[AL] When the controversy over the Confederate flag erupted last month, the owner of a Huntsville flag company said her business would make the flags even if no one else would. And that's apparently what's happened. When the leftists try to delete an entire page in the country's history they may be resisted. Regardless of whether you identify with the blue or the gray, it still happened and the populace took it seriously enough to die for their beliefs. The tragedy of the war has always been the fact that there were admirable men on both sides, along with the bad guys and the nonentities. History didn't start with Selma. It didn't begin with WWII, regardless of what's usually playing on the History Channel.
"I'm not aware of another company in the United States making these flags," said Belinda Kennedy, owner of Alabama Flag & Banner, in an interview Thursday with AL.com. The flags aren't illegal -- yet.
So now you know why the website for the Governors Drive business near downtown Huntsville cautions visitors that all Confederate flag orders will take two to three weeks to be filled. It doesn't have anything to do with race. It has to do with not being told what to do. That's not government's place. The government's place is to build roads, regulate interstate commerce, and provide for national defense.
"We are getting absolutely swamped," Kennedy said. "It's let up a little but what we're finding is that people are still wanting the really pretty sewn, the ones that are more like a piece of art with the sewn stripes and the applique stars. Those are really labor intensive and it takes a long time. We're still being flooded with orders for those. We're getting tons of overseas orders. We're going as fast as we can." My wife and I took one of our granddaughters to a movie this afternoon. Before the movie started we were subjected to three anti-smoking commercials. I had a sudden vision of We the People storming the capital, flying Confederate flags and smoking cigarettes. By the way, Antman: The Motion Picture stinks.
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Try to ban something, especially if it is popular, only increases the demand.
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The government's place is to build roads, regulate interstate commerce, and provide for national defense.
It also used to be to maintain a common single stable currency. The roads are falling apart (just travel IL), they're strangling commerce with central planning and taxes, and they've dropped national defense to pre-1939 levels of proportional manning. So why shouldn't they screw up the currency as well. Bread and games for everyone!
#4
The founding fathers didn't think the federal government should build roads.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
07/20/2015 15:26 Comments ||
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..considering one of the first was started in 1811, I suspect more than just a couple of founding fathers were around for the say so. Those guys were a big audience for the history of antiquity and grasped the Roman practice of road building.
#1
Should set the age to match what Pelosi and company established as independent adults having to pay their own way not on their parents plans in Obamacare. What was that, 26?
The argument to lower it from 21 to 18 was because of the draft at the time inducting 18. 19, and 20 year olds for the war. It should have been limited to those individuals rather than the whole population if that was the rationale back then.
#2
Screw that, voting should be restricted only to those who actually pay taxes. If you are on any sort of federal assistance, no vote for you. No voting for free stuff
Publicly employed people are not net taxpayers at whatever level of government generates their magic check. Therefore, no vote for them at least at that level of government.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
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My oldest granddaughter is 16. As much as I love her, I would not want to see her voting. She would probably vote for the lead singer from her favorite boy band.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
07/20/2015 9:27 Comments ||
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Just another example of Dems hoping to create another voting block that would be completely under their control. They've been trying this for decades and they will succeed eventually
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
07/20/2015 11:22 Comments ||
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Perhaps make that 'Public Unionized Employees'.
No, you can't sit on both sides of the table - who do you think you are; Iran?
Personally I think you should have to re-register every 4 year - with Official photo ID proving you are a citizen; and proof that you have paid paying Fed Taxes for the previous year. Only exceptions to the Taxes requirement would be Vets with honorable discharge.
#18
If the voting age were a 16 year old intellectual equivalent, that would exclude most Pelosi voters.
Posted by: Harry Spoluque4231 ||
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Personally I couldn't give a rats ass about Trump's hairpiece. Its' what's under the hairpiece that matters.
The fact that he's talking about some of the Politically Correct Sacred Cows and pissing a lot of people off in the left, media (but I repeat myself) and the right establishment and stirring up some of the crap from the bottom and sides of the political pot is a good thing.
He's going to make the debates interesting at least. That is if he doesn't get snubbed.
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[AL] When the controversy over the Confederate flag erupted last month, the owner of a Huntsville flag company said her business would make the flags even if no one else would. And that's apparently what's happened.
