Posted on 02/21/2011 7:45:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
FLY IT! Not for the President we DON’T have, but for the Presidents we MUST have, despite him.
FLY IT- because Obama hates it.
FLY IT- because he would replace it with the flag of Islam.
FLY IT- because you still have the freedom to do it.
Fly it- in defiance of all those who would see it gone forever!
If you’re conflicted, fly it tomorrow which is Washington’s birthday.
Take heart and fly your flag for Washington’s Birthday and make sure to tell your friends and family this....The Uniform Monday Holiday Act (Pub.L. 90-363) is an Act of Congress that amended the federal holiday provisions of the United States Code to establish the observance of certain holidays on Mondays. The Act was signed into law on June 28, 1968 and took effect on January 1, 1971.[1]
The Act moved Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day from fixed dates to designated Mondays. Contrary to popular perception, the Act did not officially establish “Presidents’ Day”, nor did it combine the observance of Lincoln’s Birthday with Washington’s Birthday...it is still legally Washington’s Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!!!
I don’t like the whole idea.
Sure, we’ve had some great presidents (see my tagline), but the whole idea of a president’s day seems a bit too imperial to me.
When Ted Kennedy died, Governor GoodHair of TX decreed that American flags would fly at half staff in his honor.
That was the day that I took my American flag down, folded it up, and put my Gadsten flag up—it still flies there today, and will remain until the day the present regime occupying our government and our White House and his minions are banished from power in this country.
FLY IT! Not for the President we DON’T have, but for the Presidents we MUST have, despite him.
FLY IT- because Obama hates it.
FLY IT- because he would replace it with the flag of Islam.
FLY IT- because you still have the freedom to do it.
Fly it- in defiance of all those who would see it gone forever!
thats the spirit...well said
BEAUTIFUL! I just made a jpg I’d like to put up, but it’s on facebook. Can I link it here?
We fly the flag on Feb 22 - Washington’s birthday.
Otherwise right now we fly the Don’t tread on me flag.
Actually, I’ve really enjoyed flying the DTOM flag. I don’t have to worry about leaving it out overnight, lights, touching the ground etc. And it drives certain neighbors berserk. They know where we stand, for sure.
Link up!
How about we replace the Martin Luther King Jr. day holiday with a Civil Rights advocates day just as Washington and Lincoln were removed from their rightful places and now we have this generic day linked to nothing concrete?
The holiday we celebrate today is NOT “Presidents’ Day” as the merchants have dubbed it. It is “Washington’s Birthday” as Congress has named it. See http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2011.asp
Did something wrong *&$^#*(!. Will fix it later.
Fly it for the youth who may see your patriotism to the ideas of liberty, and publicize in your community the words of Andrew Jackson, repeated in the remarks below.
Early Presidents stressed the ideas of the Declaration and Constitution, including Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Jackson.
A president whose philosophy fails to recognize the superiority and sovereign "people's power" of that document undoes all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty and leaves the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere imperfect men and women.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
During this President's Day celebration, let us recognize and honor the words and sentiments of Jackson on that day in 1832, when the counry was young and the passion for liberty was alive in the hearts of citizens.
Mine was taken down at the Usurper’s Oath of Office.
I will not fly my flag for the same reason.
I just had the idea of making up some special flags. One with President Washington’s likeness in the upper left with bars. One with President Lincoln and bars. One with President Reagan with bars.
If I can get this done, I’ll fly these on Presidents Day next year.
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