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1 posted on 01/18/2011 1:28:14 AM PST by pillut48
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To: pillut48

Hope and change, y’know.


2 posted on 01/18/2011 1:33:09 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: pillut48

It could have been the affect of wind upon the flags, but it is worth checking out.


3 posted on 01/18/2011 1:33:57 AM PST by John Leland 1789 (Grateful.)
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To: pillut48

A better copy here:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/1/17/1295294978056/US-and-Chinese-flags-in-f-007.jpg

Source:”Carolyn Kaster/AP”

Looks like same height.


4 posted on 01/18/2011 1:35:04 AM PST by Drago
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Okay, found it, here's a bigger version than the one on Drudge's page. More flag images [1] [2] [3]

Displaying the Flag Outdoors

When the flag is displayed from a staff projecting from a window, balcony, or a building, the union should be at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half staff.

When it is displayed from the same flagpole with another flag - of a state, community, society or Scout unit - the flag of the United States must always be at the top except that the church pennant may be flown above the flag during church services for Navy personnel when conducted by a Naval chaplain on a ship at sea.

When the flag is displayed over a street, it should be hung vertically, with the union to the north or east. If the flag is suspended over a sidewalk, the flag's union should be farthest from the building.

When flown with flags of states, communities, or societies on separate flag poles which are of the same height and in a straight line, the flag of the United States is always placed in the position of honor - to its own right.
..The other flags may be smaller but none may be larger.
..No other flag ever should be placed above it.
..The flag of the United States is always the first flag raised and the last to be lowered.

When flown with the national banner of other countries, each flag must be displayed from a separate pole of the same height. Each flag should be the same size. They should be raised and lowered simultaneously. The flag of one nation may not be displayed above that of another nation.

Source: US Flag.org
5 posted on 01/18/2011 1:41:31 AM PST by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: pillut48

This flag display is up there temporarily for Hu JinTao’s visit to Obongo at the White House. So not much damage done even though I don’t like it


7 posted on 01/18/2011 1:47:54 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: pillut48

IMHO that is one butt ugly flag those chinamen have.


11 posted on 01/18/2011 4:09:44 AM PST by Rannug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-qH02g4DLI)
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To: pillut48

It’s in the center of three; generally reserved for the highest. Probably put there by some ignorant WH decorator/designer who wanted symmetry, and NO idea of protocol. Friggin clueless administration rides again.

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20110117/capt.7f202de6c75e42afa359e004844592b3-7f202de6c75e42afa359e004844592b3-0.jpg?x=400&y=274&q=85&sig=JTDf8B.t.q84IZOx0SE2XA


12 posted on 01/18/2011 4:13:15 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: pillut48

Would you expect otherwise from this Administration?


14 posted on 01/18/2011 4:43:44 AM PST by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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