McDonald's flies flag upside down

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[raccoonradio]

The American flag at the Follansbee McDonald's is flying at half-staff and upside down today. Someone at the restaurant told one of our reporters this was "the owner's decision." What are your thoughts?

[discostu]

Now you’re just off in never never land. Is “your kind” nutters that can’t understand a simple point about how franchised businesses work and insist that anybody that does is anti-American simply for having more facts? In that case I’m glad I’m not your kind, facts are cool, even the inconvenient ones.

[Grampa Dave]

“I agree. We have been rethinking our travel plans because I refuse to spend one dime in a state that supported Obama and the leftist scum that I don’t have to. Unfortunately we live in VA so I’m kinda stuck.”

Unless you want America to be like CalifornicatingU land, the rest of America needs to separate the blue state pos’s from your money.

Start a boycott, buycott or avoidcott with the Blue States.

Don’t buy a product made or raised in a blue state unless you have proof its owners are not left wingers.

Don’t vacation in, or have conventions or business meetings in, Democrat blue states. Start with Nevada until the casino bosses get rid of Reid and send him home to have more time with his family.

Don’t visit CalifornicatorU land. Don’t go to Follywood movies and stay away from our products except those produced or raised by conservatives.

Avoid NY City like it has the plague. It has the terminal Bloomberg mental illness.

The Blue Staters hate you, your religion, your belief system, and your priorities in life, like your family members and friends. Let the Blue Staters try to live without your $’s.

Let the blue states sink on their own!

Save your charity $’s for red state people when disasters hits their area.

http://boston.com/news/special/politics/2012/general/us-president-election-results-2012.html

[MHGinTN]

There is an alternate way to approach this catastrophe:

The following attached link is to a very important video

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

He’s right and God Bless him..Communism won last night..America is no longer Capitalist..now its controlled by the moochers, the Socialists, the progressives and the Communists..he’s absolutely right in putting the flag upside down..our founding fathers are weeping right now

Yup. Romney was wrong. He obviously didn't have access to the latest stats. Because the 47% figure he referred to, turns out to have really been 51%.

The great seesaw of life has just tipped to the moochers side. And as they eat more and grow in weight and in numbers, that seesaw ain't coming back.

Because as the recently-entered era of "government by presidential decree" starts to really escalate, and every new day the MSM lauds the latest edicts from "The Great Reformer President!" centering around Immigration "Reform" and "Border-Enforcement Reform" and "Border Fence Maintenance Reform" and "Border Patrol Personnel Reform" and the like, that 51% figure will soon become just a nostalgic distant memory, alongside $3 gas and 5% unemployment and the like.

[Brown Deer]

In an emailed statement to the Huffington Post, McDonalds' franchisee Karen Mezan reiterated that the flag's position was an ill-timed mistake, and not intended to be a political statement:

"Unfortunately, a flag cable broke and during the process of trying the fix the flag, it was inadvertently turned upside down. It wasn't noticed that the flag was upside down until a customer inquired about it. We are working on fixing the flag right now. It’s important to note that this was an accident, not intentional."

[SkyDancer]

I was thinking all FReepers should do it but then it’d bring attention to themselves for reprisals. We’ve got to do something.

[lowbridge]

Amazing the hypocritical reactions from the liberals on the news stations fb page. Back in the 1980s, I think, flag burning was a big issue that went to the supreme court which ruled that burning the flag is protected free speech. Liberals cheered that decision. Then during the bush years from 2001-2009, the liberals flew the flag upside down thousands of times as well as displaying upside down flags on their websites. Now that someone does it while obama is in the white house, they’re like, “oh, how disgraceful! How disrespectful of the flag!”

Hypocrites.

[lowbridge]

With all those rules and regulations, why do people buy into a mcdonalds franchise instead of using that money to build their own fast food joint? I just don’t understand.

[MortMan]

I believe I may start using the phrase “F**k Obama” in place of the pledge of allegiance.

[Plumres]

I eat at this McDonalds. I love it!

[USARightSide]

Took mine in at 1am Wednesday.

It flies day and night since 9-11, but not today.

Will do the same on Jan. 20th.
Marking calendar now for reminder.

[Hot Tabasco]

Somebody driving by that McDonalds may call 911, thinking the workers and customers have been taken hostage.

Yep, one of the workers had the time to slip out the back of the building takeout window, run around to the front of the building, pull down the flag and turn it upside down then hoist it back up, run around to the back of the building, slip back inside the takeout window and pretend that nothing ever happened.

All this while the guys holding the crew hostage were chowing down on Happy Meals.......

Why do I get the feeling that YOU might be the only person on this planet that would call the cops?

[rfreedom4u]

I’m only flying my Texas flag until he is out of office.

[j_tull]

The oldest known American Battle flag, this banner was flown by the Bedford Minutemen Company at the Battle of Lexington and Concord and onward. It was the first flag of the American Revolution to be fired upon by the British. The flag features an armored arm wielding a sword and protruding from a cloud. It also contains the powerful words “Vince aut Morire,” which translates to “Conquer or Die.” It has been preserved to this day from its time in the Massachusetts Militia, and remains in Bedford, Massachusetts

[PA-RIVER]

I took my flag down about 12 days ago with the idea to put a new one up today.

I won’t be putting one back up.

[PA-RIVER]

Apparently she fears an IRS audit is coming next.

[upcountryhorseman]

I agree: we are foregoing wreaths on the door and a Christmas tree as well as any presents. Because we are
in mourning!

[houeto]

Our new flag was going to fly today; now, it might have to wait until Amerika can be turned back into America, if God’s grace will allow it.

I have a 25' pole in my front yard. It now has the State Flag flying.

[Diamond]

Hi MHG.

Thank you for posting that link! I watched it all. I really enjoyed it. There were some very nice touches in it, such as his reference to Buckhead's famous post:

47 posted on 09/08/2004 8:59:43 PM PDT by Buckhead

His example of Bill W's genius or inspiration or whatever you want to call it, regarding AA's organizational principles was another one.

As he was talking about virtue I thought of “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. ” (Benjamin Franklin)

and John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

The main question I had while watching it though, is this; isn't it the very nature of Statists and totalitarians to try extinguish the kind of parallel and horizontal networks of freedom and competition he is advocating, even though they are no direct threat to the State? Is he being naive to believe the government will let such networks alone? His example of home schoolers illustrates the paradigm well but he did not address what the State often tries to do to them.

I'm not dissing his ideas at all. I find them fascinating, and I'm sure he would have an answer to my question if I asked him.

Thanks again for posting it. It was well worth the time.

Cordially,

[wardaddy]

I will be doing the same at my chain of car washes tomorrow

my statement too