Antiwar Postage Stamp
I thought this was interesting on so many levels.
I don't specifically agree with the sentiment anymore than I do most overly simplistic policy statements. But I acknowledge there isn't enough room on a stamp to formulate the idea of structured build up of international forces combined with continued economic aid, gradual withdrawl set against a timeline of escalating sectarian tensions, aka civil war, all of which is neccessary to get us out of a situation we shouldn't be in in the first place but was dropped in our laps by the numbnuts in chief.
However, I do like the fact that the range of opinion is available to this postal customer. And I like the fact that it is my government that is providing it, regardless of who is in office at the moment. It gives me hope.
posted by Chris Dykstra @ 12:04 PM |
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They're just taking advantage of the USPS's create-your-own postage stamp feature, so the government isn't directly involved in this.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2004-08-10-stamps_x.htm
Any stamp you want. Including maybe one that says "I don't know what I'm writing about on many levels." (That's be for Chris.)
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I fixed the link, Mark.
I hate to disagree with y'all, but the USPS is only semi-independent. You still have to take the federal civil service exam to work there. Plus, it is still partially supported by taxpayer money, and is constitutionally mandated:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode39/usc_sec_39_00000101----000-.html
The USPS is created as a government agency under Title 39, Section 101.1 of the United States Code which states, in part:
* (a) The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people. The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities. The costs of establishing and maintaining the Postal Service shall not be apportioned to impair the overall value of such service to the people.
Any service offered from it, including functionality that allows taxpayers to make our their own stamps, is therefore offered, at least in part, by the government.
Perhaps I'll make a stamp that says: "I'm a sanctimonious blowhard and am prone to calling people names without really doing my homework." (That'd be for Censored).
Yeah well, forgive me for not taking time to consider your nuanced solution to 100's of years of Middle Eastern strife. I should have realized "OMFG its Bu$h!"
Sticks and stones Chris. I'll cry myself to sleep knowing I don't have your approval.
How's that civil war going? Didn't you get the meme-o? That's so last month. Now its all about... well, check your magic eight-ball. I think its immigration, but who knows how much traction that has.
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You could just gracefully admit you were wrong.
Oh wait, that'd be so un-bush.
I'd have to be wrong first. When I want lesson in that I'll get back to you.
Until then you can maybe celebrate the fact that T-Shirt companies IN AMERICA will make T-Shirts with anti establishment messages.
Pretty sweet, huh?
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Oh, BTW, it was your boy Luke who wrote the gov't wasn't involved.
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