Posted on 07/23/2016 10:33:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
Riding a bike around Annapolis, I note that the flags at the Old State House, the Naval Academy, and the library are at half-staff again. This time for Nice, France. Or is it Dallas? Or Baton Rouge? I confess I lose track.
It seems the flags have been at half-staff most of the time since President Obama took office. It also seems the pace of terrorist attacks is picking up.
Secretary of State John Kerry thinks this is proof that ISIS is on the run. How fatuous. That’s rather like saying the German troops marching through the Arc de Triomphe is good news because they’re wearing out their boots!
It was inevitable that President Obama’s administration would not know how to cope with ISIS. They don’t even know what to call it. They incite ISIS attacks by cravenly calling it ISIL.
That acronym means Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. By calling ISIS by its preferred name, ISIL, President Obama is giving diplomatic recognition to this terrorist network’s wild claim that they are sovereign over Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel.
That’s what calling it ISIL means. Some of us conservatives have called ISIS by the first name it used. That’s because we believe it translates as “Islamist Savagery Inspired by Satan.” Beheading nine-year-old girls and burning Jordanian pilots alive qualifies for satanic savagery in our minds.
President Obama’s administration called Nidal Hasan’s murderous shooting spree at Fort Hood “workplace violence” and resisted giving Purple Hearts to wounded survivors. Purple Hearts go to warriors who sustain wounds in the line of duty.
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I was in Cleveland's Little Italy last week having dinner outside. A dozen Ohio State Police on motorcycles rode by and most of the diners were cheering them and waving. The libs on the block, including a few code pinkers, weren't happy about that.
Flags are half mast in my little berg in TN at least as of yesterday when I went to early vote for TN Primary local and 2 state, 1 federal, replacing a retiring a US Rep Stephen Fincher Dist. 8. Go Tom Leatherwood, go.
I fly the flag 24/7 lit at night.
I normally keep it at full staff, mostly in defiance of President Half-Staff.
If it is for a national figure, like Scalia, it comes down.
Our community recently had two deputies ambushed. It was half staff for them too.
I like your brand of patriotism.
Best FReegards.
With all due respect how about giving me a hand dumping the Alex Halley statue into the inner harbor pool. Let’s take care of the local outrages first.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
That is not from War and Peace.
A ClintonKaine would be worse than a Sharknado.
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