Saturday, June 14, 2014
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 a- I am your Flag. 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. Last year, some Conservative radio talk show host in Nashville even scheduled 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 since 2012 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. The Blower’s New Cyber-Spy Columnist Edward Snowden, says the NSA’s secret data-collection efforts was a pretty big scandal, too.
Why else was Whistleblower Legal Dream Team Chairman, Noted ACLU Mouthpiece Scott Greenwood getting his outraged organization to go to bat for all Americans against Obama’s surveillance state?
This Flag Day, our Obama Scandal Scorecard also includes Obama’s Veterans Administration Scandal, breaking the law to exchange five Taliban terrorists at GITMO for a US Army deserter, and Friday, as Iraq was falling To ISIS, Obama told the Iraqis under siege that he would think about their little problem over the weekend while and he Michelle were busy in Palm Springs with more important things like previously scheduled fundraising and golf, and if they were still alive on Monday, to call him back.
But it really doesn’t matter how many scandals Obama has, so long as all those Dumbed-Down, Self-Absorbed, Media-Influenced, Celebrity-Obsessed, Politically-Correct, Uninformed, Short-Attention-Span, Free-Stuff Grabbing, Low-Information Obama Supporters Who Put Obama In The White House—Twice, keep getting their free stuff.
The rest of us will have to be content continuing to count down the 950 Days of Dishonesty for America remaining during the Dark Ages of Obama’s Second Term, unless the First Black President in History is impeached.
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), nine 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 helped 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. This year, one of the losers who ran against Wenstrup in the 2012 GOP Primary is the Doomed DemocRAT Candidate for Congress, running against Steve Chabothead in Ohio’s First Congressional District. 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. Unless your last name is Bergdahl!- 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 chose May 31 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!”- Finally, Retired Cleveland Pain Dealer News Hawk Turned Bellwether Blogger Bill Sloat says Anthem for America will be webcasting a concert to honor the 200th Anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner this afternoon. [WATCH IT HERE] And the Smithsonian wants everyone to go outside and sing it. And to fly the flag today on June 14 — Flag Day. Sloat likes “God Bless America” better because it is easier to sing. Or “This Land is My Land,” because it is more about the USA. Sloat doesn’t know if there’s any movement to scrap the anthem, but there should be in his humble opinion.
Remember: We never print all the bad stuff we know and certain people ought to be damn glad we don’t, especially, P-P-P-Patrick DeWhine.
A Picture is said to be worth a thousand words, but we think this one is worth many more.
FLAG DESECRATION HOT LINE
e-mail your egregious examples today.
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
(Sent in by those Patriotic Guys at Flaggs USA, milking all this patriotic crap for all it’s worth today.
Note: We guarantee Blackberry subscribers who don’t go home and see links and pictures on their computers are not going to appreciate all of this good stuff today.
“Exploiting the Flag” By James Jay Schifrin
Today in Patronage County, every politician was taking part in the Annual Flag Day Parade, and our three Corrupt County Commissioners were about the best ways to exploit the best ways to exploit the day’s events.
“That’s easy,” said Commissioner Filch. “We’ll send out an e-mail commemorating Flag Day. All we have to do is change the date on the one we sent out last year.”
“And ask for donations while we’re at it,” added Commissioner Swindle. “People are suckers for a patriotic pitch.”
“We have all these pamphlets about Flag Etiquette with our names stamped on them to hand out Republican Club meetings,” said Commissioner Pilfer.
“But weren’t we supposed to distribute them before Flag Day?” Swindle asked.
“Tell me again why we’re not selling American Flags again this year,” said Commissioner Filch.
“Don’t you remember how all the unions complained last year when we sold all those flags with no Union Label? When’s the last time you saw an American Flag that was actually ‘Made in America?” Swindle explained.
“Wouldn’t this be a good time for incumbents to come up with something unpatriotic your opponent said?” asked Commissioner Filch.
“You’re right as usual, Filch,” Swindle smiled. “I’ve already called Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWhine to remind him about the time his DemocRAT Opponent David Pepper said ‘burning the flag was a small price to pay for liberty.”
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