McHenry County Blog

I’ve seen copy cat bumper sticker from the one below that Bush-haters displayed during his last term in office didn’t predict the future.

I can’t find it now, but I did find this anti-Barack Obama T-shirt:

Obama was privately sworn in today. The public ceremony will be held tomorrow.

Since it’s a school holiday for Martin Luther King’s birthday, I guess school kids won’t be treated to watching the Inauguration.

Trying to free up some space to store some more photos, I came across these two bumper stickers.

Although nothing can bring back the children and teachers who were killed in Connecticut, the advice given on the left and right hand side of this Crystal Lake vehicle is probably the best that can be found.

Tonya Franklin, the woman who was willing to run against Jack Franks for State Representative as a Republican but was denied that opportunity by the McHenry County Republican Central Committee, sent an interesting photo of her home.

It was taken by one of the Google mapping folks.

Look at it closely and you will see an American Flag.

And, there is another flag next to it that has been deliberately blurred.

It’s a Tea Party Flag.

Draw your own conclusion.

A friend in Chicago found some of his anti-Obama bumper stickers blurred.

As if a lot of people look at these pictures.

This is a bumper sticker that I found in a Disney World parking lot.

It seems appropriate for Thanksgiving, our least commercial holiday.

There they were.

Two bumper stickers fighting on Route 14 in Crystal Lake.

First I saw the one below:

Right next to it was the bumper sticker you see below:

This bumper sticker was found near Richmond.

When I took this photo, I thought I had a two-fer.

But, upon examination, I see there are three messages on the back of this yellow Neon.

The bumper sticker caught my attention first.

It says, “Jesus – Don’t Leave Earth Without Him.”

The license plate reads, “JC SOON1.”

And in the middle of the trunk is the outline of a fish, a symbol of Christianity.

The Message of the Day is on a bumper sticker. It says, “Keep the Ten Commandments.”

Monday morning at a Barrington Park District facility, Mark Beaubien’s widow Dee Beaubien had a formal kick-off to her quest to gather 1,500 good signatures (3,000 being the goal) to get on the fall ballot as an Independent to run against Republican Dave McSweeney.

Not knowing the park behind the library, I had done some research on how to find the place, but it was still past the 10 o’clock announced starting time when I arrived at Jewel Tea Pavilion in Citizen’s Park.

Even so, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to look at license plates and bumper stickers in the isolated parking lot east of the meeting place.

The first I saw had the number 64, that of my old legislative district. I made a wild guess that it belonged to the woman who defeated me in the 2000 GOP primary, Rosemary Kurtz.

That didn’t really surprise me since Dee and Rosemary have similar philosophies.

For some reason, the Chevy with the Obama 2012 and the Turn Off Fox bumper stickers caught my attention.

Then I thought, of course, Democrats will be supporting Dee Beaubien because there is no Democratic Party candidate running for State Rep. in the 52nd House District.

I walked past the back ends of some other cars.

There was a retired legislator plate with “BC.”

No mystery there.

Former State Rep. Beth Coulson, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress to replace Mark Kirk, still had a “Beth Coulson for State Rep.” bumper sticker on her bumper.

Moving along, I found a bumper sticker on a car bought in Highland Park that said, “GOBAMA.”

Good play on words, I thought.

Another Obama 2012 was on the back of a black vehicle.

Above it was an Evanston Township High School sticker.

Below was one I just focused on.

When I did, it made me smile.

“I ride inside.  DogsAgainstRomney.com” with a photo of a dog whose breed I should recognize, but don’t.

A Volvo sported a round “Obama 2012″ sticker on its bumper. It was bought in Barrington.

A Ford Taurus has four bumper stickers.

Two were “Obama 2012″ ones.

One was stuck over a “Women for Obama” sticker, probably from 2008.

And, on the right hand side of the bumper was a “Melissa Bean for Congress” bumper sticker.

And, finally, a Toyota bought in Arlington Heights had a handmade poster in its back window touting workers’ rights in Wisconsin:

This was found on a car of a businessman who attended the second meeting of the McHenry County Business Committee at McHenry’s American Community Bank: