Did you hear about the bumper sticker controversy here in the ATL (I've come to love that nomenclenture for my city)? Some lady had a bumpoer sticker that said something like, "I'm tired of all the BU__SH__!" Those letters were also missing on the cumper sticker. Fine, it's tasteless and perhaps innapropriate to be placed where kids will see it and ask their parents what the word with the missing letters is, but is it enough to bring down an obscenity charge? One cop decided it was and gave her a ticket. It made the Metro section of the AJC. Then some idiot Bush hater who has to hyperbolize everything, and basically lie, to make it sound bad enough for anyone to care, writes in saying that it's ashame that this bumper sticker controversy is overshadowing the illegal war in Iraq, blah blah blah, you get the picture. That's the real bullshit! The same day that this story appeared in the Metro section, there was an Iraq story on the front page, and editorials on Iraq, and letters about Iraq. The bumper sticker has been barely mentioned on the local news. Overshadowing? Hell no, not in any way. This guy seems to think that as long as there are troops in Iraq, we are not allowed to think about or talk about anything else, or we are overshadowing the real issue. Whatever. Life goes on. During World War II, people still had jobs to do. Were they overshadowing the war because they did not sit around talking about it 24 hours a day?
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