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‘Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying’ in Seattle’s Greenwood area (Norwegian Flag)
Seattle Times ^ | 2/22/2018 | Erik Lacitis

Posted on 02/22/2018 10:01:04 AM PST by llevrok

A story about the times we live in, and assumptions we can make in our current political climate.

The news tip a few days ago said:

“Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”

It was from Rebecca Morris, who is an author of The New York Times best-seller true-crime books.

So, of course, we drove to that corner.

There was no wind, and on a flagpole there was what obviously was the U.S. flag at the top, and below, a red flag with blue stripes.

Simply hanging down, not spread out, you could make some assumptions that it was the star-filled “Southern cross” of the Confederacy.

Darold Norman Stangeland lives at the corner house.

“That’s a Norwegian flag,” he says. “It’s been up there since the start of the Olympics.”

The Norwegian flag has a red background, with an off-center white-and-blue cross.

Norway, so far, has won 13 gold, 11 silver and nine bronze medals at the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, totally dominating the event.

“I’m a proud Norwegian-American. My parents emigrated here in the mid-1950s. He skippered tugboats,” Stangeland says. (Break)

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: confederate; flag; greenwood; idiot; ignorance; leninstatue; liberalbigotry; liberalhypocrisy; morris; norway; norwegian; norwegianflag; olympics; rebeccamorris; seattle; washington
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To: llevrok

Typical liberals, offended by something that they can’t even recognize on sight.


41 posted on 02/22/2018 10:22:28 AM PST by thorvaldr
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To: vette6387

Yep. Tell the truth about something, and they plug their ears and start screaming.


42 posted on 02/22/2018 10:24:01 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: llevrok

Let’s not be so quick to criticize Ms. Morris!

If i remember my history correctly, Norway was one of the original Confederate states. And it was a sad day when Billy Sherman burned Oslo to the ground.


43 posted on 02/22/2018 10:24:10 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: WayneS
Not unless you are completely ignorant and/or stupid.

There's a lot of that going around these days.

44 posted on 02/22/2018 10:25:12 AM PST by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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To: llevrok
The "confederate flag" is to liberals like garlic is to vampires. Keeps them out of the nice areas of the country.


45 posted on 02/22/2018 10:25:43 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: llevrok

Good grief.


46 posted on 02/22/2018 10:26:00 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Gamecock

It also means someone is exercising their individual freedom to fly whatever flag they wish. But to your point, anyone who thinks it is any of their business is an idiot.


47 posted on 02/22/2018 10:26:12 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: jonascord
To me, that is an Air Force Brigadier General's flag!


48 posted on 02/22/2018 10:26:13 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: llevrok

The folks don’t have much functioning matter in the cranium. The fact that a mindless idiot thought that a Confederate flag was a problem, and called a news outlet, says that a lot of people are not intelligent enough to chew gum and walk at the same time.

I should be glad that the fool didn’t call the cops over a flag.


49 posted on 02/22/2018 10:27:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: llevrok
Some trough is missing its pig.

Rebecca Morris - crack "true crime" author. And we do mean crack.

50 posted on 02/22/2018 10:29:25 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Michael.SF.

Trigger......................


51 posted on 02/22/2018 10:29:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Either that or a Dallas Cowboys fan.....................


52 posted on 02/22/2018 10:30:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Alas Babylon!

53 posted on 02/22/2018 10:32:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: MeganC

The Navy Jack is another good flag for US Navy and/or Marine folks.

http://www.navyjack.info/history.html


54 posted on 02/22/2018 10:32:42 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Leaning Right

Yes. I think they seceded from Scandinavia only a month or so after Alabama...


55 posted on 02/22/2018 10:33:47 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: llevrok

There is no such thing as decent lutefisk.


56 posted on 02/22/2018 10:34:46 AM PST by Terabitten (Time for the GOPe to reap the whirlwind.)
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To: llevrok
There are a lot of stupid people in the world. Once I was on an Alaska cruise on a Holland America line ship. One (stupid) passenger thought the ship's ensign was French. I told him, no, it's the Netherlands. He was still certain it was French.

Yes, they live among us. And, yes, they vote....unfortunately.

57 posted on 02/22/2018 10:35:22 AM PST by captain_dave
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To: llevrok

“Southern Cross?” Never heard it called that before. Anybody?


58 posted on 02/22/2018 10:38:39 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Snickering Hound

not guilty? on both counts.


59 posted on 02/22/2018 10:40:28 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: OpusatFR

“I’m going to raise the skull and crossbones. Let them guess what that means.”

I fly the Jolly Roger all the time (24-7), they can think what they want.


60 posted on 02/22/2018 10:41:56 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE ("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
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