"Express yourself"

Express yourself, so long as it doesn't have anything to do with one of your hobbies that involves hunting. According to NRA-ILA, Capital One has joined the credit card companies that allow customized credit cards, including the ability to use your own photo... unless the picture happens to be of <b>you hunting</b> or something they do not approve of.

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You can’t use a hunting photo. Capital One considers them unacceptable.

That’s what Lou Hinger of Hamburg, N.J., found out when she tried to design a credit card using a photo of her husband Frank, dressed in hunting gear, posing with a deer he had taken last hunting season.

Hinger received an e-mail from Capital One that said, in part:

“Sorry, we were unable to approve the image you submitted. We will not approve any images that contain the following: “Violence, hatred, or cruelty to humans or animals, profanity obscenities or any type of death imagery.”
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Captial One should stick to what they do, which is manage money. When money experts begin to tell customers what kind of pictures are appropriate for expressing themselves, and get into the morality of hunting, fishing, or even profanity, maybe they are not too big to fail any more.

We wonder what would happen if a proud parent of a U.S. soldier tried to get a picture of their son or daughter on one of these credit cards. Which one of those judgmental terms would they use to prevent the picture from being used. 'War is hell,' after all.

Thanks to Outrage of the Week at NRA-ILA: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=6671