Abby Peters sends this picture not from Mississippi but from Texas -- El Paso, actually. Her note is after the jump. (Our sending machine.)
Abby writes:
This street sign in El Paso, Texas lets drivers know there are no stop signs on Mississippi Avenue at the upcoming intersection. I always liked it because it reads like a straightforward reference to the Mississippi River. But then my mom visited and said it actually sounds like a political campaign slogan. Given Mississippi's relentless effort to eliminate abortion rights in the state, political slogan it is!
The news about Mississippi Republicans versus the state's only clinic lives here.
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Sign-making busy work for someone. The ones in NV say "Cross traffic does not stop." If one gets damaged, we can just put up another, not have to make another like this because it is so specific.
but nowhere near as much fun
No argument from me on that - just pointing out the difference in states and efficiency / logic between them. :-)
Another way of looking at it would be Mississippississippississippississippississippi....
You know, it just doesn't stop.
Mrs. Hippy can stop it. Microokedlettercrookedlettericrookedlettercrookedletterihunchbackhunchbacki.We need to bring back double dutch jump roping. It was fun.
Bananananananananananananananananananananananan OR Lightninginginginginginginging OR Aluinuminuminuminuminum are also fun to spell
We said, "...I-humpback-humpback-I." Ah, yes, though we north Alabamians didn't do double-dutch jump roping, just the easier single style. Talk about old memories!
This is a "sign" of the literacy of either Mississippi or Texas bureaucrats and their employees. What does this sign mean to someone from "out of town?"
It says exactly what they mean it to say. "If you don't know what 'Mississippi' means in this context, go back north where you belong!" Though I suspect the actual words would have been a bit more personal....
It makes me feel like saying "Hammer time."
Maybe it's just the vodka talking, but yeah, dammit, our sister state of Mississippi does not stop.
She pisses the @!$%# out of me a lot of the time, but we're not America without her.
I think I get it it's a fill in the blank
here goes...Mississippi does not stop: attacking abortion rights
Mississippi does not stop: trying to leave the union
Mississippi does not stop: creating personhood laws
Mississippi does not stop: attacking gay people
Hang on, this isn't really fair. The majority of people in Mississippi rejected the personhood amendment by popular vote. I haven't heard any of this secession nonsense from anyone in MS either and, in fact, the whole state shifted blue in the recent election. A higher percentage of Mississippians voted for Obama than in 17 other states.
I'm not saying my home state is perfect but we should celebrate the progress made by the hard work of the majority of Mississippians, not beat them up for the fading loudmouth minority. It seems like regionalism is still an acceptable prejudice.
The GOP/TP does not stop trying to control peoples privet lives with "Smaller government"!!
You've got to be delusional to believe that more government does not control our lives more than smaller government. That does not even compute.
It makes perfect sense, when you think about it. The States will take over where the government leaves off. Do you really trust your own States ability to take care of you more than the Federal government can? My answer is no, not after hearing all the latest nominees we had for the Republican primaries. One of them even thinks she's a witch, c'mon we're smarter than that. We can read backwards as well as right to left. It doesn't really take a rocket scientists to figure all this out, it takes someone with wisdom, who loves to read and gets caught up in old movies and Young grunge. It takes someone who has friends in low places, high places and in between. We can even mix some herbs together and come up with a few remedies. Do you need a remedy? Are you a black crow? Some of us are interested in other people's stories, some of us could care less.
The size of government does not necessarily relate to how it may control our private lives. You can have a small government with very strict laws and large government with very flexible laws. That would effectively give you a small government with more control. As a matter of fact, dictatorships are typically small governments because that's how the dictator keeps better control. The only thing big in those cases is their armed forces and police.
You have to be delusional to believe what the right presents as smaller government is indeed "smaller" government. If you think this is a christian nation and must have christian gov't you do not believe in small government. If you believe the gov't should control the bedrooms of consenting adults you do not believe in small government. If you believe in the drug war you do not believe in small government. If you believe in personhood laws you do not believe in small government.
What Gregg is no boubt reffering to is the hyprocrisy of the right's expansationist government stances masquerading as conservaticism.
I'm going to drive in that street and stop, just to prove the sign wrong.
Actually, Mississippi does not stop...
...He just keeps rollin' along...
Far nore politically correct:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlTlYfqQV4
Does this mean backward has no boundaries?
If Mississippi can ban all abortions, then apparently Mississippi state law supersedes U.S. Federal law. If this is the case, then why doesn't Colorado's marijuana law also supersede federal law? I would really like a good legal answer to this one
...Well, eveybody knows that!
"She just keeps rollin' along..."