to un-occupied trees by cutting the branches off.
Oh please! These envirowanks don’t have the courage of their convictions. They only “tree-sit” because of their confidence that people far better than they won’t cut them down. I say make a big show of bringing in the loggers, then rev up the chainsaws, cut a couple neighboring trees down, and then start cutting a log placed up against the trunk of the tree. If they last that long (which is doubtful), the noise and vibrations alone will have them scurrying for ground in seconds. Then again, it could be dangerous. They might fall trying to scurry down while bawling their eyes out and messing themselves.