DUmmies Discuss People Who Don't Show Proper Respect For Dead Ted

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Dinger  (1000+ posts)        Fri Aug-28-09 11:15 PM
Original message
Something I Noticed In My Town
As far as flags being flows at half-staff . . . . Some place do it, some don't. Maybe the businesses that don't should have their pictures taken (documented) and then people can decided whether they want to shop there or not.

P.S. I noticed Perkins restaurant didn't have theirs at half staff. Neither did Pick'N Save grocery stores.
People need to show the proper respect.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6416010
We need a snitch line to report people who don't show the proper respect.
The proper respect is very important and these people aren't showing it.
We need that snitch line.

Curtland1015  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-28-09 11:16 PM
1. My wife and I went to the Baseball Hall of Fame today. Their flag was at half-staff.
I was pretty happy about that.

 

Dinger  (1000+ posts)        Fri Aug-28-09 11:20 PM
2. So Am I : )
ANd while certain businesses should be called out, some should be given credit where credit is due.

These DUmmies clearly recognize how widely detested the Kernnedy family is.

gateley  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-28-09 11:26 PM
3. I think that just government offices/buildings, etc. are required to do that.
If a private business owner doesn't want to do it, it's his/her right I guess.

That's okay with the DUmp. They figure after a few years of Zero, there won't be any
private business owners anyway.
  

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Fri Aug-28-09 11:26 PM
Response to Original message
4. No, they don't -  
the Presidential proclamation covered only government installations.

Individuals have the choice, and that's exactly how it should be.
People need to understand the concept of choice, my friend, and how Presidential proclamations work.

Hmmm..DUmmy TLB is sounding a little trollish, don't you think?
I wonder how many times the alert button was pressed.

[Rebel]

Link?

[Airwolf]

If I remember private busniesses have no obligattion to lower the flag.

[AllosaursRus]

Had to work a few hours at the depot today. They had their flag at half mast. Pissed me the hell off!

[Tantal]

Would it have been in poor taste to run a case of scotch up the flagpole in his honor?

[crockspot]

It's mind boggling how militant they have become about how we all must hop to and follow the proclamations of Obama, when they were in full revolt the last eight years.

[ColonialMarine0431]

I fly the Colors 24/7. And properly lit at night per Regs. Half mast for that fat bastard? No way in Hell. May he rot in Hell. The time has way since past when we show respect for the enemy. This is War. Against that a$$ in the White House and his hook nosed Igor Rahm Emanuel.

[JohnnyReb]

The Kennedy's and scotch remind me of an old joke.

Two old Scotsmen, the last of a group of WW1 vets, were drinking one day. They decided to buy a bottle of good Scotch and whichever one out lived the other would pour it over the grave of the departed one....After a bit more drinking, one asks the other, "McNamara, my old friend, you know us Scots are careful with our money." "Yes, we truly are", answered McNamara, "....but why did you bring that up?"  "Well, It's about that bottle of good Scotch. I'd certainly hate to see it go to waste. So, if I should be the last one left alive, would you mind terribly if I ran it thru my kidneys first?"

[DumbAss Tanker]

Would it have been in poor taste to run a case of scotch up the flagpole in his honor?

A bra and panties would be just as appropriate.

[Lord Undies]

Dead Ted was a two-bit embarrassment of a senator in a third rate state.  The rest of the US could not care less. 

What if Kay Bailey Hutchison died?  Should car dealerships in San Francisco lower their flags? 

[jukin]

It's mind boggling how militant they have become about how we all must hop to and follow the proclamations of Obama, when they were in full revolt the last eight years.

Gets easier and easier to understand how Hitler came to power.

[Ogre]

I didn't place the flag at our house at half-staff either, so sue me DUmmies.   Better yet, go **** yourselves.

[dutch508]

Gets easier and easier to understand how Hitler came to power.

Hitler told them he would make their lives better. . . and he did for most. He gave them order where there was only chaos in their government. He told them they were the best.
 
Of course they thought he was great, at first. Even when things started to be rationed, they were still winning, in Poland, against France. It wasn't until 1942/3 that things started to be harder for the people, but event hen, they had suffered worse in WWI. In 1944 when the bombing campaigns of the allies started in, the people knew that they were going to lose, yet Hitler could still electrify them and they kept on believing. I mean, what else was there for them to do?

The State controlled everything. They couldn't just stop.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Maybe the businesses that don't should have their pictures taken (documented) and then people can decided whether they want to shop there or not.

Perhaps you could create a website for such a purpose.  I know of one that has taken off like gangbusters!

http://www.quarantinefoxnews.com/

 

[BlueStateSaint]

Perhaps you could create a website for such a purpose.  I know of one that has taken off like gangbusters!

http://www.quarantinefoxnews.com/

 

It's flown straight into a mountain, too!

[Freeper]

I can kind of see why all the fuss over Teddy like it or not he was a part of the Senate for all of our life times (for the most part). They can have their hero worship it will all be over soon anyway.

Although now when they yammer about healthcare his name will be mentioned until the end of time. 
My thought is a dead rich white man passing will not change the fact that the health care bill is an abomination. Even if he not only invented sliced bread he invented a new knife to do it according to those bozos.

[TheSarge]

I'm showing my respect the best way I can...by trying to keep my mouth shut about him.

[Chris_]

I'm showing my respect the best way I can...by trying to keep my mouth shut about him.

Understood.....however, there are a few of us secretly plotting ways to make certain that the fertilizer on his grave is urea-based.........

doc

[TheSarge]

Understood.....however, there are a few of us secretly plotting ways to make certain that the fertilizer on his grave is urea-based.........

doc

Good luck on that...considering where he's buried.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I'm showing my respect the best way I can...by trying to keep my mouth shut about him.

Same here.  I'm amazed I've been able to restrain myself.

[Chris_]

Good luck on that...considering where he's buried.

Where there is a will.....there is a way.......

doc

[USA4ME]

It's a good thing the primitives expressed their anger about those who did not fly the flag at half-staff when Secretary Jack Kemp died, otherwise it would be too easy to make the case that they're hypocrites.

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[ReaganForRushmore]

Would it have been in poor taste to run a case of scotch up the flagpole in his honor?

How about a pair of trousers?

[TheSarge]

Where there is a will.....there is a way.......

doc

LOL! well...then don't get mad when I tackle your @ss 

[Chris_]

LOL! well...then don't get mad when I tackle your @ss 

You'll never know I was there.......

doc