american flag

And the violence and threats continue:

The office also reported getting a portion of a cut-up American flag soaked in gasoline and a typed letter addressed to McCollum and other Minnesota Democrats including Rep. Keith Ellison, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Al Franken.

Where’s the right wing outrage over treating the U.S. flag like this? There is none. They are totally silent. In their eyes only their opponents are supposed to respect and honor the flag. Gladly I can say we do.

The derangement that is Michelle Malkin and the right wing bloggers (here, here, and here) are up in arms over people “defacing” the flag in honor of the inauguration. It might be better to put this in picture form:

Malkin even goes as far as to recite the flag code:

“The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.”

Now let’s use something that is in short supply on the right – common sense. Would that really be considered a flag or a novelty item? If it’s a flag, then perhaps we should go after Mitt Romney right now:

Bush must have been bored Presidenting at the Olympics, so he had to start fidgeting with the American flag:

Replace Bush with Obama and then imagine the 24/7 outrage we would hear and see from the right, as well as the media.

(h/t Jed Report)

One part of the email I received from John Boehner's office has been eating at me all day:

Rush Limbaugh's strong support of and charity for U.S. troops is well established and was even recognized by the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. Unlike radical left-wing groups and their followers, Limbaugh's goal is to boost troop morale, not depress it by stalling the resources troops need to complete their mission.

I am so sick of this "we are more patriot than you" crap. What resources have left-wing groups stalled or blocked from our troops? Was it protection against IEDs? No - that was the President and the Congress, which was controlled by Republicans at that time, of which Mr. Boehner was part of the leadership.

Is it diminishing each of the 3,700+ lives sacrificed in this war of lies as "a small price to pay"? No! Again - that was Mr. Boehner. The friends I have buried from this war were NOT small prices.

Perhaps it is time for us to play these word games. How about-

John Boehner; "I masturbate to pictures of dead soldiers".

Don't everyone wish their business ran this way - "no matter how bad you do, you still get paid top dollar". Well if you work for the government then that is exactly how it goes:

In late February 2004, the Army announced that it was canceling plans to build a radar-evading helicopter called the Comanche, a project that was nearly three years behind schedule and more than $3.5 billion over budget. Those problems, however, didn't stop an Army panel a few weeks later from granting the Boeing Co.-Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. partnership running the program a $33.9 million "award fee" for their work on the helicopter, part of more than $200 million in such fees paid to the partnership over four years.

Award fees are meant in theory to motivate defense contractors with extra money for performance. But a recent Government Accountability Office study found that the fees are often paid regardless of whether a project is on schedule and within its budget.

Instead of encouraging efficiency, the GAO found, award-fee payments have become routine in some major weapons contracts, built into company expectations and paid almost as a matter of course.

So this is how the "fiscally responsible" conservatives choose to run our country? Hell with that kind of spending and mismanagement let's go ahead and take the American flag down and put up the Chinese flag.

Freeper of the week has to go to Larry Northern, the 59 year old Texan who
took chained a pipe to the back of his pickup truck and used it to destroy the
white crosses set up at Camp Casey in Crawford. Each one of the crosses
represented a fallen soldier, so this tells you what Mr. Northern must think of
the brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice to defend his freedom of
criminal damage. Authorities found pieces of the crosses and of the American
flag under Freeper Northern's truck. Authorities are planning to charge him with
criminal mischief.

A couple weeks back, we had a

story here in the Cincinnati area about the funeral of Pfc. Timothy Hines
Jr. Less than 24 hours after he was laid to rest, someone gathered 20 flags that
were lining his mother-in-law's yard, placed them under a car sitting in the
driveway and torched it all.

A couple of days after that story broke, I noticed some right-wingers posting
to forums saying it was liberals who did this. No one had been arrested and
their were no suspects, but they instantly laid blame to the people who oppose
the war in Iraqr. I went to battle with these accusers considering their was no
suspect in the crime. A few days later, the police made the bust. Turns out the
suspects were two boys, ages 15 and 13, spending a night out doing some random
vandalism. They admitted to it after they learned it was a memorial for a fallen
soldier.