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July Is Shaping Up To Be A Very Interesting & Photogenic Month
by
freewayblogger
Community
(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Thursday, Jul. 04, 2024
Thursday, Jul. 04, 2024
at
7:12:51pm PDT
"Sign Duct-Taped To Abandoned Shelving Beside Interstate 880 As Cadillac Escalade And Semi Truck Pass In Different Directions" or "Upcycling" Unretouched Digital Photograph - Oakland, 2024
“Sign Clamped To Side of Chair With Leg Stuck Through Fencing As Truck Passes By” is intended to register opposition to the current realignment of Republican allegiance overseas and as a celebration of on-the-fly piecemeal furniture recycling.
“Legal Signs Legally Posted Behind Illegal Signs Illegally Posted Falsely Claiming It’s Illegal To Post Signs Here” (See Below)
Sure looks official, doesn’t it? It’s not. That’s crime number one: Actions taken under pretense of authority. Crime Number Two is that its manufacture and placement demonstrate a clear intention to deny and suppress citizens from practicing rights guaranteed by the US Constitution, which is a big one: a federal crime. Number Three is its attachment using permanent (or semi-permanent, we’ll see) means. Number Four, if not already covered by Number Two would be purposefully misrepresenting a law or statute with the intent to deceive. (See Below) And lastly the fashion crime that originally tipped me off. A diary on this, unlike the perpetrators* I’m sure, will be forthcoming. (*So tempted to add an “i” to this...)
Whoops-a-Daisy! Looks like somebody missed a word. Too bad too, because although it strongly implies commercial speech, it’s possible to advertise opinions as well. What isn’t possible is to have Free Speech that requires a permit from the state. If any of the legal eagles behind this clever prank/Federal crime would care to come forth and argue otherwise,
I’ve got over ten thousand patriotic displays
that resent being called encroachments, and if you’re going to cite statutes about littering, remember that what you dare to call litter has been sanctified by the blood of literally hundreds of thousands, going all the way back to the footprints in the snows of Valley Forge. Or, as I suppose you might call it, “medical waste.”
Though the lens is focused on the sign, the two vehicles in the foreground are focused by their relative lack of lateral motion. This effect makes the yellow truck seem a little scary to me, reminiscent of the movie
“Duel” with Dennis Weaver.
One in about every 200 trucks has these blue lights. This tends to make me hit the shutter too aggressively, resulting in the EKG effect seen here. This is one of the many cruel ironies in my life I can easily trace to my own fallibility. I have no explanation why in this case the sign itself was spared except as evidence of a merciful, interventionist and extremely micro-managerial God.
Strong Edward Hopper/
Nighthawks
vibe on this one — lighting courtesy of $1.25 LED flashlight from Dollar Tree.
Patterns and preponderance of blue light courtesy of increasing popularity of Light Emitting Diodes in head, tail and running lights of late model automobiles.
I have absolutely no idea what was driving by at this moment unless it was a circus.
A reminder to the head of the Heritage Foundation that coup attempts suppressed by high-intensity laser weapons are also technically “bloodless.”
GOP sign placed there thinking the “Free Gaza” I’d put up a week before, hidden behind one of the six illegal “Signs are illegal” signs, had to be gone. That it wasn’t forces me to add “lazy” to the list of descriptors to those who really ought to know — or at the very least proofread for formatting — better.