One of the unfortunate parts about my new car is the color. I said to M just before we set out to buy it, "I don't mind which color as long as it's not silver." Of course this meant that I jinxed myself, and the car is, in fact, silver. Don't get me wrong, I think silver is a perfectly nice car color. However, it is also the most popular car color right now. This means that I can sometimes go out to parking lot and find a row of eight or ten silver cars. Picking your car from everyone else’s takes more concentration.
My first thought to make my car more unique was to paint a wide green stripe starting at the nose, going over the hood and roof, and ending at the bumper. If it weren't for the issue of resale value, I would do it, but it's just not practical. Therefore, I'm left with the more subtle (and more boring) option: bumper stickers.
I have never been a huge fan of bumper stickers since I usually prefer to pick my battles with people. I am especially annoyed by the cars that are plastered with dozens of different stickers advocating a pile of different causes. However, I think one or two carefully chosen and carefully placed stickers might be okay. Therefore, I went on a sticker hunt to see what I could find.
One of the biggest problems is parking at school. As I've mentioned before, there are some very conservative people at school, and everyone knows which car I drive. Thus, some of my favorites become problematic due to extremely liberal or extremely anti-religious sentiments. Now I know many people are thinking that I should grow a backbone, but those people have clearly never worked in this kind of setting. For example, it would become very difficult to work with some people if I put a Darwin fish on my car. Here are a few of the good ones I did NOT choose:
"Speak your truth even if your voice shakes" (ha, ha, that is just what I'm NOT doing)
"Born okay the first time" (love this one, but can't)
"Proud of my country, appalled by my government."
"I miss Pluto" (now that's just a cute idea)
"Where are we going and why are we in a hand basket?"
"Republicans for Voldemort!"
"One nation INDIVISIBLE" (this one is set on a red, white, and blue background. Most people wouldn’t even get the joke, but if you say the pledge of allegiance every day, you understand. This is the controversial one that tempted me most.)
"Dare to keep the CIA off drugs"
"Focus on your own darn family"
I'm currently trying to decide if I can get away with a Flying Spaghetti Monster as long as it's just the outline and the initials. These people tend to be none to current on internet geek humor. My other, cowards, choice is just a sticker from my university. None too controversial unless March Madness or The Rose Bowl are on.
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Thanks for your comments about the Pledge.
Pledge of Allegiance pictures http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg and Swastikas pictures http://rexcurry.net/swastika3clear.jpg expose shocking secrets about American history.
Socialists in the USA originated the Nazi salute, robotic group-chanting to flags, Nazism, flag fetishism, and the modern swastika as "S" symbolism for "Socialism." http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html
Much of that history is the history of the Pledge Of Allegiance.
Those historical facts explain the enormous size and scope of government today, and the USA's growing police state. They are reasons for massive reductions in government, taxation, spending and socialism.
The "Nazi salute" is more accurately called the "American salute" as it was created and popularized by national socialists in the USA. It was the early salute of the Pledge of Allegiance. The Pledge was written by Francis Bellamy. http://rexcurry.net/pledgetragedy.html Francis Bellamy was cousin and cohort of Edward Bellamy. http://rexcurry.net/pledgebackward.html Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy were self-proclaimed socialists in the Nationalism movement and they promoted military socialism.
They wanted the government to take over education and use it to spread their worship of government. When the government granted their wish, the government’s schools imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy. The official racism and segregation was a bad example three decades before the National Socialist German Workers Party, and decades afterward.
The Pledge was mandated by law in government schools for three decades before, and through, the creation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-karl-marx.html
see photo of Pledge of Allegiance http://rexcurry.net/USA-pledge-of-allegiance-rexcurrydotnet.jpg Pledge of Allegiance.
Many people do not know that the term "Nazi" means "National Socialist German Workers' Party." Members of the horrid group did not call themselves Nazis. In that sense, there was no Nazi Party. They also did not call themselves Fascists. They called themselves socialists, just as their name indicates.
The historian Dr. Rex Curry showed that the early Pledge Of Allegiance did not use an ancient Roman salute, and that the 'ancient Roman salute' myth came from the Pledge Of Allegiance. The discoveries have been reviewed and verified on wikipedia http://rexcurry.net/roman-salute-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html
The original pledge was anti libertarian and began with a military salute that then stretched out toward the flag. In actual use, the second part of the gesture was performed with a straight arm and palm down by children casually performing the forced ritual chanting. Due to the way that both gestures were used sequentially in the pledge, the military salute led to the Nazi salute. The Nazi salute is an extended military salute via the USA's Pledge Of Allegiance.
Media coverage about the discoveries continues to grow http://rexcurry.net/audio-rex-curry-podcast-radio.html
Fan mail for work exposing the Pledge’s poisonous pedigree is at http://rexcurry.net/pledge_heart.html
And listen at http://odeo.com/audio/1747108/view
The Pledge's early salute caused quite a Fuhrer/furor. The dogma behind the Pledge was the same dogma that led to the socialist Wholecost (of which the Holocaust was a part): 62 million slaughtered under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million under the Peoples’ Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. It was the worst slaughter of humanity ever.
People were persecuted (beatings, lynchings, etc) for refusing to perform robotic chanting to the national flag at the same time in government schools in the USA and Germany (to the American flag, and to the German swastika flag).
American socialists (e.g. Edward Bellamy and Francis Bellamy teamed with the Theosophical Society and Freemasons) bear some blame for altering the notorious symbol used as overlapping S-letters for "socialism" under the National Socialist German Workers Party.
http://rexcurry.net/swastika3clear.jpg
The same symbol was used by the Theosophical Society during the time when the Bellamys, Freemasons and the Theosophical Society worked together to promote socialism.
http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html
They also originated and helped to spread the stiff arm salute via the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings.
As German socialism's notorious flag symbol, the swastika was deliberately turned 45 degrees to the horizontal and always oriented in the S-direction. Similar alphabetic symbolism is still visible as Volkswagen logos. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-audi-logo.JPG
The bizarre acts in the USA began as early as 1875 and continued through the creation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German Nazis or NSGWP). American soldiers used the swastika symbol in WWI (against Germany) and the symbol was used by the American military during WWII. http://rexcurry.net/45th-infantry-division-swastika-sooner-soldiers.html
The NSGWP had clear roots in National Socialism promoted by socialists in the USA. Amazing graphic images that prove the point are at http://rexcurry.net/theosophy-madame-blavatsky-theosophical-society.html
The USA is still the worst example in the world of bizarre laws that require robotic chanting to a national flag in government schools (socialist schools) every day for 12 years. It has changed generations of Americans from libertarians to authoritarians. The government bamboozled individuals into believing that collective robotic chanting in government schools daily is a beautiful expression of freedom. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html
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