# Who Picks Your Banners?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-picks-your-banners/438940>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 24, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-picks-your-banners/438940 "2008-02-24T12:46:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-picks-your-banners/438940/21 "2008-02-27T05:10:31Z")

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[QUOTE=cowgirl]  
I don’t see these ads. What sort of anti-Israel propaganda is it?  
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**Cluster Bomb Petition**  
Israel cluster bombs in Lebanon. Children are victims!  
[action.atfl.org](http://action.atfl.org)

Clicking on the link takes you [here.](http://action.atfl.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6644&track=sitetxt)

No idea why someone would find it offensive–is there a hidden agenda? Seems pretty straighforward–unexploded ordnance on the ground in Lebanon, “won’t someone please think of the children” handwringing, a form for an online petition to GW which is completely useless, but which allows people to think they’ve struck a blow of some kind for, I dunno, decency or something.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-picks-your-banners/438940/22 "2008-02-28T01:50:35Z")

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Sixty seconds is clearly too much for Jerry to invest on this issue. I can’t blame him; I like saving sixty seconds too. But then, I’m unemployed.

That said, if it’s a cluster bomb petition, I don’t see what’s so offensive. And I’m Jewish and strongly pro-Israel. (Of course, there’s no mention of the unexploded Syrian/Lebanese bombs on the ground in Israel, which I’ve been within 20 feet of myself.)

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**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-picks-your-banners/438940/23 "2008-02-28T02:39:43Z")

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If only there was a way to block the ads… like a script, or plug in, or something…

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