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1 posted on 07/20/2012 9:19:42 PM PDT by maggiesnotebook
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The Mulato Muslim Marxist doesnt give a chit about the military, that’s why! (SPIT)


2 posted on 07/20/2012 9:23:20 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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he’s “evolved.”


3 posted on 07/20/2012 9:23:54 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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What was the ethnicity/race of the majority of the Fort Hood victims? The Colorado victims? Just asking.


4 posted on 07/20/2012 9:25:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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When the Fort Hood massacre occurred an election was not on the immediate horizon.


6 posted on 07/20/2012 9:26:34 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will NEVER get my vote.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2908891/posts?page=81

Colorado Batman shooting shows obvious signs of being staged


7 posted on 07/20/2012 9:26:42 PM PDT by txhurl (Scott Walker is my President.)
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CBA Just announced that the Colorado shooter is in Fact,
a registered Democrat and a close Friend to Eric Holder..

He also sent a Happy Birthday Card to Nancy Pelosi and thanked her for Her “good advice”....

see. How easy it is to start a LIE. this is the Goal of The Media Scum.


8 posted on 07/20/2012 9:27:11 PM PDT by LtKerst
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I may offend some, but lowering the flag on every occasion is taking away the meaning, in my opinion.

This is trending toward making the gesture as irrelevant as the Nobel Prize , a Pulitzer or an Oscar.

9 posted on 07/20/2012 9:38:14 PM PDT by Baynative (A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for others)
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He wasn’t in ‘campaign’ mode then, just ‘paying back his bro’s’ mode then.


13 posted on 07/20/2012 9:56:36 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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This is crazy anti gun theater by Barack Obama, nothing more.

Why doesn’t the flag dip every time Chicago racks up 14 murders?


14 posted on 07/20/2012 9:56:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew (or is that lou?))
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Keep your outrage next to your heart. Vote your outrage in November. Get rid of every Dem scum sucking pig!


15 posted on 07/20/2012 9:58:00 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Fully expecting Obama to make a speech at a memorial for the victims in the near future.
17 posted on 07/20/2012 10:09:15 PM PDT by Rational Thought
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right on track as usual


18 posted on 07/20/2012 10:12:26 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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I bet he wanted to lower it for Trayvon.


19 posted on 07/20/2012 10:13:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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It’s just his socialist “teachable moments” doncha know?


20 posted on 07/20/2012 10:15:03 PM PDT by Route395
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Obama had to show his solidarity with Hasan. Today he had to work with Holmes in promoting gun control. One was a matter of faith and loyalty, the other a matter of politics.


22 posted on 07/20/2012 10:55:41 PM PDT by pallis
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Using this as the standard, The flag should be at half mast every day for all the killing that is going on in Chicago EVERY DAY.

Didnt hear about this in the national news. Did you? 10 dead and 40 wounded in one weekend.

27 homicides in the first 3 weeks of July!!??!! Where is the outrage?? The sympathy??

Over 250 homicides in Chicago in the first 180 days of 2012!!

Dont these dead people and their families have the same right to have their deaths and misery exploited for political gain as the Batman fans of Aurora Colorado?

25 posted on 07/20/2012 11:40:37 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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27 killed on Chicago streets this month alone. Flags are at full staff.

Go figure.


27 posted on 07/21/2012 12:03:52 AM PDT by llevrok (2012 : Elect Adults)
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How come Obummer doesn’t lower the flag to half-mast for the 250 folks already murdered this year in the city of Chicago? That’s 20 times more than the Colorado killings and most of the murdered in Chicago are black. Is Obummer a racist or something, refusing to honor the dead blacks in Chicago?


29 posted on 07/21/2012 12:18:42 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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The purpose behind lowering the flags and keeping them lowered until Wednesday has a much more practical and helpful purpose for the Obama administration. What it does is put politics ‘on hold’ for a number of days in light of the hits Obama is taking for his true from the heart statements in Roanoke last week.

Secondly, it gives him the chance to reinvent himself once again, similar to the bump he got after the Giffords shooting in AZ in early-2011. He can claim a presidential tone, milk it and use it as another opportunity to attack the NRA and 2nd Amendment supporters. The timing couldn’t be better given the push to put us under UN treaties restricting our right to bear arms.

Thirdly, this is an opportunity for Obama to use this massacre as his own Oklahoma City, playing Clinton to the sagging democrat masses.

This massacre is the kind of opportunities liberals love to use for political gain. They are cornered, scared and looking for a way to change the subject. They will use this to the max and the lowering of the flags is just a small first step.


31 posted on 07/21/2012 12:27:32 AM PDT by untwist
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By order of the President, the flag shall be flown at half-staff upon the death of principal figures of the United States Government and the Governor of a State, territory, or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory. In the event of the death of other officials or foreign dignitaries, the flag is to be displayed at half-staff according to Presidential instructions or orders, or in accordance with recognized customs or practices not inconsistent with law. -- United States Code §175 Position and manner of display, Flag of the United States

So no, the flag shouldn't be lowered 'when the President decides they should be lowered'. This is a horrible act of evil but the lowering of the national standard is generally reserved for the deaths of principal figures rather than to score cheap political points at 0bama is trying to do. Some states lower their flags for combat deaths -- this is understandable and in my mind also appropriate.

You should also educate yourself on the difference between half-staff and half-mast. Flags over land fly at half-staff. Flags over water fly ay half-mast. The terms are not interchangeable.

33 posted on 07/21/2012 6:53:22 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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