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Not One Damn Dime Day
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Posted By:
Rain Oubliette
Dec 21, 2004
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In the spirit of the burning a candle for solidarity hoax, I recently received the following in my email. Thought I'd share it with everyone; though I have no idea how it would attract the government's attention.
turn your back on the economy!!! Please share this email with as many people as possible...we can protest with our spirit!!!
NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY
Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it, Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending.
During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases.
Not one damn dime for anything for 24 hours.
On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Walmart, KMart and Target. Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).
For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down.
The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent the corporations and funnel cash into American politics.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,200 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan -- a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.
For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
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Myst
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 09:36 PM
Sorry those links didn't work you guys. Try this one:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1427743,00.html |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 10:02 PM
Ah, thanks Myst. |
DJ
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 10:25 PM
Paul -- ROFL! Ummmm, no. I'm probably old enough to be your mother anyway. |
Ellen Anthony
in Wyoming
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 10:38 PM
Watch the website? Probably. I did say controlling the media is another requirement for a repressive government. I expect to get some fallout over publishing articles against Bush. Whether or not I get arrested is something we'll have to see. My family is ok with it since we have a family precedent (Susan B. Anthony got arrested for voting). The way I look at it is social security will not exist by the time I need it. The prison system will. So..... three meals a day, medical care, lodging.... |
DJ
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 11:35 PM
Favorite bumper stickers, anyone?
You judge a democracy by how it treats its dissidents, not by how it treats its assimilated conformists.
Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot
The emperor has no brains! |
Ol' Tard
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 | 11:43 PM
I asked the bag retiree at Safeway if he had seen any difference in shopping yesterday, and he said not much. Has anybody heard if NODDD was noticeably effective anywhere? |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 | 02:11 AM
No, I told you it wouldn't do anything, well, not you, per say, but that is what I said before. It was definitely worth a try though. Mass consumerism is our way. You can't stop it now that it's begun. This is the land of the super-sizers. Buy! Buy! Buy! Consume! Comsume! Consume! WEEEEEEE!!!......I hate America. Did you hear that CIA, NSA, NBA, whichever one of you agencys that get your names from playing with your Alphabets breakfast cereal. |
DJ
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 | 03:43 PM
Well, I don't hate America, but I hate what the rabid republican/religious right is trying to turn America into. Comments I heard after the election that were really disturbing:
"I voted for Bush because he's a CHRISTIAN." Hmmmm. And John Kerry is a Buddhist, I suppose?
"I really don't understand why we have to have separation of church and state, anyway."
Oh? Well, then let me ask you this, if we are going to blend church and state, which church, which denomination of which church, and who gets to decide? If you think a theocracy is such a great idea, ask the people of Iraq. I'm sure they'll tell you what a great idea it is to have your church as your government. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 | 04:30 PM
Well, actually, the Baathist regime under Saddam was relatively secular, although Saddam, like GWB, didn't hesitate to invoke Allah/God when it suited his needs. |
Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 | 05:45 PM
Did anyone say bumper stickers?
I'm Not Anti-Bush I'm Pro-Intelligence
George W Bush The Best Reason Yet for Canadian citizenship
Bush 2004 Let's Not Elect Him Again This Time Either
The Last Time someone Listened to a Bush Folks Wandered The Desert For Forty Years
Save the Environment, Plant a Bush in Texas
No One Died when Clinton Lied
Bush is a Dumbass
Like Father Like Son No Second Term
Make the Scary Republican Go Away
Anybody But Bush
Re-Defeat Bush in 2004
Somewhere in Texas there is a Ranch Missing an Ass
Another Bush, another recession and another war to cover it up
A Village in Texas Has Lost Its Idiot
Daddy's Little War Criminal
Back Off! I'm Allergic to Republicans
Compassionate Conservatism Is An Oxymoron
Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican
Got WMD?
He's Not My President
Has Anyone Seen My Constitutional Rights
Ignorance & Arrogance Is Bad Foreign Policy
Impeach Bush
Like A Rock Only Dumber
More Trees, Less Bush
Someone Less Dumb For President
Those Who Cast the Votes Decide Nothing, Those Who Count the Votes Decide Everything- Josef Stalin
Which Is Worse?
Screwing An Intern Or Screwing A Country? |
DJ
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 01:56 AM
Nick, I think we are pretty much on the same page! Loved those. You may have heard this, but it's worth repeating -- I've told it to anyone who will listen.
GWB is in England, visiting the Queen. They have a moment to talk quietly over tea, and he asks, "How do you know that the people you have surrounded yourself with, the people who advise and influence you and help you make the hard decisions, how do you know they are good, wise people?"
Without batting an eye, the Queen answers, "That's simple, George, you ask them an intelligent riddle. If they answer correctly, you know that they are going to do a great job. Here, I'll show you." She then calls Tony Blair into the room and asks him this riddle:
"Your parents have a child. It is not your brother. It is not your sister. Who is it?"
Without hesitating for an instant, TB answers, "Why, that's simple! It's me!"
Hmmmmmmm. GWB goes back to Washington, and calls Dick Cheney into the oval office. "Hey buddy, got a riddle for you," he says. He asks DC the above riddle. DC breaks out into a cold sweat, his eyes start rotating in opposite directions.
Finally, he says, "Ummmmmmmmmm...Let me do a little research, sir, and I'll get right back to on that."
He heads over to the Senate, and walks into the men's room, where he notices John Kerry's shoes under a stall door. "Hey John!" he says, "Got a riddle for you." As soon as DC asks him, John Kerry answers without hesitation, "Why, that's simple! It's me!"
DC runs back over to the oval office as fast as he can, well OK, he walk really fast, and says, "Mr. President! I have the anwer! It's John Kerry!"
GWB jumps up from his desk and screams, "No, No, No! You idiot! It's Tony Blair!" |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 02:19 AM
That was hilarious! Got any more?  |
Ellen Anthony
in Wyoming
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 02:41 AM
VOTE THE SON OF A BUSH OUT
What's Great? No Bush in 2008
Ok, so I made up the second one. I think we need to get it, though. Hopefully, it'll be true. |
DJ
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 03:06 AM
Rex: Sure I do, got a million of em, but it's getting late. Maybe tomorrow. |
DJ
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 03:08 AM
It's 1 am here, so I'm too sleepy to think of any more jokes, but I will soon be creating an offering a variety of cool bumper stickers. More on those another day, though. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 03:35 AM
Cool, I can wait. A good laugh is worth waiting for.
Ellen Anthony, that was great. I will help you to turn that into a thing. I am going to say that wherever I go now, if you don't mind, that is. If so, I will forget it then, but it does make a great anti-bush thing. I can dig it. Can you dig it? Yes Hairy, I finaly heard the song, and I can dig it! |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 10:14 AM
Warning: What follows is an offensive sexually-themed, Bush-bashing, bad-taste joke. If you are sensitive to such things, then go to the doctore and have that stick pulled out of your rear. Okay, here we go: "George W. Bush goes into the Men's room during one of his coronation parties, and sidles up to the urinal to drain the lizard. He turns, and, to his left, also wizzing away, is OJ Simpson. Unable to help himself, GWB steals a glance at OJ's manhood, and exclaims aloud: 'Good Lord, OJ! That's a monster! What's you secret'? OJ responds: 'We4ll, GeeDub, every night before I go to sleep I go to the posts at the foot of my bed, and bang my member a couple of times against each post. It lengthens and strengthens. You should try it, Tiny". "I will!", squeals Bush, who can barely contain himself. Feeling self-concious about his plan when he and Laura get home, GW waits until after Laura had gone to sleep to try out his new plot. Sneaking into the bedroom, GW creeps up to the bed where the sleeping Laura awaits. GW pulls out his tiny tool, and proceeds to smack his measly member against the bedpost. Laura then rubs her eyes, and calls out: "Is that you, OJ"? |
Unwilling Texan
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 01:54 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! oh, me! |
Ellen Anthony
in Wyoming
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 09:20 PM
Rex, glad you liked it. I hope we can make it come true. When I read THE HANDMAID'S TALE, I thought this situation could NEVER come up in the US. Our government could never be taken over by religious fundamentalists to the point that we'd surrender our basic liberties. Now I'm not so sure. There are so many sheep out there that are blindly following our glorious leader. And he keeps playing the fear card. Do you really fear a terrorist attack today, tomorrow? I fear unemployment myself. |
Rex D.
in Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 | 09:36 PM
I fear what would happen if a 'cure all' was released that cured all known ailments, or a free energy device. |
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