Memorial Using US Flag Found To Violate State Law

According to Maryland State workers, a memorial placed inside a traffic circle using a US Flag, violates state law.

A Maryland community is up in arms after state highway workers removed an American flag honoring military personnel from a traffic circle and threw it into a dump truck.

“We want our flag back,” Rhonda Winkler told Fox News & Commentary. “We are patriots and we love America.”

Winkler and her family erected the flag in a traffic circle three years ago in the town of Woodbine. They posted the flag to honor their nephew, a soldier deployed to Afghanistan.

Winkler said she received a telephone call alerting her that state highway workers had taken down the flag and the flag pole, tossing both into the back of a dump truck.

“They told us it was against the law to erect a flag on the traffic circle,” Winkler said. “They told my husband that whoever put up the flag could be arrested for trespassing.”

And, what did the state of Maryland say about all this?

State highway workers also told her that people had complained about Old Glory.

David Buck, a spokesman for the state high department, told the Baltimore Sun that there is also a safety issue.

“They don’t have traffic control out there, and they don’t have (road work) vests on,” he told the newspaper.

As for now – there’s no indication if the state of Maryland will reverse their decision – or if the Winkler family will get back their flag.

She said state workers have refused to return the Stars and Stripes.

So, because the family did not have a police escort to control traffic and did not wear safety vests while they were putting up their flag memorial (years ago), then the memorial is nothing more than trash. A safety hazard. A THING that must be removed and thrown in to the trash heap.

Remember people, it is very important who you vote for. Even in your local elections.

While the state is correct in removing the memorial as it is on public property and they did not have a permit for its installation, most people forgive memorials. How often do you see crosses or flowers with flags placed along state roads where some loved-one had died?

The best way to fix this is to ask the local township if there is a spot where this family, with community support, can erect an ad-hoc memorial to the town's fallen.

[Update] The website The Blaze has pics of the intersection and the support rally following the utter desecration of the US flag.

Fixing Inner City Economies Through Interwebz

From Tim Slagle over at Big Hollywood comes word that Obama has found the secret to inner city poverty and crime.

According to a recent article, $1.5 million of federal stimulus money went to produce Internet videos. The money was earmarked to get inner city residents online by creating programming that would appeal to them. Of that, $230,000 went to producer Robert Townsend, and $700,000 to other vendors to produce “Diary of a Single Mom,” an online soap opera about a growing up in poverty. This is just a part of a $28 million Commerce Department grant which created One Economy, a project intended to wire the inner cities to the Internet.

Yes.. because the internet is exactly what the inner cities need to get out of poverty.

The best place for them to be, to get economically free,,, is sitting on a computer all day watching tax-payer funded videos about life in the inner city.

As Tm states:

The idea that there is nothing on the Internet that appeals to people in the inner city is ridiculous. It’s based on a faulty premise that somehow inner-city people are different than others; that TV dramas about fabulously rich people, attractive lawyers, and doctors who never get messy are only appealing to white suburbanites; that people living in poverty want to see a story about living in poverty. If this were true, comic books wouldn’t be about superheroes; they would all be about pimply fat boys with thick glasses who get beat up on the way to school.

But, hey, at least they created thousands of youtube hits from their $28 million. That has to account for something. Right?!?

Obama Claims Victory in Losing

Today, the labor department came out and said that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.6%. The administration is hyping all over that saying that their economic plans are working and this is proof.

YET.......

315,000 Americans leave work force...

YESTERDAY: Jobless claims top 400K...

So. Who exactly is winning here? It certainly isn't the American worker.

Liberal Voters Create Their Own Hell

Welcome to your own hell liberal California voters.

California Governor Brown seeks $7 billion from tax hikes

The wealthy in California would pay more income tax and shoppers would face a sales tax increase under a measure to be unveiled by Governor Jerry Brown to raise $7 billion for the cash-strapped state.

Details of the initiative were being nailed down on Thursday with lawmakers, advocates and labor unions so it could be made public as soon as Friday, according to sources in the state capital of Sacramento familiar with the measure.

I'm sorry, but what do the labor unions have to do with crafting of a tax hike bill? Why would they need to be involved? Oh, that's right. The liberals, democrats, and marxist labor unions are completely intertwined and inbred.

Welcome to your hell California. You voted for it. Welcome to it. You can have it.

(oh, and thank you CA for your jobs. The rest of the US can use them since you don't want them)

Newt To The Rescue!!!

According to ABC News, Newt Gingrich told them recently that he is The Man. The Chosen. Well, the NEXT chosen.

He told ABC News that he will be the nominee for the Republican ticket.

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — A very confident New Gingrich asserted to ABC News Thursday afternoon that he will be the Republican presidential nominee.

“I’m going to be the nominee,” the former Speaker told ABC News. “It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I’m going to be the nominee.”

Ego much?

I'm sorry. But a huge ego-tistic RINO such as Newt should not be elected. We've gone through this before with another RINO in Sen John McCain in 2008. And, we've already seen what the presidential office can do to this nation when a man of ego runs it.

For a place in history, Pres Obama had definitely placed himself in the top tier - of failures.
He has tripled the deficit:
Unemployment greatest in any time:
Obama attacked Pres Bush for failures, but then doubles down the failure.

Flash From The Past

Back in October 2009, I posted about how Rep Boehner could create jobs if he really wanted to. I'll repost my suggestions once again 2 years later. Take note, none of these have been done and we are still in an economic crisis.

Rep Boehner, if you really want to create jobs, then put in these changes.

* Place a one year freeze on Capital Gains taxes.
* Provide a one year moratorium on small-business and self-employment taxes.
* In addition to providing tax breaks for employees, reduce the taxes on employers. Reduce the top tax rate of 28, 33 and 35% down to 25%. Allow employers to keep more of their money so that they can AFFORD to employ more people.
* Eliminate or drastically reduce minimum wage requirement. Allow more young people to find employment - they have a 52% unemployment now.
* Implement a permanent 50% cut on corporate taxes. The US is the highest anywhere.
* Mandate that any pork spending be done one bill at a time.
* Mandate that any bill or spending measure can not have an amendment attached that is not related to the primary bill or spending measure.
* Make it illegal to give federal money to private companies (ie. subsidies, stimulus).
* Pass new laws making it unconstitutional, let alone illegal, for the federal government to take over and operate a private industry. (something tells me this is already illegal but no one wants to take a stand for some reason)
* Stop funding Arts and Science unless it is related to our national security.

With these options, you can really kick-start this economy. More so than providing federal funds to help stock vending machines. But, you have to have the guts to do what is right, not just what is expedient.

Time For A Change

I'm sorry, but its been a long while since I've posted. I've had another blog I posted on during the past year or so. And, I've also just lost my heart.

I've not really had the heart to post much this past year.

I've seen this country vote for more Socialism and elect a highly Socialist president. I've seen Congress go more Socialist and grab up more personal and state's rights. I've almost lost all hope for this country and its people.

We have people killing other people over consumerism crap. We have politicians selling their souls in order to retain power. We have governments selling out their citizens in order to increase its hold over personal liberties.

I've had barely enough energy to care any more as I see this country on a suicide slide.

But, if this coming election turns, I may be around more. But, if we elect another RINO and refuse to undo all the past horrible and illegal bills that have passed, my pessimism will be justified.