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To help prove they’re out of touch with North Dakotans, Dem-NPL adopts new Hopey-Changey™ logo

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I know you guys probably don’t go to the website for the Democrat party here in North Dakota, but I got a tip on this from a friend. Visiting the site gave me a hilarious sight:

A new logo! Of course, given the line of work I’m in I pay keen attention to logotypes and branding. That’s why I have a “Signs, Logos, and Typos” category of posts here on the ol’ Blog. As I often do, I whipped together a little comparison:

As you can see, it’s a recycled version of the Obama “O” logo, which is certain to get plenty of positive response in a state that didn’t vote for him for President and is fed up with Democrat policies in Washington…oh yeah, and who rejected Obamacare quite handily! Keep it up, Democrats! Good luck with all that recycled Hope™ and Change™.

Of course, if the Democrats were really so proud of their young President, maybe they could incorporate it in their campaigns. Not likely. They could have some starry-eyed kid intern run around and put stickers on all the O’s of the Pomeroy signs out there (as I’ve done in Photoshop above). After all, I’ve looked around and noticed that there are NOT VERY MANY out there. Lots of Berg and other Republican signs dot the landscape, though! But let’s go back to the Democrat Party website for a second:

Here’s a list of press releases on the home page. Apparently they’re sending Conrad and Dorgan all over the state to endorse, re-endorse, and re-re-endorse Pomeroy in the hope that something will stick. Riiiiiight. Hey, just a second…I have evidence of how well THAT is working:

I took this photo ten minutes into an event listed on the Pomeroy website (I’ve made a shortcut for you at www.tinyurl.com/no-events, named for the year and a half in which it was left blank as he hid from his constituents). The “event” turned out to be a Democrat Party rally, with Conrad and Dorgan scheduled to attend, and you can see the enthusiasm filling the room. Nope, actually that’s just empty air filling the room. Here’s a link to the larger version, click and count the people. Considering half of them were probably staffers, it’s a pretty good show of the pathetic level of support and turnout enjoyed by Earl Pomeroy and his Democrat Party.

I had to leave for 7pm church, but I hung around long enough to see if a crowd was going to develop. It didn’t. I did get an earful of Heidi Heitkamp trying to rally the few by decrying “the failed policies of the Bush Administration.” She used that tired keyphrase so often that I was about to yell “DRINK!” on the next one. Then again, the logo proves that NEW IDEAS are not something that rattles around in the vacuous head of a North Dakota Democrat.

You can put all the logos on the Democrat (not Democratic) Party that you want, it’s still going to remain the home for displaced leftists, communists, marxists, and anti-American wackbags. Pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-government, anti-defense, rabid-environmentalist, anti-religion…all those things define sects of the Democrat Party…an organization and ideology so out of step with North Dakota and America in general, all they have left to do is try to rebrand themselves. Now that Americans, including North Dakotans like me are paying attention, we’re not going to fall for it. Ever.

Good luck on the facelift, Democrats…see you in two weeks.

You’ve got about as much chance of winning this as the Powerball!

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I love the way Adam Jones and the gang at the North Dakota Republican Party have been injecting humor into this year’s political races. Here’s a real gem, from today’s press release:

HAVE YOU SEEN REP. EARL POMEROY? Neither have we.

After voting with Nancy Pelosi 97 percent of the time and serving as the decisive vote for Obamacare, Earl thinks he can hide his record-by not showing up to talk to voters. The North Dakota Republican Party is therefore today announcing a contest to find him.

Participants who can tape a video clip of Pomeroy at a public forum or town hall will win an exclusive “Where’s Earl?” T-shirt. Eligible entries must show Pomeroy at a town hall event or public forum answering questions about healthcare or the stimulus. The video must be of an event occurring between today, September 13, 2010 and Election Day. Contestants can submit their video to contest@ndgop.org.

Pomeroy has held zero town halls over the Congressional recess for the second year in a row, and his campaign website has shown no upcoming events for over a month. Needless to say, this makes his false accusation that Rick Berg is ducking debates and hiding from voters especially rich in irony.

Pomeroy may think he can hide from voters. We’re betting he’s wrong. Help us prove it, and submit your video today!

Of course, this all stems from the fact that you haven’t been able to attend a town hall meeting or other public gathering where Earl Pomeroy is available to constituents since early in the debate over the government’s illegal takeover of the health care system. Here’s another example of the hypocrisy:

Visit Earl Pomeroy’s campaign website and you’ll see this:

There is nothing I enjoy more about campaigning than getting around North Dakota to meet with the folks that I represent.

But the fact remains that he is NOT getting around North Dakota and NOT meeting with the “folks” that he represents! I called his office asking if there would be anything coming up where a citizen could address his Congressman. The answer: Nope.

So, if you’re looking to win a free t-shirt, maybe you’d have better luck with the Powerball (not that I condone gambling). Chances of Earl Pomeroy appearing in public AND taking questions about federal spending and Obamacare are probably less than getting struck by lightning while cashing your Publisher’s Clearing House check!

You don’t have to be a hapless liberal to write a catchy song about a North Dakota politician

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As an animator I like subtleties such as the one above. Notice how Earl’s path follows the outline of North Dakota’s border rather than crossing it! Interested parties may remember that you couldn’t find Earl Pomeroy anywhere near his constituents last year during the government health care takeover debate. Priceless.

The big deal about this video is actually the statistic that Earl Pomeroy, he of such “clout and seniority” on our behalf back in Washington, got only FOURTEEN contributors from North Dakota last reporting period. A more telling statistic I cannot find. I expect this sort of thing to hold true at the polls too, even if ACORN can get a bunch of college kids to vote twice (at home and at school) in November. Oh, and the video says that one of those fourteen was a Pomeroy.

I guess one doesn’t have to be a hapless liberal to write a catchy song about a North Dakota politician! Unlike the one targeting Dave Weiler, however, this one is true.

How to know where you stand with your combine: googly eyes

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This sight during the Mandan parade on July 4th made me laugh. It immediately reminded me of a certain Saturday Night Live skit featuring Christopher Walken. I haven’t actually watched Saturday Night Live in many, many years (is Dana Carvey still on the cast?) but someone told me about this particular skit. It was hilarious. It is one of the few things on SNL that isn’t vulgar, so I invite you to watch:

After seeing this, I put googly eyes on the cactus in our office, since it was literally poking up a ceiling tile above it. At least now I know where I stand with it. After all, cacti have pricklers…

Somebody had a fun idea this weekend

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It even survived the warm Saturday…until some jerk knocked it over! Naturally I don’t consider this weekend’s holiday to be “Easter” or bunny season, since Sunday for me is the day we celebrate the resurrection of our Savior. This is pretty cool, though, and someone went through a lot of work!

This one across the intersection looks like it took a lot more sun in the face. Valiant efforts nonetheless.

Update: This is how the federal government “fixes” things

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As I went to the post office to buy stamps last night, I couldn’t help but notice this funny-yet-sad example of a “government fix.” I see it every time I have business at the post office, and I have been taking not of it for YEARS. The metal plaque on the wall has been held up by a poorly-applied strip of shipping tape since at least 2006, and possibly earlier.

It isn’t even a meticulous repair, one which would give the impression that a diligent federal worker made do with the best that they had and attempted to make repairs to the best of their ability. No, this asymmetrical and wrinkled piece of tape looks rather sloppy. Of course, a strip of shipping tape isn’t usually how you attach a metal decoration to a slab of marble.

The crazy thing is that this repair will have proved itself far more effective than the government health care reform takeover; I mean, after all, the shipping tape has held up for several years for me to comment on it! Meanwhile, the Hopey-Changey nature of the health care bill is only appealing to the same sponges that thought Barack Obama was going to buy them a new car and a new kitchen out of his personal “Obama Stash.” Boy, are they going to be mistaken.

Quite a different kind of snow balls

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If I had a penny for every time I found myself out in the middle of a field and suddenly noticed a pyramid of old bowling balls…well, let’s just say my financial status would feel no significant impact. I was out east of Bismarck with my camera last weekend and picked up this shot. I’m sure there’s an interesting story behind this pile, but I don’t know it. Yet.

This week’s “Insanity in Packaging” brought to you by Sony

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This week I performed some repair work on one of our HD video cameras after the various parts arrived. There were two Sony boxes that made me laugh when I first saw them. Notice in the picture above, the relative size of the little square replacement part to the mountain of packing material and large, square box!

But oh, it gets more amusing from there. This box is about a foot long and two inches or so square in height and length. It contained a bundled section of bubble wrap and –do you see them? — two very tiny little mounting screws!

The collective weight of these screws is certainly less than a gram, but they were in a foot-long box! Not only that, they were also double-bagged in two tiny zip-loc baggies!

I suppose there are some interesting reasons why such boxes are chosen for things, and Sony isn’t the only one that ships us stuff in abnormally large boxes. In this case, it prevented some very small, very important parts from being lost or misplaced due to a tiny box escaping notice or falling into a nook or cranny somewhere. The larger box actually shipped for free since it was a backordered part. It can also be cost prohibitive for a company to stock the right size box for absolutely every possible combination of parts. Still, when something shows up in a box 1,000 times its size, it’s fun to enjoy a good laugh.