On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:32:59 -0500, Xena
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>On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:47:03 -0500, "David E. Milligan"
><davideml@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> http://www.geocities.com/daviderl31/Pictures2/obama-no-patriot.jpg
>First of all that was the national anthem not the pldge of allegiance.
Second of all, as Keith Olbermann pointed out on Countdown a couple of
days ago, it is a custom among older baseball fans and players to
stand as Obama did as the anthem is playing and not with hand over
heart, as with the pledge of allegiance. There's a lot more variety
to displays of patriotism than the Repugnicans want people to think
there are and, frankly, I refuse to let them define patriotism in any
way, shape or form.
(BTW, for the purpose of the above, "Repugnicans" does not refer to
Republicans in general, who are a fiscally conservative and socially
liberal and largely genial lot. "Repugnicans" specificially refers to
the evangelical pharisees, neoconservative whackjobs, other fascists
-- and, of course, noted drug addict Rush "He takes his first name a
little too pharmaceutically" Limbaugh -- who control the Republican
party for goals that are clearly the exact opposite of what the party
stands for.)
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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