Sign, sign, everywhere a sign....

[NightTrain]

On my way to work each morning, I drive by a vacant lot with campaign signs for various Democratic candidates stuck in the ground. Today as I drove by, there was a new sign alongside them: a slab of cardboard nailed to a wooden stake on which was written in magic marker, VOTE BUSH! DON'T BE A FLIP-FLOPPER.

I felt a bit irritated and even considered pulling over so I could yank that sign out of the ground. But I decided against it. I figured if that Bush supporter was decent enough to leave the Democrats' signs alone, the least I could do was return the favor.

I have to wonder, though: if Democrats and Republicans here in Connecticut are willing to cut each other some slack, why can't it happen all over the country? :shrug:

[NVMojo]

1. I had a Kerry sign blow off the wire stand it was on last night

I saw it over by my fence in the dark but figured I'd get up in the morning and retrieve it. When I went out this morning, someone had already put it up. My yard is elevated from the sidewalk so whomever did this went out of their way.

Later I noticed two more houses with Kerry signs in their yards and no BUSH signs and I live in Repuglicon land. Elizabeth Edwards was here last week and I can't get over all the Kerry bumper stickers I am seeing on cars now. It was Bush city before that. Cheney came here a couple of months ago and paraded down one of our little streets as part of the corporate gold mines push to get Bush re-elected.

When Elizabeth Edwards came here, there was a Steel Workers union rep on stage just before she spoke, talking about how the Repuke ads that are being run statewide saying Kerry is going to impose a 8% royalty fee on international gold mines who are taking the gold off public lands for nothing are not true. Personally, they should pay us for taking such enormous profit out of the ground. Lying sacks of crap.

The funny thing is that blue collar miners are usually in unions but they were going towards Bush because the corporates were trying to scare them about losing their jobs if Kerry gets in. The gold mining community in Elko County/northeast Nevada is only a few thousand and I'm sure we'd all hate losing our jobs when the mines leave anyways once the gold runs out and the arsenic and cyanide is left behind. Then this gold mining community that makes an average of $65,000. a year with high school diplomas will find out what reality in Bushworld is like in the rest of the US.

[porphyrian]

2. It's too personal.

The actions of this administration have been conscious attacks on us, our friends and families, our country, and our world. Any who would continue to support these evil traitors I hold in contempt as enablers and apologists. I will accept nothing less than taking an active roll in reversing the direction of the republican party and taking responsibility for the consequences of its actions. Then, I can talk in a civil manner with a republican about righting the wrongs they have inflicted on us all.

[NightTrain]

3. Oh, I agree!

That's why I'm surprised that sign theft hasn't been more of a problem around here. At least not that I've noticed, and since I spend my workweek on the road, I see a lot of K/E and B/C signs!