Just scanning through the news this morning, I see that theHouse will Vote on a Flag Burning Amendment. Everytime I see this, I wince a little at the people who just don't get it. Our country has always been supposedly about freedom. Many people understand freedom the way they understand love and compassion. They extend it to people they like and care about and agree with. You know, the easy stuff. Freedom, like those other things, is only real if it is extended to the people you don't like; don't agree with; and don't care about. If you can't extend freedom to people to not like America--or in fact, to directly disrespect America--then you don't get what America is supposed to represent.
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Update: Related to the above point, SOF and I saw a Christian fish symbol the other day that used the flag as a backdrop. Incredibly offensive, and I wonder if the people who push for the Flag amendment would recognize that as defacing?
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In other news, I am amazed that the Dems have been able to foil (so far) the John Bolton nomination. By the accounts I read, the man is a menace--threatening people who disagree with him, and manufacturing intelligence to meet his agenda. You know, just like GWB! And speaking of the Prez, he has refused to back down from the Bolton pick--even though many in his own party don't like the guy. On one hand, I really wonder what the Dems are doing using political capital on this guy. Is the UN Ambassador really the place to fight this battle? With upcoming SCOTUS fight?
But on the other hand, Bush's stubbornness really irks me. I know his followers think it is principled, but I just see someone who refuses to acknowledge mistakes. He reminds me more and more of the Richard Mulligan version of Custer in Little Big Man. (If you haven't seen it, then you haven't seen one of the funnier movies about the American West). Mulligan's Custer refuses to acknowledge mistakes. When he meets Dustin Hoffman's character, he decides that the man is a mule skinner, and brags to his officers how he came to that conclusion. Mule skinning is one of the few things Jack Crabb never does, but that never shakes Custer's belief that he is a mule skinner. A running theme is Custer's decision making, and whether he should ever consider the "reversal of a Custer decision."
Bush may have seen this movie in his drug and alcohol years and thought Custer was the hero.
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Clearly, you oppose this measure because you hate both America and Jesus, you Godless Communist tart. You will bow down before the flag of American Jesus! Oh, yes, you will. You will.
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