Personally I think it's kind of cool that people are selling American flag
package deals on late night tv for 14.95.  You know, the kind that you
clip to your car window.  What could be more American than trying to make
money off of a tragedy?

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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jesse Erdmann wrote:

> Okay, this probably isn't the place or anything, but I'm getting really
> pissed about all of this nationalism.  They even have a commercial with
> people of various cultures saying "I am an American".
>
> This is all well and good, but wouldn't the most appropriate slogan (if
> a slogan were ever appropriate) be "I am a human being".  Maybe have
> people say it in different languages.  In the case of this t-shirt,
> perhaps have a globe instead of the American flag.
>
> I suppose people deeply into animal rights would want it to be something
> like, "I am a sentient being" or something like that.  I guess I just
> don't feel like going that far right now.  :)
>
> Jay Kline wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, but I prefer the american flag with 'chmod a+rwx /bin/freedom' at the
> > bottom..  less violent. :-)
> >
> > http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5790.shtml
> >
> > On Thursday 11 October 2001 07:53 am, you wrote:
> > > Everybody see this t-shirt yet? 3 bucks goes to the RedCross. Not a bad
> > > deal.
> > >
> > > http://www.thinkgeek.net/stuff/apparel/57b2.shtml
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