Uh – I was taught not to touch the flag in any disrespectful way that would definitely include that way.
Your Name’s not Bruce?
Think of what would have happened if Obama had done that…
sentient spanner
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Holms
You guys have a “Flag Day”?? Holy empty jingoism, Batman!
Omar
“Patriotism s the last refuge of a scoundrel.” – Dr Johnson.
Johnson was not disparaging patriotism so much as scoundrels and their tricks. But it is drearily apt in the case of Captain Bonespurs.
clamboy
They used that photo. They used *that* photo. They *used* that photo???
Sackbut
It seems to me we have a “Praise the Military” Day in May, June, June again, July, September, and November, nominally referred to as Memorial Day, Flag Day, Armed Forces Day, Independence Day, Patriot Day, and Veterans Day.
Holms @ 4 – do we have a “Flag Day”? I guess so, in some sense, unless whoever tweeted this for the administration was having a laugh, but I don’t know how much of a thing it is. I’ve never paid any attention to it. I don’t think it’s forced on us the way the idiotic “pledge of allegiance” is forced on school children.
Lady Mondegreen
I don’t know how much of a thing it is. I’ve never paid any attention to it. I don’t think it’s forced on us the way the idiotic “pledge of allegiance” is forced on school children.
I’ve heard of it–but we never got the day off for school so nobody paid much nevermind. :)
Colin Day
@Omar
#5
Obligatory Ambrose Bierce:
“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”
Lady Mondegreen
next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
E. E. Cummings
Acolyte of Sagan
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
Flag Day is not an official federal holiday. Title 36 of the United States Code, Subtitle I, Part A, CHAPTER 1, § 110[4] is the official statute on Flag Day; however, it is at the president’s discretion to officially proclaim the observance. On June 14, 1937, Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday, beginning in the town of Rennerdale.[1] New York Statutes designate the second Sunday in June as Flag Day, a state holiday.[5]
My aunt was born on June 14. For some reason this has remained funny in our family for decades. “Happy Flag Day auntie!”
Omar
Of course, Captain Bonespurs’ super-patriotism may have a simple explanation. It might just be a convenient bluff to hide some condition or other: like priapism.
I which case, expert opinion should be sought. I would suggest calling for testimony from an renowned authority on the subject like Ms Stormy Daniels. In fact, I would deem that essential. It is after all a matter. of national and global importance.
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Uh – I was taught not to touch the flag in any disrespectful way that would definitely include that way.
Think of what would have happened if Obama had done that…
_(´ཀ`」 ∠)_
You guys have a “Flag Day”?? Holy empty jingoism, Batman!
“Patriotism s the last refuge of a scoundrel.” – Dr Johnson.
Johnson was not disparaging patriotism so much as scoundrels and their tricks. But it is drearily apt in the case of Captain Bonespurs.
They used that photo. They used *that* photo. They *used* that photo???
It seems to me we have a “Praise the Military” Day in May, June, June again, July, September, and November, nominally referred to as Memorial Day, Flag Day, Armed Forces Day, Independence Day, Patriot Day, and Veterans Day.
Holms @ 4 – do we have a “Flag Day”? I guess so, in some sense, unless whoever tweeted this for the administration was having a laugh, but I don’t know how much of a thing it is. I’ve never paid any attention to it. I don’t think it’s forced on us the way the idiotic “pledge of allegiance” is forced on school children.
I’ve heard of it–but we never got the day off for school so nobody paid much nevermind. :)
@Omar
#5
Obligatory Ambrose Bierce:
“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”
E. E. Cummings
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day_(United_States)
My aunt was born on June 14. For some reason this has remained funny in our family for decades. “Happy Flag Day auntie!”
Of course, Captain Bonespurs’ super-patriotism may have a simple explanation. It might just be a convenient bluff to hide some condition or other: like priapism.
I which case, expert opinion should be sought. I would suggest calling for testimony from an renowned authority on the subject like Ms Stormy Daniels. In fact, I would deem that essential. It is after all a matter. of national and global importance.