What a disgrace!

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  1. JR Ewing

    JR Ewing Super Moderator Staff Member

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  2. AtlantaSports

    AtlantaSports Senior Investor

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    Alright, I can't tell if this is sarcasm, but can someone explain the significance of this?
     
  3. JoshPosh

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    I guess the White House didn't get the memo. On all the things that needs to be addressed in the world, we re going to nit pick that? Isn't Iran arming itself nuclear wise? Isn't there a war in the middle east with ISIS? People are dying all the time in the decisions that he makes everyday. Maybe the flag should just stay there at half mass permanently for you soldiers in the middle east. I don't see anyone saying anything about that.
     
  4. JR Ewing

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    They are very selective about such things, unfortunately.

    If you guys don't think several active duty military personnel getting slaughtered while in uniform and doing their duties on US soil is worthy of a flag flying at half mast, I don't know what to say.

    I guess the reason they were not honored right away (which is what normally happens) had nothing to do with the assailant being of arabic decent and an obvious follower of radical islam?
     
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    Sorry, but whatever I see on Newsmax usually doesn't get past my filters. I see a lot of bullcrap happening on that site. And also, Fox News...
     
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    The President of United Stated of America doesn't love the legal American citizens. He doesn't love your country. America's real war lies within the White House-- the Obama administration.
     
  7. JR Ewing

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    It really happened - your hero Obama really DID refuse to fly the flag at half mast for several days after the slaughter.

    And several US military personnel WERE slaughtered while on duty here on American soil. By none other than a radical muslim nutjob of arabic descent... which of course Obama refuses to recognize as an act of terrorism committed by a radical muslim nutjob.

    Are you telling me this is the first you've heard of this? Is your head really that far up your ass?

    If you don't like Fox News, that's your choice. But it doesn't make what happened any less true. Maybe you think what the guy did was ok? Maybe you prefer MSNBC?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...national-news-channel-and-its-not-that-close/
     
  8. Penny

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    I assume they have a bunch of bureaucratic rules about the flag and this did not qualify until Obama over-rode that rule. It's not like Obama personally gets up and raises the flag every morning. That is a bureaucratic function. And yes, it would make more sense to either never raise it or never lower it because trajectories occur daily and they are all significant to someone. I honor our service people, but also the babies killed by armor piercing rounds while they lie in their cribs. Deciding which deaths are "important enough" is a bit of a joke. Is there some calculus about how many people of what type have to die in what way to make one metric unit of flag-lowering sadnicity?
     
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    Penny, that's bullfeathers. Obama has interjected himself into non-federal shooting issues, lowered the USA flag for Whitney Houston among others, and was only finally shamed into recognizing the military victims shot down in Chattanooga? He defines ISIS terrorism as workplace violence. You'll note he and his czars refer to ISIS as ISIL, deliberately tweaking the noses of Israeli allies. This community organizing Saul Alinsky feckless autocracy can't end soon enough. Pfft.
     
  10. AtlantaSports

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    To be fair, this was the first I had heard of this as well, so maybe the word just is not getting around that well.
     

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