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The Republican National Committee is up with a new website today poking fun at President Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard vacation. Visitors can send postcards featuring Obama relaxing, with one-liners critical of his leadership of the economy.

OGDEN -- World War II scenes an Ogden soldier drew on postcards and mailed to his dad, who was a barber at Ogden's Union Station, have turned up in Sacramento and may be coming back to town. The baker's dozen postcards are a window to one family's life in Ogden. The kid who drew them, William M. Johnson, also drew cartoons for the Standard-Examiner and went on to paint murals in Lehi and be a newspaper artist in Salt Lake City and, later, in California. The kid's father, William Wallace Johnson, was a well-regarded Ogden businessman who cut the hair...

OCALA - The Marion County Sheriff's Office today released several postcards that had been mailed to schools last Monday and appeared to threaten a terrorist attack on Sept. 11. "At this point we've worked just about all the leads we have," sheriff's Maj. Terry Bovaird said. Now investigators are looking to the public for help. He hopes someone will recognize the writing or the postcards themselves. The Sheriff's Office also announced a $10,000 reward being offered by the U.S. Postal Service. Seven of nine postcards were released. They had been sent to the School Board office, the Marion Technical Insitute...

Police Release 9 Threatening Postcards OCALA, Fla. -- Investigators in Marion County, Fla., are searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day with the words 'Jihad-Boom" and handwritten cartoons of a building apparently exploding with people inside. Investigators released the postcards with the threatening drawings on them Monday in hopes of generating leads in the case. Officials said that the postcards are made up of various and traditional themes, and each one has a distinctive hand-drawn cartoon on it. Several of the threats arrived on postcards featuring Walt Disney World. Detectives said the...

Bishops’ President Urges Support for a Federal Constitutional Marriage Amendment; Knights of Columbus Plan National Postcard CampaignWASHINGTON (April 3, 2006)—Bishop William S. Skylstad, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has written to all Catholic Bishops asking that the bishops and the people in their dioceses become involved in the effort to support a federal constitutional marriage amendment. In the letter, Bishop Skylstad also informed the Bishops that the Knights of Columbus have initiated a national postcard campaign with respect to public advocacy for the Protection of Marriage Amendment. “Today there is a growing sense shared by...

A mini-controversy has arisen over an episode of “Postcards from Buster,” a children’s program produced for PBS, which features a same-sex couple from Vermont. The Secretary of Education refused to distribute the episode and asked that government funds used to produce it be refunded. In response gay activist Winnie Stachelberg accused the Secretary of denying children “an education about the diversity of American families.” The program is not, as Stachelberg claims, an effort to promote tolerance, but part of a comprehensive campaign by gay activists to change the culture and marginalize those who oppose the redefinition of marriage. Having lost...

In honor of the RNC here is a set of old postcards of NYC These were made prior to the construction of the Empire State Building. Please click on the thumbnails to see a much larger version in a new window.

A recurrent, almost dominant motif in comic post cards is the woman with the stuck-out behind. In perhaps half of them, or more than half, even when the point of the joke has nothing to do with sex, the same female figure appears, a plump ‘voluptuous’ figure with the dress clinging to it as tightly as another skin and with breasts or buttocks grossly over-emphasized according to which way it is turned. There can be no doubt that these pictures lift the lid off a very widespread repression, natural enough in a country whose women when young tend to be...

Received this URL for the postcard site of Dean's campaign in my email and think Freepers could do a much better job of designing post cards for Dean then what is on his site. With the ingenuity around FR with Graphics, let's see who can make the best post card which we can all use when we spot a Deaniac troll posting. From several accounts, his website has been hacked by other campaigns to change the postcards. Instead of hacking, we have FR where we can design our own postcards for use in sending out reasons why Dean would be...