Posted on 02/22/2018 10:01:04 AM PST by llevrok
A story about the times we live in, and assumptions we can make in our current political climate.
The news tip a few days ago said:
“Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”
It was from Rebecca Morris, who is an author of The New York Times best-seller true-crime books.
So, of course, we drove to that corner.
There was no wind, and on a flagpole there was what obviously was the U.S. flag at the top, and below, a red flag with blue stripes.
Simply hanging down, not spread out, you could make some assumptions that it was the star-filled “Southern cross” of the Confederacy.
Darold Norman Stangeland lives at the corner house.
“That’s a Norwegian flag,” he says. “It’s been up there since the start of the Olympics.”
The Norwegian flag has a red background, with an off-center white-and-blue cross.
Norway, so far, has won 13 gold, 11 silver and nine bronze medals at the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, totally dominating the event.
“I’m a proud Norwegian-American. My parents emigrated here in the mid-1950s. He skippered tugboats,” Stangeland says. (Break)
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
a person who does research for a living can't research a flag? Give this person the Golden Bippy Award.
“I guess they road the train straight from Minnesota to Seattle?”
My grandmother was 17 when she came over to the USA back in 1906 or something. All alone, didn’t know anybody. She landed in New York. She asked about where the Norwegian’s lived. Some guy pointed to the sign and got her headed in the right direction on a train.
“I didn’t know I was going to Minnesota until hours on the train! I just wanted a neighborhood in New York City with some Norwegians. But, here I am.”
The Shetland flag is modeled after the Norweign flag. In 1468 Norweign king Christian 1, pawned the Orkney and Shetland Islands to the king of Scotland. He never reclaimed them and they are now a part of Scotland.
Lost his pawn ticket?....................
Perfect answer.
Also that you’re on a hair trigger to take offense at anything.
Do a search for no step on snek. I bought some stickers, too.
Our society has descended into idiocracy. And here I thought it was just a silly movie
Somebody will call it in as an ISIS flag and you'll get SWATTED at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, that was what I meant!
Fixed
The Serbian Chetnik flag is black has the skull and crossbones on it along with a slogan in Serbian: For King and Fatherland. Liberty or Death. My faher-in-law, having been a Chetnik in WW2, had one. I guess if I hoisted that outside my house, some of my neighbors might think it marked a pirate’s den.
“....She says, “Maybe that’s the story … we’re so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren’t there.”
Better hope the Russian bots don’t decide to repost their slightly altered version......”
By God Seattle has gone into the crapper. I remember when I lived there in Ballard, there were some people who only spoke Norwegian. Of course they were all fairly old then, and have probably passed on.
You mean the flag of the West Florida Republic?
LOL! I fly the both Bonnie Blue and the Stars & Bars and no one around here has a clue. History majors they are not.
The stars are the wrong shape :-)
OK, but we're talking dims, here, with it's US military connotations, so they find that equally objectionable...
Fortunately, the house next door has security cameras all over it and they found out who it was. So he sends the police down to her house to tell her what an idiot she is and to give her a an appearance ticket for criminal mischief.
Now I can't help wondering: Did she mistake the flag for something else--or did she identify the flag correctly and consider it racist because of Imperialism, Colonialism, and Mind Your Language?
You have the red and white inverted, and the Japanese flags (national and battle) never had black in them.
The officer said that she thought it was a Confederate flag.
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