Description: Here's the title of a book by highly decorate Marine, Major General Smedley Butler, entitled, "War is a racket." Long before Eisenhower warned us about the dangers of the military industrial complex, Smedly Butler show how much war profiteering there really is. Teext is red white and blue with a colorized portrait of Smedly Butler. God Bless all my fellow veteran brothers and sisters!
Description: Here's a classic ironic song lyric from John Prine's Rocky Mountain time, where he laments: "Too young to see where I'm going, too old to go back again." White Broken Glass font as a mirror image (reverse text); ideal for social media influencers who shoot from their phone in selfie mode.
Description: In black Harting font, this column justified typewriter quote shows Anthony Bourdain's love and admiration for the Mexican immigrant worker and the hypocrisy with which American's view them: "Our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers.”
Description: In black typewritten letters (Harting font), this column justified simple typography design quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) : "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
Description: In Genesis 9:13 the Lord says: "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth." The Hebrew word for covenant is "bereet." Here is the word in Hebrew letters, in cascading rainbow colors,, with an oil painted look. Hence: RAINBOW COVENANT.
Description: In white Graduate and Edo fonts, this is an excerpt from a quote from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Description: In word cloud art, with written words in the shape of a Messianic Star of David with a crucifix, this word cloud features the prophecy from the book of Isaiah, from chapter 53, verse 5. Seven hundred years before Yeshua (Jesus) was born, Isaiah prophesized the details and purpose of His crucifixion.
Description: In black Harting font, this typewriter quote shows the hipocrisy of Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in contrast to his policies between 2020 and 2022. From a tweet he posted from a 2005 Harper interview: "When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.”
Description: This artistic rendering of the great Reverend Martin Luther King recalls his I have Dream Speech, where he prophecizes of a time when we all walk together in peace. The red lettering is not a quote but, reminds us to keep his dream alive. It's a message of hope we all need now more than ever with all the vioence that has broken out in the wake ofthe murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Description: This quote is from a famous, much quoted letter from Thomas Jefferson to his friend John Taylor, dated May 28th, 1816. It was in protest of the imposition of the so-called Second Bank of the United States, the central bank which destroyed us. But notice that Jefferson wasn't saying idiotic sound bites like, "end the Fed." He saw ALL banking establishments as a danger to our liberties. It makes one ponder who really wants his statues pulled down and the real reason why. His words are more urgent today than even in 1816. Any purported econmy subject to interest inevitably terminates under insoluble sums of falsified debt. We don't borrow money from banks and not even the falsified laws that have been imposed upon us can demonstrate so.
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