One wonders what is being taught in schools these days.  When I was a kid (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it was thousands of years ago) we routinely said the Pledge of Allegiance, sang the National Anthem with our hands over our hearts, respected our teachers... well, all but our geometry teacher... took civics, history and geography with the idea to learn what this country was all about and the freedoms we all enjoyed (well, most of us did, and a hell of a lot of us tried to make sure every one had that same opportunity with vote registering, marching and other civic actions, and a bunch of us stood at the reflecting pool near the Lincoln Memorial to hear Dr. King speak).

Our class had families of lots of immigrants, we had families that were English, Greek, Spanish, Mexican, Italian, German, and plain ole mutts with more leaves on our family trees than Carter had liver pills.

And we were proud of our country, and many of us died to protect that freedom, just as today many more have died.  We knew then that life in America wasn't perfect, and many wanted it to be; to be a place where no matter where you came from, or what your religion was or who your ancestors were or where they came from you would be indeed judged by the "content of your character."

Today, it seems, our school kids think nothing of playing a practical joke, of doing something that honestly turns my stomach.  Not that they don't have the freedom to do that, too many soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have died to make damn sure that freedom exists for everyone.  What has you so pissed off Roper you may rightly ask.

Well, I'll tell you, and I'll even show you pictures so even the dimmest of you can understand, and damn few of my readers are dim (well, except for the liberals that is).  I respect our flag, I respect the country though I wish it were better.  I also respect those that would abuse our flag by burning it in stupid protest.  What I don't respect, is those who abuse our flag in favor of a flag of a nation that has much more stringent immigration laws than we do.  That treats their prisoners as guilty until proven innocent, that keeps their poor so poor that many would rather die in an effort to get somewhere better and that ... well, you get my drift.  I also get pissed off when someone asks me for something that will benefit them for sure, but think they have to slap me in the face to get it.  I'm talking about the students delinquents at Montebello High School in California (note:  The students were NOT enrolled at Montebello, they were from a couple of other campuses) who pulled down the US Flag, put up a Mexican Flag and below it turned the US flag upside down.  An upside down flag is sometimes (erroneously) accepted as a distress signal.  Be that as it may, these yahoos (with no slight intended to the internet company of the same name) have pissed me off.  Big time, and I seldom cuss.  Here are some offending pictures (and yes, I know this happened in '06 but a dear friend sent me these and I got all ticked off again, at least ticked off enough to rant).

I hope you are pissed off too!

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