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Have a good idea in your head on how to help the common man? Looking for a way to share that idea and possibly make $100,000 in the process? Check out SinceSlicedBread.com. Here you can enter your plan for improving the lives of American citizens and also view the entries of others. Take a look at my idea.

Okay, the link is active again. You’ll need QuickTime to watch it though.

Jeff Parker, Florida Today.

I recently got a rather conservative and aggressive email sent to me that basically laid out the idea that all people who do not speak english, hate conservative American culture, and “complain” and “gripe” instead of just going with the flow should leave America. It also stressed that the motto of America is “In God We Trust”, implying that this country was founded on Christian values and should be a Christian nation.

I have reason to believe this is a chain letter being forwarded about, which may or may not have been an original letter to the editor in a Tampa Bay newspaper. Here is a copy I found on the web.

I did a little research and it seems as though there is one major flaw in this arguement: “In God We Trust” is not the original American motto, “E Pluribus Enum” is, which means “Out of Many, One”. It was not until about a century ago that “In God We Trust” started appearing in papers and then on currency, and in the McCarthy era it was officially made into our nation’s slogan in order to show that America was a religious nation in opposition to the godless communists.

Personally, after I do a little more research and find out if this is really indeed the truth, I plan to start a petition to change our nation’s motto back to “E Pluribus Enum”. I think that motto far better reflects what America has really been about from the start: multiculturism, tolerance, and the freedom of expression.

Town & Planet has recently won the MoveOn.org “Bush in 30 Years” contest by making the following Flash cartoon about Social Security privatization. I think it not only accurately portrays the faults with the proposed changes but also proposes a very good solution. Check it out:

http://www.syntheticniche.com/ss/

Steve Breen — The San Diego Union-Tribune

I’ve been thinking about making a politcal cartoon called “Strange Bedfellows” that stars a married couple, an Elephant and a Donkey, that bicker about political issues like a married couple would about money, the kids, etc… I tried to draw some prototype characters but I have just come to realize that I can’t draw very well. I’m much more of an abstractionist than a cartoonist. Still, I will keep trying to draw the cartoon and will post my successes here as they come.

I do know that I want the husband to be a trucker-nascar type republican and the wife to be an NPR-GreenPeace type democrat. I’ve thought about making the elephant like G.W.Bush and the woman a zionista but decided against those obvious stereotypes in lieu of others, hehe…

Soon to come to this blog:

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