Nov 30, 2006

BOSSY MOMENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY – Jeff Heaton.

Do you remember this bumper sticker?

Well – there’s this town in California. Not that California –the other California. The conservative California: Lafayette.

So a resident of Lafayette – Jeff Heaton – puts a sign on his own property honoring the memory of those who died in Iraq. He also dotted the landscape with a few crosses.

“It seemed like it would be a touching way to make people aware of the true costs of the war,” Heaton said.

Not a chance. Because a Lafayette ordinance limits their signs to a size way smaller than the one in Jeff Heaton’s yard. And the townsfolk want the sign removed. Or replaced with one of those cute little signs.

And now the issue is drawing national attention as the town tries to determine if the sign ordinance interferes with freedom of expression. This is what Bossy thinks:

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4 comments

1. 1
   on November 30th, 2006 at 10:23 am
   1peanut said:

   nice car bossy


2. 2
   on November 30th, 2006 at 10:36 am
   Adorable Girlfriend said:

   Perhaps we have that where I live. Let’s just say some of the nutters when overboard with the lights this year. Seriously, do we need to fund a war for your holiday decorations?


3. 3
   on December 1st, 2006 at 7:27 am
   m said:

   maybe he should make one REALLY BIG sign out of a TON of itty bitty ones.


4. 4
   on December 25th, 2006 at 11:42 am
   Glenn Mooty said:

   As I was watching US forces bombing Bagdad on TV with my dog the 2nd night of the Iraq war, we looked at each other and I realized the biggest difference between he and I was that he was not the slightest bit ashamed that he was canine, while at that moment, I was very ashamed that I was human.

   Then I wrote this.

   You might try a printing calculator
   If you can find a long enough paper tape
   To add up all that’s wasted
   With greedy humans full of hate

   We’re the only of all God’s creatures
   Capable of waging war
   Un-building each other’s buildings and lives
   With weapons that kill more and more

   Wasted lives that could have been lived
   Wasted hearts stretched and broken
   In Wives that won’t see their husbands again
   In “I love yous” that never got spoken

   It’s been so many centuries
   You’d think by now we should have evolved
   To learn to get along with each other
   To learn our problems can be solved

   Without building ever nastier weapons
   Without blowing each other to bits
   I wish we weren’t so damn smart sometimes
   ‘Cause I know we’ll never, ever, quit.

   Glenn Mooty
   San Jose