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unless Donating Member (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:39 AM
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Bush flipping the bird carrying a flag - is this image for real?
'cause if it is, I'm blowing it up and magnet-sticking it on all three sides of my red minivan on some road trips. Indiana and Ohio beware. :)



Any ideas for a caption?
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Flying Dream Blues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:40 AM
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1. I wish...however, that middle finger screams photoshop...nt
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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:47 AM
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5. agreed
looks like maybe he was gesturing for assistance....come here....and somebody switched middle and first fingers.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:41 AM
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2. Actions and inaction speak louder than words
or...

Bush: Bringing dignity back to the White House
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:44 AM
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3. Looks like the flag is pasted in
If it was made of fabric, it wouldn't hang like that when held under the arm. Seems too stiff, almost like a cardboard cutout of a flag.

Still, it's a perfect image. I say distibute freely.
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:47 AM
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4. Yeah, the tassels give it away...
they would be hanging straight down. Plus, the shadow on the flag is a tad too Photoshoppy.
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:50 AM
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7. you're probably right, but have you ever heard of this thing called:
wind?
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cloud_chaser1 Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:48 AM
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6. What an example of true NO class!
He's the freaking President , For God's Sake. You dont flip a bird no matter what the reason or no matter who is the recipient of the gesture.
We have to send him to a class in remedial humanity before we send him to that place where he truly desserve to be...
Christ, what a jackass he is.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:51 AM
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8. Something about it looks a bit off
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Dem Agog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:52 AM
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9. Note how the joint of the bird he's flipping...
Is suddenly lighter than the rest of his finger. And it's a fraction too long for his hand-size.

Fake, but in his head he's flipping people off and flags and everything else, every moment.
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noahmijo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:53 AM
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10. Still a good pic though just make sure to tell your friends it's fake
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:55 AM
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11. I think the real image had him carrying Barnie
But I do believe the finger is original.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:55 AM
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12. it's photoshopped. The finger is real, the flag is not. n/t
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 11:57 AM
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13. I think the original had his dog under his arm
Edited on Sat Sep-10-05 11:58 AM by JohnnyRingo
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-10-05 12:05 PM
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14. It came from this blog and does look "symbolic"
but not real.

Here is the blog it came from:
http://bkmarcus.com/blog/

Here isa a sample from that blog:

"Anarcho-capitalism is a philosophy based on the idea of individual sovereignty (or "self-ownership"), an unlimited right to private property, and a prohibition against initiatory coercion and fraud, with contracts between sovereign individuals being the basis of law. From this is derived a rejection of the state (an entity claiming a territorial monopoly on the use of force) and the embrace of absolute laissez-faire capitalism. "

and

"Anarcho-capitalists would protect individual liberty and property by replacing a government monopoly that is involuntarily funded through taxation, with private and competing businesses. The philosophy embraces stateless capitalism as one of its foundational principles. The first well-known version of anarcho-capitalism to identify itself with this term was developed by Austrian School economists and libertarians.."
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