Are toasted flags as tasty as toasted marshmallows?

Mmmmm. Flagmallows.

There’s a tricoleur cockade on that hat, isn’t there? My goodness – it’s a Jacobin! He’s a rotten Communist!

Oh, wait. I keep forgetting…we aren’t scared of the communists anymore, are we – we’re scared of the terrorists now.

My bad.

I think Marie needs to pray for you more 😉

I think Marie needs to pray for you more… 😉

I think Marie needs to pray for you more… 😉

Bush does worse things to the Constitution every day. Would anyone like to strip naked and meet our army dog handlers? Cmon, it’s a cake walk! They even have lemon chicken!

Sanctioned flag-burning = good. Unsanctioned flag-burning = bad. Free speech zones = good. Free speech where it might make a difference = bad.

Well, technically, if you are ‘retiring’ an older, worn-out flag, you are supposed to cut it up first, so that the thing which you are burning is no longer a flag, but rather a few scraps of flag-like cloth. The idea, of course, is that you respectfully destroy something which has served its purpose, and then dispose of its pieces so that none is left. With tiny plastic flags, I’m pretty sure that you could probably just throw them into a fire willy nilly, as they are pretty poor representations of a flag anyway.

Which means that Bush’s preffered method of Constitutional or Flag retirement–pissing on them before using them together as cloth lined toilet paper–is technically not a sanctioned way to retire either.

You ever notice how Brad R. is always bringing up Marie? I think that he has a little obsession.

“…you are supposed to cut it up first, so that the thing which you are burning is no longer a flag, but rather a few scraps of flag-like cloth.”

True, but if you do that, then you are cutting up a flag, so it’s better to burn it before you cut it before you burn it because then, you aren’t cutting up a flag, but only a few ashes of flag-like cloth.

And two kinds of fruit! Lemon chicken and two kinds of fruit!

Would anyone like to strip naked and meet our army dog handlers? Cmon, it’s a cake walk! They even have lemon chicken!

Yeah, the only problem being that before they loose the dogs on ya, they smear ya with the lemon chicken. Woof!

I didn’t write the rules, I just happened to be a Boy Scout and was taught this. In hindsight, I realized that Boy Scouting was essentially a trainer for US fascism in youth (which seems to really be it’s intended purpose) but it can also be an educational experience, a way to get out into nature a lot, and a great activity for youth, but it’s a crapshoot how much good you get with the bad. If you want to get past the technicalities, the idea is that it doesn’t matter how one does the burning of an older flag, as long as it is done with some measure of respect; Burning it in entirety ensures that there aren’t scraps of flag left lying around or that could be used for other purposes, therefor lessening the Flag’s value.
But then again, I’m arguing with THYCWOTI, so I must use conservative logic. *ahem* God wants us to burn the flag this way. If he wanted us to do it another way, he would have let us know. Only liberals, who will burn in hell for their pinko communist baby killing feminazi Clinton-loving ways, would dispose of older flags in any other way. *ahem*

Better?

I was also a Boy Sprout. I got two things out of it. How to weave a lanyard. And how to tie knots. I don’t remember how to weave a lanyard, but I can still do a bowline hitch.

Actually, Crazynick, I was just wanting you to respond by saying that maybe one should cut up the flag before you burn it before you cut it before you burn it. If you had done that we could have easily made this comments thread longer that that 167 one from the other day.

I learned in boy scouts that kids 4 years older than you can whip a dodgeball a lot faster than my peer group. It smarted somethin’ fierce.

I also learned that Amway is a revolutionary way to sell products.

Is it any wonder that I didn’t even advance one rank? I just wanted to go out camping…

“… if you are ‘retiring’ an older, worn-out flag, you are supposed to cut it up first, so that the thing which you are burning is no longer a flag, but rather a few scraps of flag-like cloth. The idea, of course, is that you respectfully destroy something which has served its purpose, and then dispose of its pieces so that none is left.”

I believe this is what George Bush has in mind to replace Social Security for those who are retiring.