Brickbat: It's a Grand Old Flag


The superintendent of the Lincoln, Nebraska, school system has apologized after administrators told students not to fly the American flag on their vehicles. The students had flown the flags from holders they'd made in class in a joint program with Southeast Community College. Someone took the flag off a truck parked at the college and laid it in the bed of another truck. Administrators said they were afraid allowing the students to fly the flags might lead to a confrontation or property damage.
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Well, to be fair, the British *did* defeat us in the 1770s, and as a British colony they expect us not to fly rebel flags.
Wait...you're saying that we *beat* the British? And that we have our own country, complete with flag?
Well, in that case the Lincoln, NE school district can go and fuck its unpatriotic self.
What's this we business? You didn't build that.
I have two SAR-certified revolutionary ancestors.
But your great-uncle who won the pie-eating contest is cool, too, I guess.
Just two? What an unpatriotic family!
Yeah, but one of them Rickrolled King George III, the experience was so traumatic that George went insane.
I thought it was syphilis, and/or the docs feeding him mercury.
Do you think THEY would tell the truth about this?
If he did have syphilis, then mercury would have been the appropriate treatment. It actually does reduce symptoms of the disease, but it is only a pallatative measure. Eventually one or the other will rot the brain.
Rickrolling is the most patriotic form of protest.
Ruh-roh!
/Astro
Cool story bro
America, performed by Ray Charles
Shit, I'm in the weird age range where I'm old enough to remember where back in high school, a car in the parking lot with a half-dozen shotguns in the trunk wasn't considered that that big of a deal.
Same thing today, except it's an armored police car.
But the "resource officer" forgot to lock it so ... their gone.
The resource officer *did* lock it - but they're gone anyway. Along with the trim, the radios. and the rims.
Same here. Every pickup truck had at least one long gun on a rack in the back window. Hell, I kept my Browning A-5 in my vehicle so I could get in an hour or two of hunting after school.
Lincoln, NE does this bullshit?
I've got a lot of relatives out that way. Pitchforks and torches. Must be busy with football season.
And woodchippers!
Lots and lots of woodchippers!
someone removed one of the flags from a holder attached to the tow hitch of a vehicle and placed it in the bed of an adjacent pickup
The horror!
Kiri Te Kanawa sings "It's a Grand Old Flag"
Just kidding, I found an even more patriotic song than that.
NSFW
I hear America singing
Paul Revere
Another version
whoever wrote the lyrics and tune did a heck of a job
They were afraid the colors would run. And guess what. In doing so, THEY MADE THEM RUN.
There you go - Obama's America.
It's been a long 8 years having to listen to that shitbag vomit pinko clap-trap. He is an absolute embarrassment. Hopefully that has come to an end. If Trump really is serious about crushing the PC culture and he has any success I cant think of anything better he could do for the country.
D-59
Makes me think of something a coworker said a while back.
"I saw someone flying a flag in front of their house. They must be Republicans."
It's a purely political thing. No Democrat or liberal would ever fly the flag. The flag stands for intolerance. This is what the public schools teach. They want their students to be ashamed of their country. The country needs to change. We need less liberty and more free shit. We need to lock up intolerant people who hold ideas that are contrary to liberal groupthink. Until then flying the flag will be a shameful act that should be punished.
I hvaent heard many point this out but the language and ideas behind PC culture is pure cultural marxism. It is identical to the language and ideas that destroyed the Soviets, it even uses the same words, and it is being done for the same reason. I never dreamed it would take hold here. I just cant understand the appeal or the pure ignorance of where this all leads.
"I came here to escape the plague and all around me I see people with boils on their skin." - I forget who but the man escaped the Soviet Union and came here.
"The point of demoralization is to make it so that no matter how much information they have they cannot draw a sensible conclusion. They cannot solve problems, they cannot defend themselves, they cannot defend their families, they cannot defend their country." - Former Soviet Political Officer Yuri Bezmenov
bet I can shot a fucking commie right between the fucking eyes...just saying...
I actually had History class with an Old School Liberal. His argument against the Pledge of Allegiance was basically, "Could you imagine Jefferson pledging allegiance to a flag?" And he had a decent point. I can't really see the Founding fathers being that fond of the pledge of allegiance.
What about "to the republic"?
Unfortunately, It's all symbols. Nobody is pledging allegiance without a flag.
Hmmm.......
I pledge allegiance, to the Republic
Of the United States of America
And to the ideals, for which it stands,
One nation, proud and free
with liberty and justice for all
Same cadence, no flag, no god.
Especially since its original writer, Francis Bellamy, was a Christian socialist who wanted to get that love of the state infused into children.
Indivisibility was also a big deal in the decades after the rebellion and attempted secession in the 1860s.
The Pledge has been very effective at indoctrinating Americans that its republic is eternally indivisible.
"Administrators said they were afraid allowing the students to fly the flags might lead to a confrontation or property damage."
Not to be a drama queen, but... This kind of "thinking" is, to me, the single greatest domestic threat to America. I'm only slightly worried by someone who would resort to vandalism at the sight of a USA flag. I am extremely worried by administrators kowtowing to said potential vandals.
touch MY FLAG and die a painful death, commie bastard
-- Johnny Cash
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