[the OlLine Rebel]

Re: lowering flags.

This crap has to stop. Just yesterday again I see the US flag half staff. Why this time?

All we do is bow and whimper. Every god-damn issue means we “take a knee” (contrary to what NFL thinks, it’s actually NOT a gesture of defiance but of acquiescence).

How weak we must seem, where the flag is now only up about 30% of the time.

[SamAdams76]

I'm with you on the flags half-mast BS.

I'm old enough to remember that when the flags were at half-mast, everybody knew the reason. Usually it was when a president died.

Now they are half-mast so frequently nobody can tell you why. Here in Newtown, CT they still put the flag in the town square at half-mast for about a week on the anniversary of Sandy Hook shootings. This event happened almost 10 years ago. But lately you can't really tell because it's half-mast way more than it's raised to the top.

I'm thinking the guy who does the flag raising each morning is losing his upper body strength because he only rarely has to pull the flag all the way to the top.

[Hot Tabasco]

How weak we must seem, where the flag is now only up about 30% of the time.

Not where I live......Maybe your flag fliers don't have enough rope?