When Jefferson wrote this, was he sending us a message?
I bet there's an actual bloodthirsty tree in a secret room underneath the White House or the Pentagon or something that has to be fed periodically, or else the USA will collapse.
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)
Like, the tree is America's Occult guardian protector.
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)
And every nation has a Liberty Tree (or their own equivalent.)
http://squarehaven.com/games/snes/som/wallpaper/01/mana_tree.jpg
― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)
like Yggdrasil! or the olive tree that Odysseus and Penelope's bed was made upon.
― la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/Treebeard.jpg
― Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.crystalinks.com/worldtree.jpg
― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3177/2892395333_83dc326e91.jpg
― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)
what does each country's tree look like?
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)
think of the bizarre secret arboreal history of the world
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:41 (sixteen years ago)
lebanon has a cedar probably. englands is a mulberry bush
itd be cool if the different tree needed different types of blood like china's needed the blood of pandas and civil rights campaigners
― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)
http://cinema.cornell.edu/latefall07/images/littleotik.jpg
― emil.y, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:43 (sixteen years ago)
http://api.ning.com/files/4FYv-PPd-3pU8e12rhz4ZactaTeYUoEJMOzDCs-4VRJ9jmZDm25iqd2WRKZcU0wSJapX11hH4eh9KGZQypJ3amv0SKAL8OfB/audrey2.jpg
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)
^ totally about to post that
― thomp, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)
http://thestoryofswimwear.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/salwowski_wyndham_thedayofthetriffidshr1.jpg
― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)
oh wow hi favorite thread ever it is awesome to meet you!!
― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.freewebs.com/jetgirl/Evil%20Tree1.bmp
"good luck usa"
― ♀ + ♂ + ♋ = ☿ (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)
latebloomer i'm going to pitch this idea to my mans tonight i will report back
― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3724/timothymcveightshirt.jpg
― kingfish, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)
FEEEEEeeeeeeeed me patriots! Feed me NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE
― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:58 (sixteen years ago)
oh my inability to see images makes me LOSE. ;_; sorry y'all
― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:59 (sixteen years ago)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tRg73iZIquM/RxNFcONQXSI/AAAAAAAAQQI/9tJeOt2CAc4/s320/belly+feed.jpg
― chillbigail ate a chill banana (Abbott), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)
http://portal.chaminade-stl.com/Portals/48/Baobabs.bmp
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 04:51 (sixteen years ago)
NEVER FORGET
http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/guernica-y-luno-gernika-lumo-e1046.jpg
― deep olives (Euler), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 06:47 (sixteen years ago)
better I hope:
http://www.cathedralgrove.eu/pictures/08-gernika-2.jpg
― deep olives (Euler), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 06:48 (sixteen years ago)
http://media.supereco.com/media/2009/04/19/320w/wizard-of-oz-apple-tree.jpg
― ledge, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 08:12 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.legendsofhorror.org/images/poltergeists/polt1img5.jpg
― Id rather dig ditches than pull another dudes string (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 10:44 (sixteen years ago)
blood overdue, imo
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 12:41 (sixteen years ago)
Possibly related:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8151000/8151644.stm
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 00:50 (sixteen years ago)
Morbs in good company:
Check out this video, via Peter Daou, of one of the protesters outside the Obama town-hall meeting in New Hampshire:Protester: (Unintelligible) illegals ... we send on the first bus one way back to wherever they came from. We don't need illegals.Send 'em home on a bus, send 'em home with a bullet in the head the second time.Nothing like a little eliminationism with your tea, is there?Then he adds:Read what Jefferson said about the Tree of Liberty -- it’s coming baby.As Daou notes: Jefferson said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."Indeed, Tim McVeigh was arrested wearing a T-shirt with that very quotation.
Protester: (Unintelligible) illegals ... we send on the first bus one way back to wherever they came from. We don't need illegals.
Send 'em home on a bus, send 'em home with a bullet in the head the second time.
Nothing like a little eliminationism with your tea, is there?
Then he adds:
Read what Jefferson said about the Tree of Liberty -- it’s coming baby.
As Daou notes: Jefferson said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Indeed, Tim McVeigh was arrested wearing a T-shirt with that very quotation.
― Id rather dig ditches than pull another dudes string (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:51 (sixteen years ago)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/03/carnivorous-plants/zimmer-text
― avant garbo (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:47 (sixteen years ago)
While I understand Jefferson's point, his invokation of the blood of patriots always makes me think of Patton's quote :
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
― Qui vous promet des lendemains qui chantent? (Michael White), Thursday, 18 February 2010 17:52 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.gaypatriot.net/wp-content/themes/gay-patriot/images/banner3.jpg
― Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 9 November 2012 22:33 (thirteen years ago)
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Monday, August 10, 2009 11:33 PM (4 years ago
I love this statement so much and I think about it all the time.
http://bogleech.com/scrapbook/plants-audrey2c.jpg
― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Thursday, 12 June 2014 00:21 (eleven years ago)
I imagine it would take very little coaxing to get Nic Cage to do another National Treasure with this as the plot device.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 June 2014 00:23 (eleven years ago)
It should be no surprise that THEY ("THEY") made Frank Oz remove this song from the final version of "Little Shop of Horrors"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeY3lWHeYE
― when you call my name it's like a prickly pear (Crabbits), Thursday, 12 June 2014 00:24 (eleven years ago)