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Today is THE DAY, the first day of the new Supreme Court, starring Sonia Sotomayor. The first case is something about how long is too long to wait to call a lawyer after being arrested. Oh! Well! How long is too long for your Wonkette to wait to discuss the excitement that is the thing we just described? Is “forever o’clock” too long? Good! Anyway, here’s this comical other case, in which some “Choose Life Illinois, Inc.” DEMANDED that the Illinois Supreme Court force the state to sell and manufacture the conspicuously poorly designed license plates pictured right over there.
But guess what? The so-called “supreme” court refused to even hear this case! “The high court on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that state officials were within their rights in trying to keep viewpoints on abortion off of Illinois license plates.” It is an affront to a woman’s right to SUBLIME POLITICAL ART is what it is.
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This reminds me, I saw a West Viriginia license plate that read “OBAMA 08″. I assume that, coming from WV, they meant assassination 08 and they failed.
Welcome, Sonja (”Soto”) Mayor, to the Mother of All Death Panels!
Can I haz license plate that says “Roscoe’s Landscaping and Tree Removal Service, call 555-5555″?
See, that’s the problem with these activists in the judiciary, always deferring to state’s rights.
The runner up was a picture of George Michael in his “Choose Life” t shirt. But then someone remembered about HIS GAYNESS.
Are they referring to the cereal?
To wit:
http://glosslip.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wham.jpg
RoscoePColtraine: no. you forgot the area code.
HipHopOpotamus: Probably belonged to Jay Rockefeller. Like all West Virginians, he’s always be in favor of assassinating presidents and killing the public option, right?
See those squiggles? That’s exactly how a fetus would draw.
I think I see the problem– if all cars with this plate have the license letters “ADOPT”, it’s mighty confusing for the police.
That– and the cheesy as hell cartoon.
Wait. so how is this another loss for Obama and Chicago thuggery? I guess we’ll find out in a day or so.
Scalia let the decision stand because he feared drivers might see the picture on the plate as endorsing procreation among interracial couples.
Someday license plates will solve all the world’s problems. But not today! Thanks SCOTUS scum.
dougbob: Hey, I might live in one of those states where there’s only ONE area code. For the WHOLE STATE.
You can buy an “ABORT ILEGULZ” plate and have a brain-rending, paradoxical set! Kudos, values voters, for rendering both of the terms comprising your name utterly meaningless.
I think all license plates should be blank white and come with a box of crayons. Fill in anyway you want, but remember if the number is not clear Mr Police may ask you to wipe it clean and start over. No fair putting other peoples number on it.
They have those plates in Florida. Seeing them always brought a faint slime to my face as I remembered my dozens and dozens of “hyper-late-term” abortions.
Wow. I’m blind now.
So if you’re unable to choose Choose Life, have you still made a choice? Geddy Lee’s going to be up all night wondering about that one.
The two best selling specialty plates in Arkansas? The choose life one and the annual game and fish commission plates which are explicitly pro death. And more often than not you’ll see both plates in the same garage.
Not that it’s necessarily ironic, but it could be taken that way.
Yet TruckNutz(tm) are legal. THIS IS NAZISM ALL OVER AGAIN.
Alright, personal views about religion, philosophy and politics don’t go on license plates, please? If your state is known for it’s, oh I don’t know, pecans let’s say, you can write “HOME OF THE GREATEST NUTS” on your plates. Otherwise, no.
RoscoePColtraine: Are you trash-talking Idaho? If so, I’m gonna have to give you a beat-down, just as soon as I get the Camaro off blocks and siphon the neighbor’s gas.
Alternate rejected Illinois plate design concepts:
“Land of some guy who we forgot was a Republican”
Rob Blageovitch’s spinning head.
A silhouette of the Hancock building. COCK. Get it?
Strangely, I’d be okay with this Choose Life plate as long as they put it on the illinois Military Plates, too.
http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/vehicles/license_plate_guide/specialty_plates/military/home.html
Pro-life and pro-adoption don’t necessarily go hand in hand, regardless of what that stupid Illinois company would put on a license plate.
Quoth Queen Esther the Simpleton:
“We need more Trigs, not less”
ADAPT
CHEW’S LIFE
(fixed)
Whom do I have to blow to get a “Choose Death Panels” plate pressed?
Again with the interracial child marriages.
When was $arah Palin in Illinois?
I’m sick and tired of the whole “Message” thing with License plates. It’s crap. People do not care what you think, and you will not persuade a person with a stupid license plate. Give me a plate with State, Number, and Expiration, thank you!
Today we are all POOFTER.
I’m rather put off by the failure to depict a white child on the picture. They’ve kissed the black’s and pink’s ass. What about political correctedness here?
MLHencken: Try again, somewhere else.
I have no problem with this license, so long as the plate also offers a “Choose Death, Abort The Little Fucker” plates for me to purchase.
Would also need child-like art to illustrate the point.
Oh yeah, those crappy plates are all over the place now. And like so many other things wrong with this country, it’s Florida’s fault. Credit where due, though…the awesome former gov, Walkin’ Lawton Chiles, vetoed it the first time it came up.
proudgrampa: Andy Rooney, everybody! Give him a hand! And perhaps a bib, to soak up all that cranky.
The girl on that license plate is fat.
CHINESE BABY ON BOARD
Davidwatts: Meh. What’s an extra 50 trimersters between friends? Amirite?
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Sheriff Joe Arpaio? But I think he get’s plenty of blowjobs without having to do favours.
Cartoon kids these days.
How could a driver in good conscience drive drunk with this thing attached to her vehicle? Fail.
So, the librul alternative plate would be “Choose uh..choice”?
CorkPopper: The only theme plate that should be allowed is “Florida: America’s Wang”
AbstinenceOnly Ed: You’re good! I need to come up with more straight lines for you!!
proudgrampa: Give me a plate with State, Number, and Expiration, thank you!
Expiration? So you’re pro-death, hnngggh?
ChernobylSoup v2: Or the red (read: cooked) lobster on the Maine plates. And wingnuts don’t do “irony”. Remember?
The problem was, instead of choosing Life, they chose Rio de Janeiro.
Linden Research, Inc wants the state to produce a “Choose Second Life” version…
I guess we don’t have the freedom to subvert the meaning of a one-sided (partisan?) license plate. GOT IT. Thanks SCOTUS.
freakishlystrong: Exactly. I was wondering the same thing.
OK SCOTUS, how about ABORT?
That “Choose Life” type face is horrid. It aspires to be Comic Sans. Embryos have notoriously bad taste in fonts, which is why it’s OK to abort them.
proudgrampa: Chop some up for Andy Sullivan while you’re at it. Hour 10 and he’s starting to flag…
That’s it.. truck nutz are off.. I’m hangin fetuses now.
the problem child: apostrophe shame
Apparently, the bumper sticker is no longer a viable method for sharing one’s views with the world.
Sweet Baby Cheeses: RTFA, dummy. I thought it was about “ADOPT”, not the plate iself. Reason: MY STUPID FUCKING STATE ALREADY HAS THESE LICENSE PLATES.
Can i get a license plate that sez: “I boned Andrew Sullivan for like 12 hours or something?”
Where is the Support Wildlife license plate featuring Park Ranger Sully?
Plate Message: Adopt the cute little white girl before Robin Roberts has a chance.
Colorado has plates that have the Columbine flower (which is the State Flower) along with words “respect life”. If only Harris and Klebold had seen that first, I’m sure now they’d now be social workers.
AnnieGetYourFun: that too
Can I get the version that has the child’s drawing of a coat hanger on it? Hmmm..?
Decker: Or the Hudson River Landing Club plates featuring Pilot Sully?
“She called my vanity license plate inscrutable…ICU812MI? Hilarious!”
Davidwatts: * “smile”. OR WAS THAT “THE UNIVERSE TALKING TO ME”!?!??!!?
We’ve had these in Ohio since Lincoln was scheduling nookie hours with his boyfriends.
Meghan McCain has this license plate on her huge Hummer–and she doesn’t even live in Illinois! That Meghan! She’s really something! Let’s hope that she appears regularly on Jay Leno’s show, as well as on Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, as well as Oprah, Ellen and Bonnie and “The View!” She’s so incredibly insightful and intelligent, she should appear regularly on all of these shows! It’d be great!
i’ll believe these fucking fucks are pro-life when they start wearing gauze masks to prevent the inadvertent inhalation of insects, ’till then they are anti-abortion, period. None of this “life is sacred, my my my this fried chicken is delicious” bullshit.
I encourage them to adopt because my T.V. tells me that most adopted children grow into patricidal teens (ingrates).
proudgrampa: Give me a plate with State, Number, and Expiration, thank you!
I’m with you. No bumper stickers or specality plates on my Honda; the more anonymous it is, the easier the get away when I’m finally forced to rob a bank to pay the doctor bills.
Don’t blame me…I voted for Kodos.
I offer you, fellow Wonketteers, my motorcycle plate
RoscoePColtraine: I have two area codes just where I live
Jim89048: Someone stole the face right off your head
Jim89048: You’re amazing.
Yah, the godbags got this retarded specialty license plate rammed through our state legislature a few years back. Then Planned Parenthood and some others petitioned to also have a “Pro-Choice” specialty plate, but they got turned down. Life in Redneckistan, The End.
loquaciousmusic: But I’m still a few stickers short of full retard, no?
RoscoePColtraine: I know what state that is without teh use of the google-webs!! (I grew up near 48° 9′ N 103° 35′ W). I didn’t know that actual, real live libruls lived up there (Byron Dorgan doesn’t count).
I haz a license plate that says:
“I support retro-active abortion”
Have a nice day.
Crazybroad: Could be Maine, too.
“No fetus can beat us”
“Choose Life” sounds like a menu option.
“Actually, I’ll have the Life, the Luther Burger, a side of Ox Penis, and a Diet Mountain Dew.”
They need a death panels plate to keep it fair and balanced - maybe with a pic of ted williams’ batted head.
Crazybroad: Let me clear up one thing, I don’t actually live in one of those states. I just wanted to have the last word with dougbob. But I don’t ridicule y’all, I think it’s rather quaint that you still have only one area code. All y’all.
RoscoePColtraine: I don’t blame you in the slightest for distancing yourself. I haven’t been back in 18 years, and don’t plan on going back anytime soon. Well, unless Iran drops the bomb, in which case that’s where they’ve got all the guns and the meth. Although the problem child, that could be Maine, too.
I thought these people wanted government to stay out of our private business. Isn’t adoption a private choice? Let these people put bumper stickers on their cars and keep their hands off my tax dollars and my license plates.
What does any of this have to do with drinking vodka out of anus??!
Or am I on the wrong thread?
Nice drawing. I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one with supreme skillz when it comes to using the “handwrite” feature on Windows Live Messenger.
As long as I can also buy a plate that reads: “Choose the pill, you hussy!” or “Free condoms for Kindergartners, now!”
I want one, but mine’ll say “ABORT” instead of “ADOPT.” I am choosing life, babies. My life.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: CorkPopper: Davidwatts: Florida is not known for tasteful license plates.
Fuckin’ Florida.
I call dibs on the first DON’T vanity plate.
Or better yet, LOSERS. Please let me put it on this plate.
McDuff: You PAY your doctor bills? Sucker!!