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2004-04-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Raj 2004-04-30 1:52:57 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He's so vain he probably thinks this post is about him.

Posted by Mike 2004-04-30 1:58:02 PM|| 2004-04-30 1:58:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 But even we were surprised to hear that his 1985 Dodge is plastered with vanity plates that read "Purple Heart 3."

How many letters, digits and spaces can you get on a Mass. vanity plate these days? That plate must be three feet wide!

Posted by MW 2004-04-30 2:42:13 PM|| 2004-04-30 2:42:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Quick Teresa, turn on the XM radio - Al Franken is making a significant point!

Posted by BigEd 2004-04-30 2:49:25 PM|| 2004-04-30 2:49:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 MW - I was wondering about that myself. MA plates carry six letters / numbers; maybe it's the front plate, since you don't need the state issued plate in the front if your car was registered after 1998.

Posted by Raj 2004-04-30 2:51:10 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-04-30 2:51:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry, should have said 'registered before 1998'.

Posted by Raj 2004-04-30 2:52:03 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-04-30 2:52:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 But even we were surprised to hear that his 1985 Dodge is plastered with vanity plates that read "Purple Heart 3."

Were you surprised to hear that he has a 1985 Dodge? That's almost twenty years old! And Teresa has a 1994 Jeep? That's ten years old. See? They are "of the people". They can't afford new cars!

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-04-30 2:56:29 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-04-30 2:56:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmmm. I'm as surpised as Newsmax and Limbacher because Kerry already disavowed those ~~short cuts to rotation~~ Purple Hearts as well as any other medals and ribbons he received. Unless the Navy handles these different from the Army,then it was really one Purple Heart with two oak leaf clusters, but that probably wouldn't fit on a vanity plate.

Posted by GK 2004-04-30 3:06:46 PM|| 2004-04-30 3:06:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 MW and Raj - I'd imagine that the plate was actually "PRPL HT3" or something like that. I don't think any state lets you have enough letters to write out the whole damn thing.

Posted by Captain Pedantic 2004-04-30 3:44:04 PM|| 2004-04-30 3:44:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 To clarify - I slapped a Boston Celtics plate (not a state issued plate) on the front of my Intrepid because the law says I don't need to have state issued plates on the front and on the back because my car was registered before 1998 (MA grandfather clause). I was speculating that perhaps he had on a specialty plate besides the state-issued vanity plate because I took 'Purple Heart 3' literally. They did spell out the other plates' abbreviations, though, so that was my interpretation.

Posted by Raj 2004-04-30 3:55:22 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-04-30 3:55:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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