Nelson Mandela Dies at 95

[DONNIEP]

I'm flying mine at half staff and I'm in a period of deep mourning!!

[Von Halen]

I'm flying mine at half staff and I'm in a period of deep mourning!!

You are flying your rebel flag at half staff?

[vandeleur]

You are flying your rebel flag at half staff?

It's called a semi :D

[DONNIEP]

You are flying your rebel flag at half staff?

That's the only kind we have down here!

[WARF]

I got 5 points in Seshmeister's Roth Army celebrity death pool.

I think I have a chance to win this year. I need Lindsey Lohan to OD and Zsa Zsa Gabor to kick the bucket.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

By the way, anybody thinking about flying their flag at half staff.

Under 4 U.S.C. § 7(m) and established traditions by Presidential proclamations, the flag of the United States is to be flown at half-staff in following circumstances:[22]

For thirty days after the death of a current or former president or president-elect, as occurred after the death of President Reagan and the death of President Ford.
For ten days after the death of a current vice president, current or retired chief justice, or current speaker of the House of Representatives.
From the day of death until interment of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a secretary of an executive or military department, a former vice president, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate,[23] or the governor of a state, territory, or possession.
On the day of death and the following day for a Member of Congress.
On Memorial Day until noon.
Upon presidential proclamation, which has recently included: the interment of Frank Buckles,[24] the death of Senator Ted Kennedy,[25] the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks,[26] the death of Pope John Paul II,[27] the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003,[28] the victims of Hurricane Katrina,[29] the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami,[30] the deaths of Coretta Scott King[31] and Rosa Parks,[32] the Virginia Tech massacre,[33] the Fort Hood massacre,[34] the 2011 Tucson shooting, the funeral of Neil Armstrong,[35] the death of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stephens, the 2012 shooting in Aurora Colorado, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.,[36] the 2013 Washington D.C Navy Yard shooting, and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

I will NOT be flying my flag at half staff.

It already is at the US Capitol and White House, Von....

[Von Halen]

It already is at the US Capitol and White House, Von....

Yeah, I know. I disagree with it. That's why I posted that.

Why the fuck is our AMERICAN flag flying at half mast for this guy? Fuck that. I'd go out front and raise mine higher if I could. Are we flying it at half mast for the guys dying defending our Country? Fuck Obama. He can suck it on this issue. That motherfucker wasn't an American, and he doesn't deserve to have our flag flown at half staff.

[Satan]

I would actually be inclined to agree. Mandela was a great man, and deserves respect, but he was not an American. I don't believe it's proper to fly the flag at half mast for a former foreign head of state, in any case.

But what do I know? I'm in Hell.

[WARF]

Maybe Obama wants the flag at half mast because they were both born in the same country?

[Von Halen]

I would actually be inclined to agree. Mandela was a great man, and deserves respect, but he was not an American. I don't believe it's proper to fly the flag at half mast for a former foreign head of state, in any case.

But what do I know? I'm in Hell.

What do you mean "actually"? You don't normally agree with me? :D

[twonabomber]

If he freed Charlize Theron to come to America and prosper, I will mourn him today.

Theron was already free. She's white.

[Kristy]

Just read this entire thread while high and concluded that Von is a ignorant racist asshole.

[Kristy]

WARF too.

[jacksmar]

Kristy,
It ain't racism to point out facts.

FACT: the truth is: The man was a communist, murderer, and to his last dying breath, he did nothing to protect the Afrikaner farmers who are being raped & slaughtered at this very moment. He just wasn't the venerable man the world media has made him out to be.

[Kristy]

So what you're saying Communism is a bad thing because he didn't allow for American corporate interest to rape his country like Nigeria, Algeria and Libya?