On a vehicle in eastern Jackson County:

No, we didn’t alter the content of this image.

The one on the right makes the one on the left redundant.

Bumper sticker on a vehicle in west central Missouri.

…until someone caves to republican debt hostage takers.

A bumper sticker produced by the 4th Congressional District Democratic Committee.

…and it’s looking that way for more people.

Via Twitter:

@Dawnerv New Lenox

Trump/Palin 2012 bumper sticker: “You’re Fired! – I Quit 8 hours ago

December 12, 2000. We were in the car, somewhere in Missouri, when we heard the news on the radio. The old media coverage was pathetically bad.

Before we had easy access to blogging we really only had bumper stickers for our own unrestricted public sarcasm.

Stevens, J., dissenting

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

No. 00-949

GEORGE W. BUSH, et al., PETITIONERS v. ALBERT GORE, Jr., et al.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT

[December 12, 2000]

Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg and Justice Breyer join, dissenting….

….Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today’s decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

I respectfully dissent.

For a few years leading up to and through the 2000 election I had been a party activist. I ran and was elected as a Gore delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles from Missouri’s 4th Congressional District. The December 12, 2000 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was the beginning of my journey down the path where I find myself today.

In the weeks following the court’s decision I formulated a plan to produce a partisan bumper sticker which would comment on the case. I tried out a few designs, including “Jews for Buchanan”, and finally selected “the one” (with the advice of a few friends) raising the money to print 1500 of them. The entire process took a few months. As I recall we had them ready in June or July 2001 and distributed them around Missouri and to friends across the country.

We waited for and devoured books about the recount and the Supreme Court case – because we had to. Jeffery Toobin’s Too Close To Call and Vincent Bugliosi’s The Betrayal Of America were the best of the lot, especially Molly Ivin’s forward in the latter. Ten years latter blogs give us instant communities and organizing and audiences with no waiting. We didn’t know how to do this at the time. It took us a while to learn.

On July 20, 2001 I participated in my first public protest against dubya’s administration at Dick Cheney’s tax cut photo-op at the Treasury Service Center in Kansas City. The story was my first front page blog post. The photos were taken with a film camera (digital was still too expensive) and the prints were scanned.

I helped organize another protest (but could not attend) when dubya came to Independence, Missouri to speak at Truman High School (yes, the irony was not lost on any of us) in August 2001.

The media coverage was fawning and uniformly bad for both events. I knew at the time that things had to change. I just didn’t know how to go about creating that change.

I did learn some early lessons along the way:

….Grandmothers make the best protesters. They don’t take crap from anyone.

A bumper sticker in the parking lot.

A campaign button expressing an actual opinion that wasn’t first spoon fed to the wearer by the Faux News Channel.

And real activists don’t give up. Ever.

Yeah, we barely dodged that one, didn’t we?

The cult of the lost cause endures:

Because grifters can’t always get their cons to work on everyone:

Economic Crisis, The Audit – November 8, 2010 09:25 PM

Sarah Palin, Media Critic

The former veep candidate (and journalism major) misleads readers on the WSJ with selective quotes

By Ryan Chittum

….So, Palin is hammering the Journal and Reddy for pointing out that she’s flat wrong about grocery prices going up significantly in the past year. What does she do? She quotes a separate Journal story that confirms what Reddy is saying-and cuts out that part with three dots. Nice!

Palin has a journalism degree, so I’m guessing she knows what an ethical no-no it is to misquote somebody like that. It ought to be awfully hard for her to get on her pedestal and condemn the media when she can’t even quote somebody honestly. How about to make it up to Reddy, Palin lets a real reporter like him fly out to Wasilla to interview her for once instead of going to her house folks at Fox News?

Maybe they can talk about the possible wave of food inflation coming our way.

It looks like the Wall Street Journal and the Columbia Journalism Review won’t be able to sit at the lunch table with all the other kewl kidz for a long while.

Also, too.

Previously:

Wecome to post-racial America (August 10, 2010)

Wecome to post-racial America, part 2 (August 21, 2010)

The 2008 election will never be over.

Today, found stuck to the front door of the now closed Johnson County Democratic headquarters in downtown Warrensburg, Missouri:

This is across the street from the Warrensburg municipal building and a block further away from the police station.

Now what?