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 ...
Well if you look at it from an angle, and turn your head a little to the left, and squint...
Nope. Still Norway.
Nevermind.
A Jap Meatball?
The face of.....IGNORANCE.........................
Brilliant. She will try the cookies and think awesome, take the can inside and open it. She would have to have a hazmat team out.
Remember that government employee who was fired because he used the word "niggardly" in an email to other employees? (That means "stingy" or "tight-fisted," for you in Rio Linda).
The rules of micro-aggression clearly state that the blame can never be assigned to the clueless, ignorant, confused complainer. That would be "blaming the victim" of the micro aggression!
Dear Rebecca,
There is a Tennessee battle flag flying next to I-35 in Minnesota also. You may want to call someone to express your concern, but the answer is no. I won’t take it down.
LOL!
Sigh. This neighborhood used to be almost all Scandinavian immigrants and is now largely populated by hipsters and liberal busy bodies.
I guess they road the train straight from Minnesota to Seattle?
No just idiot liberals.
LOL! Ain’t that the truth! I’ve flown the Bonnie Blue many, many times, and neighbors always ask “What flag is that?” I live in Illinois now, so I just tell them it’s an Air Force flag (I’m a USAF veteran, and most of my neighbors know that, so the ruse works).
I fondly remember when Norway seceded from the American Union to set up an independent nation. Then Robert E Lee lead the Army of the Norweigians to victory after victory against Lincoln’s generals until the remaining Union sued for peace.
That was some war, that War of Norwegian Aggression. Here is to the battle flag of Norway. Long may she wave.
That’s true, except it wasn’t *Billy* Sherman. It was Ole Sherman, married to Lena and best buddies with Sven.
Ah, such lovely Southron belles with soft lilting accents draped in the Confedrate flag. I wonder how our Norwegian cousins have been doing since seceding from the Union? I hear they are doing well. Is reunification possible. It would be nice to bring their women into the fold.
Don’t forget the Russian neighborhoods.
I find it kind of odd that it’s OK to have a foreign flag, but not OK to have something that’s of America.
Oh pshaw! I’ll bet you don’t like gammalost either (gamle ost)
Well, to be fair, if you’re driving by rather quickly it could.
No perceptions are ever perfect. That’s why people’s testimony in criminal cases is still suspect.
It helps, here in Texas, that a version of the Bonnie Blue was used as the Texas National Flag for awhile after independence.
As far as the other one, I just tell them that it's the Stars-and-Bars and leave it at that. I assume that they think that it's an early version of the US flag.
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