Same to you. Bush and the GOP owns the Iraq war. It's YOUR baby.

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No, I said I was confused about what this even meant, and you could actually try to explain it or maybe say you meant this for another thread or something.

OK I'll try again. The flag is the symbol of the nation.

Symbol Definition:

Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.

So when you disrespect the symbolic item that represents the nation, you disrespect the nation and its founding principles.

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I would never burn a flag.

Unless a law was passed prohibiting burning the flag.

Then I'd be obligated to.

Yes, you are telling me what a symbol is, but what you are leaving out is what makes a symbol. A symbol doesn't become a symbol:


.................because you are trying to represent something that is "invisible" and because its that way, it allows you to play with what that "object" should mean.

That's not reading comprehension, that's a reasoning skill that recognizes that an invisible object is symbolized individually by each person. Shenkman's article also mentioned this:

I got called on the baby boomers bashing, so I'll rescind that statement.

The definition of symbol answers that! The flag represents our nation! It was created for that purpose and it is widely accepted that the American Flag is a symbol of our country!


You're not drunk are you?
An object is a physical and tangible thing. Do I really have to post that definition too?


It can be individually symbolized, but the flag is a universal symbol, and other symbols are unneccessary because the founding principles are black and white and actually in writing! Once again, the flag is not a symbol of what is happening now, what happened last decade, or what will happen in the next decade! It is a symbol of our nation and its founding principles which are objective, finite, and unchanging!

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But its only a symbol. Better to have the real thing.

Note: the "object" I was referring to is this part of your post:

Why is it that when you don't understand what's I saying, you turn it into first "reading comprehension" and then "being drunk". Can you stick to a discussion without adding some kind of an insult because I don't agree with you? Where is that "respect" you are claiming to show that is part of this nation's belief of freedom of speech? Or is that reserved only for someone who agrees with you?

You are in denial! And no, its not a river in Africa!

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That's kind of a myth considering how the laws are constantly being reinterpreted and revisited (ex:ruling on the 2nd Amendment). And another instance of change would be that the original flag didn't look like it does now ---didn't it change?