Is there a ribbon color for people like me who hate ribbons?

[dhinojosa]

I don't like ribbons...they're stupid.

A yellow ribbon isn't going to keep soldiers from getting killed, political responibility and providing more shielding and backup for our soldiers, perhaps through higher taxes, does that.

A red ribbon isn't going to keep people from getting AIDS, nor will it really find the cure. Education and condoms prevent AIDS. Money and research will bring it to an end.

A pink ribbon isn't going to keep people from getting breast cancer, nor will it really find the cure. Research and support will do that, again money, time, research means more.

A red, white, and blue ribbon isn't going to help you force god down our throats. God will not bless only America, and probably doesn't give a crap about just us, but the world in general.

People cling to meaningless objects.
Done with my rant.

[annabanana]

1. (they are beginning to look like nooses to me)............n/t

[JaneDoughnut]

15. I've got just enough to hang myself with

n/t

[Dark]

2. Don't the proceeds of the yellow ribbons pay for troops' body armor? n/t

[shoelace414]

5. SHOUDN'T THE GOVERNMENT SUPPLY BODY ARMOR?

[Dark]

10. Yea, but apparently Halliburton got most of the money meant for our troops

[dhinojosa]

6. Went to a local mall a while back......and

thanks to the honest salesman, he said no.
Might not be all them, but I put me in a bad mood real quick.

[Dark]

11. Hmmm. I thought they did. I know there are bake sales, and I thought the

ribbons were too.

[trogdor]

16. As if.

The original batch were sold by family support groups at military bases. Very small volume, and I would imagine the proceeds did indeed pay for some much needed stuff for the troops. Unfortunately, you can't copyright a yellow ribbon, so now you see them sold at Wal*Mart, the 7-11, and so on. No one knows where that money goes; for all we know, it goes in some war-profiteering asswipe's pocket.

[nostamj]

3. yes.

just wear the little safety pin on your lapel!

we should start a movement, get a website! ;-)

[JHB]

4. Calico

It's also useful at keeping John Ashcroft at least 100 feet away.

[xultar]

7. Clear n/t

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. Almost totally agree: one flaw in your argument...

The red ribbons (the ones you pinned on your shirts) actually used the money to buy them to fund AIDS research and education.

The stupid magnetic ones that I've noticed lately (the yellow "Support our Troops" and the pink "Support Breast Cancer Research") do NOTHING to help our armed forces or breast cancer research.
They just make some guy rich off of fooling poeple into thinking they're doing something for a worthy cause.

And the yellow ribbons were originally for the Iranian hostages in the 1979.

[annabanana]

12. the whole "yellow ribbon" thing

Is from an annoying song about a guy who's just been released from Prison and wants to know if his girlfriend wants him back. It's been DECADES and the stupid ditty is STILL echoing around in my head.
:crazy:

[trogdor]

17. Tony Orlando wrote it in the early 1970's.

[dhinojosa]

13. Sorry, just assumed the 'red ribbons' were also just profits 4 carnies.

just like all the others. It is nice to see that.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

21. Isn't it frustrating?

When someone swipes a good idea that was made in an honest desire to help someone or a group of people (like AIDS victims) and use it for their own ends? I don't mean the ribbons that you wear on your shirt; I mean the magnetic ribbons that you buy to put on your car.

Anyone else notice there's no red AIDS magnetic ribbon?

[StClone]

9. Plaid or clear plastic? eom

[politicat]

14. Brown. The color of Bullshit. Shows you're embarrassed for your country,

Eom

[trogdor]

18. White.

With tinges of green. The color of chickenshit, which is what most people who decorate their cars with this stuff are.

[Cleita]

19. I dunno. I like the idea of wearing an orange ribbon as

a silent protest against the Bush administration and questionable, unprovable election. It was suggested by Randi Rhodes the other day because this is what the protestors in the Ukraine wore to protest their election.

[SoCalDem]

20. Make your own transparent one from the plactic 6-pack thingies

It's clear plastic..signifying..less than nothing :)

[damntexdem]

22. Yes:

totally transparent.

[jmatthan]

23. Wear a black armband on special occasions

to signify

1. The death of democracy in the US
2. To honour the death of your soldiers!!

Regards

Jacob Matthan
Oulu, Finland

[Hamlette]

24. The red ribbons for aids. . .

were the first ones I remember (used they way they are used now, everyone did the yellow ribbon 'round the oak tree thing). I loved it because aids was such an unspeakable subject when the Hollywood set started wearing them to the Oscars and stuff, it was like an almost silent protest.

In Norway during WWII they wore paperclips to protest Hitler. There is thread on the Politics forum talking about adopting that. (The school kids project to collect 6 million paperclips so they knew what a huge number that is, representing Jews killed by Hitler.)

I don't do ribbons either. Although I do make a pretty glass ribbon bead for breast cancer survivor/friends. I'd never wear one.