Little known fact: Flying the above flag is the internationally recognized semaphore signal for “moron in distress”:
Wes Kennedy, of the Acacia housing development in Lumberton, says he had no idea some of his neighbors had a problem with his flag until reporters started calling and telling him.
“If someone had come to me in the beginning, I would have said, ‘Let’s sit down and talk to see what we might reasonably come up with as a solution.’”
Once he became aware of their objections, Kennedy worked out his own solution.
He’s taken the flag down and replaced it with two separate flags — one, the standard stars and stripes, and the second a picture of Obama.
Kennedy hopes his neighbors are happy, though he’s not sure.
“In Acacia, there are some angry, maybe even evil-minded people about Obama,” he tells KYW Newsradio.
Idiot thinks the reason for the uproar is because people hate Obama. Uber-libs and other lefties never do quite get the whole American flag thing. I guess to them it represents the problem with the world today, so they don’t see why desecrating it is such a big deal.
Normally I’d say let’s celebrate free speech and property rights and let morons be morons — but since we’re all subsidizing this guy’s rent, I’m not so sure how I feel about allowing him to fly a flag that would give Mao a hard-on:
As seen outside the Lake County Democratic Headquarters in Tavares, Florida:
I was shocked… that they had the actual flag above the Obama flag (these Dems will probably get some hate mail from lefties for that egregious breach of prog protocol).
The Lake County Democratic Headquarters in Tavares has been flying two American flags outside their office. The first an American Flag and the second the altered flag.
A veterans group arrived late this afternoon with the media in tow and demanded that the second flag be taken down. Don Van Beck, executive director of the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park asked that the altered flag be removed, explaining that it was in violation of federal flag code. He offered a POW/MIA flag to fly in its place.
Nancy Hurlburt, the Democratic Party Chair for Lake County, said she would research the issue but didn’t take the Obama flag down immediately, prompting Van Beck to declare that they would take the flag down for her.
“No, you will not. This is private property,” Hurlbert responded.
After a short time spent ‘researching’, Hurlbert relented and took down the flag while the veterans looked on. She did not accept the POW/MIA flag offered as a replacement.
When the veterans said the flag was inappropriate, I expected the Democratic Party Chair to agree and take down the top flag, but that didn’t happen. Baby steps…
ANNISTON, Ala. — Officials with the parent company of Olive Garden restaurants say they’re sorry if a decision regarding an Alabama Kiwanis club’s desire to display the American flag caused any concern.
The comments come after 80-year-old Marti Warren of Anniston said she wasn’t allowed to bring an American flag into an Olive Garden for a planned Kiwanis Club banquet in the east Alabama town of Oxford.
Warren learned the night of the banquet that she wouldn’t be allowed to display the flag or the Kiwanis banner in the restaurant, she said.
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The Oxford Olive Garden lacks a private dining area, which led to the decision, company officials said.
“To be fair to everyone and avoid disrupting the dining experience for all other guests, they’re unable to accommodate flags or banners of any type in the dining room,” according to the statement.
No flag allowed in the public dining room at Olive Garden, but bending over on command to satisfy Michelle Obama’s wishes is still not only allowed, but encouraged.
Update: There’s an apology on Olive Garden’s home page.
Under the direction of Lt. Colonel Timothy Vaughn, Commander of The Army Cadets of California, a 10th Anniversary Observance of the 9-11 Attacks on America was held last Sunday at Crockett Park in Oakley, California with a military folding-of-the-flag ceremony.
The flag was presented to an individual who accepted it on behalf of all Americans who were affected by the cowardly surprise Muslim attacks on unarmed civilians in New York City, Washington, D.C. and an intended one that ended in a field in Pennsylvania after the Muslims were overpowered by passengers on Flight 93 armed at hitting either The White House or The Capitol Building in D.C.. That plane crashed in a field..Everyone on board were killed. Had it not been for the heroic actions of the passengers, that death toll would have been much higher.
This ceremony in Oakley was one of the only flag folding ceremonies that explained what each fold meant. Following that beautiful ceremony a man stated that he had two such flags that were presented to him, but this was the first time that he learned what the 13 folds meant. For that reason, we are sharing this with our readers.
Lt. Col. Vaughn provided the information: First of all, the national flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a rectangle in the canton (referred to as the union) bearing fifty small white, 5 point stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of 5 stars.
The fifty stars on the flag represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the 13 colonies that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first states in the union.
Another bit of interesting information: Most everyone is familiar with the 21 Gun Salute. The 21 Gun Salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776.
Those who have attended military services cannot help but notice how the honor guard pays meticulous attention to correctly folding the American Flag 13 times. Many assume that it was to symbolize the original 13 colonies. As the late Paul Harvey would say, “Here is the REST of the story.”
The first fold of our flag is a symbol of life.
The second fold is a symbol of our belief in eternal life.
The 3rd fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veterans departing our ranks who gave a portion of their lives for the defense of our country to attain peace throughout the world.
The 4th fold represents our weaker nature, for as American citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well as in time of war for His divine guidance.
The 5th fold is a tribute to our country, for in the words of Stephen Decaur, “Our Country, in dealing with other countries, may she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong.”
The 6th fold is for where our hearts lie. It is with our heart that we pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
CBS Atlanta News has learned that 3,000 American flags representing the victims of 9/11 disappeared from Cannon Park in the city of Canton on Thursday.
“These flags represented a fallen soul. Somebody who gave their life for 9/11,” veteran John Marinko said.
The Canton Police Department found the flags Friday morning stuffed in boxes, trash cans and even piled on the floor inside the old Cherokee County Courthouse.
“It’s very disheartening that someone would disrespect the flag, especially when it was in memorial to a 9/11 victim,” said Canton resident Channing Ruskell. Keep Reading
Mixed in among the many tributes being offered by the media on the tenth anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attack on our country was a news item that brought me as much heartache as revisiting the horrors of that fateful day. Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts was contemplating a demand by a group known as the Brookline Political Action For Peace, that the reciting by students of the Pledge of Allegiance must no longer be allowed in public schools.
Just think about that for a moment. In the history of this country more than one million four hundred thousand men and women have fought and died under that flag. Tenfold that number have shed their blood just so students, teachers, parents…all Americans, would have the right to stand free and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
Now we have a despicable group of individuals who have given voice to a demand that students no longer learn or recite that promise to their nation. The rationale for making this demand is that reciting such a pledge is reflective of what takes place in totalitarian regimes. What is even more disgusting is the idea that any school administration would even allow such a demand to be considered.
I immediately thought back to the 1960s when I was a member of the Military Advisory Group in Vietnam. We wore civilian clothing, lived in civilian quarters, drove civilian’s vehicles and displayed no military markings. There was no wearing or displaying of the American Flag. I cannot put into words feeling of despair that would come over me every time I looked up and saw that Vietnamese yellow flag with red stripes waving overhead. This was not the flag of my country, but I was being asked to risk my life under that banner.
We have all heard stories of our brave POWs and how they continued to honor their flag under the most trying of circumstances. One of my remembrances is a story told by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona. During the years he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, McCain was incarcerated along with fellow American Mike Christian. He recalls that Christian was a Naval Aviator who was commissioned from the ranks and later earned his wings. The Selma, Alabama native created a small American Flag out of bits and pieces of cloth taken from his and fellow prisoners clothing. The POWs would display the flag secretly and say the Pledge of Allegiance whenever possible. One day, the Vietnamese discovered the flag hidden on Christian’s body. It was taken away and he was severely beaten. When the officer regained his strength, he immediately started to fashion another American Flag.
I can proudly say that the schools attended by my grandchildren still proudly honor our flag. I recall one Veteran’s Day ceremony at my granddaughter’s school. All veterans were honored and everyone gathered outside under the flagpole. The Colors of our Nation were raised and everyone recited the Pledge of Allegiance. What kind of despicable human being would want to deny such experiences to any student?
Sadly, all of the Americans who bled and died under our flag gave their lives just so people like this could make such vile protests.
America, we are under attack. Our most formidable weapon—at least at this stage in a global war of competing politics, ideologies and religions—is still our First Amendment “Freedom of Speech.” It is our blood-bought duty and responsibility to embrace and exercise our most coveted Constitutional right . . . a right divinely inspired and handed down to us by our founding forefathers and protected by the shed blood of previous generations of patriotic Americans.
As Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is only a generation away from extinction.” While most Americans are either oblivious or complicit, our enemies, both foreign and domestic, are advancing on every front. Lest we find a unified purpose that transcends our petty political differences and gives birth to a galvanizing spirit of American patriotism, I shudder to visualize our country’s immediate future.
Please share my future “Pledge of Allegiance” with your friends and families and especially those Americans who have yet to acknowledge, much less engage, this most ominous of wars—a war not only to preserve our freedoms and liberties, but a war to eradicate America’s very existence! Is that the pledge they would want their grandchildren reciting? Let’s hope not.
July 3, 2008 – In the days and weeks following 9/11, friends and neighbors saw the American flag flying by my front door and assumed it was in remembrance of the people murdered by Islamic terrorists. I didn’t bother correcting them because, by then, that was certainly part of my intention. The thing is, the flag had been out there for several months, but they just hadn’t noticed. Or maybe they just thought it was corny and didn’t want to comment. But, now, I think, is a good time to set the record straight.
I went out and bought the flag because of my grandparents. I should explain I had never known my dad’s parents, both of whom died before I was born. I knew my mother’s parents, but could never speak to them. Although they had come to America in 1921, they never learned English. They could speak Russian and Hebrew, but they preferred Yiddish. I couldn’t converse in any of those languages. And, so, to me, my grandmother was this little old woman who would give me a wet kiss on the cheek and slip a quarter into my hand. My grandfather was a very quiet, bearded man who always wore a black frock coat; he looked like a short Abe Lincoln. He went to shul twice a day. When he was home, he was either reading the Torah, shelling lima beans or sipping tea through a sugar cube held between his front teeth. In short, if my life were a movie, they’d have been dress extras.
So why did I buy a flag because of those four people — two of whom I had never met and two of whom I had never spoken to? It’s simple. Because of sheer, unadulterated gratitude.
You see, one day, on my way home, I began to think how lucky I was to have been born in this country. Through no effort of my own, having made no sacrifice, taken no risk, I was the beneficiary of freedom, liberty, education, comfort, security and, yes, even luxury. It was not the first time I had acknowledged this good fortune. The difference this time is that, for some reason, it suddenly occurred to me that my good luck hadn’t just happened. It had been the direct result of these four people pulling up stakes and moving thousands of miles, across an entire continent and the Atlantic Ocean, to a new country, pursuing a dream that their children and their children’s children, of whom I am one, might, just might have better lives.
There were no guarantees. That was my epiphany. They had been denied the assurances of hindsight. They had done all this on a roll of the dice, only knowing for certain that there would be no going back.
My father’s parents were illiterate peasants. My mother’s parents not only never spoke a word of English, but her father — although he owned a small grocery store in Chicago — never, in 30 years, spoke on a telephone because he didn’t want to embarrass himself. But their grandson, bless their hearts, has enjoyed a career as a successful writer.
Officials at Goshen College, a Mennonite college in Indiana, have banned the use of the Star-Spangled Banner during sporting events. The reason school officials gave for the ban was that America’s National Anthem was deemed too violent. Specifically, according to Todd Starnes of FOX News, the school’s online fact sheet stated, “Historically, playing the national anthem has not been among Goshen College’s practices because of our Christ-centered core value of compassionate peacemaking seeming to be in conflict with the anthem’s militaristic language.” Professor John Blosser, an art instructor at Goshen, attempted to clarify the school’s opposition to the national anthem by saying, “It’s obviously about a battle. It’s rather violent. It’s about using violence to conquer and that would be something that many people would have problems with.”
It is always interesting to listen to liberals’ attempts to legitimize their attacks on traditional America. In this case, Professor Blosser would do well to study the history of the national anthem. Contrary to the professor’s statement, the National Anthem is not a song with aggressive, imperialistic undertones. The reality is that the lyrics of the National Anthem were written by Francis Scott Key and were based on the American defense of Fort McHenry from British attack during the War of 1812. Before liberal pacifists like Blosser declare war on the national anthem in places beyond Goshen University, maybe we should take a moment to examine the actual lyrics:
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Increasingly, it seems that the American flag is joining toy guns and dodgeball on the banned-from-school list. And the latest story on this front involves The Butterfield Elementary in Orange, Massachusetts, where a teacher told an 11-year-old boy that he may not hang his depiction of Old Glory because it might “offend” another student.
The boy, Frankie Girard, had drawn the picture in art class but then found that his teacher didn’t share his patriotism. Says his father, John, “He was denied hanging the flag up. And he asked if he could just even hang it on his desk, and he was told no. He could take the picture that he drew and take it home and be proud of it there.”
I guess patriotism has joined piety as a “private matter.” (Leftists tend to confuse closets with shelves. Everything that should be in the former, they display; everything that should be on the latter, they hide.)
There is a bit of a back story here, too. It is claimed that this incident followed an altercation in which the offended one struck Frankie after Frankie asked him why he didn’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
As for the accusation leveled against the teacher, it’s denied by the school superintendent, Dr. Paul Burnim. He refused to go on camera, but, reports WWLP.com’s Matt Caron, “told 22News over the phone that nobody ever told Franklin the drawing was offensive, and said the only reason it wasn’t hung was because Franklin was supposed to be doing other work; [sic] not drawing a picture.”
Nose growing much, doctor?
The reason why I don’t believe this man for a second is this: What 11-year-old is going to concoct a story that his teacher said his flag drawing was “offensive”? Oh, I understand that kids can lie almost as well as educators, but such a fabrication would require a level of cultural knowledge and sophistication beyond the grammar-school set. No, what we have here is a guilty teacher and a superintendent doing damage control and hiding under his desk.
As to this, Frankie’s father, John – who has contacted the ACLU (which makes me wonder about his cultural knowledge) and gotten a lot of press – said that Dr. Burnim asked him if this would “go away” if his son were allowed to hang the flag now. Obviously, this educator is worried about being hanged himself. Doctor, the time for that is past.
And you are a coward.
If you were any kind of man, you would have been offended that a teacher would look askance upon the flag. If you were any kind of a man, you would have leapt into action without hesitation. If you were any kind of man, you would have defended our culture. But you’re something other than a man.
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Little known fact: Flying the above flag is the internationally recognized semaphore signal for “moron in distress”:
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I was shocked… that they had the actual flag above the Obama flag (these Dems will probably get some hate mail from lefties for that egregious breach of prog protocol). 
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