primitives discuss American flag with Bo's face on it

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6771298

Oh my.

Surely everybody by now has seen the American flag where, instead of white stars in a blue field, there's a mug shot of Bo.

I dunno why the primitives are upset about it; if I were a marketing strategist, I'd sell those flags to the primitives myself.

samplegirl  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 08:41 AM
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This has to be stopped. Why would Ebay allow this?

http://www.exposeobama.com/2009/10/13/obamas-face-appea...

Robb  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 08:43 AM
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1. Because, as one DU poster pointed out some time ago,

...the U.S. Flag Code is wholly unenforceable. It would be like citing someone for violating the food pyramid.

ChairmanAgnostic  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 08:43 AM
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2. doesn't that depend on the age of the pyramid? if underage, you've got that going for you.

shadowknows69  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 08:44 AM
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3. ROFL violating the food pyramid 

We'd have incarcerate everyone in this country. The McDonald's employees alone would fill every prison we have.

MercutioATC  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 08:50 AM
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4. Actually, unlike the food pyramid, the Flag Code IS codified.

It's true that past practice has been non-enforcement, but there IS the mechanism to change that.

Robb  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 09:15 AM
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10. I believe the code lacks enforcement language.

I of course could be remembering the discussion completely wrong. I also don't remember who made the food pyramid snark, but I've been ripping it off ever since.

MercutioATC  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 09:19 AM
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11. The Code has enforcement language, the courts just keep finding it unconstitutional.

...and the food pyramid reference IS snarky genius

Romulox (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 08:51 AM
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5. There's nothing wrong with it.

And, by all means, enforce the flag code as to my avatar.

Deep13  (1000+ posts)      Wed Oct-14-09 09:08 AM
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6. The flag code only pertains to United States flags.

That item is a novelty flag and, therefore, is not a United States flag.

sailor65 (973 posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 09:08 AM
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7. If it's of any comfort, that's not a U.S. flag. If, as it appears, the item was manufactured with the face on it, then it is not a U.S. flag and is nothing more than a decorative pennant.

Now if a real flag were actually modified, then it would be a problem. Unfortunately, as too many DUers are proud to announce, the Flag Code has been pitifully enforced, if ever, and the scumbags who dishonor the flag don't typically pay a legal price.
But they do make good fertilizer

ret5hd  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 09:11 AM
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8. Seems to me that it's not a U.S. flag. How do you quantify levels of sameness?

What if he put 15 stripes instead of 13, but left the stars?

What if he left it at 13 stripes and the Obama face, but insead of white stripes used tan?

I could go on and on.

berni_mccoy  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 09:13 AM
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9. 1st Amendment

DainBramaged  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-14-09 09:20 AM
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12. I just posted this hurry before it disappears. 

What a bunch of Neanderthals, but you already knew that. First, flag code is UNENFORCABLE, that's why you slugs can get away with WEARING the flag and defacing it with your stink. Secondly, the only thing that's going to come out of 2010 is a greater DEMOCRATIC majority since you clowns have NO money to unseat anyone, but we will get your cockroaches out of the House and Senate.

Oh my.  franksolich is quaking in his boots.

[Karin]

Well, Joe Wilson raised a big boatload of money just recently.   

That flag, BTW, makes me puke. 

[franksolich]

That flag, BTW, makes me puke.

Well, yeah, that's why I thought it would be a hit among the primitives, a best-seller.

You might, or might not, recall that last Christmas the racist babbling sister primitive got a couple of "jack-in-the-boxes" from her uxorious husband, that played "Hail to the Chief" when wound up, after which a figure ostensibly of Bo popped out.

The racist babbling sister primitive was all agog and excited about it; she thought they were "cute."  And the Die alte Sau primitive, the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher, agreed with her.

In truth, the "Bo-in-the-box" toy must've been designed and marketed by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, sold to the primitives; it had every one of the anachronistic "darky" stereotypes in it.

Their taste, or lack of it, says a great deal about the primitives.

[crockspot]

Without the stars, and with O's face on it, it is no longer the US flag, so while it is yet another sign of the deification of Jugears, it's not really a flag issue.

If you drive through many of the indian reservations, you'll see the US flag with an image of a warrior in the middle of it. Those don't really bother me either.

When I see a crowd of arabs burning a flag with seven stripes and fifteen stars, that just amuses me.

If it has the proper number of stripes and stars, and nothing else added on to it, THEN it's a US flag. Anything else is just a red white and blue rag, and they can wipe their asses with it for all I care.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My take is that the flag is very tacky.  I would think so no matter whose picture was on it.

[jinxmchue]

Well, Joe Wilson raised a big boatload of money just recently. 

Yeah, I had to laugh at that because a former Facebook friend was boasting just a couple days after Wilson's truthful outburst that his opponent was raising more money.  Wilson has since eclipsed that lead.

[USA4ME]

Well, yeah, that's why I thought it would be a hit among the primitives, a best-seller.

Despite their public stance, it is a hit with the primitives.  They just can't come out and admit it openly.

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[The Village Idiot]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6771298

I think it was first spotted flying outside a union hq in some state