Why I Flat Love Stoopid People
This right here was on Facebook. Click the little one to get the big one.
Okay, so here’s the deal. These coins were commissioned in 2005 when that Christian-Hating Obama wasn’t president.
The $1 coins were commissioned to be a series about the Presidents of the United States. It was decided that these would be the first coins since 1905 minted with writing on the edges. These say In God We Trust and E PLURIBUS UNUM and the date they were minted on the edge.
It looks like these over to the right.
Now here’s the fun fact. A limited number of the George Washington coins got through the mint without the inscription around the edge. If in fact the Facebook guy had one of those, it’s no wonder the post office worker wanted it back. They are worth $640 to collectors.
People who think it’s appropriate to put God on money are obviously not getting any messages from God.
The MARTA (Atlanta’s bus/train system) gives dollar coins as change from the machines that update our little travel cards. I checked my stash and two of them don’t seem to have any writing on the edges. Not the Washington coins, though.
1Obviously Satanist.
I’ve had enough trouble with the paper currency coming in different varieties. Some of them make me want to get out the crayons and color them.
e. platypus onion gave us this link in the last Huckabee-bashing, and it explains near the end why we have God all over the money and the pledge of allegiance all that, as of the 1950s. Hint: not for religious reasons.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-america-invented-religious-right-conservative-roosevelt-princeton-117030.html?ml=po#.VTOdDtJViko
2This is outrageous! Our coins should reflect the principals of the founding fathers, just like those first minted by our young nation in 1792 (all of which must have been misprinted because none say “In God We Trust”):
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+dollar+coin+1792&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=NzQ0VfjRIoXhoASDvYHQDQ&ved=0CB4QsAQ&biw=1357&bih=874
3And I wonder what this guy would say when he came across the postage stamp with the airplane printed upside down? Get thee hence, Satan? That stamp turned out to be worth a huge bundle of money! Frankly, I think this guy has way the hell too much time on his hands and not enough brain in his head.
4I am willing to help any of you who don’t like these demon coins. Just send them to me, and I will *ahem* take care of them for you. Consider it my “public service”.
5he just found himself on the mailing list of every rightwing grifter in the country.
6Jesus chased the money changers out of the temple. Enough said.
7All I could think of when I saw that Facebook post was what we used to write on our book covers when I was in school:
“In God we trust. All others pay cash.”
8One of my senatevarmints has just filed a bill to cease production of the Presidential coin series. Personally, I think it’s because he doesn’t want a black guy on a coin, but he has been trying to get rid of the dollar coin for a while.
When you point out to his office workers that it is fiscally more responsible to mint dollar coins rather than print dollar bills they respond that no one wants dollar coins. Now, we know why. Because of idiots like this.
My response usually is that if we quit printing bills, everyone would be glad to take the coins. That is waaay too logical for Vitter to understand.
9Quite unlike wingnut tools,currency has some value in ‘murrica. In the end wingnuts and currency will be melted down. Guess which one will be recycled? (hint-it won’t be wingnuts)
Don’t get me wrong. Burning wingnuts provides a valuable service by stoking the fires of Hell so the devil can roast more wingnuts.
10Mikey,
11What’s your senatevarmit’s name?
Vitter
12Fred Farkelstone, his name is David Vitter. Drat, I almost typed that as Bitter. Heh-heh. Anyhow, that would be why I stated that it would be too logical for him to understand at the end of my comment
13Maybe I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning; but, all I could think was the Stoopid people are going to get us all killed!
14Do they have some kind of computer program that produces conspiracy theories ’cause they seem to be occurring with the speed of high-frequency trading? And they are just as disconnected from reality.
15Sigh. My main reason for using paper money is that it weighs less. Once long ago I asked our youngest to dump out my purse and find out what was so heavy in it. He found $14 worth of quarters. But I would take a dollar coin if I ever had a chance. I’ve never seen one in real life.
16@LynnN
Re Conspiracies under every rock
I got an email from a former co-worker once that included an obviously posed picture of President Obama. In the background was an American flag with a gold fringe. The subject of the screech in the email was that the gold fringed flag meant we, the USofA, was now being ruled under “admiralty law”. And thus our Constitutional rights were suspended, the sky was full of black UN helicopters etc. Probably “dogs and cats … living together” would be next.
17I have come to love the delete button in gmail.
Black gold would have a new & different meaning
18Ya know, I haven’t been reading the comments of late and I have enjoyed them this time. I’m still looking for a like button around here somewhere to share my pleasure. Black gold…LOL.
19Guys, I will ask The Geek if that can be done. A LIKE button would be good but I’d much rather you tell the person why you like it.
20Geo Washington was said to have thrown a dollar coin across the Potomac back in the day. Can’t throw a new dollar coin across the Potomac because money went alot further back then.
21Ms Juanita Jean-I like you because…..
22Micr: I would have loved to see that picture. We are collecting all sorts of ridiculous pictures and stories right out of Tea Party Fantasy Land, including the one about the woman who just loves her “house gun” …
As for the coin, who the HELL inspects every bit of change for evangelical affirmation? It’s money, period.
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