The Flag: When Familiarity Breeds Contempt

.@realDonaldTrump In that case, punish all flag desecrators pic.twitter.com/tmGnrGpQDQ

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) November 29, 2016

"VFW Angry Over Kid Rock Super Bowl Poncho."

The VFW is upset that media outlets are ignoring the poncho Rock wore during the Super Bowl halftime show, which was made by cutting a slit in an American flag. Rock later tossed the flag into the crowd.

The VFW’s commander in chief, Edward Banas Senior, says Rock’s outfit was “in poor taste and extremely disrespectful.”

12 December update: That could describe Kid Rock's new line of Trumpian T-shirts and baseball caps.

12 December update #2: Keith Olbermann runs afoul of the flag code by donning a flag as a shawl. (Maybe Max Blumenthal can compile a series of photos of people misusing the American flag, although with the best of intentions.)

The anti-fascist resistance, brought to you by Gentleman's Quarterly pic.twitter.com/VznLLR0cYq

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 13, 2016

The U.S. Flag Code.

§176. Respect for flag
No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.
• (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
• (b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
• (c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
• (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
• (e) The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.

Remember this?

Tampa Bay Times, "The Buzz: Did Allen West Violate Federal Law by Scuba Diving With U.S. Flag?"

Put those b!tches in jail for life. No one 🔥 my 🇲🇾 https://t.co/QUYilnMCqO

— Jenny Boyle (@jenniferboyle69) November 30, 2016

Right. But why is she using the emoji for the Malaysian flag?

Cornucopians to the Left, Cornucopians to the Right

Keith Olbermann:

http://twitter.com/#!/KeithOlbermann/status/177472185424818177

It means, Sasquatch, that if you can artificially recreate the natural compression process you can MAKE crude oil

http://twitter.com/#!/KeithOlbermann/status/177457115110191104

Answer? Oil was once algae, plankton RT @GingerGibson Newt "I don't think your car is going to go very far if you s... http://tl.gd/ga8hph

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Rush Limbaugh: "The supply may be infinite [sic], but we're nowhere near its end. There is enough oil in this country to run this country at current levels of usage for around 250 years, and the regime wants you to believe we've only got 20 billion barrels; we're gonna run out here in ten years or so. That's outrageous."

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Cornucopians: A Guide for the Perplexed.

A further definition.

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10 March update: The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore on "What North Dakota Could Teach California: While One Plays Host to a Modern-Day Gold Rush, the Other Shuns Evil Fossil Fuels and Wallows in Debt.":

"Williston [North Dakota] sits atop the Bakken Shale, which will later this year be producing more oil than any other site in the country, surpassing even Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, the longtime leader in domestic output." (Subscription required for full access.)

Michael Klare, interviewed in 2010 by Chris Hayes, is certainly not a cornucopian. Neither is he a doomer.


(Here, Chris Hayes casts a skeptical eye on Kunstler's book The Long Emergency.)

Olbermann vs. MSNBC

Mediaite: Can Keith Olbermann Win a War With MSNBC?"

14 July 2011 update: And Olbermann spars on Twitter with an elderly, disabled woman. Auwe.