Posted on 08/07/2012 12:01:56 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Went to the local PO today, saw the flag at half-mast and asked the manager why. I was thinking, oh dear we have lost another good soldier to that abysmal war!
She hesitated then said that Obama had ordered the flag flown at half mast to honor the Sikh dead from the temple shooting on Sunday.
I was stunned.
Did we even fly the flags at half mast in 2009 when that Muslim psychiatrist shot our unarmed troops?
She hesitated then said that Obama had ordered the flag flown at half mast to honor the Sikh dead from the temple shooting on Sunday.
I was stunned.
Did we even fly the flags at half mast in 2009 when that Muslim psychiatrist shot our unarmed troops?
Fort Hood did not merit half-mast treatment because the perp was one of Obama’s sleepers.
I’m sad about the Sikhs, but have we reached the point where every time five or more people are killed (with a gun!) at the same time, it’s a national event? What if seven people in an SUV are killed when the vehicle decides to leap off a bridge? Lower the flags again?
Why don’t we just always have the flags halfway down, because, darn it, people just die every day!
Is there a ping list for this? We need to publisize this far and wide because I imagine it is not widely known.
That would be half staff, not half mast. Unless the post office is on a ship.
Sorry, pet peeve.
This isn't meant to cast aspersions at them, as they appear to be good peaceful people. But I doubt it they fly the Red, White and Blue.
Obama has made a mockery of everything. He spits on the Constitution, hates the military and We The People.
The muslims are happy their brother is in the WH.
Pandering, plain pandering
Pandering, plain pandering
“leap off the bridge”
I like that.
You understand the public psyche of the SUV
Chickensoup (the only chicken driving an SUV in the Northeast!)
Like I say...ya can learn a lot bout what the folks are thinking/saying by reading just the headline plus the reader responses...
Semper Watching!
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That would be half staff, not half mast. Unless the post office is on a ship.
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of course...sorry
I drive a 15-passenger van. They never do anything unexpected.
So know that my chicken-driven large SUV may unexpectely jump out in front of your uber-mom-van and strike flocks of chickens on the sidewalk including youths waving assault rifles.
If he did this for the people killed in his hometown of Chicago every weekend, it would never go to the top.
Yes.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/honoring-victims-tragedy-fort-hood-texas
In other news, 93 people died in auto accidents yesterday.
And nobody cares.
The PO should have a rule that we lower flags every Monday in honor of the Chicago-ans killed every weekend in Zero’s district.
What about for the Aurora shootings? It should just be kept half-staffed and upside down from now until Nov 7th!
Wrong.
In the Marines, it is always “Mast” on land or sea.
GMTA.
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