The American Flag

[Anonymous]

Flags are gay.

"Ooh, I HAPPENED to be born some place, so I'm better than anyone who HAPPENED to be born somewhere else."

Flags are symbols of stupidity. As long as people keep willingly dividing themselves, they're no better than the fanatical dogs that kill those who don't agree to their religion.

Pissed off at this post? You're one of them. You're EXACTLY like those that drove a plane through the twin towers. EXACTLY LIKE THEM.

Cheers! :bottle:

[chefcraig]

Yeah I think I read a chapter or two when I first got it.

I think you have to be in the right mood to take on something like that. Maybe I'll give it another go.

Agreed, you really need to be at a critical point to get the most out of it. I picked up and read a copy shortly after my brother passed away, almost one year to the day after my father died. It was an astoundingly rewarding read for me, yet to be fair it might have been the fact that I was seeking something along it's lines that resulted in the amount of comfort and insight it revealed to me. It is a fine and inspiring work, but like I said it requires a certain amount of purpose to get through it, as it is indeed overwhelming in parts.

[TongueNGroove]

Here's a flag worth unfurling.

She looks like the one Dave was talking about in Yankee Rose....Raise 'em up fellas, Raise 'em up!


I proudly hang the American Flag every day of the week. Day and night, good or bad weather. In my opinion, there is no time when the flag should be hidden.

[sadaist]

Flags are gay.

"Ooh, I HAPPENED to be born some place, so I'm better than anyone who HAPPENED to be born somewhere else."

You are actually very wrong when speaking of the American flag like that. Yes, every other flag I can think of is like that, but the American flag is not just for people born here. Nation of immigrants. People abandon the country they are born in to be able to fly this particular flag & live under its ideals.

[knuckleboner]

I don't have a problem with people desecrating our flag.

However, those same people that desecrate our flag shouldn't have a problem with other people "desecrsting" their heads with baseball bats.

so by that logic, rush limbaugh shouldn't have a problem if i bash his head in with a baseball bat?

[Hardrock69]

Slavery we inherited from the British slave and sugar trade.

One more good reason to shoot them and form our own nation. Only took 80 more years to go the final distance and outlaw slavery.

[Seshmeister]

Over 60 years later than in Britain...

In fact you couldn't be a slave in England years before US independence.

[jhale667]

so by that logic, rush limbaugh shouldn't have a problem if i bash his head in with a baseball bat?

Just be sure and put an American Flag sticker on it first...

[Nickdfresh]

Over 60 years later than in Britain...

In fact you couldn't be a slave in England years before US independence.

Let's be honest, the British fucked up many cultures and subsumed them to a level that was no better to slavery, and far more deceptively and disingenuously--whether you want to call it slavery or colonial, social-cultural engineering. "The Whitemans' Burden" anyone?

[Seshmeister]

That may be but not many British people worship their flag or claim it represents universal freedom.

[Nitro Express]

Over 60 years later than in Britain...

In fact you couldn't be a slave in England years before US independence.

Britain then was doing what corporate America does now. Outsource the slavery. Keep things cleaner on the home front and do the dirty deeds else where. Britain might have not had slaves in London but it was destroying China with opium. It was still very much involved in slavery and genocide. You only have to read about the plight of the aboriginies in Australia for one example.

The British never really got rid of slavery, they just hid it better.

[Nitro Express]

Let's be honest, the British fucked up many cultures and subsumed them to a level that was no better to slavery, and far more deceptively and disingenuously--whether you want to call it slavery or colonial, social-cultural engineering. "The Whitemans' Burden" anyone?

The British are still fucking people. In the 18th Century it was the East India Company and red coats. In the 21st century it's British Petrolium.

[sadaist]

That may be but not many British people worship their flag or claim it represents universal freedom.

They have a Queen.

[Seshmeister]

Britain then was doing what corporate America does now. Outsource the slavery. Keep things cleaner on the home front and do the dirty deeds else where. Britain might have not had slaves in London but it was destroying China with opium. It was still very much involved in slavery and genocide. You only have to read about the plight of the aboriginies in Australia for one example.

The British never really got rid of slavery, they just hid it better.

I think that's very fair comment.

The British were cunts in the 18th century and very slowly got a little better until by around the 1960s they were just a bit dodgy.

Not quite as bad in a lot of ways as some of the other colonial powers though.

[Seshmeister]

They have a Queen.

Like you have Mickey Mouse, for shits and giggles and they've been around for ages.

The main reason for keeping a monarchy at this point seems to be it stops a politician being head of state.

Politicians are 3 steps below realtor and just a couple above child rapist in the popularity ladder here.