Don’t Hate Me But…

• I don’t care who’s flag you’re flying…I swear I don’t care if you feel the need to fly the Mexican flag, the American flag, or the Confederate flag on your flagpole.  Mostly I’m tired of people complaining about what people should be flying or what it means or who it’s insulting.

  What kills me is that all of those people who are demanding that the American flag be honored above all others don’t seem to care that no one seems to bother taking them down every night or in bad weather anymore.  There are hundreds of those dirty tattered little car flags attatched to SUV windows all over the country and no one seems to think it’s a disonor to the flag to let them continue in that sad condition, but every time anyone talks about burning the flag, which is the recommended way of destroying a flag, everyone gets up in arms.

  As for the other flags — I don’t really care…I came from the South; I feel a bit of Southern pride.  I do however, understand when it’s appropriate to show it and when it’s not.  I appreciate the historical value of the flag and that it represented more than just the idea that the South was about Slavery, but it seems that so many people can’t seem to look at the Confederate flag without seeing that.  The War was about so much more than Slavery…in fact, Lincoln didn’t free the slaves until well after the war had begun…you might look that up if you have any doubts.  I’m not making excuses, I’m just saying that Southerners have a different view…they believe the South was once a great place once upon a time and they’re proud of that and why does it have to be all about Slavery?

  As for the Mexican flag or whatever flag any immigrant decides to fly, I don’t care.  Let them fly it.  Stop whining about it.  It’s where they came from.  They’re just as proud of their heritige as you are of yours.  Mind you, again, there are times of appropriateness.  But whatever.  I just wish people would get over it.

• I don’t care about the Dixie Chicks.  Really.  I liked their first two albumns.  I supported their right to free speech.  I thought it was innappropriate where they chose to speak when they spoke out about the war way back, but I agreed with them.  However, they didn’t learn to shut up and they turned into major bitches in the Country world…it probably doesn’t help that I worked with a cousin of two of the Chicks and it runs in the family.  Anyway, I’ll continue to support their right to free speech, but I’m no longer listening and I can’t believe everyone’s making such a big deal about what they have to say still.
• Really, WTF is wrong with the GOP?  Aren’t there more pressing issues going on in the world than gay marriage?

Tags: Dixie Chicks, Gay Rights, GOP