John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: October 03, 2005 02:32AM

" This one says it all -- and thanks to Judy Peer of Rochester, New York -- who found this monument to greed and chauvenism on Winton Road there. The tattooed eagle stradles a lumpish, deflated earth (perhaps punctured by its talons) before the ranks of Humvees waiting for buyers who can take advantage of the special corporate tax break for vehicles over 6000 pounds (nice work Karl Rove!). Notice, the setting is one of those innumerable places not worth caring about which someday will add up to a nation not worth defending."

[kunstler.com]

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: October 03, 2005 07:25PM

Dissent and criticism is the method for pointing out problems and then fixing them. If you want a rose-colored world, keep drinking the kool-aid, my friend.

morale, not moral.

Anonymous Report This Comment
Date: October 04, 2005 06:20AM

The kool-aid is only served in Canada, in green bottles, right?

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: October 04, 2005 09:23PM

So let me get this right: I post an image and another person's comment that gas-guzzling military vehicles painted for consumer purchase, fronted by an over-the-top representation of nationalistic symbols, on a smooshed-looking earth.... . and you say I should leave the country? Jesus christ.

America is amazing. The people here, while undereducated, have big hearts. Our science is second to none, our creativity and technological prowess lead the world (in many things at least), our landscape is fantastic. Yet there are many bad things too, and jingoism is one of them.

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: October 04, 2005 09:25PM

Anyway, these are Hummer 2's, which are total poseur vehicles. They are the "look" of a Hummer, on the body of a Chevy Tahoe. How superficial.

John_Stone Report This Comment
Date: October 04, 2005 09:25PM

*chassis of a Chevy Tahoe.