Comments on: Flagging Support

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:54:28 +0000

I believe that traditionally you are supposed to decapitate monarchs.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:01:21 +0000

They’ve had TWENTY YEARS of running this country into the fucking toilet, these republicunt capitalist pig motherfuckers (they just let us THINK that Bill Clinton was any different, and now he’s Poppy Bush’s fucking LAP DOG) — that’s more than enough of a “fair trial.”

They’ve fucked us all into the fucking ground so that their billionaire cronies can steal everything that’s left in this fucking country and the entire fucking WORLD.

Fuck them, they’ve had their trial and they are GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY AND WE ALL FUCKING KNOW IT!!!

To quote those old Pace Picante commercials, GET A ROPE.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:49:41 +0000

You’re right, Michael, they don’t want people to be aware of the real costs of their war. If people don’t have a personal stake in the war they can ignore them. It’s like the Wicca symbol, they are more concerned about the reaction of their base than the people who are dying.

John, nothing gets through the “bubble”, the Blue Angels’ pilot who died in an accident received more attention than the 9 members of the 82nd who died yesterday. They should all be honored.

Annti, we must not forget to have a fair trial before the hanging.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:33:30 +0000

Amen, Bryan, amen.

I could definitely get behind that nationwide half-mast movement.

This selfish frat-boy cokehead motherfucker hasn’t acknowledged even ONE fucking funeral of ANY of the Americans that HE has murdered through his corporate-welfare war-folly, hasn’t attended ONE funeral, hasn’t even ever SPOKEN of the dead soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, unless it’s to say that STOPPING the war would be to “dishonor” them.

Yeah, avoid killing all of their compatriots, that’s a REAL “dishonor.” As opposed to letting John McFonda piss on all their graves with his little “shopping” publicity stunt. What is it with these closet-cases and SHOPPING, anyway?!??!?! As if Condi didn’t do enough shopping while people were drowning in the streets of New Orleans.

If there were any justice in the world, Rove, Dumbya, Dick, Rumsfeld, McFonda, Powell, Poppy Bush and every Halliburton whore that lied us into this fake war would be swinging from gallows on the East Lawn, seeing as how the Hague hasn’t had the balls to press war crimes charges on the cocksuckers.

Oh, but THEIR funerals would be well-attended — imagine the people who would line-up just to spit on their Mussolini-mentality corpses.

By: John B.

John B. — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:28:28 +0000

Bryan, I think you may be on to something here. From 9-11 forward, the only 'sacrifice' Bush has asked of all Americans is to go shopping. The highest 'honors' he has bestowed are occasional Freedom Medals for disgraced neocons and toady bureaucrats. He publicly ignores the dead returning from Iraq and shuts out the media from the "secret" return of caskets. One wonders how the White House would respond to a nationwide call to lower the flags to half-mast every day in honor of our killed and maimed troops. Do you think the blogosphere could start such a movement?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:54:51 +0000

Would it be a major imposition to mention the the people who have died under his “command” during the previous week? Yes. Because it would require him to admit, in public and to his base (who else listens to his weekly radio address?), that the "war" in Iraq is already lost--and all he's doing is prolonging the death agonies.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:55:23 +0000

Steve, I view most tragedy as personal, and wonder if the people at Virginia Tech don’t feel that their tragedy has become a national media event, not the private grief that it really is for all involved. The media doesn’t cover hurricanes in Okaloosa County because people made it quite clear after Opal in 1995, they are not welcome. I admit, after two days of the media in the county we got down right rude.

Of course, Michael, Florida under Jeb never did that, but the new governor, Charlie Crist, apparently ordered state offices to lower flags to half-staff for Virginia Tech. AF Special Ops, combat air control, and the 33rd Fighter Wing are local units and are deployed, but you don’t see flags lowered for them.

It would be nice, Fallenmonk, if they did something to acknowledge the sacrifice. The Shrubbery is on the radio every week. Would it be a major imposition to mention the the people who have died under his “command” during the previous week?

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:05:35 +0000

Astute observation Bryan. When I saw the flags at half mast I immediately knew why they were being flown but I didn’t carry the thought forward. The flags should be flying at half mast all the time.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:03:56 +0000

One of the relatively few things Rod the Bod has done as governator of Illinois that I can respect is to order flags flown at half-mast whenever an Illinois servicemember is killed. I believe they’re lowered as soon as the death is confirmed, and remain at half-mast until after the funeral.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:20:10 +0000

Why indeed. I expressed the very same thought to Stella when we were checking her Post Office box last Saturday. No disrespect, of course, to the victims at Virginia Tech, but why don’t they just leave the flags at half-mast until we bring our troops home from Bush’s awful discretionary war? There is certainly no shortage of violent deaths of Americans in that war; the flag gesture is the least we could do.