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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:41 PM
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I am confuzzled - Why are the flags at half mast right now?
Who died?
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:50 PM
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1. I dunno...
I just checked outside and here they aren't.

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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:51 PM
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2. Maybe it is a Minnesota thing
I would have thought I would have heard on the local news.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:52 PM
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3. It's the death of Democracy.
Sure, we've known it for some time, but the rest of America is just waking up. :(
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:55 PM
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5. You are probably right!
:cry:
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:56 PM
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6. Leave it to us to be the last to recognize it...
Buncha sand stickers that run this haven of right-wing nutjobs.

That Ken Mehlman guy was on the local news here the other day with the damn reporter practically licking his ass.

It was disgusting.

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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:53 PM
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4. My dear KitchenWitch!
I have no idea either......

I don't think it's happening here in California......:shrug:

Good to see you tonight, sweetie!
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:58 PM
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7. I have no idea why they are like that here
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 08:58 PM
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8. I checked on yahoo, nothing found about deaths
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:07 PM
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9. I know, me too
Weird, huh?

Maybe it is some form of protest for the immigration thing.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:12 PM
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11. I dont know
Wouldn't that have been organized by the governors office? What's Pawlenty saying on the immigration issue?
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:13 PM
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12. Timmy the Tool pretty much wants to lock the border.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:17 PM
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13. I think you guys will not reelect him
I was told that he pretty much ruined any chance for Minnesota to become more of a purple state than a blue state. I have my sources even though the only thing I knwo about Minnesota is that you guys talk funny :hide:.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:19 PM
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14. Ya sure ya betcha!
Timmy will not be re-elected. There are 3 very strong Democrats in the race.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:22 PM
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16. Thats good
Thanks for not killing me for saying you guys talked funny. I was being sarcastic actually since I personally know someone from Minnesota and doesn't sound like the people did in Fargo did at all. I finally saw that one and loved it.
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:08 PM
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10. No idea. Everything's "normal" out here on the west coast...
yeah, right. :eyes:

:hi:
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:20 PM
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15. No Viagra.......
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:36 PM
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17. Because the Vikings fucking suck, and your state finally admitted it
:P

(actually, I don't think they suck at all; the team has some very bad morally people, but, what the hell, Minnesota is practically Wisconsin and is the other nicest state in the union - I love MN!)
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 06:57 AM
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19. LOL
Actually, it looks to me like Zygi has started to clean house and rid the Vikings of the thugs.

I am liking it a lot!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 09:42 AM
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25. Phbbbbbbbbt. Did you discover why they were at half mast?
And I'm glad to hear the Vikings are cleaning house. That kind of bullshit, immoral, violent stupid behavior belongs in the south, not in the midwest. It's an embarrassment, really, to all midwesterners.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 08:10 PM
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26. Nope never did
:shrug:
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-10-06 09:42 PM
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18. Could it be someone local?
Which flags did you see at half mast? Flags your town/county, or are there Federal and State flags at half mast?
If it's local it could be for a cop or soldier from your town.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 06:58 AM
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20. Hard to say
I noticed it at one of the local businesses. But no news reports.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 08:27 AM
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21. I dunno
but the ROTC building on campus (Ohio State) is at halfmast too :shrug:
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Radio_Guy Donating Member (875 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 08:44 AM
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22. Flags at half staff in NJ
http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1144830267252430.xml&coll=8

Flags should be flying at half-staff today to honor an Army officer who died in Vietnam in 1971.

The remains of Capt. John F. Dugan Jr., of Roselle, have only recently been identified and returned to his family.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine ordered that the flags of the United States and the state of New Jersey be flown at half-staff today to honor and mourn Dugan -- who earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during is first tour of duty in Vietnam and was serving a second tour as a helicopter pilot with the 101st Airborne Division.

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hholli11 Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 08:49 AM
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23. Perhaps we lost a service member in our armed forces that was from your
area. I know they lower them here when one of the neighbors dies in service.
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IsIt1984Yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 08:15 PM
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27. In WI they do that at all public schools and offices when a service member
from the state is lost.

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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-12-06 09:07 AM
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24. I noticed it yesterday here in Arizona. I have no idea. nt
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