Slog - Comments on Remember...

Comment by superyeadon

superyeadon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:21:33 -0800

actually, a board like that drives me even further left.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:21:42 -0800

Because if it weren't for our awesome war on terror/terrorism/ferngully/Iraq, EVERY DAY WOULD BE 9/11.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:25:04 -0800

if this doesn't qualify as political necrophilia, fucking the corpses of about 3,000 peoople, i don't know what is.

how about we put up billboards reminding people of the date in August 2001 when Bush ignored the report about "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the United States"?

Comment by orangekrush

orangekrush — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:30:00 -0800

Or a billboard reminding everyone how those 3,000 peeps families are still waiting for their victim conpensation fund...

Comment by Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:30:52 -0800

Another such curious billboard has recently been actualized, courtesy of "Concerned Citizens for a Better America," here in Seattle, in SODO, approximately across the street from the John Stanford Re-Education Center, between Howard Schultz's big box bunker and the Metro tunnel tracks.

Only this one has a quote from Winston Churchill, some such blather about The Price of Freedom which I forget at the moment (I was hurried at that moment). And, yes, the billboard is very, very cherry red.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:32:50 -0800

Or one with just the word "remember" and a picture of shrub reading "My Pet Goat".

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:33:57 -0800

Remember the Maine!

Comment by k

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:34:39 -0800

This is completely disrespectful to the people who died that day.

Comment by Tlazolteotl

Tlazolteotl — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:35:37 -0800

When you cast your vote, remember what an incompetent fucktard the current white house occupant is....

Comment by Greg

Greg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:39:16 -0800

...and what a wet, sloppy blowjob McCain has been giving him in Congress.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:39:45 -0800

Rudy's back? Cool! I miss him almost as much as Mitt.

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:40:41 -0800

That makes me want to barf.

Comment by DOUG.

DOUG. — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:40:45 -0800

Holy shit, I thought this was in rural Ohio, but it's at Western and Denny!? Jihad!!!

Comment by Al Canderson

Al Canderson — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:42:04 -0800

Can anyone verify the location of on of these? I want to climb up there and add my two cents.

Comment by KC

KC — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:42:25 -0800

I saw that billboard. It reminded me that Bush ignored the reports, never caught Bin Laden, and attacked the neighbor instead-by, err, mistake. Since then they've used our countries fears and sorrows over 9/11 to commit countless horrors. Yeah, I remember.

Go Obama.

Comment by Gurldoggie

Gurldoggie — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:42:59 -0800

Damn right I'll remember. I'll remember that Bush ignored all the warnings leading up to that day, and I'll remember the incredible damage that he and the Republicans did immediately afterward. I'll remember a botched war in Afghanistan, an utter fuck-up in Iraq, the scrapping of essential civil rights protections, torture, fear, and 8 long years of utter incompetence. I hope everyone else remembers as well.

Comment by Bryce Beamish

Bryce Beamish — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:07 -0800

Please, somebody with artistic skill... climb the ladder and get witty. Big Brother is Watching you.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:32 -0800

"When you cast your vote, worry that Diebold is sending it off into cyberspace, uncounted, with no paper trail."

Comment by Fonky

Fonky — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:44:39 -0800

Liberals need to start turning Conservative rhetoric back against them. Remind people that 9/11 happened while a Republican was in power.

Comment by AnInformedCitizen

AnInformedCitizen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:46:47 -0800

There's another one by the same group near Greenwood that says, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free."

I'm guessing it's the same group that does all the pro-lfe signs down 15th Ave. NW. They had a lot of billboards about how to say "Merry CHRISTmas, NOT Happy Holidays" a couple of months ago.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:48:25 -0800

"It'll take an Obama to find and capture Osama!"

Comment by come again?

come again? — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:54:04 -0800

ummm, ok.

Comment by Strath

Strath — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:54:39 -0800

It's insane that the conservatives have so hijacked the dialogue on this that you automatically know what they mean from that kind of statement. Because on the surface, the statement itself is not absurd. I will be remembering that day when I vote (no choice there), and that will cause me to vote for someone who would have done the right thing, as opposed to someone who has the knee-jerk reaction that more war forever and ever will somehow keep us safe.

Comment by Miss Stereo

Miss Stereo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:55:36 -0800

The billboard is right where Denny turns into Elliot Ave W. I think it is on the Northwest Work Lofts roof, or in the vicinity.

Comment by unPC

unPC — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:03:44 -0800

"Republicans Let Bin Laden Go Free"

"Republicans Invaded the Wrong Country, Killing 600,000 Innocent Moslems."

"McCain: 100 Years in Iraq"

"McCain: Helped Bush Lie Us Into War."

Yup.

The difference is Republicans and their supporters actually go put up the billboards while on our side we just talk about putting up billboards or beg for some dude to crawl up their and scribble on theirs, which would only help them spread their message on TV news, if you think about it.

We are the backbone we seek? Apparently not in the billboard wars.

Comment by Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:05:45 -0800

All good comments, Strangerfolkies, but I'm guessing that Dan Salvage's (sic)original point (kudos!) in outing the Rape 9/11 billboard was to raise the question:

Who is bankrolling these billboards?

Is it perhaps some local, well-heeled, alleged liberal who is in fact a closeted right-wing wacko who desperately needs to be outed?

Howard Schultz? Maria Cantwell? Eddie Vedder? Sally Clark?

To quote the still-lovely-after-all-these-years David Byrne:

"Who, who is it, who, who is it, who, who is it, who?"

Comment by laterite

laterite — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:06:10 -0800

Just remember, Freepers are always ready to chime in. Some scary shit, as with every Free Republic thread...

Comment by Strath

Strath — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:18:31 -0800

@25
In an ideal world there would be no billboards. A tagged-up, changed beyond recognition billboard IS a progressive billboard.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:42:42 -0800

Billboards cost money, unPC. You wanna pay for one? Unless we go with Strath's idea.

Comment by Jeff Stevens

Jeff Stevens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:55:18 -0800

Strath et al,

Remember, only YOU can initiate detournement:

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/detourn.htm

Signed,

Smokey the Situationist

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:08:56 -0800

i'm not sure how this would make people vote Republican...The Republican's were in power when this happened and 9/11 led to the current war which is now incredibly unpopular.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:18:50 -0800

i do. that's why i don't vote for republicans. dumbasses.

Comment by jacicita

jacicita — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:17:35 -0800

There's another one up on Lake City Way ... something about universal health care and no free lunch. Whatever.

The weirdest thing to me about this group is that they have no web presence. Their name just shows up in random comment threads.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:18:01 -0800

@31--id believe that if they hadnt voted again for Bush again in 2004--and yes, even if the GOP stole Ohio, it was because it close enough for them to do so and instead should have been a decisive Democratic victory.

The only hope this time is to run a strong Democratic candidate AND to repel the GOP Smear Machine and Swiftboat gangs.

The Dems should NOT run away from 9-11. With Bin Laden still at large, with Al-Qaeda in Iraq (when it wasn't before), with Afghanistan starting to go to hell... the security issue has turned against the GOP... IF the Dems can skillfully and articulately make the case.

The old election standby for the challenger used to ask "Are you better off now than you were four (or eight) years ago?" (Worked for Reagan.)

Now it's "Are you feeling safer now than you did eight years ago?"

Comment by Charity

Charity — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:19:49 -0800

I almost respect their honesty on this one. Better than the stupid little code words they normally use.

Comment by Toe Tag

Toe Tag — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:48:38 -0800

When I cast my vote, I'm going to remember March 19, 2003.

Comment by Wes

Wes — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:53:14 -0800

Wow. It's all over the place. I also saw a commercial in passing this morning about wiretaps. "We need to strengthen our security against the terrorists who want to destroy our freedom" or something like that. It ended with "Make Congress do its job!"

Is it November yet?

Comment by markinthepark

markinthepark — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:20:21 -0800

Any lobbyist group with "concerned" in their name is the devil

Comment by DOUG.

DOUG. — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:36:09 -0800

Remember the Reichstag. Burned 75 years ago yesterday!

Comment by Dougsf

Dougsf — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:54:46 -0800

54-40 or FIGHT!

Comment by skye

skye — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:04:45 -0800

http://abcotv.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/25/klock_billboard_2.jpg

Comment by skye

skye — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:29:45 -0800

here's a video about the klock billboard above:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/15407246/detail.html

Comment by Geni

Geni — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:37:12 -0800

All that billboard really needs is
--Sincerely, My Pet Goat
at the bottom.

Comment by hyperlinker

hyperlinker — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:21:35 -0800