Giant Teabagger Sign In My Neighborhood
Just down the road from where I live, there is a teabagger who apparently thinks his yard is to be used primarily for broadcasting his half-informed, half-witted beliefs to the rest of the world. Every time there's a political issue that grabs his attention, he puts a sign in his yard for everyone to see. Now, he's done this so often that he's pretty much considered a neighborhood joke. The content is usually laughable, and half the time it's printed so small that you can't even read it driving by unless you slow down to a near-stop and then drive by several times. I've posted some of his funnier works on this board in the past. Suffice it to say, every time there's an election or a school levy that needs passing, he's right there leading the charge with his 4' x 8' sheet of plywood sign posted in his yard (I'm assuming he had the 4x4 posts that hold the sign up placed in his yard specially for this purpose).
Last week, a real gem showed up (I wish I could get a picture, but with the camera on my phone, it only comes out looking like a blur as I'm driving by). He painted the 4x8 sheet of plywood up to look like the "Don't Tread On Me" flag, and then just put phrases all over it. In the upper-left corner, it says the following (and I'll try to type it as it appears on the sign):
Common Core
is the complete Federal takeover of our
Local Education
And in the upper-right corner, it says this:
Teachers
Become collectors of data
Standards for Students
Dumb Down
Finally, at the very bottom (beneath the coiled snake, the big pay-off:
Taxation without Representation
is Tyranny!!!
This is what he felt SO impassioned by, that he figured he HAD to have a 4x8 sign in his yard addressing it. Every time I see it, I'm like, "WHAT???" Apparently some kind of change in the local school curriculum is now depriving him of his representation in government (because that's what "Taxation without representation" means). Last time I checked, we still had many different elected officials representing us in all levels of government, State, Local, AND Federal. Just because you don't like who some of them are or the job they're doing doesn't mean you're UNrepresented.
Also, when I Googled some of the terms he put on the sign, I immediately saw that his little screed was lifted almost directly from missives by Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin, proving yet again that most right-wingers don't ever have an original thought. This guy is a real piece of work. This is the guy that every time there's a school levy on the ballot, he puts like 38,000 "Vote No" signs in his yard, as if the number of signs he puts up means he gets more votes. He also put up an Obama-Biden sign immediately after the election and wrote "Communist Socialist" on it. He also had a 4x8 sign out before the election that said something to the effect of, "If your children and grandchildren aren't better off than they were 4 years ago, you need to vote for Romney-Ryan," or some other such drivel (nevermind the fact that during the primaries, he had a Santorum sign in his yard). This guy's a joke. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who ever reads his signs, because I'm probably the only one who slows down and reads 3 or 4 words at a time and pieces it together over several days (and I do it just for the pure comedy). One of my favorites was a standard yard sign-sized sign that said, "No matter how many times you lie, Mr. Obama, it's still not the truth!!! Vote." That one took me like 10 or 12 times driving by it before I could piece it together, because on a sign that small, the words had to be printed so small that you could barely read them from the street.
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