The “liberal” vision (of the Democrats) is actually a mild form of social democracy, making citizens dependent upon the state for various forms of aid and support. Critics call it “the liberal plantation.” Bush’s new vision is to make every citizen an owner, a person of character in charge of his or her own destiny, and responsible not only for his own needs but also for caring for his neighbor. Bush does not see the individual as lonely and selfish, but as a part of various communities (family, church, union, associations, etc.), compassionate toward the needy, and alert to the needs of the common good.
In his day, Abraham Lincoln called forth a “new birth of freedom,” meaning the end of slavery in the Southern states and a new beginning. Bush calls forth a “new birth of freedom" too, meaning in the whole world as an alternative to tyranny, and in America’s internal life in an end to a culture of dependency upon the state.
― bob novak, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)
"bob novak"'s reminding me of my highly idealistic and naive youth....
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― dick little, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.choiceshirts.com/dept/c1/patriotic_t-shirts/p/0/n/12/
just for contrast?
i'm curious how the imagery would match up, the different iconography, etc.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)
since many american indie/hipster-types tend toward anglophilia(like me, sorta), you could make a mint selling them
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― johnny appleseed, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)
nice troll, novak. you suck.
― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)
Can't disagree with that.
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)
Hold on, I thought it was Al Gore who invented the Internet?
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Well it works out pretty well for shopping tourists
― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)
Thanks!http://www.walmart.com/i/if/cat/bnr/header_130306.gif
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)
"Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales's most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996.
"Bush's summons to serve as a juror in the drunken-driving case was, in retrospect, a fateful moment in his political career: by getting excused from jury duty he was able to avoid questions that would have required him to disclose his own 1976 arrest and conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Kennebunkport, Maine—an incident that didn't become public until the closing days of the 2000 campaign."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857224/site/newsweek/
― bob novak, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)
"If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world." - Ari Fleischer, December 2 2002
"We know for a fact that there are weapons there." - Ari Fleischer, January 9 2003
"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more." - Colin Powell, February 5 2003
"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes." - Ari Fleischer, March 21 2003
"There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them." - Gen. Tommy Franks, March 22 2003
"We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." - Donald Rumsfeld, March 30 2003
"I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found." - Ari Fleischer, April 10 2003
"There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country." - Donald Rumsfeld, April 25 2003
"I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction." - Colin Powell, May 4 2003
― sore loser, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)
AnimalAutomotiveBikerBirdsCatsChristianCoolCountryDecorativeDogsEthnicExotic WildlifeFamily/RelativeFarm AnimalsFloralFunnyGame WildlifeGlitterHip-HopHolidaysHorsesHumorousInsectsInspirationalJuvenileKidsMarine LifeMilitaryMoreheadMotorcycleNative AmericanNorth Amer. WildlifeNoveltyOccupationOffensivePatrioticRebel/RedneckReligiousReptilesResortRoad ToughSeasonalSports/GamesTransportationTrendy/TeenUnique PetsWesternWildlifeYouth
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Most of these shirts seem to be of the "If you look at this t-shirt and think, 'Ooh, I'd sure love to wear that one!' -- you might be a redneck" variety.
I mean, yeah, I think it'd be cool to walk around wearing a shirt that illustrates pride in the U.S.A. (though even I know how foolhardy that would be outside the U.S.), but, uh, not any of the ones I saw on that site.
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)
A)Stop being so fucking rude. B)If they were just selling T-Shirts to anyone with a credit card, I'd expect to see a "Keep on Trucking", or a tie-die Stars & Stripes (to match the one on the Union Jack site)? They're selling to a specific market, and that shirt (the CND one) doesn't fit their market. The target isn't as wide at it appears either. Check out their Cool range, and their Teen range, and their HipHop range.
What's strange about that shirt is that it's under Patriotic, and the USA is crammed up in the top left of the globe. Maybe it's an exchange program with an Ecuadorian.
I love the inventiveness is this one:
http://www.choiceshirts.com//images/A5/06/A5064C-lg.jpg
Though like most novelty T-Shirts, it'd probably wear off in time.
The opposition: http://www.unamerican.com/
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― aimurchie, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)
Depending on where you mean by redneck, this must have been a very upsetting thing indeed for some people present?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― aimurchie, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Juan, the Magic Don (jingleberries), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)
The reason why that's always pissed me off is that my dad has always -- as long as I can remember and I'm sure before I was born -- flown the flag every weekday at whatever house we were at. His patriotism is unaffected and from the heart, and not above review and criticism when things aren't going as they should. Seeing so many people around me pretend they were always superpatriots after 9/11 is just sad -- and my dad has never changed from simply flying one simple flag every day.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― aimurchie, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)