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Obama orders flags at half-staff after Wisconsin shooting
politico44 ^ | 8/6/12 | BYRON TAU

Posted on 08/06/2012 3:52:30 PM PDT by ColdOne

President Obama ordered the flags on all public buildings and military bases to be flown at half-staff in the wake of a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

"As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated n August 5th, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff," Obama wrote in a proclamation released Monday.

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1 posted on 08/06/2012 3:52:35 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne
"...by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States..."

What a jackass.

2 posted on 08/06/2012 3:55:50 PM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: ColdOne

it’s a waste of time barack. they’ll never vote for you.


3 posted on 08/06/2012 3:56:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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To: ColdOne

As long as tools of self defense are banned in Chicago, we may as well just keep the flags at half mast.


4 posted on 08/06/2012 3:56:51 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: ColdOne

“. . . Ft. Hood? That’s was just work place violence. That’s a local issue. Next question.”


5 posted on 08/06/2012 3:57:08 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: cweese

It’s about himself most of all.


6 posted on 08/06/2012 3:59:30 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: ColdOne

I for 1 am sick of every GD “tragedy” causing the flag to be lowered.

Ever since 9/11, every damn “tragedy” has had the US flag lowered. What a sign of wimpiness.

The Code calls ONLY for it to be lowered for the death of major heads of state.

I could understand 9/11, because that was a MAJOR atrocity.

However, it should not be used to dumb-down how the flag is handled.

(Regards to the victims of these massacres. This is not the subject right now.)


7 posted on 08/06/2012 4:01:54 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: ColdOne

Sikhs everywhere..., groan.

Why thank you Mr. Pres__ent Resident, but did you have to?


8 posted on 08/06/2012 4:02:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: EGPWS

Chicago doesn’t look like America anymore. How about just getting rid of the flag?

In fact, get rid of Chicago and you’ll find very quickly that Illinois is a pretty conservative state... hhmmmm....


9 posted on 08/06/2012 4:02:27 PM PDT by ne1410s ("We will not tolerate your intolerance!!!" ...huh?)
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To: ColdOne

Is there a written protocol or something for flying flags at half-mast?

Seriously, I don’t mean to belittle tragic events, but it seems lately that anything & everything qualifies for half-mast flag flying.


10 posted on 08/06/2012 4:02:31 PM PDT by workerbee (June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
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To: ColdOne; Jacquerie

“...by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States, I hereby order that the flag of the United States
shall be flown at half-staff...”
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Where is that written down?
I’d like to read it.


11 posted on 08/06/2012 4:03:21 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: EGPWS
As long as tools of self defense are banned in Chicago, we may as well just keep the flags at half mast.

I think there should be thread of classic FR posts, and this should be in it.

12 posted on 08/06/2012 4:03:29 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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To: workerbee

It is my opinion that until this imposter is out of the white house, the flag needs to be flown upside down for distress.


13 posted on 08/06/2012 4:03:53 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: ColdOne

How about we only lower the flag when a soldier dies in defense of his country. This stuff about lowering it every time someone dies degrades the original purpose.


14 posted on 08/06/2012 4:04:03 PM PDT by Edyie
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To: ColdOne

How about we only lower the flag when a soldier dies in defense of his country. This stuff about lowering it every time someone dies degrades the original purpose.


15 posted on 08/06/2012 4:04:20 PM PDT by Edyie
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To: EGPWS

my thoughts exactly!


16 posted on 08/06/2012 4:05:21 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)
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To: ColdOne

Obama does not give a hoot about these mainly gentle Indian folks, our own military killed in Ft Hood, Gabby Giffords and the folks slaughtered in AZ last year, and... the innocents murdered in Aurora, CO, a few weeks ago. Three of the four of these killers are living at taxpayer expense, with conviction and punishment literally, years away. The fouth got popped to his maker by the long arm of the law.

Obama and Eric Holder are doing nothing but coddling these murderers!!! End of story. America wake up, your time as a free nation is running out with these despots and America haters in power. Sad!!!


17 posted on 08/06/2012 4:05:27 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

It almost reaches the sad situation..., “Yeah, I carried out an attack that was so vile, the Pres__ent Resident lowered the nation’s flags to half staff.

Other cell-mates..., “Woooooooow.”


18 posted on 08/06/2012 4:05:37 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: Edyie

Then it would also be down all the time.

It is only for heads of state.


19 posted on 08/06/2012 4:05:50 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: ColdOne

Did he do this for the Fort Hood massacre?


20 posted on 08/06/2012 4:08:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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