We love this. Crooks and Liars and Jesus’ General have combined forces to form Operation Yellow Elephant. One of their first actions was to purchase the following ad in the program for the upcoming Young Republicans National Convention in Vegas (July 6-7 for those who wish to participate):
We are simply shocked…shocked!…to learn that the Young Republicans turned down the ad with the following comment:
We are sorry but we must regretfully reject this advertisement. We feel that the tone of the message is too negative.
Cowards and hypocrites. But no surprises yet.
Perfect!
*L* I LOVE IT!!!!
Oh I feel a t-shirt comin on….
Hand out flyers at the door if they refuse to run the ads.
Great idea
Young Republicans put the *P* in the GOP!!
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Anyone got tips on making do-it-yourself bumper stickers with a computer and printer? I have no printer and am shopping for one. Any activists out there print their own bumper stickers? Most commercially available bumper stickers don’t say things exactly the way I want. I want my rear bumper to be a mini-highway blogger. For the time being, I want to print bumper stickers that talk directly about Bush’s Iraq lies. When the need-du-jour changes, I can print as needed.
Any experience, opinions out there are wellcome. Laser vs. Inkjet? Any recommended programs?
Bejammin – Kinko’s has everything you need — bring in your design & they’ll print it onto bumper sticker paper!
Inkjet washes off with water.
I think your design has to be on cd or floppy. Call Kinko’s to find out.
young repubs should get copies of all their military records so if they choose to run for president in the future ,well you know what happened to W
"Too negative"? It’s not negative at all, it’s patriotic. It’s a call to arms when their nation, or at least their rhetoric, needs them in the military. Pissants.
yea, supporting this war by enlisting to fight in it is such a negative idea. just slap another ribbon sticker on your SUV’s bumper. that’s much more patriotic and positive.
How about a picture of a chicken hawk with a yellow belly?
The New Hampshire Gazette
Chickenhawk n. A person enthusiastic about war, provided someone else fights it; particularly when that enthusiasm is undimmed by personal experience with war; most emphatically when that lack of experience came in spite of ample opportunity in that person’s youth.
So, they are ADMITTING the Iraq War has a negative tone????????????????
BORN TO SHRILL
Send the Bush twins to Iraq! That’s my mantra.
The yellow-bellied chicken hawk – I like it.
On a related note, thread at DU (note – this is a joke)
– snip –
Rush Limbaugh: "We are losing this war for the hearts and minds of America," remarked the portly pundit. "We give the libs too much ammunition to use against us. They call us ‘chickenhawks’ and accuse us of not wanting to make the sacrifices to fight a war we support.
"Well, I want all good Conservative Americans out there to look inside themselves and decide, right then and there, if they’ve got what it takes to stand up for this war. Then, if you’re not too old or infirm, I want you to march down to the recruitment office and sign up to serve your country. If you’re unable to do this, I urge you to strongly recommend to your children that they step forward and do their duty."
– cont at DU
Someone suggested we send this around to news outlets! Can you imagine Limpball and O’Leilly’s denials?! LOL!!
re: Home-Made Bumper Stickers
You can just draw or paste stuff on art board you can get at the
drugstore or an art supply place and put it in your back window.
Much easier than printing bumper strips, much bigger and
more eye-catching, much more flexible (you can have multiple
signs in your trunk)–plus you can DO IT NOW and not wait.
Don’t cover up your brake light. Make sure your insurance and
registration and all your lights, horn, etc. are in order. Take
the sign down when you park the car if you value your
windshield. Or… if you’re willing to take the risk, park your car
conspicuously along some commuter route with a big honking
provocative sign in the window.
Bejammin & others who are interested in creative expression, trackback to this thread:
Sheila Leavitt’s great ideas!
Three cheers for creativity in expression and three more for the trackback to Sheila Leavitt’s great ideas!! Good goin’, folks. There are so many different ways to contribute; and each of us can and should do several of them … or at least that’s what it says here! 😉
You could hear a pin drop in here it’s so quiet.
There’s nothing like the mere mention of "serving your country", that sends the neocons scurrying home for mommy.
Hi Peg – Just read your #22 link, and I couldn’t agree more. There are AT LEAST 60 million of us out there, and I’ll be mighty disappointed if this very summer, when the weather’s fine etc., we don’t set up a rotating brigade of at least 500,000 outraged citizens at any given time surrounding the Capitol until we get results. Hell, if 10 million people each put in one day there we could maintain 500,000 every day there for 20 days, so people could put in one day every three weeks, or spend a few days to get some time off in the future, like that… fact is, this isn’t just a summer thing, it’s what kindasleazy might call a pan-generational commitment, it’s until the ghouls are pulled aside and off to jail. Think Ukraine and smile, all! Too bad the Beatles aren’t around to sing to us when Pepperland is saved from the Red Meanies (historical rewrite – sorry!).
When are the stickers or buttons of the yellow elephants going on sale? I’ll take a few!
#5…use laser, inkjet will not handle the weather.
I had an idea for a novel. But then I decided it was too far-fetched, so I scrapped it.
"A rich guy’s son uses the old man’s pull to escape the draft and gets into the National Guard instead. Except he reneges on his responsibilities. Meanwhile, he lives the life of a playboy, driving drunk and generally contributing zero to society. His brother is regarded as much smarter and more talented, which gives him an inferiority complex.
He marries a girl who tells him to clean up his act. So he does. Except his track record is so bad, he can’t get a good job on his own…so Daddy comes to the rescue again by helping him get into the oil business, where he pulls a stock swindle. He then goes on to buy a baseball team that always loses.
Buy this time, Daddy has become president.
Daddy conducts a military campaign in the Persian Gulf to keep a local dictator from taking over a neighboring state. But partly on the advice of his Secretary of Defense, he decides against further aggressive action against the dictator, who is forced to agree to United Nations supervision over his actions.
Junior runs for governor against the incumbent, another former drunk with a nasty disposition who makes him look polite by comparison. He wins.
Two terms later he runs for president. He loses, but his smarter brother, by now governor of a pivotal state, has figured out a way to rig the votes so that Junior is declared the winner. It’s later proven conclusively that Junior really lost.
Eight months after he’s inagurated, a former business associate of Daddy’s, Osama bin Laden, hires suicide bombers to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Junior is told that Daddy’s friend arranged it, but decides to attack Iraq instead…the country Daddy prevented from conquering Kuwait a decade earlier, and a country that had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden or 9/11. His attack on Iraq is encouraged by his vice president, the same man who as Secretary of Defense had advised his daddy not to get "bogged down" in Iraq.
Junior attacks Iraq. He bombs Baghdad into submission, killing innocent children in their beds. Little or no resistance is seen. Junior boards an aircraft carrier to give a victory statement, backed by a sign saying "Mission Accomplished."
Junior runs for re-election. His opponent is a former Vietnam war hero who volunteered for duty while Junior was avoiding it. Junior loses again, but by now his party has people in other states who know how to rig elections. So even though exit polls show he lost by 3 percent, the tabulated votes show him winning by 2-1/2. He declares that he has earned political capital, and plans to spend it.
In the two years after Junior’s "Mission Accomplished" speech, over 1,700 Americans die and thousands more are crippled for life, physically and emotionally. The cruel dictator is captured and held incommunicado. Junior tells us we’re now safer, yet it’s clear our presence in Iraq and our treatment of detainees who might or might not have any connection with terrorist organizations has in fact made us less safe.
It turns out that Junior and his vice president were planning to attack Iraq all along. It also turns out they knew about the 9/11 attack beforehand, the one they used to justify the invasion, but did nothing to prevent it or alert the American people. It then turns out that the plane that hit the Pentagon couldn’t have been one of the hijacked airliners, because the damage was too limited to have been caused by a plane of that size.
At this point I threw the manuscript into the trash. Too incredible to be believed. I’ll let everyone know if I come up with a better plot in the future.
Robert, you don’t strike me as the type that would drop acid, but man! …………I’m not so sure??? 😉
I meant it humorously, Bushw@cker. I hope others realized that.
RLM
The manuscript sounds like a gruesome Stephen King novel, with a new title, ‘Miserable’
Yes Robert, I got It! 🙂
I can hear the publisher yelling "Joe public won’t buy this wacky pulp-fiction!"
Kristen Breitweiser has a few questions for Karl Rove.
49% Say Bush Responsible for Provoking Iraq War
44% Say Hussein.
Imagine what those numbers would look like if the mainstream media had been doing their jobs regarding 9/11, WMD, and the Downing St. minutes.
79%-21%? 89%-11%?
OT Warning: Don’t know where else to put it.
I thought this was interesting. Anybody have another take on it?
I find it slightly more convincing than George Lakoff.
RLM
There you go again, letting your imagination get the better of you! 😉
Seems you can get away with mass murder these days with a complient media in tow!
It’s my bedtime, goodnight Robert and all!
That’s tipical of the Republican Party. We have the will, but we’ll spill your guts, not ours!
DaWookie #35
Very interesting article re: structures that favor Republicans and that aren’t being addressed by Democratic Party.
Very true.
I’m sure there’s also truth to the Lakoffian re-framing. But if the structural imbalance isn’t adressed it’s almost pointleess.
Of course, if we don’t have fair elections, then correcting the structural imbalance and re-framing the issues are equally pointless.
Re: addressing the structural imbalance, is there some degree of "weighting" that should be retained, in order to avoid a situation in which rural issues are decided by urban dwellers, since the urban areas will always have greater population density? A case could be made that some kind of weighting is needed in order to protect rural interests (though not the degree of imbalance in the system as it currently exists).
I’m behind here, but please read this.
I’m usually an articulate commentator, but I am almost the victim of a sprirual stroke in the face of our prensent dilemma. We’ve GOT to find our huge voice, people! This inhumanity, this anti-life and anti-earth has GOT to be brought to a halt!!!
Do we love anything? Then the nihilists and Mammon-worshipers are our enemy, we have a moral, vital obligation to face them down!
Correction: "When the Mammon-worshpers…."
I’ve long though Iraq was a repeat of Vietnam. There are many similarities, but there’s one big difference which the yellow elephant speaks to very eloquently.
During Vietnam, the people yelling, "Hell no, we won’t go" on college campuses were against the war. With Iraq, those who are for it won’t go.
Maybe we can get Bob Dylan to write a new song. "Where have all the soldiers gone, gone to Wall Street everyone…when will they ever learn, when will they ev-er learn?"
Another top Republican, Paul Craig Roberts, has come out swinging against bushco’s lying regime. In addition to writing about the 9/11 cover-up, he is furious about the criminal debacle in Irag.
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Oh yeah , that’ll go over well. Rangel said it best when he stated:
Flashback: Rangel introduces bill to reinstate draft
peg #40
This article really cheered me up. I just love to see people with grea cred calling Bushco liars.
This is an excellant form to copy and attach to a car door with the yellow ribbon magnet from its bumper. IF there is a pro Bush sticker also.
From Jesus General.
http://usmilitary.about.com/lib...enlistment.pdf
How about getting yourselves screen names and passwords to Free Republic and other conservative and Republican-frequented blogs and get the message across as a patriotic "Bush-loyalist."
Something like:
I am a Young Republican who supports this war and am willing to do my patriotic duty! All my fellow Young Republicans should do the same. Come on guys and gals! The Pentagon’s recruitment is way down. Do your part to help out our buddy George Bush. All the recruiters think of is targetting the lazy and stupid minorities and high school drop-outs when they have all of us educated, war-loving Young Republicans ready and waiting to be called. I am starting a Young Republican Club of Iraqi war enlisters. How many of you are with me?
I think your design has to be on cd or floppy. Call Kinko’s to find out.