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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/07/2007 : 15:32:32 [Permalink]
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Oh... best license plate ever:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/license.asp
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 16:07:12 [Permalink]
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And the funniest thing about that, Dude, is that it was a randomly-issued license plate, not someone's calculated joke.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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pleco
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USA
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 16:51:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Some random opinion from me:
I don't think political statements like MPEACHW should be reasonably be considered offensive by anyone, except in a political sense. And as a political statements, they ought to be allowed, if not under the protection of the First Amendment, at least in its spirit.
Upside-down flags displayed on private property should also be allowed for the same reason, and are, as far as I know. I don't buy Dude's argument that as a distress signal, they should not be used (I hasten to mention that Dude didn't say "banned"). After all, when was the last time anyone ever heard of using an inverted Old Glory to call for help? In reality, this is more a theoretical use than a real one. ("Daddy's having a heart attack -- quick, hang an upside-down flag in the window!") When I see an upside-down flag, I assume it is either that way in error, or that it's a political statement.
It's quite common in maritime settings where one's vessel is disabled and the radio is out. It's also used by survivalists and other fringe groups as a statement signifying they believe the country is in distress.
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But, as a political statement, I think it's an ill-considered one. It tends to give a perceived message that whoever has displayed it is against the flag, the country and patriotism, even though that is not normally the intended message. (As an atheist who strongly dislikes Christianity, I do not display an inverted cross, because I would be perceived as a worshipper of Satan.)
Every time I have seen it, old timers would often times regard it as a valid form of protest as it neither defaces nor disrespects the flag.
They also find those who display the flag in such a manner overreacting. In some cases, they have walked up to the person and offered assistance. Just to see if the person understands the flag code. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 05/07/2007 : 17:30:38 [Permalink]
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I have this in our window facing the street. (But instead of reading "FRAUD" under the image, it reads: "WORRY".) Passers by dig it and want one. (We know the artist.)
Footnote: My girlfriend and I were evicted once by a Republican landlord because he discovered we were registered Democrats. He told me that he would rather rent to "a good Republican home". What later ticked him off was that we placed a Kerry sign on the front lawn during the last election. Rather than ask us first to remove it he just threw it away, so we replaced it. Later, our non-code water pipes burst ruining items we had in the basement. So instead of compensating us or upping the rent or asking us to leave, he sent us an eviction notice. We now have a nice Liberal home elsewhere. Weird world.
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"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.) |
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 22:39:20 [Permalink]
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YO: But Chief Chippy! Aren't you going tell everyone who used to live in the place where you live now? A little bird told me.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/09/2007 : 03:26:59 [Permalink]
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Well, they fooled me. The lady is going to keep her plate. quote:
MPEACH plate won't be recalled by DMV
By Kevin Woster, Journal staff
Heather Morijah will get to keep her “MPEACHW” license plates after all.
State officials reversed their position on Monday, rescinding a recall notice of Morijah's personalized license plates, which encourage the impeachment of President Bush. The state Division of Motor Vehicles sent Morijah a letter last month saying the plates were being recalled because someone had complained about the message.
DMV director Deb Hillmer told the Journal in an interview Thursday that if Morijah didn't turn in the plates voluntarily, the state might send law officers to confiscate them.
But in a brief news release issued Monday, the secretary of the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation — which includes the DMV — said Morijah could keep the plate.
It might be interesting to see how this will affect folks in other states wanting the same thing.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/10/2007 : 00:59:56 [Permalink]
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Maybe they have recently had a crapload of complaints about vanity plates and want to use a fair standard to decide.
I really didn't think she'd be keeping her plates though.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Plate Politics
That's almost as good as winning the lottery!