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USPS New 44-Cent Stamp Celebrates a Muslim holiday | |
| Devout Agnostic User ID: 6383062  United States11/13/2012 05:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21681843 United States11/13/2012 05:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
ToSeek User ID: 24083101 United States11/13/2012 05:48 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently they think that putting hearts and butterflies on the new stamp Will make most people not realize that the rest is Arabic. Quoting: Alexander USPS New 44-Cent Stamp Celebrates a Muslim holiday Image: [link to api.ning.com] President Obama has directed the United States Postal Service To REMEMBER and HONOR the EID MUSLIM holiday season with A new commemorative 44-Cent First Class Holiday Postage Stamp.  First off, that's a custom-designed stamp. Zazzle.com lets you design and print your own stamps (within reason): [link to www.zazzle.com] On the other hand, the USPS does issue its own Eid stamp. However, it first started doing so in 2002, back in the early years of the Bush administration: [link to web.archive.org] |
| Alexander (OP) User ID: 15635858 United States11/13/2012 05:48 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I should have done some more checking on this before posting it and apologize for any misunderstanding referring to O. According to Snopes: Mixture of True and False Information True: A U.S. postage stamp commemorates the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. False: President Obama directed the issuance of the above-referenced stamp. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill |
| Saddletramp User ID: 736749 United States11/13/2012 07:53 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Saddletramp User ID: 736749 United States11/13/2012 07:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I should have done some more checking on this before posting it and apologize for any misunderstanding referring to O. Quoting: Alexander According to Snopes: Mixture of True and False Information True: A U.S. postage stamp commemorates the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. False: President Obama directed the issuance of the above-referenced stamp. Well who the fuck did authorize this, and I guarantee Obama's not going to de-authorize it... Just because you're paranoid don't mean they ain't out to get ya! Paranoid?!?!? I wish! Shit son, we're hell and gone from paranoid... We don't rent pigs... Come and take it! |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1903290 United States11/16/2012 01:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I should have done some more checking on this before posting it and apologize for any misunderstanding referring to O. Quoting: Alexander According to Snopes: Mixture of True and False Information True: A U.S. postage stamp commemorates the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. False: President Obama directed the issuance of the above-referenced stamp. Does this mean the people who pointed this stamp was a custom one from zazzle.com early in the thread and were promptly banned will get reinstated now? |
