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I was behind a car with a sticker that said something like "smile, your mother didn't have an abortion" (someone else know what I'm talking about and have the exact wording?) with a nice happy smiley face on it. I wanted to ram the car. I was behind another "anti-abortion car" at another time--plastered with anti-abortion stuff--but somehow that didn't make me as angry as the sticker with the smiley face on it.

Barack Obama will only become president if enough people pay attention, so pay attention, dammit!

by JMS on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 11:18:24 AM PDT
- not a bumper sticker, but (none / 0)
  
  there's signs in the windows on campus here at american university with big yellow cardboard smiley faces that say "i'm pro-life!" so annoying.
  
  by thsisnotanexit on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 01:04:59 PM PDT
  
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  - Also not a bumper sticker (none / 1)
    
    I saw a sign in a bar I like.
    "I TRIED to see your point of view, but I couldn't get my head that far up my ass."
    
    "The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 10.
    
    by Ranger CN on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 07:51:49 PM PDT
    
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  - Go Eagles! (none / 0)
    
    I graduated in 1998. :-)
    Please tell me the campus is still overwhelmingly liberal. I can't bear the thought of AU becoming filled with Bushbots. (I'm sure there are a few extremely irritating conservatives, there always are.)
    
    All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -Thomas Jefferson
    
    by Chicago Jason on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 07:58:03 PM PDT
    
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- I work in an old parochial school building (none / 0)
  
  that's now home to a bunch of private, non-profit social service agencies. You'd think that it would be a hotbed of subversiveness, but every day i walk past a car that proclaims "Choose Life. Your mom did!"
  
  Making Out With the Chaos Demon
  
  by cincinnati blues on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 01:39:47 PM PDT
  
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  - Not a bumpersticker... (none / 0)
    
    But I saw the stupidest sign a few months ago...I was on my way back to school in Iowa from a long weekend in Minnesota, and I was almost back at campus when I saw a Knights of Columbus hall/building/whatever they call their meeting places...it said: "Thank God Your Mother Was Pro-Life.""...now, my mother is not "pro-life"...(which is a a term I can't stand to begin with...because it implies that the rest of us, who want safe and legal abortions to be available are anti-life or pro-death or something stupid like that...) my mother is pro-choice...and so is her mother...it's a ridiculous sign...because it assumes that anyone who is pro-choice doesn't want to have children and if they ever get pregnant they will automatically have an abortion...
    
    "Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." - Sen. Paul Wellstone
    
    by burnt in effigy on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 04:02:56 PM PDT
    
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    - here's an antidote (none / 0)
      
      I still remember one in the bathroom in college, back in the good old liberal eighties:
      If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
      
      Bill Sali
      
      by sophiebrown on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 06:02:24 PM PDT
      
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      - Sacrament (none / 0)
        
        That's always been a favorite. It' never been widespread, probably because it provokes thought. But I dare say it's entirely true.
        
        "I cherished my hate like a badge of moral superiority." - Mark Rudd
        
        by Bob Love on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 06:54:38 PM PDT
        
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      - A perennial favorite (none / 1)
        
        attributed to Florynce Kennedy.
        Since the priest sex abuse scandal broke a few years ago, I've also seen it as "If altar boys could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."
        
        by moiv on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 08:44:35 PM PDT
        
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      - Nice (none / 0)
        
        That's a bumper sticker I'd put on my car... and I'm a guy!
        
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        by storm2k on Thu Dec 09, 2004 at 12:01:17 AM PDT
        
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    - There's one around Columbus (none / 0)
      
      that says "choose life, your mom did!"
      
      by concernedamerican on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 07:17:12 PM PDT
      
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  - The Chose Life ones don't bother me (none / 1)
    
    The one I hate is "Its a child, not a choice." Those make me want to put suger in gas tanks.
    
    I Am Hussein and So Can You
    
    by Goldfish on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 10:16:01 PM PDT
    
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    - It's a child, (none / 1)
      
      not an insurgent
      
      by sharman on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 11:24:43 PM PDT
      
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      - "Choose Life, Not Bombs" (none / 0)
        
        I saw one of those (looked hand-made though) on a car, and I just wanted to hop out at a stoplight and shake his hand/give her a hug, but we were on a high traffic road and they turned onto another road before I could even wave.
        
        Nebraska Progressive: Red only on Saturdays.
        
        by BullitNutz on Thu Dec 09, 2004 at 02:25:04 AM PDT
        
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    - Sugar's not the best (none / 0)
      
      They tested this on Mythbusters and found that sugar doesn't really do that much damage. The only thing that really messed up the engine was bleach.
      
      by Rant of the Litter on Thu Dec 09, 2004 at 07:00:29 AM PDT
      
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- how many "pro-life" asshats voted for W? (none / 0)
  
  .. Dubya the Warmonger (invading Iraq was a "war of choice"), Dubya's pro-capital punishment record as Gov. of TX....
  fuckin' hypocrites. it's amazing how 'moral values' are swept under the rug ... as long as we're killing Muslims.
  
  "and they won't have to burn the books / when no one reads them anyway." -- Tragedy, "The Point of No Return"
  
  by humbucker on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 02:01:58 PM PDT
  
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  - NO NO NO NO NO (4.00 / 3)
    
    You've got it all wrong!
    "Pro-life" only means you care about "the being" UNTIL it is born... because then once it enters the world as we know it, eh, who cares...
    Demanding health care for everyone, combatting poverty, opposing war or the death penalty... those don't even come close to what it means to be pro-life.
    You silly person you; stop thinking so much!
    Geez!
    
    "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true."
    
    by WA Dem PL on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 03:17:10 PM PDT
    
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    - GHWB was once referred to as... (4.00 / 3)
      
      believing life began at conception and ended at birth...
      The perfect republican sentiment, eh?
      
      Internet != Truck
      
      by ragnark on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 06:23:01 PM PDT
      
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      - Dang (none / 1)
        
        Is that why I'm so freakin' miserable? (I'm 28 weeks pregnant, dealing with whooping cough, think I broke a rib coughing....)
        I'm pregnant by choice...glad to have a baby on the way, and by god I will NEVER do this again.
        
        I make milk. What's your superpower?
        
        by jenrose on Thu Dec 09, 2004 at 05:18:44 AM PDT
        
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- in a catholic hs (none / 0)
  
  i worked at concluded the pledge of allegiance each day with "with liberty and justice for all - born and unborn".
  talk about brain washing!
  
  Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. --Student, Age 15
  
  by unemployedschoolcounselor on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 03:23:03 PM PDT
  
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  - good gracious (none / 1)
    
    that's horrifying. I've never heard that one.
    I guess since they're private religious schools, they can get away with it. Hell, it's probably a selling point.
    
    "One Nation....Under Educated"
    
    by mrsdbrown1 on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 04:22:01 PM PDT
    
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    - I think 85% of private US schools are religious. (none / 0)
      
      The real reason why the right-wingnuts utterly despise public education is because liberals go to considerable (and sometimes excessive) lengths to keep public schools 100% secular.
      Not to mention that many schools (especially colleges) are known to have overwhelmingly liberal student populations.
      
      by LostSoul on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 05:33:14 PM PDT
      
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  - Wouldn't liberty (none / 1)
    
    for the unborn = abortion?
    
    pocketa-pocketa-pocketa
    
    by rhubarb on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 05:21:18 PM PDT
    
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  - What is liberty for the unborn? (none / 1)
    
    I have an image of a fetus banging on the squishy walls of the womb, yelling through the fluid in a wailing gurgle "LEEEET MEEEEE OOOUUUUT!"
    
    by concernedamerican on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 07:18:37 PM PDT
    
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  - horrible, yes, but if they really meant it (4.00 / 3)
    
    how could you argue?
    My real argument with the so-called pro-life movement is their unbelievable hypocrisy.
    Ok, so you want to make abortion illegal, how 'bout making it unnecessary instead? Make birth control readily accessible and give comprehensive sex ed classes to kids to show them how to prevent pregnancy. Support women who want to have babies but can't afford it!! provide for women who want to give their unwanted children up for adoption but can't deal with being unwontedly pregnant for 40 weeks. Etc. etc.
    Quit complaining that it goes on, and do some thing to prevent it from happening to begin with!!!
    
    by mrsmankouche on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 07:43:55 PM PDT
    
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- It's 'SMILE, YOU'RE MOTHER CHOSE LIFE!' (none / 0)
  
  I wish I could find a sticker to stick on those cars, that says,
  'But That's Because She Didnt Have a Choice.'
  
  Don't think we have to worry about Denver anymore.
  
  by muddy paws on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 04:40:54 PM PDT
  
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  - Or a sticker that says (none / 0)
    
    Support our crusade to take away her right to choose!
    
    Do reporters call McCain "Maverick" because he loses planes?
    
    by Cowalker on Wed Dec 08, 2004 at 11:03:03 PM PDT
    
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  - ah...thanks (none / 0)
    
    I knew it was something like that...notice how I automatically rephrased it to be more abrasive... but that smiley face really bothered me...
    
    Barack Obama will only become president if enough people pay attention, so pay attention, dammit!
    
    by JMS on Thu Dec 09, 2004 at 06:09:14 AM PDT
    
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