June 30, 2008

Lady Liberty Loves The Phillies

The baseball all-star game is at Yankee Stadium this season, and to promote it there are tons of little Statues of Liberty all around New York City representing the major league teams (as well as statues for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, and other related NYC baseball things).

A Philadelphia Will Do correspondent from the Big Apple snapped a shot of the Phillies one. It is, naturally, in front of a Modell's. Gotta go to Mo's!

There are a bunch of photos of the statues in his Flickr set.

Update: The way the statue is dressed reminds me of the Phillies' Turn Ahead the Clock jerseys.

Photo by Vernon Balanza

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November 12, 2007

Comic Book Character, Statue Rally For Ron Paul

You may have wondered what, exactly, the eclectic collection of people cheering for an old doctor were doing on Saturday afternoon outside Independence Hall? Well, silly, it's the Ron Paul Revolution! Or, rather, the Ron Paul RLOVEution or something; I dunno, it was on their signs. Maybe Ron Paul is the hippy candidate. He is for ending the War on Drugs.

Ron Paul is, as you may know, for ending pretty much everything, including the Dept. of Education, UNICEF and the Free Puppies For Sick Children program. He also voted against, I 'unno, Rosa Parks or someone like that getting some Congressional medal, because he votes against all of those frivolous things. Oh, he's also the only Republican candidate smart enough to be against the Iraq War.

Paul also wants to change our currency to the gold standard or something (eh, not quite), which means this is about the closest we've gotten to the historic election of 1896, where William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan in the election you never quite understood when you learned it in grade school. Oh! Free Silver! Cross of Gold speech! This is easy to get in 8th grade. (Oh, come on. Being able to go to a bank and deposit whatever and get coins? Guh-wha?)

So that's Ron Paul, I guess. But who were his supporters? Right: Online, they're a band of angry commenters who travel from blog to blog, angrily telling you to support Ron Paul. In person, though? Mainly these people:

So, uhh, the Statue of Liberty and the V for Vendetta guy support Ron Paul. Oh, no wonder he's so popular!

Update: Be sure to read the comments. So far, this is my favorite: "His supporters are real folks that you can't persuade anymore, much to your dismay, you don't matter any longer. We can take care of our own news now, thanks anyway." I look forward to the first edition of the Ron Paul Press!

Philadelphia Freedom [Reason]

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