Sunday, September 30, 2007

Mr. Smith's Card Company

September 30, 2007

Soliciting Investors to Become Stockholders in Mr. Smith’s Card Company


For those variously embarrassed, angered, frustrated, shamed by the President of the United States, the White House, the Republicans in Congress, Congress, a few odd think tanks, some national newspaper chains, TV, radio, and other entities and persons;

and finding themselves nearly neutered by the same above persons, parties, corporations and so on;

and seeking a way to publicly express their dissatisfaction, chagrin, anger, embarrassment, frustration, and so on;

and recognizing that the United States Government increasingly is in the pocket of the monied interests; and

Increasingly does not represent the People;

We offer the following opportunity to invest in Mr. Smith’s Card Company.

Borrowing its title from the old movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,"

It is a simply profit making company that sells a way to express the dissatisfactions described above.

It will exist in both real and virtual reality;
May be formed from an existing card company or formed from scratch;
Will create a series of cards (more fully described below);
By its staff and by soliciting ideas from stockholders and the public;
To be displayed in real and in virtual catalogs;
For consumers to read and from which consumers might order;
A record will be kept of the numbers of orders for any given card;
The number of orders by card will be reported to the public at given intervals;
The consumer may order and may mail their own cards;
Or Mr. Smith’s Card Company will be glad to mail for them; and
Mr. Smith’s Card Company will personally deliver sacks of mail
addressed to Washington D.C..

The cards will have simple two or three tone backgrounds,
not to detract from the message in creative and colorful script
which will be on the front of the cards.
The interior of the cards will be for the consumer to sign or have signed
and may have additional personal messages.

Cost might be $ 5 per card and a break in rates for those who order more than five.

Card fronts might have some of the following messages:

Mr. President, Shame on you.
Mr. President, Shame on you for the attack on a defenseless country (Iraq).
Mr. President, You are a bully and a thug for attacking Iraq.
Mr. President, Is the attack on Iraq pay-off for the promises you made to your oil companies base?
Mr. President, You are a global embarrassment.
Mr. President, You are a terrorist.
Mr. President, You and Mr. Cheney and the oil companies are the axis of evil.
Mr. President, Do you feel safer since 9/11? You shouldn’t be.
Mr. President, Is there one reason why you should not be impeached?
Mr. President, Why do you have the U.S. Army over in Iraq where they are creating terrorists who might attack us here at home?
Mr. President, Your Administration stinks.
Mr. President, The stench of the corruption of your Administration can be smelled around the globe.
Mr. President, Shame on you and shame on us for electing you.
Speaker of the House. Shame on you. When do the impeachment hearings begin?
Senate. Shame on you. When do the impeachment hearings begin?
Wall Street Journal/Times, etc. Shame on you. Where is your daily coverage of corruption hearings in Washington D.C.?
Mr. Senator, Why should you and your family have health care at public expense when my son/daughter/mother/grandmother does not?

Surely, you can add your own heartfelt sayings. Nothing fancy. (In fact we might call this the Heartfelt Series. Later we can add the Stomach Felt and Bowel Felt Series.)

What are your ideas?

Does anyone know anything about any real or virtual card companies that might be interested in this idea? In fact, does anyone know if it isn't already being done?

Do you know any joyful expediters who would like to fulfill this idea?

1 comment:

Snave said...

I think this kind of thing can be done via CafePress. CafePress does all kinds of designs on t-shirts, mugs, hats, etc. and they may also do cards. It is worth checking out.

I can imagine all kinds of fun jingles to include inside the cards. If one wanted to add humor to the equation, it would not be difficult. For example, I can imagine a "Happy Anniversary" card for "Mission Accomplished":

The war is done you're on our way
To bigger, better crimes.
You wore the suit, you dumb galoot,
And now you should do time.

Happy Anniversary!


How about a "Congratulations" card for vetoing health care for kids? A "Congrats" card could apply to all kinds of things the prez has done.

A good blog to check out for verse is "Blognonymous". I think you'll see some of my verses there if you look in Kvatch's archives. He is a good political poet, and there are some other folks who are as well!

As for sending cards to the fedgov, I dunno... would they do much with them besides dropping them into the roundfile? Maybe, maybe not. Sending greeting cards to friends and relatives might be fun, especially if there was a way to combine political blundering with special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, mother's day, father's day, weddings... heh!