North Dakota License Plate Ideas
July 9, 2010 7 Comments
The North Dakota license plate is supposed to raise awareness for the Peace Garden, I suppose.
The Peace Garden State
But I don’t think it’s working. There simply are not enough of us to get the message out. For example in 2007, the politicos made an example of the Peace Garden when they were upset about earmarks and pork spending. Rep. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said, “No one in America seriously believes that … peace gardens … are more important national priorities than bridge and road repairs.”
Speak for yourself, Senator. The International Peace Garden is like a National Park to me, but we don’t call it a national park because Canada pays for part of it. And there are some touching monuments donated by various other countries. I’ll blog more about that later, though.
Traveling around, I thought, then, what SHOULD our license plate represent if not the Peace Garden?
I started thinking about state pride. I started thinking about attention from the national media and our quiet Northern European heritage. Then I started thinking about all those poor states and countries going bankrupt everywhere.
I came up with this idea:
Quietly minding our own business state
And I was pretty happy with that until I went downtown Bismarck last night. I walked all over. Kuntsler would call it a horror: Buildings with blank walls facing the sidewalk, 1960s urban renewal. There’s nothing to look at. Nothing to discover. It’s bad.
So, without naming names, I talked to some people who explained why this is such in downtown Bismarck and, without going into too much detail…
I have a new idea for our state license plate.
The don't make me walk state
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These are great!
Remember when Bobby Jindahl held up as an example of wasteful spending “something called, Volcano monitoring”? I swear, if something is not in their own backyard…
Ha ha ha ha …. I especially like the “minding our own business” one!
Happy to see you back online, but you’ve left me a bit mystified, wondering what that explanation and those details were.
Susan, The short explanation is that it’s an area that was “renewed” during the 50s-80s, when the focus was on cars and not people.
Got it. Thanks!
scotcharoos at the capital are awesome! So are th oh henrys
I’ve never tried the O’Henry’s at the capitol because I’m already overwhelmed choosing between the chocolate-covered and the plain scotcheroos. I can’t even deal with the O’Henrys.