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Postby Avalon » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:44 pm

<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060911/i/r1066002127.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>The Reuters caption: "U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush stand on a carpet commemorating the date of the attacks of September 11, 2001 near a mural depicting those attacks outside the Ladder Company 10 firehouse opposite the site of the World Trade Center in New York, September 10, 2006. Bush lay a wreath at Ground Zero before visiting a chapel for a memorial service. REUTERS/Jason Reed"<br><br>While the Capitol Blue assertion that Bush said the Constitution was just a piece of paper is third-hand hearsay from anonymus sources, this Reuters image is a blunt assertion of Bush's respect for the primary symbol of the United States.<br><br>When challenged, expect Alberto Gonzales to point out the following amendment to the flag code:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Sec. 10. Modification of rules and customs by President<br><br> Any rule or custom pertaining to the display of the flag of the United States of America, set forth herein, may be altered, modified, or repealed, or additional rules with respect thereto may be prescribed, by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, whenever he deems it to be appropriate or desirable; and any such <br>alteration or additional rule shall be set forth in a proclamation.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br>http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+4USC10 <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Bush steps on flag

Postby Jimb0 » Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:58 pm

Best to ask the people who put it on the floor in the first place. How could they not expect people to walk on it? I'm sure it was not intentional, although a more observant president may have noticed what he was doing, but we all know about that. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Bush steps on flag

Postby Avalon » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:47 pm

It's a little strange how Dubya's right foot accentuates the word "eve" on the rug, and Laura's right foot "he." <br><br>George HW Bush is allied with "True Father" Sun Myung Moon and his wife, known as the "True Mother." The Unification church believes them to be fulfilling God's original plan for Adam and Eve.<br><br>The President's brother Neil Bush was on several tours with Moon in Asia last year.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://alternet.org/story/29054/">alternet.org/story/29054/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Bush steps on flag

Postby Seamus OBlimey » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:49 pm

It's only some goddam stars and stripes..<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.allstates-flag.com/fotw/images/a/ae-umm.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/AP_Photo/2004/04/26/1083010731_7495.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://flagspot.net/images/p/pk-ajk.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://fotw.vexillum.com/images/u/uz1.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/images/ozflag.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_the_United_States_specification.svg/400px-Flag_of_the_United_States_specification.svg.png" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Bush steps on flag

Postby 4911 » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:46 pm

"although a more observant president may have noticed what he was doing, but we all know about that."<br><br><br>COL<br><br>(chuckeling out loud) <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Bush steps on flag

Postby Bilbo Hicks » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:47 pm

that looks to me like a rug..<br>Qutb? You think not? lmao. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: proper aussie flag for seamus

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:53 pm

<!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.militarybadges.info/brits/images/asstd/flag.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: proper aussie flag for seamus

Postby Seamus OBlimey » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:25 pm

Cheers Joe, I know very little of Aussie history so <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.militarybadges.info/brits/eras/07-eureka.htm">that's</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> a great place to start.<br><br>Good to see you had your <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.bilderberg.org/land/index.htm#Land">Diggers</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> too. Bad to see them cut down the same way. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Bush steps on flag

Postby nomo » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:14 pm

Way to fall for their framing. A flag is just a colorful piece of cloth. This whole "primary symbol of the United States" business is a favorite of the fascist fearmongers. Enough with the flag waving already, it's creepy. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: "The president's feet are not to touch the dirt&quo

Postby Pirx » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:41 pm

<br>by Jimmy Breslin,<br>Newsday [Long Island, NY]<br><br>March 11, 2004<br><br>For days now, the job at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County has been to follow the order from the White House through the Secret Service and down to the park workers:<br><br>"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."<br><br>So all yesterday, large crews drawn from all county parks worked to ensure that, as always in his life, George Bush's feet do not touch the ground when he appears in the big park today.<br>        <br><br><br><br>Jimmy Breslin<br>Newsday columnist<br>Bush arrives for a fund-raiser at a restaurant in the park. That is indoors and he doesn't have to worry about his feet there. But he has to go over ground to an administration building where he is to meet with families of 9/11 victims. After that, he has to go over more ground to get to the site of a memorial to the victims.<br><br>He doesn't want his feet on the ground and he will be at a groundbreaking ceremony.<br>Yesterday, a big guy, who had been fixing serious pipe leaks in the county executive's building, was on the walkway unrolling wooden storm fencing that would create an alley for Bush to walk down.<br><br>"When you get the fence up, what do you do?" he was asked.<br><br>"Cover the ground so his feet don't touch it."<br><br>"Is that true?"<br><br>"My boss told me that. If he says so, it's true."<br><br>"That sounds crazy."<br><br>"It sounds like I get paid every week," he said.<br><br>        The 9/11 memorial is not up. Someday it will be a site by a pond. What happened was that Bush was coming in for this big fund-raiser. The county executive, Suozzi, a Democrat, heard about it and rushed an invitation to Bush to be at the dedication to the memorial and also to meet the 9/11 families.<br><br>There was no way for Bush to turn this down. So he appears today for a local Democrat. The county Democrats fell all over themselves to have a memorial site and the paths around it following the Secret Service regulations.<br><br>Yesterday, a big guy, who had been fixing serious pipe leaks in the county executive's building, was on the walkway unrolling wooden storm fencing that would create an alley for Bush to walk down.<br>"When you get the fence up, what do you do?" he was asked.<br><br>"Cover the ground so his feet don't touch it."<br><br>"Is that true?"<br><br>"My boss told me that. If he says so, it's true."<br><br>"That sounds crazy."<br><br>"It sounds like I get paid every week," he said.<br><br>Bush's day was to start with him landing in his big plane at Republic Airport. He could either drive or go by helicopter to the park. There is room to land on one of Eisenhower Park's golf fairways. But the job of building whole concrete streets from the plane to the memorial site would be extraordinarily hard, as they would have to remove the streets immediately after today in order to have the place ready for golfers in this Republican county.<br><br>Bush was to move to a couple of locations on dirty parkland. Last Thursday, the bureaucrats in charge of the park heard from the Secret Service. The word immediately ran through the halls of local government.<br><br>Not a foot touches the earth.<br><br>And the workers went to work. First, there was the ground from a parking lot to a wood building used for special activities. This probably will be where Bush meets with the families.<br><br>"We're not even sure he will use this," a foreman said. "They just tell us he is going to meet with families. We ask, 'Where?' They won't tell us. So we went ahead, anyway."<br><br>They put up a concrete sidewalk from the parking lot to a ramp leading into a side entrance to the building.<br><br>The rain and sleet made it impossible for the concrete to dry. So they changed from concrete to the asphalt used on streets. They hoped the president wouldn't mind this. After all, it would protect his feet from touching the earth. Gravel and hot steaming asphalt.<br><br>When they finally had it done, a full-fledged asphalt path, a Secret Service agent put his foot through the steam and left a large footprint in the walk that was to keep the president's feet off the ground.<br><br>The Secret Service man walked on blithely. He gave no indication that he knew where he was. The workmen muttered and had to go back and fix the walk.<br><br>That is on one side of the building. At the front entrance, they built a standard concrete sidewalk through the ground to the entrance.<br><br>Down a slight slope from the building were two white tents. Nobody knows who they are for.<br><br>"The Secret Service don't tell us anything," a worker said.<br><br>"What do you do about the ground?" one of them was asked.<br><br>"We put wood chips there," he said.<br><br>"When do you do that?"<br><br>"When the Secret Service says."<br><br>The boss of the job was off to the side.<br><br>"They're not wood chips," he said. "They're fiber bark." He pointed over to a large county dump truck that carried enough fiber bark in it to cover the whole park.<br><br>Already, the dirt underneath the first of two tents was covered with fiber bark.<br><br>The walkway of storm fencing goes along the path that will be in high fiber for Bush and comes to the edge of the lake in the middle of the park.<br><br>This is the place where the 9/11 memorial will be built. Supposedly, Bush will not speak in public at the memorial service.<br><br>But you are going to have George Pataki and Rudolph Giuliani there. Both will walk through mud with bare feet for the chance to talk.<br><br>And that is my report from the ground on preparations for George W. Bush's visit of great magnitude to Eisenhower Public Park in the county of Nassau, New York.<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: "The president's feet are not to touch the dirt&

Postby Avalon » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:42 pm

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Way to fall for their framing</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>I think you'd have to look pretty hard to find anyone here who personally believes in flag idolatry. Still, it's useful to see how Bush behaves within his own ostensible context as Patriot-in-Chief. I'm going to print out some copies of the picture and caption, and stick them up on bulletin boards all over town.<br><br>Great Breslin piece, Pirx. <p></p><i></i>
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Postby DireStrike » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:33 pm

Don't even caption them. The image already speaks for itself. On a visceral level, the way he's standing - and <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>on the flag</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> - speak for themselves. On a logical level... it's a rug. People stand on rugs. Blame can easily be passed to whatever rugmaker came up with that dumb idea. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: users

Postby Seamus OBlimey » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:18 pm

You can't blame the rugmaker when that rug could only have been made for him. And who is (obviously) telling them to? There's enough floor there for them to sprawl on and pray to the rug but they wipe their feet on it? Doormat? <p></p><i></i>
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Postby Seamus OBlimey » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:32 pm

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Must not be Grounded/Earthed?<br><br>Is he some kinda Tesla weapon?<br><br>Do they want us to think he's some kinda superman? <p></p><i></i>
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