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Bob Gay/The Dominion Post Showing the effects of wind and weather, this tattered and faded flag still flutters in the breeze at a grave site in East Oak Grove Cemetery. BY KATHY PLUM The Dominion Post KINGWOOD -- Americans love their flag, but many don't know how to display it, honor it or to dispose of it after it is retired. "We have skipped a couple generations where we have not taught" flag etiquette, said 1st Sgt. Rick Bloom, of the Preston High School JROTC. "We normally don't have to tell a cadet more than once what you have...

Yes, I'm a "Newbee". But I have been reading Free Republic for almost a year now. I recently started posting. I want to be a part of this Blog but don't want to do as so many Newbee's have done and not follow the rules. I think I have a grasp on HOW to post and WHERE to post. My question now is about some of the terms used. Hence: Bump,Ping..ect. Is there a list's of Free Republic...or ANY "Blog terminology" I can go to for these questions? Thanks.

It is unfortunate that civilisation has taken a firm position against the institution of public scratching. Apes do it, lions do it, squirrels do it with abandon. In this context, I am happy to report that the Indian Man, particularly the North Indian variety, has refused to submit to the arcane ways of civilisation and continues to scratch away at himself with some diligence. In his case, the scratching is localised in a part of the anatomy that occurs frequently in his conversation, often with reference to some close relatives. To the lay eye, there are three distinct ways of...

Nothing makes me madder than seeing the American Flag on the ground. Today I picked up my tenth car window flag up off of the street from being driven over by dirty tires. I don’t know much about protocol, but I do know that you NEVER let the Flag of the United States EVER touch the dirty ground. I remember when I was younger watching my older brother watch the TV Series Tour of Duty. My older brother was really into military and the Tour of Duty show and there’s one very serious thing that I learned from him is...

Don't mean to be rude? Read rules DAVE BARRY OK, here are the rules: 1. If there's a line, you get at the end of the line, and you wait your turn. 2. You own ONE place in the line. You do NOT have the right to invite friends to join you in the line. This is rude to the people behind you, who got there before your friends, and will now have to wait longer. If you want to be with your friends, you can join them at the back of the line. And, no, it's not enough to...

Miss Clarke, a teacher at a Christian school in northern Virginia, described the reaction from her students when she began teaching etiquette. “When we got to the section about table manners,” she said, “the students were completely perplexed. ‘People do that?’ they said to me.” She observed that etiquette at the dinner table and elsewhere is foreign to kids because they’re coming from homes where everyone’s on a different schedule and the families rarely sit down together for meals. Even in these Christian homes, there was no regular time and place to learn good manners. Judith Martin, also known as...

<p>Bullies and boors beware: Men behaving badly are getting their comeuppance from Emily Post's great-grandson.</p> <p>Peter Post has written a guide to the most vexing etiquette matters from the masculine world.</p> <p>"Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It and Why" is meant to be a reasoned, succinct approach to manly manners and the benefits of civility.</p>

I had established the foundations of philosophically verifiable etiquette in the Public-Private Ethical Distinction, which is explicated in an essay of the same name. Etiquette is thoroughly grounded in rational egoism; it is a scientific classification of the instances and categories of action which are best for an individual to keep solely to himself or within a self-defined delimited circle of pertinent associates and which it is to his advantage to seek the cooperation and contribution of others toward. That former treatise had addressed with considerable specificity the alternative of withholding or disclosing and how profoundly it permeates all public...

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." Thus declared Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. In the context of this statement, the private-public distinction is employed not in politicoeconomic terms (which are, however, derivative), but in an individual, ethical sense, pertaining to the objectively correct atmosphere which one should experience in and away from the company of other men. Any rational treatise, including this one, will undertake a definition of terms prior conducting their...

Senate's prized civility under fire Bruises from redistricting battle will heal, some say; others see lasting damage By Ken Herman AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Monday, August 18, 2003 Eventually, one must assume, the Texas Senate will meet again. Unknown, however, is exactly what it will look and feel like when the 11 boycotting Democrats now based in Albuquerque, N.M., return to the floor after what has been three weeks of interstate unpleasantness. For generations, the 31-member chamber has prided itself on collegiality and, far more often than not, a brand of cordial bipartisanship foreign to the halls of the U.S. Congress. A...

As I was getting on the bus the other evening after work, no sooner had I put a foot inside the door than a guy in his late teens shoved me out of the way, rushing to grab one of the few remaining seats. Hanging over his shoulders like Superman's cape was one of those rainbow peace flags you see everywhere these days in Rome. So naturally this little run-in got me thinking about the anti-war movement and its many hypocrisies, big and small. It also got me thinking about the less momentous and more enduring issue of standing and...

<p>Until recently, 12-year-old Kelsey Hayes didn't know much about the fox trot, the electric slide or disco.</p> <p>"I have seen my mom and dad do disco at weddings and stuff, and I thought it looked funny," said the sixth-grader at Dorseyville Middle School. "But now I am getting used to it. It's pretty fun."</p>

Redneck Guide to Etiquette ENTERTAINING IN YOUR HOMEA centerpiece for the dining table should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist. Especially if it's more appetizing than the meal. Do not allow the dog to eat at the table--no matter how good his manners are. Be considerate of your guests. Point out in advance where the injury-threatening springs are located on the sofa. DINING OUTWhen decanting wine, make sure that you tilt the paper cup and pour slowly so as not to "bruise" the fruit of the vine. If drinking directly from the bottle, always hold it with your fingers...

Etiquette Books for an Age Without Rules By P. J. O'ROURKE tiquette is what's right. A book of etiquette shouldn't begin by being wrong. In the introduction to ''21st-Century Etiquette,'' Charlotte Ford writes that rather than approach etiquette ''as a daunting set of uptight rules (and who really likes rules?). . . .'' I do. So does anyone who has experienced unruliness, misrule and whacks on the knuckles with a ruler for breaking rules he didn't know existed. Good society has clear rules because, otherwise, it would be the bad society of criminals, politicians, celebrities and Big Five accounting firms,...