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House votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries
The Hill ^ | July 7, 2015 | Cristina Marcos

Posted on 07/08/2015 6:38:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

After just two minutes of floor debate late Tuesday evening, the House passed a measure to prohibit the display of Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries.

Despite the lack of fanfare, the vote marked the House's first entry into the debate over removing the Confederate flag from federal property that went beyond codifying already established policies.

Rep. Jared Huffman's (D-Calif.) amendment to the 2016 Interior Department spending bill seeks to end a policy that allows a temporary display of the flag in cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. It sailed through on a voice vote after minimal discussion on the House floor that encountered no opposition.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: battleflag; cemeteries; confederate; cowards; csa
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To: trubolotta

Corruption by politicians is a function of making the office without term limits, making it a full time occupation and paying them too much!


21 posted on 07/08/2015 7:16:16 AM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Timber Rattler

You WILL comply.

And that’s an order.


22 posted on 07/08/2015 7:16:35 AM PDT by Tigerized (Your Personal Safety is Yours, and Yours Alone. Aim Small, Miss Small.)
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To: Timber Rattler
Wonder if this applies to the Mexican flag?

After all we fought and defeated Mexico just like the South and that was well over 100 years ago.

People will argue that the Mexican flag is part of American culture. I argue that the Confed flag is no different.

23 posted on 07/08/2015 7:19:22 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Timber Rattler

This is beyond outrageous - just one more step in erasing our history and historic sites. Eventually all we are allowed is the left’s fabricated version of events.


24 posted on 07/08/2015 7:25:17 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Timber Rattler

And in the 1950’s we would criticize the Soviet Union for revising history and erasing undesirable individuals from it.

My how we have evolved.


25 posted on 07/08/2015 7:26:24 AM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Huffman, a Californian, got his law degree from the same college that allowed MLK, Jr. to skate with a doctoral thesis that was primarily plagiarized.


26 posted on 07/08/2015 7:26:25 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: trubolotta
Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you -
Benjamin Franklin. ...
27 posted on 07/08/2015 7:29:53 AM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: Calamari

Yes, the painting of Lenin with his comrades. The comrades disappeared from the painting one by one as new versions were made.


28 posted on 07/08/2015 7:31:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Term limits will not stop corrupt people from electing corrupt politicians. This has become a nation of cowards, unwilling to risk anything in opposition to tyranny and demands to reject God. The flag is just more of the façade being peeled away.


29 posted on 07/08/2015 7:35:01 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: Timber Rattler

So how long before we’re seeing the disgusting rainbow flag on the graves in federal cemeteries?


30 posted on 07/08/2015 7:38:33 AM PDT by RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
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To: Red Badger
Once the ‘Confederate’ flag is gone from all public places, all references to the Civil War erased, and no one remembers any more, then all our problems will go away....................

oh goody! Can we all go out and play then?

31 posted on 07/08/2015 7:40:15 AM PDT by uncitizen (PC is lying, any way you look at it)
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To: Lazamataz
Good morning.

We are literally living in a dystopian novel, a kind of combination between 1984, Brave New World, and Foundation.

I posted last week that Animal Farm, 1984, and Atlas Shrugged have become documentaries.

5.56mm

32 posted on 07/08/2015 7:41:38 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: uncitizen

Only if you are CCW................


33 posted on 07/08/2015 7:44:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: M Kehoe

Foundation?.......Asimov’s Sci-Fi series?....................


34 posted on 07/08/2015 7:45:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: M Kehoe

I think Foundation and Empire also fits, because it appears society is actually devolving.


35 posted on 07/08/2015 7:52:03 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I am so screwed.)
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To: Timber Rattler

This is a sickening combination of stupidity and cowardice.


36 posted on 07/08/2015 8:00:17 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Timber Rattler

These are the times when any sane politician should vote present like their fearless leader.

Still working to start #DumpBoehner thread.


37 posted on 07/08/2015 8:01:40 AM PDT by Kenny (,)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If you want to make pictures of Mohammed illegal...

Draw him holding a Rebel flag.


38 posted on 07/08/2015 8:04:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

The Wookie told us way back that we need to change our history.


39 posted on 07/08/2015 8:06:22 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Dante3

Eventually all we are allowed is the left’s fabricated version of events.

***
That is the plan.


40 posted on 07/08/2015 8:07:59 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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