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We're retiring Steve LaTourette (R-Family Values for You But Not for Me) and sending Judge Bill O'Neill to Congress from Ohio-14: http://www.oneill08.com/
by anastasia p on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:06:24 PM PDT
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I've heard talk.
Talk to Action
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:08:13 PM PDT
afford medical care, when the result of their lifestyle choices catch up to them.
Send A Care Package To A Soldier
by Fawkes on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:08:15 PM PDT
These are furious and hungry ids amok
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:13:41 PM PDT
"These are furious and hungry ids amok."
Exactly. I'll spread that one around.
by G2geek on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:18:13 PM PDT
Actually, now that you mention it that slogan would be good on a T-shirt. But, it needs a snappy image or logo.
Contest ?
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:22:22 PM PDT
Use Picasso's Guernica as the visual for the T-shirt.
The power of that image, is that it is not immediately partisan but refers back to the Nazis and WW2, and the viewer can immediately grasp the comparison or at least be slightly puzzled and give it a moment's thought.
Juxtaposing the historic image with the present-tense phrasing of "There are hungry ids amok" is the subtle hook from the past atrocities to the present ones. (However, don't use italics or other emphasis on the word "are" or any other word in your line; it stands beautifully just as it is, inviting the viewer to wonder whose hungry ids and how they are running amok.) You might even want to have the URL for Talk2Action under the painting though in tastefully smaller lettering so it doesn't appear to be blatant advertising.
And from the production angle, since Guernica was originally in black-and-white, this becomes relatively easy to do as a printing job.
Also the T-shirt would have plausible deniability, for example if someone was arrested, detained, or questioned (e.g. at a shopping mall, or detained at an airport, etc.) for wearing it. "This is a statement about the decline of morality in the world today. I'm a good Republican, let me go!" (One never knows when one might be called upon to save oneself from a trip to the dungeon; more and worse to come if present trends continue; and dissent will have to become more complex & indirect as it was in the Soviet Union...)
by G2geek on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:41:49 PM PDT
That's a great idea. The ambiguity cuts past political lines. That's what we need right now.
So I'm all for it... next ?
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:48:51 PM PDT
put our heads together and come up with a bunch of this stuff, and find ways to get it into circulation, e.g. T-shirts, stickers, whatever.
Where can I find your email address? When I write to you, you'll be able to cross-check it's me by putting the domain name in as a www. address and reaching the first page of something I'm starting, and it will be obvious.
by G2geek on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:19:43 PM PDT
or at Talk To Action.
best, BW
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 08:39:12 PM PDT
or possibly overnight; the subject header will refer to your meme about ids so you know it's me.
I have a phone call; gotta' scoot for now...
by G2geek on Tue May 06, 2008 at 09:24:02 PM PDT
by G2geek on Wed May 07, 2008 at 07:36:45 AM PDT
I don't know. Do you think it relates to Republicanism, or to their desire to belie the sin of gluttony? (If they had tusks they'd all be scarred.)
Two war crimes make 'the right', not 'a right'. Defeat the liar John McCain.
by Yellow Canary on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:10:24 PM PDT
...tied to sex.
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:14:44 PM PDT
... ply the seas call "a wide net".
by Yellow Canary on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:17:25 PM PDT
Wide as the ocean blue. And every bit as dark and deep.
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:23:16 PM PDT
because it's probably true & a lot more funny than my answer!
by Fawkes on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:18:02 PM PDT
so Hagee can pork out all he wants.
Besides, if they really tried, the starving of the world would all have their own televangelist empires, you know.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. --Otto von Bismarck
by Ice Blue on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:18:05 PM PDT
Unfortunately, finding the right clip on YouTube is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. :-P
"Iraq: the bravest 1% fighting for the richest 1%." ~ An Unknown Kossack.
by Neon Vincent on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:21:09 PM PDT
Daffy probably ripped off somebody else's quote!
by Troutfishing on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:24:18 PM PDT
wide narrow
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