American Flag Toothpicks

[JimDreamworx]

Visiting a local dollar store, I picked up forty toothpicks with little American flags on them. I was thinking of decorating my food (eg. America Balls instead of meatballs).

Is this really what the flag represents?
Or is the flag just another symbol for personal interpretation?

[shetline]

I have to wonder if the Republicans get their idiotic Constitutional amendment pushed through how carefully you'll have to treat your toothpick flags to avoid a couple of years in the slammer for "desecration".

And here I'd been thinking that the Christian Right, the main force behind this amendment, was supposed to have some sort of rule against idolatry somewhere in that perfect book of theirs.

[Ebby]

"Sometimes a cake is just a cake."
I think you are reading too much into this. :p

[Aurora]

Originally posted by JimDreamworx
Visiting a local dollar store, I picked up forty toothpicks with little American flags on them. I was thinking of decorating my food (eg. America Balls instead of meatballs).

Is this really what the flag represents?
Or is the flag just another symbol for personal interpretation? be careful the Flag police will be coming soon for those flags. I dont think the Police state will take kindly to your use of its flag. Osam Bin Laden has won this war allready. Just look at the Lunacy of Washington. I imagine flag toothpicks will be outlawed soon.

[Aquatic]

Don't let them get too close to the candles. Or you might be arrested.

[groverat]

Look at it this way:
If there was money to be made in flag-burning, Republicans would have it mandated.

[rok]

i swear, i get sick of people using the flag as a logo to whore out their car lots, mini-storage facilities and whatnot. i was red, white and blue before being so was cool, and people seem to miss the point that there is a bit of subtle decorum that is required to keep a symbol from being oversaturated into irrelevance.

[rageous]

Originally posted by groverat
Look at it this way:
If there was money to be made in flag-burning, Republicans would have it mandated.

I would suspect that if you manufacture flags, burning them would certainly put big dollar signs in your eyeballs.

[Harald]

Originally posted by rok
i swear, i get sick of people using the flag as a logo to whore out their car lots, mini-storage facilities and whatnot. i was red, white and blue before being so was cool, and people seem to miss the point that there is a bit of subtle decorum that is required to keep a symbol from being oversaturated into irrelevance.

No, this is not true. Oversaturation does not lead to irrelevance. In regimes / countries where the national symbol has appeared absolutely everywhere -- such as Nazi Germany, Cuba or the USSR -- it becomes simply part of existence. Nationalism and social life are intertwined. Works very well.

[johnq]

Originally posted by Harald
No, this is not true. Oversaturation does not lead to irrelevance. In regimes / countries where the national symbol has appeared absolutely everywhere -- such as Nazi Germany, Cuba or the USSR -- it becomes simply part of existence. Nationalism and social life are intertwined. Works very well.

Don't forget Israel.