I was going to post something about this but it seems the blogosphere is already going strong. Gee, I learned in Boy Scouts that this isn't an acceptable way to display the flag. She should know better or at least you think she would.
...and yes photos like this offend me just as much as a photo of someone standing on our flag or any other show of disrespect towards the flag.
From the US Code:
§176. Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
- (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
- (b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
- (c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
- (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
- (e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.
- (f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.
- (g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
- (h) The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
- (i) The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.
- (j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.
- (k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Jackson's music dominates the Top Pop Catalog, Digital Albums, Digital Songs and Top Comprehensive Albums charts.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, Michael Jackson albums and Jackson-related compilations hold the top nine positions on Billboard's Top Pop Catalog chart, all posting remarkable jumps in sales in the days following the singer's death. (SoundScan tracks sales through the close of business on Sunday.)
Billy Mays, 50, is best known for his ads in which he shouts the attributes of OxiClean The pitchman was pronounced dead Sunday morning,
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 WH rescinds July 4 invites to IraniansStephen Dinan (Contact) The White House has rescinded the invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at U.S. embassies around the world.
I watched this story on 20/20 last night. Mind-boggling story.
A musical tribute to the premiere season of Charlie's Angels.
Via TMZ:
We've just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50. Michael
suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills
home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when
paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse
back.A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived.Once at
the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely
unresponsive.
This morning former Chief of Staff for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford - said, "What I saw yesterday … is a man who realized he sinned," Tom Davis told.
Now what did I see?
I saw a man who was a 5 day no-call, no-show to work and his excuse is that he was having sex with his mistress in Argentina. He can f&ck whoever he wants but 5 days no call, no show... well in the real world you would be fired. Gov. Sanford is a spoiled, rich little boy who lies, cheats, steals, and thinks it's okay because he has never suffered any repercussions for anything he has ever done. He is nothing more than just another rich little spoiled bitch.
Guilty pleas in contaminated pet food case
18 Jun 2009
A Las Vegas company and its owners have pleaded guilty to distributing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food that reportedly killed thousands of animals.
Sally Qing Miller, 43, her husband, Stephen S. Miller, 56, and their company, ChemNutra Inc., pleaded guilty to some of the charges contained in a Feb. 6, 2008, federal indictment.
The indictment alleged that the Millers and ChemNutra, along with two Chinese companies, brought wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine into the U.S. It was then sold to pet-food makers.
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