[devane617]

God Bless America, and Americans.

[Future Snake Eater]

"At 7 o'clock Saturday morning, I had a 92-year-old veteran knocking on my door. This veteran stormed Normandy, and he wanted to know what he could do to help the city of Clearwater fly the American flag," Cretekos said.

Obviously a thuggish plant meant to incite controversy against our elected officials... /s

[justkate]

"At 7 o'clock Saturday morning, I had a 92-year-old veteran knocking on my door. This veteran stormed Normandy, and he wanted to know what he could do to help the city of Clearwater fly the American flag," Cretekos said.

Prolly some racist tea baggin K Street lobbyist. /s

[cubreporter]

If it wasn’t for the American flag and what it stands for these idiots wouldn’t even have a job or a free country. How STUPID can one get????

[Wife of D28Man]

So doesn’t Clearwater have any Boy Scout Troops? Rotary Clubs? General all-purpose patriotic do-gooders?

If our community tried that, our church alone could staff the raisings and lowerings for a month, no problem.

[torchthemummy]

Federal flag code requires that Old Glory not be displayed in public between dusk and dawn unless the flagpole is lighted. After Clearwater got some complaints about the condition of some of its flags, a committee of city staffers began looking at how many flags Clearwater maintains and whether all of them are necessary.

So the first sentence quotes federal flag code (these aren't federal offices but whatever) and gives the impression that the flags were lowered every day but of course give no proof of such. Then when they got complaints about the condition of the flags, instead of replacing them themselves or asking veterans groups about replacing them, they simply decide to get rid of them.

But again, unless I missed it, these flags are not being lowered every day so mentioning the federal code means nothing except that they are hypocrites.

[torchthemummy]

Contrary to previous reports by the city, officials said Monday that only one flagpole had actually been taken down so far. A 55-foot pole alongside the Clearwater Memorial Causeway was removed Friday after passing motorists complained that the American flag atop it wasn't properly lit at night. Workers had trouble illuminating that particular flag without potentially blinding oncoming drivers. The city now intends to replace that flagpole with a shorter one.

These people are too much. You don't need to be an engineer to know that angle-wise the light that would be used for lighting a flag on a shorter pole would have a better chance of "blinding" drivers than a taller one, even if the intensity of the lights may be lower than the previous ones. Whatever. It's this kind of in-your-face intellectual dishonesty that made me a conservative.