The GOP Senators BEGGED the Democrats to STOP THE AMENDMENT

[berni_mccoy]

Because they realized the GOP would be in serious violation of Flag Desecration from their VERY OWN GOP STORE!

Under U.S. Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 3:

Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. The words “flag, standard, colors, or ensign”, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.

Now look at this:

http://www.gop.com/store/

Here's a screen grab:

[Initech]

1. The 2006 RNC calendar?

:spray:

Yeah I bet that's a hot seller!

[Canuckistanian]

4. I hear they're stocking up for next year

Just like the mullet, a good calendar always comes back.

[Initech]

6. Why am I suddenly reminded of Spaceballs?

You know - the scene where they go into Yogurt's layer and he starts plugging all the Spaceballs related merchandise?

I'm waiting to see an officially licensed GOP flamethrower. :rofl:

[Craig3410]

2. A $25.00 MOUSE PAD?

A ten dollar keychain??

[berni_mccoy]

5. And a $100 fine for each (or 30 days in jail...)

hehe

Stupid republicans passing laws that would cause them legal trouble...

[Webster Green]

3. Yeah, and the brain-dead, treasonous chimp autographs flags...

Can't find the pic of that, but I've seen it here.

[TomInTib]

7. That Flag Decal Won't Get You into Heaven Anymore...

John Prine

While digesting Reader’s Digest
In the back of a dirty book store
A plastic flag with gum on the back
Fell out on the floor.
Well,I picked it up and ran outside
And slapped it on my windowshield.
And If I could see ol’ Betsy Ross
I’d tell her how good I feel.

But, you flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven anymore.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like Killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

Well, I went to the Bank this morning
And the cashier said to me
If you join the Christmas Club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free.
I didn’t mess a round a bit
I took him up on what he said
And stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife’s forehead.

But, your flag decal won’t get you
Into Heaven anymore.
They’re already overcrowded
From your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like Killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

Well, I got my windshield so filled with flags I couldn’t see
So I ran my car upside a curb and right into a tree
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead,
And I’ll never understand
Why the man,
Standing in the Pearly Gates said…

But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore,
We’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like killin’
No matter what the reasons for.
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore.

[mcctatas]

8. Isn't it amazing how John Prine's songs suddenly seem timeless??

I like this new one:
Some Humans Ain't Human
© John Prine

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
A few frozen pizzas
Some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle
You don't want to go there

Some humans ain't human
Though they walk like we do
They live and they breathe
Just to turn the old screw
They screw you when you're sleeping
They try to screw you blind
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

You might go to church
And sit down in a pew
Those humans who ain't human
Could be sittin' right next to you
They talk about your family
They talk about your clothes
When they don't know their own ass
From their own elbows

Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony
Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Spoken:
Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shit on your hood

Or you're feeling your freedom
And the world's off your back
Some cowboy from Texas
Starts his own war in Iraq

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
They lie through their teeth
With their head up their behind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

[TomInTib]

9. I was playing 'The Great Compromise' last night...

From Vietnam 'til now...

[BuyingThyme]

10. ::

[mcctatas]

11. Holy Shit...

who knew he could sign anything without the aid of an autopen?!

[MADem]

14. Makes me SICK every time I see it...! NT

[berni_mccoy]

16. I think he should have been the first person fined for desecrating it

[foo_bar]

12. there's only 20 stars on the republican flag

It's almost the flag of 1818-1819 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_flag_20_stars.svg) if they chopped off the bottom half.

iPod covers, that should help the bottom line.

[berni_mccoy]

15. The law covers it

"The words “flag, standard, colors, or ensign”, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America."

[foo_bar]

18. I'm not sure that it does

shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America
...
which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing

The code prohibits advertisements on flags, not flags on advertisements (or that clause would be reversed, i.e., "shall place or cause to be placed any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America upon any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement"). * autographing flags is a better example, although the pResident can change this code by executive order (but only with a proclamation, unless that's a "national security" secret too).

Even properly applied, there's some serious definitional problems with this law, namely "the average person" and "without deliberation". "Community standards" are bad enough, impanelling an average American in DC might be a legal paradox.

[berni_mccoy]

20. It's pretty explicit that even images of the flag shall not be treated so

"The words “flag, standard, colors, or ensign”, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size"

[w4rma]

19. It suits them since they sure don't represent the majority of America.(nt)

[yurbud]

13. I thought their flag on the chewing tobacco tin was wrong

[Supersedeas]

17. but the M$M would want to make this kind of clarification, would they?