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― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

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― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

At first glance, you see George Washington saluting the troops of past and present wars. Every man and woman who has served our country to preserve freedom is to be honored. A few are pictured to represent them all. From left to right the soldiers represent a Vietnam Veteran, a Korean War Nurse, a soldier in Iraq/Afghanistan, a Persian Gulf Veteran, a living Vietnam Veteran, a Continental soldier, a Union Civil War soldier, a World War I Veteran, a Confederate Civil War soldier, a Vietnamese woman and baby, a World War II Veteran. As a court would review the evidence and reach a verdict, these troops are being honored for their service to our country. (Notice the word HONOR in the sidewalk.) On further inspection we find the real key to this painting. It is the Lord (in the upper right corner) who is truly “reviewing the troops”. We are to be counted as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. He is reviewing our lives. The ultimate question is do I recognize and trust him? The little girl is leaving a note at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall. What do you think she is writing?

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

btw i realize i hastily pluralized the thread title - second painting was too good to pass up

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

truly beautiful

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

all they need is a crying statue of liberty

― trans pacific donkey cell phone (sleep), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Is that little girl tagging the wall?

― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

I would have beautiful symbolism with all this inspring paintings.

(ok, is it time to retire that one?)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading the presence of the Vietnamese woman and baby in the second one as a nice gesture, but (a) something about it seems logically confused, and (b) I'm just generally suspicious here.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/painting/1/0/g/H/sep11-bgentry1.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

From the Artist: "I am a self taught artist. I was lucky enough to capture a photo of my dog darting out from under the American Flag during that unforgettable time. Precious is a Shih-Tzu, she has a lot of personality and this photo made a perfect subject for a painting. Actually the photo was used in the 'Tribute to American Spirit' Photoquilt on AOL."

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading the presence of the Vietnamese woman and baby in the second one as a nice gesture

I think it's just standard imperialist rhetoric. savin' foreign women from foreign men.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Shih-Tzu? Don't sound like no American dawg to me.

― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, horseshoe, that's one of the 8 million things confusing me about it. Like I want to read it as the banal symbolism of woman + child = "innocent civilians," but then she's with soldiers, as if fighting on our side (wanting to represent the south??), and ... it's just totally symbolically jumbled, and I get the feeling you're totally right.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/painting/1/0/p/H/sep11-mshllaku1.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

^^^
that would be pretty sweet if that happened

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

when they would start to wilt it would make manhattan smell pretty bad, i bet.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

dig how the Vietnamese woman is standing next to the Confederate soldier.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah you chill out alot after death i guess

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/painting/1/0/x/L/sep11-mmiller1.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, yes, both the Union and the Confederacy "served our country to preserve freedom" -- it's just that Mr. Furley mixed up some phone messages and started this whole big misunderstanding.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Over the meanings & emphases of the terms "our country" and "freedom," mostly.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.artbyione.com/art/world_catastrophes/nine_eleven_sm.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

that last one, my god...

the basically autonomic 'critique' of this kind of shit is really wearying, just sayin

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: the one before the last one, i meant

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

why is george washington hanging out on the mall with helicopters

― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

wait why is the WTC being all death star above the white house in that painting?

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

a death star that drops hearts!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

wait why is the WTC being all death star above the white house in that painting?
-- AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyza...), January 10th, 2007.

9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING

― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.caoyongeditions.com/PrintImages/FREEDOM/Freedom.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

xp i think its ascending to heaven

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

why is the white house blowing up?

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

oh i get it. 'what could have been'.

― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

also, in that 9/11 Death Star painting it looks like one of the 9/11 planes is dropping off people in heaven. i read the 9/11 commission report and that did not happen.

― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nogw.com/images/tanks_mrb.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

heart-wing fighters

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

i think its ascending to heaven

oh, you're right! a friend of mine wrote a paper about this kind of thing. now I want to read it.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/painting/1/0/V/7/sep11-mbrown1.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

what is that flagduck below the towers????

― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

OMG talk about jumbled symbolism: I have absolutely no idea what that space one means! Unless it's like "our patriotic symbolism will one day expand to conquer the entirety of the universe and we will carve distant planets into busts of Ronald Reagan kthnxbye."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

i can't find jesus wtf

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

xp it looks like a plane is already there in heaven waiting for the buildings

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

And I can't help seeing that last one as Jesus playing three-card monty with me: "Pick one that still exists ... two chances every time, pick the one that still exists."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

"our patriotic symbolism will one day expand to conquer the entirety of the universe and we will carve distant planets into busts of Ronald Reagan kthnxbye."

that seems about right. I like that one because it seems ambivalent about that future. like, it registers how kind of shitty and bleak it is.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~dcoatta/WashingtonDC/FullSize/ArlingtonPainting.JPG

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

What the fuck is wrong with people

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.watsonswildlife.com/images3/praying_for_peace_RDF.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.samliquidation.com/bsh_art.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

oh god.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh wow that last one is AWESOME

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

What ... what is it??? It's like a joke I don't get: I understand the words, but ... wtf??

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

one of those heads is Arafat's, right? but whose are the others?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

i think thats jesus all the way over to the left.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I may be going crazy, but what I'm seeing is Bush in a straightjacket, Sharon prepping a crown of thorns, and the heads of Arafat, bin Laden, and two others on the table. Plus oil, a globe, and 9/11. It's such a clusterfuck of religion/political metaphor that I have no idea where to even start on it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

that would make sense, except it makes Bush and Sharon look really sinister, which is not how I assume the painter intended them to look? though, who knows. but really, Osama bin Laden looks nothing like any of those...heads. ugh.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

i think one of the other hands is Saddam Hussein

― Interpreter of dreams predictor of weather (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. PEOPLE.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

(oh, and by "make sense" I just mean that bin Laden + miscellaneous Arabs have been beheaded. I don't get Bush in a straitjacket.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

The little girl is leaving a note at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall. What do you think she is writing?

how about a simple "WTF?"

or maybe "you think this is nuts? wait till you scroll down a bit".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

isn't sharon winking conspiratorially?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

xp the site where it comes from is just as fun: http://www.samliquidation.com/lordjesus.htm

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

did Sharon put Bush in the straitjacket? he does look evil and a half.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

oh man reading that site, sharon is DEFINITELY a bad dude

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

if bush had picked it out:

http://www.911familiesforamerica.org/images/Img70.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

like from here: http://www.samliquidation.com/lord_of_the_ring.htmraigslist.com/

"http://www.samliquidation.com/images/386_CaliforniasMenorahs..jpg
Schwarznegger obedient to the massah race, in fear of the jews"

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

okay, that site has a link to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. so that's what's going on.

xpost

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
I just started typing a list of theoretical morals to that WTF one, but they were all so jacked up I couldn't even type them in jest. That really does look like a crown of thorns in Sharon's hands, which combines with the straightjacket to look like some kind of blood libel. Against the Bush-Christ? But theoretically they were in agreement about the head-collecting, no? So maybe this is some kind of Buchanan-influenced pacifist thing where the Bush-Christ is being dragged into conflict by the thorn-weaving Zionists? Whoever made this should really consider writing essays instead.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
So probably the intended moral is something like "evil Zionists control US in conflict."

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

yeah. also on that site there are quite a few "essays" and dude is as jumbled with his words as he is with images.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the world better when I was just totally baffled by that one. :(

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but i dont think they like bush any more than sharon:

"Once the Talmudic Illuminated Bush II was firmly planted, allowed the WTC massacre, established the enforcement arm of the Universal Noahide Laws via Homalandt Sekurity, then he had to set the date to resume the murder of Ishmael, March 17, 2003 Purim."

http://www.samliquidation.com/images/bush_gollum.jpg

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I like that the guy uses his company's website to host these things

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

I do, too, cause it makes me feel slightly less skeezed and paranoid about having looked at the images from work.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/bsh_art.jpg

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

i totally fucked that up.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the guy on the left was FDR for a minute.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Haha so did I

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j89/machineg0esping/myspace/stevencolbert.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

But wait, the one with the Death Star and the one with the Statue of Liberty(?) trying to hold together the skeletal towers(?) were surely both done by small children, right? And so it's not really fair to mock them.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 11 January 2007 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

you're right, its not.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Thursday, 11 January 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.haff.awn.com/cms/cmsimages/3/2006/persfotos2006/haff2006_Flesh_300.jpg

― gr8080, Sunday, 4 May 2008 05:51 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

Inspiring quote of the day "If you can dream it, you can want it. never let your heart stop you from reaching for the towers of glory! Freedom isn't on layaway!"

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

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