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Friday, April 21, 2006

ITMFA Update

Posted by DAN SAVAGE on April 21 at 11:07 AM

Most of my days are consumed with filling ITMFA orders. Which isn’t much fun, but hearing from folks who have received their ITMFA buttons and pins—instead of folks who are angry about not having received their buttons and pins—make it all worthwhile. (For the record, we got a lot more orders than we expected, and ran out of buttons and pins. We’ve got more in, and more still are coming, and orders are going out daily.)

Here’s a nice letter from a satisfied ITMFA customer…

Thanks so much for the ITMFA pins, especially the American flag version. I’ll be sporting it on my Armani at an advertising event at Philadelphia’s Union League next week (if they actually let Jews in yet). Just wanted to respond to the poster who was concerned about Cheney taking the top slot if Bush is impeached. When people ask me what my ITMFA button stands for, I say, “Impeach the motherfuckers already.ā€¯ The plural use keeps the structure of the acronym in place and earns many smiles, too!—David

And a nice picture from another satisfied customer…

Hi Dan. Attached is a picture of me, my dad Tom and my 8 month old son Tommy wearing our buttons. I wear mine on my purse strap so I always have it on.

ITMFA pic.jpg

Thanks again for all you are doing!—Denise

Satisfied t-shirt customer Christie writes…

I noticed you wanted photos of people with ITMFA gear, so I have attached a photo of me in my ITMFA tshirt. I also blogged about it.

MeITMFA.jpg

Keep having these great ideas. We have to find SOMETHING to focus on until he gets impeached. (I’m keeping a good thought.)

Christie Keith
www.doggedblog.com

You can get an ITMFA t-shirt by clicking here.

And, finally, a satisfied customer asks…

I have a double life. I am a teacher in a very conservative school district. (just imagine a high school senior pulling into the parking space next to me in a new hummer….) I need to wear my ITMFA button at my very conservative job. I need a substitute slogan that I can give to my A-hole superiors and uptight co-workers and students when I know they will recoil in horror if I give them the real story. Have any of your readers come up with an alternative job-saving slogan for ITMFA? I am willing to give the real meaning to the people I know are cool, but I can’t afford to have one of those little pieces of paper go into my permanent file!
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Is This My Finest America?

I love my pin even though it's unbalanced and rolls upside down in thin fabric. I also dig my ITMFA bumper sticker (photo soon).

Posted by fnarf | April 21, 2006 11:21 AM

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I'm not sure if it's some work-filter but I can't see the pictures here or on the ITMFA page. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Posted by Michelle in Ohio | April 21, 2006 11:36 AM

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I'm Thinking Muffins For Armenia

I'll Take Manhattan's Finest Anyday

I think Muppets Fly Around

Into The Mideast Fearless Americans!

Ingrateful Teens Make Fabulous Artilery

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay | April 21, 2006 11:42 AM

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I

Thought sending the

Military to Iraq was a great idea

For

America

Posted by Redshirt | April 21, 2006 11:57 AM

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I Teach Math For Apples!

Posted by Gomez | April 21, 2006 11:57 AM

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In Time, Many Follow Allah

Posted by sh | April 21, 2006 12:01 PM

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Touche, red shirt.

Posted by Dan Savage | April 21, 2006 12:11 PM

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T-Shirts in the News: This week the 9th Short-Circuit Court supported t-shirt censorship in schools. Why aren't you talking about it? The Stranger, if mutable memory serves, jumped with all four feet into an apparent apparel consorship controversy a few years ago. Where are you now?

The 9th Circuit is us, boys & girls. Where's the outrage?

Posted by PB | April 21, 2006 12:18 PM

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It makes me uncomfortable to look into how Halliburton, Boeing and Microsoft are making billions of dollars off the war. Someone even told me that as long as wars are so profitable for companies with huge defense contracts (like Microsoft), there's going to be wars all the time.


I'm glad The Stranger isn't poking around the Halliburton-Microsoft-Daniel Lapin-Jack Abramoff connection and instead is selling buttons.


It's comforting to know I can just wear my ITMFA pin and know when Bush is no longer president, everything's going to be OK.


Especially in Seattle I'd hate to think that Boeing and Microsoft have anything to do with the war, or current politics. I'm sure the reason the Chinese President visited Microsoft before visiting the White House is simply because Seattle is closer to China.

Posted by Save The World Liberal | April 21, 2006 12:31 PM

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PB, what the 9th circuit said was that dress codes can be maintained. It has yet to rule on the specifics of said t-shirt.

The argument over that shirt is that it promotes hate speech against homosexuals. If a student wore a shirt that read "Christianity is shameful" then it would fall under the same opinion. From the school's standpoint, they are trying to maintain order and wearing such inflammatory language disrupts such order. The student's free speech rights are not really being violated. He can wear the shirt anywhere - outside of school. That's how the school views it.

But, of course, you're not likely in America to find people wearing such a shirt because it is the majority opinion. Because it is the majority opinion, the wearer of such a shirt is more likely to be harmed by it than the Christians. Quite the opposite is true with regards to the shirt worn by the young man in question.

FWIW, I don't care about the shirt and I don't have a problem with people of any age wearing their views. I wear my Christianity is Stupid t-shirt proudly and yes, I've been verbally attacked by those who profess to follow those beliefs. I've got a thick skin, though, and am far from being an impressionable youth.

Posted by B.D. | April 21, 2006 2:00 PM

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good lord, did you see that rack?

Posted by wags | April 21, 2006 2:02 PM

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What big tits! Please post that woman's email. A liberal with big boobs like that is my dream woman.

Posted by titty fan | April 21, 2006 2:09 PM

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Is This Mussolini's Fascist America?

Posted by Geni | April 21, 2006 2:54 PM

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No, it's not.

Posted by fnarf | April 21, 2006 3:23 PM

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When I first saw the ITMFA gear, before I knew what it stood for, my guess was "It's the Mother Fucking Apocalypse."

I suppose that's not so work-appropriate, either...

Posted by Kate | April 21, 2006 3:24 PM

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I Take Money for A's.

Posted by Milbarge | April 21, 2006 3:42 PM

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Ooh, Milbarge is the winner. S/he did say s/he's a teacher.

Posted by fnarf | April 21, 2006 3:53 PM

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BD: I did not argue the merits or demerits of the 9th's decision. I questioned The Stranger's imperviousness to an imposition of dress-code consorship. Didn't Doorknob Dan (maybe the Weakly?) make much noise 5 (maybe 6 or 7?) years ago about dress-code censorship of a rad radical shirt at a high school in Issaquah (maybe Preston? Fall City?) Somebody framed the debate as a replay of dress-code consorship during the Vietnam War, during which students were not permitted to wear black armbands.

Posted by pb | April 23, 2006 12:16 PM

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oh fucking joy...another special interest group with shirts and pins...may ecoterrorists ravage your bums with figurines rendered from body hair and earwax

Posted by chet barkins | April 23, 2006 12:48 PM

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