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Help The NObama Sticky Note Campaign Go Viral!

by 1389AD ( 51 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Elections 2012, Food and Drink, Misery Index, Transportation at May 1st, 2011 - 10:30 am

Here’s how to get the campaign started in your own neighborhood. It takes very little effort, it costs almost nothing, and, most important of all, it helps other beleaguered members of the public to realize that they are no longer alone.

YourDaddy’s Politics: The Sticky Note Campaign Hits Georgia Supermarkets

The Sticky Note Campaign is making deliveries in Georgia Supermarkets now. Super-Charged with Conservative ideals REAL Americans all over the country and even an awakened Democrat or two are now participating in this grass roots initiative. It’s not a partisan issue either; no one can afford these rising prices at the gas pump or the grocery store.

I just realized that I need to order more FREE PRE-PRINTED Sticky notes from the Koch Brothers – gotta go now.

Be sure take pictures of your STICKY NOTES, upload them to your Facebook, TAG all your friends in the pics and then also be sure to share them with the event page.

Sticky note attached to grocery shelf below Cheerios: How's that Hopey Changey thing working for you? NObama 2012

Join the Official FaceBook Event by clicking here.

See the original photos at this FaceBook Gallery.

See it all here.

RedState: It’s fun. It’s easy. It’s cheap. Join the Sticky Note Campaign!

Here’s something we all can do — and all you need is some Post-It notes!

Sticky note attached to gasoline pump: Full of Hope and Change with an empty tank - NObama 2012

Sticky note attached to ground beef shelf in meat cooler: Hope & Change at work here - High Prices - Thanks, Obama!

Sticky note attached to milk shelf in dairy cooler: How hungry are you from Hope & Change? NObama 2012

Sticky note attached to bacon shelf in meat cooler: Hope & Change at work here! High Prices - Thanks, Obama!

A Facebook page has been set up for this campaign. The people behind it are encouraging people to send in photos of their own like the ones above.

To borrow a line from an old leftie, “…and, friends, they’ll think it’s a movement!”

By the way, I like the emphasis on food and gasoline, since the official Consumer Price Index does not include — are you ready for this? — food and energy!

Grocery prices increased 6.5% in March from early January, an annualized increase of 26%, according to a report from Consumer Growth Partners. The group called the rise the “sharpest in a generation.”

…A 25% increase in gasoline prices this year combines with higher food costs to take $18 billion out of monthly household spending on discretionary items… Consumer Growth said in its report, which compiles data from Target, Walmart and Aldi stores in four U.S. states.

No word on whether the price of sticky notes has gone up significantly. If we all do our part, however, demand should skyrocket!

Hat tip: Doug Ross / Cross-posted
Read the rest here.

Getting Started

  • Get some sticky notes, either regular or “Super Sticky,” in whatever color you like. 3″x3″ is the best size for this purpose.
  • Bring something to write with that won’t run if it gets wet, such as an ordinary ballpoint pen, a Sharpie marker (the new retractable felt-tip is easier to carry), or even a pencil.
  • After posting each note, use your cellphone or a pocket camera to snap a photo of it before you leave.
  • If you have a Facebook account, please upload the photos to the Facebook event page as explained above.

Optional: Ordering Preprinted Sticky Notes

  • You can create your image ahead of time using your own graphic program (e.g., Photoshop or GIMP) and your own fonts. For an image that will be printed on a 3″x3″ notepad, the original should be 900×900 pixels or larger. Alternatively, you can draw your art with black ink on white paper and scan the image at 300dpi or greater. Save the result in .png format.
  • If you are not equipped to create your own digital image, you can often use the design software provided by the print shop or office supply retailer to create your image. They can also scan and upload your artwork from paper if you don’t have access to a scanner.
  • You may want to get together with your friends and fellow political activists to share the expense of ordering sticky note pads with several different messages.
  • A less expensive alternative is to order a self-inking rubber stamp with an image that will fit on a sticky note.
  • Sample sticky-note images created by 1389AD are shown below. Feel free to print from them, distribute them to others, and so forth, without restriction.

How's that hopey-changey thing workin' for ya? - Click for full-size art High fuel prices make EVERYTHING cost more! - Click for full-size art Drill, baby, drill! - Click for full-size art

Hope & Change turned out to be a lot of PORK! - Click for full-size art Empty wallet, nothing left but CHANGE! My only HOPE is NObama 2012! - Click for full-size art How's that hopey-changey thing working for you? - Click for full-size art

Inflation - it's what's for dinner! - Click for full-size art

Click each image to get free high-resolution reproducible art.

Sticky Note Campaign – Yes We Can

Sticky Note Campaign – Can’t Afford Gas

Uploaded by KingSmokeRing on Apr 30, 2011

****** “America’s GAS-ROOTS movement”! ******

visit https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197324990309059

Purchase a pad of large sticky notes. Write on each one, “How’s that Hope & Change working out for you?” Every time you stop to fill your vehicle with gas, place your sticky note somewhere on the pump before you drive away. DO NOT be destructive in ANY way! Place your sticky note somewhere, so as not to impede the next customer’s ability to read the pump’s digital readout.

After placing your sticky note, please consider taking a digital picture, then uploading it to our wall. Please tell us in which city and state the picture was taken. This is meant to be a “quiet” protest by our silent majority of Americans, to be served upon this administration!! Thank you all for your support!

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Originally published on 1389 Blog.


Gas Pump Activism: Print This Poster!

by 1389AD ( 42 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Regulation, Technology, Transportation at April 29th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

Disrupt the Narrative: Gas Pump Activism

(h/t: Ed Driscoll)

Do you have to take these gas prices in silence? I don’t think so.

All you have to do is download this pdf, print out a few copies and put them, along with a roll of Scotch tape, into your car.

The next time you fill up, instead of watching in horror as the dollar amount on the pump races by as the gallons trickle into your tank, affix one of these to the pump.

Take care to not cover vital information regarding safety, etc. and don’t cover any advertising.

Then drive off with a smile on your face, knowing that when the next person drives up to the pump they’ll either agree with you and be pleased to know that they’re not alone, be better informed by your message or if it’s an Obamabot, you’ll have thrown water on their circuitry and ruined their day.

Obama Gas Prices graph poster

Here’s the pdf you can download for a better quality image for printing purposes…

ObamaGasPrices.pdf

…As for the artwork, such as it is, feel free to share it with whomever. We need to pin the gas price tail on this Donkey.

…Here’s a great rework of the original [in small format] from botnet.

Read it all here (with rolling updates).

Tech Tips

  • Color laser copies provide the strongest visual impact and the best resistance to outdoor weather. But if your budget doesn’t allow for color copies, by all means, use black-and-white laser copies or color ink-jet printouts. If you use ink-jet printouts, try to post them where they won’t be directly exposed to rain.
  • You can even print the .pdf image on full-page self-stick labels. Read the package; some labels are removable by peeling and some are permanent. I do not recommend that you stick anything to someone else’s gas pump that might damage the paint. If you plan to run adhesive label sheets through a laser printer or copier, be sure to buy labels that are designed for laser printing. Otherwise, the adhesive could melt and damage the laser device. The package will clearly indicate whether the label sheets are for laser, ink-jet, or both.
  • Are you a gas station owner? You can easily make a large-format banner or sign from the .pdf image, to show your customers the real source of their predicament at the pumps.

Also posted on 1389 Blog.


When Oil Prices Double, Recession Often Follows

by Iron Fist ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines at April 25th, 2011 - 9:02 am

Hat Tip to Instapunbdit for the link.

There are plenty of risks in the economic outlook right now, including global supply disruptions following the multiple disasters in Japan, sovereign debt problems in Europe, budget gridlock in the U.S., and China’s inflation and rate hikes. What economists are most worried about, though, is oil. West Texas Intermediate crude ended above $112 per barrel in New York trading Thursday before the Easter break. Brent crude, the European benchmark, was just over $124. The average price for U.S. gasoline, at $3.85 per gallon on Friday, continues its march toward the $4.11 peak hit in 2008.

Already, rapid growth in emerging markets in Asia and South America is pressuring tight global oil supplies. That’s what pushed oil prices to $147 in 2008, adding to the problems in the U.S. economy. The Paris-based International Energy Agency in its April report estimated that effective spare production capacity within OPEC, which supplies about 40 percent of the world’s oil, stands at 3.91 million barrels per day. Based on OPEC’s March production of 29.2 million barrels a day, that means OPEC is producing at just over 88 percent of capacity – leaving a thin margin close to the level that helped drive oil prices up in the previous decade. The turmoil in Libya has already taken most of the country’s 1.7 million barrels per day off the market, and any further supply losses would be acutely felt.

How would oil in the $140-$150 per barrel range play out? Economists say much would depend on the speed of the rise. In the U.S., a spike to that range over the narrow space of a quarter would cause a sharp pullback in consumer spending, mainly on high-priced discretionary items such as cars and home goods. The surge would generate ripple effects throughout the economy, including outsized impacts on transportation, distribution, and construction, while increasing the chance of a new recession. The recent price rise has already pushed up U.S. inflation to an annual rate of 6.1 percent from December to March, cutting spending growth sharply last quarter and hammering consumer confidence.

This is just common sense, really. If you are spending more on gas, which is a relatively inflexible need, you will have to make it up somewhere, and everybody’s credit cards are maxed out, just like America’s. We’d be in for a rough patch if we had a good President. With the one we have, things are likely to get very bad.