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1. #1
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm, Oink said:

   Dear Photoshoppers,

   PLEASE… next to that big “O,” someone please put “$hit.”

   PLEASE.

2. #2
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 pm, thirteen28 said:

   This is going to look even more ridiculous when the Dow is flirting with 4000 and unemployment is north of 10%. At least it will be a constant reminder of who’s responsible for the misery.

3. #3
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm, RTater said:

   Gears need to touch at some point to actually work. Just sayin’.

   And if the stars (50+8, now?) and .gov represent government, then government above all, and twice as big as agriculture and industry.

   We can’t say we weren’t warned.

4. #4
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm, rusty_armor said:

   YOu notice that the gears don’t mesh in that logo?

5. #5
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 pm, oregonelam said:

   Easy. Just draw a large red slash from the top right to the bottom left of the O.

6. #6
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm, kwyoung said:

   What’s the number again?

7. #7
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm, walterc said:

   I don’t understand the lack of a hammer and sickle.

   And still no details on the upcoming May Day celebrations. Are we going to get some mobile missle launchers this year? Or just the swarms of goose steppin youth corps?

8. #8
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm, mojack420 said:

   “Obama’s fiscal tramp stamp.”

   gawd thats funny.

   pigs and hogs all over the world are really pissed off to be assosiated with obama and his spending

9. #9
   On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm, John Deaux said:

   Have you seen the new logo for Obama’s porkulus money? It is begging for a photoshop contest.

   I’d bet Blind Mule could have come up with something good.

10. #10
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm, wrcnossen said:

    Wasn’t there was something like this in the Great Depression? Seems I remember something about showing the blue eagle or not being in business very long. Before my time, but the idea could be the same.

11. #11
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm, The Ugly American said:

    Bassfire, that is absolutely brilliant.

    Thanks for the much needed laugh.

12. #12
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 pm, Kevin K. said:

    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm, RTater said: (#3)

    Gears need to touch at some point to actually work. Just sayin’.

    and
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:29 pm, rusty_armor said: (#4)

    You notice that the gears don’t mesh in that logo?

    And even if they did, the teeth are so far off in size that the machine would stop almost immediately.

13. #13
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 pm, Trollman said:

    The “recovery.gov?” picture is killing me, hahahaha!

14. #14
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm, Kevin K. said:

    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm, wrcnossen said: (#10)

    Wasn’t there was something like this in the Great Depression? Seems I remember something about showing the blue eagle or not being in business very long. Before my time, but the idea could be the same.

    Yes, the National Recovery Administration. It ran from 1933 until 1935 when it was declared un-Constitutional by the Supreme Court. The banner had NRA at the top, an eagle with a gear in one set of talons, and lightning bolts in the other over the slogan “We do our part”.

    I thought of the same thing when I heard of the logo. I’m still surprised that it doesn’t have The One’s “O”.

15. #15
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm, Tuesday said:

    The green portion is for agriculture? Nothing will grow, we can’t farm anymore. No water allocation – they’re reserved for Nan’s minnows.

    Freeper Bassfire’s on TARGET!

16. #16
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pm, tarpon said:

    Isn’t it the usual practice to have dear leader on the seal?

17. #17
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:31 pm, Wade said:

    Wish I had the talent to make up one. With a screw…

18. #18
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:35 pm, KaosKlerik said:

    I remember a government bureau logo from the ’80s that had three gears in a pyramid. It was on the letterhead for a while before someone pointed out that the third gear in that pattern would prevent the others two from moving.

    Seems appropriate for liberal government programs.

19. #19
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm, Boomer said:

    I wish I had some photo shop skills. A hammer and sickle along with a red picture of ‘dear leader’ thrown in would be great.

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

20. #20
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm, katablog said:

    Freeper has it hands down. Not much improvement left, except maybe the hammer and sickle embossed in the background.

21. #21
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm, Cosmo said:

    #14: Not that “Wikipedia” is an actual source, but here’s the citation on the NRA that sticks out to me:

    “As part of the “First New Deal”, the NRA was based on the idea that the Great Depression was caused by market instability and that government intervention was necessary to balance the interests of farmers, business and labor. The NIRA, which created the NRA, declared that codes of fair competition should be developed through public hearings, and gave the Administration the power to develop voluntary agreements with industries regarding work hours, pay rates, and price fixing.[2]“

    I’m sure this sort of verbiage is somewhere around page 500 of the Porkulus Pledge…er…Stimulus Bill.

    Heaven help us.

22. #22
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm, torabora said:

    The taxpayer in the gears of Government is classic…Kafka.

    I like the ACORN too.

    A slave ship would be apt, but the PC crowd would go ape.

    wink

23. #23
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm, old trooper said:

    I expected a Hammer and Sickle with the numbers 666 in the foreground.

24. #24
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:20 pm, pianotchr said:

    Huh. I thought the green part was about “going green,” as in fight the non-existent global warming. So it’s agriculture?

25. #25
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm, HeatherRadish said:

    Hey now, they gave some Congressdude’s kid $1.3M for that logo.

    / I made that up, but the truth can’t be far off.

26. #26
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm, zorro said:

    Good stuff.

    The One may end up banning sales of Photoshop!

27. #27
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm, Dan said:

    I dont really care anymore.

28. #28
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm, Joy said:

    Freepers Bassfire = Hilarious!

29. #29
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 pm, thneed said:

    I purpose that everyone take two tea bags, tie the strings together and hang them on your rearview mirror. This will serve as a grassroots effort to protest rising taxes and show solidarity with all like minded people you run into everyday and don’t even realize it.

30. #30
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    And in case you missed it – here’s Soros’ old partner thrashing Obama and coporate execs.

31. #31
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:21 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    I like Slublogs. I’d make the following modifications, though:

    1. Replace the Acorn with a toilet.

    2. Replace the radioactivity signs with crap sandwiches.

    This would symbolize our money going down the toilet and all we get in return is, you guessed it, crap.

    ECS

32. #32
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm, sharprightturn said:

    This reminds me of the “WPA” logo you can still find on bridges, sidewalks and other areas that were built under th Works Progress Administration…

    On a lighter note….does this mean that ACORN hooligans will have this logo tattooed on their backsides so we can all know where the moeny went?

33. #33
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 pm, bjc said:

    *P-BO needs to put a phone number on his new logo to go along with the website so Joe Biden can more easily refer to it.
    *Seems that logos and slogans are the new smoke and mirrors for this administration; People won’t take socialism/marxism straight up, so P-BO has to disguise it somewhat.

34. #34
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 pm, Marie said:

    Ditch digger economics!

35. #35
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 pm, Socky said:

    Love the photoshop with the Brain Slugs. Excellent.

36. #36
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 pm, shooter said:

    kwyoung said:
    What’s the number again?

    Can’t find it, oh yeah….

    IT’S ZERO!

37. #37
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 pm, Tennyson said:

    These are fantastic! Wow, great work. Major extra props to Tobias Becker.

    For my own humble submission, I have instead chosen a more, uhh, functional commentary. Leveraging existing resources, if you will.

    Because we the taxpayers have already paid for this one. Whether we wanted to or not.

    How many calories in a Government Logo, anyway?

38. #38
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 pm, RetFireman said:

    One of the things that really, really frightens me, is the Obama Administration’s, and before that his campaign’s, fascination with all these “logos”, “posters” and other symbols that hearken back to the heyday of the Soviet Union as well as Nazi Germany.

    Take a look at the style, the colors and the language they use in conjunction with all of them, then go and look at the “Pro-Government/Pro-Leader” posters and slogans of both the afore-mentioned countries/governments. The parallels are indeed very scary.

    It is almost as scary as the similarities between what they are doing to this country along with their stated goals and plans to do to this country.

    Neo-Gestapo and Obama Youth anyone?

39. #39
    On March 4th, 2009 at 12:10 am, 1GooDDaDDy said:

    Here’s mine Boss.

    Did it myself.

    Not Over.

40. #40
    On March 4th, 2009 at 1:11 am, mom2jack said:

    Tennyson, glad you came through and somehow managed to put together what I was thinking. Michelle needs to move that to the top toot sweet.

    I can see the white house graphic design team now (oh, and you know they have one to capture our dear leader’s image at a moment’s notice): “Hey, the package is a joke, but the logo gives it some real credibility!”

    Freeper Bassfire’s version gets my vote.

41. #41
    On March 4th, 2009 at 4:49 am, Sea_Dog said:

    On March 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 pm, RetFireman said:
    One of the things that really, really frightens me, is the Obama Administration’s, and before that his campaign’s, fascination with all these “logos”, “posters” and other symbols that hearken back to the heyday of the Soviet Union as well as Nazi Germany.
    

    I thought the same thing – how all the ‘art’ reminded me of “the soviet man” posters.

    A number of things bother me, the 150K jobs ‘created or saved’ (look soon for a transformation to ‘saved or created’, since it is impossible to prove a negative) are all of the project duration type, i.e., common labor that will be laid off when the project is complete. For years experts have said that the future US workforce must be educated to meet the demand of the technological nature of the jobs. We instead choose to fund with taxpayer dollars, shovel and pickax jobs with no future.

    Geitner’s approach now is like the reformed smoker or drinker, nothing is worse than a reformed zealot – so we are going to go after corporations who have overseas branches – forcing the companies to move wholly overseas to avoid the destructive taxes levied on them – there go some more jobs.

    Hillary has committed $900M to rebuilding Gaza, yet no one to my knowledge has said where this money will come from (besides the good ole US Tax Payer) – add this to the mounting debt.

    It has been said that the reason very few Senators have ever been elected President is that they lack the experience of having ever managed anything other than their staffs – Obama surely is another good example – while no one will argue about is speaking or ‘showmanship’ ability, when it comes down to where the rubber meets the road, his inexperience glares. What Wall Street is reflecting is that every time he or his staff open their mouths about some ‘new plan’, it’s like throwing pasta against the wall hoping it sticks – nothing is credible or the ‘solution’ is so far left as to be absolutely scary to any knowledgeable investor. It has been said that “those who can, do, and those who can’t theorize”, Obama has surrounded himself with theorists with no experience in application. Wall Street has made errors, but no one can say the these people are dumb, they do know their business, so when they as a whole are running scared, it reminds me of the t-shirt “I’m an explosives expert – if you see me running, perhaps you should too!”

    “Who is John Galt?”

42. #42
    On March 4th, 2009 at 5:59 am, skysoljr82 said:

    On March 4th, 2009 at 12:10 am, 1GooDDaDDy said:

    nice.

43. #43
    On March 4th, 2009 at 6:20 am, Jaded said:

    http://liberalismisnotmainstream.com/recovery.jpg

    This is from a MOST EXCELLENT picture man over at Redstate and it so damn funny I needed to share it with you all his name is Speciallist!

44. #44
    On March 4th, 2009 at 6:58 am, torabora said:

    RetFireman…The criminal graffiti artist who plagiarized the Hope poster from an AP photo (they deserved it) admitted he copied Soviet style agitprop.

    You HAVE seen it before. So there you go.

45. #45
    On March 4th, 2009 at 8:18 am, Socky said:

    What strikes me is that instead of the vibrant red, white, and blue of American freedom and enterprise, Dear Leader has chosen a sort of muted blue, green, and brownish-red scheme of the kind that looks sophisticated to the dreary socialist intellectual class of Old Europe.

46. #46
    On March 4th, 2009 at 8:27 am, DocattheAutopsy said:

    I’ve got my own take on the Recovery O’Badge at the Autopsy. (Trackbacks are not working to here for some reason.)

47. #47
    On March 4th, 2009 at 8:53 am, jangar said:

    Slogans and logos…never-ending community organizing.

    I motion POTUS be changed to COOTUS.

48. #48
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:00 am, misterbee241 said:

    I wonder how long it will be before some Obamanite actually gets that abomination tattooed on their body someplace? Personally, I think the forehead or the back of the right hand would be a perfect place.

49. #49
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:05 am, jangar said:

    misterbee – hence the problem in society today. No belief in God, destined to believe in anything.

50. #50
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:33 am, kwyoung said:

    From Caleb at RedState, a Soros-infused emblem…and a couple of, er, busy fruitflies:

    I’m still waiting for a pic showing Uncle Sam with the American Taxpayer over a barrel, gagged and bound. Seems more appropriate.

51. #51
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am, misterbee241 said:

    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm, wrcnossen said:

    Wasn’t there was something like this in the Great Depression? Seems I remember something about showing the blue eagle or not being in business very long. Before my time, but the idea could be the same.

    It was called the National Recovery Act aka NRA and had a blue eagle as its symbol. It was all about government price fixing. I think it was one of FDR’s programs that was ruled unconstitutional. I think the idea is pretty much the same.

52. #52
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:46 am, misterbee241 said:

    You are absolutely right about that Jangar.

53. #53
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:50 am, GraniteMan said:

    Well, we all know that Obomba uses words that inspire to hide what he really means so Recovery means what? Stay Sick! He needa crisis, and a demon. At Politico we find out that the White House is directing a camapign against a private citizen who is a broadcaster. Does anyone care? This is what is to come. They have elected officials too timid to speak out and now they are attacking broadcasters that don’t adhere to party line. Are ones who comment on a blog next fto be attacked?

54. #54
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:54 am, jangar said:

    Are ones who comment on a blog next fto be attacked?

    They’ll find a way to regulate the blogger. They’ve already isolated them for criticism.

55. #55
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am, GraniteMan said:

    My sister while in high school got work through NRA as did my brother. It was kind of a joke to us and we called the WPA, another work project, We Peddle Apples and everyone joked how guys working on WPA projects leaned on shovels all day. My Uncle made $40.00 a week teaching dance lessons at YMCA through WPA program and made my Dad angry because it was more than he made driving a truck.

56. #56
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am, PKAmmoTroop said:

    At last! Someone drunken sailors can feel superior to (and somewhat more frugal than) in comparison.

57. #57
    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am, jangar said:

    On March 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am, GraniteMan said:

    How is that any different today when the welfare check is more than full time employment at minumum wage (and above), with medical included? Then there’s the do-nothing government jobs that litter the plains, with more to come to a town near you.

58. #58
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:05 am, jangar said:

    How is that any different today when the welfare check is more than full time employment at minumum wage (and above), with medical included? Then there’s the do-nothing government jobs that litter the plains, with more to come to a town near you.

    It’ll take a whole load of people to resist this trend in order to reverse this present darkness. Part of me just doesn’t see it happening. Last chance will be the next two elections.

59. #59
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:06 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    When I was drinking heavily the week I spent in Kenya back in 1986 as an employee of Ronald Reagan and the American taxpayers, every home and business seemed to have a picture of President Daniel T. Arap Moi. Now, as far as dictators go, President Moi seemed fairly benevolent.

    But I suspect a time will come when a picture or emblem of our own Kenyan President will be as abundant on the landscape as the flag itself, or pictures of Saddam Hussein in antebellum Iraq.

60. #60
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am, jangar said:

    No, I’m not talking to myself, just wasn’t done ranting.

61. #61
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am, happy2behere said:

    They need simple symbols for their electorate who can’t read.

    Or speak English.

62. #62
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am, wighttrasch said:

    Tennyson–awesome.

63. #63
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am, battleaxe said:

    I think it’s time to buy stock in K-Y. Every American is going to want some when Uncle Obama comes calling.

64. #64
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:35 am, sonofdy said:

    Just read the rules for the mortgage bailout. The “chattering classes” are not going to be happy!!!!

65. #65
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am, DanMan said:

    Somebody draw some big ears on it…

66. #66
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:52 am, Jeddite said:

    Props to all. Tobias Becker’s is my favorite.

67. #67
    On March 4th, 2009 at 10:55 am, GaMidnightRider said:

    Freeper does have it down I like the one by Slublog with the accorn in it too. We got to get the people to see where this liberal is taking us. He is killing capitalism and destroying everything he can just to pay back all the debts he owes for getting put in office. I am hoping the American people will wake up and see this is not what our founding fathers had in mind. They are taking away our freedom. I am like Patrick Henry, when he sai on March 23, 1775:

    It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

68. #68
    On March 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am, faraway said:

    This bridge brought to you by your Comrades in the Peoples Republic of China

69. #69
    On March 4th, 2009 at 5:55 pm, nail49 said:

    GaMidnightRider: Can you ONLY imagine the same speech from The One without the aid of his teleprompter:

    It is in vain, sir, …uuh.. to extenuate the …uuh.. matter. Gentlemen may cry, …uuh… Peace, …uuh… Peace– but there is …uuh… no peace. The …uuh… war is …uuh… actually begun and it was …uuh… begun by the …uuh… previous Adminitration! The next …uuh… gale that sweeps from the …uuh… north will bring to our …uuh… ears the clash of resounding arms…uuh… like Hurricane Katrina did …uuh… when Bush called it forth from …uuh… the Gulf!

    I have to quit, my gag-meter has pegged out!