Half Staff Alert
 

To those flying the stars and stripes in the lakes region...The White House has ordered all flags to be flown at half staff until sunset on July 25th to honor the service members killed in Chattanooga...

Dan

Salute
 

Its about time.Too bad it needed to be prodded to do so.

Clearly,

Whitney Houston > Our Service Members

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I am certain that you know that the flag lowering for Whitney Houston was done at the state level by Governor Chris Christie and had nothing to do with the White House.

Can't believe everything you read on the Internet. Actually, I believe very little without an accurate source.

Yet they had the White House bathed in rainbow colors within hours of the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.

You are right. I didn't not confirm this until after I did some digging after I made the post. My apologies.

Yet, it still doesn't deny the fact its embarrassing as such examples like the one above this post.

Massachusetts
 

The governor of Massachusetts ordered all flags to half staff last Friday. Why would it take the Whitehouse so long??

President Obama is a patriot who deeply loves his country. He feels real pain over the loss of innocent lives in these mass shootings.

Thank you Mr. President and God Bless America!

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good one; i needed a laugh in this somber time

I am confident....
 

that Rusty had his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek...

Judging from Rusty's signature line, I think the comment was surely sarcastic. And I also appreciate the chuckle today. I needed one.

Flags have been at half-staff at my home since the day after it happened. I really didn't feel the need to say, mother may I.

Knowing Rusty, I don't think his comment was sarcastic or tongue in cheek. I think he truly believes what he wrote.

Playing a bit of Devils Advocate here...why didn't we keep all the flags lowered from 2003-2010 when soldiers were dying everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan? What about every time a soldier commits suicide or dies in a car accident? I know in the past with multiple White House Administrations there has always been controversy over when to and when not to lower the flags. This is not something centered around the current administration and to say that the White House didn't do this in a timely manner due to some sort of hidden agenda just makes people seem a bit on the fringe of reality. Congress and the White House lowered the flags on the same day. People need to stop making mountains out of mole hills...finding any sort of glimmer of a chance to bash the current administration is just making the opposing people seem more and more crazy to the rest of us who don't participate in these generic party-line wars of public admonishment...

Because their lives were deliberately taken on American soil.

That has nothing to do with the 'rules' or precedents of when to have the flag at half-mast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast#United_States

http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/c.../halfstaff.pdf

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm


I have NO problem with the flag at half-mast for the soldiers recently murdered while on active duty. But it is clearly at the discretion of the local authorities first. The White House lowered the flags within a timeline consistent with similar scenarios in recent history. This is just another chance for superficial bashing and in my opinion was nothing disrespectful or out of the place with history of 'lowering the flag'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast#United_States
Upon presidential proclamation, such as for the death of Pope John Paul II,[47] the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster,[48] the victims of Hurricane Katrina,[49] the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami,[50] the deaths of Coretta Scott King[51] and Rosa Parks,[52] the Virginia Tech massacre,[53] the Fort Hood massacre,[54] the 2011 Tucson shooting, the funeral of Neil Armstrong,[55] the death of US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stephens, the 2012 shooting in Aurora Colorado, the 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings,[56] the death of Nelson Mandela,[57] the 2013 Washington, D.C. Navy Yard shooting, and the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

and then?

It's not like it wasn't lowered, if it was never lowered I can understand the issue. It was lowered the same day Congress lowered the flags.

The case with the current issue really depends on if you view this as active soldiers killed in the line of duty, to which the flag is rarely lowered in these cases, or if you view this as a 'massacre', work place violence or something similar, like the times you listed above where the flag is lowered more commonly.

Again, it's not the lowering of the flag that is the issue here, it's that people actually think it has some sort of political or ideological motivation on the part of the White House to acknowledge or deny this and then using it to generically bash the administration for not being 'Patriotic'...which is ridiculous...

grats. the horse is officially mush now.

The horse is dead because logic and facts were used?

:laugh:

OK then terrific...

Never let facts or logic get in the way of a good story!

Yea, that's it. Grats you won an argument on the internet by default from the other guy not giving a rat's ass on the topic. No different than winning the special Olympics. Sure, you won. But in the end you're still retarded.

:)

See Post Here

Wow!
Give a man enough rope . . . .

meh.

http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards...oday-b8228.png

Did you just call me that? Are you kidding me? First off, way to be completely hypocritical. Secondly, way to be incredibly shallow and backwards. Thirdly, I am dumbfounded you would use that term for something so insignificant that you obviously do care about or you wouldn't have posted in here in the first place, especially with your misguided Whitney Houston reference. Fourthly, I would love to see you say that to someone not behind the anonymity of the keyboard. Lastly, sometimes it's ok to admit not being correct about something, in fact it's a sign of great intelligence and self-worth to be able to admit you were wrong about something, but like so many of your ilk you digress from the facts and go right to name calling and backpedaling...congrats on that...

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I guess I thought this forum was more of a community then that. Thought we were just having an intelligent debate, not resorting to name calling for something so insignificant...and this is after the advice I gave with the fishing kayak ;). Just disappointing to see that kind of talk on here...to each their own I guess...

Shameful!
 

This was a simple thread started courteously by Dan to inform folks in the Lakes region of the request to lower the flag in honor of those who had died.

And yet some of you desecrate it by turning it into another childish political diatribe?

Can we just honor and respect those who were killed and let it go at that?

So sad.....:(

Oh c'mon. You can't take a jab? The topic at hand got so dulled down I don't even know what I was reading anymore. Relax man. Have a beer and move on.

Besides, the "retarded" reference was regarding to the phrase; not you personally.

There was certainly no disrespect meant. Just a bit of debate, I'm on much larger and more active forums and these debates end up 10+ pages long so I didn't think anything of posting in here with that intent. Very sorry if anyone took offense to it...

Let's just be done with this and move on to more fishing/boating/lake talk...:coolsm:

See. There we go. I'll drink to that.

:cheers:

Maybe a good time for a serious apology....

Poke The Bear...
 

Yo "thatguy":

I started this thread to honor the dead marines who were killed in Chatanooga.
Somehow in your ramblings you thought it was cool to bring up and put down those in special Olympics.... I have two brothers who are heavily involved in special Olympics and if I were you I would STFU!

Thank you for your understanding...

Dan

Second, third and fourth are adjectives and adverbs. So, one doesn't need to add "ly". Just FYI and has nothing to do with the original post, like most of this thread. Agree with more fishing/boating/lake talk since it's a Winnipesaukee forum and not a forum about vexillology.

vexillology
 

good word. that's a new one for me. saved the thread from being completely useless.

Today's Google Doodle
 

Interestingly, <a href="https://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2015/special-olympics-world-games-2015-5710263202349056-hp.gif">Google is honoring</a> the Special Olympics World Games on their site today!