That’s the mayo. 
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Whine
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My take is that Christianity is not a genuine religion. So there’s that.
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“Damn the flag… damn all flags!” Steve McQueen, Sand Pebbles, 1966. My dad took me to see this movie when it came out, when I was about 10. And affirmed his agreement with the closing lines of the movie, which made a great impression on me, as did the current song then, “Patriot Game”
“I am a sinner, I make mistakes every single day, but I do think that we could use a little more of God, not less,” said Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA)."
Okay, so here’s the deal: You are stupid.
Also, God, if he or she is here, isn’t here to serve you; you are here to serve God. So stop with the sinning, and quit making mistakes everyday.
Capiche?
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Ya know, GOPers, the actual Constitution of the USA has pertinent requirements on the subject of oaths and also religious tests:
“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article VI, clause 3
Haha, silly me. Suggesting you actually follow the Constitution instead of treating it like a pocket hanky. What was I thinking?
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I’ve always thought the focus should be on charitable activities and not on the religion - operating a food pantry? - check. Homeless shelter? - check.
Cruise ship? Private jet? - you get to pay taxes on that. (Scientology has at least one cruise ship - it made news last week when it was quarantined because of measles)
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In LA Superior Court, So Help Me God is part of all oaths whether given to witnesses or jurors. One can ask to be affirmed, but I doubt that most people know they can be affirmed. Perhaps twice in 22 years I was asked to affirm anyone.
And it ticks me off when mystery writers whose books take place in California always have witnesses putting their hand on bibles. That is untrue.
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S. Palin was a big abuser of the flag.
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I’ve contemplated having a tiny embellished guillotine made to wear on a gold chain.
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To deal with a bully you have to say no. If they squawks repeat it.
If they continue to threaten to hold their breath until their face turns blue, let them suffocate.
For far too long the thugs in the GOP have used bravo sierra like this to define what is a “Real American”. It is time to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st Century.
you don’t have to have them made, people are 'way ahead of you
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Membership in the Religious Society of Friends^ is not required, we are all entitled to affirm, under penalty of perjury, that our testimony is true rather than swear an oath.
The logic of Friends’ objection to oath taking is slightly more subtle than taking offense at being called a liar, it’s more that requiring an oath implies that there are times when lying is okay, whereas we are called to “let your yay be your yay and your nay be your nay” also if someone is going to lie in court they will lie regardless and requiring an oath just increases the number of lies.
Exercising your first amendment rights is not without consequence, however, and I have always worried whether affirming rather than swearing would affect how my testimony would be received if I should ever need to be a witness in a trial.
^ this is the terminology most widely used in the US and UK. There are some “Friends Churches” in the western US. I’m sure somewhere there’s a Meeting that describes itself as “Circle of Friends”, but it’s not very common.
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Around the corner from my home is a house that is being rehabbed. The gent who is moving in is bald to a high glistening shine. He wears sunglasses upside down on the back of his head. The combination is not a good start shall we say. In consequence he appears to be single. He drives a pick up. I do too. But his rig has an extreme lift kit installed such that various bits of his under carriage are on full shiny display. His truck is a late model single cab with a rather short bed in back. Then again it could be a sort of optical illusion due to the point of my rant… the flag. In the left rear corner of this guy’s truck bed there is a short pole and on it is a flag which is 3 feet tall and five feet wide. No dinky flag for this joker… nope. Anyway this joker likes to rev his truck so that the neighborhood knows he is about to take off somewhere. I guess he expects a turn out to see him roar by.
In answer to your question. I have no problem with someone displaying the flag in front of their home. But flapping in the back of a pick up? No. I don;t like that. However… to each his own. It isn’t illegal and I don’t wanna engage with this character.
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Hahaha!!! I guess now I’ll have to actually wear one…
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Quit singing God Fucking Bless America during the seventh inning stretch, and let’s call it even.
I am so sorry, Darr. It may be the best thing to do is laugh. I imagine dudes like that one are so completely without a center that they must always paste over their hollow cores with outward signs of – “masculinity”?
I followed one of those extreme lift-kitted rigs just today. They used to make me feel a bit intimidated until I adjusted my focus from the giant tires to the itty-bitty truck bed traveling along absurdly out of proportion. Now every time I see them, I crack up.
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The cautionary tale here is my neighbor had best not whip around a corner too fast in his rig or physics says he will tip over.
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Ah, I see a possible plan here…
I hate to burst your hard-earned bubble Gooper-scoopers but there is no God and people don’t have souls.