I love saying the pledge of allegiance. It feels so anachronistic in a cool way for one, and on the other hand I love my country even though it's got a large number of crazies who stand outside government offices jabbering.
I just drop the "under God" bit that the crazies stuck in there and it's OK with me. Though really, it's the country, not the flag. I'm not very big on the flag.
I didn't appreciate how harmless this sort of thoughtless nationalism was until my school instituted a 1 minute "moment of silence" that was actually masked school prayer. No lie.
Our principal would hit the feedback button on the intercom and listen in to classes to make sure students were prayingbeing silent, and would penalize teachers if they didn'tweren't.
After that shift, I snapped upright and said my pledge so I could have an excuse not to sit with my head down. "But I said my pledge!" I'd say. It worked in the three years I was under the reign of this heinous school prayer policy.
It's quite ironic how much they froth at the mouth about the pledge of allegiance and the flag and patriotism, and turn right the fuck around and blame everything on the big bad guv'ment. It's like they're strangling it while getting mad at everybody else for not loving it. I can't wait for their anger to melt their own brains.
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I go to all manner of meetings of public bodies all over the state, including in some very liberal places, and most of them begin with the pledge. No one seems crazy. And they sure as hell aren't as crazy as this moron.
I never say the "under God" part either. I would rather swear a pledge to the Constitution, btw. PS, I love how they always use flags in their clothing and on their products, but such usage of the flag is quite the faux pas. Yes, even for 9/11.
Reminds me of what happened in Denver last night, when a bunch of teabaggers confronted some pro-health reform protesters with aggressive chants of USA! USA! USA! Check it out: http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/10744/…
1) It was first written in 1892 (quite a while after the American Revolution, for those teabaggers asserting some sort of call to return to the days of the Founding Fathers)
2) It's been revised at least four times.
3) It was originally done accompanied by the Bellamy salute (named after Francis Bellamy, the pledge's author), which was changed in 1942 to the current hand-over-heart gesture since it looked exactly like the Nazi salute. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_sal…)
aw, this is my rep. No shit, I live in his district. I fucking hate him. Last time he pissed me off he was signing that stupid letter to Obama regarding Kevin Jennings.
Don't forget that "under God" was added in the McCarthy era to combat Communism and atheism. The original version doesn't contain it at all, much to the chagrin of the Jeebus nuts.
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to* the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"
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Well, Missouri was a border state in the Civil War. Sent soldiers, generals, and political representatives to both sides of the conflict. If even your state is divisible, I guess it's a little easier to believe in national division. I vote that this was at best a Freudian slip.
Here's Porky Pig reciting the pledge of allegiance (sans "under god", a phrase cribbed from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and added to the pledge in 1954) in the 1939 cartoon "Old Glory" at 8:23. If you don't want to watch until the end, there's a shot of the pledge in print at 0:44.
WOW, what an angry mob we have that gathers here. Instead of whining and complaining about someone forgetting a word in the pledge, why not instead look at a President on his American Apology World Tour as he bows to every two bit dictator and leader in the world. Now that would be a project worth while. But I forgot, that would be Pro-American, and we can;t have that now can we. We all agree, Bush was bad. But this is Obama's Presidency, and so far, he hasn't done squat. Kinda like the drafting of Ryan Leaf. A complete and total bust, and all that money lost.
If it was not ignorant and divisive a statement, it might be taken for humor. " The liberals hate the pledge of allegiance" A typically ignorant and misleading statement form Rep. Todd Akin. We have to cut him some slack because , after all he comes from Missouri, the "SHOW ME STATE" ( because they cant function unless somebody shows them how), and they must think he's the smartest one there because they sent him to Washington. The truth is; the so-called conservatives are the ones who hate the pledge. Does anybody out there really believe it when these bumpkins pledge "liberty and justice for all" Try running that question past their local kleagles. Akin cant even say the words without choking. Imagine if he had to spell the pledge!!
Why, if they respect MY FLAG, do they still insist on displaying the traitorous symbol real Americans destroyed in the 1860's. Amazing, how stupid these people are to follow bigoted windbags like Akin.
Only a class of fourth-graders could have done better.
That's assbag.
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Our principal would hit the feedback button on the intercom and listen in to classes to make sure students were prayingbeing silent, and would penalize teachers if they didn'tweren't.
After that shift, I snapped upright and said my pledge so I could have an excuse not to sit with my head down. "But I said my pledge!" I'd say. It worked in the three years I was under the reign of this heinous school prayer policy.
She was crazy. Crazy crazy woman from Temple, TX.
I just leave the "under God" part out, which isn't supposed to be there anyways.
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/wallofsha…
That explains a LOT.
That's all you need to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_a…
http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/10744/…
Something's screwy here. I don't get a "profile" link in Mozilla OR IE either one.
1) It was first written in 1892 (quite a while after the American Revolution, for those teabaggers asserting some sort of call to return to the days of the Founding Fathers)
2) It's been revised at least four times.
3) It was originally done accompanied by the Bellamy salute (named after Francis Bellamy, the pledge's author), which was changed in 1942 to the current hand-over-heart gesture since it looked exactly like the Nazi salute. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_sal…)
* All facts courtesy of Wikipedia.org...
http://www.funnyhub.com/videos/pages/ten…
Not to mention the fact that so many of those little flag lapel pins and little plastic hand-wavey flags are manufactured in a Communist country...
"with liberty, and justice, to all middle-age, middle-class, white, christian, straight (closeted), men."
hey that's fair, I'm sketchy about the "under god" part.
Don't forget that "under God" was added in the McCarthy era to combat Communism and atheism. The original version doesn't contain it at all, much to the chagrin of the Jeebus nuts.
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to* the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"
I get so fucking tired of them acting as though they own the rights to patriotism and the Deed of Trust to Heaven.
http://vodpod.com/watch/969801-porky-pig…
Why, if they respect MY FLAG, do they still insist on displaying the traitorous symbol real Americans destroyed in the 1860's. Amazing, how stupid these people are to follow bigoted windbags like Akin.