Think Bush is Evil? Show it with The Ranter
If you are here you fall into one of three categories:
- you’re here by accident
- you’re a friend of mine who got coerced or tricked into coming here through a link I sent you
- you think Bush is evil
Given the three visitors per week I get, I suspect that most people fall into at least two of those categories. Anyway, looking through my server logs the other day, I realized that a couple of my twelve visitors for January managed to arrive here by typing the phrase “Bush is evil” into Google. So here is a shameless self-promotion of my products that allow left-wing wackos like me to fly their colors.
Note that most of the designs below come not just in the versions pictured, but as bumper stickers, t-shirts, tote bags, messenger bags, coffee mugs, beer steins, fridge magnets and so on and so forth. Also, please note that Cafe Press, who manufactures and delivers the goods, has had some trouble with the black t-shirts. That’s why most designs are not available in black t-shirts (esp. the Burning Bush one). Aside from some color print black shirts, usually the quality is excellent. If for any reason it is not, contact CafePress (all the info is available when you order) and ask for a refund or replacement. They are normally excellent about this.
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Proud member of the vast liberal conspiracyI don’t want to focus on the negative, so though this missive is really oriented at angry people who think that our dear leader is evil, I did want to throw in something positive. I like to focus more on what I’m for than what I’m against, and this one is more along those lines: “Proud member of the vast liberal conspiracy.” It’s also a bit whimsical because, from where I stand, I see the country being taken over by a vast right-wing conspiracy and a cabal of administration cronies. However, they see the vast liberal conspiracy lurking everywhere, and I just want to do my part to make us easier to find. Please, come debate me on the issues. Despite Anne Coulter, I’m proud to own up to a variety of liberal treasons such as social security, medicaid, civil rights, women’s suffrage and a variety of other crimes that liberals have committed. |
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Lost. One Democracy. Great Sentimental ValueThis is my second most popular design, by which I mean I have sold one to someone (four actually). If you can’t read the caption on your monitor, the text is: “Lost. One democracy. Major military and economic power. 300,000,000 citizens. Last seen in North America cavorting with corporate fat cats and religious fundamentalists. If seen, please return to the American people. Great sentimental value.” This was actually the idea that got me making these “products” in the first place. Originally, I had wanted to take out ads with this wording in papers across the country in the lost and found sections, but that was starting to look expensive and I wasn’t sure what the point would be. Then I found out about Cafe Press, so I photoshopped up the text to look like it has been torn out of the newspaper and put it on a t-shirt. The organic cotton tee is slightly off-white, so that one looks like a yellowed old newspaper because the background color shows through as you can see in the picture. |
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Miracle of the Burning (George W.) BushI originally thought about calling this site The Pretzel Conspiracy in reference to the time our fearless leader was almost taken out by a terrorist pretzel, but first I don’t generally like to promote violence, second I don’t want to write about just politics and third, I don’t want Cheney as president either. Anyway, this was one of my first designs. |
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I think, therefore I didn’t vote for Bush (Latin)I’ll be sort of surprised if I ever sell one of these since the number of people who know Latin and hate Bush is a relatively small subset. Basically, this is a takeoff on Descartes’ famous “Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am). I was thinking that if Descartes were living today, he might be forced to say “I think, therefore I didn’t vote for Bush” and so I did up this nice little cursive design in Latin: “Cogito ergo non Frutici suffragatum sum”. A Latin scholar told me he might choose a different word for bush, but frutici is definitely one possible way (this is one of the aggravating things about Latinists is that they are always arguing about the best way to say this or that). Anyway, the Latinists who have seen it have immediately gotten the joke and gotten a laugh. I suppose that means that there is a potential worldwide market for this baby of about 32 people. |
If none of that appeals to you, there are literally thousands of anti-Bush items at Cafe Press by thousands of people who are much more talented artists than I.
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April 12th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
[...] Of course, George Bush is evil. That is an axiom of this site. That said and speaking of taxes, he has done precisely one thing that seems, at least as far as I know, to be a good thing. He commissioned a group of economists to go through the tax code and analyze it and simplify with a mandate to base their decisions on sound economics, not politics. Bush told them there would be no sacred cows, everything was on the table. And they did it. One item they propose eliminating is the deduction for mortgage interest. Lobbying from realtors, the main group that profits from the deduction (more on that) got Bush to send it back for reconsideration, but the economists came back with the same answer. All I can say is hats off to them and, honestly and frankly, to Bush. This deduction has stuck in my craw for a long time. The vast majority of the benefit goes to the wealthiest taxpayers. It encourages people who can already afford houses to buy McMansions and second homes. Unfortunately, it does absolutely nothing to help middle class familes afford a starter home. Most of these people do not earn enough and pay enough in interest to use it, since they just take the standard deduction as do almost all renters. Furthermore, it has a secondary consequence whereby wealthy people who take advantage of it then itemize their taxes, which mean they get writeoffs on medical expenses and home office expenses and all sorts of things that average people don’t get because they take the standard deduction. Unfortunately, despite the fact that the proposed alternative, substituting a credit that phased out as income increased, would benefit far more Americans and in particular those who actually need it, polls are running strongly against showing once again the propensity of American taxpayers to act against their own self interest. Recently the New York Times magazine ran an excellent article on the history of the mortgage deduction and who benefits and frankly it makes sense I just don’t buy Daniel Gross’s argument in Slate that the tax change is meant to “screw Democrats” because Democratic states tend to have higher real estate prices partly because 1) who cares whether Democrats or Republicans are the beneficiaries of bad policy, that policy should be fixed and 2) he doesn’t have any detailed demographic data to show who in those states would benefit because even the most liberal states have over 40% Republicans and I would guess that Republicans occupy far more than 40% of the expensive houses that benefit. Bush mortgage interest deduction taxes tax reform [...]