My final tribute to George W. Bush is now in my front yard....

[sinkingfeeling]

[babylonsister]

1. And a fine tribute it is-rec'd for creativity and truth! nt

[TheEuclideanOne]

109. A press conference starter kit?

I couldn't think of a better tribute. Yes, big thumbs up for creativity.

[nickyt]

2. Yeah, BABY! Marvelous!

[Faygo Kid]

3. Kicked (!) and recommended.

The sign is a really creative feet.

[democrank]

4. Heckuva job!

So many shoes, so little time....

[lonestarnot]

5. Beautius!

:applause:

[livetohike]

6. Perfect!

:thumbsup:

[Dangerously Amused]

7. Ha ha, love it! K&R

:thumbsup:

[JuniperLea]

8. Well done!

We owe a debt of gratitude to Muntadar al-Zeidi for throwing those shoes at Bush, and for reminding us that this is a very, very strong insult. Remember how shoes were thrown at the toppling statue of Saddam?

Americans will hopefully adopt this gesture of disdain.

[samplegirl]

9. Love it!!!!

K & R

[tridim]

10. Beautiful! Do you have that pole set in concrete?

[sinkingfeeling]

16. No, but it's inside my fence and there are 3 dogs!

[kpete]

11. BEAUTIFUL!

peace, kp

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[mod mom]

15. I believe that tribute is missing something:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/23/planting-flags-in-do.html

you can download your own here:

http://madeyouthink.org/

[Minnesota_Lib]

18. LOL

[mod mom]

20. One 4th of July

there was a 4K run in a park near my house and a few of these were planted into freestanding poop. Hats off to who ever did it.

[Rambis]

22. Pooprotest.com

I can finally stop planting these flags! People look at you strange when you do it. One stayed for over a month on my walk home.
http://pooprotest.com/

[Bette Noir]

30. Beat me to it.

[peacetalksforall]

13. Excellent and fitting tribute!

[LiberalEsto]

14. Hang a shoe on your front door Jan. 19

to kick the bastard goodbye and good riddance.


Your shoe poster is beautiful!

[Political_Junkie]

33. Great idea!

Unfortunately, with the economy the way it is, that would mean I'd have to go barefoot for the day; good thing I'm in Florida!

[davefromqueens]

17. One question

In this economy, how could you afford all those shoes?

(snark)

Glad to recommend, very clever.

[The Wielding Truth]

108. Did you notice how worn they are? Love it!

[opihimoimoi]

19. K&R 21....well done.....loved it....

[malaise]

21. Absolutely beautiful

Please send it to KO and Rachel - I want to see that on the big screen. :yourock:

[JimGinPA]

23. Best Tribute Ever!

K&R

[StarryNite]

24. A true work of art!

My hat's off to you...or I guess I should say my shoe is off to you! You showed a lot of sole.

[tpsbmam]

25. Brilliant! You need to post this on So Long Cowboy (link inside)

http://solongcowboy.com/

Oh, and K&R

[eowyn_of_rohan]

36. What a great site!!

This will provide hours of entertainment
Thanks for the link!

[awoke_in_2003]

55. I was really hoping...

to live the rest of my life without seeing that pic of G. Gordon Liddy in his flag speedo ever again. Time to bleach the brain.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

60. I have nothing else I'd rather do today

so I read EVERY letter and looked at all pics - the Liddy one is so attractive- in the montage that includes * in his BVDs?? Is that for real?

[awoke_in_2003]

61. Yeah, I think it is....

I have seen the full sized version, and it is not an OBVIOUS photoshop. But please, for your own sanity, do not seek out that pic :)

[eowyn_of_rohan]

63. hmmm, what search terms would be best?

:spray: Thanks for the advice

[awoke_in_2003]

66. I tried to warn ya...

[eowyn_of_rohan]

81. Aaack! Now why did you have to do that?

ROFL

[Booster]

26. There's a pile of dog shit on my front lawn that I'm leaving

there until that pile of shit in Washington goes to Dallas.

[Soylent Brice]

27. that's freakin' awesome

keep those shoes though, if things don't start shaping up you may need them for sustenance...

[Bette Noir]

28. My final tribute to Bush is in my back yard.

Dog poop on the lawn.

[DS1]

29. that W is hard to see

[Hydra]

31. You forgot to mention "unelected"

:P

[Political_Junkie]

32. That's absolutely awesome!

:toast: :fistbump: :yourock: :applause:

[PatSeg]

34. Love it!

Great job!

[pleah]

35. K&R Priceless!

:thumbsup:

[graywarrior]

37. Effin A ditty !

:toast:

[Jefferson23]

38. ROFL, good one!!!

[kenfrequed]

39. Oh?

I thought I was going to see a big old pile of dog crap. Of course I suppose you would need to have an awful lot of it to errect a suitable statue.

[EFerrari]

40. Beautiful!

:applause:

[Contrary1]

41. I only wish I could drive by and see it up close and personal.

A K&R will have to do. :thumbsup:

[orleans]

42. how do the neighbors like it? nice display. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

45. I think my neighbors are used to my signs. You should have seen what I put out in 2004.

It was 8 feet by 4 feet. Then I had a running count of US troop deaths in Iraq out there for 4 years. All of my surrounding neighbors, except maybe the renters across the street, had Obama signs up.

[Cleita]

43. That's really cool!

:thumbsup:

[BattyDem]

44. LOL ... that's perfect!

:rofl: :toast:

[Hepburn]

46. Truly....a creation of total beauty!!

Well done, Fellow DUer... :applause: K&R!

[libodem]

47. Spectacular

(love your house)

[sinkingfeeling]

48. My house, or money-pit as I call it, will turn 151 years old this year.

[bobd0]

49. K&R I wish I could K&R every shoe. Nice job. nt

[Dangerman]

50. Nice shoes.

;)

[rurallib]

51. where's the Rove shoe?

If ever a person deserved a shoe (or a boot) it is Rove.

[sinkingfeeling]

52. My only reget is that there were so many names and so little space for the shoes. You're right, I

should find another pair of shoes for Rove.

[MagicKenny]

53. I Call Abuse - OF PERFECTLY GOOD SHOES!

If only you could nail dog turds to the sign - ah, the appropriateness of THAT. Anyway, this is a classic picture!

[sinkingfeeling]

59. There are plenty of those around the sign. I have 4 dogs.

[Iggo]

54. Kicked. (Get it? Kicked?)

:rofl:

[ShadesOfGrey]

69. LOL! Good one! nt

[guitar man]

56. K&R Brilliant!!

Fantastic work there!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

I was going to take a picture of my final tribute to Bush* a while ago and post it, but the rules of decorum would probably find it in poor taste. So I just flushed it and walked out. :silly:

[galledgoblin]

57. nice!

thought it may be the buttcrack gardener, but I like yours more, since it has a more personal touch!

[faulknercindy]

58. A+ for effort...

and creativity.

[TWiley]

62. Bikini Wax the Bush ..... call it the Sack and Crack

[GreenPartyVoter]

64. Very cool!

[calimary]

65. Only thing missing is a pair of Ferragamos!

[Poiuyt]

67. Off topic, but you have a really neat house!

I love old houses

[Maru Kitteh]

68. You have a creaky old victorian too huh?

If I would have known how much "fun" mine was going to be to remodel 8 years ago........

Great job on your sign though, truly inspired!

[sinkingfeeling]

70. Deleting due to computer insanity.

[sinkingfeeling]

72. Mine was built in 1858 and remodeled during the Victorian Era. Don't feel too bad, I've been working

on mine since 1995! It was in 5 apartments when I bought it. I just call it the 'money pit' now. You'll note the 'new' windows I was forced to put in due to heating costs in 2007. I doubt if I'll ever be able to get those white frames painted.

[Maru Kitteh]

112. OMG. You live in MY house!

Well, not really but....

The original structure was a two room house built sometime between 1850-1880. Most of the house I have now was built around that in 1889, when it was wired for electricity. In 1944 the back porch was enclosed to form new rooms and a strange and awkward stairway was built on the back side.

It was sold to the Catholic Church in the mid sixties to house nuns who cared for the aging and ill in the nearby convalescent home. In 1984 it was sold again and divided into 5 apartments, just like yours.

We bought it in June of 2001 and converted it into a duplex and moved mom onto the ground floor after she had a heart attack.

Walls, countless doors and all of the kitchens were torn out and we're STILL remodeling our main bath right now. Still, I really love this house. Even though I think it might be killing me, and I know it's stealing all my money.

[ShadesOfGrey]

71. Hillarious! I want one in MY yard! nt

[Cha]

73. You were

INTO IT! It's a lovely meaningful tribute:fistbump:

[d_b]

74. great pics

I think your place is haunted though.

[sinkingfeeling]

76. Haunted, yes! I took some pictures of my beautifully done library and there were 'orbs' in them.

Years ago, I would hear footsteps in the attic. So I went up with my flashlight, longing to see the ghost of the builder. Alas, all I found was a raccoon family; mom, dad, and 4 little ones!

[glitch]

75. Shoetiful! nt

[lpbk2713]

77. Here's a very fitting tribute ...

His legacy.

:rofl: :rofl:

[Joe Fields]

78. I salute you!

:toast:

[VolcanoJen]

79. Gorgeous!!!!

Huge K&R!!!

:dem:

[BrklynLiberal]

80. A masterpiece!!!

[proReality]

82. Perfection! K&R n/t

[mudesi]

83. Your house looks haunted

But the tribute is stellar.
:thumbsup:

[sinkingfeeling]

94. Well, it might be. The wife of the builder died here in 1889. See another post above about 'orbs'.

[90-percent]

84. waitaminnit!

Don't lump that ole' Constitution lovin' Ashcroft in with these traitors.

He refused to capitulate to some such unconstitutional request for crime while in the hospital, getting a bedside visit by Gonzo and minions.

And he said; "History will not judge this kindly", referring to White House discussions and advice giving about tortures taking place in real time. (EDIT: or was that FISA avoidant wiretapping or some other crime against international law?)

The only one of the bunch that may not be a clinical sociopath. He must not hang with the rest of them.

-90% Jimmy

[Chorophyll]

85. Creative, colorful and...

it can be dismantled and used as a weapon! :D

K&R.

[Skittles]

86. that is a lovely house

lovely tribute too :thumbsup:

[sinkingfeeling]

95. It looked better before we installed all those new energy efficient windows with the crappy white.

[pipi_k]

87. Good idea!!!!

Wish I could do the same here...but nobody would see it, really.



One of my dogs has been helping me say "Adios" to Bush...

A friend sent me some fun stuff before Christmas...the usual anti-Bush toys and such

One of them was a "hurl a squirrel" type toy with a picture of Bush's face in the middle and a squeaker inside. Well, the squeaker is broken, but my lovely little furgirl makes me so happy each time I see her pick up that toy and shake it like a rat, then chew on Bush's face.

She certainly knows a stinking rodent when she sees one...

:7

[ikojo]

88. What a fitting tribute to a

deserving administration.

[valerief]

89. Very cool. I've got a tribute in my backyard, too. A big dog crap. nt

[Thickasabrick]

90. You are my new hero....thank you for this.

[DeepModem Mom]

91. K&R!

[Mad_Dem_X]

92. Excellent!

I'm getting ready to make a sign for my lawn that says, "Good-bye, George!" I'm also going to write other sayings like, "Good riddance!" and "Free at last!"

[InvisibleTouch]

93. Nicely done! Sole-ful, even. :) n/t

[happygoluckytoyou]

96. AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD ---> ===> ---> ===> ---> ===> ---> ===> ---> ===> ---> ===> ---> ===> --->

A HIT PARADE OF REPUBLICAN POLITICS---


Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner’s report here and his full report here.
Sex and Shoplifting
1) In March 2006, Claude Allen, Bush's top domestic policy aide, was arrested when he tried to return items he had shoplifted from Target for cash refunds. Allen, who made $161,000 a year, blamed stress from Hurricane Katrina.
2) In 2005, bloggers perked up their ears when a reporter named Jeff Gannon asked a softball question at a Bush press conference. Some sleuthing turned up nude photos of Gannon—whose real name was James Guckert—on male escort websites.
3) Randall Tobias, Bush’s AIDS Czar, mandated that organizations must oppose prostitution in order to receive American aid. It later emerged that Tobias purchased services through the notorious D.C. Madam, though Tobias maintained he only bought “massages.”
4) The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service would not seem to be the sexiest government agency. But a departmental investigation last year found that officials had “frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives.”
Where’d the Money Go?
5) When testifying before Congress in 2007, L. Paul Bremer, the former ambassador to Iraq, was unable to account for as much as $12 billion—about half of his budget—as the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority between May 2003 and June 2004. According to a report by Rep. Henry Waxman, contractors brought bags to meetings in order to collect shrink-wrapped bundles of money.
6) In 2004, Pentagon auditors found that Halliburton had not adequately accounted for $1.8 billion of the bill it sent to the United States government for its work in Iraq and Kuwait.
7) Also that year, Bunnatine Greenhouse, the Army Corp of Engineers' chief contracting officer, charged that KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, unfairly received billions of dollars worth of no-bid contracts in Iraq. Greenhouse was demoted in 2005.
Disappearances
8) In 2002, Canadian citizen Maher Arar was detained at an airport in New York and spirited away to Syria where he was tortured and held for 10 months by his captors before being returned home. Canadian officials investigated Arar's case, declared he was innocent, and paid him $9 million in compensation. American officials refused to admit the mistake and instead kept Arar on a terrorist watch list.
9) Army Captain James Yee, a Muslim chaplain in Guantanamo Bay, was hooded, shackled, and detained in solitary confinement for 76 days on charges of espionage. Within a year the case against Yee had collapsed and the Army tried to save face by charging him with hoarding pornography.
All the President’s Wordsmiths
10) In an e-mail to friends, Danielle Crittenden, the wife of White House speechwriter David Frum, bragged that her husband had written Bush’s famous “Axis of Evil” line. The e-mail leaked to Slate.com, causing a minor scandal.
11) Part of the self-created mythology of White House speechwriter Michael Gerson was that he composed his speeches in longhand. But as fellow scribe Matthew Scully later noted: “At the precise moment when the State of the Union address was being drafted at the White House by John and me, Mike was off pretending to craft the State of the Union in longhand for the benefit of a reporter.”
No Administration Friend Left Behind
12) First, there was Columnist Gate: In 2005, USA Today reported that conservative commentator Armstrong Williams received a $240,000 contract from the Department of Education to promote No Child Left Behind on his television show and to sell other African American journalists on the legislation. Later, The Washington Post uncovered a similar deal with columnist Maggie Gallagher to promote a marriage initiative for the Department of Health.
13) A Defense Department report in 2006 urged the military to end its practice of paying Iraqi journalists to publish pro-American stories in their newspapers, arguing the tactic would "undermine the concept of a free press."
14) According to The New York Times, Karl Rove scored lobbyist Ralph Reed in a lucrative contract with Enron in 1997 to gain his support in the 2000 presidential race.
15) David Safavian, the former chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was convicted of helping Jack Abramoff on a shady land deal as well as concealing a "lavish weeklong golf trip" paid for by Abramoff.
16) As head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz was forced to resign in disgrace after he helped his "female companion," Shaha Riza, score a $60,000 pay raise and promotion—and then tried to cover it up.
Down the Memory Hole
17) Bush fundraiser Lurita Doan's gig as chair of the General Services Administration went down in flames when she was accused of asking agency staff to help Republican candidates win elections. Doan denied any wrongdoing. When witnesses said she asked her staff at a meeting "How can we use GSA to help our candidates in the next election?" Doan claimed she had no memory of the presentation.
18) Though Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide in 2008, was suspected of being the anthrax mailer, that didn't keep Bush and Cheney from openly speculating that Al Qaeda was behind the attacks and even going so far as to pressure FBI officials to come up with a Bin Laden connection, according to the New York Daily News.
Mission Accomplished
19) In 2003, Bush went to a warehouse in St. Louis to give a speech entitled “Strengthening America’s Economy.” But the boxes laid out before the presidential podium bore the label "Made in China." The labels were then obscured with white paper. The White House blamed an "overzealous advance volunteer.”
The Last Word
20) The administration ethos was nicely summarized during the attorney-general scandal investigation in a testy exchange between former White House Political Director Sara Taylor and Sen. Patrick Leahy. Taylor: "I took an oath to the president. … And I believe that taking that oath means that I need to respect, and do respect, my service to the President." Leahy: "No, the oath says that you take an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States. That is your paramount duty. I know that the President refers to the government being his government—it's not."

[Jackpine Radical]

97. I've got a Bush memorial in my yard too.

[beac]

98. Definitely a SHOE-in for Best Yard Art of 2009

You have my vote!

Hmmm... maybe I can pursuade my tacky neighbors to abandon their bloomers lady/pinwheel posies/gazing ball motif for this chic new style of lawn decoration...

Brava, brava, BRAVA!!

[bigwillq]

99. That is fucking awesome!

:bounce:

K and R!

[sce56]

100. I bet this was how you threw them shoe at that sign!

[momdogz]

101. GREAT; now need a HONKING BIG STINKY

shoe for ROVE!:puke: :puke:

[proud patriot]

102. I luv it , might just copy it

for my yard

[hay rick]

103. k & r

[GOPBasher]

104. Awesome! n/t

[RavensChick]

105. I love it!!

Good job! I K & R this one for sure!!!

:kick:

[yy4me]

106. I love it, If I had enough shoes, I'd do the same thing! n/t

[Capt. America]

107. Excellent! It must have been very cathartic for you to make that.

[subsuelo]

110. pwnd!

[rondouglas]

111. hahahahaha

funny

[Swagman]

113. love it !!

[TXDemGal]

114. LOVE. IT!!!

K & R

[JimDandy]

115. K& R Love it!! n/t

[Enthusiast]

116. Ya done good! nt

[Divine Discontent]

117. some of the most shamful people in American history on there!

great job! that had to be 'hard work'. haha

[Doug.Goodall]

118. I usually just flush my tribute to the Bush Administration

[ellisonz]

119. Why not 2001-2009?

[goclark]

120. It's Duzy time!

[raccoon]

121. Thanks for sharing that! I thought it was going to be dog do-do. nt

[ChiciB1]

122. GREAT IDEA!! Going To Be A Copy Cat & DO THE SAME!!! n/t

[deathrind]

123. Nice

But be careful.

[Boomerang Diddle]

124. Perfect!!!

Well done!