"If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness."

- William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic

Check out President Coolidge's electric horse:
http://www.forbeslibrary.org/news/CoolidgeHorse.shtml

A bar owner doesn't like drug dealers.

What a complicated emotion that must be.

One has but to look:
http://www.langorigami.com/science/treemaker/treemaker5.php4
But this may not give the sort of instructions you're imagining.

You're missing the forest for the crosses -- the real subliminal message here is the balls on the bookcase. Either the symbol of St. Nicholas (patron saint of pawnbrokers, among other things) OR a not too subtle hint that he has more of them than Romney. (Who has two, but very small.)