Dec. 29th, 2006

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Rage Against His Bowling Shirts
A former moveon.org vol shows up wearing slogans deemed anti-American and is forced to move on from his bowling team and alley
"The man in the black shirt with large white letters that read "IMPEACH AND IMPRISON" stands out in the blue-collar bowling alley like someone shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
It's December 8, and the patrons of AMF Deer Valley Lanes know Jason Tunay and his inflammatory tee shirts well by now.
And some of them, at least, aren't one bit sorry he's been kicked off his team because of those shirts and the ruckus they've caused."

and:
"Tunay, 35, helped put his four-person team in first place and within striking distance of a $500-per-player prize to be awarded later this month.
Yet despite his strikes and spares, teammates and other bowlers have been pissed off at his choice in bowling shirts since the league season started in September.
Many of the patrons at Deer Valley Lanes are cops or military folks with the stereotypical right-leaning philosophies.
Tensions came to a head in mid-November when Tunay got into a loud argument with an elderly Army veteran who had criticized his Rage Against the Machine "Evil Empire" tee shirt.
The incident caused some of the Deer Valley Lanes bowlers to plan an informal "Patriot Night" on November 30, the same night Tunay's teammates decided to give him the boot.
At the request of one of the teammates, a manager at the Deer Valley Lanes put on a CD of patriotic songs like Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A."
The event was aimed squarely at Tunay.
"This was a form of patriotism that was like, 'We don't want your kind around here,'" says Cynthia Ribitzki, 26, one of Tunay's few supporters at the bowling alley."

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