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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>><i>.If the government shutdown proceeds tomorrow, we need volunteers to spy on<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>themselves….spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>>…Requisition cancelled! The shutdown is going ahead in three minutes. But<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>the NSA is immune. We no longer need to watch ourselves. Our government<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>will do it for us: Government shutdown won't shut down NSA spying<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It has long been noted that short snappy slogans win campaigns. Examples are Tippecanoe and Tyler Too, which won for William Harrison in 1840 and I Like Ike, which won for Eisenhower and Nixon in 1952. Note in both the previous examples, neither slogan gave any actual logical reason to vote for the candidates, depending on how you look at it. The Tippecanoe thing had a cool alliteration and the works Ike and like rhyme.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In light of the government shutdown that took place starting today, it occurred to me that a nice snappy bumper-sticker slogan could be just the thing for the next US election cycle, one which expresses the meme that this democracy works just fine without a fully funded NSA to spy on us, one which relies on citizen volunteers to take up the slack. Suggested campaign slogan: Watch yourself, dude. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>