Do you remember this bumper sticker?
Well – there’s this town in California. Not that California –the other California. The conservative California: Lafayette.
So a resident of Lafayette – Jeff Heaton – puts a sign on his own property honoring the memory of those who died in Iraq. He also dotted the landscape with a few crosses.
“It seemed like it would be a touching way to make people aware of the true costs of the war,” Heaton said.
Not a chance. Because a Lafayette ordinance limits their signs to a size way smaller than the one in Jeff Heaton’s yard. And the townsfolk want the sign removed. Or replaced with one of those cute little signs.
And now the issue is drawing national attention as the town tries to determine if the sign ordinance interferes with freedom of expression. This is what Bossy thinks:
1peanut says
November 30, 2006 at 10:23 amnice car bossy
Adorable Girlfriend says
November 30, 2006 at 10:36 amPerhaps we have that where I live. Let’s just say some of the nutters when overboard with the lights this year. Seriously, do we need to fund a war for your holiday decorations?
m says
December 1, 2006 at 7:27 ammaybe he should make one REALLY BIG sign out of a TON of itty bitty ones.
Glenn Mooty says
December 25, 2006 at 11:42 amAs I was watching US forces bombing Bagdad on TV with my dog the 2nd night of the Iraq war, we looked at each other and I realized the biggest difference between he and I was that he was not the slightest bit ashamed that he was canine, while at that moment, I was very ashamed that I was human.
Then I wrote this.
You might try a printing calculator
If you can find a long enough paper tape
To add up all that’s wasted
With greedy humans full of hate
We’re the only of all God’s creatures
Capable of waging war
Un-building each other’s buildings and lives
With weapons that kill more and more
Wasted lives that could have been lived
Wasted hearts stretched and broken
In Wives that won’t see their husbands again
In “I love yous” that never got spoken
It’s been so many centuries
You’d think by now we should have evolved
To learn to get along with each other
To learn our problems can be solved
Without building ever nastier weapons
Without blowing each other to bits
I wish we weren’t so damn smart sometimes
‘Cause I know we’ll never, ever, quit.
Glenn Mooty
San Jose