Comments on: War and taxpayers’ money http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/ A concentration of local citizen journalists Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: ian http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/#comment-44 ian Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:36:01 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/#comment-44 Yes. I kind of like the one that reads -- and I've seen it around here a lot too -- "In case of rapture, this car will be unmanned." Makes me think of that great movie Rapture, by the way, and cultish "pearl" with which everyone was so anxious to be carried away. This bumper sticker about being unmanned post-Rapture is -- or *was* -- one of the more innocuous of its kind, I thought. Though like anything it quickly gets tired out with widespread use. And then it's revealed as having an element of, what?, smug self-congratulation, I guess. Things have facets. Yes. I kind of like the one that reads — and I’ve seen it around here a lot too — “In case of rapture, this car will be unmanned.” Makes me think of that great movie Rapture, by the way, and cultish “pearl” with which everyone was so anxious to be carried away.

This bumper sticker about being unmanned post-Rapture is — or *was* — one of the more innocuous of its kind, I thought. Though like anything it quickly gets tired out with widespread use. And then it’s revealed as having an element of, what?, smug self-congratulation, I guess. Things have facets.

]]> By: Reina http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/#comment-43 Reina Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:36:47 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/#comment-43 Bumper sticker recently seen in Wilmington. "The Rapture is not an exit strategy." Bumper sticker recently seen in Wilmington.

“The Rapture is not an exit strategy.”

]]> By: ian http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/#comment-37 ian Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:47:25 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/27/war-and-taxpayers-money/#comment-37 This just underlines why it's so hard to understand politicians based on their support of lack of support for bills -- bills are such orgies of "rider" subsidies! 1/4M for a local nursing program is <i>nothing</i> compared to the real meat of this bill, which is its unchecked endorsement of the war, but Dole rushes to describe her support for a stack as tall as a shoe-box in terms of what it gives to a popular, incontrovertibly good academic program. This just underlines why it’s so hard to understand politicians based on their support of lack of support for bills — bills are such orgies of “rider” subsidies!

1/4M for a local nursing program is nothing compared to the real meat of this bill, which is its unchecked endorsement of the war, but Dole rushes to describe her support for a stack as tall as a shoe-box in terms of what it gives to a popular, incontrovertibly good academic program.

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