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spprs

Randumb stuff

Jan 17, 2007 09:48

Why are all the flags still at half-mast? Is this for Gerald Ford? Didn’t he die in December? Not to be a killjoy, but if that’s the case, um, why are they still half-mast? Don’t get me wrong - I don’t have an issue keeping them at half for like a week or so. Sure, president, big deal, drop the flag. But this is like weeks? Wasn’t the whole ( Read more... )

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netgoth January 17 2007, 15:05:22 UTC

A cell phone with a bigger screen, more bells and whistles, and more storage to hold your pictures of Paris Hilton’s indented, bony chest do not a revolution make.

I love you.

(in that very platonic, damn he's right, woot kind of way. Ahem.)

spprs January 17 2007, 15:11:36 UTC

Thanks. I love you to.

(in that very platonic, holy crap someone actually reads my lj, and I'm not the only one who thinks this kind of way.)

netgoth January 17 2007, 15:18:55 UTC

Hehe. I read. I may not always have something to add, but I do enjoy it when you go off on a tear.

I generally just keep my tears to the technical and education worlds because that's largely what I'm involved in these days.

robert_johnson January 17 2007, 22:40:41 UTC

You love her to what?

i had been wondering the same damn thing... gadget_girl January 17 2007, 15:27:43 UTC

from here:

In the event of the death a present or former official of the government of any State, territory, or possession of the United States, the Governor of that state, territory, or possession may proclaim that the National flag shall be flown at half-staff." The code also includes other related details including the specific length of time during which the flag should be displayed at half-staff, in the event of the death of a "principal figure"(e.g., 30 days for the death of a sitting or former President, 10 days for the death of a sitting Vice-President,etc.). a full month?!? jesus, in this nation of short-attention-span, a.d.d. bastards, how many people even remembered who it was half staff for even a couple of days after the fact? shit man, i'm sure more than half of the nation either didn't know why it was flying half staff in the first place, or more likely, didn't even notice ( ... )

Re: i had been wondering the same damn thing... spprs January 17 2007, 15:42:01 UTC

More ironically/poignantly, how many people thought Gerald Ford wasn't already dead before December?

1994? That's when the last president prior to Reagan croaked, and that was Nixon. Makes me wonder if they changed that rule after or before.

"Thank god, Nixon's dead. Now we can finally change the rule back and canonize without scrutiny! Praise Reagan!"

Pedantic, overblown crap.

Re: i had been wondering the same damn thing... robert_johnson January 17 2007, 22:41:39 UTC

I liked Nixon. Sure he was a bastard, but he loved his wife.

save me from the campaigners merrychristen January 17 2007, 22:27:25 UTC

could we please just have a President who is not a completely useless, compulsively lying, morally crippled, grammatically challenged, whinging droopy pants psychopathic fuckface capable of the most heinous acts of douche-baggery ever recorded?!?! Please.... that's all I ask.

Re: save me from the campaigners robert_johnson January 17 2007, 22:44:44 UTC

But that seems to be the kind of person who gets the nomination from all the other people who are exactly like that as well. 'Good' people seem to avoid politics assiduously.