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The Worldnutdaily throws a hissy fit over someone on E-Bay selling American flags with Obama's picture on it.
A seller on eBay has been offering American flags with the stars removed from the blue field and President Barack Obama's face inserted, and outraged bloggers have promised to track the banners down...(Atlas Shrugs blogger Pam) Gellar had this to say: "There is something terribly terribly wrong with this. It's an Obamanation. Skin crawling."...
On Gellar's site, another commenter had this to say: "This is just like Mao Tse Tung's cult of personality. I wonder if we'll soon see people carrying massive posters of 'the messiah' as he brings the country to utter economic ruin and geopolitical impotence?"
No, it's not. It's stupid, of course. But it's a single person on E-Bay trying to make a buck. It's not as if the White House made them up, for crying out loud. And some of the wingnuts have their authoritarian impulses all wrapped up in that flag:
"To whoever is currently manufacturing and selling those flags..... I will personally and legally hunt each of you down for the sole purpose of making citizens arrests and prosecuting each and every one of you to the fullest extend of the law under U.S. Code pertaining to the flag of the United States of America," wrote one participant in a forum at Atlas Shrugs, where blogger Pamela Gellar posted the images."Understand this.... you have every right in the world to support the person you voted for and I will stand right in front of you in the line of fire to defend that right. But the instant you put a single man on a higher pedestal than the law, whatever games you are playing are over and you lose..... maybe forever."
First of all, you idiot, you can't prosecute anyone for violating the U.S. Flag Code and the only thing you're going to do by trying to affect a citizen's arrest is get yourself arrested (which is fine by me). Secondly: Get a fucking grip. It's a piece of cloth, for crying out loud.
Ironically, the Worldnutdaily are the same people selling tea-stained American flags.
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"Ironically, the Worldnutdaily are the same people selling selling tea-stained American flags."
That may be, but as they will be the first to explain, they are simply trying to rally good Americans to stand up for the nation's values.
Posted by: dean | October 16, 2009 9:28 AM
Um.
Posted by: James Sweet | October 16, 2009 9:32 AM
I wonder if we'll soon see people carrying massive posters of 'the messiah' as he brings the country to utter economic ruin and geopolitical impotence
You mean like those pictures of Bush Jr. they had (and may still have) in the Jesus-camps, while he was bringing our country to economic ruin and wasting our strength in two badly-fought wars?
And the fact that this was said by someone from a blog called "Atlas Shrugged" once again proves what a brain-dead, infantile joke Randism is.
Posted by: Raging Bee | October 16, 2009 9:32 AM
In China the government creates the Mao stuff for propaganda purposes.
In America Obama stuff is created by businesses due to popular demand, it's the free market at work. They can't even see their wonderful capitalism when it decides to make money off of their enemy's image.
Posted by: J. Allen | October 16, 2009 9:37 AM
They really do live in a world where hypocrisy and stupid form the basis for their patriotism.
The echo chamber must ring with ditto-heads and other fools yelling that the black man is ruining the country. This flag thing is just another not-so-obviously-bigoted way to hate Obama.
Posted by: MikeMa | October 16, 2009 9:39 AM
I wonder, if you remove all the stars, is it really an American flag anymore? How much would you have to modify the design before it stops counting as an American flag? I think an Obama flag is a little tacky (just like half the other stuff on eBay), but the people who make them are really just "defacing" a piece of cloth with a blue square and some stripes.
Posted by: catgirl | October 16, 2009 9:59 AM
Personally, I find the Chia Obama rather tasteless.
Posted by: BGT | October 16, 2009 10:00 AM
Is there some hidden irony in posters at a blog called "Atlas Shrugs" threatening to use the government (legal action) to stop an entrepreneur from making money on Ebay?
Posted by: JohnV | October 16, 2009 10:04 AM
How will other countries know we're better than them if we don't wave around our gigantic, powerful
penismilitary?Posted by: catgirl | October 16, 2009 10:06 AM
catgirl,
I agree, it is NOT flag defacement if it wasn't a flag to start with. I doubt the ebay guy is cutting out the stars and replacing them with a blue-field Obama. He's buying flag shaped and colored material with an Obama head where the stars would go, if it was a flag.
Now the tea staining of actual flags...
Posted by: MikeMa | October 16, 2009 10:08 AM
Which is exactly why congress needs to approve funding for the proposed new aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Cialis.
Posted by: James Sweet | October 16, 2009 10:11 AM
@JohnV #8 -- You beat me to it.
Readers of the "Atlas Shrugs" blog: If you're upset at this, you better turn in your libertarian club card. You've been expelled for being a dipshit. But don't worry, the Republicans welcome your kind with open arms.
Posted by: Sean L. | October 16, 2009 10:26 AM
Don't these folks know from their bibles that worshipping an image like the flag is a sin?
Posted by: Rob Jase | October 16, 2009 10:26 AM
JohnV, the irony is not hidden at all! It is blatantly ironic, and yet another example of people who sell themselves as "Randian," while in actuality not "getting it," at all. Rand's philosophy emphasized the inherent value of the individual, and decried the abuse of the individual at the hands of the collective.
Rand's philosophy (and do remember that she was a novelist, not an academic philosopher) evolved as a reasoned retort to the Soviet-style compulsory (and dictatorial) socialism under which she lived, prior to emigrating to the West.
If she took a position at all, which I tend to doubt, Ayn Rand would probably take the eminently sensible position that if you don't like the Obama flag, don't buy one. And if it appeals to you, go ahead. If we were all required to salute an Obama flag, she might start to have a problem, but so far we only force children to pledge allegiance to a normal flag, while swearing obedience and fealty to the Christian God, every morning before school.
Oh, wait ... Rand wouldn't care for that, either.
But an attempt (however feeble) to use the power of the government to destroy someone else's small business? How anti-Rand can you possibly get?!
Posted by: threetorches | October 16, 2009 10:31 AM
Nope, it's going to be the USS Gerald Ford ... I shit you not.
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I was thinking the same thing. The flag thing is stupid, but Chia Obama is freakin' moronic. What really bothers me is all the commercials for the damn thing on "educational channels" Discovery, Nat-Geo, Science, The Hitle... ummm History Channel, etc.
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My brain did a little, WTF? record skip on that one as well.
Overall it really is quite amazing. Twenty years ago, even ten years ago "conservatives" and Republicans at least tried to pretend they weren't hypocrites. I mean thirty seconds of digging in the news, Congressional reports, etc., would prove to anyone with a brain that they were, but they at least pretended. Now days, they don't even try to pretend they aren't completely full of shit. They don't even pretend to be consistent or to value consistency. The scary thing is, so many people listen to this bullshit and seem to have the memory of a goldfish or are totally unaware of the reality of the world around them.
The other day Karl Rove claimed that, "had the military commanders in Afghanistan asked for more troops, I am sure the previous administration would have taken care of the problem." That claim is such utter and complete bullshit yet we're going to hear folks on the right claiming that Obama is abandoning the troops in Afghanistan that Bush took care of and supported so fully. I know folks who served in Afghanistan, the basic rule of thumb was, if you don't have something and need it, don't bother, do without, asking for it isn't going to do anything but piss off the folks in Washington.
They worship Reagan and then project that worship on to the supporters of Obama.
They "desecrate the flag" with tea, create their own Reagan flag stuff, and then attack businesses for doing the same with Obama
They fail for years in the "War on Terror" then create organizations to "protect America" because Obama is losing the "War on Terror" IN TEN MONTHS.
They slam Democrats for principled votes against military budgets because of ideological legislation slipped in to the bill and then slam Democrats for slipping ideological legislation into military budgets as they "patriotically" vote against them.
They pass legislation like crazy with 51 votes, even 50 with the VP casting the tie breaking vote, but argue that Democrats have to have a "true majority" to enact any legislation. [even dumbass Democrats are buying into this one]
Makes me want to scream...
Posted by: dogmeatib | October 16, 2009 10:48 AM
I gather they don't think the invisible hand of the free market is capable of sorting this out.
Posted by: Don Doumakes | October 16, 2009 10:48 AM
Our own local flag story: http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091016/GJNEWS_01/710169903
Expect a badly distorted view on WND in 3... 2... 1...
Posted by: Anon | October 16, 2009 11:07 AM
The Atlas Shrugs site has also been bird-dogging the Rifqa Bary saga for weeks on end. Methinks they are more fundie Christian than Randian objectivist.
Bary is the Muslim teenager who found Jesus (and a bunch of very helpful Christian pastors who wanted to "save" her from Islam), ran away from home (on a Greyhound bus with a ticket paid by a Christian pastor) and ended up in Orlando, where she stayed two weeks in a pastor's home.
Unlike Rand, who would have given a rat's ass about this kid, Atlas Shrugs is obsessed with this girl and persists in spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric all over its site.
Posted by: wheatdogg | October 16, 2009 11:23 AM
Uh. Earth to WND, earth to WND... If it lacks the stars in a blue field it's NOT an American flag, it's a portrait of Obama with red and white stripes.
Posted by: TomTallis | October 16, 2009 11:56 AM
James Sweet - That little fetish wasn't produced in 1984 by any chance? :) - DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | October 16, 2009 11:57 AM
Rand's philosophy (and do remember that she was a novelist, not an academic philosopher)...
Oh yes, we remember all right -- and a shit-poor novelist at that, if those who've read it are to be believed.
...evolved as a reasoned retort to the Soviet-style compulsory (and dictatorial) socialism under which she lived, prior to emigrating to the West.
It may have started out as a "reasoned retort," but it seems to have very quickly "evolved" into a batshit-crazy embrace of one extreme of stupid in reaction to the other. And from there, it simply got used as an ideological veneer for a form of perpetual teenage rebelliousness, which big business simply exploited (much as some adults exploit immature rebellious teens), even to the extent of bribing universities to pretend Ayn Rand was a serious political theorist.
Posted by: Raging Bee | October 16, 2009 12:03 PM
Who is John Galt?
Maybe he's this dude making some money in the free market by creating an Obama flag.
It's no [spoiler alert] engine that runs on static electricity, but it's entrepreneurial none the less.
Posted by: Jordan G | October 16, 2009 12:06 PM
It is pure hypocrisy. Displaying the flag upside-down is a violation of the Flag Code. Dipping the flag in tea to "age" the flag intentionally is a violation of the Flag Code. Wearing flag T-shirts and flag caps is a violation of the Flag Code. When the flag was displayed upside down in California, protestors were criticized by the right and told to "go home." When "patriots" display the flag upside down to protest the current administration, they are applauded. The truth is that there is a changing face of America that is diverse and people are truly scared. It just doesn't match their concept of who an American is. It will take time to get through this. They're not wingnuts; they are folks clutching to the symbolism of a disappearing status quo. They determined who an American is in the past and that is undergoing a radical change.
Posted by: Doug | October 16, 2009 12:07 PM
@21 Raging Bee
Posted by: Jordan G | October 16, 2009 12:09 PM
@21 Raging Bee
"Oh yes, we remember all right -- and a shit-poor novelist at that, if those who've read it are to be believed."
I would disagree. Her novel The Fountainhead was actually a very good book in my opinion. And while I disagreed with the philosophy put forth in Atlas Shrugged, most of the story was appealing.
Posted by: Jordan G | October 16, 2009 12:13 PM
I've often heard Rand's books praised, but I've never heard any specific rationale behind the praise -- or, for that matter, any real attempt to describe the content. Some people rave about how one of her heroes made a SIXTY-FIVE-PAGE SPEECH ELEVENTY-ONE!!!11!!!! But none of them have anything to say about what the guy actually said, or why he couldn't have said it better with fewer words. So much gushing about quantity, and none about quality, really doesn't cut it with me.
Posted by: Raging Bee | October 16, 2009 12:46 PM
"Earth to WND, earth to WND"
There isn't a signal strong enough to make that trip.
Posted by: dean | October 16, 2009 12:54 PM
@Raging Bee: Galt's speech fell well into TL:DR territory. I actually read it and can't remember a word of it.
When their hero was the basis for the villain in a video game (Bioshock) it might be time to stop quoting her at everyone.
It does amuse me to see a bunch of fanatical Christians try to straddle the line between cults. After all, everyone knows Jesus was a Randroid.
Posted by: JThompson | October 16, 2009 1:33 PM
I'm shocked that you Americans have removed the Union Jack, southern cross and commonwealth star from the Australian flag and replaced them with stars and stripes. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!
Posted by: Doug Little | October 16, 2009 2:26 PM
...wrote one participant in a forum at Atlas Shrugs
Ayn Rand would be rolling over in her grave (but only if it objectively suited her enlightened self interest).
It's odd, "Randian" used to mean "self-centred, vaguely sociopathic asshole who is against sense of 'society' that doesn't directly benefit himself right now, at this point in time". Now it means "Conservative".
Not much of a change, really.
Doug "...they are folks clutching to the symbolism of a disappearing status quo."
Yes. They're conservatives. That's a pretty good definition, by the way.
Jordan G "Her novel The Fountainhead was actually a very good book in my opinion."
Raging Bee "I've often heard Rand's books praised, but I've never heard any specific rationale behind the praise -- or, for that matter, any real attempt to describe the content."
Posted by: Modusoperandi | October 16, 2009 2:54 PM
Wow, Modus, them's some wack quotes, yo. That bit from the Fountainhead sounds like something an advertizer would say to you just to get you to buy something to make yourself feel more special.
Posted by: Raging Bee | October 16, 2009 4:05 PM
That isn't a real Fountainhead quote, is it? It sounds like a parody of a teenage girl's fan fiction(Google "Mary Sue"). I ask because I haven't read any of Rand's work, and I do have difficulty telling authentic conservative writing from parody.
Posted by: Emily | October 16, 2009 4:21 PM
If you think that's bad, try reading objectivists' blogs.
Posted by: ildi | October 16, 2009 4:28 PM
@Raging Bee:
It may have started out as a "reasoned retort," but it seems to have very quickly "evolved" into a batshit-crazy embrace of one extreme of stupid in reaction to the other. And from there, it simply got used as an ideological veneer for a form of perpetual teenage rebelliousness, which big business simply exploited (much as some adults exploit immature rebellious teens), even to the extent of bribing universities to pretend Ayn Rand was a serious political theorist.
You seem to be confusing a novelist with the ravings of self-described fans of a a novelist, most of whom can't actually read.
You don't hate Tolkien because your neighbor is dressing like an Uruk-hai for Halloween again, and your neighbor also backed into your mail-box, right? Or do you?
Posted by: threetorches | October 16, 2009 4:29 PM
You seem to be confusing a novelist with the ravings of self-described fans of a a novelist, most of whom can't actually read.
Those seem (in my own experience at least) to be the only people raving about her books.
You don't hate Tolkien because your neighbor is dressing like an Uruk-hai for Halloween again, and your neighbor also backed into your mail-box, right? Or do you?
Even if I had not read any Tolkein myself, I would still at least have heard others describing and discussing his books intelligently (pro and con), so I actually have some idea what they're about and why so many others like them. Oh, and that High-Elven memorial service was a cool touch too.
Posted by: Raging Bee | October 16, 2009 4:37 PM
That probably is a quote from the fountainhead, since that was sort of her writing style- repetitive... and redundant ;^)
But I still stand by my statement that the book is good. You may not like her style, but the story is worthwhile.
Posted by: Jordan G | October 16, 2009 4:43 PM
Rand is horrific. Her books are basically a massive collection of rich and powerful people basically telling each other how great they are, how everyone wishes they were as great as they are, how everyone is jealous of how great they are, and how everyone wants to take away their greatness. Her characters are stiff cardboard cutouts of bland, vaguely annoying, rich people who, when they open their mouths become increasingly annoying.
Every page seems like ten, every chapter seems like it never ends, every books seems like hell in print. The most obnoxious annoying stereotypical character of a libertarian, selfish jackass asshat who doesn't give a shit about anyone else, "I got mine, F* you!" Is pretty much an embodiment of the protagonist in an Ayn Rand novel. The stuff aspires to being shit.
Posted by: dogmeatib | October 16, 2009 5:02 PM
Zombie need brains...
Posted by: AnonymousCoward | October 16, 2009 5:09 PM
Raging Bee "Wow, Modus, them's some wack quotes, yo."
Yes, and Objectively so.
Emily "That isn't a real Fountainhead quote, is it?"
It is. And by "it is" I mean "I saw part of The Fountainhead on the late, late, late show and this is how I remember it." The main difference is that my version doesn't go on for 114 minutes.
Rand's stuff doesn't have characters. It has ideologies in suits.
threetorches "You seem to be confusing a novelist with the ravings of self-described fans of a a novelist, most of whom can't actually read."
Rand was just as dismal a human being as those that follow her cult. An asshole dressed in self-serving philosophical bafflegab is still an asshole.
Jordan G "But I still stand by my statement that the book is good."
And I stand by my statement. Whatever that was.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | October 16, 2009 5:13 PM
dogmeatlib, there you go!
That's how you review a book and reveal that you did not enjoy it ... not by noting that some random nut at the World Nut Daily or a self-serving political blog named after one of her novels claims to have enjoyed it, or to agree with the premise. Well done, sir.
Oh, and the above "quote" from the Fountainhead is actually a "parody quote" from somebody else who did not enjoy the novel. Fair enough, but not an actual quote or example of Rand's writing. Rand used to be parodied quite a bit; I don't see it much anymore.
Further, seeing the far-right Christians over at the World Nut professing allegiance to the avowedly atheist and materialistic Ayn Rand is just a hoot, I have to say! She HATED religion and religious nut-jobs!
Posted by: threetorches | October 16, 2009 5:15 PM
First of all, to continue the tortured analogy, Tolkien wasn't advocating the Uruk-hai lifestyle; second, Tolkien's work is treated as fiction by even the most ardent fans, not as the basis for a philosophical system. Third, now I have this image of an Uruk-hai smashing up my mailbox a la the barbarian horde in the credit card commercial...
Posted by: ildi | October 16, 2009 5:18 PM
threetorches "Oh, and the above "quote" from the Fountainhead is actually a "parody quote"..."
How dare you put my real, genuine and actual quote in scare quotes!
"...from somebody else who did not enjoy the novel."
Again you slur me, sir! I did not not enjoy the novel. I, in fact, did not read the novel at all! Take that!
"Fair enough, but not an actual quote or example of Rand's writing."
It's representative, I think. Plus, it saves you from having to plow through the remaining 751 pages of the book.
"Rand used to be parodied quite a bit; I don't see it much anymore."
Once the followers exceeded the parody, parody lost its power. I hear it's homeless now and quite a heavy drinker.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | October 16, 2009 5:39 PM
Since we're on a Rand kick right now, it feels like a good time to post this. Brian Leiter has an amusing observation about Rand from Donald Hubin. It does a good job of summing up how real philosophers view Rand:
Posted by: Wes | October 16, 2009 6:57 PM
I remember reading Atlas Shrugged while working as a legislative aide in Sacramento (in 1980 or thereabouts). I found it entertaining in a weird sort of way. The "good guys" were also very handsome or beautiful and seemed in the throes of some kind of paradoxical love-hate relationship with themselves. They'd also have sex in a peculiar self-loathing way. Like I said, entertaining, but not to be taken seriously. Rand's worship of her ubermenschish engineers made it clear why there was an Ayn Rand Society at Caltech in the seventies (though I hope the Techers outgrew her).
Posted by: Zeno | October 16, 2009 7:34 PM
Yeah, as a libertarian, I find it more than a "hidden" irony that a Randian website would object to people making a buck off of something that has some resemblance to the U.S. flag. Hell, a real libertarian wouldn't give a shit if they were, in fact, selling an American flag stained with shit.
But that's pretty much what you can expect from the average Randian. As Wes notes, plenty of smart young people go through a Rand phase. But you'll find precious few smart older people who care for Rand. Her theory of human nature is wholly wrong. When (iirc) Roark gives Dagny Taggart the necklace, and says he didn't do it to make her happy, he only did it because he would enjoy how it looks on her, Rand has created a character that is quite literally inhuman. Homo sapiens is by its evolutionary history a social species. We do care what others think, and we do want to please those we care about. You can still build a libertarian philosophy out of that--you don't have to turn us into un-social, inhuman, primates to do so.
And notably, while objectivism purported to exalt the individual, and encourage individuality and independent thought, Rand herserlf, along with succeeding generations of objectivists, have imposed dogmatic requirements every bit as rigid as the most orthodox of churches.
So given the pervasive shallowness of objectivists, perhapts it's really not surprising that these asshats are pitching a fit about folks daring to exercise their liberty and make a buck while doing so.
Posted by: James Hanley | October 16, 2009 7:35 PM
Zeno- "The "good guys" were also very handsome or beautiful and seemed in the throes of some kind of paradoxical love-hate relationship with themselves. They'd also have sex in a peculiar self-loathing way. Like I said, entertaining, but not to be taken seriously."
A lot like "Mad Men". And Bert Cooper of the Sterling/ Cooper agency is a Randian.
Posted by: Rick R | October 16, 2009 8:11 PM
Err, Jordan - Sorry, but Rand was just fucking painful. I managed to get through Fountainhead (or was it Atlas Shrugged?) and I think there may have been about seventy pages or so, scattered through the book that contained anything approaching decent writing. And anything remotely interesting about the story itself was completely overwhelmed by the repulsiveness of the characters themselves.
I was quite tempted to quit reading in the middle, but I am loathe to leave any book I start unfinished. I always weigh them against a spy novel I read, in which the main character literally undergoes a fucking brain transplant. I figure if I could make it through that quite literally painful and completely vapid excuse for brain candy, it must be very bad indeed to get me to quit in the middle.
Posted by: DuWayne | October 16, 2009 8:38 PM
Interesting pun, "it's an Obamanation."
Posted by: TheDude | October 16, 2009 8:45 PM
Now, having struggled through The Reader Shrugged, and said 'Meh', read The Great Gatsby an excellent antidote (and certainly better writing).. - DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | October 16, 2009 9:25 PM
The person who gives Dagny Taggart the whopping ruby for his own pleasure was Hank Reardon, the man who developed a miracle metal in the face of all those evil low-minded liberals who doubted its value (even reading this in high school, I thought this was silly). Howard Roark was the single-minded architect who raped the woman who later became his lover (apparently the only good sex in Rand's universe was rough, unwanted, and filled with self-loathing)
I had a friend who claimed to be an Objectivist (he was in his late-30's at the time, and gave me copies of many of her books. I read them all, and decided that while she might be an okay author with the serious need for a better editor, his philosophy was wacked. And yes, I read John Galt's 65-page speech, in one sitting, and then threw the book under the bed for a week.
Posted by: Clare | October 16, 2009 10:26 PM
Third, now I have this image of an Uruk-hai smashing up my mailbox a la the barbarian horde in the credit card commercial...
If you look hard enough, you can probably find someone who could translate "What's in your wallet?" into the Dark Tongue of Mordor. Then Chase could use that in their next ad campaign. One ad to rule them all...
Posted by: Raging Bee | October 16, 2009 11:19 PM
Raging Bee - "If you look hard enough, you can probably find someone who could translate "What's in your wallet?" into the Dark Tongue of Mordor.".
And the response ad would simply say (in Common, so everyone can understand it):
"Um, a ring? I win, tonight I dine on raw hobbitses. Yum!"* :) -DJ
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*Kinda buggers the story though
Posted by: DingoJack | October 16, 2009 11:59 PM
I always thought the Uruk-hai got a bad rep. Ok, their eating habits were disgusting, but they're easy to feed, they're on the quiet side, but would be really handy for opening jars and moving furniture, and if Lurtz had only had some orthodontic work done... "history is written by the victors."
Is it tomorrow down under, Dingo? Actually, I guess it's tomorrow here, too.
Posted by: ildi | October 17, 2009 2:08 AM
Gollum hated the greater light and the lesser, so 'day' and 'night' were equally meaningless to him. :) - DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | October 17, 2009 3:42 AM
"You don't hate Tolkien because your neighbor is dressing like an Uruk-hai for Halloween again, and your neighbor also backed into your mail-box, right?"
No but if he also looked down on everyone who didn't dress like an Uruk-hai and thought people who didn't like Tolkein were "parasites", and if Tolkein himself had encouraged such behaviour, and if instead of The Lord of the Rings having a story it was just Frodo giving a speech about how great Hobbits were, then yes I would hate Tolkein.
Posted by: Neuroskeptic | October 17, 2009 8:36 AM
Has anyone else seen this excellent
Halloween e-card? It’s really cute.
Posted by: sosisy | October 17, 2009 8:37 AM
Rick R "And Bert Cooper of the Sterling/ Cooper agency is a Randian."
And he succeeded in business without really trying. I don't know how well that reflects on Rand. Poorly, probably.
Posted by: Modusoperandi | October 17, 2009 1:08 PM
It wd probably explode the wee brains of these 'Atlus Shrugged' yahoos., but for years flags with an image of a Native American Indian man superimposed on it have been available for years. Mainly at pow wows. Oh noes! Hmmm. I think I need to buy one, and annoy a wingnut....
Posted by: Miluk Frog | October 17, 2009 9:23 PM
"The stuff aspires to being shit.
Posted by: dogmeatib | October 16, 2009 5:02 PM"
Yes, and Pammy Geller aspires to being a C U Next Tuesday; actually I think, for her, that is an achievable goal.
Is it okay if I send NunChuck Norris a tea-stained flag, after I've passed the tea through my kidneys?
Posted by: democommie | October 18, 2009 8:56 AM
We have always lived in a tabloid culture. Anyone who has studied media history knows about the stories printed about the discovery of life on the moon...that were believed by many who read the silly rags who published them....Anyone who believes things that these wingnuts spout deserves what they get ...With all the real problems this nation faces the fact that anyones cares abou this crap speaks volumes
Posted by: Royal | October 21, 2009 3:37 PM
For the record, here is a similarly repurposed US flag.
Posted by: william e emba | December 22, 2009 8:59 AM