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This is exactly how the Japanese see you guys protesting against our whaling practices.

Wouldn’t you be pissed if you were in that situation?

(I’ve never eaten whales.)
Skidoo – The whale farms correspond to the Japanese whaling ships.

Grumples – Some people are emotional and they start attacking me personally as a Japanese that I eat whales.
Skidoo – I meant the cow farms lol

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The image of countless young families waving their mothers, fathers, or spouses goodbye as they stayed behind, hands interlaced with fences by the runway is seared in my memory. I was seven then. Every kid was given a little American flag. And though it was disguised as a happy event with red-white-and-blue banners and symbols of patriotism dispersed throughout the hanger, we all felt sick to our stomachs as we tried so hard to deny the fact that this could inevitably be the last time we’d ever hug our father tight and hear his voice as he said goodbye.
Upon first news of his deployment to the conflict in Kosovo, my father, like the countless men and women of our armed services, answered the call, not once hesitating to do what his country asked of him. I have yet to see such loyalty, such selfless service so clearly displayed. Living in the military community has instilled in me the strong morals that have led me to where I am today. When many people my age disobey laws and cheat on tests, I have the integrity to do what I know is right because the military life has shown me it’s possible to hold oneself to a higher standard.
You could say I’ve lived the quintessential “army brat” life, finding myself with new faces in new places every three years. I’ve had to leave close friends behind and I’ve had to endure stressful and emotional times, but I don’t look back on these events with contempt. Without these struggles, I wouldn’t be where I am today applying to one of the most prestigious schools in the country because I wouldn’t have been close to the required standards.
Only now, at 18 years old can I see how great an opportunity I’ve had, living a life overseas, immersed in a culture other than my own. In Italy, though I longed for my friends and home in the United States, I learned to love where I was. I learned to adapt to my community, immersing myself in Italian culture and playing soccer in the streets with Italian friends. When the history teacher points out the coliseum of Ancient Rome in history books, I see it come to life as the day I stood four foot small as the walls of the ancient arena encompassed me. When the history teacher points out Michelangelo’s mural in history books, I see it as the day I stood in that very chapel and saw the image of God creating Adam painted in the sky.
The military life has given me the opportunity to immerse myself in European culture and to see the world first hand. It has instilled in me the need for personal perfection. As the son of a U.S. Army officer I’ve had the opportunity to live in a variety of different communities and they have truly shaped me into the hardworking, morally, physically, and mentally strong person I am today.

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"I pledge allegiance
To the Flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic
For which it Stands
One Nation
Indivisible
With Liberty and Justice for All"

This is probably one of the least scrutinized forms of "patriotism" we have today in our 50 United States. How many of you know anything about your Pledge or what "for which it stands"?

"Under God" is omitted here because it was not introduced until 1954 and thus cannot be a part of the "original" pledge (from 1892, by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist who wanted the government to rule the economy using the strategies laid out by the Military Industrial Complex), even if people still run around upholding that by saying "preserve the original pledge."

SO LETS LOOK AT IT.

"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America"

That means you pledge your life, your liberty, and your property to…a political union? "The United States of America", absent fascist or statist propaganda, is a political union. The greatness of a country is not found in flamboyant banners or patriotic jingles, it is found in the greatness of each individual citizen, each town and each city thriving in freedom. Swearing allegiance to central political unions allows for the growth of Empires and the death of the sovereign individuals and families that made the country great in the first place. By swearing allegiance to a central power, be it a King or a Congress, you betray your home and your roots, no?

"And to the Republic, for which it stands"

We do not stand for government, government stands for US. We do not serve government, government serves US. I do not find it ironic that an avowed Socialist thought inverting the roles of the ruling people and the servant government was a good idea. Socialism and Communism require as a rule servant people and ruling government.

"One Nation, Indivisible"

This is treason. We are 50 States. Fifty independent states that joined the Union voluntarily. As much as it is the right of a State to elect to join the Union, it is a right of the State to elect to leave the Union and only a fascist or dictator would say otherwise. In the Constitution neither is the power for the Federal Government granted to fight secession nor is the right of a State to secede barred. Therefore, a State may come or go as it pleases. "Indivisible" pretends otherwise and suggests we are a forced Union, unable to leave if that Union threatens liberty. There is no liberty in forced Union.

Again, we are 50 states, 50 little countries just as independent and diverse as, in theory, the many nations of Europe or those of Africa.

Anyone who disagrees with the right of a State to secede should re-read the Declaration of Independence: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." –Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

"With Liberty and Justice for All"

There is nothing I know of that is wrong with this statement. This was a founding principle of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Let it further be noted that the only other country I know that has a "pledge" is the UK, and that is "God Save the King." I’ll let you imagine what that one teaches kids about the sovereignty of the people.

SO, is this seemingly innocent phrase we used to say every morning in fact undermining our very liberty by giving us the impression we are a Union, not a free country, and we serve the government rather than the government serves us?
@ missin’ the beach – # 1 argue of a fascist, the Declaration was not a law. (1) quote me where I said it was a law, (2) tell us why that matters. What was declared was the fact that government serves the people and if it does not do it’s duty then the people may change or remove it. That is a natural right and natural right void any laws that are made to interfere with them. A government may ban free speech but a human still has the right to free speech. I’m afraid you didn’t look hard enough into this.

You don’t understand the Civil War if you make a comment like that. If the desire of human beings to be free and sovereign ended, absolutely, all around the world, when Richmond fell in 1865 you would be correct. As I still fly my flag today I am testimony to that being false, and I know I am not alone.

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Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though childlike form.

The flames roll’d on…he would not go
Without his father’s word;
That father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.

He call’d aloud…"Say, father, say
If yet my task is done!"
He knew not that the chieftain lay
Unconscious of his son.

"Speak, father!" once again he cried
"If I may yet be gone!"
And but the booming shots replied,
And fast the flames roll’d on.

Upon his brow he felt their breath,
And in his waving hair,
And looked from that lone post of death,
In still yet brave despair;

And shouted but one more aloud,
"My father, must I stay?"
While o’er him fast, through sail and shroud
The wreathing fires made way,

They wrapt the ship in splendour wild,
They caught the flag on high,
And stream’d above the gallant child,
Like banners in the sky.

There came a burst of thunder sound…
The boy-oh! where was he?
Ask of the winds that far around
With fragments strewed the sea.

With mast, and helm, and pennon fair,
That well had borne their part;
But the noblest thing which perished there
Was that young faithful heart.

Please say the theme or overall message. Any thing you understand would be appreciated. Thanks

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1. On a sunny day, a flag pole and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 40 m long and the shadow is 32 m, how tall is the flag pole?

a. 64m
b. 72 m
c. 24 m
d. 51 m

2. A car dealer advertised a big sale by stretching a string of banners from the top of the building to the edge of the driveway. If the building is 29 m. high and the driveway is 44 m from the building, how long is the string of banners?

a. about 41 m
b. about 8.5
c. about 33.1
d. about 52.7

3. On a sunny day, a building and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 32 m long and the shadow is 24 m, how tall is the building?

a. about 23.3
b. about 40 m
c. about 8 m
d. about 21.2 m

I got c, d, and d.

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