I’m guessing the uncountably many flag patches and pins are a-okay, though.
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Yep. He never really tried at all. I’m talking more about the chaos caused by holdouts who don’t get the urgency and not really about the goals, planning, or execution generally by the administration and Democratic leaders. And I’m not blaming the holdouts nearly as much as the traitor bastards whose perfidy is a given and goes without saying.
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Intent has much to do with the interpretation of the law I think. I would Never do what that n00b did because it required cutting a flag up to make his outfit. Now burning a flag is the respected way of disposal according to the law but doing what that guy did isn’t right or respectful. The flag isn’t a cartoon in my opinion. Other opinions may vary.
Apparently a pin or patch as “decoration” is OK
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I think he’s put his hat through the dryer on high heat a few times, because now it looks smaller than a child’s beanie cap that just lost its cute little propeller.
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It would have been nice if these extremists had limited wrapping themselves in the confederate flag. Between these and the @$$holes mounting the flag in their trucks, I now suspect of my neighbors that hang the flag from a pole on their homes. Unfair, yes, but it was also unfair when riding a bus a Muslim guy seated next to me started praying and I starting looking if he had a back pack.
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There was a stripper in Orlando that went by the stage name of Old Gloria, she appeared wrapped in the flag but corrected the fault to the applause of the audience…
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That’s too cute for Manchin. Next time Manchin washes his beanie cap, he needs to keep it on his head the whole time.
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On Set 16th (Mexican independence day) several big trucks around town had Mexican flags displayed exactly the way the Goober n00bs do it. I thought that was a fine “gotcha”
And once while riding a bus in Northern Iran decades ago I was verbally accosted by a random guy concerning what he perceived was my faith as a westerner. At the next stop a local Mullah got on and hearing this dude harassing me he stepped in. He demanded the guy apologize which happened. Then the Mullah invited me to stay at his home over night and have dinner. It developed into a block party. I have never forgotten that man’s kindness even though it was incumbent on him as a Muslim.
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Actually it’s legal. The code you’re quoting there is a set of federally recommended flag etiquette guidelines, but that’s all. There’s no penalty or anything if you don’t follow them. It strikes me as silly to walk around like that guy but it’s legal.
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We could adopt a few pages from the Taliban… Maybe public lashings?
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Did you read a lot of Marvel comics when you were a kid? You have an extremely lurid imagination. Me, I see this as no worse than a matter for a ducking stool.
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Naw. Total bookworm, lots of war history, spy stuff, the requisite Tolkien, etc.
In other words, plenty of sources to stimulate a vivid imagination.
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Ah…the picture of a young Castor_troy comes into clearer focus.
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I find this site helpful: quoteinvestigator.com. And you are correct, there is a ton of misattributions on the 'Net. Imagine that…false information on a web site? Unpossible!
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Manchin’s totem spirit is The Possum
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Not that it matters:
Sinema’s unforced errors have cost her big-time with Arizona Democrats (dailykos.com)
But this is humorous:
Idaho Secretary of State refutes Mike Lindell’s statewide election manipulation claims (kmvt.com)
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell alleged “electronic manipulation” in vote tallies in all of Idaho’s 44 counties, KMVT reports.
The only problem is that seven of Idaho counties don’t use any electronic steps in the vote counting processes.
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It’s why I knew a little bit about a lot of things and not much about anything.
And why I look with disdain on people who can’t live in fantasy, but rely on the crutch of reality to get through the day.
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OMG you read about actual things people have done? There’s nothing that will warp you faster than real life. I was hanging out in the den of some friends of my parents once, idly looking through their books, and I took down one on WWI and yeezus some of the images. Then decades later I wrote a short-short story for a competition about a smart, accomplished mom who finds a magazine under her son’s mattress, assumes for a moment it’s porn and has a rapid series of thoughts about explaining how it isn’t realistic and so forth. But when she gets it out she sees to her horror it’s a bunch of gruesome WWI images that he’s obviously furtively fascinated by, and we leave her with her mind reeling as she tries to imagine how to deal with a problem she never dreamed of facing. It got like a second or third because one judge said it was really good as a vignette but it needed an ending. Fucking numbnuts.
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That little boy in that story… That little boy was me
(No apologies to Kamala)
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