RIP

[Fife]

She was cool in the Dick Van Dyke show. Her own show was pretty boring shit that could only stay on the air before the advent of cable television and the internet.

That show was Ted Baxter and a bunch of schmucks.

[Penner]

1936 - 2017

I just heard about this, sad, RIP.

[Okeefenokee]

Wasn't this yesterday? I saw the flag at half mast and wondered who it was. Didn't see any headlines yesterday.

[K@th]

Wasn't this yesterday? I saw the flag at half mast and wondered who it was. Didn't see any headlines yesterday.

Just a few hours ago.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wasn't this yesterday? I saw the flag at half mast and wondered who it was. Didn't see any headlines yesterday.

I think most flags are just permanently at half-mast. There's always some minor celebrity or event to mourn. Wouldn't want anyone to feel unrecognized.

[Fife]

Can one of you vets or actives school us on half-mast protocol?

I remember as a 4 year patrol boy in elementary school that, on the appropriate days, we raised the flag all the way up first nice and quick, then slowly lowered it to half-mast in the morning. In the afternoon, we raised it briskly back to the top, then lowered it like normal, nice and respectful.

We just didn't do that very much, and when we did, it was some kind of big deal. Like December 7 and November 11 and I know a few others. If somebody tried to get that routine pulled for somebody's cat getting run over, or Elvis cashing in on the crapper at Graceland (5th grade) our principal would have blown a gasket. (He was USMC, in the Bataan death march, BTW, and let us patrol boys know the value of observing discipline and routine in the mid 70s every day.)

[Speaker to Animals]

Can one of you vets or actives school us on half-mast protocol?

I remember as a 4 year patrol boy in elementary school that, on the appropriate days, we raised the flag all the way up first nice and quick, then slowly lowered it to half-mast in the morning. In the afternoon, we raised it briskly back to the top, then lowered it like normal, nice and respectful.

We just didn't do that very much, and when we did, it was some kind of big deal. Like December 7 and November 11 and I know a few others. If somebody tried to get that routine pulled for somebody's cat getting run over, or Elvis cashing in on the crapper at Graceland (5th grade) our principal would have blown a gasket. (He was USMC, in the Bataan death march, BTW, and let us patrol boys know the value of observing discipline and routine in the mid 70s every day.)

http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html


Definitely not to be flown at half staff because Mary Tyler Moore died.


More likely, the governor of Texas ordered it at half staff because of the police officer who was murdered on the 18th.

Unfortunately, liberals don't get upset when cops are murdered and create threads blaming the calendar.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Can one of you vets or actives school us on half-mast protocol?

I remember as a 4 year patrol boy in elementary school that, on the appropriate days, we raised the flag all the way up first nice and quick, then slowly lowered it to half-mast in the morning. In the afternoon, we raised it briskly back to the top, then lowered it like normal, nice and respectful.

We just didn't do that very much, and when we did, it was some kind of big deal. Like December 7 and November 11 and I know a few others. If somebody tried to get that routine pulled for somebody's cat getting run over, or Elvis cashing in on the crapper at Graceland (5th grade) our principal would have blown a gasket. (He was USMC, in the Bataan death march, BTW, and let us patrol boys know the value of observing discipline and routine in the mid 70s every day.)

http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html


Definitely not to be flown at half staff because Mary Tyler Moore died.


More likely, the governor of Texas ordered it at half staff because of the police officer who was murdered on the 18th.

Unfortunately, liberals don't get upset when cops are murdered and create threads blaming the calendar.

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/

A total of 1,466 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 10 years, an average of one death every 60 hours or 146 per year. There were 117 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2014.

Yeah... kinda hard to worry about 146 deaths every year. Hard to find a current estimate of police in the US, but it's in the millions.
Don't burn your house down with all those candles and tissues.

[Speaker to Animals]

Yeah, let's get upset and blame the calendar for killing our television heroes instead.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yeah, let's get upset and blame the calendar for killing our television heroes instead.

Well, at least I have some familiarity with my selected tv-faces. I have no idea who the cops are that die every year.
And what about the other few million people that died last year? Best to just leave the flag down all the time.