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New Venezuela Flag Divides Nation
BBC ^ | 3-13-2006 | Greg Morsbach

Posted on 03/12/2006 6:36:35 PM PST by blam

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1 posted on 03/12/2006 6:36:39 PM PST by blam
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bttt


2 posted on 03/12/2006 6:38:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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3 posted on 03/12/2006 6:43:55 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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I'm sorry, but wouldn't "Total Eclipse of the Heart" be an awesome national anthem?


4 posted on 03/12/2006 6:47:30 PM PST by CheyennePress
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Isn't it a law of heraldry that animals on coats of arms face right?


5 posted on 03/12/2006 6:50:21 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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The one finally adopted (...) was designed by Dr. Friedrich Krohn, a dentist from Sternberg (...). Krohn's design, the swastika on a white disk against a red background, was intended to symbolize the ideology of the movement — in red its social ideal, in white its nationalism, and in the swastika "the struggle for the victory of Aryan man". But Krohn's flag featured a right-handed swastika, traditional symbol of good fortune, spiritual evalution and the triumph of spirit over matter. Hitler insisted on it being replaced by the left-handed swastika, regarded by occultists as the equivalent of a reversed crucifix, an evocation of evil, spiritual devolution and black magic!


http://flagspot.net/flags/de}ns_or.html#ori


6 posted on 03/12/2006 6:55:10 PM PST by OSHA (Liberal Utopia: When they shoot people going over the wall.)
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Nothing like giving the opposition a symbol to rally around. Now they have their own flag. And Chavez' got his.


7 posted on 03/12/2006 6:57:11 PM PST by farlander (Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
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I believe they face left for bastards...aka the illegitimate ones.


8 posted on 03/12/2006 6:58:23 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (The facts of life are conservative -- Margaret Thatcher)
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Isn't it a law of heraldry that animals on coats of arms face right?

Nope seems to be left.


9 posted on 03/12/2006 7:18:07 PM PST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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Yes, you are correct. My bad. I should have just looked at the lions on the English and Scottish coats of arms, which all face left. So at least we can say that Chavez is conforming to the laws of heraldry!


11 posted on 03/12/2006 7:47:49 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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Seems to work for flags too.

But Chavez is still an Ass Clown.

12 posted on 03/12/2006 7:55:02 PM PST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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I love when the media call a socialist dirtbag a "Leftist" as if s/he is deftly practicing some art.


13 posted on 03/12/2006 8:18:19 PM PST by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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"I'm sorry, but wouldn't "Total Eclipse of the Heart" be an awesome national anthem?"

Way yeah, it would be. let's put it this way, now it will be the national anthem of my brain for at least two days!


14 posted on 03/12/2006 8:22:42 PM PST by jocon307 (The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
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What, no hammer and sickle? Give the boy time.

They had Russian national flags to fly when the Soviet Union fell and Lord only knows where they got them - they had Iraqi flags to fly when Saddam went down. They'll be flying the seven-starred one when Chavez is hanging from a lamppost. Haste the day.

15 posted on 03/12/2006 8:28:18 PM PST by Billthedrill
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I hope old Hugo is found wrapped in a bloodied version of this rag one day soon.


16 posted on 03/12/2006 8:37:45 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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ping


17 posted on 03/13/2006 3:46:03 AM PST by Wiz
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PING – Hugo is at it again!


Please FReepmail me if you would like on/off my Hugo/Venezuela Ping list.
18 posted on 03/13/2006 11:10:53 AM PST by proud_yank (Liberalism - The 'Culture of Ignorance'.)
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"eighth star was added in line with the thinking of Mr Chavez's idol, the 19th century independence leader Simon Bolivar."

"Mr Chavez said the white horse had now been "freed".

Such symbolism. White horse of the apocolypse?Is he saying he's going to conquer his neighbors?

19 posted on 03/13/2006 11:26:20 AM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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Wouldn't be too surprised.


20 posted on 03/13/2006 11:34:25 AM PST by proud_yank (Liberalism - The 'Culture of Ignorance'.)
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