Flag finally at half mast

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Flag finally at half mast

Posted: 7/21/2015 10:51:15 AM EDT

for the Chattanooga shooting, somewhat.

House Speaker John Boehner ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be flown at half-mast Tuesday to honor the victims of last week's tragic shooting spree in Chattanooga, Tenn.

"The flags @USCapitol stand at half-staff today in honor of the brace service members we lost in #Chattanooga," the Ohio Republican posted to Twitter, along with a photo of the U.S. Capitol.

Congressional leaders as well as the White House have faced growing criticism for not flying flags at the two buildings to acknowledge the four Marines and one Navy sailor who died last week after a Kuwaiti-born gunman attacked two military sites in Tennessee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/boehner-orders-capitol-flags-half-mast-chattanooga-dead-article-1.2298700

Posted: 7/21/2015 10:54:26 AM EDT

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what about O's house?

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:01:28 AM EDT

[#2]

at least he cared enough to spell "brave" correctly.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:04:40 AM EDT

[#3]

So he only did that after getting bad press.

Same old RINO.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:06:26 AM EDT

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I have not gotten squat about doing it at our base. Or anything about arming guardsmen in Mo either.

But I'm not surprised considering who the governor is.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:09:18 AM EDT

[#5]

Too late...

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:09:35 AM EDT

[#6]

and it's not the same thing as a whitehouse proclamation to half staff/mast the flag, which we will probably never see from bho.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:09:47 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/21/2015 11:11:40 AM EDT

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Is the proper phrase "half staff"? Half mast would be on a ship.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:13:37 AM EDT

[#9]

The old phrase "A day late and a dollar short" comes immediately to mind.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:17:13 AM EDT

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They're still trying to decide if they should switch to a rainbow flag.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:19:01 AM EDT

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Should've been that way last week!

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:26:09 AM EDT

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some of the other times bho has proclamed flags be half staff/masted

(besides the usual police, fireman, and gov officials)
dec 2013 Nelson Mandela

START: 4/16/2013 END: 4/20/2013 US Flags to Half Staff Honoring Victims of the Tragedy in Boston, MA
april 2013 obama orders texas flags at half staff for texas fertilizer explosion victims

START: 12/14/2012 END: 12/18/2012 US Flags at Half Staff Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut

START: 9/12/2012 END: 9/16/2012 US Flags to Half Staff Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Libya

START: 8/6/2012 END: 8/10/2012 US Flags at Half Staff in Honor of Oak Creek, WI Shootings - sikh temple shooting
START: 7/20/2012 END: 7/25/2012 US Flags To Half Staff in Honor of Aurora, Colorado Shooting Victims

START: 1/9/2011 END: 1/14/2011 US Flags to Half Staffi n Honor of Victims of the Tragedy in Tucson, Arizona = gifford
april 29, 2010 civil rights activist dorothy height

april 12, 2010 virginia for miners - big upper branch explosion
<small>Friday, November 6th, 2009</small> Fort Hood Shooting
from april2009 obama signs the edward kennedy serve america act, and
orders flags annually be flown half masted on sept 11 for national day
of service and rememberance (bush already had sept 11 as patriot's day,
obama basically added his own name to it and renamed it)
so mandela got a proclamation, but the chattanooga military personnel probably won't

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:27:55 AM EDT

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Nice to see the 4-star at work has the balls to lower them to half mast. Oh wait.....no he doesn't.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:29:01 AM EDT

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This.

Half assed limp-wristed response from an inept admin.

FBHO

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:30:38 AM EDT

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He will be delivering the eulogy for each of the 5 .mil that died, right? RIGHT?

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:35:05 AM EDT

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He will be delivering the eulogy for each of the 5 .mil that died, right? RIGHT?

Sure, and monkeys are gonna fly out of my ass. The POtuS hates this Country and everything it stands for.
If it was never clear before, it sure is now.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:37:28 AM EDT

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He will be delivering the eulogy for each of the 5 .mil that died, right? RIGHT?

Now that he has snubbed them, if I were the family I wouldn't let him near the service. And if I couldn't refuse his visit, I would turn my back to him.

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:43:34 AM EDT

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It took a week?

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:45:09 AM EDT

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He will be delivering the eulogy for each of the 5 .mil that died, right? RIGHT?

Now that he has snubbed them, if I were the family I wouldn't let him near the service. And if I couldn't refuse his visit, I would turn my back to him.

This X 87,000 times

FBHO

ETA: back turned to him and drop trousers. KISS MY ASS BHO

Posted: 7/21/2015 11:47:09 AM EDT

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O wouldn't care unless the victims were LBQTWTFBBQ.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:01:49 PM EDT

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he flew the flag at half staff for Whitney Houston for gods sake.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:11:36 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/21/2015 12:30:31 PM EDT

[#23]

Apparently, FBHO finally gave in. Definitely 7 days late and $87 short.

His contempt for .mil is palpable.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:33:55 PM EDT

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Gov Scott ordered all Florida flags to half staff until the last one is buried.

Guess he got tired of waiting on Washington.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:34:07 PM EDT

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for the Chattanooga shooting, somewhat.

House Speaker John Boehner ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be flown at half-mast Tuesday to honor the victims of last week's tragic shooting spree in Chattanooga, Tenn.

"The flags @USCapitol stand at half-staff today in honor of the brace service members we lost in #Chattanooga," the Ohio Republican posted to Twitter, along with a photo of the U.S. Capitol.

Congressional leaders as well as the White House have faced growing criticism for not flying flags at the two buildings to acknowledge the four Marines and one Navy sailor who died last week after a Kuwaiti-born gunman attacked two military sites in Tennessee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/boehner-orders-capitol-flags-half-mast-chattanooga-dead-article-1.2298700

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The US Capitol is now on a boat???

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:37:06 PM EDT

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FBHO

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:37:22 PM EDT

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Boehner, a hero to the democratic party.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:40:22 PM EDT

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But not at Our House because Nobama thinks its his place!

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:54:03 PM EDT

[#29]

Now, are millions of dallars going to be "fast tracked" to the victims families?

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:58:01 PM EDT

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It's up ! White house flag is at half mast.

Just got a text message from Kevin McCarthy's office. obama blinked.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:59:58 PM EDT

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This.

It doesn't matter if you get it right eventually; you still didn't get it right the first time.

Posted: 7/21/2015 1:13:37 PM EDT

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I have a large flag in one of my residential communities.

It's at half staff through Friday.

FBHO's MMV

Posted: 7/21/2015 3:45:18 PM EDT

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for the Chattanooga shooting, somewhat.

House Speaker John Boehner ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be flown at half-mast Tuesday to honor the victims of last week's tragic shooting spree in Chattanooga, Tenn.

"The flags @USCapitol stand at half-staff today in honor of the brace service members we lost in #Chattanooga," the Ohio Republican posted to Twitter, along with a photo of the U.S. Capitol.

Congressional leaders as well as the White House have faced growing criticism for not flying flags at the two buildings to acknowledge the four Marines and one Navy sailor who died last week after a Kuwaiti-born gunman attacked two military sites in Tennessee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/boehner-orders-capitol-flags-half-mast-chattanooga-dead-article-1.2298700

The US Capitol is now on a boat???

DC is built out of a swamp