Fuck no. I ain’t even a Merkin. I’m from South Carolina. When is flag day, anyway?
Grog
June 14, 2016 8:10 pm
Uh Ed,
A Merkin. A pubic hair piece. A toupee for the pubic area/genitals.
Is that what you mean?
Ed
June 14, 2016 8:13 pm
No, I mean like a Merkin citizen. Y’all spell it wrong, like: Murican. I spell it like a say it ; a merkin.
IndenturedServant
June 14, 2016 9:57 pm
Not anymore. I gave away all the American flags we had except for the one my mom flew while dad was in Vietnam and the one used on my father-in-laws casket. Everything good that it represented is gone and probably not coming back.
Symbols are for the symbol minded. —-George Carlin
Hollow man
June 14, 2016 10:05 pm
That country is gone.
Llpoh
June 14, 2016 10:25 pm
No Old Glories around these parts.
Be Prepared
June 14, 2016 10:28 pm
June 5, 2016
A former U.S. Marine said Friday he was fired from his contract job with Time Warner Cable in Charlotte after he lowered the American flag to half-staff on Memorial Day.
Allen Thornwell, 29, was thinking about his best friend, a former Marine who he said killed himself two years ago when he returned to the U.S., the Charlotte Observer reported.
The paper reported that Thornwell was fired Tuesday. The service that arranged the job for Thornwell said Time Warner told them they were disturbed by what was termed as “passion for the flag and (his) political affiliation.”
Thornwell said he remains in shock over his firing. Murphy Archibald, Thornwell’s attorney, said his client should have never lost his job.
“It’s disgraceful,” Archibald, who is a Vietnam vet, told the Observer. “He didn’t do anything wrong. He’s a veteran working on Memorial Day who corrected what he thought was a disrespectful flying of the American flag … I would have taken it down myself.”
Thornwell, who was discharged in 2014, knew the U.S. Flag Code policy which states that the banner should be half-staff until noon on Memorial Day. Thornwell said the incident happened at around 2:30 p.m. He said he wishes now he had permission.
“I didn’t think of it as the property of Time Warner Cable,” he said. “It’s everybody’s flag.”
A Time Warner spokesman confirmed to the Charlotte Observer Friday that the former Marine “was no longer under contract” with the company but declined to provide further comment.
I still hold my hand over my heart when the flag passes on parade because it’s not about anyone else…. but rather it’s about my personal desire to see what stands behind the flag….the U.S. Constitution and the Republic… to find our way back to those roots of freedom.
Bot
June 14, 2016 10:30 pm
Never. A piece of cloth representing an extremely large land mass in the Western Hemisphere with imaginary lines drawn on it by the hands of dead men that I care not a whit for.
Stucky
June 14, 2016 10:47 pm
I celebrate Fag Day.
Anonymous
June 15, 2016 2:04 am
Remind me of the lyrics of this anthem and who or what I’m supposed to be saluting? Wait, no, please don’t! It was sarcasm. Seriously, though, “Flag Day” would have slipped right past me without any notice had I not just read that line. Now I have to forget it all over again. That shouldn’t be too hard, however, since I don’t feel any “allegiance” to governmentalism or some piece of fluttering fabric of any color with any given designs on it.
I guess my answer to the question is obvious. Now onto the next topic for purposes of my selective memory…what were we talking about, again?
Muck About
June 15, 2016 3:08 am
I’m down to finding a bit of nostalgia of the passing of Flag Day.. A number of my neighbors plant wee flag in the yards or along driveways but I find the symbols ironic, not prideful as it was in my youth.
Of course, there a whole of stuff that’s not like it was in my youth either.
MA
Greg in NC
June 15, 2016 7:56 am
No fucking way. I realize it stands for coercion and murder. The only flag I fly and salute is the confederate flag. It is the only flag on this landmass that stands for liberty and peace.
It has been a rough week for those in charge at the Central Coventry Fire District in Rhode Island. In the run up to Memorial Day weekend the department had to a hire a public relations specialist to handle the fallout from comments that surfaced from last year by board chairman Fred Gralinski comparing firefighters displaying American flags on fire apparatus to ISIS. It appears now some of this has been settled with the union president telling WJAR-TV, “To me, it’s a win.”
Here’s the quote from Gralinski that started it all:
“They look like a bunch of yahoos. Like in the paper, like ISIS is Syria going to take over a city. I don’t think they need that big flag on the back of the truck. That’s not America to me. Those are a bunch of terrorists. So, I’m going to ask you to take the flag off the truck.”
Gralinski, when confronted by reporters about his comments, claimed no flags were being ordered off of the rigs, just stickers that includes flags and union decals. The union president, David Gorman, said otherwise. But a very late apology by Gralinski was undermined a bit, according to Everett Trainer of the Coventry Patch, by Gralinski’s own sons.
Two people commented on the Cranston Scanner post in support of Fred Gralinski’s use of the word “terrorists” in describing firefighters. Those two people were Ryan and Brett Gralinski who are the sons of Fred Gralinski. Ryan Gralinski simply commented and said, “The firemen are terrorists”. Brett Gralinski, however, went much further. Much of what Brett Gralinski commented has to be read slowly and interpreted due to the enormous amount of spelling errors and grammatical problems. Much of what he said is unintelligible.
Brett Gralinski says, “F*ck the flag and f*ck you. You’re pathetic.” He goes on to say that humans are inherently pathetic and says that he is pathetic too. He states, “If you were not (pathetic) then you wouldn’t give 2 sh*ts about a flag on a fire truck”. According to Brett, the flag is nothing more than a way to divide and conquer and that nationalism is a scam to “trick people into self-destruction”.
overthecliff
June 15, 2016 8:51 am
IS and Hollow man, sadly your sentiments are right. My eyes teared up in November 1964. I knew America had terminal cancer then. It has been a long and painful illness. Comatose now.
Slayer of Sacred Cows
June 15, 2016 12:21 pm
Worship the official symbol of the state, the very agency that takes my property and threatens to lock me in a cage for behavior they don’t like? No thanks. I don’t believe in collectivism and would much rather be a free person.
BUCKHED
June 15, 2016 12:44 pm
Well…I’ve told my neighbors that the State flag should fly 1st . Why because I live in the Sovereign state of South Carolina . My state created the Federal gooberment. It isn’t subservient to the Federal Gooberment .
Suzanna
June 15, 2016 3:39 pm
I used to look forward to flying a fresh new flag
on JUNE 4RTH, flag day. Didn’t do it this year.
Too upset, by revelations of corruption and double
corruption + stupidity everywhere. The libs, maybe
they can’t wake their robot minds up yet. Then,
when their jobs and or pensions + food are gone…
they will blame republicans. Some will get it.
rhs jr
June 21, 2016 7:57 pm
I have mixed feelings about the flag of my Liberal Yankee oppressors and their dumb song. However, I love the Stars and Bars and Dixie.
I do, in fond memory of a place I loved.
Fuck no. I ain’t even a Merkin. I’m from South Carolina. When is flag day, anyway?
Uh Ed,
A Merkin. A pubic hair piece. A toupee for the pubic area/genitals.
Is that what you mean?
No, I mean like a Merkin citizen. Y’all spell it wrong, like: Murican. I spell it like a say it ; a merkin.
Not anymore. I gave away all the American flags we had except for the one my mom flew while dad was in Vietnam and the one used on my father-in-laws casket. Everything good that it represented is gone and probably not coming back.
Symbols are for the symbol minded. —-George Carlin
That country is gone.
No Old Glories around these parts.
June 5, 2016
A former U.S. Marine said Friday he was fired from his contract job with Time Warner Cable in Charlotte after he lowered the American flag to half-staff on Memorial Day.
Allen Thornwell, 29, was thinking about his best friend, a former Marine who he said killed himself two years ago when he returned to the U.S., the Charlotte Observer reported.
The paper reported that Thornwell was fired Tuesday. The service that arranged the job for Thornwell said Time Warner told them they were disturbed by what was termed as “passion for the flag and (his) political affiliation.”
Thornwell said he remains in shock over his firing. Murphy Archibald, Thornwell’s attorney, said his client should have never lost his job.
“It’s disgraceful,” Archibald, who is a Vietnam vet, told the Observer. “He didn’t do anything wrong. He’s a veteran working on Memorial Day who corrected what he thought was a disrespectful flying of the American flag … I would have taken it down myself.”
Thornwell, who was discharged in 2014, knew the U.S. Flag Code policy which states that the banner should be half-staff until noon on Memorial Day. Thornwell said the incident happened at around 2:30 p.m. He said he wishes now he had permission.
“I didn’t think of it as the property of Time Warner Cable,” he said. “It’s everybody’s flag.”
A Time Warner spokesman confirmed to the Charlotte Observer Friday that the former Marine “was no longer under contract” with the company but declined to provide further comment.
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I still hold my hand over my heart when the flag passes on parade because it’s not about anyone else…. but rather it’s about my personal desire to see what stands behind the flag….the U.S. Constitution and the Republic… to find our way back to those roots of freedom.
Never. A piece of cloth representing an extremely large land mass in the Western Hemisphere with imaginary lines drawn on it by the hands of dead men that I care not a whit for.
I celebrate Fag Day.
Remind me of the lyrics of this anthem and who or what I’m supposed to be saluting? Wait, no, please don’t! It was sarcasm. Seriously, though, “Flag Day” would have slipped right past me without any notice had I not just read that line. Now I have to forget it all over again. That shouldn’t be too hard, however, since I don’t feel any “allegiance” to governmentalism or some piece of fluttering fabric of any color with any given designs on it.
I guess my answer to the question is obvious. Now onto the next topic for purposes of my selective memory…what were we talking about, again?
I’m down to finding a bit of nostalgia of the passing of Flag Day.. A number of my neighbors plant wee flag in the yards or along driveways but I find the symbols ironic, not prideful as it was in my youth.
Of course, there a whole of stuff that’s not like it was in my youth either.
MA
No fucking way. I realize it stands for coercion and murder. The only flag I fly and salute is the confederate flag. It is the only flag on this landmass that stands for liberty and peace.
OK, OK, maybe I’ll sing a little bit of it…ahem…
O’er th’ Laaaaaa aaand of th’ Sheeeeeeeeep…
And Th’ Home Of th’ SLAAAAAAAAVE”.
Thankyou,,,thank you verramuch…
It has been a rough week for those in charge at the Central Coventry Fire District in Rhode Island. In the run up to Memorial Day weekend the department had to a hire a public relations specialist to handle the fallout from comments that surfaced from last year by board chairman Fred Gralinski comparing firefighters displaying American flags on fire apparatus to ISIS. It appears now some of this has been settled with the union president telling WJAR-TV, “To me, it’s a win.”
Here’s the quote from Gralinski that started it all:
“They look like a bunch of yahoos. Like in the paper, like ISIS is Syria going to take over a city. I don’t think they need that big flag on the back of the truck. That’s not America to me. Those are a bunch of terrorists. So, I’m going to ask you to take the flag off the truck.”
Gralinski, when confronted by reporters about his comments, claimed no flags were being ordered off of the rigs, just stickers that includes flags and union decals. The union president, David Gorman, said otherwise. But a very late apology by Gralinski was undermined a bit, according to Everett Trainer of the Coventry Patch, by Gralinski’s own sons.
Two people commented on the Cranston Scanner post in support of Fred Gralinski’s use of the word “terrorists” in describing firefighters. Those two people were Ryan and Brett Gralinski who are the sons of Fred Gralinski. Ryan Gralinski simply commented and said, “The firemen are terrorists”. Brett Gralinski, however, went much further. Much of what Brett Gralinski commented has to be read slowly and interpreted due to the enormous amount of spelling errors and grammatical problems. Much of what he said is unintelligible.
Brett Gralinski says, “F*ck the flag and f*ck you. You’re pathetic.” He goes on to say that humans are inherently pathetic and says that he is pathetic too. He states, “If you were not (pathetic) then you wouldn’t give 2 sh*ts about a flag on a fire truck”. According to Brett, the flag is nothing more than a way to divide and conquer and that nationalism is a scam to “trick people into self-destruction”.
IS and Hollow man, sadly your sentiments are right. My eyes teared up in November 1964. I knew America had terminal cancer then. It has been a long and painful illness. Comatose now.
Worship the official symbol of the state, the very agency that takes my property and threatens to lock me in a cage for behavior they don’t like? No thanks. I don’t believe in collectivism and would much rather be a free person.
Well…I’ve told my neighbors that the State flag should fly 1st . Why because I live in the Sovereign state of South Carolina . My state created the Federal gooberment. It isn’t subservient to the Federal Gooberment .
I used to look forward to flying a fresh new flag
on JUNE 4RTH, flag day. Didn’t do it this year.
Too upset, by revelations of corruption and double
corruption + stupidity everywhere. The libs, maybe
they can’t wake their robot minds up yet. Then,
when their jobs and or pensions + food are gone…
they will blame republicans. Some will get it.
I have mixed feelings about the flag of my Liberal Yankee oppressors and their dumb song. However, I love the Stars and Bars and Dixie.