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1. #1
   On July 11th, 2007 at 4:43 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

   You forgot:

   Blood for oil? Check

   As long as it offends Christians, it will be fine.

2. #2
   On July 11th, 2007 at 4:55 pm, AlohaGuy said:

   Set fire to a flag – fine. Set fire to that thing and watch how fast you get arrested.
   Sadly, it isn’t even good art. A talentless hack with nothing better to do…

3. #3
   On July 11th, 2007 at 4:56 pm, kbiel said:

   I agree with Lars: This should not hang in a public space.

   Actually, I don’t mind it hanging in a public space, even a tax-payer funded public space such as the Portland Airport. In fact, it might save us tax-payers some money if hung in the appropriate spot, such as a toilet paper dispenser.

4. #4
   On July 11th, 2007 at 4:58 pm, theroc5156 said:

   We need to find out who:

   A) Who created it
   B) Who approved hanging it
   C) How much it costs

   We then need to demand the money returned. And then smack the crap out of the jerk who made it.

5. #5
   On July 11th, 2007 at 4:59 pm, The Raging Republican said:

   This is rather tame for Portland.

6. #6
   On July 11th, 2007 at 5:04 pm, geminicontender said:

   We had a similar problem in Sacramento, CA when our AG had an anti-Bush piece (artwork as they called it) hanging in the Capital. People (most) were offended but somehow that did not matter.
   Art belongs in an art gallery. Period.

7. #7
   On July 11th, 2007 at 5:06 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

   And garbage belongs in the landfill.

8. #8
   On July 11th, 2007 at 5:08 pm, Mack08 said:

   Yawwnnnn…. The longer I’ve been in the Marine Corps (15 years now) the more I’ve gotten used to seeing idiots trying to be hip and edgy by putting stuff like this up as “art”.

   Honestly it doesn’t even bother me anymore because I know those behind it are just so utterly pathetic they don’t even rate even the slighted rise in my blood pressure worrying about them or their feeble attempts at reliving their parents’ hippie days.

   Don’t be surprised though when cities who hate the military (San Francisco, Portland, et al.) just happen to have the armed forces take slightly longer to arrive to help them with natural disasters (or human-made ones like “kick out the JROTC now” riots).

   Karma, Karma, Karma.

9. #9
   On July 11th, 2007 at 5:10 pm, josetheguerilla said:

   I have an idea. Lets’ put up a painting in the airport that reminds passengers how all the moonbats are on the side of the jihadist. The same type of jihadist that flew airplanes into the twin towers and the pentagon. This should help them to relax before their flight.

10. #10
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:14 pm, J.D.07 said:

    Wow, that is probably the most offensive thing I have seen all day. I sent my e-mail to PDX, I’m sure I won’t get a response.

11. #11
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:18 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    Mako8

    The problem is, there were airports last Christmas running around removing Christmas trees in order not to offend anyone.

    This is offensive but will stay (as long as it does not offend Islam).

12. #12
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:19 pm, JWS said:

    Aaaaw, isn’t that soooo pithy and powerful! Please stop, whoever you are – we finally get it! Your message rings true at last! We surrender to your immense moral superiority!

    Fooled ya. We think we’ll keep our guns and our country. Now kindly remove that middle-school quality p o s…

13. #13
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:27 pm, Mack08 said:

    I’ve flown all over the world and American airports are by far the most inefficient, unprofessional ones I’ve seen.
    By the way, Japanese airports put up Christmas trees AND they don’t make you take off your freakin’ shoes off to go through security.
    Every international airport (outside of the States) I’ve passed through has had professional, competent staff who don’t play games like our TSA folks do.

14. #14
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:34 pm, The Race Card said:

    The first amendment protects our individual rights to speak, believe and peaceably assemble.

    It also gives us MM the right to report this and us the right to tell your government just how craptastic you find this filth.

    America found its social calling in defeating 400+ years of anti-black racism. Too bad that has been replaced with anti-Christian bigotry.

    I shudder to think about how long we will endure such blatant anti-religious bigotry. (Muslims exempted)

15. #15
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:35 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:27 pm, Mack08 said:

    Same here. I was the only person going through customs once and I just walked over to the waiting line. The TSA agent made me walk through the zig-zagging maze. I looked at him dumbfounded and said, “your kidding, right?”

    mooooo moooooo (treated like a dern cow).

16. #16
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:35 pm, JWS said:

    Mack08,

    Good point but in their defense they are following orders. It’s still nuts. I just put my three kids on a flight and watched Chertoff’s “security” at work (I had a gut feeling that I had better stick around…). Somehow, my kids managed to slip through, but I’ll be dipped in S*** if the 70something year old lady right behind them didn’t get pulled over. I don’t know where they found this mastermind but than God he’s on our side…

17. #17
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:39 pm, uhangtight said:

    Okay, when SF is hit by a nuke, will the artist of this painting still feel the same way? That the US is a pirate? Using our corrupt christian ideals to bomb and steal oil from unsuspecting, poor, humble Islamists? aarrrgh

18. #18
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:40 pm, RyanInSanJose said:

    I can’t wait to fly out of San Jose tomorrow. I’ll probably be lucky and picked for a “random screening.” It’s always nice to be picked for one of those and have them rummage through my carry on to find a Michelle Malkin and Mark Steyn book

19. #19
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:41 pm, uhangtight said:

    presuming that the islamists will hit SF before portland.. of course!

20. #20
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:42 pm, feralcat said:

    Portland, Oregon, the land of my ancestors, and the birth place of me! has been taken over by a bunch of fruit cake imports from NEW YORK CITY!!!

    It is hopeless.

    I live about 20 miles from the airport, maybe if I can find one of those cartoon pictures of Mohammad I will try to hang it up over the front of said “art work” in question.

    If you read about a man being arrested and jailed for creating a public disturbence, please take up a collectionfor my bail.

21. #21
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:43 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:35 pm, JWS said:

    the 70something year old lady right behind them didn’t get pulled over

    LOL.

    I had a super-liberal in the office say we should strip search grandmothers because in the Vietnam war grandmothers used to lob grenades at our guys.

    So, now you know.

22. #22
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:45 pm, LC Scott said:

    Sadly this type of tripe is common in Portland.

23. #23
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:46 pm, uhangtight said:

    a pirate’s life for me..and I am a grandmother, too!! No wonder, I keep getting checked. And I thought it was cause they knew I was a republican pirate…

24. #24
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:49 pm, LC said:

    Has Portland been annexed by (insert socialist-loving, American-hating country here)?

25. #25
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:50 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    uhangtight

    I travel a lot internationally and I have a tip for ya if you can stand it.

    Get a great big peace sign and wear it around your neck.

    Works every time.

26. #26
    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:57 pm, neo-connette said:

    The incredible stupidity of public officals never ceases to amaze me. And in an airport?? This is so wrong on so many levels.

27. #27
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:04 pm, EdDantes said:

    Feralcat:

    I live in NYC and the have yet to see such disturbing artwork in any of the three airports: JFK, La Guardia, or Newark.

    That sort of crap wouldn’t fly in NYC because Bloomberg would flip his lid. I don’t think if Jihadists had flown planes into skyscrapers in Portland and killed over 2,000 people that the city would not put up with crap like this.

    Instead they choose to display this type of art in the airport!

28. #28
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:09 pm, kevin said:

    Note that the “Patriot” “Artist” in question doesn’t even know the proper form for vertical hanging of the flag (field to the top left, sir!)

29. #29
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:11 pm, John Lee Pedimore said:

    I guess if you spend all your time watching Al-Jazeera and logging on to jihadi websites then you naturally assume that all guns look like an AK-47.

    JLP

30. #30
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:25 pm, shooter said:

    To the airport/ my 2cents, in part:

    Do you really want to be seen as the derogatory ones? Do you wish the children to see the hate and divisive ‘art’ hanging on your walls?
    What is the underlying message you must be endorsing?

    We have enough hate and contempt in this world, we really don’t need it in the airports. You know, thousands of travelers are on vacation. Do you want this stuff on your hotel rooms on your next trip with the kids? Do you have kids?
    Do you care about America and the future?

    This just shows bad attitude, that’s all. Bad attitude.

31. #31
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:26 pm, DaleC said:

    How could any American display something that obscene .
    Is it me or do those rifles look more russian or chinese than American ?

32. #32
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:33 pm, Rick Moran said:

    Does anyone else see that any 7th grader in America could create the same thing?

    This really is juvenile. Art should be subtle. This hits you over the head with a sledgehammer and makes a puerile point to boot; America is a militaristic, greedy, oil guzzling, gun crazy country.

    Ask the Indonesians about our “militarism.” Maybe next time there’s a tsunami that kills half a million people and devastates half the island, they’ll call Greenpeace to come and save the survivors (estimated 150,000 lives saved by our intervention).

    And the $295 billion in charitable contributions in 2005 (95% by individuals) just goes to show how greedy we truly are.

    And the reason we’re “oil guzzlers,” is simple. We don’t take 25% of the world’s energy and hide it under a bed somewhere. We use it to produce 22% of all the goods and services made in the world.

    Now, the bloke has us pegged as gun crazies. He’s right. We love our guns. We also love liberty and intend to keep it. And perhaps instead of drawing a cartoonish mural that any junior high kid in America would be capable of entering in an art fair, he might hit his knees and thank the lord that he lives in a country where dissing the flag doesn’t get him thrown in jail – largely because “a well armed citizenry” makes it possible for that kind of liberty to exist.

33. #33
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:35 pm, JWS said:

    shooter,

    Good questions. Unfortunately, libtards don’t exactly answer questions the right way. If they were held to the same universal standards of honesty and logic when debating, it’d be like shooting fish in a barrel. But they aren’t. It normally goes:

    Conservative – question
    lib – lie
    Cons – follow up question
    lib – filibuster re previous lie
    Cons – supplies proof/ exposes lie
    lib – yells, rips off clothes, sets hair on fire, runs from room

    Frustrating…

34. #34
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:53 pm, feralcat said:

    EdDantes said:

    Feralcat:

    I live in NYC and the have yet to see such disturbing artwork in any of the three airports: JFK, La Guardia, or Newark.”

    That may be because you sent most of your ding bats here!!!

    Seriously, many of the city “leaders” are from New York. California plays a role too.

35. #35
    On July 11th, 2007 at 6:58 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Does anyone else see that any 7th grader in America could create the same thing?

    Only beacause they’ve been brainwashed by leftard teachers who dumb down everything and have nothing but contempt for this country.

    Actually a 1st grader could do better, artwise.

36. #36
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:10 pm, feralcat said:

    The Port of Portland is the port district responsible for overseeing Portland International Airport.

    Nine commissioners regulate this organization; they are appointed by the State Governor and approved by the State Senate. Each commissioner serves a four year term and can be reinstated to the same post indefinitely.

    Click on the photographs within to read the commissioners’ biographies

37. #37
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:17 pm, petergwynne75 said:

    DO THE LIBS HAVE A FORT SUMTER-TYPE POSITION WE CAN AIM?

    IT’S GO_TIME

38. #38
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:19 pm, Go_Fish said:

    I’m all for art. Edgy, “controversial”, whatever. I don’t care. But this POS is hardly appropriate for a public space like an international airport. If that airport gets so much as a dime of federal tax money, I want it back.

39. #39
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:41 pm, portlandbob said:

    Welcome, you have just arrived at SanFranJr.

    This reminds me of when my young daughter first started telling jokes…she had to repeat the punchline several times and ask, “Get it dad?”. She would then explain the joke to make sure.

    I am happy to say that at 12, she has a much more subtle; sophisticated approach to stories than the flag “artist” .

40. #40
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:55 pm, rightisright said:

    San Fransicko’s got nothing on the liberal looneys here in or-y-gun or is that ore-gone?

41. #41
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:55 pm, Kowboy said:

    On July 11th, 2007 at 5:41 pm, uhangtight said:

    presuming that the islamists will hit SF before portland.. of course!

    They won’t hit either. Number one, these sheeple are their allies, and number two, they know the rest of the country will be glad those places are gone.

42. #42
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:56 pm, zorro said:

    The alleged artist and those who approved this unpatriotic, disloyal display need to be interviewed by the feds. It is obvious they are mentally ill and could snap at any moment. I for one would feel better if it could be confirmed that neither own firearms.

    Don’t get me wrong, they are free to produce this childish garbage, it should not be displayed at tax payer funded facilities. As I mentioned in my email to the airport, a sleazy art museum or massage parlor or even the Klinton Presidential Library would be a much better venue.

43. #43
    On July 11th, 2007 at 7:58 pm, traveler49 said:

    I called the port of portland and found that Suzanne Miller is in charge of customer relations. I could not get a phone number but I sent my e-mail to her at the customer service address.

44. #44
    On July 11th, 2007 at 8:45 pm, berkeleythurm said:

    I should probably give a call to the ACLU. The “art” is causing me undue harm and offense and I believe they should sue to have it removed from public display.

    *Sarcasm for those who didn’t catch it*

45. #45
    On July 11th, 2007 at 9:16 pm, greenfairie said:

    I have an idea…convince businesses and associations not to have meetings or conventions in Portland and convince tourists to spend their hard-earned American $ elsewhere.

    What a bunch of hateful creeps.

46. #46
    On July 11th, 2007 at 9:18 pm, Evenstar said:

    its so sad that people like the nuts who put this up ruin everyone’s impression of oregon, which is the most beautiful state, and my favorite state in the country. not all oregonians are crazy moonbats. remember, their gay marriage bill was defeated by an overwhelming silent majority!

47. #47
    On July 11th, 2007 at 10:14 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

    No, keep it up, keep it up. But let it work it’s hateful message against itself and see how long those who love such things want to keep it up: have someone wealthy enough to do it hang – at equal size – one of those famous photographs of a fireball engulfing the world trade center.

    Or maybe I’ll paint one: of a super-green-minded, long-haired guy with a peace-symbol t-shirt on, with a flame thrower coming out of his mouth burning up America while strangling the staue of liberty as she drops a book labeled “1st Amendment” out of her hand, and fight up to the Supreme Court to allow it to be hung next to the other one, also with taxpayer dollars.

    Maybe it’s time to fight fire with fire. Any angry artists out there?

48. #48
    On July 11th, 2007 at 10:26 pm, feralcat said:

    rightisright said:

    San Fransicko’s got nothing on the liberal looneys here in or-y-gun or is that ore-gone?

    Neither.

    or-e-gun.

49. #49
    On July 11th, 2007 at 10:51 pm, puhiawa said:

    Portland really is made up of self-centered asses, isn’t it? A highly unattractive city with no memorable qualities infesting one of the most beautiful areas in the world. Now I know how it got so ugly.

50. #50
    On July 12th, 2007 at 12:34 am, Regulus said:

    I lived in the Portland area for a number of years until last year, and this “art” comes as no surprise at all.

    Portland is a pretentious little town, with more than its share of pretentious little people; its moonbat roots run very deep. With a population of only 500,000 or so, it still has enough of a market not only for Air America, but also for another independent lefty hate-radio station on the FM dial.

    Yet for all its faux sense of “sophistication,” as a metropolitan ares Portland is gripped in a massive inferiority complex toward Seattle. It’s official moniker is “The Rose City,” but its practical slogan is “Half of Seattle, with all of the traffic.”

    Portland: A good place to be from.

51. #51
    On July 12th, 2007 at 12:45 am, feralcat said:

    Actually puhiawa and Regulus, Portland is physically a VERY attractive city. A river flowing right through it with about 10 bridges, each unique. Another river, the mighty Columbia, just to the north. Views of several Mountain peaks, including Mt Hood and Mt Saint Helens the volcano. Now if you want to see a physically ugly city go look at say Dallas or Houston.

    There is no Seattle envy that I have ever seen in Portland. People don’t even care about Seattle.

52. #52
    On July 12th, 2007 at 7:32 am, gregorystephens said:

    If only the skull in the “artwork” had nappy hair…it would certainly be taken down then.

53. #53
    On July 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pm, rightisright said:

    feralcat , you missed what i was saying…but then I noticed your next post, I see why or how you did.

54. #54
    On July 13th, 2007 at 4:26 pm, whatthecrap? said:

    Yay Oregon, Land of “enlightened artists.”

    …

    I can say so because I am an Oregonian and an artist. I make no asinine claims to “enlightenment”, however.

    Well, other than being conservative that is.