Friday, June 14, 2013
Happy Flag Day, Everybody!
Flag Day was first observed in 1877 on the 100th anniversary of the Continental Congress’ adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States. In that year, Congress asked that all public buildings fly the flag on June 14. The idea quickly caught on and many people wanted to participate in waving the flag. One early supporter was B. J. Cigrand, a Wisconsin schoolteacher who wanted June 14 to be known as “Flag Birthday.”
For our cherished occasion, Our Quote for Today Committee has chosen Adrian Cronauer’s: “Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.”
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Flag Day as a national celebration. However, the holiday was not officially recognized until 1949 when President Harry Truman signed the National Flag Day Bill.
The Blower says it’s time to dig out your American flag and fly it high this week. Children in school today if they were getting an education year round could sing “God Bless the USA,” unless your Obama Supporting School Principal says that would be “too patriotic.”
And maybe if you’re at a ball game, you should even put down your hot dog, take off your hat, and actually sing “God Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch.
And maybe at all public meetings, we could all join in and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. In case you’ve forgotten, the current words, adapted over the years from the original written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, are: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
One of our long-time readers sent us this timely “Delta Airlines Honor Guard Video,” most probably inspired by that “Taking Chance” Movie, a 2009 HBO historical drama film based upon the experiences of Marine Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl (Kevin Bacon), who escorted the body of a fallen Marine, PFC Chance Phelps (posthumously promoted to Lance Corporal), back to his hometown from the Iraq War. If there was ever a movie guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes on Memorial Day, this one ought to do it. You can watch the trailer here.
I Am Your Flag
I have been kicked, trampled, burned, and shot full of holes. I have fought battles, but I prefer the untroubled air of a world at peace.- I represent the freedom of humanity, and I shall fly high, thundering in silence for the whole world to hear. My gentle rustling in the breeze sounds out the warning to all who would bury me forever, that below stands a population dedicated to liberty.
- For those who have perished for my right to freedom of flight, for those who will die, and indeed for those who will live, I stand as a symbol of freedom-loving people.
- I have been carried into battle in faraway lands, always for the cause of freedom. I am blood-stained, torn, and many times wearied and saddened by the thousands who have paid the supreme sacrifice.
- Do not let it all be for nothing. Tell me the brave have died for a worthwhile cause. Be proud of what I represent, and display me for all to see.
- Whether you call me “Old Glory,” Stars and Stripes,” or “Star Spangled Banner,” I shall fly forever as a symbol of your freedom, as I did for your ancestors, and I shall for your heirs.
~By James M. Fillmore
Today is Another Date That Will Live in Infamy
Today on Flag Day, Whistleblower Senior National Political Affairs Analyst Britt Humus says not only is Obama scheduled to make the customary Flag Day proclamation (It’s up to the President to declare the observance each year), but that phony flag-waver probably would’ve already extended the observance to make June “National Flag Month.” That’s if he hadn’t already set June aside to honor all the Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders. And this year, some Conservative radio talk show host in Nashville could even schedule an “Impeach Obama March” for Flag Day in honor of all those scandals currently plaguing our Sunshine Patriot President’s Administration.
Randall the Scandal Czar says there are too many scandals to keep track of at the Obama White House these days. The failure to get to the bottom of Benghazi is still a scandal. The issue of secret subpoenas of reporters is more than scandalous. The IRS targeting of Conservative groups is most definitely a scandal. And most recently, The Blower’s New Cyber-Spy Columnist Edward Snowden, says the NSA’s secret data-collection efforts will be the biggest scandal of all.
Why else would Whistleblower Legal Dream Team Chairman, Noted ACLU Mouthpiece Scott Greenwood be getting his outraged organization to go to bat for all Americans against Obama’s surveillance state?
This Flag Day, some of those Dumb Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span Free-Stuff Grabbing Obama Supporters even appear to be paying a little attention.
Some of Today’s Political Cartoons
Flag Day in Southwest Ohio
According to all those respected political scientists who measure the effectiveness of Conservative political activity at the American Conservative Accountability Project (ACAP), eight years ago on Flag Day was only the “second biggest day” in the decline and fall of the fortunes of Conservatives in Southwest Ohio.- On that date “Mean Jean” Schmidt (or as she has come to be known as the Defeated, Corrupt, Evicted, Lying, Plagiarizing, Meddling, Overblown, Bought-And-Paid-For, Tax-And-Spend, Wrinkle-Puss RINO Bitch-In-A-Ditch) was elected after our disgraced former Sniveling Senator’s Stuttering Son (Now-a-Judge) P-P-P-Patrick DeWhine spent more than a million dollars of somebody else’s money trashing revered former Congressman Bob McEwen and “TaxKiller Tom” Brinkman in a special Flag Day GOP Primary, after Rob “Fighting for Funding for the Empty Uppity Oprah Winfrey Campaigning for Obama, Under-funded, Ugly-ass Poorly-Planned Unnagraown Rayroe Museum Not-so-Free-dom Center” Portman abruptly resigned with millions in his campaign war chest, at the same time costing Ohio’s Second District over-taxed payers more millions of dollars for special elections to replace him. If that didn’t qualify him to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, we don’t know what did.
- Hurley the Historian says the biggest day in the decline and fall of the fortunes of Conservatives in Southwestern Ohio was the date the Robmeister announced he was quitting to become a TROTUS and then a DOMBUS (pronounced Dumb-ass) in Duyba’s Cabinet, where, ever since Portman arrived, his President’s approval numbers got flushed down the crapper, along with Portman’s legacy, which was declared “totally flushed” on June 8, 2008 as The Honorable Rob Portman and other “Honorable” Hamilton County RINOs selling their souls, groveled before Now Disbarred Greedy Hearse-Chasing, Disgraced DemocRAT, Clinton-loving, Fen-Phen Scandal Plagued, Not-yet-Indicted Trial Attorney $tan Che$ley, when $tan held court at his first big fund-raiser for “Mean Jean” Schmidt to celebrate the “Bluing of Hamilton County.”
- That Local Insider who at one time claimed to be writing a long-overdue book about all that Wandering in the Wilderness going on at Hamilton County RINO Party Headquarters, says three years ago on Flag Day, GOP Mall Cop Alex T. and the rest of $tan’s Soul-mortgaged RINOs attended $tan’s Second Annual Brunch to honor our Bitch-in-a-Ditch (only the day after The Fishwrap disclosed Mean Jean’s multi-million dollar net worth on its front page), as they all showed what they thought of that big Cincinnati Tea Party and Cincinnati Project 912 Rally for Freedom in Southwest Ohio at the Bandstand in New Richmond, Ohio (which claimed 1,480 confirmed RSVPs) on Flag Day 2009.
- Republicans for Higher Taxes had hoped Mean Jean would drive down to the anti-taxers’ event in New Richmond that year and get herself on Channel 5 again, claiming all those TEA Party Patriots supported her, just like she did at the March 15, 2009 TEA Party Protest on Fountain Square, although “TaxKiller Tom” Brinkman had passed out 3,000 pieces of literature exposing Southwest Ohio’s most embarrassing elected official in history (including Jerry Springer), who’d voted for higher gas taxes, higher sales taxes, and the Bush/Obama Bailout for Billionaires that funded AIG’s $165 million bonuses to executives. She’s shameless enough.
- But in 2012, our local TEA Party Patriots got their revenge, when they worked help war hero “Bronze Star Brad” Wenstrup defeat “Mean Jean” in the GOP Congressional Primary. Unfortunately, our TEA Partiers appear to have been double crossed again, after Alex T. assigned a career-bureaucRAT totally beholden to Alex T. and the Hamilton County RINO Party to “manage” “Bronze Star’s” campaign, who himself seems to have been double crossed, since he never got that big job he was promised and wound up working for DemocRAT Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil. Maybe the guy got Mickey Esposito’s job in the property room. “Bronze Star’s” office doesn’t seem to be running a whole lot better these days, since one of our Persons of Consequence living on the West Side in Steve Comb-Over’s District just got a Robocall from “Bronze Star” introducing himself as his new Congressman.” Is America a great country or what!
Back in Hamilton County where Devious DemocRAT Hamilton County Commissioner David A. Pepper lost his bid to become Ohio Auditor against TEA Party Pariah Dave Yost, and our Local Kneepad Liberals in the Press still have never gotten around to following up on the Republicans for Higher Taxes report that said Pepper’s favorite freedom to support was “Burning the American Flag.” You can’t get much more disgraceful than that.- And where are all those so-called Anti-Tax Organizations today? In less than a week, your Hamilton County property taxes are due. Maybe those guys are still sucking up to our Disingenuous DemocRAT County Auditor (who was traditionally permitted to run unopposed by the RINOs at 700 Walnut Street and received a medal from attorneys making a killing handing all the Auditor’s Board of Revulsion cases).
Even though today is Flag Day, we won’t be seeing our Annual Gay “Squealing with Pride” Parade in Greater Cincinnati. Whistleblower Alternative Life-Styles Editors Ben Dover and Phil McKrevis say our local gay wads have instead chosen June 29 as a more appropriate time to put the Queen back in the Queen City. Still, every day at Cincinnati’s Gay Friendly City Hall, you can see the Gay Pride Flag proudly unfurled.- Meanwhile, Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo explains why Confederate Flag Day isn’t celebrated as a national holiday: (All together now, Whistleblower Readers) Because they lost!
Today’s Whistleblower is brought to you during our June fund-raising drive by a generous donation from Flaggs USA, milking all this patriotic crap for all it’s worth today.
A Picture is said to be worth a thousand words, but we think this one is worth many more.
Stories We’re Working On
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- Are those hookers really still living at the Anna Louise Inn?
- Cranley to give away Gold Star Three Ways
- Home addresses of IRS Rogue Agents in Cincinnati
- Sarah Jones’ crotchless trousseau unveiled
- What’s really in the “Goetta” on Mainstrasse
Whistleblower Web Poll
This week, here’s when the first 17,648 Whistleblower Readers Poll respondents said summer officially arrives in Greater Cincinnati:
(A) The day Hamilton County Property Taxes are due: 2%
(B) On the date the Reds are mathematically eliminated: 1%
(C) When the day the life squad gets its first call about a guy with his penis caught in the intake valve at the YMCA swimming pool: 1%
(D) When Trish the Dish at Channel 19 reminds you to set your clocks ahead: 96%
Note: Everything we write doesn’t have to be so damn cynical and mean-spirited, it’s just so much more fun that way!
Who’s Your Daddy?
This week, everybody who thinks the City’s population will never increase as long as every time a baby’s born, some guy leaves town, e-mailed an entry to the Whistleblower Limerick Contest.
The winner is Gary Goodson, who says he hopes his unappreciative offspring read his limerick before Sunday so he might get a decent present for once.
Gary wins a “World’s Greatest Dad” coffee mug from K-mart, a Father’s Day Card his wife made with free crappy clip art downloaded from the internet, and a call from the nursing home reminding him that he hasn’t visited his own father for the last six months. His winning limerick is:
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Here is what I would say
Whether chili and cheese
Or two girls on their knees
Your old man would love a 3-way.
PFC Kadon’s Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day,
Allow him to sadly give you away
To the United States Navy, the pride of the fleet,
And with pride mixed with tears that are so bittersweet,
Watch you ship out to the tune of “Anchors Aweigh.”
Archie Wilson’s Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Forget the tie or the hanky – that’s gay.
Buy him a weekend at the Holiday Inn
Where he and your mother can frolic and sin
And have an extended roll in the hay.
Bobby Leach’s Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Please refrain from calling him gay
He has paid your six years of tuition
For a job that has never come to fruition
And in his home he’s still letting you stay.
Rob Sanders’ Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Think of something positive to say,
Like, “Gee, Dad you were great!”
“I’m sorry my thanks is so late.”
“You may not be perfect, but you sure were OK!”
Jaywalking Joe Deters’ Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
You really want him to play
So go to your mother
Or his significant other
And tell her to do it his way.
In Russ We Trust Jackson’s Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Is a hallowed part of the American Way.
The family is the foundation
Of our Western Civilization;
It keeps the godless State ever at bay.
Rick “The BatBoy” Robinson’s Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day,
And show how you feel, you must display,
Gratitude for once,
You ungrateful dunce,
No wonder the geezer is old and grey.
Loony Libertarian Jim Berns’ Entry
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Try to think of something different to say,
Instead of “I need money,
Or you’re the Easter Bunny”.
(And for Pete’s sake, don’t tell him you’re gay!)
And from the Anderson Laureate (whose nine stanza limerick must certainly be some sort of world’s record.”)
To honor your dad on Father’s Day
Bring him a steak on a TV tray
Or thank him profusely
With vodka and orange juicely
But if he’s a bum, just say “Oy vey!”
Now some guys make wonderful daddies
But among the good there’s the “baddies”
He should just keep his pants zipped
If they don’t want to get whipped
And just become batboys or caddies.
To humor your dad on Father’s Day
Though the rest of the year you stay away
Just be truthful and candid
And tell him you’ve been stranded
On a mountain in the Himalay
You know how gullible some dads are
He’ll believe why you’ve been remaining afar
He’s such a poor sap
He’ll believe all of your crap
And might even buy you a new car.
But think of the saying “time will tell”
You may fall for a gorgeous young belle
If your sperm isn’t bad
You might someday be a dad,
And remember paybacks are hell!
Your kid will be thinking just like you
And your present will be a necktie or two
When what would really make you cheer
Would be a freight car full of beer
And a CD of Johnny Cash’s “Boy named Sue.”
So what goes around comes around
And trust me, my thinking is sound
Your boy will be like you
And do everything you do
Until they lower you into the ground.
So strike while the iron is hot
Get him a gift he ain’t got
Something he’ll like
Like a new Harley bike
I promise he’ll love you a lot.
But if he’s too old for a cycle
Don’t put yourself in a pickle
The thought is what counts
Not sizes or amounts
He’ll accept a shiny new nickel.
The first line of next week’s limerick is:
“When you pay your real estate taxes”
FLAG DESECRATION HOT LINE
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Some flag desecration items in today’s Blower were sent in by our equally flag desecrating subscribers, like this photograph from Bobby Leach showing the best desecration of the American Flag he could find.
Patriotic Links of the Day
Stars & Stripes FOREVER!
PLUS
The Greatest Play in Baseball
Flag Day 2010- Obama vs. The American Flag
Confederate Flag Day 2013- Arkansas State Capitol
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