This video asks the bumper sticker designer that question, and also – “Do you really hate Islam?”

Well, the national emergency has come and gone, but the Patriot Act remains. It was renewed, in spite of previous promises, in 2005, and now, in 2009, it’s the Senate Democrats who are leading the charge to renew the Patriot Act. They’re trying to pass S. 1692, a bill to put off the sunset yet again.

Like the original Patriot Act, S. 1692 fails to protect Americans’ constitutional rights. Good senators like Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin supported an amendment that would have at least guaranteed that the Patriot Act’s worst powers would only be used in cases of suspected terrorism or foreign spying, but their amendment was dismissed. Worse yet, it was other Democrats who made up the deciding votes to kill the reform. The following Democrats voted no to reforming the Patriot Act:

Senator Patrick Leahy
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Senator Al Franken
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Senator Ted Kaufman
Herb Kohl

It’s time to talk back to these Democratic leaders. They were elected to take a stand against the abuses of the Bush era, not to extend them! This bumper sticker gives a direct message about what’s at stake: Patriots Against the Patriot Act

This video contains more explanation of the problems with the new Patriot Act extension:

…like Barack Obama’s middle name. They’re actually attacking Barack Obama for the middle name that his parents chose to give him, as if that has anything to do with Obama himself.

It’s become a mantra for the radical right: Barack Hussein Obama. The movie you see below deals with this ridiculous name bashing rather well, I think. The idea is this: If people are going to engage in the religiously bigoted and racist attack that Barack Obama can’t be President because his middle name is Hussein, well then, my middle name is Hussein too.

Think of it as the “I am Spartacus” of the 2008 election. They’ve put it on a bumper sticker too, which you’ll see in this video.

There’s nothing wrong with exposure, so long as the expose is honest. A misleading, distorting, untruthful exposure is not an exposure at all – it’s an obscurement. That’s what category we need to place the right wing Human Events article entitled Barack Obama Exposed. It’s little more than innuendo, half-truth, guilt-by-association and outright falsehood.

So, let’s expose Barack Obama, but let’s do it our way, unafraid of the silly right wing tactics that have failed to bring Senator Obama down.

That’s the approach taken in the video you see below, which is also entitled Barack Obama Exposed, but with a twist. The video calls upon people to get a Barack Obama bumper sticker to help Obama get the positive exposure he needs to win the White House in 2008.

It just so happens that we have the very link to the Barack Obama bumper sticker shown in the video – offered at a bulk rate too. In packs of 100, they’re just a dollar each, to encourage you to hand them out so that the word of Obama for President can spread far and wide.

What kind of sick mind would prevent someone from loving trees? Trees are one of the most basic, primal objects of adoration for humankind. Trees have been at the heart of human mythology and human subsistence for as long as there have been humans.

So yes, I’m a tree hugger, but I don’t just hug trees. I kiss them too.

Children take special delight in trees. So, Irregular Times offers the following video, featuring, in the middle, a boy climbing a tree and singing about it in delight. Isn’t that the very picture of happiness?

For those who are curious, here’s the very same bumper sticker seen in this video.