‘Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying’ in Seattle’s Greenwood area (Norwegian Flag)

Seattle Times ^ | 2/22/2018 | Erik Lacitis

[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)

[thorvaldr]

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

[Calvin Locke]

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

[Leaning Right]

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.

[Chuckster]

Not unless you are completely ignorant and/or stupid.

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

[RightGeek]

The "confederate flag" is to liberals like garlic is to vampires. Keeps them out of the nice areas of the country.

[EdnaMode]

Good grief.

[bigbob]

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.

[Alas Babylon!]

To me, that is an Air Force Brigadier General's flag!

[I want the USA back]

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.

[RightGeek]

Some trough is missing its pig.

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

[Red Badger]

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

[Red Badger]

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

[Red Badger]

[WayneS]

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

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

[WayneS]

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

[Terabitten]

There is no such thing as decent lutefisk.

[captain_dave]

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.

[D_Idaho]

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

[teeman8r]

not guilty? on both counts.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“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.