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Michigan lawmaker seeks official tartan
upi. ^ | Nov. 23, 2009

Posted on 11/23/2009 1:02:51 PM PST by JoeProBono

LANSING , Mich., A Michigan lawmaker is requesting a hearing for a bill that would give the state an official tartan, or Scottish-inspired plaid pattern.

State Rep. Richard LeBlanc, D-Westland, who introduced an identical tartan bill that failed to gain steam in 2007, said he supports a tartan made by Scottish weaver Kati Meek, 69, of Alpena, Mich., the Detroit Free Press reported Monday.

Meek said the tartan includes colors representative of Michigan's forests, lakes, beaches , cherries and snow.

"I used Michigan's natural colors. There's some pretty gross tartans, and this I think is one of the more attractive ones, if I may say so," she said.

More than 30 states already have official tartans.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: jpb; michigan; tartan

1 posted on 11/23/2009 1:02:52 PM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
What are the colors on a State of Michigan Unemployment Form?

Maybe that could be the new State Seal?

2 posted on 11/23/2009 1:05:32 PM PST by AreaMan
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To: JoeProBono

Do the voters of Michigan know about this?

In the midst of all the probelms Michigan has, you have an electred official wanting to address an official state skirt?

I wish the “great” citizens of Michigan would help pull the heads out of the a$$es of the rest of the voting citizenry up there and start electing adults.


3 posted on 11/23/2009 1:06:36 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: JoeProBono

Our economy is in the tank, people are leaving the state, you guys can’t EVEN balance a budget and you are messing with a kilt? Get a life dude. Vote this idiot out.


4 posted on 11/23/2009 1:07:55 PM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: JoeProBono

Can they weave in a dollar sign with a line through it?


5 posted on 11/23/2009 1:16:49 PM PST by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: JoeProBono

Breaking headline: Michigan Man turns into Scotsman!

(Monty Python Skit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxzdkaaafms

Just imagine Detroit with everyone wearing kilts!


6 posted on 11/23/2009 1:44:35 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: sionnsar

I’d rather see the pipes (and I don’t mean the glass kind) made the state musical instrument.


7 posted on 11/28/2009 10:16:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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8 posted on 11/28/2009 10:45:49 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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9 posted on 11/28/2009 10:46:17 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: JoeProBono

30 states have tartans? I did not know that. No offense, but why?


10 posted on 11/28/2009 11:22:48 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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11 posted on 11/28/2009 2:15:24 PM PST by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
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To: JoeProBono

That’s silly. Many Michiganders have their own family tartans why create a state one? (the blue & black ones in the photo are one of my husband’s family tartans)


12 posted on 11/28/2009 3:02:31 PM PST by madison10
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In the midst of all the probelms Michigan has, you have an electred official wanting to address an official state skirt?>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nah? Why fash yersel'? The wee gobber whants ta rouse the Scoots a Michigan and hae them sharpen their lang swards tae thrash the sons of y' Allah, many wha's rig is the dubgh thrawn tae all fraedom !!!!
13 posted on 11/28/2009 3:46:10 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA))
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To: ReneeLynn
30 states have tartans? I did not know that. No offense, but why?

Because they can. The U.S. had one commissioned for the Bicentennial (red, white & blue, of course) -- but it had to be registered under a different name, the St. Andrew's. Each of the Canadian provinces has its tartan as well.

Though I am not aware of a big Scots influence in MI history. (There could be, but I am unaware of it.)

14 posted on 11/28/2009 4:09:43 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: JoeProBono

We have escapism tv, is this escapism legislation?! With all the troubles in Michigan, let’s focus on a Tartan?!

If you are a Dem in state of Michigan and can’t or won’t do anything about near 30% unemployment, I guess that is what you might do....:(

What a wonderful gift to his next election challenger’s campaign commercial tho!


15 posted on 11/29/2009 11:29:59 AM PST by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: 70th Division

No one mentioned anything about a kilt. Tartan is a cloth woven to represent a people or an area. The proposed Michigan tartan was woven specifically to represent the natural beauty of Michigan for ALL if its residents to claim and enjoy. It excludes no one and it costs nothing. Does everything in life have to be rosie for a non-controversial piece of legislation to be passed? What was going on when the mastodon bone became the official fossil of Michigan? I think if we can have an official State fossil and 36 other states can have an official state tartan, Michigan can have one too...for ALL if its people.


16 posted on 03/09/2010 11:04:42 AM PST by MIScot
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