Awake and Pissed
Oct. 21st, 2008 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryI've hit a second wind tonight that I fear may last a while. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I acquired an Obama sign for my front yard today. I decided to do this after feeling I had reached the point that McCain/Palin had no chance in wooing me (I overcame Bob Barr's sexy mustache long ago) AND after seeing that a yard just a few houses away from mine has had an Obama and another Dem sign or two up for several weeks/a month.
I looked out in the yard as I turned off our front porch tonight around 10pm and didn't see the sign. I didn't think too much of it because I had placed it so you were looking at its side when looking out the front door. Around midnight, I decided to take another look out front through the windows. I still couldn't see the sign. I sighed in resignation that I must satisfy my curiosity. Sure enough, the plastic sign had been ripped off the metal wire frame. I couldn't find any of the sign anywhere. I pulled up the naked upside-down metal U from the ground and placed it atop the yard debris waiting for trash pickup tomorrow.
In an act that may be completely stupid, I decided to thumb my nose at the vandal(s). I walked to my porch, grabbed the second sign they gave me at the Dem HQ, and posted it in my yard. Just a little closer to the house...not right next to the sidewalk, now. If that damned thing gets ripped up again, I'm going to the Dem HQ, giving a donation, and asking for another pair of signs.
I looked out in the yard as I turned off our front porch tonight around 10pm and didn't see the sign. I didn't think too much of it because I had placed it so you were looking at its side when looking out the front door. Around midnight, I decided to take another look out front through the windows. I still couldn't see the sign. I sighed in resignation that I must satisfy my curiosity. Sure enough, the plastic sign had been ripped off the metal wire frame. I couldn't find any of the sign anywhere. I pulled up the naked upside-down metal U from the ground and placed it atop the yard debris waiting for trash pickup tomorrow.
In an act that may be completely stupid, I decided to thumb my nose at the vandal(s). I walked to my porch, grabbed the second sign they gave me at the Dem HQ, and posted it in my yard. Just a little closer to the house...not right next to the sidewalk, now. If that damned thing gets ripped up again, I'm going to the Dem HQ, giving a donation, and asking for another pair of signs.
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Date: 2008-10-21 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-21 11:22 am (UTC)For all that I make fun of being somewhat from the South (KY is a border state), by and large, I love the area. But the racism and close-minded attitudes I could do without.
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Date: 2008-10-21 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-21 07:14 pm (UTC)when the south wonders why they cant attract young educated people, all i can do is hope that the economic crash forces people to examine their lives and see that while its ok to be an ignorant bigot, perhaps that bad behavior is the reason people pass the south over. maybe then they will learn, but if they havent yet, its hard to see what will get through to them.
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Date: 2008-10-21 07:23 pm (UTC)But it's another reason why I stopped having any kind of sticker or statement on my car.
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Date: 2008-10-21 07:08 pm (UTC)the sign stealing reminds me of book burning. as if the sign not being there will stop people from making the same decision.