Comments on: More on the Indiana License Plate Ridiculousness http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:14:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Larry Thelen http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-169955 Larry Thelen Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:00:32 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-169955 Having just arrived for a one-week visit, I was appalled to see the "In God We Trust" license plates. It brought in relief just how crazy it is that for 160 years, our money has carried the same slogan. Only it's much more personal with a plate. Must we now have government causing us to report to the world as we drive around whether we are in the inner group of true believers or with the outcasts who 1) don't believe or 2) believe in Allah, Shiva or Buddha instead or 3) don't think that announcing your private values to the world should be the price that government puts on our merely owning a vehicle. Having just arrived for a one-week visit, I was appalled to see the “In God We Trust” license plates. It brought in relief just how crazy it is that for 160 years, our money has carried the same slogan.

Only it’s much more personal with a plate. Must we now have government causing us to report to the world as we drive around whether we are in the inner group of true believers or with the outcasts who 1) don’t believe or 2) believe in Allah, Shiva or Buddha instead or 3) don’t think that announcing your private values to the world should be the price that government puts on our merely owning a vehicle.

]]> By: Logan http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-37568 Logan Sat, 05 May 2007 05:18:02 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-37568 Indiana Girl. It has nothing to do with your right to show your support for religion or any other organization for that matter. The issue is that that particular plate is doing so on EVERYONE'S tax dollar. If you want that plate you should have to pay the administrative fees associated with specialty plates just like everyone else. It isn't a standard plate regardless of the state trying to tout it as such. If it were a standard plate it would have been voted on by popular vote like all standard Indiana plates. Indiana Girl. It has nothing to do with your right to show your support for religion or any other organization for that matter. The issue is that that particular plate is doing so on EVERYONE’S tax dollar. If you want that plate you should have to pay the administrative fees associated with specialty plates just like everyone else. It isn’t a standard plate regardless of the state trying to tout it as such. If it were a standard plate it would have been voted on by popular vote like all standard Indiana plates.

]]> By: Indiana Girl http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-37292 Indiana Girl Fri, 04 May 2007 14:12:32 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-37292 I am so tired of having to conform to the non-religious beliefs! Where is the right of the people who believe in and want to their faith in God ? The seperation of Church and State is a bunch of BS! I have the right to choose to believe and I am tired of being bullied by the small activous. Way to go GOD! I want the right to keep the plate and not be bullied to remove it! I am so tired of having to conform to the non-religious beliefs! Where is the right of the people who believe in and want to their faith in God ? The seperation of Church and State is a bunch of BS! I have the right to choose to believe and I am tired of being bullied by the small activous. Way to go GOD! I want the right to keep the plate and not be bullied to remove it!

]]> By: Hoosier Daddy http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-33645 Hoosier Daddy Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:20:17 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-33645 Ummmm... not to say you'll feel it's any better... but, It doesn't cost $4 above and beyond the normal license plate. It is only $.50 more than the normal plate. And... as an alternative to the god-awful plate they currently offer (and 2008's plates aren't getting much better)... the new plate looks good. If I'm offered two items for the same price... and, one looks better than the other... I think it's a no brainer. Why don't they just make a more attractive plate to compete? They pride themselves in ugliness. I personally miss the Kentucky "It's that Friendly" plate... :-D http://www.15q.net/us2/ky04.jpg Ummmm… not to say you’ll feel it’s any better… but, It doesn’t cost $4 above and beyond the normal license plate. It is only $.50 more than the normal plate.

And… as an alternative to the god-awful plate they currently offer (and 2008’s plates aren’t getting much better)… the new plate looks good.

If I’m offered two items for the same price… and, one looks better than the other… I think it’s a no brainer. Why don’t they just make a more attractive plate to compete? They pride themselves in ugliness.

I personally miss the Kentucky “It’s that Friendly” plate… :-D

http://www.15q.net/us2/ky04.jpg

]]> By: mythago http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-28062 mythago Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:05:26 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-28062 The state is subsidizing these? It's like Christmas at the ACLU this week! The state is subsidizing these? It’s like Christmas at the ACLU this week!

]]> By: Chuck http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-27151 Chuck Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:31:01 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-27151 I'm grabbing the title to my car out of the lock box when I get back (on Tuesday til the following Tuesday, hope you're available???). That puppy will have communist awful liberal sodomite plastic-bag-banning douchebag California license plates on it ASAP. I am done with that shit. I’m grabbing the title to my car out of the lock box when I get back (on Tuesday til the following Tuesday, hope you’re available???). That puppy will have communist awful liberal sodomite plastic-bag-banning douchebag California license plates on it ASAP. I am done with that shit.

]]> By: Let’s Get Out of This Country » Almost Blue http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-26932 Let’s Get Out of This Country » Almost Blue Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:39:31 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-26932 [...] For more info, please see Lauren or Melissa.  Ugh. [...] [...] For more info, please see Lauren or Melissa.  Ugh. [...]

]]> By: Amanda http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-26927 Amanda Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:32:11 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-26927 I have got to get out of this state. Today, I got to listen to two women at work whine about how they didn't get offered one when they renewed their plates and they just found out about them and they were just going to march right down to the DMV to tell them they had to give them one because they didn't offer one in the first place. And then they looked scandalized when I offered that I was offered one and declined. I didn't even bother to explain why, because it would have gone right over their bible-bouncing heads. Keep in mind, this is coming from a self-identified Christian. Even my parents, who are very active in their church, etc., have issues with this. I have got to get out of this state. Today, I got to listen to two women at work whine about how they didn’t get offered one when they renewed their plates and they just found out about them and they were just going to march right down to the DMV to tell them they had to give them one because they didn’t offer one in the first place. And then they looked scandalized when I offered that I was offered one and declined. I didn’t even bother to explain why, because it would have gone right over their bible-bouncing heads.

Keep in mind, this is coming from a self-identified Christian. Even my parents, who are very active in their church, etc., have issues with this.

]]> By: belledame222 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-26110 belledame222 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:00:00 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-26110 oh, WEAK. oh, WEAK.

]]> By: Midgetqueen http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-25943 Midgetqueen Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:35:45 +0000 http://fauxrealtho.com/2007/04/04/more-on-the-indiana-license-plate-ridiculousness/#comment-25943 *practically* scandalous? *practically* scandalous?

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